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going through the reviews of this book, I keep going back and asking myself the old question of the value in democratic wisdom. How , How can anyone in the world of Electrical Engineering, give this text anything but five start, and then not CRAVE for having given it more, if only the Amazon allows it. There is just no measure of what a book tells u, and hence the ranking orders are just purely a statistical misery. Let me tell you, what this book has to offer, but before that, I will take a very brief detour to just tie for you, the comments of other reviewers, lest the light of this holy text be partaken.One of the worthy reviewers claimed that this summarizes for us, the high points of what otherwise would have been an undergraduate course in EE. To this I can say you are probably right. But I would rather put down this statement as meaning something that this book, this book alone, has taught me what I had always craved for, in one decade of doing Electrical Engineering, and never ever got from those 150 books strewn across my engineering shelf.Then the reviewer contends that Lee seems to contest the conventional wisdom and then lays a claim to having foufn too light. What do you means 'seems to' and 'lays a claim'. Oh my dear Sir, this is truth, and mere truth. This book will tell you about smith charts, about complex modlation schemes, about transciever architecture, in a way, which NO OTHER BOOK in our contemporary history has ever laid down. Give me a book that can say that the circle of a countour is but a straight line of infinite radius !!!!! I have studied complex baseband communications for five years, and never for the heck of it understood all those complex baseband envelope modeling, untill i hit the golden two paragrpahs of Lee.I dont want to ramble on and on about it, but what exactly is this book then. This book, is an exhilarating ride, from the sandy baked desserts to the snow capped mountains of electrical engineering, but beware, this is not a ride on a jeep with always a plenty of food and water. This is an action packed adventure, a thourough NON stop action. So Lee will get you through the non linear history of the radio first. The titlte and the chapter alone is worth a whole life time in Engineering. In the second chapter, thats the complex envelope one. From where I have learned all things digital, and all ideas called information. In the third one on passive RLC networks, Lee will take you for a roller coster into a world where capacitors driven by a 5 volt battery might carry currents and voltages of the order of thousands which can melt themselves like a furnance. This is a startly energy gimmickry that awaits u in this chapter. Go to four, and Lee will teach you the skin effect afresh. All books on EMT put together will be held to shame. Go through 6 and 7 on distributed systems, and you will be plunged into a magic of cancelling reflections. You hold a quarter wave transformer in your hand. I have held it for like 15 years, without ever realizing, what a magic I am holding. I never knew I hold Aladins lamp in my hand, by putting that quarter wave in my circuit. Lee will tell you the magic, the magic of reflection cacellation and why is it a bane for broad band matching. Chapter 8. Ooooh my God. Lee will come out of hiding here. In this magnum opus, he will shatter all concentional concepts of gain bandwidth products, he will pulverize all our notions of analog tradeoffs. I can tell you, Chapter 8 & 9 , they are a battle with your concsience. A conscious that has been polluted by years and years of debauchery taught to us as undergraduates and graduates in EE.I can ramble on and on and on, into PLLs into Power Amps, into Oscillators. You can probably spend another few text books and several years, analyzing the wisdom that Lee preaches.Frankly, I suggest you dont buy this book. Because I really don want to have so many competitors. But not writing it all, would have been like not giving the smallest bit that I can, back to Professor Lee. I felt obligated, and hence the review
