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 | | Castles in Ireland: Feudal Power in a Gaelic World by T.E. McNeill ISBN-10: 9780415165372 ISBN-10: 0-415-16537-7 ISBN-13: 9780415165372 ISBN-13: 978-0-415-16537-2 Hardcover 1997-10-15 Routledge Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The castles of Ireland, captivating in the variety and ingenuity of their designs, are an essential part of the history of medieval Europe. Unlike the castles in England, however, they haven't been studies until recently. Castles in Ireland explains how a comprehensive study of the documents and physical remains of medieval castles can tell us the stories of the lords who ruled them and the builders who made them. Much is revealed in these structures made for aristocrats, as the physical is integrated here with the historical story. We learn about Ireland as a setting for the interplay of differing competing lordships: English and Irish; feudal European and Gaelic; royal and baronial. Also in the studying of relations of neighboring castles and in contrasting the pattern of castle building with that of Europe, T.E. McNeill documents the collapse of the lords early hopes of great wealth in Ireland, the weakness of royal power and the consistent neglect of defensive development against domestic comfort at all times. Through his examination of archaeological evidence, the author concludes that contrary to assumptions made about the establishement of English estates in Ireland in the 13th century, the English and Irish found the land and their mutual occupation a peaceful one. | ||
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Not suitable as a tutorial The organization and content of the book doesn't lend itself to use as a tutorial. Heavy on equations/proofs and short on conceptual discussion. You'll need a graduate-school level of int/diff calculus, matrix algebra and statistics to get much out of this book, and that's only if you're interested in detailed derivations and historical perspective. I was hoping for something that would allow me to take the proofs "on faith" and get rapidly into implementation, but that's not in this book. I got a used copy for $2.50 so it was worth that, probably would have balked if it had been much more. | ||
Better Summary Than Explanation Don't look to this book as a satisfactory introduction to Kalman Filters. The authors seem to confuse summation with explanation -- this is a good review if you already know the material but it doesn't convey the concepts very well. I studied a 1993 edition of this book with Version 1.1 of the software and the Fortran source code that was provided was incomplete. I see from the author's review that new source code in C has been added since then so this may no longer be the case. | ||
Much too terse. The authors use non-traditional symbolism and do not always define symbols used. For example, what is wring with the way Papoulis and Peebles define various statistical operators? Changing what is so widely accepted does not make your presentation better. It just takes longer to understand background subject matter and introduces unnecessary confusion into your final topic - Kalman filters. | ||