61. Mina Rees Université Montpellier II Translate this page mina rees (1902-1997). Cette image et la biographie complète en anglais résidentsur le site de l’université de St Andrews Écosse http://ens.math.univ-montp2.fr/SPIP/article.php3?id_article=1711

62. AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY - December 2002 mina rees and the Funding of the Mathematical Sciences by Amy E. ShellGellaschaa7423@usma.edu. Federal support for research in the mathematical sciences http://www.maa.org/pubs/monthly_dec02_toc.html

Search MAA Online MAA Home December 2002 Mina Rees and the Funding of the Mathematical Sciences by Amy E. Shell-Gellasch aa7423@usma.edu Federal support for research in the mathematical sciences in the United States was essentially developed during the Second World War and the years immediately following. Through her work on the Applied Mathematics Panel during the war, mathematician Mina Rees (1902-1997) was instrumental in facilitating scientific research for the war effort. As Head of the Mathematical Sciences Division and Deputy Science Director of the Office of Naval Research following the war, she helped revolutionize the form and scope of federal support of scientific research, and guided much of the development of early computers. She was dedicated to creating an environment in the United States in which the sciences, and mathematics in particular, grew and flourished. Minimal Perimeter Triangles by Mark Levi levi@math.psu.edu Let K be an arbitrary closed convex curve in the plane. Of all the triangles circumscribed around K , let ABC be the one of least perimeter, and let

63. Smart Computing Dictionary/Encyclopedia: Entries Beginning With R rees, mina Encyclopedia. reference rasterizer Dictionary. referentialintegrity Encyclopedia. You are currently on page 8 of 25. http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/dictionary/list.asp?PG=8&term=R&searchty

64. StyleEase Software Useful Links mina rees Library mina rees Library of the City University of New York.My Writing TA - MyWritingTA.com is your one stop resource for inexpensive http://www.styleease.com/links.htm

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65. Nat' Academies Press, Funding A Revolution: Government Support For Computing Res rees, mina. 1982. The Computing Program of the Office of Naval Research,19461953, Annals of the History of Computing 4(2)102-120. http://books.nap.edu/openbook/0309062780/html/261.html

Read more than 3,000 books online FREE! More than 900 PDFs now available for sale HOME ABOUT NAP CONTACT NAP HELP ... ORDERING INFO Items in cart [0] TRY OUR SPECIAL DISCOVERY ENGINE Questions? Call 888-624-8373 Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computing Research (1999) Computer Science and Telecommunications Board ( CSTB Find More Like This Book Research ... Dashboard NEW! BUY This Book CHAPTER SELECTOR: Openbook Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-xxvi Executive Summary, pp. 1-14 1 Introduction, pp. 15-39 2 Economic Perspectives on Public Support for Research, pp. 40-51 3 Federal Support for Research Infrastructure, pp. 52-84 4 The Organization of Federal Support: A Historical Review, pp. 85-135 5 Lessons From History, pp. 136-156 6 The Rise of Relational Databases, pp. 157-168 7 Development of the Internet and the World Wide Web, pp. 169-183 8 Theoretical Research: Intangible Cornerstone of Computer S..., pp. 184-197 9 Development in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 198-225 10 Virtual Reality Comes of Age, pp. 226-249

66. Emanuel Ruben Piore Papers, American Philosophical Society rees, mina Spiegel, 1902, 1979-1983, 3 folders. Folder 1, 1979, 8 items. Folder 2,1981, 26 items rees, mina Spiegel, 1902-, Math in WWII, nd, 1 item http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/p/piore.htm

Emanuel Ruben Piore Papers ca.1918-1986 (22.5 linear feet) Ms. Coll. 80 American Philosophical Society 105 South Fifth Street * Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386 Table of contents Abstract The Piore papers contain material relating to his latter years at IBM as Vice President and Chief Scientist, as well as some of his time spent on the Board of Directors. In addition, there are materials, though sparse, concerning his work with the Navy. An extensive series of speeches and lectures illustrates Piore's commitment to scientific research and national policy. In addition to his professional correspondence, the papers contain material pertaining to Piore's involvement in professional organizations such as the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Science, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and the American Philosophical Society. A number of professional and personal photographs are also found within the papers. Background note Arrangement Administrative information Restrictions ... Series I. Subject files, 1930-1986

