Richard Jones

Published in 1996, Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor, The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management, captured the state of the field in 2012. Modern technology developments have made memory management more challenging, interesting and important than ever. This second edition updates the handbook, bringing together a wealth of knowledge gathered by automatic memory management researchers and developers over the past sixty years. The authors compare the most important approaches and state-of-the-art techniques in a single, accessible framework. The book addresses new challenges to garbage collection made by recent advances in hardware and software. It explores the consequences of these changes for designers and implementers of high performance garbage collectors. Along with simple and traditional algorithms, the book covers state-of-the-art parallel, incremental, concurrent and real-time garbage collection. Algorithms and concepts are often described with pseudocode and illustrations. Features of this editionProvides a complete, up-to-date, and authoritative sequel to the 1996 and 2012 booksOffers thorough coverage of parallel, concurrent, and real-time garbage collection algorithmsDiscusses in detail modern, high-performance commercial collectorsExplains some of the trickier aspects of garbage collection, including the interface to the run-time systemOver 90 more pages including new chapters on persistence and energy-aware garbage collectionBacked by a comprehensive online database of over 3,400 garbage collection-related publicationsThe adoption of garbage collection by almost all modern programming languages makes a thorough understanding of this topic essential for any programmer. This authoritative handbook gives expert insight on how different collectors work as well as the various issues currently facing garbage collectors. Armed with this knowledge, programmers can confidently select and configure the many choices of garbage collectors.http://gchandbook.org

For animal lovers and sensitive souls comes this quietly breathtaking story of a child whose compassion for wild creatures is returned to him during a fearful storm. Each morning when James leaves his small house by the sea, he cycles around the island and calls out to his friends. "Good morning " he calls to the otters in their pool. "Good morning " to the birds in the trees, the rabbits in their burrow, and the bears in their cave. Every day is wonderful, until one evening when ominous clouds start to paint the sky, and a fierce storm crashes in. The light glowing inside his house gives James comfort, but what about the animals? Should he go outside and make sure they're safe? Beautifully layered illustrations follow the child in his little red coat as he searches the wild, windy night for his friends, to no avail--until an anxious return home rewards him with the fruits of his kindness. Stylized and atmospheric, Richard Jones's exquisite art and lyrical text tell a heart-stirring tale of a loving bond that will linger long after the book is closed.

A moving picture book about friendship and finding the courage to brave a dark and stormy night by an award-winning author-illustrator. James lives in a little wooden house beside the sea. Every day he rides his bike around the island, saying hello to all his animal friends; the otters in their mirror-bright pool, the birds in the trees, the bears in their shadow-dark cave and the rabbits in their warm burrow. Every day is perfect. Perfect, that is, until one night a fierce storm arrives. James braves the wild night to check that his friends are safe, only to find that they have disappeared! Where could they be? James might just find that his friends are closer to home than he thinks.

This warm, utterly delightful new picture book from Richard Jones includes a fun count-along element, shout-along sound words and a jam-packed fold-out page. One day, a child meets a little bird and feeds it some breakfast. The next day, the little bird comes back with two pink-tailed mice, and the next day they are joined by four squirrels and then eight kind-eyed wolves and then sixteen elephants until eventually, one day, there are 255 animals to feed for breakfast! But who, wonders the child, will make breakfast for me?! Turn the pages - and count the creatures! - to find out... Also by Richard Jones:Perdu Little Bear Where Have You Been, Little Cat? By Tom Percival and Richard Jones:QuietBy Jim Helmore and Richard Jones:The Snow Lion Paper Planes

A beautiful field guide featuring notes, photos, and illustrations of more than 100 species of butterflies and moths. A compact version of DK’s bestselling anthology series, An Anthology of Butterflies and Moths is perfect for young bug enthusiasts aged 7-9 for taking on the go. Children can marvel at the many beautiful and delicate creatures covered, including the monarch butterfly, the blue morpho, the luna moth and much more – all beautifully detailed through illustrations, photographs and annotations explaining each one. This impressive butterfly and moth anthology for kids offers:A handheld, compact version of DK's hugely successful Anthology series. A wide selection of species featured throughout, each accompanied by a beautiful photograph and an illustration. A quality gift book, with metallic foil and striking photographs on every page. An Anthology of Butterflies and Moths pairs photography with storybook descriptions that will captivate young readers as they learn about these delicate creatures from all around the world. Featuring photographs of striking creatures and illustrations by the artist behind DK’s bestselling Anthology series, as well as plenty of intriguing information, this book will be one to treasure for young nature enthusiasts. More in the seriesAn Anthology of Butterflies and Moths is part of the beautiful, new and compact Little Anthologies spin-off series. Complete the series and nurture your child's curiosity as they explore different mushroom species with An Anthology of Fungi and An Anthology of Rocks and Minerals.

