Author: Robin Milner-Gulland
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: europe, peoples, people, russians
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-04-14
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0631218491
ISBN-13: 9780631218494

The Russians - still one of the most numerous and powerful peoples on earth - have undergone an historical development whose direction and destiny continues to fascinate after more than 1100 years. This book represents an exploration of the ancient roots and subsequent transformations of their cultural history. By concentrating in the first instance on the seven hundred years up to Russia’s "Westernization" in the eighteenth century, the book follows several important social, cultural and artistic themes through to modern times. Thus pre-modern and folk-based cultural patterns are sho

Authors:E.J. Milner-Gulland, J. Marcus Rowcliffe,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: techniques, conservation, ecology, handbook, sustainable
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-01-06
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0198530358
ISBN-13: 9780198530350

The relentless exploitation and unsustainable use of wildlife, whether for food, medicine or other uses, is a key concern for conservationists worldwide. Indeed, wildlife conservation and sustainable use have recently become centrepieces in conservation and development research. Assessment, interpretation and ultimate action in a scientific study of exploited species must consider numerous factors: from the biology, habitat requirements and population dynamics of the species in question to the relationships that people have with their environment and the species within it. Any long-term manage

Author: Robin Milner
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: agents, communicating, motion, space
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $45.99
ISBN-10: 0521738334
ISBN-13: 9780521738330

The world is increasingly populated with interactive agents distributed in space, real or abstract. These agents can be artificial, as in computing systems that manage and monitor traffic or health; or they can be natural, e.g. communicating humans, or biological cells. It is important to be able to model networks of agents in order to understand and optimize their behavior. Robin Milner describes in this book just such a model, by presenting a unified and rigorous structural theory, based on bigraphs, for systems of interacting agents. This theory is a bridge between the existing theories of

Author: Robin Milner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: calculus, systems, mobile, communicating
Number of Pages: 161
Published: 1999-06-15
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0521658691
ISBN-13: 9780521658690

Communication is a fundamental and integral part of computing, whether between different computers on a network, or between components within a single computer. In this book Robin Milner introduces a new way of modelling communication that reflects its position. He treats computers and their programs as themselves built from communicating parts, rather than adding communication as an extra level of activity. Everything is introduced by means of examples, such as mobile phones, job schedualers, vending machines, data structures, and the objects of object-oriented programming. But the aim of the

Author: Robin Milner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: agents, communicating, motion, space
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $97.00
ISBN-10: 0521490308
ISBN-13: 9780521490306

The world is increasingly populated with interactive agents distributed in space, real or abstract. These agents can be artificial, as in computing systems that manage and monitor traffic or health; or they can be natural, e.g. communicating humans, or biological cells. It is important to be able to model networks of agents in order to understand and optimize their behavior. Robin Milner describes in this book just such a model, by presenting a unified and rigorous structural theory, based on bigraphs, for systems of interacting agents. This theory is a bridge between the existing theories of

Authors:Robin Milner, Mads Tofte, Robert Harper, David MacQue
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: revised, standard, definition
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1997-05-15
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0262631814
ISBN-13: 9780262631815

Standard ML is a general-purpose programming language designed for large projects. This book provides a formal definition of Standard ML for the benefit of all concerned with the language, including users and implementers. Because computer programs are increasingly required to withstand rigorous analysis, it is all the more important that the language in which they are written be defined with full rigor. One purpose of a language definition is to establish a theory of meanings upon which the understanding of particular programs may rest. To properly define a programming language, it is nece

Authors:Joseph O. Milner, Lucy F. Milner,
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: english, bridging
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2007-06-25
List price: $110.80
ISBN-10: 0132397471
ISBN-13: 9780132397476

Bridging English, fourth edition, is a comprehensive English methods text that is structured on James Moffett’s conception of the “universe of discourse” in the teaching of English: talking and listening, writing and reading. The book combines theory and practice, that is, overarching structures with particular instructional strategies. It provides prospective teachers with a huge array of approaches and activities that are active, constructivist, and student-centered. It mirrors that emphasis with boxed Invitations to Reflection that continually survey its readers about the