This book offers the first comprehensive overview of contemporary systems for secure electronic/digital postage. It introduces a taxonomy of electronic postage systems and explains their security risks and countermeasures. The underlying cryptographic mechanisms are introduced and explained, and the industrial-scale electronic postage systems existing worldwide are sorted out with respect to this taxonomy. The author also discusses privacy and anonymous mail, the state of standardization of electronic postage, and the process of security evaluation and testing of electronic postage systems.  

Product Description: A gripping and hilarious 1960s Mexico City noirOnly a couple of days before the state visit of the President of the United States, Filiberto García ― an impeccably groomed "gun for hire," ex-Mexican revolutionary, and classic anti-hero ― is recruited by the Mexican police to discover how much truth there might be to KGB and FBI reports of a Chinese-Mongolian plot to assassinate the Soviet and American presidents during the unveiling of a statue...read more

Product Description: Based on the author’s own life, this acclaimed novel is as much a long love letter as it is a widower’s desperate attempt to conserve every detail of a deceased wife through the love of literature that they both shared. In 2005 Goldman married a promising young Mexican writer, Aura Estrada...read more

In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura’s death by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. Instead, he wrote Say Her Name, a novel chronicling his great love and unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain.Suddenly a widower, Goldman collects everything he can about his wife, hungry to keep Aura alive with every memory. From her childhood and university days in Mexico City with her fiercely devoted mother to her studies at Columbia University, through their newlywed years in New York City and travels to Mexico and Europe—and always through the prism of her gifted writings—Goldman seeks her essence and grieves her loss. Humor leavens the pain as he lives through the madness of grief and creates a living portrait of a love as joyous as it is deep and profound.Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and accountability, and a tribute to Aura, who she was and who she would've been.

Product Description: In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing...read more

Product Description: Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The Long Night of White Chickens marked the brilliant debut of Francisco Goldman’s internationally acclaimed writing career.The Long Night of White Chickens is a novel born of two worlds: It is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by a patrician Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with Flor de Mayo, the beautiful young Guatemalan orphan sent by his grandmother to live with his family as a maid...read more

Product Description: El 26 de abril de 1998, el obispo y coordinador de la Oficina de Derechos Humanos del Arzobispado de Guatemala, Juan Gerardi, fue asesinado a golpes. Solo habian pasado dos dias desde que presentara las mil seiscientas paginas del informe que documentaba las sistematicas violaciones de los derechos humanos cometidas por el ejercito de Guatemala en la lucha contra la insurgencia que, formalmente, habia terminado en 1996...read more

Details the story of a remarkable group of engaging, courageous young people known as Los Intocables and their fight for justice in an in-depth account of the murder of Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi, the country's leading human rights activist, as well as the killing or forced exiles of multiple witnesses, prosecutors, and judges. 50,000 first printing.

Follows Maria de las Nieves Moran from closeted girlhood in a riotous convent to social, sexual and intellectual freedom in the giddy city of New York. Maria's life is told through the lives of the men who are captivated by Maria, but when she gives birth to a daughter whose father she refuses to name, each fails to protect her.

Follows Maria de las Nieves Moran on her journey from closeted girlhood in a riotous convent to social, sexual and intellectual emancipation in the giddy city of New York. Her life is told through characters who strive, just as she does, for love and success in late-19th century America.

Product Description: For the past ten years Jonathan Moller has photographed communities uprooted by war in Guatemala. The result is Our Culture Is Our Resistance, a collection of portraits taken during that decade, revealing stories of life and death, of hope and despair, and of struggles for survival, respect, and truth...read more

Product Description: Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Francisco, a young veteran of the war in Nicaragua, comes to New York with fourteen other men to staff Urua, a wreck of a ship sitting idle on a Brooklyn pier, leaving Francisco and his fellow crew members trapped, unable to find work or return home