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Welsh missionaries and British imperialism

The Empire of Clouds in north-east India

By: Andrew May

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Welsh missionaries and British imperialism

The Empire of Clouds in north-east India

By: Andrew May

In 1841, the Welsh sent their first missionary, Thomas Jones, to evangelise the tribal peoples of the Khasi Hills of north-east India. This book follows Jones from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, the wettest place on earth and now one of the most Christianised parts of India. As colonised colonisers, the Welsh were to have a profound impact on the culture and beliefs of the Khasis. The book also foregrounds broader political, scientific, racial and military ideologies that mobilised the Khasi Hills into an interconnected network of imperial control. Its themes are universal: crises of authority, the loneliness of geographical isolation, sexual scandal, greed and exploitation, personal and institutional dogma, individual and group morality. Written by a direct descendant of Thomas Jones, it makes a significant contribution in orienting the scholarship of imperialism to a much-neglected corner of India, and will appeal to students of the British imperial experience more broadly.

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Manchester University Press

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1526118750

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Spectral Analysis for Physical Applications

By: Donald B. Percival,Andrew T. Walden

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Spectral Analysis for Physical Applications

By: Donald B. Percival,Andrew T. Walden

This book is an up-to-date introduction to univariate spectral analysis at the graduate level, which reflects a new scientific awareness of spectral complexity, as well as the widespread use of spectral analysis on digital computers with considerable computational power. The text provides theoretical and computational guidance on the available techniques, emphasizing those that work in practice. Spectral analysis finds extensive application in the analysis of data arising in many of the physical sciences, ranging from electrical engineering and physics to geophysics and oceanography. A valuable feature of the text is that many examples are given showing the application of spectral analysis to real data sets. Special emphasis is placed on the multitaper technique, because of its practical success in handling spectra with intricate structure, and its power to handle data with or without spectral lines. The text contains a large number of exercises, together with an extensive bibliography.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521435412

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9780521435413

Computational Probability

Algorithms and Applications in the Mathematical Sciences

By: John H. Drew,Diane L. Evans,Andrew G. Glen,Lawrence M. Leemis

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Computational Probability

Algorithms and Applications in the Mathematical Sciences

By: John H. Drew,Diane L. Evans,Andrew G. Glen,Lawrence M. Leemis

This new edition includes the latest advances and developments in computational probability involving A Probability Programming Language (APPL). The book examines and presents, in a systematic manner, computational probability methods that encompass data structures and algorithms. The developed techniques address problems that require exact probability calculations, many of which have been considered intractable in the past. The book addresses the plight of the probabilist by providing algorithms to perform calculations associated with random variables. Computational Probability: Algorithms and Applications in the Mathematical Sciences, 2nd Edition begins with an introductory chapter that contains short examples involving the elementary use of APPL. Chapter 2 reviews the Maple data structures and functions necessary to implement APPL. This is followed by a discussion of the development of the data structures and algorithms (Chapters 3–6 for continuous random variables and Chapters 7–9 for discrete random variables) used in APPL. The book concludes with Chapters 10–15 introducing a sampling of various applications in the mathematical sciences. This book should appeal to researchers in the mathematical sciences with an interest in applied probability and instructors using the book for a special topics course in computational probability taught in a mathematics, statistics, operations research, management science, or industrial engineering department.

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Springer

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3319433237

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Beaches of the Western Australian Coast

Eucla to Roebuck Bay

By: Andrew D. Short

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Beaches of the Western Australian Coast

Eucla to Roebuck Bay

By: Andrew D. Short

Beaches of the Western Australian Coast covers the Western Australian coast between Eucla and Roebuck Bay, and includes Rottnest Island. It begins with three chapters that provide a background to the physical nature and evolution of the Western Australian coast and its 2,051 mainland beach systems. Chapter one covers the geological evolution of the coast and the role climate, wave, tides and wind in shaping the present coast and beaches. Chapter two presents in more detail the 16 types of beach systems that occur along the Western Australian coast, and chapter three discusses the types of beach hazards along the coast and the role of Surf Lifesaving Western Australia in mitigating these hazards. Chapter four presents a description of each of the 2,051 mainland beaches, as well as 63 beaches on Rottnest Island. The description of each beach includes its name, location, physical characteristics, access and facilities, with specific comments on its surf zone character and physical hazards, and its suitability for swimming, surfing and fishing. Based on the physical hazards, all beaches are rated in terms of public safety and scaled from 1 (least hazardous) to 10 (most hazardous).

