chapter 1 A Brief History of Magnetic Storage -- chapter 2 Physics of Longitudinal and Perpendicular Recording -- chapter 3 The Physics of Optical Recording -- chapter 4 Head Design Techniques for Recording Devices -- chapter 5 Modeling the Recording Channel -- chapter 6 Signal and Noise Generation for Magnetic Recording Channel Simulations -- chapter 7 Statistical Analysis of Digital Signals and Systems -- chapter 8 Partial Response Equalization with Application to High Density Magnetic Recording Channels -- chapter 9 An Introduction to Error-Correcting Codes -- chapter 10 Message-Passing Algorithm -- chapter 11 Modulation Codes for Storage Systems -- chapter 12 Information Theory of Magnetic Recording Channels -- chapter 13 Capacity of Partial Response Channels -- chapter 14 Recording Physics and Organization of Data on a Disk -- chapter 15 Read Channels for Hard Drives -- chapter 16 An Overview of Hard Drive Controller Functionality -- chapter 17 Runlength Limited Sequences -- chapter 18 Maximum Transition Run Coding -- chapter 19 Spectrum Shaping Codes -- chapter 20 Introduction to Constrained Binary Codes with Error Correction Capability -- chapter 21 Constrained Coding and Error-Control Coding -- chapter 22 Convolutional Codes for Partial-Response Channels -- chapter 23 Capacity-Approaching Codes for Partial Response Channels -- chapter 24 Coding and Detection for Multitrack Systems -- chapter 25 Two-Dimensional Data Detection and Error Control -- chapter 26 Adaptive Timing Recovery for Partial Response Channels -- chapter 27 Interpolated Timing Recovery -- chapter 28 Adaptive Equalization Architectures for Partial Response Channels -- chapter 29 Head Position Estimation -- chapter 30 Servo Signal Processing -- chapter 31 Evaluation of Thermal Asperity in Magnetic Recording -- chapter 32 Data Detection -- chapter 33 Detection Methods for Data-dependent Noise in Storage Channels -- chapter 34 Read/Write Channel Implementation -- chapter Turbo Codes -- chapter 36 An Introduction to LDPC Codes -- chapter 37 Concatenated Single-Parity Check Codes for High-Density Digital Recording Systems -- chapter 38 Structured Low-Density Parity-Check Codes / chapter 39 Turbo Coding for Multitrack Recording Channels.