Leslie M Burgess

The Old French lay of Mantel belongs to the group of anonymous lays that were composed in the late twelfth or thirteenth century. These short narratives vary in tone and usually deal with some aspect of love, usually in an aristocratic, courtly setting. Here, this is Arthur's court, with its well-kn...

A mind expanding new theory of the universe A more complete view of the space-time continuum This is the first step forward in cosmology in 100 years And in religion in two millennia Is there a cosmic horizon? Yes, every observer has one. It is formed by the exponential attenuation of electromagneti...

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-opt...

Mary Lacity, Leslie Willcocks and Andrew Burgess present practices used by Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) clients, providers and advisors to realize value from LPO services. The book is based on data from 27 providers, interviews with clients and lessons learned from prior Information Technology Ou...

The lay was a flourishing genre in the French courts of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, related to romance rather as the modern short story is to the novel. Its most famous exponent is arguably Marie de France, but in addition to her twelve lays, a number of others, mainly anonymous, have also...