Product Description: The 2009 Viral Clearance Symposium (Indianapolis, Ind., USA) was held to interactively discuss methods for virus removal and inactivation during biopharmaceutical manufacture. Its origin was the result of worldwide regulatory and industry recognition that challenges, gaps, and opportunities for improvement exist, which if formally addressed could benefit the field as a whole...read more

A theory of the margin has long featured in the work of medieval historians. Marginal regions are taken to be those of poor soil or geographical remoteness, where farmers experienced particular difficulties in grain production. It is argued that such regions were cultivated only when demographic pressure intensified in the thirteenth century, but that a combination of soil exhaustion and demographic decline resulted in severe economic contraction by the end of the fourteenth century. Marginal regions are seen not just as sensitive barometers of economic change but as important catalysts in that change. Despite the importance placed by historians on the general theory of the margin, this book represents the first detailed study of a 'marginal region'. It focuses upon East Anglian Breckland, whose blowing sands are among the most barren soils in lowland England. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, this study reconstructs Breckland's late medieval economy, and shows it to be more diversified and resilient than the stereotype depicted in marginal theory.

An original guide to cocktails and the literary life brings together classic cocktail recipes, literary history, and entertaining anecdotes about famous American literati, with excerpts from each writer's work alongside a drink recipe, biographical sketch, and stories about life, literature, and drinking.

Product Description: This is the first study to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure, and evolution of the manorial records upon which all historical studies of medieval England are based. Beginning with a discussion of the nature and variety of the manor, as well as its origins and developments, the book then proceeds to dissect each category of manorial documents --surveys, extents, rentals, inventories, accounts, and court rolls-- which are considered in turn, and exemplified...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A companion volume to the HBO film to be aired in November, this documentary look at life in Appalachia focuses on the seventy-year-old matriarch of a clan as she goes through her daily routine. 15,000 first printing.

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Portrays the spirit of the Tibetan people as they try to maintain their culture under Chinese rule

Product Description: These records of the proceedings of the one hundred and fifty-five courts for the two manors of Walsham le Willows, Suffolk, provide a wealth of evidence of a sophisticated system of local administration and justice, operating in a populous and prosperous community...read more

When a scientist discovers that human knowledge and memories can be absorbed on a molecular level, the Pope loans the remains of Saint Peter for DNA research, but the resurrected Peter has escaped and is being stalked by an unknown assassin. Original.