James Irvine

Practise and prepare for AQA A-level Physics with hundreds of topic-based questions and one complete set of exam practice papers designed to strengthen knowledge and prepare students for the exams. This extensive practice book raises students' performance by providing 'shed loads of practice', following the 'SLOP' learning approach that's recommended by teachers.- Consolidate knowledge and understanding with practice questions for every topic and type of question, including multiple-choice, multi-step calculations and extended response questions.- Develop the mathematical, literacy and practical skills required for the exams; each question indicates in the margin which skills are being tested.- Confidently approach the exam having completed one set of exam-style practice papers that replicate the types, wording and structure of the questions students will face.- Identify topics and skills for revision, using the page references in the margin to refer back to the specification and accompanying Hodder Education Student Books for remediation.- Easily check answers with fully worked solutions and mark schemes provided in the book.

Do you think about quitting your job? Starting your own business? Becoming an internet marketer, consultant, speaker, writer, artist - anything but your day job? Do you think that in order to find power, happiness and success you need to leave corporate life and run your own show? What we don't realise is that power, happiness and success are an inside job. They have less to do with the nature of our work and more to do with how we think, and therefore how we feel and act. Leaving corporate life may change your environment, but if you are still running the same thinking patterns, nothing much will change about how you feel and act. The well-trodden success strategies - find your passion, set big goals, become more assertive - will not work if you don't first gain mastery over what goes on inside, in your mind. This is the source of all your results, good and bad. In this game-changing book, James Irvine shows you how to turn inside and take control over the way you think about: * Your identity * Your performance * Your success * Your relationships * Your communication * Your decisions James doesn't just tell you to change your thinking; he shows you exactly how to do this, supported by action steps that enable you to change ineffective thinking patterns into powerful ones. With 25 years' experience as an international banker and corporate trainer, and qualified as an MBA and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, James Irvine has an in-depth understanding of corporate life as well as what it takes to create positive change in your life. Based in Singapore, today he writes and speaks on taking back control of you career and your life for those who feel stuck and powerless. A new identity, a new way of dealing with people, and a new level of performance are all within your grasp as you turn the pages and learn how to play the game by your own rules.

Data Communications and Networks uses a top-down, Internet-focussed approach to tackle the problem of communication system design. An integrated approach is taken to networks and data communications, with an emphasis that starts from the top level requirements and works downwards, describing how such requirements are fulfilled by lower layers of the transmission chain. While the book contains sufficient detail to provide an excellent foundation, clarity is paramount and care is taken not to swamp the reader with information to the point where the underlying concepts are obscured. The Internet is used as the principle example of a communication system, allowing the reader to follow the system from the application layers, with source coding and security, through the network, with naming and routing algorithms, down to transport and physical aspects of a communication system. Modern techniques such as mobile radio, Voice over IP, and ASDL, are covered, while more traditional aspects such as circuit switching, which still form a significant part of current systems, are not overlooked. By providing a technical introduction and including application examples, this text will have significant appeal to final year students, postgraduates and professionals with a science or engineering background wishing to gain a basic understanding of the key concepts behind data communications engineering.

TETRA is a system for mobile wireless communications and this is a highly topical and comprehensive introduction to the design and applications of TETRA systems including practical examples. TETRA is comparable in structure to the world-wide successful GSM system, however, individual features of TETRA are different, often more efficient and better designed than in GSM. TETRA is therefore providing an important source for the further development of standards for mobile telecommunications. This volume is timely and one of the first to cover TETRA and related subject areas. Features include: * Detailed discussion of public and private mobile communications domain * Architecture, components and services of TETRA and * Design and operational aspects of the system Based on courses for industry, presented by the authors, Digital Mobile Communications and the TETRA System will prove indispensable reading for service providers, design engineers and systems managers in the private mobile communications market. It also provides a thorough grounding in general digital mobile communications for communications engineers and undergraduate and postgraduate students in telecommunications.