Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; How to use this book; Part I. Introduction: 1. Concepts in quantum Shannon theory; 2. Classical Shannon theory; Part II. The Quantum Theory: 3. The noiseless quantum theory; 4. The noisy quantum theory; 5. The purified quantum theory; Part III. Unit Quantum Protocols: 6. Three unit quantum protocols; 7. Coherent protocols; 8. Unit resource capacity region; Part IV. Tools of Quantum Shannon Theory: 9. Distance measures; 10. Classical information and entropy; 11. Quantum information and entropy; 12. Quantum entropy inequalities and recoverability; 13. The information of quantum channels; 14. Classical typicality; 15. Quantum typicality; 16. The packing lemma; 17. The covering lemma; Part V. Noiseless Quantum Shannon Theory: 18. Schumacher compression; 19. Entanglement manipulation; Part VI. Noisy Quantum Shannon Theory: 20. Classical communication; 21. Entanglement-assisted classical communication; 22. Coherent communication with noisy resources; 23. Private classical communication; 24. Quantum communication; 25. Trading resources for communication; 26. Summary and outlook; Appendix A. Supplementary results; Appendix B. Unique linear extension of a quantum physical evolution; References; Index. sakriti opis