Recommended books

General Electronics books

The Art of Electronics

The Art of Electronics by Horowith and Hill is most complete electronics textbook I know. This book teaches you the electronics without extraneous math. Even if you know electronics already this book has useful insider's information on nearly all elecrtronics fields.

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Microelectronic Circuits

Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra & Smith is quite heavily read electronics book by students who try to learn basic electronics.

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EMC for Product Designers

EMC for Product Designers by Tim Williams is a very good book on EMC topics and how to design the elecronics equipments so that they will pass the European EMC regulations. If you are looking for a good general information source on EMC topics, this is the book to get.

Video and multimedia books

Video Demystified

Video Demystified by Keith Jack (published by HighText, ISBN: 1-878707-23-X, US$59.95) is a one-volume source to help you master multimedia and video system design. This reference book covers the essentials of analog and digital video. The book is written for electronics professsionals who have experience in digital electronics but not necessarily in analogue or video electronics. This book have been a very valuable information source in my video electronics projects. The second edition of the book contains lots of precise technical information on MPEG video and videoconferencing systems.

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A Technical Introduction to Digital Video

A Technical Introduction to Digital Video by Charles Poynton (published by John Wiley & Sons, 1996 (ISBN 0-471-12253-X, hardcover, US$44.99) teaches you the techniques needed to know to be able to to bring smooth motion and accurate color to computing. This book is well worth to read if you have the basic understanding of digital video and need good understanding on the subject.

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Audio books

Audiokirja

If you can read Finnish you should check AUDIOKIRJA byt Esa Blomberg and Ari Lepoluoto. This book published by Tapiolan Viestint�suunnittelu is the best book about audio systems written in Finnish.

Concert Sound and Lighting System

Concert Sound and Lighting System by John Vasey (Focal Press 1993) is a good book if you are planning to work on a concert audio and light systems. That book desribes this topic quite well and gives many useful tips how to avoid the problems in audio systems.

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Sound Check

Sound Check by Tong Moscal (Hal Leonard 1994) is a good introduction to audio systems. If you are planning to work with audio systems this a good book to learn the basics from.

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Digital signal processing books

The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing

The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing by Steven W. Smith is a good introduction to DSP techniques. The book is very readable and uses as little complicated mathematics as possible. Many examples pictures help to get an intuitive understanding. This book contains also information on audio and image processing, neural networks and data compression. You can download individual chapters or the entire book absolutely freely from the book web site at http://www.dspguide.com/ and at http://www.analog.com/industry/dsp/dsp_book/.

Mathematics and algorithms

Numerical Recipes in C

Numerical Recipes in C by Numerical Recipes Software describes the the most of the mathematical algoriths needed by programmers. The book covers linear algebra, interpolation, extrapolation, integration, function evaluation, special functions, random numbers, sorting, root finding, non linear equations, minimization and maximization of functions, eigensystems, fast fourier transform, statistics, modeling and differential equations. The best on that book is that it described the basic theory and then gives out usable example source code. You can downaload the entire book from the Numerical Recipes Software web site at http://www.nr.com/. The book is also available in version with Fortran example source code.

Other books

The Hacker Crackdown

The hacker crackdown is a book which tells about pheaking and hacking. The books describes what really happened in the computer undergound. It describes the historical happenings on the hacker community and that situation that followed the collapse of USA nationwide telephone system at 1990.

The Hacker Crackdown book is freely available in the electronic format at http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/hacker/.

Book review sites

Dr.Dobbs Electronic Review of Computer Books