Author: Will Abberley File Type: pdf Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science and fiction interacted in imagining different stories of language evolution. Popular narratives of language progress clashed with others of decay and degeneration. Furthermore, the blurring of language evolution with biological evolution encouraged Victorians to re-imagine language as a mixture of social convention and primordial instinct. Abberley argues that fiction by authors such as Charles Kingsley, Thomas Hardy and H. G. Wells not only reflected these intellectual currents, but also helped to shape them. Genres from utopia to historical romance supplied narrative models for generating thought experiments in the possible pasts and futures of language. Equally, fiction that explored the instinctive roots of language intervened in debates about language standardisation and scientific objectivity. These textual readings offer new perspectives on twenty-first-century discussions about language evolution and the language of science.

Author: ACM IV File Type: epub Learn to detect and evade surveillance efforts that threaten your personal security. These time-tested tactics of observation, detection and evasion are proven effective against the most sophisticated surveillance techniques used in the world. **

Author: Thomas Dilworth File Type: epub Among the revolutions of the last century, none was more important or potentially more lasting than the one in the arts called Modernism. Among the giants of that movement were writers who changed our conceptions of poetry and prose forever. Now, well into the new century, we can look back to admire and reflect on figures from that period. Last year saw biographies of two monumental poets of Modernism Robert Crawfords first volume on T. S. Eliot, and David Moodys concluding third volume on the life of Ezra Pound. We are excited to announce the first full-length critical biography of the third member, too often overlooked, of that extraordinary group. The beautifully illustrated David Jones Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet by Thomas Dilworth will stand for generations as the great biography this wonderful artist deserves. Jones (1895-1974) was a painter, a wood- and copper-engraver and maker of painted inscriptions, but it was as a poet that he left his most lasting mark. Eliot called him one of the most distinguished writers of my generation and Dylan Thomas said he would like to have done anything as good as David Jones has done. Auden praised his poem In Parenthesis as the greatest book [ever] about the Great War, and The Anathemata as one of the truly great poems in Western Literature. His work, the whole of it, enables him to stand alongside Eliot, Pound, and James Joyce as an incomparable figure in literary Modernism. **

Author: Timothy L. O'Brien File Type: mobi The extensively researched biography that goes beyond the hype to separate Trump the reality from Trump the reality show (USA Today). Now with a new introduction by the author, this entertaining look inside the world of Donald Trump is chock full of rip-roaring anecdotes, jaw-dropping quotes, and rigorous research into the business deals, political antics, curious relationships, and complex background of the forty-fifth US president. Granted unprecedented access, Timothy L. OBrien traveled across the country and up and down the East Coast with Trump on his private jet, wheeled around Palm Beach with him in his Ferrari, and spent hours interviewing him in his home, in his office, and on the golf course. He met with the entrepreneurs closest friends and most aggressive rivals, while compiling a treasure trove of Trumpisms from the Donald himself Trump on the publics enduring fascination with Trump There is something crazy, hot, a phenomenon out there about me, but Im not sure I can define it and Im not sure I want to. Trump on naysayers You can go ahead and speak to guys who have four-hundred-pound wives at home who are jealous of me, but the guys who really know me know Im a great builder. Trump on the art of self-promotion You might as well tell people how great you are, because no one else is going to. Ultimately, when OBriens research revealed that Trumps business record and annual spot on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans might be more fantasy than reality, helike so many others who have dared to tangle with the former host of The Apprenticefound himself in a courtroom. In a new introduction, OBrien reflects on the recent wave of TrumpMania and updates readers on what its like to depose one of the worlds most litigious businessmenand win.