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Principles of Electric Circuits

Author: Thomas L. Floyd
Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2006, 976pp, 8th ed.

Floyd's introductory textbook provides an exceptionally clear introduction to DC/AC electric circuits supported by superior exercises, examples, and illustrations, with an emphasis on troubleshooting and applications. Throughout the textbook's coverage, the use of mathematics is limited to only those concepts that are needed for understanding.
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Digital Fundamentals

Author: Thomas L. Floyd
Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2008, 880pp, 10th ed.

This bestselling introductory textbook provides thorough, up-to-date coverage of digital fundamentals, from basic concepts to microprocessors, programmable logic, and digital signal processing. The textbook's vivid full-color format is packed with photographs, illustrations, tables, charts, and graphs; valuable visual aids that today's user needs to understand this often complex computer application. For those in the computer industry where a knowledge of introductory digital programming is essential.
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Introductory Circuit Analysis

Author: Robert L. Boylestad
Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2006, 1176pp, 11th ed.

New edition of an introductory textbook that provides a solid foundation in circuit analysis. This introductory textbook is the most widely acclaimed introduction to circuit analysis for more than three decades. The textbook features exceptionally clear explanations and descriptions, step-by-step examples, more than 50 practical applications, over 2000 easy-to-challenging practice problems, and comprehensive coverage of essentials.
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Digital Design - Principles and Practices

Author: John F. Wakerly
Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2005, 928pp, 4th ed.

Real-world yet scholarly in approach, this introductory textbook provides a solid foundation in the elements of basic digital electronics and switching theory that are used in most practical digital designs today, and builds on that theory with discussions of real-world digital components, design methodologies, and tools
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Microelectronic Circuits

Author: Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003, 1392pp, 5th ed.

This market-leading introductory textbook continues its standard of excellence and innovation built on the solid pedagogical foundation that instructors expect from Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith. All material in the fifth edition of Microelectronic Circuits is thoroughly updated to reflect changes in technology-CMOS technology in particular. These technological changes have shaped the textbook's organization and topical coverage, making it the most current introductory textbook available for teaching tomorrow's engineers how to analyze and design electronic circuits.
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The Art of Electronics

Author: Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1989, 1125pp, 2nd ed.

This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the hugely successful The Art of Electronics introductory textbook. Widely accepted as the authoritative textbook and reference on electronic circuit design, both analog and digital, this book revolutionized the teaching of electronics by emphasizing the methods actually used by circuit designers -- a combination of some basic laws, rules of thumb, and a large bag of tricks. The result is a largely nonmathematical treatment that encourages circuit intuition, brainstorming, and simplified calculations of circuit values and performance.