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The idea that morris dancing captures the essence of ancient Englishness, inherently carefree and merry, has been present for over 400 years. The Ancient English Morris Dance traces the history of those attitudes, from the dance's introduction to England in the fifteenth century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, during which morris dancing and maypoles became potent symbols of the older ways of living. Thereafter it developed and diversified, neglected and disdained, until antiquaries began to take an interest in its history, leading to its re-invention as emblematic of Victorian concepts of Merrie England in the nineteenth century. The quest for authentic understanding of what that meant led to its revival at the beginning of the twentieth century, but that was predicated on the perception of it as part of England's declining rural past, to the neglect of the one area (the industrial north-west) where it continued to flourish. The revival led in turn to its further evolution into the multitude of forms and styles in which it may be encountered today.

• 1. The party in the street and its historical context
• 2. Partisan politics at the water's edge?
• 3. Multiple identities and party-movement interaction
• 4. Identities and grassroots participation
• 5. Identities and organizational action
• 6. Identities and legislative agendas
• 7. Beyond the antiwar movement and the Democratic Party
• 8. Social movements in a polarized America.

"Party in the Street explores the interaction between political parties and social movements in the United States. Examining the collapse of the post-9/11 antiwar movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this book focuses on activism and protest in the United States. It argues that the electoral success of the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama, as well as antipathy toward President George W. Bush, played a greater role in this collapse than did changes in foreign policy. It shows that how people identify with social movements and political parties matters a great deal, and it considers the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street as comparison cases"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1: Percy Manning - A Life (Michael Heaney)
• 2: Bibliography of Works by Percy Manning (Michael Heaney)
• 3: Percy Manning's Archaeological Survey of Oxfordshire (Alison Roberts)
• 4: The Lost Undercroft at Duckington's Inn and other Oxford Tavern-undercrofts in Context (David Clark)
• 5: Percy Manning: A Collector of Medieval Earthenware Paving Tiles (Maureen Mellor)
• 6: Percy Manning's Picture Collection (Julian Munby)
• 7: Percy Manning, Thomas Carter and the Revival of Morris Dancing (Michael Heaney)
• 8: Manning's Mummers' Plays (Peter Millington)
• 9: 'Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen': Songs, Music and Musical Instruments in the Percy Manning Collection (Alice Little)
• 10: Percy Manning Contextualized: How Manning's Collection of Lighting in the Pitt Rivers Museum Tells Us More about the Man, his Collection and its Context (Faye Belsey and Madeleine Ding)
• 11: Manning's Curiosity Projected into the 21st Century (Brian Durham)
• Index.
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Percy Manning (1870-1917) was an Oxford antiquary who amassed enormous collections about the history of Oxford and Oxfordshire, which now constitute a valuable resource in Oxford University's libraries and museums. Manning was interested in all periods of history and prehistory, collecting Stone Age tools, Roman coins, medieval tiles, and relics of ways of life that were disappearing in his own day, such as decorated police truncheons and local pottery. He methodically documented and explored the archaeology of the county. He collected literally thousands of prints depicting Oxford and places throughout Oxfordshire as records of changes in the built environment, and moved beyond material objects to uncover and document superstitions, folklore and customs, especially where he thought they were disappearing. He sought out May songs and morris dancers, reviving the Headington Quarry Morris Dancers in 1899. There is scarcely a community in the county which is not reflected somewhere in his collections. This volume provides the first detailed biography of Manning, together with studies examining specific parts of his collections in greater detail. Other chapters demonstrate how the collections can be used as springboards for in-depth study and for fresh approaches to the history of Oxfordshire. Particular emphasis is placed on Manning's ground-breaking research into the folklore of the county in conjunction with its material culture.
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An international collaboration between IFLA, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed standards for new library indicators for the twenty-first century. The existing international library statistics were developed nearly 40 years ago. This book presents the first results using the new statistics, and looks forward to the next steps. It also contains other initiatives and developments in the fields of library statistics, benchmarking and indicators.
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• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Background
• Chapter 2: The Bod Squad
• Chapter 3: Finance
• Chapter 4: The special collections
• Chapter 5: The purchase of electronic journal backfiles
• Chapter 6: The building of the Book Storage Facility
• Chapter 7: Book Storage Facility ingest and retrievals operations
• Chapter 8: 'And moveth all together, if it move at all': the Bookmoves Project 2010-2011
• Chapter 9: Barcoding -- the Inventory Control Project
• Chapter 10: The Book Storage Facility Information System
• Chapter 11: Implementation of a new integrated library system
• Chapter 12: Staff relocation
• Chapter 13: The creation of the Weston Library
• Chapter 14: Underground Bookstore and Old Bodleian Access Project
• Chapter 15: Reader services during a time of major changes
• Conclusion
• Index.

The transformation of the Bodleian Libraries provides an example of how major libraries can meet twenty-first century challenges: in 2008 it was facing a failed system installation, a failed plan to cope with its storage needs and the threat of losing status as a repository suitable to house important manuscripts. Three years later it had a new state-of-the-art repository already holding 7 million items under full automated control, a new advanced library system, transformed reader spaces and the reconstruction of its major building well under way; This was achieved in record-breaking time without significant interruptions in service.
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The Activists: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets brings to life the stories of ordinary people who tried to stop and end the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At best, activists had limited influence over the conduct of military policy after 9/11. Yet, their experiences in the antiwar movement helped them to learn about speaking out in the face of injustice. They inspired others to do the same during the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street movements. Indeed, democracy requires more than just one vote every four years. It requires continued pressure by citizens on their government.

An apparatus and method for measuring the electric properties of solid matter which provides data for determining the polarizability of the electron distributions contained therein is disclosed. A sample of the solid to be studied is placed between the plates of a capacitor where it acts as a dielectric. The sample is excited by the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with an atomic species contained in the sample. The voltage induced across the capacitor is then measured as a function of time with the aid of a high Q circuit tuned to a frequency related to the frequency of the applied electromagnetic energy.

Commercial buildings often experience faults that produce undesirable behavior in building systems. Building faults waste energy, decrease occupants' comfort, and increase operating costs. Automated fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) tools for buildings help building owners discover and identify the root causes of faults in building systems, equipment, and controls. Proper implementation of FDD has the potential to simultaneously improve comfort, reduce energy use, and narrow the gap between actual and optimal building performance. However, conventional rule-based FDD requires expensive instrumentation and valuable engineering labor, which limit deployment opportunities. This paper presents a hybrid, automated FDD approach that combines building energy models and statistical learning tools to detect and diagnose faults noninvasively, using minimal sensors, with little customization. We compare and contrast the performance of several hybrid FDD algorithms for a small security building. Our results indicate that the algorithms can detect and diagnose several common faults, but more work is required to reduce false positive rates and improve diagnosis accuracy.