67. Edward U. Condon Papers, American Philosophical Society See rees, mina. Brahdy, MR. Branch, John. Braniff International Airways.Branscomb, Anne. Branscomb, Lewis McAdory, 2 folders http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/c/condon.htm

Edward U. Condon Papers (75 linear feet) B C752 American Philosophical Society 105 South Fifth Street * Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386 Table of contents Abstract Edward Uhler Condon was a theoretical physicist at Princeton University and Westinghouse Laboratories who later served as director of the National Bureau of Standards (1945-1951), and as the director of research and development (1951-1954) and consulting physicist (1954-1974) at Corning Glass Works. The Condon Papers includes correspondence, notebooks, writings, photographs, and other materials concerning Condon's education, teaching, and his government, industrial, and academic. Included among the more interesting items are an incomplete autobiography, accompanied by scattered recollections of the University of California, Berkeley and Los Alamos in 1943, and a quantity of important material relating to Condon's problems with obtaining security clearances during to late 1940s and 1950s. Information concerning Condon's student and teaching days is included in several books of notes from physics lectures at Berkeley, 1920-1924, and copies of lectures for the classes Condon taught in physics, atomic physics, and quantum mechanics (1931), as well as a separate series of quantum mechanics lecture notes for the 1930s and 1950s.

68. SIG Convenor Contact Information mina rees Library City University of New York Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue mina rees Library CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue http://www.metro.org/ab_sigs.html

SIG Convenor Contact Information METRO encourages and facilitates the formation of Special Interest Groups (SIGS), which offer unique leadership, networking and professional development opportunities to METRO members. BIBLIOGRAPHIC INSTRUCTION Mariana Regalado (Co-Convenor) Reference Librarian and Information Literacy Specialist Assistant Professor Brooklyn College Library, CUNY 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11210 EMAIL: regalado@brooklyn.cuny.edu Michael Adams (Co-Convenor) Associate Professor Mina Rees Library City University of New York Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10016 TEL: (212) 817-7055 EMAIL: madams@gc.cuny.edu CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION Rhonda Allard (Co-Convenor) Consumer Health Coordinator NN/LM, Middle Atlantic Region

69. GENUKI : Secret Sins; Sex, Violence & Society In Carmarthenshire 1870-1920 rees, E Miss, mina Street, Llanelli, 49,, rees, Elizabeth Ann, Pwll, Llanelli, 168,.rees, Enoch, 26,, rees, Henry Captain, mina Street, Llanelli, 49, http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/CMN/SecretSins.html

Carmarthenshire Contents Secret Sins By Russell Davies 1996 Indexed by Angela Davies April 2000 Available for lookups on the South/West Wales Lookup Exchange Contents/Introduction Names Contents/Introduction Return to top Contents Introduction; Private Lives, Public Witnesses; The Individual and Society in Carmarthsnhire A Sense of Place A Psychic Crisis ? The Social Context of Mental Illness and Suicide "Secret Sins"; Crime and Protest Sexuality and Tension Spiritual Skeletons ; Religion, Superstition and Popular Culture Conclusion; Carmarthenshire and Welsh Society Introduction from the book's cover; "The traditional portrait of Welsh rural society in late Victorian and Edwardian times was of an intensely religious land of bible-black morality. This exciting book challenges that view by using the experiences of individuals, rural inhabitants and town dwellers, to present a radically new interpretation of Welsh social history. After an overview of the economic, social, and political changes in Carmarthenshire between 1870 and 1920, Russell Davies probes the records of people's private lives to analyse the reluctance for education in farming communities, the influence of religion and the Revival, the continuation of superstitions, and the rich variety of popular culture. We are also taken into a twilight world of mental illness and suicide, crime and protest, sexuality, prostitution, high illegitimacy, assaults, disease, cruelty, neglect and infanticide.

