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it is a good book on OFDM and WLAN
I recently bought this book and I found a comprehensive content on OFDM and related technologies.It starts withwireless channels and continues with the building blocks of OFDM and then talks about wireless Lan including 802.11, Hiperlan both mac and physical layers, Adsl, wimax and uwb.As a researcher i will leverage the illustrations and formulations.

found quite extensive in OFDM and WLAN
This is a good guide on OFDM and WLAN technology. It gives more than what we see from standards.
The quite a guide on OFDM theory and applications
I found this book very diverse and rich. It covers the theory of OFDM and continues with a very excellent through explanation of WLANsystem and mentiones the uwb, adsl and wimax.
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Subjects:  1. Digital communications    2. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    3. Information Theory    4. Multiplexing    5. Networking - General    6. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing    7. Orthogonalization methods    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Spread spectrum communications    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Telecommunications    13. Communications engineering / telecommunications    14. Technology / Engineering / Electrical   

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Worth a read or two or three
I have read this book a few times, not because it is hard to understand, but because it is so very exciting. If you want to understand how God interacts with humanity, how all religions have the same foundation, and why we who live now are extraordinarily blessed, pick up this book and savor it.

A Wonderful Introduction...
This book is a wonderful introduction to the Baha'i Faith.I enjoyed the detailed history of the faith in the beginning chapters very much.Kenneth Bowers did an amazing job on what I believe is his first book!

Wow
This book was beyond insightfull!!!I couldn't put it down for days.Mr.Bowers truly did an amazing job! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Baha' i    2. Bahai Faith    3. Religion    4. Religion - World Religions   

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Informative and Loving
This book, truely, covers the life and legacy of Bahiyyih Khanum. A person whose qualities call for close examination. Janet Khan, using all available means for research, in spite of the cultural norms of a women in the mid-19th century Persia, succeeds in portraying the "Greatest Holy Leaf" in a way that makes me fall in love. Her plight and perseverance are something to be admired, especially in context to her historical upbringings. Highly recommended read.

excellent book
This book is a very important book for those studying the history of the Baha'i Faith. The writer opens a vivid window that allows us to view the critical role Bahiyyih Khanum played in the growth of her Father, Baha'u'llah's faith, the Baha'i Faith, in the very turbulent years of its beginning. I enjoyed it immensely. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Baha' i    2. Bahai Faith    3. Bahais    4. Bahiyyih,    5. Biography    6. General    7. Khanum    8. Religion    9. Religion - World Religions   

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handy reference
This Encyclopedia covers a HUGE variety of topics. History of the faith, central characters, daily life practices, stances on topics from abortion to burial practices.

One of the Best Bahai reference books
This is a must buy book for all Bahai's. When I first bought it I couldn't put it down. The missing link in any library. The information is accurate and concise. It would take you years to compile this information. Don't wait, get one as soon as possible. You will be overjoyed at the vast information included in this book. Should have had this book 30 yrs. ago.

Useful for a Wide Variety of Students of Reiigion
This is an extremely useful and handy reference book for students of comparative religion, the Baha'i Faith, Middle Eastern studies, Islamic studies, etc. The categories are excellent, the research excellent, and the topics are written extremely well. In addition to fine historical biograhies, this brief book covers a diverse array to topics associated with the history, theology, ethical and moral stances related to the Baha'i Faith. Contemporary issues, social and historical issues, theological controveries, all are in this book as well as the nature of Baha'i administration, social organization, scriptural descriptions, relations with other religions, etc. It is an excellent book and useful to academics and students of the Baha'i Faith. Objective and informative, respectful and accurate, and briefly written this book stands as a good beginning for a series of volumes on the Baha'i Faith. I strongly recommend it to everyone. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Baha' i    2. Bahai Faith    3. Bahaism    4. Encyclopedias    5. Religion    6. Religion - World Religions    7. Baha'i    8. Religion / General   

