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  | | The Philosophy, Politics and Religion of British Democracy Maurice Cowling and Conservatism (International Library of Political Studies) by Robert Crowcroft, Robert Whiting, Richard Whiting Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2010 by I. B. Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-84511-976-8, ISBN: 1-84511-976-2 "Maurice Cowling was one of the most controversial historians and thinkers of the last 40 years and a key figure in modern British Conservatism. His work on intellectual and political history assaulted conventional understanding of the political process and challenged the liberal and secular ideas which have been so pervasive in modern Britain. Here, leading scholars disclose Cowling’s vision of British democracy and place it in its br ..." |
 | | Open Distributed Systems by Crowcroft Jon Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1995 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-85728-229-0, ISBN: 1-85728-229-9 |
 | | Quality of Future Internet Services Second COST 263 International Workshop, Qofis 2001, Coimbra, Portugal, September 24-26, 2001. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Fernando Boavida, Mikhail I. Smirnov, James Roberts, John Crowcroft, J. Smirnov Roberts Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 2001 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-3-540-42602-8, ISBN: 3-540-42602-7 "The 2001 International Workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS 2001) held in Coimbra, Portugal, organized by COST Action 263, is the second of what we expect will become a series of successful QofIS workshops. The previous workshop was held in Berlin in the year 2000. The areas of interest of QofIS cover the design, implementation and provision of Quality of Service, spanning key issues of curr ..." |
 | | Internetworking Multimedia(1st Edition) (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) by Jon Crowcroft, Mark Handley, Ian Wakeman Hardcover, 500 Pages, Published 1999 by Morgan Kaufmann ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-584-8, ISBN: 1-55860-584-3 "Increasingly, businesses are turning to Internet-based multimedia communication as a tool to use internally and as the foundation for online services that can be sold to customers. Whether the goal is videoconferencing, distance learning, telemedicine, or real-time entertainment broadcasts, demand for expertise in the underlying technologies is growing rapidly.Internetworked Multimedia offers students, systems engineers, network admini ..." |
 | | Open Distributed Systems by Jon Crowcroft Hardcover, 386 Pages, Published 1996 by Artech House Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-89006-839-7, ISBN: 0-89006-839-9 "This book's comprehensive coverage of distributed systems from the ODP perspective describes how a multimedia conferencing system can be built as a distributed application, how management can be modeled as a distributed application, and how a distributed file system can be built as an example of a user application." |
 | | The World Wide Web(1st Edition) Beneath the Surf (Routledge Library Editions: Communication Studies) by Mark Handley, Jon Crowcroft Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-95949-1, ISBN: 1-138-95949-9 "Originally published in 1995. The WWW, a global information system which revolutionized the world of information search and browsing via the Internet, was a new phenomenon in the 1990s. This book acted as an authoritative introduction to the concepts and design. It includes a brief history of the origin of the www and information on running pages in HTML as well as specific case studies in projects from academic and commercial projects. ..." |
 | | Routledge Library Editions Communication Studies: The World Wide Web : Beneath the Surf by Mark Handley, Jon Crowcroft 208 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-317-36722-2, ISBN: 1-317-36722-7 "ENTITY Egrave "È" -- Capital E. grave accent --> |
 | | The World Wide Web(1st Edition) Beneath the Surf (Routledge Library Editions: Communication Studies) (Volume 6) by Mark Handley, Jon Crowcroft Hardcover, 212 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-94152-6, ISBN: 1-138-94152-2 "Originally published in 1995. The WWW, a global information system which revolutionized the world of information search and browsing via the Internet, was a new phenomenon in the 1990s. This book acted as an authoritative introduction to the concepts and design. It includes a brief history of the origin of the www and information on running pages in HTML as well as specific case studies in projects from academic and commercial projects. ..." |
 | | Internetworking Multimedia(1st Edition) by Jon Crowcroft, Mark Handley, Ian Wakeman Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 1999 by Taylor & Francis Ltd Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7484-0807-8, ISBN: 0-7484-0807-X "This volume aims to document the authors' prescription for the architecture, the way the component services are fitted together to provide collaborative tools for video, audio and shared workspaces." |
 | | Applied History and Contemporary Policymaking School of Statecraft by Robert Crowcroft Hardcover, Published 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London ISBN-13: 978-1-350-17702-4, ISBN: 1-350-17702-4 "Making a splash in intellectual debate by making a definitive case for Applied History, this book demonstrates that a knowledge of the past, and the insight it provides, is imperative to effective statecraft." |
 | | The Trouble with Words A Third Case for Richard Palmer, Investigator by Chris Crowcroft Paperback, 230 Pages, Published 2017 by Aesop Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-910301-42-5, ISBN: 1-910301-42-6 "When Shakespeare’s intensely personal sonnets are published, only one thing is clear: none in the triangle of author, male muse or dark lady is best pleased – and each has a score to settle.Richard Palmer is working as a censor, making sure that playhouse scripts do not offend political sensitivities. He works for the irascible, old-school Master of the Revels, Edmund Tilney and his designated successor, the altogether smoother Sir Geor ..." |
