Will of the Rev. Andrew Croswell, 1785 November

This folder contains three handwritten copies of the November 8, 1785, will of Andrew Croswell and a copy of the inventory of Croswell's estate.

Commentaries on the law of suretyship, and the rights and obligations of the parties thereto, and herein of obligations in solido, under the laws of England, Scotland, and other states of Europe, the British colonies, and United States of America, and on the conflict of those laws.

"List of continental authors cited": p. [xi]-xvi; "American authorities": p. [xvii]-xviii.

Coaching in merrie England : a journal of a coaching tour in England, also of a visit to York, Lincoln, Ely, London, Paris, Switzerland, and the Rhine in 1895 : together with notes of coaching in England in 1894 : with numerous illustrations carefully selected, or photographed by members of the parties.

Includes index.

Statement of facts, relative to the last will of the late Mrs. Badger of Natick : which was disallowed on the final hearing /

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of the library in Red Cross street, Cripplegate; founded pursuant to the will of the Reverend Daniel Williams, D.D. who died in the year l716.

Mode of access: Internet.

The issue fairly presented : black Republicanism versus Democracy: law, order, and the will of the majority of the whole people, against usurpation, anarchy, revolution, and the voice of a meagre minority of the people of Kansas. Published by order of the Democratic national committee.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the committee on the Wills Legacy; with an extract from the will of the late James Wills and the ordinances for the management of the Wills hospital.

Report addressed: To the Select and Common Councils of Philadelphia. - p. 3.

The fatal effects of gambling exemplified in the murder of Wm. Weare, and the trial and fate of John Thurtell, the murderer, and his accomplices : with biographical sketches of the parties concerned ... : to which is added, the Gambler's scourge, a complete exposé of the whole system of gambling in the metropolis, with memoirs and anecdotes of notorious blacklegs.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 24260.

Building Information Modelling (BIM) Software Interoperability: A Review of the Construction Sector

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is continuing to evolve and develop as the construction industry progresses towards level 2 maturity. However, one of the core barriers in this progression is the aspect of interoperability between software packages. This research and paper stems from a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) where both industry and academia come together to address this shortcoming within the sector. One of the core objectives of this partnership and the aim of this study is investigating potential solutions to this barrier, while also developing best working practices to be applied in industry. Using one of the case studies from this partnership (a temporary steel structure), this paper demonstrates a potential solution to addressing interoperability within structural analysis and detailing packages, MasterSeries and Revit respectively. The findings of the research indicate that a process based approach rather than that of additional software coding as being the preferred solution. The results of this preliminary research will aid in the development of the topic of interoperability within the sector, while also developing the knowledge and competencies of the parties within the KTP. The findings are explored further, by providing an overview of the resolution process adopted in this case study, in overcoming the interoperability that arose as the project progressed. It is envisaged that this study will assist the construction sector and its adoption of BIM technologies, while also addressing the critical aspect of operability between software.

Attribution of extreme weather events in Africa: A preliminary exploration of the science and policy implications

At the most recent session of the Conference of the Parties (COP19) in Warsaw (November 2013) the Warsaw international mechanism for loss and damage associated with climate change impacts was established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The mechanism aims at promoting the implementation of approaches to address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change. Specifically, it aims to enhance understanding of risk management approaches to address loss and damage. Understanding risks associated with impacts due to highly predictable (slow onset) events like sea-level rise is relatively straightforward whereas assessing the effects of climate change on extreme weather events and their impacts is much more difficult. However, extreme weather events are a significant cause of loss of life and livelihoods, particularly in vulnerable countries and communities in Africa. The emerging science of probabilistic event attribution is relevant as it provides scientific evidence on the contribution of anthropogenic climate change to changes in risk of extreme events. It thus provides the opportunity to explore scientifically-backed assessments of the human influence on such events. However, different ways of framing attribution questions can lead to very different assessments of change in risk. Here we explain the methods of, and implications of different approaches to attributing extreme weather events with a focus on Africa. Crucially, it demonstrates that defining the most appropriate attribution question to ask is not a science decision but needs to be made in dialogue with those stakeholders who will use the answers.

Arguments of the defendants' counsel, and the judgment of the Supreme Court, U.S., in the case of Vidal and another, complainants and appellants, versus the mayor, c., of Philadelphia, the executors of S. Girard, and others, defendants appellees [microform] : January term, 1844. : to which is added the will of Stephen Girard /

Vidal, et al., versus the city of Philadelphia -- Argument of Horace Binney, Esq., for defendants -- Argument of John Sergeant, Esq. -- Opinion, Supreme Court of the United States, January term, 1844 -- The will of the late Stephen Girard.

In the shadow of the enlightenment : Le Corbusier, Le Faisceau and Georges Valois

On 9 January 1927 Le Corbusier materialised on the front cover of the Faisceau journal edited by Georges Valois Le Nouveau Siècle which printed the single-point perspective of Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin and an extract from the architect’s discourse in Urbanisme. In May Le Corbusier presented slides of his urban designs at a fascist rally. These facts have been known ever since the late 1980s when studies emerged in art history that situated Le Corbusier’s philosophy in relation to the birth of twentieth-century fascism in France—an elision in the dominant reading of Le Corbusier’s philosophy, as a project of social utopianism, whose received genealogy is Saint-Simon and Charles Fourier. Le Corbusier participated with the first group in France to call itself fascist, Valois’s militant Faisceau des Combattants et Producteurs, the “Blue Shirts,” inspired by the Italian “Fasci” of Mussolini. Thanks to Mark Antliff, we know the Faisceau did not misappropriate Le Corbusier’s plans, in some remote quasi-symbolic sense, rather Valois’s organisation was premised on the redesign of Paris based on Le Corbusier’s schematic designs. Le Corbusier’s Urbanisme was considered the “prodigious” model for the fascist state Valois called La Cité Française – after his mentor the anarcho-syndicalist Georges Sorel. Valois stated that Le Corbusier’s architectural concepts were “an expression of our profoundest thoughts,” the Faisceau, who “saw their own thought materialized” on the pages of Le Corbusier’s plans. The question I pose is, In what sense is Le Corbusier’s plan a complete representation of La Cité? For Valois, the fascist city “represents the collective will of La Cité” invoking Enlightenment philosophy, operative in Sorel, namely Rousseau, for whom the notion of “collective will” is linked to the idea of political representation: to ‘stand in’ for someone or a group of subjects i.e. the majority vote. The figures in Voisin are not empty abstractions but the result of “the will” of the “combatant-producers” who build the town. Yet, the paradox in anarcho-syndicalist anti-enlightenment thought – and one that became a problem for Le Corbusier – is precisely that of authority and representation. In Le Corbusier’s plan, the “morality of the producers” and “the master” (the transcendent authority that hovers above La Cité) is lattened into a single picture plane, thereby abolishing representation. I argue that La Cité pushed to the limits of formal abstraction by Le Corbusier thereby reverts to the Enlightenment myth it first opposed, what Theodor Adorno would call the dialectic of enlightenment.