England's Second Domesday and the Expulsion of the English Peasantry


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The world-shaking forced evictions of English peasants during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are treated by most historians as largely a 'Tudor myth'. For them, the peasantry disappeared much later through fair means thanks to industrialisation and trade. Centred on close scrutiny of the royal commission of 1517 – 'England's Second Domesday' – this book overturns these accounts. It demonstrates, unequivocally, that capitalism carved fundamental and irreversible breaches into the English countryside between 1400 and 1620. It began, grew and thrived on widespread illegal clearances of rural people and their culture by the English ruling class, long before the British industrial revolution.




Bioinformatics Research and Applications


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2008, held in Atlanta, GA, USA in May 2008. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 6 workshop papers and 6 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 94 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including clustering and classification, gene expression analysis, gene networks, genome analysis, motif finding, pathways, protein structure prediction, protein domain interactions, phylogenetics, and software tools.




The microbial ferrous wheel: iron cycling in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments


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In the past 15 years, there has been steady growth in work relating to the microbial iron cycle. It is now well established that in anaerobic environments coupling of organic matter utilization to Fe reduction is a major pathway for anaerobic respiration. In iron-rich circumneutral environments that exist at oxic-anoxic boundaries, significant progress has been made in demonstrating that unique groups of microbes can grow either aerobically or anaerobically using Fe as a primary energy source. Likewise, in high iron acidic environments, progress has been made in the study of communities of microbes that oxidize iron, and in understanding the details of how certain of these organisms gain energy from Fe-oxidation. On the iron scarcity side, it is now appreciated that in large areas of the open ocean Fe is a key limiting nutrient; thus, a great deal of research is going into understanding the strategies microbial cells, principally phytoplankton, use to acquire iron, and how the iron cycle may impact other nutrient cycles. Finally, due to its abundance, iron has played an important role in the evolution of Earth’s primary biogeochemical cycles through time. The aim of this Research Topic is to gather contributions from scientists working in diverse disciplines who have common interests in iron cycling at the process level, and at the organismal level, both from the perspective of Fe as an energy source, or as a limiting nutrient for primary productivity in the ocean. The range of disciplines may include: geomicrobiologists, microbial ecologists, microbial physiologists, biological oceanographers, and biogeochemists. Articles can be original research, techniques, reviews, or synthesis papers. An overarching goal is to demonstrate the environmental breadth of the iron cycle, and foster understanding between different scientific communities who may not always be aware of one another’s work.




Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++


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The overwhelming majority of bugs and crashes in computer programming stem from problems of memory access, allocation, or deallocation. Such memory related errors are also notoriously difficult to debug. Yet the role that memory plays in C and C++ programming is a subject often overlooked in courses and in books because it requires specialised knowledge of operating systems, compilers, computer architecture in addition to a familiarity with the languages themselves. Most professional programmers learn entirely through experience of the trouble it causes. This 2004 book provides students and professional programmers with a concise yet comprehensive view of the role memory plays in all aspects of programming and program behaviour. Assuming only a basic familiarity with C or C++, the author describes the techniques, methods, and tools available to deal with the problems related to memory and its effective use.




Vhisky, SPV, and Homeo-Whores


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The adventures of a young John Difool before he became the most famous Sci-Fi anti-hero.




Finite Fields and Their Applications


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This book is based on the invited talks of the "RICAM-Workshop on Finite Fields and Their Applications: Character Sums and Polynomials" held at the Federal Institute for Adult Education (BIfEB) in Strobl, Austria, from September 2-7, 2012. Finite fields play important roles in many application areas such as coding theory, cryptography, Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods, pseudorandom number generation, quantum computing, and wireless communication. In this book we will focus on sequences, character sums, and polynomials over finite fields in view of the above mentioned application areas: Chapters 1 and 2 deal with sequences mainly constructed via characters and analyzed using bounds on character sums. Chapters 3, 5, and 6 deal with polynomials over finite fields. Chapters 4 and 9 consider problems related to coding theory studied via finite geometry and additive combinatorics, respectively. Chapter 7 deals with quasirandom points in view of applications to numerical integration using quasi-Monte Carlo methods and simulation. Chapter 8 studies aspects of iterations of rational functions from which pseudorandom numbers for Monte Carlo methods can be derived. The goal of this book is giving an overview of several recent research directions as well as stimulating research in sequences and polynomials under the unified framework of character theory.




