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This comprehensive book covers a wide variety of methods for
estimating the sizes and related parameters of closed populations.
With the effect of climate change, and human territory invasion, we
have seen huge species losses and a major biodiversity decline.
Populations include plants, trees, various land and sea animals,
and some human populations. With such a diversity of populations,
an extensive variety of different methods are described with the
collection of different types of data. For example, we have count
data from plot sampling, which can also allow for incomplete
detection. There is a large chapter on occupancy methods where a
major interest is determining whether a particular species is
present or not. Citizen and opportunistic survey data can also be
incorporated. A related topic is species methods, where species
richness and species' interactions are of interest. A variety of
distance methods are discussed. One can use distances from points
and lines, as well as nearest neighbor distances. The applications
are extensive, and include marine, acoustic, and aerial surveys,
using multiple observers or detection devices. Line intercept
measurements have a role to play such as, for example, estimating
parameters relating to plant coverage. An increasingly important
class of removal methods considers successive “removals" from a
population, with physical removal or "removal" by capture-recapture
of marked individuals. With the change-in-ratio method, removals
are taken from two or more classes, e.g., males and females. Effort
data used for removals can also be used. A very important method
for estimating abundance is the use of capture-recapture data
collected discretely or continuously and can be analysed using both
frequency and Bayesian methods. Computational aspects of fitting
Bayesian models are described. A related topic of growing interest
is the use of spatial and camera methods. With the plethora of
models there has been a corresponding development of various
computational methods and packages, which are often mentioned
throughout. Covariate data is being used more frequently, which can
reduce the number of unknown parameters by using logistic and
loglinear models. An important computational aspect is that of
model selection methods. The book provides a useful list of over
1400 references.
If taxation is the mobilization of economic resources for political
ends, it is evident that any study of taxation must probe well
beyond the administrative technicalities of its subject. Social,
economic, political and administrative history are all part of the
investigation.
The early Tudor period is especially significant in the history
of taxation. This new study examines the taxes granted by
parliament to the crown between 1485 and 1547. Under Henry VIII,
taxation based on the direct assessment of each individual was
revived, having been abandoned as unworkable in the fourteenth
century. In the long run, the Tudor experiment failed: direct
assessment was abandoned again after decades of complaint about
evasion and under-assessment in the mid-seventeenth century, and
was not restored until the end of the eighteenth century. But
examination of the experiment, and of the timing and causes of its
failure, throws light on the changing political limits of the Tudor
state.
Schofield's research marks an important advance in our
understanding not only of the fiscal resources available to the
English crown but also of the broader political culture of early
Tudor England.
This comprehensive book, rich with applications, offers a
quantitative framework for the analysis of the various
capture-recapture models for open animal populations, while also
addressing associated computational methods. The state of our
wildlife populations provides a litmus test for the state of our
environment, especially in light of global warming and the
increasing pollution of our land, seas, and air. In addition to
monitoring our food resources such as fisheries, we need to protect
endangered species from the effects of human activities (e.g.
rhinos, whales, or encroachments on the habitat of orangutans).
Pests must be be controlled, whether insects or viruses, and we
need to cope with growing feral populations such as opossums,
rabbits, and pigs. Accordingly, we need to obtain information about
a given population's dynamics, concerning e.g. mortality, birth,
growth, breeding, sex, and migration, and determine whether the
respective population is increasing , static, or declining. There
are many methods for obtaining population information, but the most
useful (and most work-intensive) is generically known as
"capture-recapture," where we mark or tag a representative sample
of individuals from the population and follow that sample over time
using recaptures, resightings, or dead recoveries. Marks can be
natural, such as stripes, fin profiles, and even DNA; or
artificial, such as spots on insects. Attached tags can, for
example, be simple bands or streamers, or more sophisticated
variants such as radio and sonic transmitters. To estimate
population parameters, sophisticated and complex mathematical
models have been devised on the basis of recapture information and
computer packages. This book addresses the analysis of such models.
