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Uncertainty in Engineering - Introduction to Methods and Applications (2021)
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Aslett, L., Coolen, F., & De Bock, J. (Eds.). (2022). Uncertainty in Engineering - Introduction to Methods and Applications. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83640-5

This open access book provides an introduction to uncertainty quantification in engineering. Starting with preliminaries on Bayesian statistics and Monte Carlo methods, followed by material on imprecise probabilities, it then focuses on reliability th... Read More about Uncertainty in Engineering - Introduction to Methods and Applications.

Lost Lives, New Voices. Unlocking the stories of the Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650 (2018)
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Gerrard, C., Graves, C., Millard, A., Annis, R., & Caffell, A. (2018). Lost Lives, New Voices. Unlocking the stories of the Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650. Oxbow Books

In November 2013 two mass burials were discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in north-east England. Over the next 2 years, a complex jigsaw of evidence was pieced together by a team of archaeologists to establish the id... Read More about Lost Lives, New Voices. Unlocking the stories of the Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650.

The Defiance of Global Commitment: A Complex Social Psychology (2018)
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Castellani, B. (2018). The Defiance of Global Commitment: A Complex Social Psychology. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351137140

The Brexit vote; the election of Trump; the upsurge of European nationalism; the devolution of the Arab Spring; global violence; Chinese expansionism; disruptive climate change; the riotous instabilities of the world capitalist system…While diverse i... Read More about The Defiance of Global Commitment: A Complex Social Psychology.

Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society, 1300-1800: Revisiting Postan and Tawney (2016)
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Brown, A., & Bowen, J. P. (Eds.). (2016). Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society, 1300-1800: Revisiting Postan and Tawney. University of Hertfordshire Press

English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanisation, commercialisation and industrialisation producing new challenges and opportunities for inhabitants of rural communities. However, o... Read More about Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society, 1300-1800: Revisiting Postan and Tawney.

Crises in Economic and Social History: A Comparative Perspective (2015)
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Brown, A., Burn, A., & Doherty, R. (Eds.). (2015). Crises in Economic and Social History: A Comparative Perspective. Boydell Press

This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agri... Read More about Crises in Economic and Social History: A Comparative Perspective.

Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, c.1400-1640 (2015)
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Brown, A. (2015). Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, c.1400-1640. Boydell & Brewer

In the middle of the fifteenth-century, the economy of north-east England was beset by crises: population was low, production was stagnant and many landowners faced penury. By the end of the sixteenth century, however, the precocious development of t... Read More about Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, c.1400-1640.