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Over the last thirty years, the study of medieval rural settlements has been completely transformed. The origins and expansion of settlements are now as much the focus of interest as their decline. This interpretation evinces a much fuller appreciation of the role played by the lords of the manor and other individuals in the history of settlement. These very considerable changes in interpretation are fully reflected in this wide-ranging collection of essays, written by a distinguished team of archaeologists, historians and historical geographers. Its authors use documents, aerial photography, fieldwork, excavation, and the analysis of botanical remains to reconstruct the medieval landscape. The first part of the book examines the history and geography of settlements; the documentary evidence for early medieval estate and settlement patterns; initiative and authority in settlement change; the growth and decline of medieval rural settlements, and the significance of the Wolds in English settlement history. Part two combines regional fieldwork studies with more detailed case studies.These include studies of deserted settlements in the West of England; deserted medieval settlements in the South-West Midlands; the archaeology of medieval rural settlement in East Anglia; medieval settlement remains and historical conservation, and field systems and township structures. The final section is concerned with excavation, and again combines regional with more detailed case studies. It contains chapters on the excavation of dispersed settlement in medieval Britain; peasant houses, farmsteads and villages in North-East England, and environmental archaeology. The book closes with a consideration of the relationship between archaeological and historical method, and its application to the study of rural settlement. ... Read more

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Clearly, this account of Maria Egdeworth is not only one of the most compelling I have ever read, but it also delves deeply into the Whiggish beliefs and ideals.Michael Hurst provides an insightful account of Edgeworth and is a pure genius.He deserves a place in history as one of the foremost scholars in his field. ... Read more

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This work contains the full text of the Civil Procedure Rules relating to Costs and the supporting Practice Direction, together with annotation and expert comment upon the new regime and its implications. It also sets out or refers to other costs rules in the Civil Procedure Rules, to give the reader guidance on the costs regime in operation. The Costs Rules introduce a regime with new factors such as the conduct of the parties, including failure to negotiate and the concept of proportionality being relevant both to the entitlement to costs and their quantification. It also examines changes to payments into court and without prejudice offers with consequences to costs. Offers may now be made by claimants as well as defendants and judgments may be made before the commencement proceedings. The new provisions are contained in parts 43-48 of the Civil Procedure Rules and in the Costs Practice Direction.The book is a user-friendly and authoritative guide to the subject and addresses the issues in a clear and straightforward way, enabling the reader to quickly understand the changes which have been implemented in how solicitors and barristers are remunerated, in this important period of change. ... Read more

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This book analyzes the labor market adjustment processes of immigrants in the United States.Newly-arrived immigrants earn less, work fewer weeks, and have higher rates of unemployment than native-born workers.After a period of assimilation, these conditions later converge to, and often surpass, those of native-born workers. The adjustment process traditionally implies greater employment turnover.
Newly-arrived immigrant men have lower employment and labor force participation rates than similar native-born American men.Yet differences in unemployment rates are less consistent, and are complicated by shorter periods of unemployment duration for immigrants.Contrary to expectations, recent immigrants are less likely to be unemployed, even after adjusting for a lower duration of unemployment.This is partly because movements in and out of the labor force are high.Lower employment for recent immigrants is best explained by lower labor force participation, while higher unemployment rates are best explained by high rates of labor force entry.All labor force outcomes for immigrants, whether higher or lower upon arrival, converge to native-born norms after a few years of residence. ... Read more

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This book is a comprehensive reference for men who are looking for more power and choice in their dating life with women. When you Become That Guy who is both sexy and exciting while also being the kind of man who a woman would want for a longer term relationship or marriage, you will have options and choice in your relationships with women. The book addresses fundamental skills and understandings designed to help a man have power and choice in his relationships with women. Positive and realistic beliefs about yourself, women, relationships and sexuality are covered that provide an essential foundation for developing the identity as a man who is powerfully attractive to women. The book is filled with drills and exercises so that you can take action to develop yourself. Instead of being a guy who says things in order to get something, you become that guy who gets what he wants in his relationships with women as an authentic expression of who you are. ... Read more

