The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Author: Max Weber
This brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds — an effort that ultimately encouraged capitalism.
Times Higher Education Supplement
Max Weber is the one undisputed canonical figure in contemporary sociology.
Booknews
Arguing that classic works should be translated every generation, and that the essay here was last translated into English some 70 years ago, Kalberg (sociology, Boston U.) strives to make the text accessible to undergraduates and general readers and to retain the integrity of the work with a close-to-the-text translation. In addition to the essay itself, which was published in a two parts in a social science journal in 1904-05, he has included two related documents by Weber (1864-1920). Cited in . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols
Author: C Siva Ram Murthy
I have reviewed many books on the topic of Ad Hoc Networks, and this is the finest I have seen on the topic.—Dr. Theodore S. Rappaport, William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering, Director, Wireless Networking and Communications Group, University of Texas.
Practical design and performance solutions for every ad hoc wireless network
Ad Hoc Wireless Networks comprise mobile devices that use wireless transmission for communication. They can be set up anywhere and any time because they eliminate the complexities of infrastructure setup and central administration-and they have enormous commercial and military potential. Now, there's a book that addresses every major issue related to their design and performance. Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols presents state-of-the-art techniques and solutions, and supports them with easy-to-understand examples. The book starts off with the fundamentals of wireless networking (wireless PANs, LANs, MANs, WANs, and wireless Internet) and goes on to address such current topics as Wi-Fi networks, optical wireless networks, and hybrid wireless architectures. Coverage includes:
- Medium access control, routing, multicasting, and transport protocols
- QoS provisioning, energy management, security, multihop pricing, and much more
- In-depth discussion of wireless sensor networks and ultra wideband technology
- More than 200 examples and end-of-chapter problems
Ad Hoc Wireless Networks is an invaluable resource for every network engineer, technical manager, and researcher designing or building ad hoc wireless networks.
Table of Contents:
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | Wireless LANs and PANs | 63 |
3 | Wireless WANs and MANs | 109 |
4 | Wireless Internet | 155 |
5 | Ad hoc wireless networks | 191 |
6 | MAC protocols for ad hoc wireless networks | 227 |
7 | Routing protocols for ad hoc wireless networks | 299 |
8 | Multicast routing in ad hoc wireless networks | 365 |
9 | Transport layer and security protocols for ad hoc wireless networks | 451 |
10 | Quality of service in ad hoc wireless networks | 505 |
11 | Energy management in ad hoc wireless networks | 585 |
12 | Wireless sensor networks | 647 |
13 | Hybrid wireless networks | 697 |
14 | Recent advances in wireless networks | 773 |
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