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A comprehensive guide to buying, raising, and breeding farm animals successfully.

The story of poor Mary Morgan, the servant girl in ''the big house'' who becomes pregnant, conceals her pregnancy, and then kills her baby at birth is not uncommon. Neither is the rapid discovery of the body, the trial and the verdict - guilty of murder.What is so poignant is that just a few miles away another young servant girl called Mary becomes pregnant, kills her new-born child, and is sentenced by the same judge to a lesser penalty for ''concealment of birth''.Was Mary Morgan a hapless victim of a harsh social structure where the ''have nots'' had few rights? Were their different sentences an indictment of the legal system at the time? What did it say about society?Who was the father? Was there a conspiracy against one Mary and not the other? Did the judge have an ulterior motive?Time has not mellowed the horrific details. One Mary was sentenced to two years in goal, the other Mary was hanged. A judicial killing? Which Mary received appropriate justice?Judge for yourself the case of Mary Morgan, victim or villain.

There has been a building on the bluff in the middle of Hay on Wye for 900 years. This is the story of the people associated with it - owners, residents and visitors. In the early days it was a fortified castle attacked by King John and Llewellyn the Great, and occupied briefly by Simon de Montfort. After the union of England and Wales in 1542 domestic buildings replaced the military structures. First the Boyle Mansion built by the sheriff of Hereford and then the imposing Jacobean mansion built by the Gwynne family. This formed the main structure for a procession of occupiers, amongst whom were the successful mercers the Wellingtons, Archdeacon Bevan who used it as a vicarage for 56 years, the Dower House of Lady Glanusk and finally the home of the King of Hay Richard Booth. This is their story.

The history of Hay on Wye usually concentrates on the castle and Jacobean Mansion built on the bluff in the centre of town, and the cluster of buildings around them. Easily overlooked is the original pre-Norman settlement to the west of the town. Known as Weston Hamlets it lay outside the 1237 town walls on the flat agricultural lands of Gypsy Castle. The first Mott and Bailey castle and St Mary''s Church formed the core of this settlement and legally it remained distinct from the town being part of Haia Wallensis or Welsh Hay until at least the 17th century. Latterly this is the area of the town expansion. Here are the almshouses, the workhouse, the National School, hospitals, wells, and memorials to the dearly departed. It was also the site of the Bletchley Park monitoring station for decoding Enigma signals during the Second World War. This is the story of Weston Hammett the founding settlement of what became the town of Hay on Wye, and the people who who lived there.

Weston is the oldest part of Hay on Wye, the area around St Mary''s Church and the mott and bailey castle. It was legally separate from the town of Hay until the 17th and 18th centuries. Medieval documents describe the different parts of Hay as Haia Fforeign (English Hay), the area within the town walls, and Haia Wallensis (Welsh Hay) the area outside the walls. This included Weston Hamlett. During the 19th and 20th centuries this became the area of town expansion. Within it were two sets of almshouses, a workhouse, the National school, isolation hospital, a new cemetery, the recreation facilities at the Warren, and a World War Two Bletchley Park monitoring station.It is now the site of the Hay International Literary Festival. This book describes all this, as well as some of the inhabitants, the chemist with a diplomat daughter, the refugee Belgian professor, the Red Cross ambulance train matron, the borough surveyor cum Bletchley Park Voluntary Interceptor, as well as ''Lanty'' Steele Dixon, WWII pilot and step son of the author Raphel Sabartini, buried under a beautiful sculpture in the cemetery. These and others are all here, easily overlooked but an essential part of the history of Hay on Wye.

Third book in a series of five books presenting music theory for college students. This book is most suited for first year, second semester music theory.

Twelve recreated medical cases--from Robert Bruce to the Marquis de Sade--demonstrate how doctors throughout history have had to become detectives to track down the elusive causes of infectious diseases and unexplained deaths

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The stated objective of the current research is to develop a generalized approach for humanmachine interaction via spoken language that exploits recent developments in cognitive science particularly notions of grammatical constructions as form-meaning mappings in language, and notions of shared intentions as distributed plans for interaction and collaboration. In order to do this, we tested human-robot interaction initially with the Event Perceiver system and later on with the Sony AIBOs under soccer related behaviors. We have presented the system architecture for the Eagle Knights Four-Legged team as a testbed for this work. With respect to social cognition, shared intentions represent distributed plans in which two or more collaborators have a common representation of an action plan in which each plays specific roles with specific responsibilities with the aim of achieving some common goal. In the current study, the common goals were well defined in advance (e.g. teaching the robots new relations or new behaviors), and so the shared intentions could be built into the dialog management system. We plan to continue this work by experimenting with more evolved behaviors in testing full coaching capabilities in the soccer scenario. Videos for several human-robot dialogs, including the previous one, can be found in Dominey & Weitzenfeld (2006).

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