Subjects:  1. Baha'i    2. Bahai Faith    3. Family & Relationships    4. Family & Relationships / Love & Romance    5. Family & Relationships / Marriage    6. Love & Romance    7. Marriage    8. Religion    9. Religion / Baha'i   

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An important book to read
At barely thirty, he seemed so young to die. He appeared helpless and gentle, yet confident; a look of contentment on his face as he gazed calmly into the hostile barrels of 750 cocked rifles in the public square in Tabriz, Persia on July 9, 1850. In 1844 there had been great excitement over the return of the Messiah, the promised Christ and on May 23, "The Bab proclaimed that He was the One foretold in all the holy Books of the past. He said that he had come to usher in a new era, a fresh springtime in the hearts of men. His name, the Bab, meant the door or gate. His teaching, he said, was to open the door or the gate to a new age of unity in which men would recognize one God and worship in one religion - the same religion which all of God's prophets had taught from the beginning of time. It would be an age in which all men would live as brothers." My Favorite Book
This book was wonderful!I could not put it down, and was amazed with all the trials and tribulations that the Babi's went through.This truly is an inspirational book and I reccomend it to everyone, regardless of age or religion.It is a great book and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Release the Sun
I am re-reading this book and find it even more fascinating than I did the first time.It delves into the history of the beginnings of the Bahai faith from a very human point of view. It is easy to get caught up in thestories of the persons and their personalities that were aware of thecoming of a new age and what it would entail for their people.It tellsthe stories of the men chosen to bring a new faith to mankind; and alsotells the stories of the disciples, both men and women, and faithful in theearly days of the faith. I find myself rivited to page after page of thebook and reading late into the night and agian early in the morning. If thehistory of the beginnings of the Bahai faith, the 1800's and religionsinterests you at all this is a must read book. Enjoy it, please ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Baha' i    2. Bahaism    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. General    5. Religion    6. Religious   

Subjects:  1. Baha' i    2. Bahai Faith    3. Family    4. Interviews    5. Marriage    6. Married people    7. Religion    8. Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality    9. Religious aspects    10. Spirituality - General   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Baha' i    3. Bible - CriticismInterpretation - Old Testament    4. Christianity - Christian Life - Suffering & Grief    5. Death & Dying    6. Jewish mourning customs    7. Mourning customs in the Bible    8. Religion    9. Religion - Christian Life    10. Christian rites & ceremonies    11. Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts    12. Judaism    13. Religion & Theology | Biblical Studies | Old Testament/Hebrew Bible    14. Religion / Bible / Criticism, Interpretation / Old Testament    15. Social Science-Anthropology - Cultural    16. Social Science-Death & Dying   

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The American Bahai Mixture
After becoming a Bahai in the 1960s, William Garlington moved to Australia, where he wrote his dissertation on Bahai mass teaching in Malwa, India, eventually returning to the United States.For over twenty-five years, he taught religious studies in Australia and the US. In the 1980s he withdrew his membership in the Bahai Faith, essentially he says over doctrinal issues relating to revelation and the infallibility of Bahai institutions. How refreshing
How refreshing to read a book about a religions where the author is neither promoting not attacking.I found the content to be well balanced and evenly presented, and find Collins' review to be absurd.Collins who is probably a Baha'i is defending where there is no attack.As a student of religion I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting a fair and honest approach to the study of the Baha'i Faith.

