In the early 20th century, the diesel-electric submarine made possible a new type of unrestricted naval warfare. Such brutal practices as targeting passenger, cargo, and hospital ships not only violat
The question of Historic Titles in International Law has been much discussed in recent years. In particular, it was an issue of some im- portance in several international arbitrations, such as the Gul
This updated and expanded second edition of a highly praised text provides a rigorous yet accessible account of modern cryptography, focusing on formal definitions, assumptions, and rigorous proofs of
This is a graduate textbook of advanced tutorials on the theory of cryptography and computational complexity. In particular, the chapters explain aspects of garbled circuits, public-key cryptography,
In 'I Have a Weakness for a Touch of Red' the passionate art and architecture critic Yehuda Emmanuel Safran collects a selection of his essays on architects and artists from Portugal that he has writt
The book reflects events and developments that took place prior to the summer of 1990, during the period marked by global confrontation between the two major power blocs of those days. That confrontat
Publicly or secretly, traditional Jews increasingly doubt the historical reliability of the Torah. Here, Gellman provides an "old-fashioned" Jewish theology for accepting the contemporary critique of
Articles by philosopher and polymath intellectual Motzkin (1934-2006) were often published in obscure academic periodicals, says Halper (liberal arts, Tulane U., New Orleans), though they are accessib
Will "Justice" Bring Peace?: International Law - Selected Articles and Legal Opinions serves as a consolidated source for the influential texts of diplomat, ambassador, professor, and lawyer Yehuda Z.
The state of Israel was established in 1948 as a Jewish democracy without a legal separation between religion and the state. This state-religion tension has been a central political, social, and mora
This account of the Ovitz family - seven of whose ten members were dwarfs - bears witness to the best and worst of humanity and to the terrible irony of the Ovitzes' fate: being burdened with dwarfis
A biography of the woman who was the catalyst behind the breakup of Ted Hughes' marriage to Sylvia Plath relates her six-year affair with the poet, the birth of Hughes' unacknowledged daughter, Shura,
