Author: H.F.B. Mackay
Publisher: Waldo Specthrie Press
Keywords: way, followers
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1406705985
ISBN-13: 9781406705980

FOLLOWERS IN THE WAY By H. F. B. MACKAY NEW YORK THE MACMIILAN COMPANY 1934 Copyright, 1954, by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. All rights reservedno part of this book may he reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in roagaxine or newspaper. PREFACE is a collection of addresses mostly given at All Saints, Margaret Street, in the last few years. They may be useful for reading at Retreat meals. I venture to dedicate the collection to my friend, Sidney Dark, as an expr

Author: R. D. Mackay
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: law, criminal, monographs, justice, oxford, conditions, mental, defences
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1996-01-04
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0198259956
ISBN-13: 9780198259954

Mental condition defenses have been used in several high-profile and controversial criminal trials in recent years. In this work, the author offers a detailed critical analysis of those defenses within British Criminal Law where the accused relies on some form of mental abnormality as a source of defense. Topics covered include: the defences of automatism, insanity, diminished responsibility, and infanticide; self-induced incapacity; the doctrine of fault; and unfitness to plead.

Author: R. S. MacKay
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Keywords: nonlinear, dynamics, vol, series, advanced, area, preserving, maps, renormalisation
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1993-12
List price: $73.00
ISBN-10: 9810213719
ISBN-13: 9789810213718

This is a corrected and annotated version of the author’s seminal PhD thesis, in which two forms of asymptotically universal structure were presented and explained for area-preserving maps. Area-preserving maps are the discrete-time analogue of two degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems, and much of their dynamics is reviewed in Chapter 1. The asymptotically universal structure is found on small scales in phase-space and long time-scales. Chapter 2 presents a brief survey of the use of the idea of renormalization in physics. The first universal structure, described in Chapter 3, appears a

Author: Pam MacKay
Publisher: Falcon
Keywords: national, mojave, park, wildflowers, desert, valley, joshua, tree, death, including, field, guide, trees, shrubs, preserve
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 2003-03
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0762711620
ISBN-13: 9780762711628

The Mojave Desert eco-region extends from eastern California to northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah, and boasts plant communities as diverse as alkali sinks, dune systems, Joshua tree woodland, pinyon juniper woodland, mixed mojave scrub, and even riparian woodland. Mojave Desert Wildflowers will be appreciated not only by amateur wildflower enthusiasts, but experts will also find the detailed photographs and charts useful in distinguishing among similar species in difficult groups. Species are arranged by color and plant family for easy identification. This guide feat

Author: Ian MacKay
Publisher: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Keywords: shapers, management, questions, asking
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1998-11-01
List price: $14.45
ISBN-10: 0852927681
ISBN-13: 9780852927687

"Asking Questions" will help you ask the ’right’ question to elicit a useful response. All managers need to hone their questioning skills, whether interviewing, appraising or simply exchanging ideas. This book offers guidance and helpful advice on: using various forms of open question - including probing, simple interrogative, opinion-seeking, hypothetical, extension and precision; encouraging and drawing out speakers through supportive statements and interjections; establishing specific facts through closed or ’direct’ approaches; avoiding counter-productive questions;

Author: David J. C. MacKay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: algorithms, learning, inference, theory, information
Number of Pages: 550
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 0521642981
ISBN-13: 9780521642989

Information theory and inference, often taught separately, are here united in one entertaining textbook. These topics lie at the heart of many exciting areas of contemporary science and engineering - communication, signal processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational neuroscience, bioinformatics, and cryptography. This textbook introduces theory in tandem with applications. Information theory is taught alongside practical communication systems, such as arithmetic coding for data compression and sparse-graph codes for error-correction. A toolbox of inference te

Author: Charles MacKay
Publisher: Harriman House
Keywords: crowds, madness, delusions, popular, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2003-12
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1897597320
ISBN-13: 9781897597323

First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about market psychology. This Harriman House edition includes Charles Mackay’s account of the three infamous financial manias - John Law s Mississipi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and Tulipomania. Between the three of them, these historic episodes confirm that greed and fear have always been the driving forces of financial markets, and, furthermore, that being sensible and clever is no defence against the mesmeric allure of a popular craze with the wind behin