The Master Criminal - Ultimate Crime Collection


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DigiCat Publishing presents to you a collection of the greatest Fred M. White thrillers: The Crimson Blind_x000D_ The Cardinal Moth_x000D_ The Corner House_x000D_ The Ends of Justice_x000D_ The House of Schemers_x000D_ The Lord of the Manor_x000D_ The Slave of Silence_x000D_ The Yellow Face_x000D_ The Nether Millstone_x000D_ The Midnight Guest_x000D_ A Fatal Dose_x000D_ The Five Knots_x000D_ The Edge of the Sword_x000D_ The Lonely Bride_x000D_ Craven Fortune_x000D_ The Law of the Land_x000D_ The Mystery of the Four Fingers_x000D_ A Golden Argosy_x000D_ By Order of the League_x000D_ A Daughter of Israel_x000D_ Tregarthen's Wife_x000D_ Blackmail_x000D_ The Weight of the Crown_x000D_ A Shadowed Love_x000D_ The Sundial_x000D_ Netta_x000D_ A Queen of the Stage_x000D_ The Scales of Justice_x000D_ A Crime on Canvas_x000D_ The Golden Rose_x000D_ Paul Quentin_x000D_ A Front of Brass_x000D_ Hard Pressed_x000D_ The White Glove_x000D_ A Mummer's Throne_x000D_ The Secret of the Sands_x000D_ The Man Called Gilray_x000D_ The House of Mammon_x000D_ A Royal Wrong_x000D_ A Secret Service_x000D_ The Sentence of the Court_x000D_ Powers of Darkness_x000D_ The Mystery of the Ravenspurs_x000D_ The Day_x000D_ Ambition's Slave_x000D_ The Salt of the Earth_x000D_ The Lady in Blue_x000D_ The Case for the Crown_x000D_ The Wings of Victory_x000D_ The Leopard's Spots_x000D_ The Honour of His House_x000D_ The Man who was Two_x000D_ The Mystery of Room 75_x000D_ The Councillors of Falconhoe_x000D_ The Mystery of Crocksands_x000D_ The Turn of the Tide_x000D_ The Green Bungalow_x000D_ The Devil's Advocate_x000D_ The Golden Bat_x000D_ The Price of Silence_x000D_ The House on the River_x000D_ The Shadow of the Dead Hand_x000D_ The King Diamond_x000D_ The Riddle of the Rail_x000D_ The Grey Woman_x000D_ Queen of Hearts_x000D_ On The Night Express_x000D_ The Phantom Car_x000D_ A Clue in Wax_x000D_ Found Dead_x000D_ The Man Who Knew_x000D_ A Broken Memory_x000D_ Secret of the River_x000D_ The Blue Daffodil_x000D_ The Master Criminal (True Crime Tales)_x000D_ The Romance of the Secret Service Fund..._x000D_ Frederick White (1859–1935), mostly known for mysteries, is considered also as one of the pioneers of the spy story._x000D_




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Designing Interventions to Address Complex Societal Issues


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This edited volume is about the application of design-led approaches for developing interventions that have the intention of addressing real-world issues and problems. The book documents the realities of developing and designing interventions for real people, in a real-world context. The topics covered in the book are multi-disciplinary, and include examples from health and wellbeing, education, and agriculture. The contributors provide open and honest accounts of the challenges and restrictions, highlighting the positive impact that can be gained from involving stakeholders as key voices in the intervention development process. These case studies suggest underpinning methodologies that will support the formalisation of these design-led approaches, permitting the formation of robust frameworks in the future. The book will be of interest to scholars working in design, design research, intervention design, co-design, user-centred design, service design, digital design, digital healthcare, and evidence-based design.