Csiszar and Korner's book is widely regarded as a classic in the field of information theory, providing deep insights and expert treatment of the key theoretical issues. It includes in-depth coverage of the mathematics of reliable information transmission, both in two-terminal and multi-terminal net[...]

Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business to the firm's bookkeeper - his final business transaction before being sent to a labour camp. Two months after saying goodbye to his father, Gyuri finds himself assigned to[...]

Offers a comprehensive survey of computer methods for engineers that know the importance of the applications of these techniques but cannot understand them. This book provides the basic theory and the value of competitive computer-aided engineering methods. It covers such topics as conceptual design[...]

Exhibits and confirms the originality, range and the essential unity of this work.

The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art, Literature, and Culture is the first collectio[...]

After Globalization offers a new way of thinking about globalization -- both what it was and how it still operates as a social narrative. In lively and unflinching prose, the authors argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think "an after" to [...]

The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is "No." It is how the novel's narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It is the answer he gave his wife (now ex-wife) years earlier when she told[...]

After Globalization offers a new way of thinking about globalization -- both what it was and how it still operates as a social narrative. In lively and unflinching prose, the authors argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think "an after" to glo[...]

In Reisebildern aus Tel Aviv, Berlin, Leipzig und Wien, in Erinnerungsmomenten einer fast entrückten Kindheit, in erzählten und geträumten Geschichten, in Wahrnehmungen, die ins traumatisch Visionäre oder in die glückhafte Epiphanie umkippen, hält Imre Kert?sz einen existentiellen Epochenwechs[...]