Readable but disappointing
This work promises to be a neutral academic treatment, but is plagued with some questions about how that neutrality is achieved. While Dr. Garlington gives a good overview of the Baha'i Faith's progressive teachings and a useful history of American polemic against it, he gives disproportionate weight to the viewpoints of a handful of ex-Baha'i critics and disaffected Baha'is. Thus his later chapters on contemporary developments are deprived of the Baha'i community's and institutions' authentic and nuanced voice in the understanding of their own Faith. The critics, if not the author himself, tend to believe that "fundamentalism" is rampant in the Baha'i community. Thus the author quotes as fact one critic's false connections between right-wing Christianity in America and the membership of international Baha'i institutions. In reality, Baha'i institutions advise Baha'is that they should not seek to impose Baha'i requirements on those who are not Baha'is and a national Baha'i educational institution has held courses about how to ensure a spiritual, thinking, non-fundamentalist culture. When treating the controversies fomented by many of these critics, the author draws frequent unfounded conclusions, for example stating that large scale enrollments of African-Americans in the Baha'i Faith in the south around 1970 came to an end because Baha'i "leadership" was unwilling to cope with large numbers of poor and minority members. If this were true, would that same leadership have built a Baha'i institute and a radio station for those believers and continued to emphasize the importance of consolidating their membership? Though I (the reviewer) am a Baha'i, I am able to see from the outsider's viewpoint and understand how contemporary thinking raises some issues to prominence. However, I was personally involved in or observed most of the contemporary issues mentioned in the book. Garlington's informants did not give a complete picture of their interactions with the community and its institutions. The work frequently gives their viewpoints without a full accounting of the Baha'i understanding of the issue at hand, which might make for a richer picture of how the Baha'i tradition applies to daily life and practice. Unfortunately, the work too often characterizes as major crises, controversies that are largely unnoticed among the general Baha'i populace or that are being worked out within the framework of a developing community life. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Baha' i    2. Bahai Faith    3. General    4. Religion    5. Religion - World Religions    6. United States    7. Baha'i    8. Religion / General    9. USA   

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An important first key to the ongoing development of ethical religious consciousness
Lights Of The Spirit: Historical Portraits Of Black Baha'is In North America, 1898-2000 is a seminal, 338 page historical work containing studies and biographical material on extraordinary African Americans actively developing the Baha'i faith. Originating in Iran in 1844, the Baha'i faith is an independent world religion that holds racial equality as a central lynch pin of their faith. In the words of it's founder, prophet of the faith, Abdu'l-Baha, colored people are comparable to the black pupil of the eye surrounded by the white. In this black pupil you see the reflection of that which is before it, and through it the light of the spirit shineth forth (preface). Information about Sadie Oglesby, Alain Locke, Dorothy Champ, Coralie Franklin Cook and George William Cooke, Dizzy Gillespie, Elsie Austin, Louis Turner, and Robert Turner is presented along with many other pioneers of the Black Baha'i movement in North America. The editors, both Baha'i scholars, bring many diverse pieces of the puzzle together for the first time. Included are twenty separate chapters of informed and informative information, including some essays on racial history and the rise of the Baha'i religion in North America, some of which are more world-directed in tone, plus some categorized as family histories, including portraits of Sadie Rebecca Johnson Ellis, Mary Brown Martin, and other heroines of the faith. One particularly fascination chapter is titled" Black Roses in Canada's Mosaic: Four Decades of Black History", BY W. C. van den Hoonaard and Lynn Echevarria. Lights Of The Spirit provides meticulous data about Black women in Canada who promulgated the Baha'i faith. Lights Of The Spirit is an important first key to the ongoing development of ethical religious consciousness and the fundamental need for racial equality and an excellent read earning high praise and recommendation to students of religion, sociology, and all who live and teach racial equality.
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Subjects:  1. African American Bahais    2. Baha' i    3. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor    4. History    5. Religion    6. Religion - World Religions    7. Religious   

Subjects:  1. Baha' i    2. Fiction - General    3. Inspirational - General    4. Religion    5. Short Stories (single author)   

Subjects:  1. Religion - World Religions    2. Baha' i    3. Religion    4. Spirituality - General   

Subjects:  1. Baha' i    2. Bahai Faith    3. Doctrines    4. Prayer    5. Religion    6. Religion - World Religions   

Subjects:  1. Baha' i    2. Bahai Faith    3. Doctrines    4. Life    5. Religion    6. Religion - World Religions    7. Religious aspects    8. Spirituality - General   

