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William J. Murtagh papers
No full textWilliam J. Murtagh is one of the world's leading historic preservationists. As an administrator, educator, speaker, and writer he has helped shaped the historic preservation movement for more than fifty years. Murtagh was the first Keeper of the National Register and also worked at the National Trust in an executive capacity for a number of years. He is the author of Keeping Time, a basic text on the development of the historic preservation movement. Murtagh held several teaching positions throughout his career at such institutions as Columbia University, the University of Hawaii, the University of Florida, and the University of Maryland. William J. Murtagh's papers consist of materials documenting his career in both the public and private sector. These materials include correspondence, memos and minutes, research notes, writings, speeches, lectures, reports, photographs, memorabilia, and personal records
William J. Faulkner, circa 1955
No full textWilliam J. Faulkner (1892-1987) was a minister, folklorist, and author who served Fisk University as Dean of Men (1934-1942) and Dean of the Chapel (1943-1953)
The death of William Golding: authorship and creativity in darkness visible and the paper men
Full text linkIn the seventies and eighties William Golding was deeply responsive to the critical, anti-authorial ethos that followed the publication of Roland Barthes's "La mort de I'auteur" (1968). In Darkness Visible (1979) and The Paper Men (1984) he investigates means by which to reaffirm authorial presence. Working through paradox, he performs the authorial death in these novels, and establishes language’s inadequacy as a means of conveying absolute meaning, authorial "vision," truth or revelation. Having done so he nonetheless gestures towards the divine, towards the possibility of a vatic communication. In this manner the novels work upon principles of contradiction and collapse. What remains is a discourse of hope, promise, desire, without means of substantiating such optimism. Thus Golding might be said to have practiced a form of negative theology, and to have anticipated in this respect some recent trends in literary theory
An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight, Comptroller General of His Majesty's works and author of a late Dissertation on oriental gardening : enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance.
No full textOstensibly a satire on Sir William Chamber's Dissertation on oriental gardening, but largely political.In verse.Signatures: A-D².ESTCMode of access: Internet
Arthur William Upfield: a biography
Full text linkThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
Power system analysis / John J. Grainger, William D. Stevenson, Jr.
No full textBased on: Elements of power system analysis, by William D. Stevenson.sventeenth reprint 2011.Includes index.xix, 787 pages. :Covering such topics as power flow, power-system stability and transmission lines, this senior/graduate text teaches the fundamental topics of power system analysis accompanied by discussions and numerous examples
Cwbr Author Interview: Jefferson Davis And The Civil War Era
Full text linkInterview with William J. Cooper, Jr. Interviewed by Christopher Childers Civil War Book Review (CWBR): You begin your latest book with the phrase Jefferson Davis by William Cooper, once again, of course referring to your 2000 biography Jefferson Davis, American. But why Jefferson Davis in the first place, what lead you to study this man? William J. Cooper, Jr. (WJC): I\u27ve been interested in Davis for a long time. When I was a senior in college..
Geographic information system-based toolbox for improved efficiency and precision of landslide inventory mapping
No full textby Jon J. Franczyk, William J. Burns, and Nancy C. Calhoun.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 19).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Protocol for channelized debris flow susceptibility mapping
Full text linkby William J. Burns, Jon J. Franczyk, and Nancy C. Calhoun.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-72).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Priests of the Law
No full textMy guest today is Thomas J. McSweeney, Professor of Law at the William and Mary Law School in Willamsburg, Virginia. He earned both his JD and his PhD in History from Cornell University, and is the author of Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law’s First Professionals, which is the subject of today’s conversation
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