New Releases by Paul HOFFMAN

Paul Erdos, the most prolific and eccentric mathematician of our time, forsook all creature comforts - including a hometo pursue his lifelong study of numbers. He was a man who possessed unimaginable powers of thought yet was unable to manage some of the simplest daily tasks. For more than six decades, Erdos lived out of two tattered suitcases, crisscrossing four continents at a frenzied pace, chasing mathematical problems and fresh talent. Erdos saw mathematics as a search for lasting beauty and ultimate truth. It was a search Erdos never abandoned, even as his life was torn asunder by some of the major political dramas of our time. In this biography, Hoffman uses Erdos''s life and work to introduce readers to a cast of remarkable geniuses, from Archimedes to Stanislaw Ulam, one of the chief minds behind the Los Alamos nuclear project.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) provide users with secure remote access to an organization''s resources. An SSL VPN consists of one or more VPN devices to which users connect using their Web browsers. The traffic between the Web browser and SSL VPN device is encrypted with the SSL protocol. SSL VPNs can provide remote users with access to Web applications and client/server applications, as well as connectivity to internal networks. They offer versatility and ease of use because they use the SSL protocol, which is included with all standard Web browsers, so special client configuration or installation is often not required. In planning a VPN deployment, many organizations are faced with a choice between an IPsec-based VPN and an SSL-based VPN. This document seeks to assist organizations in understanding SSL VPN technologies. The publication also makes recommendations for designing, implementing, configuring, securing, monitoring, and maintaining SSL VPN solutions. SP 800-113 provides a phased approach to SSL VPN planning and implementation that can help in achieving successful SSL VPN deployments. It also includes a comparison with other similar technologies such as Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) VPNs and other VPN solutions.

As a young man, Paul Hoffman was a brilliant chess player . . . until the pressures of competition drove him to the brink of madness. In King''s Gambit, he interweaves a gripping overview of the history of the game and an in-depth look at the state of modern chess into the story of his own attempt to get his game back up to master level -- without losing his mind. It''s also a father and son story, as Hoffman grapples with the bizarre legacy of his own dad, who haunts Hoffman''s game and life.

Paul Hoffman, a former senior censor at the British Board of Film Classification, has written a compelling and captivating novel that challenges our ideas about censorship, prejudice and the fine line between art and exploitation.

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 discovering how to program (or how others program), Perl For Dummies, 4th Edition, is for you. If you already know something about programming (but not about Perl), this book is also for you. If you’re already an expert programmer, you’re still welcome to read this book; you can just skip the basic stuff (you never know what kind of new tips and tricks you’ll pick up). This reference guide shows you how to use Perl under many different operating systems, such as UNIX, many flavors of Windows (Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows Me, and Windows XP), and Macintosh OS 9 and OS X; in fact, Perl runs on many more operating systems than these. Here''s a sampling of what Perl For Dummies, 4th Edition, has to offer: Installing Perl on various platforms Nailing down the basics of building Perl programs Working with text and numbers Constructing lists and working with them Creating conditionals and loops Delving into more advanced features such as operators and functions Reading and writing files and directories Using subroutines for modularity Demystifying Web server programs Creating your own Internet clients The Perl programming language enables you to write fully working computer programs with just a few steps. It’s particularly good at common programming tasks, such as reading and writing text files, but it also excels at reducing the work that programmers have to do. Perl For Dummies, 4th Edition, shows you how to do all of that and how to modify programs to your heart’s content. After all, one of the common phrases in the world of Perl programmers is, “There''s more than one way to do it.”

