Author: Fiona Rule File Type: epub LONDONs old buildings hold a wealth of clues to the citys rich and vibrant past. The histories of some, such as the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey, are well documented. However, these magnificent, world-renowned attractions are not the only places with fascinating tales to tell. Down a narrow, medieval lane on the outskirts of Smithfield stands 4142 Cloth Fair the oldest house in the City of London. Fiona Rule uncovers the fascinating survival story of this extraordinary property and the people who owned it and lived in it, set against the backdrop of an ever-changing city that has prevailed over war, disease, fire and economic crises.

Author: Martin Brown File Type: pdf With millions of users worldwide, Perl is increasingly the language of choice for Web development. This title is updated to include coverage of Perl 5.6 - a major new release which is not covered by most competing books. Written by a Perl expert - Martin Brown is the author of the well-received first-edition, as well as Perl Programmers Reference. It includes comprehensive coverage appropriate for developers of every level.From the Back CoverThe Most Comprehensive Perl Resource Available!Learn all you need to know about Perl from this definitive, hands-on reference. Perl expert Martin Brown will walk you through everything--from the basics of writing your first script and understanding Perls syntax to the complexities of processing data, communicating with external databases, and communicating over the Web. Along the way, youll learn how to network, design user interfaces, and write scripts that work under UNIX, Windows, and MacOS. Also covers how to interface to an external C library and embed the Perl interpreter into your C programs. For building, developing, and fine-tuning robust Perl applications, youll want this thorough guide! ullMaster Perl basics--understand the building blocks of expressions, statements and declarations llLearn to create your code with subroutines, packages and modules llCommunicate with external files, databases and other machines over your network llConvert your subroutines and modules into methods and objects llOrganize your data with Perls complex structures and interfaces llCreate cross-platform compatible user interface solutions llWork with XML, HTML, and generate Web scripts to solve your problems llMaximize your scripts performance and debug your code before its released lulAbout the AuthorMartin C. Brown is the author of Perl The Complete Reference and Perl Annotated Archives. He has more than 15 years of multi-platform programming experience in Perl, Shellscript, Basic, Pascal, CC++, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, and Awk.

Author: Robert Rowland Smith File Type: pdf Robert Rowland Smith compares Freuds work on the death-drive to other philosophies of death, particularly those of Pascal, Heidegger, and Derrida, and applies it to Shakespeare, Mark Rothko, and Katharina Fritsch. Smith asks whether artistic creativity is actually a form of destruction and whether the seduction of fine words places us at risk of death. He proposes a new theory of aesthetics in which artwork and literary text have a death-drive of their own, the effects of which translate into imaginary, rhetorical, and artistic worlds. Smith also provides a valuable introduction to the rich scholarship on the death-drive since the time of Freud.ReviewThis is a rich and fascinating work. Smith provides a lucid, probing and astute overview of the death drive in Freud, but also leads the reader into strange and compelling new terrain, exploring the notion that works of art have an unconscious of their own. This is an important new contribution to a topic that remains controversial in psychoanalysis and culture more generally. -- Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex The death-drive has haunted psychoanalytic theory since its first appearance in Freuds Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Rowland Smith brings new life to this grim hypothesis, tracing the rhetorical adventures of the death-drive through Freuds works and those of his defenders and adversaries. Sinuously argued and vividly expressed, Death-Drive will appeal both to beginners and to seasoned readers of psychoanalysis and literature. Rarely has death been discussed with such vitality -- Maud Ellmann, Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame This is a rich and fascinating work. Smith provides a lucid, probing and astute overview of the death drive in Freud, but also leads the reader into strange and compelling new terrain, exploring the notion that works of art have an unconscious of their own. This is an important new contribution to a topic that remains controversial in psychoanalysis and culture more generally. The death-drive has haunted psychoanalytic theory since its first appearance in Freuds Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Rowland Smith brings new life to this grim hypothesis, tracing the rhetorical adventures of the death-drive through Freuds works and those of his defenders and adversaries. Sinuously argued and vividly expressed, Death-Drive will appeal both to beginners and to seasoned readers of psychoanalysis and literature. Rarely has death been discussed with such vitality About the AuthorRobert Rowland Smith is the author of Derrida and Autobiography and the founding editor of the award-winning journal Angelak.