70. Looking.back -- August mina rees was born 2 August 1902 in Cleveland OH. During World War II when reesserved as the Executive Assistant to the Chief of the Applied Mathematics http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/50th/August.html

AUGUST 1996 At the height of the summer vacation season, August is traditionally a "slow" month, but in terms of computer-related anniversaries it is not without its highlights, not to mention the birthdays of some of our pioneers. The dedication was to take place on Monday, 7 August 1944. The Harvard News Office, in close consultation with Aiken prepared a news release for the occasion, headed "World's greatest mathematical calculator" followed by the bold unqualified statement that: "In charge of the activity ... is the inventor, Commander Howard H. Aiken, U.S.N.R", who "worked out the theory which made the machine possible". It is said that when Thomas J. Watson first saw the news story, he became so irate that he even planned to return to New York without attending either the ceremonial luncheon or the formal dedication ceremonies. Fortunately he had sufficient manners to call his intended hosts, and gave them the opportunity to persuade him to stay, which he did, and performed his part in the ceremonies magnificently. However this was the start of a rift between the university and IBM that lasted many years. As great a contribution to the development of computers as was the Harvard Mark I (ASCC), Aiken and Watson never really resolved their differences, Aiken refusing to sign a non-disclosure agreement some years later when Watson's son provided the opportunity to make amends by hiring Aiken as a consultant. The IBM ASCC or the Harvard Mark I was the first of a series of four computers associated with Howard Aiken. Mark I and

71. United States Foreign Policy All required reading is on reserve at the Graduate School s mina rees Library,and the books are stocked at Barnes Noble Bookstore, 18th Street and Fifth http://www.isanet.org/sections/fp/syllabi/lent3.htm

United States Foreign Policy CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK GRADUATE SCHOOL Political Science 861.1/United States Foreign Policy Howard H. Lentner Office: Room 1574, Grace Building Office hours: Thursdays, 2:30-4:00 p.m. Other hours by appointment Telephone: (GS) 212 642-2373 or (Baruch) 212 387-1665 E-mail: HHLBB@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Fall 1996 This seminar will briefly review the historical course of American foreign policy and examine the position of the United States in the international system after the cold war as well as consider the current debate over the country's appropriate role in the future. Substantial attention will also be given to American institutions and processes as they pertain to foreign policy. The first part of the course will concentrate on common reading and weekly discussions. An outline of topics and required readings are included in this syllabus. All participants in the seminar are expected to do the reading in advance and take part in the discussions. Simultaneously, students need to do preliminary work on their research projects and meet the requirements specified on the "Research Project Design" attached to the syllabus. During the second part, each student must make an oral presentation of his or her paper in class, and each must act as a discussant and critic of another's paper. Each presenter is asked to assign and place on reserve a brief reading germane to her paper. Some class time will be devoted to the problems of designing these projects.

72. Computer: Looking.back mina rees was born August 2, 1902. During World War II, she served as executiveassistant to the chief of the Applied Mathematics Panel of the US Office of http://www.indwes.edu/Faculty/bcupp/lookback/hist-08.htm

looking.back Computer , Vol. 29, No. 8, August 1996 Visions and visionaries: Celebrating the history of computing August in computing history J.A.N. Lee, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106, phone (540) 231-5780, fax (540) 231-6075, e-mail janlee@cs.vt.edu At the height of the summer vacation season, August is traditionally a "slow" month, but in terms of computer-related anniversaries it is not without its highlights, not to mention the birthdays of some of our pioneers. . T he August 1944 dedication of the Harvard Mark I calculator, otherwise known as the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was the culmination of several years' effort. Howard Hathaway Aiken conceived the plans for a large-scale calculator in 1937 as a machine to assist Harvard University researchers in their computational undertakings. IBM agreed to implement his ideas, and Clair D. Lake was put in charge of the project with Francis E. (Frank) Hamilton and Benjamin Durfee. In January 1943, the Harvard machine was completed at Endicott, New York, and in December 1943 the machine demonstrated to members of the Harvard faculty. The machine was then disassembled and shipped to Harvard, where it was housed in a large basement room in the Physics Research Laboratory. Preparing for the Monday, August 7, 1944, dedication, the Harvard News Office prepared a news release titled "World's Greatest Mathematical Calculator," followed by the bold, unqualified statement that "In charge of the activity . . . is the inventor, Commander Howard H. Aiken, USNR," who "worked out the theory which made the machine possible."