"By the turn of the century, Santos-Dumont had moved to Paris. Soon, the dashing and impeccably dressed aeronaut was barhopping around the city in a one-man dirigible he invented, circling above crowds and crashing into rooftops. Eventually, he would join the world-wide competition to build the first true airplane. Once he succeeded, the press hailed him as the man who had conquered the air. (Because the Wright brothers worked in near secrecy, word of their first flights had not widely reached Europe when Santos-Dumon took to the skies.) His picture appeared on cigar boxes and dinner plates and he dined regularly with the Cartiers, the Rothschilds, and the Roosevelts, hosting "aerial dinners" in which his guests ate at an elevated table so they could imagine how it felt to be above the world." "But all would change after Santos-Dumont witnessed the destructive capacity of flying machines in World War I."--BOOK JACKET.

Pour comprendre enfin quelque chose à la micro-informatique ! Vous voici confronté à un micro-ordinateur - plus par nécessité que par goût, avouons-le -, sans savoir par quel bout prendre cet instrument barbare et capricieux. Oubliez toute appréhension, cette nouvelle collection est réellement faite pour vous ! Perl est un langage de programmation très utilisé par tous les webmasters de la planète. Passé la découverte des concepts clés du langage Perl, vous apprendrez à développer des programmes qui donneront à vos pages Web un punch incroyable !

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, beautiful young woman. Then she vanishes without trace.

Free Netscape Communicator "Cheat Sheet" Inside! Use Netscape Communicator to Visit Web Sites, Access Newsgroups, and Download Files from FTP Sites The World Wide Web is the hottest place on the Internet. This book shows you how to use Netscape Communicator and its popular Navigator Web browser to find information, download files, send e-mail, read Usenet news, participate in online chats, build Web pages, and much more! Whether you''re a Mac or Windows user, you will find what you need with Netscape Communicator™ 4 For Dummies®. Ask for IDG Books'' …For Dummies® Books, the Fun and Easy Way to Find Out About Computers. Also look for IDG Books'' The Internet For Dummies®, 4th Edition, the fun and easy to find out about the Internet, and Creating Web Pages For Dummies®, 2nd Edition, the fast and friendly way to create your own Web page. Inside, find helpful advice on how to: Get your PC up and running on the Web Create your own Web site using Communicator''s built-in HTML editor: Composer Customize Communicator to look and act how you want Send and receive e-mail using Communicator''s Messenger mail client Visit the best places on the Web today Interact with newsgroups using Netscape Collabra

Now anyone can understand what the mathematical geniuses are thinking . . . . * How topologists figured out the way to turn a smokestack into a bowling ball -- and why. * How game theorists discovered that to elect the candidate of your choice you must sometimes vote for his opponent. * How computer theorists intend to create a robot that will think for itself -- and do all the housework. * How cryptographers have been laboring since 1822 to decipher a map that will lead to a buried treasure worth millions of dollars. Archimedes'' Revenge takes the reader on a guided tour of the world of contemporary mathematics and makes its infinite marvels comprehensible, relevant, and fun. "A breezy and lighthearted account of a number of topics in and around the periphery of mathematics . . . Mr. Hoffman approaches mathematics as a storyteller, and a good one." -- The New York Times Book Review "From the Paperback edition.

Explains how to navigate the World Wide Web using Netscape

The definitive Internet-access guide for inexperienced and first-time computer owners. Historical and educational insight plus practical tips on use make this reference the total resource for Internet newcomers. Readers will learn the most important Internet buzz words and discover how to shop intelligently for Internet services and how to best take advantage of on-line time.

This bestseller targets all Internet users, providing quick alphabetic access to concepts and terminology associated with the Internet. This edition covers graphical and character-based user interfaces, making it well suited for all users. The book points to updated resources and changes on the Internet, and includes a new appendix showing various ways to get connected to the Internet.

How to increase the value of your home and to rehabilitate investment property property for quick profit.

An easy-paced guide that takes readers from the basics to intermediate level techniques. The hands-on exercises, helpful illustrations, and real-life examples get readers off to a rapid start. After reading the book, readers will have a thorough understanding of the newest version of Microsoft Word for the Macintosh.

Covers all the new features of release 6.

Demonstrates the features of version 2 of the Microsoft Word for Windows word processing program and shows how to create, edit, file, and print documents