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Sydney University Press

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0958650438

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9780958650434

Time Matters

On Theory and Method

By: Andrew Abbott

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Time Matters

On Theory and Method

By: Andrew Abbott

What do variables really tell us? When exactly do inventions occur? Why do we always miss turning points as they transpire? When does what doesn't happen mean as much, if not more, than what does? Andrew Abbott considers these fascinating questions in Time Matters, a diverse series of essays that constitutes the most extensive analysis of temporality in social science today. Ranging from abstract theoretical reflection to pointed methodological critique, Abbott demonstrates the inevitably theoretical character of any methodology. Time Matters focuses particularly on questions of time, events, and causality. Abbott grounds each essay in straightforward examinations of actual social scientific analyses. Throughout, he demonstrates the crucial assumptions we make about causes and events, about actors and interaction and about time and meaning every time we employ methods of social analysis, whether in academic disciplines, market research, public opinion polling, or even evaluation research. Turning current assumptions on their heads, Abbott not only outlines the theoretical orthodoxies of empirical social science, he sketches new alternatives, laying down foundations for a new body of social theory.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226001032

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Spectral Analysis for Univariate Time Series

By: Donald B. Percival,Andrew T. Walden

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Spectral Analysis for Univariate Time Series

By: Donald B. Percival,Andrew T. Walden

Spectral analysis is widely used to interpret time series collected in diverse areas. This book covers the statistical theory behind spectral analysis and provides data analysts with the tools needed to transition theory into practice. Actual time series from oceanography, metrology, atmospheric science and other areas are used in running examples throughout, to allow clear comparison of how the various methods address questions of interest. All major nonparametric and parametric spectral analysis techniques are discussed, with emphasis on the multitaper method, both in its original formulation involving Slepian tapers and in a popular alternative using sinusoidal tapers. The authors take a unified approach to quantifying the bandwidth of different nonparametric spectral estimates. An extensive set of exercises allows readers to test their understanding of theory and practical analysis. The time series used as examples and R language code for recreating the analyses of the series are available from the book's website.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108776175

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9781108776172

The Breakfast Book

By: Andrew Dalby

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The Breakfast Book

By: Andrew Dalby

You’ve heard it from doctors, nutritionists, and your mom: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It’s also one of the most diverse, varying greatly from family to family and region to region, even while individuals tend to eat the same thing every day. While Americans traditionally like to chow down on eggs, cereal, and doughnuts, the Japanese eat rice and miso soup, and New Zealanders enjoy porridge. But while we know bacon and sausage links belong alongside pancakes and waffles in the early morning hours, we don’t know how breakfast came to be. Taking a multifaceted approach to the story of the morning meal, The Breakfast Book collects narratives of breakfast in an attempt to pin down the mottled history of eating in the A.M. In search of what people have thought and written—and tasted—about breakfast, Andrew Dalby traces the meal’s origins back to the Neolithic revolution. He follows the trail of toast crumbs from the ancient Near East and classical Greece to modern Europe and across the globe, rediscovering stories of breakfast in three thousand years of fiction, memoirs, and art. Using a multitude of entertaining breakfast facts, anecdotes, and images, he reveals why breakfast is so often the backdrop for unexpected meetings, why so many people eat breakfast out, and why this often silent meal is also so reassuring. Featuring a selection of historic and contemporary breakfast recipes from around the world, The Breakfast Book is the first book to explore the history of this inimitable meal and will make an ideal morning companion to crumpets, deviled kidneys, and spanakopita alike.

