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The German armoured divisions in the Second World War were the iron fist of the Blitzkrieg. Broken down by key battle or campaigns within each theatre of war, this book shows the strengths and organizational structures of the Third Reich's armoured forces campaign by campaign, building into a detailed compendium of information.With extensive organizational diagrams and full-colour campaign maps showing the disposition of units, this is an easy guide to the German panzer forces, their strengths during key campaigns and battles, and details of where they served throughout the war.
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This illustrated book provides an in-depth examination of the 350,000 or so foreign volunteers who fought for Hitler and Germany in World War II and it explores the background to their recruitment and also describes on a unit-by-unit basis their structure and combat record.
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An illustrated study of the Waffen-SS in the western theatre from 1940 to 1945 which covers the formation of the Waffen-SS, the atrocities against British prisoners and the battles in Normandy and in the Ardennes offensive. - This book features the actions and atrocities of such famous divisions as the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, Das Reich, Hitlerjugend and Totenkopf and provides an insight into how these ideologically motivated units consistently outfought their Allied opponents, even when seriously disadvantaged due to lack of fuel or air support. - Illustrated with rare action photographs, the book begins with the formation of the Waffen-SS and the ideological instruction each soldier received. - The striking success of 1940 is examined as the SS troopers swept all opposition before them, as is the darker side of the organisation, with the first atrocities committed against British prisoners. - Years later the Waffen-SS were back in France in numbers, in readiness for D-Day. - After the loss of Normandy, the Waffen-SS fought hard at Arnhem and in the Ardennes offensive, winning respect from the Allied troops that faced them.
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• It began on a forlorn island
• The mining magnate at the table
• Tough decisions over dinner in Davos
• Fizzy drinks and the sweet milk of change
• 'It was a bit like Valhalla' - you just had to be there
• The Great Gatsby of BEE
• Fees, fronting, diamonds and dogs
• How can you give a slice of your business to a stranger
• Investment to the people
• The night of the lost grenade
• The BEE sheriff on the trail of the bad guys
• From a fronting fiasco to a fortune
• Furniture and failure to freedom
• The rich white, poor black minefield
• Bringing a little Versailles to Africa
• Heartbreak of the iron lady
• The queen of green
• Do the youngsters really need it?
• Where now, Mr President?

"In The BEE Billionaires, Chris Bishop gets up close and personal with some of the biggest names in BEE: Sandile Zungu, Gaby Magomola, Sipho Nkosi, Richard Maponya, the Kunene Brothers, Gibson 'Mr Gautrain' Thula, Fred Robertson, Ipeleng Mkhari, Tshepo Mahloele, Tim Tebeila, Linda Mabhena-Olagunju and even President Cyril Ramaphosa. These are the people who made it, who carry the flag for black empowerment. By examining their struggles and the impact of BEE on their successes, Bishop seeks to uncover the ways in which BEE as an upliftment scheme has both succeeded and failed. Because, while BEE has made billionaires of some, it has ruined others and remains one of the most controversial policies born in those first heady days of democracy. There is also a debate over how long the BEE codes should remain. By examining those individuals who have been either shunned or burnt by BEE, as well as various deal facilitators and other key insiders - including the president of South Africa - Bishop hopes to answer one very complex question: Has BEE achieved what it was set up to do, or, in the long term, will it prove more of a hindrance than a help?."--Publisher's description

As Forbes magazine heads towards its centenary in 2017, this is a timely look at how the work of entrepreneurs can influence lives in Africa and create the jobs that empty state coffers can no longer afford. Written by the founding editor of Forbes Africa , this is a masterclass on how the brightest and most successful entrepreneurs across Africa made their billions. Chris Bishop gets up close and personal with the biggest names in business on the continent: Aliko Dangote, Patrice Motsepe, Nicky Oppenheimer, Christo Wiese and Stephen Saad, among others. These are the stories of how they not only survived, but thrived, in the fast and furious world of African business: the penniless priest who became a steel baron; the barefoot apple-seller who turned into a mining millionaire; the "knocksman" who went from running dice games and dealing drugs to running a city. This is a rich tapestry of stories about the super-wealthy and the qualities that make them successful, in arguably the most challenging economic arena in the world -- Publisher's description.

• Introduction: Medievalist comics and the American century
• Prince Valiant (1937)
• The Green Arrow (1941)
• The Mighty Thor (1962)
• Conan the Barbarian (1970)
• Red Sonja (1973)
• Beowulf: dragon slayer (1975)
• Northlanders (2007)
• Conclusion: The stories upon which we agree.

