Containing data on number theory, encryption schemes, and cyclic codes, this highly successful textbook, proven by the authors in a popular two-quarter course, presents coding theory, construction, encoding, and decoding of specific code families in an "easy-to-use" manner appropriate for students with only a basic background in mathematics offering revised and updated material on the Berlekamp-Massey decoding algorithm and convolutional codes. Introducing the mathematics as it is needed and providing exercises with solutions, this edition includes an extensive section on cryptography, designed for an introductory course on the subject.

Are you a man with marital challenges who believes your search for answers has taken you in wrong directions? Then this book is for you. At this crossroads, here you will find answers and embrace this season, uncovering what this season can teach you. Identify what needs to be felt. Hear what needs to be heard. Grow where you need to grow. Learn to express your hurts in a healthy manner in your relationship. You can start changing today?one moment, one decision, one action at a time. You'll learn how to restart your life and rebuild your marriage through changes that begin with you and in you, where it is then reflected in your actions, your responses, and eventually in your relationships. Learn to be all you can be in your marriage, your life and discover your life purposes along the way. Don't let this time in your life be wasted. Eventually you will see it was both the worst of times and the best of times. A new life, in which you discover life's truths about healthy relationships, giving you peace and victory over the challenges you faced. DON'T GIVE UP (see Kirkus Review) Unexpected Answers to Marital Challenges By Gary Hoffman (Author) Hoffman, a leader of Men on the Edge Ministry, a support group that encourages spiritual leadership in troubled marriages, offers specific advice on how to mend a relationship on the rocks. Kirkus' Review DON'T GIVE UP Hoffman, a leader of Men on the Edge Ministry, a support group that encourages spiritual leadership in troubled marriages, offers specific advice on how to mend a relationship on the rocks. Putting God in the center of one's life, applying his word (as read in the Bible) in daily life and bringing Christian marriage principles into one's relationship are at the heart of this guide to knitting up the raveled sleeve of a marriage-and must be applied to any marriage, in Hoffman's estimation, if it is to prosper. Though God remains the guiding force throughout-and there are biblical quotations aplenty to serve as guideposts if readers are to take that path-readers who don't subscribe to any religion may still find lots to learn from the author's insights. Much of what he says is deeply inclusive in nature, and the modes to deploy his words are many. Consider what Hoffman has to say about listening: "God gave us two ears and one mouth. Maybe he wants us to listen twice as much as we speak." The author advises that when listening to one's wife, one should face her squarely, lean in, relax his body language and make eye contact, and her partner should try to understand and value her feelings: "This is called empathy and women love it " His delineation of bad behavior-manipulative, controlling, demanding and resentful behavior; conditional love and inappropriate anger; revenge and placing the blame on others-is raw, instructive and will likely hit plenty of familiar notes with readers. The discussions of joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control all have spiritual tones, but even nonreligious readers will see the value in these qualities. Hoffman's moral foundation finds all these behaviors to be necessary by any rubric, and the author's understanding of pain and suffering also offers solace to imponderable grievances. He cuts no corners and tenders no easy answers, explaining that healing a marital rift will take courage, humility, forgiveness and understanding. Hoffman has chosen a Christian path to mending marriages, but his toolbox is open to all comers. ---------------------------------------------------- Pub Date: Dec. 4th, 2010 ISBN: 978-0984542109 Page count: 152pp Publisher: Gary\Hoffman

Are you a man with marital challenges who believes your search for answers has taken you in wrong directions? Then this workbook is for you, which is designed to go with the book. At this crossroads, here you will find answers and embrace this season, uncovering what this season can teach you. Identify what needs to be felt. Hear what needs to be heard. Grow where you need to grow. Learn to express your hurts in a healthy manner in your relationship. You can start changing today?one moment, one decision, one action at a time. You?ll learn how to restart your life and rebuild your marriage through changes that begin with you and in you, where it is then reflected in your actions, your responses, and eventually in your relationships. Learn to be all you can be in your marriage and your life?and discover your life purposes along the way. Don't let this time in your life be wasted. Eventually you will see it was both the worst of times and the best of times. A new life, in which you discover life's truths about healthy relationships, giving you peace and victory over the challenges you faced.

This book reveals valuable secrets for successful leadership of your men's or women's small group. In this book you will find tools to improve your skills as a leader and help you build a leadership team. You do not have to know all the answers to lead a small group. A more important approach to leading others is to make yourself available to be used by God for his Glory as you serve the members of your group. With proper training and a humble, positive attitude, God will use an eager available servant every time. Learn to surrender to his plan. We all have abilties, talent, and gifts just waiting to be uncovered and tapped for service to God. the secret is to trust God to develop you as you learn key ingredients to mentoring others in today's society. In our fast-paced stressful lives people are hungry to relate to others in a honest and safe group environment. In reading this book, you will learn the hidden treasures of group leadership, and you can play an important part in helping others grow and lead healthy, hopeful, God-centered lives. Step forward and allow yourself to be used by God, learning to lead your small group and mentoring those you touch along the way.

After hanging in mid-air for a split-second, our canoe drops hard. Immediate primal fears, heightened by expedition tensions and summer's heat, grip us. We are descending out of control and into the core of a forty-foot whirlpool. The bow bends as if to be ripped asunder. Did we cheat death on Winnie's six-foot waves in near freezing waters and survive terrifying games of chicken played by towboat operators only to go down in a peril equal to Dante's inner circle? Mighty Miss' edge-of-death experiences mingle with portraits of sandy beaches; a Robinson Crusoe island; magnificent sunrises; close-up encounters with loons making their evening call; slam dancing carp, lips pulsating to pass brethren mosh-pit style; and fishermen and faith filled river people sharing intimate and uplifting stories. The ecstasy of nature's beauties and the excitement of survival make Mighty Miss a timeless and riveting Mississippi memoir.