73. THE HERBARIUM SHEET The Fellowship was named in honor of Dr. mina rees, founding President of theGraduate Center at CUNY. Chris Accepts PostDoc http://www.nybg.org/bsci/herbsheet.html

The Herbarium Sheet A Newsletter of The Botanical Science Division of The New York Botanical Garden Editor: David L. Lentz Email: dlentz@nybg.org No. 280 Date: 30 May 2001 Contents Andean Lupinus Congratulations, Olga... Chris Accepts Post-Doc 4 Students Win IAPT Awards ... Prior Issues of the Herbarium Sheet Andean Lupinus Dr. Colin Hughes of the University of Oxford, UK, the 2001 Rupert Barneby awardee, visited the New York Botanical Garden from 5-21 February to work on Andean Lupinus (Fabaceae). A research seminar entitled, "Systematics of Leucaena (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae): fieldwork, morphology and molecules," was presented during the visit. In addition to the two and a half weeks at NY, short visits also were made to the Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University in Ithaca and to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Current knowledge of diversity within Lupinus remains fragmentary. The majority of species are native to western North America and the Andes in South America, with 12 species around the Mediterranean. Systematic investigation has concentrated on geographically delimited studies of Old World, North American, Argentinian, and the Brazilian unifoliolate species. The Andean and Mexican species remain poorly known. Geographic focus rather than monographic synthesis has resulted in a proliferation of supposed species. Two-thirds of the circa 1800 names were proposed by Smith in his Species Lupinorum - a series of 44 local or country treatments dismissed as fundamentally flawed by subsequent workers. The actual number of distinct species remains to be determined, but is probably 200-300 although even recent estimates vary from 150 to 600.

74. Women Of Color Women Of Word--African American --Female Playwrights--Citations Women/Gender Studies mina rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center mina reesLibrary Selected Web Sites Women/Gender Studies. http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/citations.html

women of color women of words citations sections links webrings awards Sites that have Links to Women of Color, Women of Words Last updated 12/06/2001 (order does not imply ranking) Harcourt College.com English: Composition ... Women of Color, Women of Words... http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/park.html. ... information on a number of poets, playwrights and other Mississippi authors. ... URL: www.harcourtcollege.com/english/lit/drama/student/links/unit6.html American National Biography Online ... Online Resources: Women of Color, Women of Words http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/gra.html Includes bibliographic details and links to related sites. ... URL: www.anb.org/articles/18/18-03503-article.html Canadian Womens Internet Directory : Women_of_Colour ... . POLL. NEWSLETTER Subscribe to our newsletter. . Top : Women of Colour : Page 3. Links: Women of Color, Women of Words. URL: cgi.womenspace.ca/directory/pages/Women_of_Colour/more3.html Contemporary Drama ... Women of Color, Women of Words A site dedicated to African American women who have "gifted, shaken up, and disturbed the theatre world with their powerful words ... URL: contemporarylit.about.com/cs/contemporarydrama/

75. 43 Femmes Mathématiciennes mina rees (1902) Julia Bowman Robinson (19191985) Mary Ellen Rudin (1924$\!$) 171174); Phyllis Fox, mina rees (1902) (pp. http://www.mjc-andre.org/pages/amej/evenements/cong_02/part_suj/fiches/femmes.ht