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Chapters: Vincent Ward, Peter Arnett, Tana Umaga, Roger Curtis Green, Stacey Jones, Michael Hurst, Chris Cairns, Ruben Wiki, Mark Inglis, Valerie Vili, Gaylene Preston, Murray Ball, Frank Endacott, John Psathas, John Kirwan, Farah Palmer, Gareth Farr, Beatrice Faumuina, John Hayes, Jerry Mateparae, John Hart, Fatu Feu'u, Paddy O'brien, Tom Ashley, Peter Gordon, Kevin Milne, Dick Hubbard, Ted Mccoy, Jeremy Pope, Michael Seresin, James Belich, Grahame Sydney, David Mcphail, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Neil Cherry, Friedrich Eisenhofer, Reubina Ballin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 158. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jonathan Ionatana Falefasa "Tana" Umaga, ONZM (pronounced , Samoan: ; born 27 May 1973 in Lower Hutt) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer and former captain of the national team, the All Blacks. He played for the Hurricanes starting with the Super 12's inception in 1996 and took over the captaincy in 2003. Graham Henry named him as All Blacks captain in 2004; under his leadership the All Blacks won 19 of their 21 games including the clean sweep of the British and Irish Lions and the Grand Slam in 2005. At the end of 2005, after 74 Test caps (where he scored 36 tries), Umaga retired from international rugby. Umaga played four games in 2007 for the Wellington Lions in the Air New Zealand Cup, in order to play 100 matches for the province, before taking up the position of coach at Toulon. His coaching future was uncertain in the 200809 season, as Toulon was a poor performer in the first half of the season and facing a relegation scare, and there was speculation that he would be replaced by Philippe Saint-André. Umaga returned to a playing role for Toulon in the second half of that season, and at the same time announced that he would not continue as head coach beyond that...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=742611 ... Read more

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Chapters: Kevin Smith, Pamela Stephenson, Alan Dale, Lucy Lawless, Jessica Lee Rose, Melanie Lynskey, Michael Hurst, Gabriel Reid, Rhys Darby, Victoria Spence, Vanessa Stacey, Jemaine Clement, Meryl Cassie, Jessica Napier, Nyree Dawn Porter, Brian Sergent, Shane Cortese, Campbell Cooley, Lani Tupu, Rebecca Gibney, Rose Mciver, Emma Lahana, Jay Laga'aia, Danielle Cormack, Bret Mckenzie, Kimberley Crossman, Amy Morrison, Caleb Ross, Craig Parker, Dwayne Cameron, Robyn Malcolm, Ryan Runciman, Alison Routledge, Jennyfer Jewell, Peter Daube, Ari Boyland, Bonnie Soper, Lisa Harrow, Dean O'gorman, James Napier, Lee Donoghue, Johnny Barker, Megan Alatini, Billy T. James, Antonia Prebble, Clive Revill, Beth Allen, Jaimee Kaire-Gataulu, Alyssa Stringfellow, Stephen Lovatt, Pua Magasiva, Martin Henderson, Annie Whittle, Antony Starr, Erik Thomson, David Aston, Michala Banas, Sally Martin, Michelle Ang, Jon Blake, Tim Balme, Sabine Crossen, Andrew Robertt, Miriama Smith, George Henare, Emily Barclay, Fleur Saville, Aaron Jeffery, Olivia Tennet, Sarah Thomson, Rawiri Paratene, Alison Bruce, Blair Strang, Willa O'neill, Frank Whitten, Kieren Hutchison, Charles Knight Aka Tankboy, Bill Stalker, Rosalind Allen, Alison Wall, Michael Wesley-Smith, Tama Matheson, Paul Mciver, Anna Hutchison, Scott Harding, Benjamin Mitchell, Angela Dotchin, Marshall Napier, Anna Jullienne, Peter Adams, Geoff Dolan, Pio Terei, Liddy Holloway, Nathaniel Lees, Holly Shanahan, Tom Hern, Craig Hall, David Fane, James Laurenson, Jay Ryan, Stig Eldred, Wi Kuki Kaa, Oliver Driver, Anna-Louise Plowman, Jodie Dorday, Michael Galvin, Jacinta Wawatai, Ian Mune, Vicky Rodewyk, Jesse Peach, Li Ming Hu, Bruce Purchase, John Leigh, Claire Chitham, Karl Burnett, Stuart Devenie, Michelle Langstone, Sarah Major, Bartholomew John, Toni Potter, Alan Brough, David Mcphail, Ashwath Sundarasen, Anton Tennet, Davina Whitehouse, Sara Wiseman, Marissa Stott, Beth Chote, Jennifer Ward-Lealand...http://booksllc.net/?id=1022518 ... Read more