 | | Rock in a Hard Place Music and Mayhem in the Middle East (Hardback) by Orlando Crowcroft Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Zed Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78699-016-7, ISBN: 1-78699-016-4 "A muggy night in Abu Dhabi, 2011. Under the stadium lights a 30,000-strong sea of Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians and Egyptians wait in anticipation. Alongside them are Saudis, Iranians and Israelis. Defiance and excitement course through the crowd like electricity. Standing together, they are waiting for Metallica's first ever show in the Middle East. Many have faced untold violence, but for tonight, nothing else matters...This is the u ..." |
 | | Internetworking Multimedia by Prof Jon Crowcroft. Paperback, Published by Routledge Import ISBN-13: 978-1-85728-651-9, ISBN: 1-85728-651-0 |
 | | Lonely Planet Middle East(9th Edition) (Multi Country Guide) by Anthony Ham, Paul Clammer, Lonely Planet Publications, Mark Elliott, Jessica Lee, Virginia Maxwell, Simon Richmond, Daniel Robinson, Dan Savery Raz, Anthony Sattin, Andy Symington, Jenny Walker, Steve Waters, Orlando Crowcroft, Anita Isalska Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2018 by Lonely Planet ISBN-13: 978-1-78657-071-0, ISBN: 1-78657-071-8 "Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet’s Middle East is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Wonder at the mighty Pyramids of Giza, the last surviving ancient wonder; watch the sun set over the honeycombed magic of Petra; and explore tree-lined boulevards and exquisite blue-tiled mosques in Esfahan, Iran. All with your ..." |
 | | Shakespeare's Heir Last Case for Richard Palmer, Investigator by Chris Crowcroft Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Aesop Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-910301-59-3, ISBN: 1-910301-59-0 "Retired investigator Richard Palmer lives in the Charterhouse, a charity case engaged in regular altercations with the Preacher who is trying to make him conform. Nearly everyone has died, among them Chief Minister Cecil his old client and William Shakespeare his bète noir, the one who got away.A letter from his goddaughter Miracle in Oxford brings him up short. Her foster parents have died, she is in trouble; and she is in love with an ..." |
 | | The End is Nigh British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War by Robert Crowcroft Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2019 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-882369-8, ISBN: 0-19-882369-X "Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the single outstanding personality of that conflict, Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill depicted himself as a political prophet, exiled into the wilderness prior to 1939 by those who did not want to hear of the growing threats to peace in Europe. Although it is a familiar story, it is one ..." |
 | | Fire, Burn! A Second Case for Richard Palmer, Investigator by Chris Crowcroft Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2016 by Aesop Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-910301-34-0, ISBN: 1-910301-34-5 "Fire, Burn! is the sequel to Chris Crowcroft’s highly successful and well reviewed historical thriller Shakespeare in Trouble, featuring the Elizabethan investigator, Richard Palmer. It is now 1605 and intelligence sources are warning that Catholic terrorists, angry at a new regime’s reluctance to grant religious toleration, are planning a violent event, but not who or when. Robert Cecil, Chief Minister under the new King, James Stuart ..." |
 | | Attlee's War(1st Edition) World War II and the Making of a Labour Leader (International Library of Twentieth Century History) by Robert Crowcroft Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by I. B. Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-84885-286-0, ISBN: 1-84885-286-X "As deputy prime minister of Britain's coalition government during World War II, Clement Attlee became one of the most powerful figures in British politics and subsequently played a crucial role in the reshaping of the post-war political-party landscape. The architect of the Labour Party’s entry into the wartime coalition, Attlee came to straddle the workings of government to a unique degree. Unmatched in his range of influence, he domin ..." |
 | | Elton's Ecologists(1st Edition) A History of the Bureau of Animal Population by Peter Crowcroft Paperback, 198 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12148-2, ISBN: 0-226-12148-8 "From its creation by Charles Elton in 1932 to its demise when he retired in 1967, the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford was a mecca for ecologists from around the world. Crowcroft provides an anecdotal history of this small research institute that so strongly influenced the development of modern animal ecology. "[This] is a very good account of the work and personal interactions of a group that played an important part in the develo ..." |
 | | The Oxford Companion to British History(2nd Edition) (Oxford Companions) by John Cannon, Robert Crowcroft, Crowcroft Cannon, Robert Cannon Hardcover, 1,045 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-967783-2, ISBN: 0-19-967783-2 "Here, in a single convenient volume, is the essential reference book for anyone with an interest in British history. First published in 1997, under the editorship of the late John Cannon and in consultation with over 100 distinguished contributors, this Companion has now been updated by Robert Crowcroft to include the very latest scholarship and research. It describes and analyses the people and events that have shaped and defined life ..." |
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