“alistair moffat”

This is a vividly told, dramatic, and enlightening account of the oral history, legends, and battles of a people whose past stretches back many hundred of years. The Sea Kingdoms is a story of great tragedies, ancient myths, and spectacular beauty.... More

Nowhere else in Britain in the modern era, or indeed in Europe, did civil order break down over such a wide area, or for such a long time. For more than a century the hoof-beats of countless raiding parties drummed over the border. This book tells the remarkable story of the Reivers and how they mad... More

An authoritative reference to the whole area of source coding algorithms, Compression and Coding Algorithms will be a primary resource for both researchers and software engineers. The book also will be interest for people in broader area of design and analysis of algorithms and data structure. Pract... More

The story of how the area was formed and how it came to look, sound and behave the way it does, from the retreat of the ice fields, 10,000 years ago, right up to the growth of the Industrial Revolution and the renewals of the twenty-first century.... More