Wireless Communications Networks or Ethnic Economies

Wireless Communications & Networks

Author: William Stallings

Best-selling author, William Stallings, gives an up-to-date coverage of both wireless communications and wireless networks with new expanded coverage of Wi-Fi and WiMax. Designed for students and professionals, this text explores the key networking topics with a unique approach covering: technology and architecture, network design approaches, and types of networks and applications. DISTINGUISHING KEY FEATURES
• Provides an entire chapter on spread spectrum, which is pervasive in wireless technology today.
• Also provides an entire chapter on satellite communications. This topic remains an important area within wireless communications.
• Thorough coverage of cordless systems. This is an interesting and important new area that extends the traditional cordless telephone technology over greater distances and for greater numbers of users.
• Extensive coverage of fixed wireless access, also known as wireless local loop, and IEEE 802.16 standards. This has become a very important area for bringing high-speed access to subscribers in place of land lines.
• Devotes a whole chapter on Mobile IP Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). Wireless Internet and Web access are driving forces in the evolution of wireless technology and are a must have.
• Complete coverage of Wireless LANs, including IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth. This is a broad and important area, and the book devotes three chapters to this realm.

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Ethnic Economies

Author: Ivan H Light

The phenomenon of increasingly visible groups of immigrant entrepreneurs raises a host of questions. What are the causes of immigrant entrepreneurship? What are its consequences, especially as regards upward mobility and inter-ethnic relations? And what accounts for differences in entrepreneurship among ethnic groups? Ethnic Economies provides a broad overview of ethnicity and entrepreneurship, connecting it with broader studies of economic life.

Choice

Sociologists Light and Gold provide a comprehensive overview of the scholarly literature examining the ethnic economy phenomenon, with an emphasis on how these ethnic economies function in contemporary American society. This valuable interdisciplinary work is recommended for public, academic, and professional library collections.

Journal of Economic Literature

Reviews the course of social science inquiry into ethnic economies since Max Weber to clarify why ethnic economies have been, and remain, controversial. Discusses forms of disadvantage and considers disadvantage as an explanation for ethnic entrepreneurship. Examines credit issues in the ethnic ownership economy.

Diaspora

...their book is the most important attempt so far to provide a synthetic and coherent description of what is known on immigrant's business activities in the United States,in terms of both empirical findings and theoretical explanations. Ethnic Economies is elegantly written and manages to remain very clear despite the complexity of the ideas discussed and the abundance of empirical data. It thus constitutes a valuable introduction for non-specialists as well as a stimulating and useful tool for those who are familiar with the subject... The recent production of recapitulative works on what we know on ethnic economies is symptomatic,and Light and Gold's Ethnic Economies is the most notable and comprehensive review of the literature so far.

What People Are Saying

Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama, First Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia

Light and Gold's Ethnic Economies provides a wealth of data to back up a commonsense observation ignored by most economists: that economic life in contemporary America continues to be organized along ethnic lines, and that ethnic groups' differing endowments of human, social, and cultural capital go a long way to explaining their economic success. An incredibly valuable resource for social scientists and for general readers alike who are interested in the impact of ethnicity on contemporary American life.

Alejandro Portes
Alejandro Portes, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Ethnic Economies is a thorough and systematic incursion into a topic of increasing importance. The book puts paid to the persistent assumption that only salaried employment in the general labor market counts. It shows instead how 'small' can be 'big' when it comes to promoting the survival and economics advancement of minorities. Light and Gold have produced a complex, textured argument well worth studying by those interested in ethnic inequality, success and failure.

Roger Waldinger
Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles

Ethnicity is alive and well, in part because it turns out to serve tangible ends. Those who want to know how and why, need to read Light and Gold's Ethnic Economies. Beautifully written and trenchantly argued, this book distills a vast, inter-disciplinary, and international literature in a way that makes it accessible to the novice, and yet stimulating for the experienced scholar. A work to be valued, not just by sociologists, but by economists, anthropologists, and historians alike.

Jeremy Boissevain
Jeremy Boissevain, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Amsterdam

Ethnic Economies provides a very clear, comprehensive discussion of the complex field of ethnicity, entrepreneurship and economic context. While designed for classroom use, the book's overview and stand on controversial issues and its excellent documentation and US data also make it an essential tool for scholars, especially those working outside the United States.

Jan Rath
Jan Rath, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), University of Amsterdam

Already in the early 1970s, Ivan Light pioneered research on so-called ethnic resources of (immigrant) entrepreneurs. Now, almost three decades later, he and Steven Gold comprehensively wrap up the by now enormous body of academic literature on ethnic economies in the United States--a truly impressive achievement. They offer a superb panorama that bears testimony to the leading position of American economic sociologists in the field of immigration and, at the same time, making a strong theoretically as well as empirically founded argument for economic-sociological research in general.

Table of Contents:

Preface.
The Ethnic Economy Since Weber.
The Size of Ethnic Economies.
Wealth, Income, Employment.
Class Resources.
Ethnic Resources.
Gender and Families in Ethnic Economies.
Ethnic Economies and Ethnic Communities.
Forms of Disadvantage.
Credit Issues in the Ethnic Ownership Economy.
Bibliography.