Upping my game...  Book recommendations - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: forrestc
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 15, 2017, 06:26:29 am
content: For quite a few years, "The Art of Electronics" and "Practical Electronics for Inventors" have served me well as my go-to books when I needed a bit more basic knowledge about a given topic. Although they by no means are the only books on my shelf, they are definitely in a category by themselves. But nowadays, I seem to be yearning for more depth of knowledge than either book contains, and the rest of my library tend to be more 'reference books' than 'learning books'.So here's the question: Assuming you had the above two volumes on your bookshelf, what would your next additions be?I know at least part of the answer to the question above will depend on which 'specialties' one is concerned with. I've purposely left that part out because I really would like to keep my mind open about which topics I purchase books about. One note that I would make is that I'd really like to find something at least somewhat readable - as I really intend to work through it in what little spare time I have. So think "book to learn from", not "book to refer to occasionally".

author: DTJ
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 15, 2017, 07:10:16 am
content: I like the look of this one, a little specialised perhaps.http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470402296.html

author: dmills
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 15, 2017, 11:12:29 am
content: "Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic Systems", by Ott (Get the '88 edition)."Electronic and radio engineering" by Terman is very readable even if the technology is mostly glass fet in my 4th edition."building scientific apparatus" (2009) edition is well worth the price of admission."Fields and waves in communications electronics", especially good if you like to play in the microwave regions, but more then somewhat math happy.If audio frequency doings are your thing then everything Doug Self ever published. "Small signal audio design" is good, but his power amplifiers book is excellent. Also, get Cordells book."Radio designers handbook" (Later "The Radiotron designers handbook") by Langford-smith is a wonderful compendium of audio circa 1960, all glass fet, but there is information here you will find nowhere else on such esoteric stuff as how to design wideband audio transformers.Do not forget the applications journals from the various manufacturers, LT publish a good one, and HP/Agilent/Keysight have a long tradition of publishing excellent handbooks on measurement techniques.If computers are your thing then I highly recommend Sussman "The structure and interpretation of computer programs", if you come from a procedural background you will never look at data in quite the same way again.Lets have your lists people.

author: iainwhite
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 15, 2017, 09:57:01 pm
content: Have you looked at the sticky thread in the 'Beginners' section - some of the stuff in there is beyond beginner level.https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/electronics-primers-course-material-and-books/One thing in there I checked out was the MIT open courseware for the 6.002 Circuits and Electronics classes - basically the whole course is available for free online.

author: forrestc
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 15, 2017, 11:11:35 pm
content: Dmills,Thank you very much for this particular list..And this recommendation in particular..Quote from: dmills on February 15, 2017, 11:12:29 amThis is a perfect example of why I wasn't all that specific about what I was looking for... This book looks awesome. I was perusing it through 'surprise me' on Amazon, and a good chunk of the pages are very interesting. A couple of pages in particular would have saved me a fair bit of pain. This one is going to get purchased soon.I have Electromagnetic compatibility engineering from Ott which I've been working through, but I wasn't aware he had done a generic 'noise reduction' book. It looks useful as well.I'm going to peruse the rest of these. But just the two above are great finds....My bookshelf does contain a collection of old, dead-tree databooks. I wish manufacturers would re-release some of the sections in the old databooks. In particular I have a set of old Motorola Databooks which are invaluable to understand some of the deep workings of certain components. I'm thinking of the FET databook in particular, which is from a time where FET's were somewhat esoteric. Nowadays it seems manufacturers expect one to just know all of the subtle workings of components.

author: avrishuvorlaz
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 16, 2017, 03:30:06 am
content: One's bookshelf would be positively meaningless without a copy of "The celestial home care omnibus" - I fear it may be out of production, however:http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/The_Celestial_Home_Care_Omnibus