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Not only the leaders but the entire nation are trained in war. Sound the trumpet for battle and the peasant will rush from his plough to pick up his weapons as quickly as the courtier from the court." So wrote Gerald of Wales at the end of the twelfth century; and war continued to define the experiences of Welshmen in the succeeding years. This book explores the role of the Welsh in England's armies and in England's wars between Edward I's conquest of Wales in the 1280s, through the wars in Scotland and France and the revolt led by Owain Glyndwr, concluding with Henry V's conquest of Normandy following his victory at Agincourt in 1415. It examines the structure and composition of armies and the social networks and hierarchies which underpinned them: what sort of Welshmen became soldiers? How was Welsh society organised for war? What impact did wider political considerations have upon Welshmen in England's armies? These questions are answered using both well-known sources, such as the financial records of the English crown, and others less familiar, including the records of local administration and the large surviving corpus of Welsh-language poetry. Adam Chapman is Editor and Training Coordinator with the Victoria County History of the Counties of England at the Institute of Historical Research, London

California has been an oil and gas state throughout its history. In the latter half of 19th Century and first half of the 20th Century, hydrocarbon extraction helped define both Californian prosperity and the early promise of the West. Many decades later, the Energy Act of 2005 helped to revitalize domestic oil and gas production by exempting a suite of new "enhanced recovery techniques" for well stimulation, commonly referred to as "fracking", under major federal environmental regulations. This dissertation research engages the subsoil political ecology of California's petroleum sector in order to explain how well stimulation regulation evolved in California following the rapid deployment of fracking technology across the country that triggered a decade of "Shale Revolution" beginning in 2006. Well stimulation in California represents a case study of the intensely politicized and contested evolution of extractive regimes and their environmental governance at subnational scales in the wake of disruptive technological change. The embedded single-case design employed in this research targets two units of analysis: regulation and frames. Regulation is analyzed using Governance and Political Economy Analysis to assess the structural, institutional, and stakeholder dynamics of California's oil and gas sector, while frames are analyzed using Frame Analysis of news media and semi-structured open-ended interviews to examine how discourse coalitions construct narratives with which to advance their agendas. This dissertation research contributes to the academic literatures relating to energy systems and their sociotechnical transitions by situating the case of well stimulation regulation in California within the substantive, theoretical, and philosophical debates surrounding the environmental governance of extraction.

Human-elephant conflicts (HEC) in Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) range countries have been increasing during the past half-century and are a major conservation issue for governments. Research suggests studying the spatio-temporal behavioural patterns of E. maximus could indicate behavioural preferences and help mitigate such conflicts. These behavioural preferences could be influenced by factors such as seasonal and lunar cycles, and habitat type. This study aims to determine at what degree these influencing factors are driving E. maximus behaviour and HEC. Considering previous studies on seasonal and lunar cycles and habitat utilisation affecting E. maximus' behaviour and HEC it asks; How do these factors influence E. maximus behaviour and HEC events? Considering these factors, are there any correlations between HEC events and behaviour observed within an adjacent protected forest complex? HEC event data was obtained from the Wang Mee district; a community adjacent to a protected area, the Dong Phayayen – Khao Yai – forest complex in Thailand. This community has undergone increasing HEC in recent years. The data was analysed to identify the effects of the aforementioned factors on HEC frequency. Furthermore, camera trap data within the forest complex are also utilised to analyse the effects of these factors on behaviour, such as changes in the observations of E. maximus' mean distance to forest borders and habitat utilisation measured with relative abundance index (RAI). Analysis of data indicates a significant correlation between lunar and seasonal cycles and HEC events. HEC events were greater during hot and monsoon compared with the cold season. The RAI of E. maximus observations at forest borders were also significantly higher during hot season when compared to RAI at greater distances. First and last quarter moon phases indicated a significant increase in HEC in general. Seasonal and lunar cycles also determined the selection of mixed deciduous forest habitats, indicating a general increase in utilisation during the cold season. Utilisation during the cold season also varied greatly depending on the lunar cycle – increasing during the first quarter and lowest during full moon phases, indicating high variability. The results indicate that studying habitat selection preferences and seasonal and lunar cycles are important factors for park and HEC managers when mitigating conflicts. By understanding E. maximus' behaviour and habitat needs managers can better plan for effective management and HEC mitigation.

Benet Vincent and Adam Simpson delivered a presentation entitled 'Bridging the lexical gap between EAP and Faculty courses', which described the development of a corpus based on core texts from a Freshman Social and Political Science course at Sabanci University. They then explained how keywords were identified and extracted from the corpus by comparing it with a corpus consisting of the textbook used on the program using the freeware program Antconc. The aim of the process described was to identify lexis that could be included in the vocabulary syllabus at Upper Intermediate level so that all students on the program would be exposed to these items before moving into Faculty. Benet and Adam also explained how the items identified were incorporated into the vocabulary syllabus, including discussion of the materials thereby produced such as concordance lines. Finally, they discussed ideas about the means by which corpus data of this kind could be used pedagogically, thus leading to greater teacher awareness in this area, as well as the benefits to learners of such an approach.

Introduction : the world turned upside down / A.J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens -- In search of the lost real / Alain Badiou -- Cinema and philosophy / Alain Badiou -- The common preoccupation of art and philosophy / Alain Badiou -- Badiou's concept of history / Knox Peden -- Deleuze's Badiou / Jon Roffe -- Mathematics in the bedroom : sex, the signifier and the smallest whole number / Sigi Jöttkandt -- From prohibition to affirmation : on challenges and possibilities of a Badiouian philosophy of art / Ali Alizadeh -- Woman's adventures with/in the universal / Louise Burchill -- An inessential art? : positioning cinema in Alain Badiou's philosophy / Alex Ling -- Subjected to formalization : formalization and method in the philosophy of Alain Badiou / John Cleary -- Everything must become nothing (and vice versa) : love and abstraction in Badiou and Lacan / Bryan Cooke -- Where thought is not / Campbell Jones -- The priority of conditions : on the relationship between mathematics and poetry in being and event / Robert Boncardo and Christian R. Gelder -- Love, the revolution - and Alain Badiou -- 'The movement of emancipation'-- The beginner Lia Hills