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Chapters: Michael Hurst, Gabriel Reid, Rob Guest, Victoria Spence, Vanessa Stacey, Brian Sergent, Shane Cortese, Pat Hanna, Alison Routledge, Ari Boyland, Bonnie Soper, Lisa Harrow, Clive Revill, David Aston, Fleur Saville, Olivia Tennet, Peter Land, Tama Matheson, Scott Harding, Bruce Purchase, David Mcphail, Anton Tennet, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Amanda Billing, Merton Hodge, Paul Mclaughlin, Dan Weekes-Hannah, Laura Hill, Mark Hadlow, Jackie Clarke, Andrew Laing, Jacob Rajan, Dena Kennedy, Malcolm Murray, Jordan Selwyn. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 119. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michael Eric Hurst, ONZM (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand actor, director and writer, mostly on stage and television. He is probably best known internationally for playing Iolaus in the television programs Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and companion series Xena: Warrior Princess. Hurst was born in Lancashire, England, the eldest of four brothers. When he was seven his family moved to Christchurch, New Zealand. He enrolled at Papanui High School, then University of Canterbury, but for only one year. He married New Zealand actress Jennifer Ward-Lealand in 1988. They have two sons: Jack Louis Ward Hurst, born in 1997, and Cameron Lane Ward Hurst, born in 1999. In 1984, Hurst won the lead role of David Blyth's Death Warmed Up, New Zealand's first splatter movie. The plot saw Hurst's character weathering institutionalisation, sundry wackos, and a motorcycle chase in the tunnels below Waiheke Island. The film won the grand prize at a fantasy film festival in Paris. The same year Hurst began playing drummer Dave Nelson over two series of Heroes, about a band searching for fame. Crime thriller Dangerous Orphans (1986) is the first film in which Hurst co-starred with real-life partner Jennif...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1567140 ... Read more

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Chapters: Brian Desmond Hurst, Michael Feeney Callan, Declan Lowney, Neil Jordan, Meiert Avis, Dearbhla Walsh, Kevin Mcclory, Louis Lentin, Tyron Montgomery, John Crowley, John Carney, Tomm Moore, Jim Sheridan, Michael O'herlihy, John Moore, Juanita Wilson, Eoin Macken, Steve Barron, David O'reilly, Martin Duffy, Ruán Magan, Gerard Stembridge, Éamon de Buitléar, Declan Cassidy, Jimmy Smallhorne, David Noel Bourke, Mark Mahon, George Morrison, Tommy Collins, Roy William Neill, Farah Abushwesha, Benjamin Glazer, David Gleeson, Graham Jones, Dermot Tynan, Douglas Gerrard, Joe Mcstravick, Aisling Walsh, Nora Twomey, Brian Philip Davis, Ruairi Robinson, Pat O'connor, Enda Mccallion, Montgomery Tully, Barry Dignam, David Caffrey, Daragh Mccarthy, Brendan Muldowney, David Lawless, Ciaran Donnelly, Thomas Hefferon, Bob Quinn, Paul Duane, Paddy Breathnach, Mary Raftery, Fintan Connolly, Maurice Joyce, Damien O'donnell. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 175. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Brian Desmond Hurst (12 February 1895 26 September 1986) was an Ulster-born film director. Responsible for over 27 movies as director, Hurst was Ireland's most prolific movie director during the 20th century. Hurst was born Hans Hurst in East Belfast into a working class family. Hurst attended the New Road School, a Public Elementary School, on the junction of the Newtownards Road and Hemp Street in East Belfast. The building still exists today and further information on this and the houses he lived in are detailed in the Belfast media legacy website "Black City" . Brian Desmond Hurst's father (Robert, senior) and brother (Robert, junior) were iron-workers in the Harland and Wolff shipyard. In August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I Hurst enlisted as a private in the British Army and changed his name...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18149357 ... Read more

