The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject -- he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until he died. He travelled constantly, living out of a ...
In the days before personal computers, BASIC was the easy programming language to learn, and serious programmers learned FORTRAN or COBOL to do "real work." Today, many people have discovered that Perl is both a great beginning programming language and one that enables them to write powerful programs with little effort. If you're interested in ...
CliffsQuickReview" course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. Whether you are a student under pressure, an interested citizen trying to brush up, or a recent arrival trying to understand this new land in which you find ...
What better locale to consider for spooky happenings than the home of the Salem witch trials? From mysteries at sea to ghosts and unexplained footprints, you'll shiver your way through these mesmerizing tales. Set in the state's historic towns, charming old islands, and sparsely populated backwoods, the stories in this entertaining and compelling ...
A collection of thirty folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous New England ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world.
WINGS OF MADNESS examines some of the lesser-known players who ought to figure prominently in the history of aviation. Centered on Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian aviator, innovator, and general Renaissance man, Hoffman's argument recalls many details lost in the myth-making that took place after the launch of the Kitty Hawk by the Wright Brothers.
A collection of 30 folk tales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world. Illustrations.
CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. "CliffsQuickReview U.S. History II" continues from where "CliffsQuickReview U.S. History I" left off and provides you with an overview of United States history ...
When Steven Grlscz saves a young woman from throwing herself in front of a train he finds himself consumed by a love affair which transforms her from a suicidal, angry anorexic into a happy and beautiful young woman. Then she vanishes without trace. Across the Thames on the morning George Winnicott, former head of the Anti-Terrorist Squad, is to ...
California's folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Scholosser, and in artist Paul Hoffman's evocative illustrations.
The critically acclaimed author applies novelistic storytelling with keen insights--to his own life and the eccentric, often mysterious lives of the chess pros he knows so well. Intimate, gripping, and often humorous, its both Hoffmans most personal work and his most compelling.
Paul Bunyon and Babe, Native American Indians, ghosts, river mysteries, and more populate the pages of "Spooky Wisconsin." You'll meet the shrouded horseman of Milwaukee, the troll of Mount Horeb, the dark horse of the Dells, and more as you join folklorist S. E. Schlosser to discover the spooky stories from the Badger state, from the Illinois ...
This book defines management mistakes and offers a variety of models to classify and interpret them. It describes the evolution of management mistakes, techniques for identifying and disclosing mistakes, the relationship between management and medical mistakes, and steps to prevent and correct mistakes. Six case studies, drawn from a real set of ...
Long before mermaids emerged, there was the merman, which has appeared in the mythologies of Babylon, Greece, the British Isles, Scandinavia, Germany, China and Japan, but has become "Legend's Forgotten Man". With 27 stories from around the world, this volume reconstructs the unnatural history of the Merman. Illustrations.
Sandra Taylor has painstakingly tracked down more than 100 New England community cookbooks -- many from private collectors -- and selected 400 of the "best-of-the-best" recipes these collections had to offer. Each culinary gem reflects the flavor of its town and the character of the people who produced it.
A collection of articles on the highways and byways of mathematics. The book is written in the tradition of Martin Gardner and aims to be both entertaining and fascinating.
Journalist Paul Hoffman has lived in Rome for more than 30 years, and in this yearlong journal he explores the daily life of the city, including Vatican gossip, the "cat women" who care for the city's huge population of stray cats, the eccentric Roman government, and the "coping through procrastination" strategies that all Romans know. Illustrated ...
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