43 exemples d'avant 1987 Women of mathematics. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (17181799) Nina Karlovna Bari (19011961) Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917) Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914) Gertrude Mary Cox (19001978) Kate Fenchel (19051983) Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (19031974) Hilda Geiringer von Mises (18931973) Sophie Germain (17761831) (pp. 4756) Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924) (pp. 5761) Ellen Amanda Hayes (18511930) Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906) Ian Mueller, Hypatia (370?415) Sofja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja (18961966) Carol Karp (19261972) Claribel Kendall (18891965) Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova-Kochina (1899) Sofia Vasilevna Kovalevskaia (18501891) Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar (19021984) Christine Ladd-Franklin (18471930) Augusta Ada Lovelace (18151852) Sheila Scott Macintyre (19101960) Ada Isabel Maddison (18691950) Helen Abbot Merrill (18641949) Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923) Hanna Neumann (19141971) Mary Frances Winston Newson (18691959) Emmy Noether (18821935) Rozsa Peter (19051977) Mina Rees (1902) Julia Bowman Robinson (19191985) Charlotte Angas Scott (18581931) Mary Emily Sinclair (18781955) Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (17801872) Pauline Sperry (18851967) Alicia Boole Stott (18601940) Olga Taussky-Todd (1906) Mary Catherine Bishop Weiss (19301966) Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (18831966) Grace Chisholm Young (18681944) This book includes essays on 43 women mathematicians, each essay consisting of a biographical sketch, a review/assessment of her work, and a bibliography which usually lists most of her mathematical works, a few works about her, and occasionally a few other references. The essays are arranged alphabetically by the women's best-known professional names. A better arrangement would have been by the periods within which the women worked; an approximation to that can be achieved by using the list in Appendix A of the included women ordered by birthdate. With its many appendices and its two good indexes, the bibliographic structure of this book is excellent. This together with its reviews of the work of many less-known women mathematicians makes it a valuable contribution to the history of mathematics.

76. TLGolf.com: Golf Destinations Yardage 7200. Par 72. Architect rees Jones. Green fees N/A. AlessandroStratta (Renoir), Mark lo Russo and Michael mina (Aqua), Piero Selvaggio http://www.tlgolf.com/destinations/1200vegas.html

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77. The AAAS Celebrates Its 150th -- Dresselhaus 282 (5397): 2186 -- Science Twentythree years after the 100th birthday of AAAS, mina rees (1902-1997) was mina rees was a champion of public investment in the education of young http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/282/5397/2186

Previous Article Table of Contents Next ... Article Science , Vol 282, Issue 5397, 2186-2190 , 18 December 1998 Summary of this Article E-Letters: Submit a response to this article Download to Citation Manager Alert me when: new articles cite this article Search for similar articles in: Science Online ISI Web of Science Search Medline for articles by: Dresselhaus, M. S. Request permission to use this article This article appears in the following Subject Collections: Science and Policy ADVERTISEMENT What's This... [DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5397.2186] Association Affairs The AAAS Celebrates Its 150th Mildred S. Dresselhaus Mildred S. Dresselhaus CREDIT: ALLAN BURCH T his year we are celebrating the 150th birthday of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which has become the preeminent professional society worldwide in interdisciplinary sciences, technology, and public policy. It was my honor to have been president of the AAAS during this special year of the 150th birthday celebration. Here I take the opportunity to present a few vignettes on the venerable history of the AAAS and their influence on the association today. The initial purpose of the AAAS was to convene meetings among scientists working in diverse disciplines to present their most recent discoveries and discuss their concerns. This purpose was well reflected in the talks presented at the 1848 meeting, where naturalist Louis Agassiz presented his observations "On the Phonetic Apparatus of the Cricket" (

78. R Ratelband, K., 1953, Vilf Daregisters van het Kasteel Sao Jorge da mina Roese, MP, and rees, AR, 1994, Aspects of Farming and Farm Produce in the http://www.cgore.dircon.co.uk/r.htm