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All the Gear Is Here!
In 256 meticulously researched pages, GURPS High-Tech gives descriptions and stats for hundreds of kinds of historical weapons and personal armor, vehicles from the stagecoach to modern helicopters, and much more.
GURPS High-Tech also has the gear and gadgets characters need. Communication, from early telegraphs to modern computers; tools of the trade for detectives, spies, and thieves; camping equipment, rations, and first-aid kits; business cards, watches, and fashionable duds - this book has everything, for encounters from the wilderness to high society and everything in between.
GURPS High-Tech is the complete resource for equipment from the 18th century through the modern age, and will be appreciated by Game Masters no matter what system they use!
GURPS High-Tech replaces GURPS High-Tech for Third Edition, GURPS Modern Firepower, and portions of GURPS Covert Ops. ... Read more

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Useful, but surprisingly weak for its broad title.
As stated in an earlier review, this book's scope is too narrow. Its focus on weapons is distracting; if you're trying to recreate an 18th century environment, you need to know about more than muskets. When did people start using the Franklin Stove? How available was printed material? How did people get around? How did they climb mountains, how did their ships work, how accessible was glass?

This is a handy book about weapons up through the 20th century, but not much else.

This book is badly named
If you buy this book hoping it will be about high tech things for GURPS, you will be disappointed.It should be called GURPS guns or something.It is basically the history of firearms, with a few things about explosivesand other sundry pieces of information thrown in.It is really quiteinteresting and well researched.However, it onlygoes up to moderntimes, and much of the text is devoted to ancient cannon, guns and soforth.

There are a few peices of information that could be useful to acampaign in here, but mostly it is just background material, and is moregeared towards being interesting reading than essential game rules.If youlike this kind of GURPS book, you would probably give it more stars than Idid. ... Read more

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This manual summarizes the accumulation of information and knowledge of environmental microbiology in a single source.It details the natural fate of microorganisms in the environment as well as the intentional attempts to eliminate from the environment microorganisms that are pathogenic to humans or to plants and animals. The basic principles of environmental microbiology and general analytical methodologies, common across the range of the environments covered, are presented first. The core sections are structured with regard to the type of environmental medium being discussed.This landmark effort defines the study of environmental microbiology as we know it today and serves as an essential contribution to the literature.TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction to Environmental Microbiology General Methodology Water Microbiology in Public Health Aquatic Environments Soil, Rhizosphere, and Phyllosphere Subsurface and Landfills Aerobiology Biotransformation and Biodegradation ... Read more

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Wow!!!
One word describes this book - wow! This book is a great source of information for everybody that is seriously interested in environmental microbiology. The wealth of information given in this book is divided into 98 "short stories", most of them on average 10 pages long, each written by a different scientist. Even though the book is presented in a very scientific manner, it reads surprisingly easy, although the reader should have some knowledge of microbiology and biochemistry. This is not a textbook! Those of you who are looking for a pretty picture book should look elsewhere. There are no fancy appendices or glossaries, no CD-ROM, just an index. Pictures and graphs are held to a minimum and are used for the more complex concepts only. At the end of each chapter, a bibliography invites to further exploration of the particular topic. Here are the main sections of the book: 1. Introduction to environmental microbiology, 2. General methodology, 3. Water microbiology in public health, 4. Aquatic environments, 5. Soil, Rhizosphere, and Phyllosphere, 6. Subsurface and landfills, 7. Aerobiology, 8. Biotransformation and biodegradation. In conclusion, this book has quality and substance, just as you would expect from a book published by the ASM. ... Read more