1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001448360403321

Autore

Hankerson, Darrel R.

Titolo

Coding theory and cryptography : The essential / D. R. Hankerson ...[e altri]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Marcel Dekker, c2000

ISBN

0-8247-0465-7

Edizione

[2nd ed. revised and expanded]

Descrizione fisica

x, 350 p. ; 25 cm

Collana

Monographs and textbooks in pure and applied mathematics ; 234

Disciplina

003.54

Locazione

MA1

Collocazione

C-8-(234

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450214403321

Autore

Sorin Gerald <1940->

Titolo

Irving Howe [[electronic resource] ] : a life of passionate dissent / / Gerald Sorin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8147-4077-4

0-8147-0884-6

81-474-0774-2

1-4175-8837-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 p.)

Disciplina

974.7/100492/0092

B

Soggetti

Jews - New York (State) - New York

Critics - New York (State) - New York

Jewish radicals - New York (State) - New York

Jews - New York (State) - New York - Intellectual life

Electronic books.

New York (N.Y.) Biography

New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 The Trauma of Sharply Fallen Circumstances: World of Our Fathers; 2 Illusions of Power and Coherence at CCNY: World of College Politics in the 1930's; 3 The Second World War and the Myopia of Socialist Sectarianism; 4 The Postwar World and the Reconquest of Jewishness; 5 Toward a "World More Attractive"; 6 The Origins of Dissent; 7 The Age of Conformity; 8 The Growth of Dissent and the Breakup of the Fifties; 9 More Breakups; 10 The Turmoil of Engagement: The Sixties: Part 1; 11 Escalation and Polarization: The Sixties: Part 2; 12 Retrospection and Celebration

13 Sober Self-Reflections: Democratic Radical, Literary Critic, Secular Jew Notes; Glossary; References; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author



Sommario/riassunto

A New York Times "Books for Summer Reading" selection. Winner of the 2003 National Jewish Book Award for History. By the time he died in 1993 at the age of 73, Irving Howe was one of the twentieth century's most important public thinkers. Deeply passionate, committed to social reform and secular Jewishness, ardently devoted to fiction and poetry, in love with baseball, music, and ballet, Howe wrote with such eloquence and lived with such conviction that his extraordinary work is now part of the canon of American social thought. In the first comprehensive biography of Howe's life, historian Ger