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Product Description: This paperback edition of Mackintosh's first biography conveys an authentic and intimate portrait of the man behind the achievement.
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9780948661099 | Seven Hills Books, October 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This paperback edition of Mackintosh's first biography conveys an authentic and intimate portrait of the man behind the achievement.

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Product Description: In this fully updated second edition of the highly acclaimed Managing Gigabytes, authors Witten, Moffat, and Bell continue to provide unparalleled coverage of state-of-the-art techniques for compressing and indexing data. Whatever your field, if you work with large quantities of information, this book is essential reading--an authoritative theoretical resource and a practical guide to meeting the toughest storage and access challenges...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781558605701 | 2 sub edition (Morgan Kaufmann Pub, May 3, 1999), cover price $97.95 | About this edition: In this fully updated second edition of the highly acclaimed Managing Gigabytes, authors Witten, Moffat, and Bell continue to provide unparalleled coverage of state-of-the-art techniques for compressing and indexing data.
9780442018634 | Van Nostrand Reinhold, April 1, 1994, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: Offers both students and professionals guidance on large-scale information systems.

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Product Description: This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC '95, held in Cairns, Australia, in December 1995. The 45 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of three invited talks were selected from a total of 130 submissions...read more
By Peter Eades (editor), Naoki Katoh (editor), Alistair Moffat (editor) and John Staples (editor)
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9783540605737 | Springer Verlag, June 1, 1995, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC '95, held in Cairns, Australia, in December 1995.

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Product Description: This paperback edition of Mackintosh's first biography conveys an authentic and intimate portrait of the man behind the achievement.
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9781900455459 | Ill edition (Baxter Colin Photography Ltd, January 1, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This paperback edition of Mackintosh's first biography conveys an authentic and intimate portrait of the man behind the achievement.
9780948661082 | Voyageur Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This paperback edition of Mackintosh's first biography conveys an authentic and intimate portrait of the man behind the achievement.

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By Peter Eades (editor), Naoki Katoh (editor), Alistair Moffat (editor) and John Staples (editor)
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9780387605739 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 1995, cover price $89.95

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Moffat builds up a thesis which enables him to reveal the location and identity of the real Arthur, argueing that he was not a king but a cavalry general chosen around 500AD to lead a coalition army. The key to Moffat's thesis lies in place-names and their derivation, and that the lost medieval city of Roxburgh and its castle were Arthur's Camelot.
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9780753810743 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, September 7, 2000), cover price $15.75 | About this edition: Moffat builds up a thesis which enables him to reveal the location and identity of the real Arthur, argueing that he was not a king but a cavalry general chosen around 500AD to lead a coalition army.

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Product Description: Compression and Coding Algorithms describes in detail the coding mechanisms that are available for use in data compression systems. The well known Huffman coding technique is one mechanism, but there have been many others developed over the past few decades, and this book describes, explains and assesses them...read more
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9780792376682 | Kluwer Academic Pub, January 1, 2002, cover price $134.00 | About this edition: Compression and Coding Algorithms describes in detail the coding mechanisms that are available for use in data compression systems.

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Tells the tale of how Tyneside was made, and how it came to look, sound and behave the way it does. This book ranges from the retreat of the icefields, through the coming of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and the glories of Northumbria, to the growth of the Industrial Revolution, the trials of the football team and the renewals of the 21st century.
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9781845960131 | Mainstream, October 30, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Tyneside: A History of Newcastle and Gateshead from Earliest Times tells the glittering tale of the area, from the retreat of the icefields 10,000 years ago, through the coming of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, the glories of Northumbria, the stunning achievement of Bede of Jarrow, the building of the New Castle in 1080, and the dangerous beginnings of the coal trade, to the dizzying growth of the Industrial Revolution, the trials of the football team and its heroes, and the renewals of the 21st century.

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9781845961190 | Mainstream, October 1, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Tells the tale of how Tyneside was made, and how it came to look, sound and behave the way it does.

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Product Description: Alistair Moffat's journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, to the English coast, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland, ignores national boundaries to reveal the rich fabric of culture and history of Celtic Britain which still survives today...read more
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9781841587172 | Birlinn Ltd, May 1, 2008, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Alistair Moffat's journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, to the English coast, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland, ignores national boundaries to reveal the rich fabric of culture and history of Celtic Britain which still survives today.

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Product Description: Only one period in history is immediately, indelibly and uniquely linked to the whole area of the Scottish and English Border country, and that is the time of the Reivers. Whenever anyone mentions 'Reiver', no-one hesitates to add 'Border'...read more
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9781841586748 | Birlinn Ltd, June 1, 2008, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Only one period in history is immediately, indelibly and uniquely linked to the whole area of the Scottish and English Border country, and that is the time of the Reivers.

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Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2008, held in Melbourne, Australia, in November 2008. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions...read more
By Amihood Amir (editor), Alistair Moffat (editor) and Andrew Turpin (editor)
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9783540890966 | Springer-Verlag New York Inc, November 21, 2008, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2008, held in Melbourne, Australia, in November 2008.

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Product Description: Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the Cumbrian coast...read more
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9781841587899 | Birlinn Ltd, May 1, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain.

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Product Description: This story of early Scotland begins 10,000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age when the familiar Scottish geography of mountains, glens, and rugged coasts evolved. It follows the movement of hunter-gatherers north, the growth of fishing, the establishment of farming...read more
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9780500051337 | Thames & Hudson, April 1, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A geological and sociological tour of prehistoric Scotland cites DNA studies that offer insight into how the region was shaped by powerful Ice Age elements, discussing the influences of such contributors as the Celts, the Picts, and the Gaelic monarchy.

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9780500287958 | Thames & Hudson, June 29, 2009, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This story of early Scotland begins 10,000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age when the familiar Scottish geography of mountains, glens, and rugged coasts evolved.

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Product Description: A compelling and beautifully illustrated history of Scottish clans and their leaders.The Highland clans of Scotland are famous, the names celebrated, and the deeds heroic. Having clung to ancient traditions of family, loyalty, and valor for centuries, the clans met the beginning of their end at the fateful battle at Culloden in 1746...read more
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9780500251591 | Thames & Hudson, April 1, 2010, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A compelling and beautifully illustrated history of Scottish clans and their leaders.

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Product Description: Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts and drastically altered the way in which we move around, see and understand Scotland. Recent politics and logistics have established borders and jurisdictions which now seem permanent and impervious...read more
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9781841588858 | Birlinn Ltd, December 11, 2010, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts and drastically altered the way in which we move around, see and understand Scotland.

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Product Description: History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, with a new census appearing in 2011 and after more than ten years of a new parliament. An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies and we carry the ancient story of Scotland around with us...read more
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9781841589411 | Birlinn Ltd, May 1, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, with a new census appearing in 2011 and after more than ten years of a new parliament.

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