Writings

B.P. Lathi has authored letters, papers, and other writings about social issues and other topics. 
Below are the nine Engineering textbooks he authored:

Published Books

  • 1. Signals, systems, and Communication, John Wiley & Sons, 1965

  • 2. Communication Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 1968

  • 3. Random Signals and Communication Theory, International Textbook Co., 1968

  • 4. Signals, Systems, and Controls, Intext publishers, 1974

  • 5. Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983/Oxford University press, 1992

  • 6. Signals and Systems, Berkeley-Cambridge Press, 1987

  • 7. Linear Systems and Signals, Berkeley-Cambridge Press 1992/Oxford University Press, 2001

  • 8. Signal processing and Linear Systems, Berkeley-Cambridge Press, 1998/Oxford University Press, 2001

  • 9. Essentials of Digital Signal processing, Cambridge University press, 2014

These books have been published all over the world and five have been bestsellers. Most of them have been translated in Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Macedonian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and some unauthorized versions.  

Feedback on my latest book

 

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Swami Vivekananda, known for his boldness of ideas and oratory, wrote a poem to extol the life of the renouncer who surrenders things of the world in order to have direct experience of the Divine. In this poem, he urges those who renounce thusly: The Self is all in all, none else exists; And thou art That, Sannyasin bold!

Dr. B.P. Lathi’s newest book reminds us of Vivekananda’s “Song of the Sannyasin.” It too is bold, outspoken and linguistically crafted. Speaking not to world-renouncers but to a world eager to understand the complexities and mysteries of Hinduism, Dr. Lathi writes with a kind of efficient urgency, not dwelling overmuch, not bogging us down with minutia, rather taking us on a high-speed journey through the most fascinating landscapes called Hindu dharma.

He covers all the basics, so much so that anyone who reads through all ten chapters will have an uncommon understanding of this oldest of all religions. The author is to be admired for addressing matters that most eschew, such as the inner worlds of the devas and mahadevas, the spiritual rationale for worship, the matters of death and what follows death. In his chapter “Some Aberations,” he takes on the matters of caste and class with the precision of a focused surgeon excising foul tissue.

This is a book for the serious student of Hinduism, for the young Hindu who has really never been given what the author terms “the Grand Vision” of life, indeed for anyone who wants an open gate to the wonders of Hinduism.

The staff of Hinduism Today magazine commends this work with great enthusiasm.

Sadasivanatha Palani - Hinduism Today - Editor in Chief, Kapaa, Hawaii

I have to thank you for sharing this wonderful work with me. You have given an incredibly clear exposition of Hindu thought, and Advaita Vedānta in particular. I think this will be an important book for helping ordinary people, especially in the Western world, understand Hinduism. You present complex concepts in an admirably clear way, so that they can be understood even by people with little familiarity or background with India or with the dharma traditions. It will also be helpful to Hindus in the US, especially younger Hindus, who are often not very well versed, unfortunately, in the depths of Hindu philosophy. At the same time, even as the book is very clear and accessible to a popular audience, it is also deeply researched, with citations from a wide range of scholarly sources.

Dr. Jeffery D. Long
Professor of Religion and Asian Studies
Elizabethtown College
Elizabethtown, PA


Dr. Jeffery D. Long

Professor of Religion and Asian Studies
Elizabethtown College
Elizabethtown, PA

I applaud your academic integrity...found your approach both innovative and engaging... As for the general tone and content of the text, I am very favorably impressed. [Your] use of metaphors to illustrate basic beliefs makes this a much more readable and understandable text. [The] [c]hapters...are well structured and well written. They frequently rely on metaphors and similes to help introduce the reader to fairly deep concepts, and they do so extremely well.


Bob Chamberlain, PhD, ThE

Professor Emeritus
Eastern Florida State College.
Indialantic, Florida

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