It is primarily intended for ecologists and wildlife managers who
wish to apply the methods to the types of problems discussed above,
though it will also benefit researchers and graduate students in
ecology. Familiarity with basic statistical concepts is essential.
Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals
and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring
counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context
of one part of medieval Western European society, the volume also
offers a new perspective on the history of medieval Wales and its
periphery by addressing a variety of themes in terms of the insight
that seals can offer the historian. Though the present study
suggests important regional distinctions in the take-up of seals in
medieval Wales, it is also clear that seal usage increased from the
later twelfth century and spread widely in Welsh society,
especially in those parts of Wales neighbouring England or where
there had been an early English incursion. Through a series of
chapters, the authors examine the ways in which seals can shed
light on the legal, administrative, social and economic history of
the period in Wales and its border region. Seals provide unique
insights into the choices individuals, men and women, made in
representing themselves to the wider world, and this issue is
examined closely. Supported by almost 100 images gathered by the
project team, the volume is of great interest to those working on
seals, their motifs, their use and developments in their usage over
the high and later Middle Ages.
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The Holy War (Paperback)
John Bunyan; Edited by Kerensa C Grigson, Camron R. Schofield
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God's Holy Day - IV (Paperback)
Milian L Andreason; Edited by Camron R. Schofield, Kerensa C Grigson
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All of the toys in this book represent Australian animals, and all
of them move in some fashion. As their movements are realistic and
suggestive of each animal, they all qualify as puppets. Claire
Schofield's designs use mechanisms ranging from her own inventions
and adaptations, to mechanisms that have survived hundreds (if not
thousands) of years. She provides step-by-step instructions, along
with detailed drawings and photographs. The 20 projects are
arranged from a "beginner" level through to "really tricky"
projects that will challenge any toy enthusiast.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
After teaching his friend to fight germ creatures, in What The Cat
Knows, Thomas was last seen heading home to find his pets. Germ
creatures are responsible for infecting people with disease and
making them sick. Cats are the only ones that can see these
creatures and cure them. Hairballs And Sticky Things tells the
story of Thomas
When a small kitten (Cupcake) is brought home, her new owners (Andy
and Carol) don't quite know what to make of her strange behavior.
Since Andy and Carol have never had a cat, they didn't realize that
all cats behave this way. As it turns out, there's more going on in
the home than Andy and Carol can see. Horrible germ creatures are
lurking about, trying to make people sick. Only cats can see them
and its Cupcake's job to make sure she keeps these creatures from
getting her family sick. The kitten attacks the germ creatures,
even though she is very afraid of them. Another cat (Thomas) tries
to help Cupcake find her courage. Thomas also helps Cupcake
understand her feelings about the new baby that has just arrived in
the home. Just as Cupcake is about to conquer her fear, an evil
germ creature has come into the home and it's after the new baby
Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages offers an extensive
overview of approaches to and the potential of sigillography, as
well as introducing a wider readership to the range, interest and
artistry of medieval seals. Seals were used throughout medieval
society in a wide range of contexts: royal, governmental,
ecclesiastical, legal, in trade and commerce and on an individual
and personal level. The fourteen papers presented here, which
originate from a conference held in Aberystwyth in April 2012,
focus primarily on British material but there is also useful
reference to continental Europe. The volume is divided into three
sections looking at the history and use of seals as symbols and
representations of power and prestige in a variety of
institutional, dynastic and individual contexts, their role in law
and legal practice, and aspects of their manufacture, sources and
artistic attributes. Importantly and distinctively, the volume
moves beyond the study of high status seals to consider such themes
as the social and economic status of seal-makers, the nature and
meaning - including reflections of deliberate wit and boastfulness
- of specific motifs employed at various levels of society, and the
distribution of seals in relation to the location of, for instance,
religious institutions and along major routeways. In so doing, it
sets out ways in which sigillography can open new pathways into the
study of non-elites and their cultures in medieval society.