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A gem, the best treatment of science and theology I've read
This collection of essays would be well wroth expanding into an even deeper and comprehensive analysis of the possible consistency of scientific and religious worldviews.Hatcher takes an informed neoplatonist perspective and analses sociological and formal logical problems where religion and science have traditionally met with conflict, and he resolves these potential inconsistencies in a remarkably lucid and profound analysis.He is guided by the universal principles of the relatively recently (c. 1844) established Baha'i world Faith.Particularly beautiful is Hatcher's explanation of various "proofs" of the existence of "God".First a logical definition is given of an entity that most people (atheists or not) would be happy to agree meets certain minimal criteria that most people would think any sufficiently realistic concept of an omnipotent God would require.Then Hathcer shows how Avicenna's (Ibn-i-Senna, the 9th century Islamic scientist-philosopher and physician) logical proof of the existence of a "universal uncaused cause" can be reformulated with the use of modern logic and set theory into a water-tight deduction of the existence of such a minimal concept (ie. a "universal uncaused cause") from certain very simple and realistic premises.The reader is left in no doubt that, (a) what most people mean by the word "God" or "Allah" or "Brahma" is an infinitesimallysmall aspect of whatever reality it is that actually causes contingent phenomena to exist, and (b) that whatever it is, there is at least little logical doubt that something akin to this minimalist notion of a "God" is entirely believable and plausible as an actual entity that has positive existence, though perhaps little relation to what most people these days think of as a personal God.Read more

Subjects:  1. Philosophy & Social Aspects    2. Science    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Baha'i    5. Philosophy of religion   

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Concealing Tahirih's Messianic Status
Tahirih in History, Perspectives on Qurratu'lyn from East and West is a compilation of essays from several sources which do give some important accounts of the life of Tahirih. Read more

Subjects:  1. 1817 or 18-1852    2. Bahais    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. General    8. Iran    9. Qurrat al-Ayn,    10. Qurrat al-°Ayn,    11. Religious   

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A whole new world
This is an incredible book which outlines the basics of a new, world-wide faith known as Baha'i.It discusses such topics as: A Good Read, even for Non-Bahais
As with many Bahai writings (I'm not a member, but I have been to Bahai functions, read much of their literature, and have close friends in this faith), one doesn't have to be a member to enjoy this book. A lot of what Esslemont says here is practical for anyone. Partricularly such advice as- It's a New Dawn
I'm not going to get into much detail here, because this a book that you really just need to read for yourself.Verily, every Earthling should read this.Okay, that is a biased thing to say.( I believe in Baha'u'llah's revelation )But to view this as a reader and not a theologian, it is a remarkable introduction to the 2nd most widespread and youngest of the world religions.It is a source of the Baha'i view on a very large number of issues that face the world today.I think its easy to at first be utterly confused by the Baha'i faith, but this book should aid you in a comprehension of Its message and what it means to be one of Its adherents. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Baha' i    2. Bahai Faith    3. History    4. Religion    5. Religion - Commentaries / Reference   

Subjects:  1. Baha' i    2. Bahai Faith and social problems    3. Philosophy    4. Physics    5. Religion    6. Religion - Commentaries / Reference   

Subjects:  1. Religion - World Religions    2. Baha' i    3. Bahai Faith    4. Meditations    5. Religion   

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Very Interesting...
If one were to open his mind and read this book without bias, you can be introduced to some thought provoking and fresh solutions to mankinds most perplexing problems.Highly recommended.

The Straight Story of a NewReligion
As recently as last week, a very kind lady asked me with all deference, "Isn't the Baha'i Faith a cult?" The answer to that question is a definitive "No." I recommend "The Story of Baha'u'llah," to anyone curious about the origins of the Baha'i Faith, now well established in most nations of the world.
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Subjects:  1. 1817-1892    2. Baha' i    3. Bahaullah,    4. Bahâa®u®llâah,    5. General    6. Religion    7. Religion - World Religions