Download or read book Murder in the Telephone Exchange written by June Wright and published by Verse Chorus Press. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1948, when it was the best-selling mystery of the year in the author’s native Australia, Murder in the Telephone Exchange stars feisty young operator Maggie Byrnes. When one of her more unpopular colleagues is murdered — her head bashed in with a “buttinski,” a piece of equipment used to listen in on phone calls — Maggie resolves to turn sleuth. Some of her coworkers are acting strangely, and Maggie is convinced she has a better chance of figuring out who is responsible for the killing than the rather stolid police team assigned to the case, who seem to think she herself might have had something to do with it. But then one of her friends is murdered too, and it looks like Maggie might be next. Narrated with verve and wit, this is a whodunit in the tradition of Dorothy L. Sayers and Daphne du Maurier, by turns entertaining and suspenseful, and building to a gripping climax.
Download or read book Hello Central written by Michèle Martin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most studies of technological development, women are portrayed as passive victims of new technology. In contrast, in "Hello, Central?" Michèle Martin reveals the significant impact women had on the development of telephone systems.
Download or read book Orwell s Nose written by John Sutherland and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012 writer John Sutherland permanently lost his sense of smell. At about the same time, he embarked on a rereading of George Orwell and—still coping with his recent disability—noticed something peculiar: Orwell was positively obsessed with smell. In this original, irreverent biography, Sutherland offers a fresh account of Orwell’s life and works, one that sniffs out a unique, scented trail that wends from Burmese Days through Nineteen Eighty-Four and on to The Road to Wigan Pier. Sutherland airs out the odors, fetors, stenches, and reeks trapped in the pages of Orwell’s books. From Winston Smith’s apartment in Nineteen Eighty-Four, which “smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats,” to the tantalizing aromas of concubine Ma Hla May’s hair in Burmese Days, with its “mingled scent of sandalwood, garlic, coconut oil, and jasmine,” Sutherland explores the scent narratives that abound in Orwell’s literary world. Along the way, he elucidates questions that have remained unanswered in previous biographies, addressing gaps that have kept the writer elusively from us. In doing so, Sutherland offers an entertaining but enriching look at one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and, moreover, an entirely new and sensuous way to approach literature: nose first.
Download or read book Introduction to Telephones Telephone Systems written by A. Michael Noll and published by Artech House Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition contains updated and expanded chapters and many new illustrations. It places increased emphasis on digital technology and provides a new chapter on services.
Download or read book Vintage Telephones of the World written by P. J. Povey and published by IET. This book was released on 1988 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental telephones / Bell and Edison / improved speaking and listening / electrophone / coinbox / early telephones from France, Sweden and Germany / first British post office phone / first world war telephones / laryngaphone.
Download or read book The History of the Telephone written by Herbert Newton Casson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fernsprechtechnik, Telefonie (Technik).
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Download or read book Building Telephony Systems With Asterisk written by David Gomillion and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asterisk is a powerful and flexible open source framework for building feature-rich telephony systems. As a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) which connects one or more telephones, and usually connects to one or more telephone lines, Asterisk offers very advanced features, including station-to-station calls, line trunking, call distribution, call detail rerecords, and call recording.
Download or read book The Language of Outsourced Call Centers written by Eric Friginal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Language of Outsourced Call Centers is the first book to explore a large-scale corpus representing the typical kinds of interactions and communicative tasks in outsourced call centers located in the Philippines and serving American customers. The specific goals of this book are to conduct a corpus-based register comparison between outsourced call center interactions, face-to-face American conversations, and spontaneous telephone exchanges; and to study the dynamics of cross-cultural communication between Filipino call center agents and American callers, as well as other demographic groups of participants in outsourced call center transactions, e.g., gender of speakers, agents' experience and performance, and types of transactional tasks. The research design relies on a number of analytical approaches, including corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, and combines quantitative and qualitative examination of linguistic data in the investigation of the frequency distribution and functional characteristics of a range of lexico/syntactic features of outsourced call center discourse.