The comic book has become an essential icon of the American Century, an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by recognition of the intrinsic value of democracy and modernization. For many, the Middle Ages stand as an antithesis to these ideals, and yet medievalist comics have emerged and endured, even thrived alongside their superhero counterparts. Chris Bishop presents a reception history of medievalist comics, setting them against a greater backdrop of modern American history. From its genesis in the 1930s to the present, Bishop surveys the medievalist comic, its stories, characters, settings, and themes drawn from the European Middle Ages. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant emerged from an America at odds with monarchy, but still in love with King Arthur. Green Arrow remains the continuation of a long fascination with Robin Hood that has become as central to the American identity as it was to the British. The Mighty Thor reflects the legacy of Germanic migration into the United States. The rugged individualism of Conan the Barbarian owes more to the western cowboy than it does to the continental knight-errant. In the narrative of Red Sonja, we can trace a parallel history of feminism. Bishop regards these comics as not merely happenchance, but each success (Prince Valiant and The Mighty Thor) or failure (Beowulf: Dragon Slayer) as a result and an indicator of certain American preoccupations amid a larger cultural context. Intrinsically modernist paragons of pop-culture ephemera, American comics have ironically continued to engage with the European Middle Ages. Bishop illuminates some of the ways in which we use an imagined past to navigate the present and plots some possible futures as we valiantly shape a new century.
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• Statistical pattern recognition
• Probability density estimation
• Single-layer networks
• The multi-layer perceptron
• Radial basis functions
• Error
• Parameter optimization algorithms
• Pre-processing and feature extraction
• Learning and generalization
• Bayesian techniques.
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This is a comprehensive treatment of feed-forward neural networks from the perspective of statistical pattern recognition. After introducing the basic concepts of pattern recognition, the book describes techniques for modelling probability density functions, and discusses the properties and relative merits of the multi-layer perceptron and radial basis function network models. It also motivates the use of various forms of error functions, and reviews the principal algorithms for error function minimization. As well as providing a detailed discussion of learning and generalization in neural networks, the book also covers the topics of data processing, feature extraction and prior knowledge. The book concludes with an extensive treatment of Bayesian techniques and their applications to neural networks.
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Scholars of the Middle Ages are familiar with the notion of text as an inscribed document, whether that inscription occurs upon stone, metal, vellum or textiles, but the concept of inscription and, therefore, of text, can be extended to cover a range of evidence. Thus, one might speak of archaeological remains, land use patterns, traditional stories, remnant practices and revenant beliefs as constituting texts in their own right. Broadly defined then, text is the means by which we engage with the historical subject. The medievalist, however, faces particular constraints in interpreting these texts through the agencies of their transmission. Questions such as who authored these texts, when and why, intersect with problems of transcription, translation and redaction to inform a complex discourse. The majority of the chapters in this book started life as papers presented at a conference entitled Text and Transmission in Early Medieval Europe and the title of this book ultimately derives from that theme. The subjects these chapters deal with range in geography from Ireland through to Byzantium, and cover almost a millennium of European history, but they are united in their effort to prise from their subjects some truths about texts, transmission and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.
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• Introduction: Text and transmission in Medieval Europe / Chris Bishop [and others]
• The Irish birdman: kingship and liminality in Buile Suibhne / Bridgeette Slavin
• The eunuch Narses / John Martyn
• The politics of hagiography in ninth-century Rome / Bronwen Neil
• The 'lost" literature of England: text and transmission in tenth-century Wessex / Chris Bishop
• Close to the edge: The fortunes of men and the limits of wisdom literature / Robert DiNapoli
• Perpetual devotion: interpreting Medieval Mariology / Walter Kudrycz
• Illuminating ritual texts: text, image and the creation of sacred space in Jewish manuscripts of the Iberian peninsula / Vanessa Crosby
• A ballad of twelfth day: texts and contexts / Diane Speed
• Appendix I: an edition of Twelfth day.

Scholars of the Middle Ages are familiar with the notion of text as an inscribed document, whether that inscription occurs upon stone, metal, vellum or textiles, but the concept of inscription and, therefore, of text, can be extended to cover a range of evidence. Thus, one might speak of archaeological remains, land use patterns, traditional stories, remnant practices and revenant beliefs as constituting texts in their own right. Broadly defined then, text is the means by which we engage with the historical subject. The medievalist, however, faces particular constraints in interpreting these texts through the agencies of their transmission. Questions such as who authored these texts, when and why, intersect with problems of transcription, translation and redaction to inform a complex discourse. The majority of the chapters in this book started life as papers presented at a conference entitled Text and Transmission in Early Medieval Europe and the title of this book ultimately derives from that theme. The subjects these chapters deal with range in geography from Ireland through to Byzantium, and cover almost a millennium of European history, but they are united in their effort to prise from their subjects some truths about texts, transmission and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.
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• 1. Physiology
• 2. Harvesting and Store Loading Systems
• 3. Store Climate
• 4. Disease Control in Store
• 5. Store Design and Structure
• 6. Store Ventilation
• 7. Store Refrigeration
• 8. Store Environment Monitoring and Control
• 9. Store Management
• 10. Seed Grading and Preparation for Planting
• 11. Packhouse and Processing Facilities
• 12. Quality Assurance
• 13. Marketing and Costs.
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A wider understanding of potato postharvest practices is needed to improve working relations between growers, agronomists, pathologists and crop store managers. The authors provide a comprehensive examination of international potato production and discuss how potatoes are managed post harvest, the underlying science behind practices and the influences that can affect final quality. Chapters describe potato physiology, harvesting techniques and loading procedures as well as optimum storage conditions and store management. Aspects such as store and packhouse design, ventilation and environmental control, seed storage, grading equipment and quality assurance are considered in detail. "Potatoes Postharvest" will guide professionals, academics and advanced students interested in potato production from physiology and pathology to storage and packing.
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This DVD traces the rise of the biggest warships in the world as the United States air power went from early biplanes landing on converted battleships to the huge modern supercarriers of today.

Lattice spin-fermion models are quite important to study correlated systems where quantum dynamics allows for a separation between slow and fast degrees of freedom. The fast degrees of freedom are treated quantum mechanically while the slow variables, generically referred to as the “spins, ” are treated classically. At present, exact diagonalization coupled with classical Monte Carlo (ED + MC) is extensively used to solve numerically a general class of lattice spin-fermion problems. In this common setup, the classical variables (spins) are treated via the standard MC method while the fermion problem is solved by exact diagonalization. The “traveling cluster approximation” (TCA) is a real space variant of the ED + MC method that allows to solve spin-fermion problems on lattice sizes with up to 10³ sites. In this paper, we present a novel reorganization of the TCA algorithm in a manner that can be efficiently parallelized. Finally, this allows us to solve generic spin-fermion models easily on 10⁴ lattice sites and with some effort on 10⁵ lattice sites, representing the record lattice sizes studied for this family of models.