Kingsley Amis,John Banville: The Old Devils

The Old Devils


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Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis's "The Old Devils," which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years--when "all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast"--nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, however, when two old friends unexpectedly return from England: Alun Weaver, now a celebrated man of Welsh letters, and his entrancing wife, Rhiannon. Long-dormant rivalries and romances are rudely awakened, as life at the Bible and Crown, the local pub, is changed irrevocably. Considered by Martin Amis to be Kingsley Amis's greatest achievement--a book that "stands comparison with any English novel of the [twentieth] century"--"The Old Devils" confronts the attrition of ageing with rare candor, sympathy, and moral intelligence.

Learn how to: * make amplifiers with apparently impossibly low noise * design discrete circuitry that can handle enormous signals with vanishingly low distortion * use humble low-gain transistors to make an amplifier with an input impedance of more than 50 Megohms * transform the performance of low-cost-opamps, how to make filters with very The Old Devils free epub low noise and distortion * make incredibly accurate volume controls * make a huge variety of audio equalisers * make magnetic cartridge preamplifiers that have noise so low it is limited by basic physics * sum, switch, clip, compress, and route audio signals The second edition is expanded throughout (with added information on new ADCs and DACs, microcontrollers, more coverage of discrete op amp design, and many other topics), and includes a completely new chapter on headphone amplifiers.


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Author: Kingsley Amis,John Banville
Number of Pages: 294 pages
Published Date: 02 Oct 2012
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781590175767
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