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Reaktion Books

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1780231210

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Unity and Continuity in Covenantal Thought

A Study in the Reformed Tradition to the Westminster Assembly

By: Andrew Woolsey

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Unity and Continuity in Covenantal Thought

A Study in the Reformed Tradition to the Westminster Assembly

By: Andrew Woolsey

Unity and Continuity in Covenantal Thought examines the historiographical problems related to the interpretation of the Westminster Standards, delving into the issue of covenantal thought in the Westminster Standards, followed by an exhaustive analysis of nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship on covenant.

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Reformation Heritage Books

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1601782179

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The Song Remains the Same

800 Years of Love Songs, Laments and Lullabies

By: Andrew Ford,Anni Heino

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The Song Remains the Same

800 Years of Love Songs, Laments and Lullabies

By: Andrew Ford,Anni Heino

An illuminating history of the song for every kind of music lover Often today, the word ‘song’ is used to describe all music. A free-jazz improvisation, a Hindustani raga, a movement from a Beethoven symphony: apparently, they’re all songs. But they’re not. From Sia to Springsteen, Archie Roach to Amy Winehouse, a song is a specific musical form. It’s not so much that they all have verses and choruses – though most of them do – but that they are all relatively short and self-contained; they have beginnings, middles and ends; they often have a single point of view, message or story; and, crucially, they unite words and music. Thus, a Schubert song has more in common with a track by Joni Mitchell or Rihanna than with one of Schubert’s own symphonies. The Song Remains the Same traces these connections through seventy-five songs from different cultures and times: love songs, anthems, protest songs, lullabies, folk songs, jazz standards, lieder and pop hits; ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ to ‘We Will Rock You’, ‘Jerusalem’ to ‘Jolene’. Unpicking their inner workings makes familiar songs strange again, explaining and restoring the wonder, joy (or possibly loathing) the reader experienced on first hearing. ‘As much about singing, musicianship and recording as it is about songwriting, this eclectic ride through a unique choice of songs (everyone will argue for alternatives) is cleverly curated and littered with intriguing details about the creators and their times, filled with loving cross-references to other songs and deft musical analysis. I defy anyone not to leap online to listen to the unfamiliar, or re-listen to old favourites in light of new detail. One of the best games in this book is figuring out why one song follows the other: there’s always an intelligent, often very funny, link.’ —Robyn Archer

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La Trobe University Press

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1743821069

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Tramroads in Northern India

By: W.P. Andrew

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Tramroads in Northern India

By: W.P. Andrew

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

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3375158203

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A Treatise of the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

By: Henry Winthrop Sargent,Andrew Jackson Downing

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A Treatise of the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

By: Henry Winthrop Sargent,Andrew Jackson Downing

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Adapted to North America. With a view to the improvement of country residences. Comprising historical otices and general principles of the art, directions for laving out grounds and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments of the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc., with Remarks on Rural Architecture. Seventh edition.

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3752586524

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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America

By: Andrew Jackson Downing

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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America

By: Andrew Jackson Downing

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382316757

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The Fallowfield Carol

Or the Adventure of Messrs. Wiggin & Clarke, Concerning Their Search for an Ancient Carol of Christmas

By: Andrew W. Smith

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The Fallowfield Carol

Or the Adventure of Messrs. Wiggin & Clarke, Concerning Their Search for an Ancient Carol of Christmas

By: Andrew W. Smith

To those dear readers who care to know about this little volume, it has to do with a Christmas carol. The Fallowfield Carol was composed in the Sixteenth Century and lost, then discovered in the Nineteenth Century, and promptly lost again. The search for it is taken up in the Twenty-first Century, meaning something eventful happens to this carol an average of once every two-and-a-half centuries. It all started with three letters from 1876, by one Captain Eliam M. Wiggin of Thidge Point, who found and then lost the thing. His great-grandson, Wynslowe Wiggin, is getting to be an old man nowa "a curmudgeon with redeeming features, but little to show for his eighty-one years. So Mr. Wiggin determines to retrace his great-grandfather's steps and recover the carol, while he's still able. Only, he's decrepit, so he conscripts his younger and correspondingly less curmudgeonly neighbor, Oliver Clarke, into his cause. It goes from there. The Fallowfield Carol is a not-at-all-serious Christmas caper and a throwback to the Nineteenth Century novels like Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, only not as good as that. But it has pictures. Part humor, part mystery, part history, part Anglophilia, and altogether good Christmas fun.