A beautiful field guide featuring notes, photos, and illustrations of more than 100 species of butterflies and moths. A compact version of DK's bestselling anthology series, An Anthology of Butterflies and Moths is perfect for young bug enthusiasts aged 7-9 for taking on the go. Children can marvel at the many beautiful and delicate creatures covered, including the monarch butterfly, the blue morpho, the luna moth, and much more - all beautifully detailed through illustrations, photographs, and annotations explaining each one. This impressive butterfly and moth anthology for kids offers: A handheld, compact version of DK's hugely successful Anthology series. A wide selection of species featured throughout, each accompanied by a beautiful photograph and an illustration. A quality gift book, with metallic foil and striking photographs on every page. An Anthology of Butterflies and Moths pairs photography with storybook descriptions that will captivate young readers as they learn about these delicate creatures from all around the world. Featuring photographs of striking creatures and illustrations by the artist behind DK's bestselling Anthology series, as well as plenty of intriguing information, this book will be one to treasure for young nature enthusiasts. More in the series An Anthology of Butterflies and Moths is part of the beautiful, new and compact Anthology spin-off series. Complete the series and nurture your child's curiosity as they explore different mushroom species with An Anthology of Fungi and An Anthology of Rocks and Minerals.

En dag møder en lille dreng en fugl, og han giver den noget at spise. Næste morgen kommer fuglen tilbage sammen med 2 mus med lyserøde haler, og dagen efter får de følgeskab af 4 egern og så 8 ulve med rare øjne, indtil der en morgen er hele 255 dyr, der skal have morgenmad. Men hvem, tænker den lille dreng, vil mon lave morgenmad til mig? En smuk og detaljerig tællebog til alle dyreelskere.

This book makes a critical intervention into debates about journalism and the crisis in local news. Interrogating the history and current practice of court coverage in the UK, the author argues for its importance as a central feature of both open justice and public interest reporting. The book challenges narratives of a decline in the perceived quality of local media. Yet it also highlights a reliance on major local press companies facing acute financial challenges, meaning court reporting faces a potentially precarious future. The book critically examines coverage of the courts in the context of financial crises, which have diminished both newspapers and the criminal justice system. How the norms of court journalism emerged and evolved are put under scrutiny, and the book then considers how court reporting is practiced today, including the use of cameras and social media as well as remote hearings during and since the pandemic. The author takes us inside a major murder trial and explores why court reporting remains worth preserving and enhancing. Offering recommendations which could help to maintain and extend coverage of the courts, this volume will interest students and scholars of journalism, mass communication, media studies, media law and communication studies.

Originally published in 1976, Supply in a Market Economy was a new kind of introductory micro-economics text which both assesses the usefulness of traditional theory in tackling social and economic problems and compares and contrasts the alternative approaches to the practical problems inherent in the allocation of scarce resources. Richard Jones has succeeded in bringing together the most useful features of a standard microeconomics theory book with empirical and applied material more usually dealt with separately in second year surveys of industrial organisation. The book gives full coverage to the standard theories of the firm, of production, of cost and scale, and of location, to recent critiques of these theories and to alternative approaches now being proposed. Integrated into this theoretical background is a clear analysis of the relationship of these theories to market structures and the economics of industry, and a ‘real-world’ examination of markets in action – with individual sections on the control of rents, on the water supply industry, on the effect of taxation on commodities, and on the economics of crime and its prevention. Supply in a Market Economy would prove to be an invaluable new course-book for first and second year students of microeconomics at the time and particularly for those non-specialists who were impatient to see the relevance and applications of traditional theory to real problems. Now it can be read in its historical context.

An adorable, inquisitive tale which encourages readers to explore their emotions and free their imaginations as they are invited into a little cat's world As a little cat rushes in from a day's adventuring, her owner asks her where she's been and what she's seen. Was she happy? Was she brave? Was she kind? The richly imagined answers--in Richard Jones's gorgeous illustrations, beautifully complementing his own simple text--will surprise, delight, and melt hearts.

Published in 1996, Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor, The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management, captured the state of the field in 2012. Modern technology developments have made memory management more challenging, interesting and important than ever. This second edition updates the handbook, bringing together a wealth of knowledge gathered by automatic memory management researchers and developers over the past sixty years. The authors compare the most important approaches and state-of-the-art techniques in a single, accessible framework. The book addresses new challenges to garbage collection made by recent advances in hardware and software. It explores the consequences of these changes for designers and implementers of high performance garbage collectors. Along with simple and traditional algorithms, the book covers state-of-the-art parallel, incremental, concurrent and real-time garbage collection. Algorithms and concepts are often described with pseudocode and illustrations. Features of this editionProvides a complete, up-to-date, and authoritative sequel to the 1996 and 2012 booksOffers thorough coverage of parallel, concurrent, and real-time garbage collection algorithmsDiscusses in detail modern, high-performance commercial collectorsExplains some of the trickier aspects of garbage collection, including the interface to the run-time systemOver 90 more pages including new chapters on persistence and energy-aware garbage collectionBacked by a comprehensive online database of over 3,400 garbage collection-related publicationsThe adoption of garbage collection by almost all modern programming languages makes a thorough understanding of this topic essential for any programmer. This authoritative handbook gives expert insight on how different collectors work as well as the various issues currently facing garbage collectors. Armed with this knowledge, programmers can confidently select and configure the many choices of garbage collectors.http://gchandbook.org

This adorable tale from internationally acclaimed picture book creator Richard Jones encourages readers to explore their emotions and free their imaginations as they are invited into Little Cat's world...

An eagerly anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series. The shieldbug is an amazing and beautiful species, rich with diversity in shape, form, size, life history, ecology, physiology and behaviour. But they are not commonly known, outside of specialist circles. Richard Jones’ groundbreaking New Naturalist volume on shieldbugs encourages those enthusiasts who would otherwise be put off by the, to date, rather technical literature that has dominated the field, providing a comprehensive natural history of this fascinating and beautiful group of insects.