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Simon Singh's "The Code Book" is well worth the money.

cows

Oct 18 2005, 02:42 PM

Ah yes but, was it a signed copy?

rot13

Oct 19 2005, 09:47 PM

Simon Singh was the guest speaker at the ACA convention when it was in Denver so I got to hear him and also have lunch with him. He's a really nice, interesting guy.

rot13

Oct 19 2005, 10:17 PM

Oh, one other source for classical crypto books is Classical Crypto Books
It is run by Gary Rasmussen (RAGYR) who is also the treasurer of the ACA. He's a good guy and I have ordered from him several times. He gives discounts to ACA members, and you can also buy an ACA membership through his site.

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Nacarat alpaga slacks, a tarlatan that has flaps, a Franz Hals armband, an Astrakhan hat that has Cranach tags, black spats, black sandals, a grand strass star and an Afghan raglan that has falbalas all clad Andras MacAdam. That smart cat, that has pat all Alan Ladd's art, champs at straws and tarantaras a nag past a pampa.

cows

Nov 8 2005, 03:51 PM

Nothing crypto but a book by georges perec, 'La Disparition' (A Void when translated) - a book written without the use of the letter 'e' - except maybe on the front cover when he spelled his name.

Originally written in french, without the letter e appearing once in the novel. Later translated into English, still without the use of the letter e. NOPE you heard me correct, a novel - not a poem or a short story. A full blown 320 page book!!

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Nacarat alpaga slacks, a tarlatan that has flaps, a Franz Hals armband, an Astrakhan hat that has Cranach tags, black spats, black sandals, a grand strass star and an Afghan raglan that has falbalas all clad Andras MacAdam. That smart cat, that has pat all Alan Ladd's art, champs at straws and tarantaras a nag past a pampa.

A quote from the english version

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If youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically; you wouldn’t constantly run across folks today who claim that “a child don’t know anything.”A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport.

Up to about its primary school days a child thinks, naturally, only of play. But many a form of play contains disciplinary factors. “You can’t do this,” or “that puts you out,” shows a child that it must think, practically or fail. Now, if, throughout childhood, a brain has no opposition, it is plain that it will attain a position of “status quo,” as with our ordinary animals. Man knows not why a cow, dog or lion was not born with a brain on a par with ours; why such animals cannot add, subtract, or obtain from books and schooling, that paramount position which Man holds today.