Website: cgore.dircon.co.uk Author: Dr.Charles Gore A B C D ... Q R S T U-V W-Z Ratelband, K., 1953, Vilf Daregisters van het Kasteel Sao Jorge da Mina (Elimina) aon de Gran d Kust (1645-1647), The Hague. Ratton, C., 1932, Les Bronzes du Benin, Cahiers d'Art, 7. Rattray, R.S., 1913, How Benin Figures Are Made, Hausa Folklore, Customs and Proverbs, Etc., Vol.2, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Read, C.H., 1904, Notes on the Form of the Bini Government, Man, 4. Read, C.H., 1910, Note on Certain Ivory Carvings from Benin, Man, 10, 29. Read, C.H., 1918, On a Carved Ivory Object from Benin City in the British Museum, Man, 18, 72. Read, C.H., and Dalton, O.M., 1898, Works of Art from Benin City, Journal of the (Royal) Anthropological Institute, 17. Read, C.H., and Dalton, O.M., 1899, Antiquities from the City of Benin and from other Parts of West Africa in the British Museum. London. Rebora, C., 1983, Iron, (eds.) Ben-Amos Girshick, P., and Rubin, A., The Art of Power: The Power of Art - Studies in Benin Iconography, UCLA: Los Angeles. Redhead, J.F., 1992, The Forest Kingdom of Benin, The Nigerian Field, 57.

79. AWM Book Review: Notable Women In Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary For example, mina rees died in October 1997 while this book was going to press;her death is, as a consequence, not noted. The profile of Hypatia which is http://www.awm-math.org/bookreviews/JanFeb99.html

Return to AWM Bibliography AWM Newsletter AWM Book Review: Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl, editors, Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1998. xv+302. ISBN 0-313-29131-4 (cloth), $49.95. From: AWM Newsletter, January/February 1999. Reviewed by : Marge Murray, Book Review Editor, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0123; email: murray@calvin.math.vt.edu Here at my home institution, Virginia Tech, I regularly teach our one-semester upper-level course in the history of mathematics, which is taken primarily by seniors majoring in mathematics or mathematics education. It's quite a challenge to present in fourteen weeks an overview of the high points of the historical development of mathematics, while at the same time conveying a sense of the social, cultural, intellectual, and political foundations of the subject. It is a still greater challenge to describe the explosive growth of mathematics, and of the mathematical community, over the past hundred years or so. But perhaps the greatest challenge that I face, as a woman teaching a roughly equal mix of male and female students, is to explain the stunning absence of women from the story of mathematics and, in particular, the yawning gap between the death of Hypatia (in the early 5th century AD) and the appearance of talented amateur mathematicians such as Emilie du Chatelet and Maria Agnesi (in the early 18th century). Why were women absent from mathematical activity for so long, and what were the social and cultural conditions which facilitated their reappearance? How can I convey to my students the truly stunning transformation over the past 125 years, during which time women have become significant, indeed central, participants in the mathematical enterprise?

80. Class 1 Available on reserve at mina rees. Two copies in the Medieval Carrel. On reserve at mina rees HD 1917. D 813. One copy in Medieval Carrell. http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~thead/h705syl.htm

History U705 Europe in the High Middle Ages, 900-1200 Fall 2002 Professor Thomas Head Graduate Center 5104 Office hours: Tuesdays 4:30-6:30. E-mail: thomas.head@hunter.cuny.edu September 3. Introduction. NB: in addition to the books listed below. We will set a time aside during classes later in the semester to consider the articles contained in Robert Benson and Giles Constable (eds.), Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982; reprint, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991). This book is available at bookstore. It is also on reserve at Mina Rees: CB 354.6 .R46 1982. Another copy is available at Queens College. September 10. The Carolingian inheritance. Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley 400-1000 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). [Available on reserve at Mina Rees.] Two copies in the Medieval Carrel. Also available at Brooklyn College and City College. (Still in print.) The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. III: c 900-c 1024 , edited by Timothy Reuter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), chapter 1 (Reuter).

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