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Download or read book Late Innings written by Roger Angell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed New Yorker sportswriter examines the inner working of professional baseball, in these essays from the spring of 1977 to the summer of 1981. Late Innings takes fans far beyond the stadium view of the field and into the substrata of baseball as it is experienced by the people who make it happen. Celebrated as one of the game’s finest chroniclers, Roger Angell shares his commentary on the money, fame, power, traditions, and social aspects of baseball during the late seventies and early eighties. Covering monumental events such as Reggie Jackson’s three World Series home runs and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players’ strike, Angell offers a timeless perspective on the world of baseball to be enjoyed by fans of all ages.
Download or read book Telecommunications Engineer s Reference Book written by Fraidoon Mazda and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telecommunications Engineer's Reference Book maintains a balance between developments and established technology in telecommunications. This book consists of four parts. Part 1 introduces mathematical techniques that are required for the analysis of telecommunication systems. The physical environment of telecommunications and basic principles such as the teletraffic theory, electromagnetic waves, optics and vision, ionosphere and troposphere, and signals and noise are described in Part 2. Part 3 covers the political and regulatory environment of the telecommunications industry, telecommunication standards, open system interconnect reference model, multiple access techniques, and network management. The last part deliberates telecommunication applications that includes synchronous digital hierarchy, asynchronous transfer mode, integrated services digital network, switching systems, centrex, and call management. This publication is intended for practicing engineers, and as a supplementary text for undergraduate courses in telecommunications.
Download or read book The Multiple Telegraph written by Alexander Graham Bell and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fanny written by Erica Jong and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jong . . . filled a gap in the great tradition of the picaresque novel. . . . Linguistically, "Fanny" is a tower of strength. . . . Jong has gone farther than Joyce."--Anthony Burgess, "Saturday Review."
Download or read book Trading and Exchanges written by Larry Harris and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on market microstructure, Harris (chief economist, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) introduces the practices and regulations governing stock trading markets. Writing to be understandable to the lay reader, he examines the structure of trading, puts forward an economic theory of trading, discusses speculative trading strategies, explores liquidity and volatility, and considers the evaluation of trader performance. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Hold the Line Please written by Sally Southall and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Southall - christened Kathleen, but always Sally. A pet name since a small child living in Handsworth Birmingham. In 1949 at the age of 17 she became a GPO telephonist at Telephone House, Birmingham until she married John two years later. In those earlier years of marriage Sally was kept fully, but very happily occupied while staying at home raising their four sons. Eventually becoming involved in local politics and what are generally described as worthy causes, she had no thought of returning to her former work until she saw the advertisement, Telephone operators required...training given. In 1988, almost forty years since first becoming a telephonist she returned. Not now the GPO but BT, operating computers in Directory Enquiries. Ironically, on the site of the old Midland Exchange where she had been seconded for a short time 38 years earlier. Sally remained until the exchange closed in 1991. Now she has left Birmingham and the city life to retire with her husband of 52 years, to the heart of leafy Warwickshire, but is always happy to return to her roots.
Download or read book Murder in the Telephone Exchange written by June Wright and published by Verse Chorus Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1948, when it was the best-selling mystery of the year in the author’s native Australia, Murder in the Telephone Exchange stars feisty young operator Maggie Byrnes. When one of her more unpopular colleagues is murdered — her head bashed in with a “buttinsky,” a piece of equipment used to listen in on phone calls — Maggie resolves to turn sleuth. Some of her coworkers are acting strangely, and Maggie is convinced she has a better chance of figuring out who is responsible for the killing than the rather stolid police team assigned to the case, who seem to think she herself might have had something to do with it. But then one of her friends is murdered too, and it looks like Maggie might be next. Narrated with verve and wit, this is a whodunit in the tradition of Dorothy L. Sayers and Daphne du Maurier, by turns entertaining and suspenseful, and building to a gripping climax.