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Tate Publishing

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1615662502

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9781615662500

Morningside Heights

A History of Its Architecture & Development

By: Andrew Dolkart

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Morningside Heights

A History of Its Architecture & Development

By: Andrew Dolkart

The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading of the formation of early twentieth-century lesbian identity, either by neglecting to examine in detail the developments leading up to the ban or by framing events in too broad a context against other cultural phenomena. Fashioning Sapphism locates the novelist Radclyffe Hall and other prominent lesbians--including the pioneer in women's policing, Mary Allen, the artist Gluck, and the writer Bryher--within English modernity through the multiple sites of law, sexology, fashion, and literary and visual representation, thus tracing the emergence of a modern English lesbian subculture in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive new archival research, the book interrogates anew a range of myths long accepted without question (and still in circulation) concerning, to cite only a few, the extent of homophobia in the 1920s, the strategic deployment of sexology against sexual minorities, and the rigidity of certain cultural codes to denote lesbianism in public culture.

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Columbia University Press

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0231078501

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9780231078504

Spitfire Aces of Northwest Europe 1944-45

By: Andrew Thomas

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Spitfire Aces of Northwest Europe 1944-45

By: Andrew Thomas

In the bitter air fighting over Western Europe during the last year of the war, no fewer than 37 pilots became aces flying Merlin-engined Spitfires, whilst 72 other aces increased their scores flying them. This book traces the achievements of the pilots flying the iconic Spitfire in Northwest Europe, and examines how the steady technological improvements that were made throughout the Spitfire's service life improved its capabilities in the air. Based at airfields throughout southern England, Merlin engine Spitfires provided the bulk of the air cover for the D-Day landings and it was an RCAF Spitfire which claimed the first ever ME 262 jet kill. 36 colour profiles covering a broad spectrum of nationalities, units, pilots, theatres and markings complement thorough research throughout this comprehensive account of these crucial fighter aircraft.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1782003398

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An Anthology of Christmas Murders - Terror, Tinsel and Turkey

By: Annie Coyle Martin,Julius Falconer,Peter Good,Peter Hodgson,Neal James,Andrew Malloy,James McCarthy,Steve Morris,Harry Riley,Derek Rosser

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An Anthology of Christmas Murders - Terror, Tinsel and Turkey

By: Annie Coyle Martin,Julius Falconer,Peter Good,Peter Hodgson,Neal James,Andrew Malloy,James McCarthy,Steve Morris,Harry Riley,Derek Rosser

Murder comes in all shapes and sizes. It also comes at inconvenient times. Christmas, for example. This anthology has all the classic motives: blackmail, revenge, lust, greed, anger… Murder by meat-hook, piano-wire, scarf, knife, hammer, golf-club, bullet, syringe … It’s all here, at your elbow. And there’s more! Humour, intrigue, suspense…

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Pneuma Springs Publishing

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1782283579

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9781782283577

The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia

By: Richard Thomas,Sarah Thomas,David Andrew,Alan McBride

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The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia

By: Richard Thomas,Sarah Thomas,David Andrew,Alan McBride

First published in 1994, The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia was the first ever book of its type in Australia – a complete guide to locating every resident bird species in Australia, plus supplementary information on where to find rarities, migratory species and logistical information. This fully revised second edition expands on the best-selling appeal of the first, describing the best-known sites for all of Australia’s endemic birds, plus vagrants and regular migrants such as seabirds and shorebirds. It covers all states and territories, and is the first guide to include all of Australia’s island and external territories. A comprehensive Bird Finder Guide details site information on all Australian bird species, and the authors provide valuable travel advice, including transport, climate and accommodation. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs of interesting, unique or unusual Australian birds, this book is a must-have for all birdwatchers living in Australia or visiting from overseas.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643102264

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9780643102262

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