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This book contains some invited lectures on subjects as diverse as document preparation systems, fractals, number theory, graph colouring and neural networks.

Ein Klassiker der modernen Reiseliteratur von Bestseller-Autor Tahir Shah - im Herzen von MarokkoTahir Shah begibt sich in ein großes Abenteuer: Zusammen mit seiner Familie verlässt er das regnerische London und wagt den Neuanfang im sonnigen Marokko, dem Reiseland seiner Kindheit. Auf der Suche nach den eigenen vier Wänden stößt er auf das »Haus des Kalifen«, ein heruntergekommenes herrschaftliches Anwesen in Casablanca. Augenscheinlich ein O...

Das magisch-zauberhafte indische Reiseabenteuer von Tahir ShahBereits in seiner Kindheit wurde Tahir Shahs Begeisterung für die Zauberei geweckt. 20 Jahre später führen ihn Erinnerungen an diese Zeit nach Kalkutta, wo er bei dem berühmten Magier Hakim Feroze in die Lehre geht. Zum Abschluss seiner Lehrzeit schickt ihn der Meister auf eine Erkundungsreise durch den indischen Subkontinent, auf die Suche nach dem Magischen, Wunderbaren. Tahir beg...

In October 1815, an illiterate American sailor named Robert Adams was discovered half-naked and starving on the streets of London. In the months that followed, high society was rocked by his tale. At a time when the European powers were posturing for empire and conquest, one destination above all else stood as the Holy Grail of exploration - the mysterious city of Timbuctoo. Shipwrecked on the African coast, Adams had been taken into the Afric...

Through a life cloaked in mystery, Edwardian polymath Hannibal G. Fogg pushed the boundaries of exploration, science and code-breaking - producing feats of unrivalled cerebral dexterity. Hailing from a landed family, Fogg was a confidant to world leaders, a soldier, swordsman, prolific author, inventor, collector, and quite probably the most extraordinary man ever to have lived.But, while such genius won him accolades and fame, it also fanned ...

Through a life cloaked in mystery, Edwardian polymath Hannibal G. Fogg pushed the boundaries of exploration, science and code-breaking - producing feats of unrivalled cerebral dexterity. Hailing from a landed family, Fogg was a confidant to world leaders, a soldier, swordsman, prolific author, inventor, collector, and quite probably the most extraordinary man ever to have lived.But, while such genius won him accolades and fame, it also fanned ...

The Indiana Jones of travel writing takes you on yet another riotous ride in his quest to find the source of King Solomon's gold in Ethiopia, the land of the Queen of...

A shrunken head from Peru and a feather with traces of blood are the clues that launch Tahir Shah on his latest journal, full of surreal experiences and lost...

Amadeus Kaine is the most famous eye surgeon alive. And he's got a secret... a deep, dark, disturbing secret... He likes eating human eyes. Green eyes are his favorite. But any color will do. You'd better watch out because Dr. Kaine is coming. And he'll suck out your eyes and gobble them down. One of the strangest tales of obsession, mania, and intrigue ever told, EYE SPY will quite literally change the way you see the world!

Enthralled by the chronicle of a 16th-century Spanish monk, which said that the Incas 'flew like birds' over the jungle, and by the recurring theme of flying in Peruvian folklore, Tahir Shah set out to discover whether the Incas really did fly or glide above the jungles of Peru. Or was it flight of a different kind, inspired by powerful drugs? The long quest begins in the mountains of Peru, with a trek to Machu Picchu, the Incas' most sacred c...

Forty-five million years ago, the supercontinent of Gondwanaland split apart. This created what are now known as India, Africa and South America. The huge landmass was named after the Gond people of India. Meeting a Gond storyteller on a visit to Bombay, Tahir Shah heard their ancient saga. He vowed to visit all three parts of Gondwanaland. As he travelled he met an extraordinary range of wanderers and expatriates, attended magical ceremonies ...

When the Spanish Conquistadors swept through Peru in the sixteenth century, they were searching for great golden treasure. In 1572 they stormed the Inca stronghold of Vilcabamba, only to find the city deserted, burned, a nd already stripped of its wealth. According to legend the Incas had retreated deep into the jungle where they built another magnificent city in an inaccessible quarter of the cloud forest. For more than four centuries explore...

Blaine Williams has been obsessed by the Hollywood classic Casablanca since childhood. Now, in the grip of a mid-life crisis, he goes to the one place that's always provided hope - CASABLANCA. Descending down through interwoven layers of mystery and intrigue, he finds a city awash with characters right out of the movie Casablanca. A love story and one of cultural exploration, CASABLANCA BLUES shines new light on Morocco's strangest and misunde...

TRAVELS WITH MYSELF is a collection of selected writings by Tahir Shah, acclaimed Anglo-Afghan author and champion of the intrepid. Written over twenty years, the many pieces form an eclectic treasury of stories from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and beyond. Some consider the lives of women in society, both in East and West. The women-only police stations of Brazil, for instance, as well as the female inmates waiting to die on America's Death R...

On the morning of her fifth birthday, Miki Suzuki's grandfather gave her an unusual gift - the fragment of a story. The tale told of a magical realm where all the women were beautiful, dressed in the finest gowns, and where the men had the looks of movie stars. This place, young Miki learned, was a city in far off Europe - a city called Paris. The story took seed in Miki's mind and, over twenty years, she became quite obsessed with the French ...

Sorcerer's Apprentice is an extraordinary tale of Indian magic... India is a land of miracles, where godmen and mystics mesmerise audiences with wondrous feats of magic. In great cities and remote villages alike, these mortal incarnations of the divine turn rods into snakes, drink acid, eat glass, hibernate and even levitate. A quest for the bizarre, wondrous underbelly of the Subcontinent, Shah's travels lift the veil on the East's most puzzl...

Tahir Shah was born into an Anglo-Afghan family, with roots in the mountain stronghold of the Hindu Kush. Shah's ten books have chronicled a series of fabulous journeys. He lives with his wife and two children in Casablanca.Visit his website: www.tahirshah.com

Amadeus Kaine is the most famous eye surgeon alive. And he's got a secret... a deep, dark, disturbing secret... He likes eating human eyes. Green eyes are his favorite. But any color will do. You'd better watch out because Dr. Kaine is coming. And he'll suck out your eyes and gobble them down. One of the strangest tales of obsession, mania, and intrigue ever told, EYE SPY will quite literally change the way you see the world!

For more than a century Henry Rider Haggard's novel King Solomon's Mines has inspired generations of young men to set forth in search of adventure. But long before Rider Haggard's classic, explorers, theologians and scientists scoured the known world for the source of King Solomon's astonishing wealth. Taking his leads from a mixture of texts including The Septuagint, the earliest known form of the Bible, as well as using geological, geographi...

Sorcerer's Apprentice is the amazing story of Shah's apprenticeship to one of India's master conjurers, Hakim Feroze, and his initiation into the brotherhood of Indian godmen. Told with self-deprecating wit, panache, and an eye for the outlandish, it is an account of a magical journey across India. Feroze teaches the author the basics of his craft, such as sleights of hand, immersing his hands in boiling oil and lead, and-Aaron's old trick fro...