English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837 is
the most important single contribution to English historical
demography since Wrigley and Schofield's Population History of
England. It represents the culmination of work carried out at the
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
over the past quarter-century. This work demonstrates the value of
the technique of family reconstitution as a means of obtaining
accurate and detailed information about fertility, morality, and
nuptiality in the past. Indeed, more is now known about many
aspects of English demography in the parish register period than
about the post-1837 period when the Registrar-General collected and
published information. Using data from 26 parishes, the authors
show clearly that their results are representative not only of the
demographic situation of the parishes from which the data were
drawn, but also of the country as a whole. Some very surprising
features of the behaviour of past populations are brought to light
for the first time.
English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837 is
the most important single contribution to English historical
demography since Wrigley and Schofield's Population History of
England. It represents the culmination of work carried out at the
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
over the past quarter-century. This work demonstrates the value of
the technique of family reconstitution as a means of obtaining
accurate and detailed information about fertility, morality, and
nuptiality in the past. Indeed, more is now known about many
aspects of English demography in the parish register period than
about the post-1837 period when the Registrar-General collected and
published information. Using data from 26 parishes, the authors
show clearly that their results are representative not only of the
demographic situation of the parishes from which the data were
drawn, but also of the country as a whole. Some very surprising
features of the behaviour of past populations are brought to light
for the first time.
This is the first paperback edition of a classic work of recent English historiography, first published by Edward Arnold in 1981. Numerous traditional assumptions are qualified, confirmed, or overturned, and the authors marshall a mass of statistical material into a series of clear, lucid arguments about past patterns of demographic behavior. In a new short preface, Wrigley and Schofield consider the debate engendered by their Population History, the impact of which has been felt far beyond the traditional disciplinary confines of historical demography.
This book examines the remarkable decline of mortality in Europe
which began in the 19th century and continued in an uninterrupted
fashion, into the early 20th century. During this period there was
almost a simultaneous decline in both fertility and mortality in
Europe which has long since fascinated historians and demographers.
Though transition of fertility is now understood, the same cannot
be said for mortality, despite its importance. The transition of
mortality between 1870 and 1920 had profound effects for European
and American societies. This volume brings to light the different
positions held by scholars on such strategic issues as nutrition,
income levels and living standards, public health, social
organization, and scientific advances. This study will be of
particular interest to demographers, social and economic
historians, epidemiologists, and postgraduate and advanced
undergraduate students of these subjects.
The boundaries of the Arabian peninsula are notable for the
sensitivities and disagreements which have accompanied their
relatively short history. As the twentieth century progressed, the
partition of resources, initially pastures and water wells,
subsequently oil and gas, was particularly crucial, but the
boundary makers, chiefly the diplomats of the imperial powers, were
inconsistent in paying attention to the human and physical
characteristics of the terrain when negotiating or imposing many
limits. Consequently boundary studies in this area have been and
remain a fruitful topic for geographers and anthropologists as well
as a necessary preoccupation for strategists and politicians. The
records of the various British government departments represented
here provide by far the most extensive and complete survey of the
evolution of territorial affairs in Arabia and the Gulf. They will
certainly form the core of any future legal debate focusing upon
the historical aspects of any one of the region's boundaries on
land or sea.
This 6-volume set contains documents illustrating the origins of
political and territorial authority, and the course of inter-state
relations and claims, traditional trade and tribal activity in the
area of the Saudi-Yemen border. The Arabian Geopolitics series is a
series of documentary studies that examine the key issues in the
political evolution of strategic regions of the Arabian Peninsula.
It explores the historical background to contemporary developments
in political and territorial authority. It highlights the
interaction of inter-state relations and claims, traditional trade
and tribal activity and the extent to which natural resources
dictate national claims. The editor, Richard Schofield, is Deputy
Director of the Geopolitics Research Centre, School of Oriental and
African Studies, London, and editor or author of numerous studies
on Arab boundary questions.
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