Data Communications and Computer Networks or Macroeconomics

Data Communications and Computer Networks: A Business User's Approach

Author: Curt Whit

The latest edition of Curt White's top-selling text maintains a balanced approach between the technical and the practical aspects of data communications, providing a solid understanding not only of how things work, but how they can be applied to create business solutions. Updated to reflect new technologies, this text covers current concepts such as voice over wireless LAN, convergence, MPLS, and PPP, while maintaining the pedagogical elements that have been successful for students in the past.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction to Computer Networks and Data Communications
2. Fundamentals of Data and Signals
3. Conducted and Wireless Media
4. Making Connections
5. Making Connections Efficient: Multiplexing and Compression
6. Errors, Error Detection, and Error Control
7. Local Area Networks-The Basics
8. Local Area Networks-Internetworking
9. Local Area Networks-Software and Support Systems
10. Introduction to Metropolitan Area Networks and Wide Area Networks
11. The Internet
12. Voice and Data Delivery Networks
13. Network Security
14. Network Design and Management

See also: Strategies for Business and Technical Writing or Organization Theory and Public Management

Macroeconomics

Author: Richard T Froyen

KEY BENEFIT: This book traces the history of macroeconomics, the evolution of macroeconomic thought, and the resulting theory and policy.

KEY TOPICS: The book places the various macroeconomic theories in the order in which they developed chronologically, and illustrates the similarities and differences of the models. Starting with classical economics and the Keynesian revolution, this book explores the macroeconomic theory after Keynes, open economy macroeconomics, economic policy, and sectoral functions.

MARKET: Financial officers and professionals making pecuniary decisions and analyses.