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Retransmission and US Compliance With Trips (Hardcover)
This book seeks to answer one central question: do the U.S. cable and satellite retransmission statutory licenses comply with the TRIPs minimum standard? As with all legal problems, the resolution of ambiguity provides the challenge and the interest. In this regard, by far the greatest ambiguity is created by the use of the term ‘equitable [...]
Warheads: Cable News And the Fog of War (Hardcover)
What happens when a nation loses an important part of its connection with history, when its heritage and even its roots are sacrificed to political expediency? When the offspring of The Greatest Generation out source national service to Other Peoples Kids? Finally, having distanced themselves from the harsh realities of war, what happens when an [...]
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella (Twilight Saga) (Hardcover)
Review Praise for The Twilight Saga:”Meyer has, like one of her vampires, turned into something rare and more than merely human…. People do not want to just read Meyer’s books; they want to climb inside them and live there.” -Time”Piles on the suspense and romance.” -USA Today”A literary phenomenon.” -The New York Times”[Stephenie Meyer is] [...]
Unholy Grail: The US and the Wars in Vietnam, 1965-8 (Hardcover)
The aim of “Unholy Grail” is to examine and explain the failures which caused the American defeat in Vietnam. Based on primary sources, including the recently declassified holdings of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Archive, the work focuses upon the formulation, execution and assessments of American policy in Vietnam between the troop deployment decision of [...]
ADSL Standards, Implementation, and Architecture (Advanced & Emerging Communications Technologies) (Hardcover)
With its promise of high speed Internet access, Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) techniques are now making their way out of the laboratory and into the general consumer market. This creates the need for telecommunications professionals to have not just an awareness of the technology, but an in-depth understanding of its workings, its potential, and [...]
Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4) (Hardcover)
It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn. Greg, a self-confessed indoor person,” is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg’s mom has a different vision for an ideal summer [...]
Fundamentals of DSL Technology (Hardcover)
Written by a team of industry experts, The DSL Handbook gives readers insight into the world of DSL that is unmatched by any existing publication. The authors provide broad coverage and present a wide variety of perspectives on DSL systems. Major topics concern both the existing deployments as well as technologies expected to be of [...]
The Book of General Ignorance [Deckle Edge] (Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly If you think you’re a trivia expert, British TV men Lloyd (producer of the hit comedy shows Spitting Image and Black Adder) and Mitchinson (writer for Quite Interesting) may disabuse you of the notion that you’re a true scholar of random facts-and quickly. Their surprisingly lengthy tome is jam-packed with real answers [...]
Tough Calls: AT&T and the Hard Lessons Learned from the Telecom Wars [Hardcover]
From Publishers Weekly Former AT&T PR head Martin records his take on Ma Bell’s descent from blue chip royalty, offering an insider’s view of the corporation’s struggle to reorient itself to a world in which its longtime cash cow—long-distance service—was becoming a profitless commodity. CEO Michael Armstrong’s late ’90s attempt to counter this trend by [...]
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Hardcover)
Amazon.com Review Chip Heath and Dan Heath on Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard “Change is hard.” “People hate change.” Those were two of the most common quotes we heard when we began to study change. But it occurred to us that if people hate change, they have a funny way of [...]
