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Dr. Thad Williamson – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Thad Williamson, Assistant Professor, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, discusses his new book, Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship: The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life. Published in May, 2010, by Oxford University Press, the book combines the use of both political theory and empirical investigation to assess the benefits and costs of sprawling development patterns in the United States. The dissertation on which the book is based was the co-winner of the American Political Science Association’s 2005 Harold D. Lasswell Award for best doctoral thesis in the field of public policy
Music in pre-Reformation York: a new source and some thoughts on the York Masses
No full textEver since Hugh Baillie and Philippe Oboussier's pioneering study of York, Borthwick Institute MS Mus 1, better known as the York Masses, it has been generally accepted that its compositions, if not the choirbook itself, originated elsewhere than York. Two locations claimed primacy in their bid for the manuscript's original provenance, Lincoln and London, owing to the internal evidence of two composers named in the manuscript, ‘Johannes Cuke’ and ‘Horwod’. The evidence is reassessed here with regard to an important new source relating to polyphonic music and other fragments of music preserved in post-Reformation York bindings. It is suggested that these fragments originated at one or more churches in York in the late fifteenth century, and that they were finally sold for binding material c. 1583, resulting in their appearance in the same series of court books for York Minster. The cultural background for the genesis and performance of polyphonic music is then addressed, with reference to York and other northern locations such as Durham, Beverley and Selby
Williamson on Knowledge and Psychological Explanation
No full textAccording to many philosophers, psychological explanation canlegitimately be given in terms of belief and desire, but not in termsof knowledge. To explain why someone does what they do (so the common wisdom holds) you can appeal to what they think or what they want, but not what they know. Timothy Williamson has recently argued against this view. Knowledge, Williamson insists, plays an essential role in ordinary psychological explanation.Williamson\u27s argument works on two fronts.First, he argues against the claim that, unlike knowledge, belief is``composite\u27\u27 (representable as a conjunction of a narrow and a broadcondition). Belief\u27s failure to be composite, Williamson thinks, undermines the usual motivations for psychological explanation in terms of belief rather than knowledge.Unfortunately, we claim, the motivations Williamson argues against donot depend on the claim that belief is composite, so what he saysleaves the case for a psychology of belief unscathed.Second, Williamson argues that knowledge can sometimes provide abetter explanation of action than belief can.We argue that, in the cases considered, explanations that cite beliefs(but not knowledge) are no less successful than explanations that citeknowledge. Thus, we conclude that Williamson\u27s arguments fail both coming andgoing: they fail to undermine a psychology of belief, and they fail tomotivate a psychology of knowledge
Anders Magnus Engdahl
No full textPhotograph shows studio bust portrait of Anders Engdahl in military uniform, including spiked helmet.Information from lender:""Anders Magnus Engdahl, a Husar from Skane in Sweden, came to Williamson County [Texas] in 1882. Became an American citizen, died in 1893 and is buried at Palm Valley Church...great-grandfather of Charlene Hanson Jordan.".On back: "Cecilia Nelson / Malmo Sodra Forslado.'
Wilhelmina Marie Williamson Lambourne
No full textWilhelmina Marie Williamson Lambourne was the wife of Alfred Lambourne, a Utah artist, author, and poet
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UNT Special Collections Artifact Photography
No full textPhotographs of "Lyrics of War and Peace" by Paul Williamson, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is a worn bright blue, with the title and author at the top in gold lettering. Image 2, title page. On the page is the signature of Paul Williamson, followed by stamp design with the words "Lege Quod Legas.
Lost Voices
No full textAn electroacoustic composition created from voices missing from the Baldwin Part Books reconstructed/recomposed by Magnus Williamson. The piece began as a site-specific response to the recusant house Cheeseburn Grange. The piece tales the form of an eight channel installation, specifically designed for the stable courtyard at Cheeseburn, and though initially site-specific the work can be re-installed in other places
Settlement & ceramics in Southern Iran: An analysis of the Sasanian & Islamic periods in the Williamson collection
No full textBetween 1968 and 1971, Andrew George Williamson carried out one of the most extensive and ambitious archaeological surveys undertaken in the Near East. Williamson’s survey of over 1,200 archaeological sites distributed widely through southern Iran represents the most detailed archaeological study of the region. Williamson's untimely death in Oman in 1975 prevented the work from being completed or published, and as a result, the information from his pioneering study have remained generally obscure. A sizable portion of the finds that Williamson collected during the survey (17,000 sherds) were exported to the UK and deposited at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, along with much of the documentation associated with the project. A full synthesis of this material has not until now been attempted. Recognising the important scientific value of Williamson's survey, a detailed study of the Collection was initiated with the aim of: 1) providing a complete catalogue of the Collection; 2) creating a list and map of all sites that Williamson visited and 3) analysing the resulting dataset. The discussion presented below, which describes the results of the research on the Collection, has been broken into two sections. The first section describes Williamson’s work and the contents of the Collection (Chapter 1), and explains the methodology and approach that has been taken during this study (Chapter 2). The second section uses the data generated from the study to analyse regional settlement trends (Chapter 3) and the changing distribution of a selection of key ceramic wares (Chapter 4). Together these themes contribute towards a model for the long-term economic development along the northern shores of the Persian Gulf, ๒ an area that has previously suffered from a major lack of primary archaeological research. Drawing on this study and the more detailed now be possible, for the first time, to set out a scheme that covers the Persian Gulf region as a whole
Lee, John D. -Monument P.1
No full textLeft to right: Juanita Brooks, Author of "Mountain Meadows Massacre," Mormon Chronicle, Diaries of John D. Lee," John Doyle Lee-Zealot-Pioneer builder--Scapegoat," and who helped in the wording of this monument to John Doyle Lee. Peggy Gregory, who was employed by the Huntington Library and helped in the editing and proof reading of "The Mormon Chronicle." Sana Lund Williamson, wife of john Wesley Williamson, Sr., Great-Grandson of John Doyle Lee, who designed the monument, and in corroboration with Juanita Brooks determined the wording which appears thereon. Photo by and Gift of: Wes Williamson. Oct., 1961
Memorial Hospital
No full textGraham Williamson asserts the right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance wit
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