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Reviews the book 'Technical Marketing Communication,' by Sandra W. Harner and Tom G. Zimmerman.

Reviews the book 'Crosstalk in WDM Communication Networks,' by I.T. Monroy and E. Tangdiongga.

Reviews the book 'Optical Packet Access Protocols for WDM Networks,' by Kemal Bengi.

Reviews the book 'The Elements of Technical Writing,' Second Edition, by Thomas E. Pearsall.

Reviews the book 'Technical Writing—A Practical Approach,' Fourth Edition, by William S. Pfeiffer.

Reviews the book 'Preparing and Delivering Effective Technical Presentations,' Second Edition, by David Adamy.

Reviews the Book 'Optimization of Linear Control Systems: Analytical Methods and Computational Algorithms,' by F.A. Aliev and V.B. Larin.

Reviews the book `Feynman and Computation: Exploring the Limits of Computers,' edited by Anthony J. G. Hey.

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Provides a brief summary of the subjects covered in 25 new or recent books of interest to practicioners and researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book `Visual Explanations,' by Eward R. Tufte.

Reviews the book `The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition,' by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Reviews the book `Loop Transfer Recovery: Analysis and Design,' by A. Saberi, B.M. Chen, and P. Sannuti.

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The following books are reviewed: "Time Series Analysis by State Space Methods, 2nd Edition [Oxford Statistical Science Series, 38]; Durbin, J. and Koopman, S.J.; 2012) and "Green Radio Communication Networks" (Hossain, E. Eds. et al; 2012). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several books including "Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World," by M. D. Fayer, "Principles of Power Engineering Analysis," by R. C. Degeneff and M. H. Hesse, and "High-Pressure Physics," edited by J. Loveday.

The following 6 books are reviewed: Micromachining Using Electrochemical Discharge Phenomenon, 2nd Edition; R. Wuthrich and J. D. Abou Zik, William and Andrew; Introduction to Radiometry and Photometry, 2nd Edition; W. R. McCluney; Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology for Composites; A. K. Haghi, S. Thomas, A. Pourhashemi, A. Hamrang, and E. Klodzinsk; Optical Properties of Functional Polymers and Nano Engineering Applications; V. Jain and A. Kokil; Handbook of Energy Volume II: Chronicles, Top Ten Lists, and Word Clouds C. J. Cleveland and C. Morris; Solar Energy Photovoltaics and Domestic Hot Water; R. H. Plante. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In choosing to write about the history of an idea, the author has undertaken one of the most difficult of historical tasks, and it?s no wonder it took him the better part of fifteen years to complete the book. Biographies start and end with the subject?s life. Histories of a particular technology have similar well-defined limits. But the history of an idea, especially an idea as multifaceted and chameleon-like as cybernetics, can easily turn into a cat-herding expedition. Fortunately, the author is a masterful historian who knows his way around archives and among the ways of researchers, and he explores the many meanings and ramifications of the cybernetics concept from its birth to the 1980s, by which time most of the early participants had either died or returned to their respective traditional disciplines. Because cybernetics involved so wide a range of disciplines, researchers, and institutions, the author has trouble maintaining a clear story line through the book. It is not fair to say that the total is less than the sum of its parts, but the nature of his subject forces te author to run back and forth along the historical timeline as he takes up different aspects of his subject. Perhaps the book will be most valuable as historical background for the large number of disciplines that were involved in the cybernetics moment: computer science, communications engineering, information theory, and the social sciences of sociology and anthropology. While cybernetics as an independent discipline has largely vanished from the scene, many concepts and disciplines that are still with us today were born in, or at least influenced by, the chaotic and exciting times when the term held great promise and unlocked the coffers of research foundations of the 1950s. Even when research is funded as part of a fad, it can still do some good, and that may be the best lesson to be learned from The Cybernetics Moment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This set of Reviews covers Finn Brunton's Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (MIT Press, 2013), Tom Sito's Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation (MIT Press, 2013), and a set of books by Edgar G. Daylight and published by Lonely Scholar Scientific Books (The Essential Knuth, 2013; Pluralism in Software Engineering: Turing Award Winner Peter Naur Explains, 2011; and The Dawn of Software Engineering: From Turing to Dijkstra, 2012) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This set of Reviews covers Michael Mahoney's Histories of Computing (Harvard University Press, 2011), the 2013 movie Elysium, Paul E. Ceruzzi's Computing: A Concise History (MIT Press, 2012), and James Cortadas The Digital Flood (Oxford University Press, 2012). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the books "Linear and Nonlinear Inverse Problems With Practical Applications" by Jennifer L. Mueller and Samuli Siltanen, "Vibrations of Elastic Systems: With Applications to MEMS and NEMS" by Edward B. Magrab, and "Semidefinite Optimization and Convex Algebraic Geometry" edited by Grigoriy Blekherman, Pablo A. Parrilo and Rekha R. Thomas.