Author: Michael C. Carhart File Type: pdf Who are the nations of Europe, and where did they come from? Early modern people were as curious about their origins as we are today. Lacking twenty-first-century DNA research, seventeenth-century scholars turned to languageetymology, vocabulary, and even grammatical structurefor evidence. The hope was that, in puzzling out the relationships between languages, the relationships between nations themselves would emerge, and on that basis one could determine the ancestral homeland of the nations that presently occupied Europe. In Leibniz Discovers Asia, Michael C. Carhart explores this early modern practice by focusing on philosopher, scientist, and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who developed a vast network of scholars and missionaries throughout Europe to acquire the linguistic data he needed. The success of his project was tied to the Jesuit search for an overland route to China, whose itinerary would take them through the nations from whom Leibniz wanted language samples. Drawing on Leibnizs extensive correspondence with the members of this network, Carhart gives us access to the philosophers scintillating discussions about astronomy and mapping ethnology and missionary work the contest of the Asiatic empires of Muscovy, Persia, the Ottoman, and China for control of the Caucasus, the steppes, and the Far East and above all, language, as the best indicator of the prehistoric genealogy of the myriad peoples from Central Asia to Western Europe. Placing comparative linguistics within Leibnizs intellectual program, this book offers extensive insight into how Leibniz built his early modern scholarly network, the networks functionality within the international Republic of Letters, and its limitations. We see the scholar, isolated and lonely in little Hanover, with his hands on knowledge trickling in from scientific centers across Europe and around the world. By the end of 1697the year his network finally began to workLeibniz laughed to one of his patrons, Im putting a sign on my door reading, Bureau of Address for China! Depicting Leibniz not as a philosophical authority but as a scholar with human limitations and frustrations, Leibniz Discovers Asia is a thrilling and engaging narrative. **Review A fascinating portrait of a well-known scholar at work on a little-known project. Carharts treatment of Leibnizs informal practices of scholarship, his use of long-distance correspondence and social networks, and indeed of Leibnizs idiosyncrasies as a scholar is very well done. The author has done an excellent job of connecting a diverse body of material in lively and engaging prose. (Paul Nelles, Carleton University, coeditor of Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe Beyond Production, Circulation, and Consumption) A fascinating study of the role of historical linguistics in the work and the network of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Extremely well written, with a love for scientific practice, this is a masterful, remarkably detailed book. (Han F. Vermeulen, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, author of Before Boas The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment) This is an extraordinary and wonderful book. It reads like a novellike a detective storyalthough it is the result of painstaking scholarship. Michael C. Carhart reconstructs virtually month by month Leibnizs tireless efforts to build networks in order to gain information about the languages of Asia. (Martin Mulsow, Research Center Gotha, University of Erfurt, author of Enlightenment Underground Radical Germany, 16801720) This ground-breaking book takes the reader on a fascinating journey. In a gripping narrative entirely grounded on virtually unstudied sources, Leibnizs discovery of Asia unfolds through his investigation of its languages, against the backdrop of the multilayered circulation of knowledge in an increasingly global world and the dawn of modern comparative linguistics. (Maria Rosa Antognazza, Kings College London, author of Leibniz An Intellectual Biography) Leibniz Discovers Asia details Leibnizs linguistic quest to uncover the origins of peoples. In this fascinating and deeply researched work, Carhart analyzes how Leibniz assembled information and constructed his massive correspondence network to explore history before history. Carhart is a witty raconteur and a knowledgeable guide to one of the most influential thinkers of the baroque Republic of Letters. (Mary Lindemann, University of Miami, author of The Merchant Republics Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 16481790) About the Author Michael C. Carhart is an associate professor of history at Old Dominion University. He is the author of The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany.