This is one of the best DSP books on the market today. As the title "First principles of ..." indicates the focus of the book is on fundamentals, it is designed for the beginning student and the authors provide many, many clear examples and illustrations to guide the student through the material from discrete systems to more advanced signal processing algorithms.

If you are the unfortunate victim of a course being taught with Oppenheim and Schafer's muddled text do yourself a favor and get this book as a supplement. It is complete with solved problems, questions with answers (to selected problems), it provides a necessary degree of mathematical rigor without becoming tedious and presents general numerical algorithms for solving major signal processing problems.

I took a DSP course from the principal author while he was compiling the notes for this text (and eagerly awaited the publication of his book) and I must say the result is excellent (so was his course) and very highly recommended.

One unfortunate attribute is the poor quality of this book's construction and the reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. I purchased the book 10 years ago and the pages have yellowed very badly and the binding broke almost immediately. Although Addison-Wesley generally produces a superior quality book this one's binding is more like a typical Prentice Hall cheapo.

This is an excellent and a very detailed report on one of the Korean Chaebol, Hyundai.

You will understand how the Korean economy is structured and operating in South Korea and why they have the problems facing today.

Also very valuable is the part on the difference between Japanese and Korean business operation in the States. It reminds the rest of the world about what difficulities would be encountered and what issues should be pay attention to.

Unfortunately this book is little more than a rehash of the basic information found in most earlier accident reconstruction books. I could find no new or useful information. The book has almost no reference material.

This book will appeal to the novice as well as the experienced investigator. It is written from the standpoint of a Mentor Student relationship and guides rathers than teaches the student the fine points of the art and science of vehiculat accident investigation.

This is great book for any police officer, legal assistant/paralegal or other investigative person in the legal or engineering profession. This book outlines a step by step process to using engineering principals and common sense to investigate accidents of any type.

This book is a journal of Donald Kirk of the war in vietnam. He went to vietam in 1965. He writes this very graphically. In the book he talks about the different battlefields. He goes around to all the military bases and interviews soldiers and rights down notes own what they say and how they act. One time he went in to one of the bathroom stalls and wrote down some of the stuff the soldiers have written. He feels that the soldiers are already feeling guilt for what they have done. There are some good inciteful quotes from soldiers at war.

A reporter who believed in getting his boots muddy, Donald Kirk visited various line units of the Americal Division and 101st Airborne during the withdrawal phase of the Vietnam War. His accounts of brave but unmotivated grunts ring true. Kirk also conducted extensive interviews with support troops at major bases like Chu Lai and Da Nang, where morale was even worse than in the field, and his accounts of the drug and racial problems that beset the US Army during the latter years of the war are also fair and accurate.