The article reviews several books including "Collaborative Enterprise Architecture," by Stefan Bente, Uwe Bombosch, and Shailendra Langade, "Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks," by Milorad Cvijetic and Ivan B. Djordjevic, and "Reliability and Availability of Cloud Computing," by Eric Bauer and Randee Adams.

The article reviews the book "Networks, Crowds and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World," by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg.

The article reviews several books about control systems including "A New Look at Disease: Parkinson's As Seen Through the Eyes of an Engineer," by Peter Wellstead, "Advanced Dynamics: Analytical and Numerical Calculations With MATLAB," by Dan B. Marghitu and Mihai Dupac, and "Advanced Vibrations: A Modern Approach," by Reza N. Jazar.

The following books are reviews: "Plasma Processing of Nanomaterials" (Sankaran, R.M., Ed; 2012); "Power Vacuum Tubes Handbook, 3rd Edition" (Whitaker, J.C.; 2012); "RFID-Enabled Sensor Design and Applications" (Rida, A., et al; 2010); "An Introduction to Electronic Materials for Engineers, 2nd Edition" (Gao, W., et al; 2011); "Electrical Power Transmission and Distribution" (Chudnovsky, B.H.; 2013); and "Small Antenna Handbook" (Hansen, R.C. and Collin, R.E.; 2011) "Principles of Uncertainty: (J. B. Kadane, J.B.; 2011). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides notice of 16 new or recent books of interest to practitioners and researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "Understanding Geometric Algebra for Electromagnetic Theory," by John W. Arthur.

This set of Reviews covers Eden Medina's Cybernetic Revolutionaries (MIT Press, 2011), Per Lundin's Computers in Swedish Society (Springer, 2012), George Dyson's Turing's Cathedral (Pantheon Books, 2012), James W. Cortada's History Hunting (M.E. Sharpe, 2012). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Seven book reviews are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several books about electrical and electronics engineering including "2011 International Conference in Electrics, Communication and Automatic Control Proceedings," Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Ran Chen, "Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design: Using Describing Function Models," by Amir Nassirharand, and "Distributed Decision Making and Control," edited by Rolf Johansson and Anders Rantzer.

The article reviews the book "Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integral of Social Life," by Helen Nissenbaum.

This article is an analytical review of the book “ROI for Technology Projects: Measuring and Delivering Value” by Roulstone and Phillips. The authors of the book effectively demystify a popular perception of the return on investment (ROI) metric as an ad hoc calculation based on a simple formula. They promote ROI assessment as a set of procedures that process data to provide an effective evaluation of a project. The book collects and arranges a large volume of material on ROI, and presents it with consistency, in plain English, and at a level which will be appreciated by an information technology (IT) professional. This review highlights several points to be kept in mind by readers of Roulstone and Phillips’ book to encourage unimpassioned expectations of the ROI metric and its implementation for IT initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The following books are reviewed: "Time series analysis and Forecasting by example" (Bisgaard, S. and Kulahci, M.; 2011); "Order Statistics in Wireless Communications: Diversity, Adaptation, and Scheduling in MIMO and OFDM Systems" (Yang, H.-C. and Alouini, M.-S.; 2011); "Game Theory in Wireless and Communication Networks: Theory, Models, and Applications" (Han, Z., et al; 2011); and "Connected Services: A Guide to the Internet Technologies Shaping the Future of Mobile Services and Operators" (Golding, P.; 2011) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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The article reviews several books including "Active Control of Flexible Structures: From Modelling to Implementation," by Alberto Cavallo, Giuseppe de Maria, Ciro Natale and Salvatore Pirozzi, "Active Control of Parabolic PDEs," by Andrey Smyshlyaev and Miroslav Krstic, and "Advanced Design of Mechanical Systems: From Analysis to Optimization," edited by Jorge A. C. Ambrosio and Peter Eberhard.

The following books are reviewed: Export Import Procedures and Documentation, 4th edition (Johnson, T.E. and Bade, D.L.; 2010); Microwave/RF Applicators and Probes (Mehdizadeh, M. and Andrew, W.); Statistical Inference (Aitkin, M.; 2010); Annual Review of Materials Research, Volume 40 (Clarke, D.R., Eds., et al; 2010); Sensors Handbook, 2nd Edition (Soloman, S.; 2010); The Smart Grid (Gellings, C.W.; 2009); Portable Electronics (Donovan, J., Ed.; 2009); and Magnetic Nanoparticles (Buzug, T.M.; 2010). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "P2P Networking and Applications," by J. Buford, H. Yu, and E. K. Lua.