William Burns
Biographic Data
| ID | 604226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Burns |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Burns |
| SIGNATURE | BURNS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7368-9396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fantasy Academic Editor: What’s Missing from the Yale Jewish Lives Series
Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series of short biographical volumes produced in association with the Leon D. Black Foundation has won great and deserved acclaim. At seventy volumes and counti
Jessica Lewis Luck. Poetics of Cognition: Thinking through Experimental Poems
Creative Critique
In the opening lines of Jorie Graham's 'The Veil', we are introduced to a number of devices intended to involve, or at least puzzle, the poem's reader:In the Tabernacle the veil hangs which is (choose one): the dress dividing us from ----; the sky; the real, through which the x ascends (His feet still showing on this side) into the realm of uncreated things, up, swift as proof, leaving behind this red over our row of poplars now, then just the po…
Our idea of distortion: Misprision between Bloom and Ashbery
This paper offers a revisionary account of John Ashbery’s relationship to Harold Bloom, arguing that Bloom’s critical patronage of his poetry served less to impose a burdensome interpretation on it than offer a way for the poet to rethink his stance towards his audience, in terms of Bloom’s redescription of criticism, and poetry, as ‘misprision’, or creative misreading. Drawing on extant correspondence between poet and critic, I place the poetry …
‘Something like words for | motion’: Ian Patterson’s Shell Vestige Disputed
What should we make of this series of opaque observations and reflections, composed in what might strike an unfamiliar reader at first as a peculiarly rapid form of shorthand? Looked at again, these stanzas constitute two remarkably sustained syntactical performances, whose respective hypotaxis and parataxis are, however, hard to construe: a crisscrossing of a remembered past tense and second-order commentary that in each case leaves their speake…
Unfeeling
The theme of ‘unfeeling’ promised an urgent exploration of what it is to be human after the enforced separation, dislocation, and artificially recreated forms of social interaction that were prevalent during the pandemic and continue to be so. It is almost that we have discovered how to be posthuman. Unfeeling, we suggest, dislocates the internal subjective experience and the external expression thereof in a culturally legible manner. This perhap…
Through the Mill: Girls and Women in the Quebec Cotton Textile Industry, 1881-1951
Through the Mill: Girls and Women in the Quebec Cotton Textile Industry, 1881-1951." The Oral History Review, 48(2), pp. 282–283
We Just Thought We Were Superhuman: An Oral History of Noise and Piecework in Paisley's Thread Mills
Paisley, in the West of Scotland, was once the world capital of industrial thread making. Existing scholarship on the thread works has focused on the "great men" of the mill-owning Coats and Clark families, neglecting the experience of female factory workers. This article explores the hidden history of the experience of work-induced illness and disability over the long term, from the perspective of women who worked in Paisley's thread mills. It d…
Knowledge and Power: Science in World History
Knowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different historical settings from the Middle Ages through to the Cold War. Five case studies are examined within this book: the creation of modern science by Muslims, Christians and Jews in the medieval Mediterranean; the global science of the Jesuit order in …
Development and Testing of an Abbreviated Numeracy Scale: A Rasch Analysis Approach
Research has demonstrated that individual differences in numeracy may have important consequences for decision making. In the present paper, we develop a shorter, psychometrically improved measure of numeracy-the ability to understand, manipulate, and use numerical information, including probabilities. Across two large independent samples that varied widely in age and educational level, participants completed 18 items from existing numeracy measu…
The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe
Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. In order to distinguish and catalog new plant and animal species, they developed new techniques of observing and recording, created botanical gardens and herbaria, and exchanged correspondence and specimens within an international community. Drawing …
Instrumental in War: Science, Research and Instruments between Knowledge and the World
Walton Chapter One, Mathematical Instruments and the Creation of the Military Gentleman, Steven A. Walton Chapter Two, Surveying and the Cromwellian Reconquest of Ireland, William A. Lynch Chapter Three, Like Clockwork? Clausewitzian Friction and the Scientific Siege in the Age of Vauban, Jamel Ostwald Chapter Four, Calorimeters and Crushers: The Development of Instruments for Measuring the Behavior of Military Powder, Seymour H. Mauskopf Chapter…
Last Battle of the Cold War: An Inside Account of Negotiating the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
Sir Matthew Hale 1609-1676: Law, Religion, and Natural Philosophy
Introduction: a summary life Part I. Law: 1. Coke: the appeal to reason 2. Selden: the appeal to contract 3. The rights of the Crown 4. Interregnum 5. Protectorate 6. Restoration: 'the nature of laws' 7. Restoration: constitutional theory 8. Restoration: legal practice Part II. Religion: 9. Hales's 'puritanism' 10. Hale's 'latitudinarianism' 11. Hale and religious dissent Part III. Natural Philosophy: 12. Natural motions 13. The Torricellian expe…
Trust as a Determinant of Opposition to a High‐Level Radioactive Waste Repository: Analysis of a Structural Model
Residents in the State of Nevada hold strong opinions about the federal government's proposal to site the nation's first high‐level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The model developed in this study is designed to examine the relationship between public perceptions of risk, trust in risk management, and potential economic impacts of the current repository program using a confirmatory multivariate method known as covariance structur…
The Social Amplification of Risk: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Applications
The social experience of risk is not confined to the technical definition of risk, i.e., the product of probability and magnitude. What human beings perceive as threats to their well‐being is influenced by their values, attitudes, social influences, and cultural identity. This article introduces the framework of social amplification of risk, which integrates the technical assessment and the social experience of risk. This viewpoint proposes that …
Economic Aid and American Policy toward Egypt, 1955-1981
Use of oscillating waterbeds and rhythmic sounds for premature infant stimulation
22 nouveau-nes en bonne sante apres une gestation de 28 a 32 semaines sont repartis dans un groupe experimental et un groupe controle 4 jours apres la naissance. Les sujets experimentaux sont places dans un incubateur pourvu d'un matelas alternating et de sous rythmiques pendant 4 semaines. On en verifie les effets au moyen du Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assesment
Can Follow-up Response Rates to a Mail Survey Be Increased by Including Another Copy of the Questionnaire
In a mail survey of business respondents, this experiment tested the hypothesis that return rates from follow-ups which included another copy of the questionnaire would be more effective than letter-only follow-ups. Sending another copy of the questionnaire in the follow-up could increase returns for a number of reasons, such as providing another questionnaire for respondents who had discarded the original. The two methods were equally effective …
Development and Testing of an Abbreviated Numeracy Scale: A Rasch Analysis Approach
Research has demonstrated that individual differences in numeracy may have important consequences for decision making. In the present paper, we develop a shorter, psychometrically improved measure of numeracy-the ability to understand, manipulate, and use numerical information, including probabilities. Across two large independent samples that varied widely in age and educational level, participants completed 18 items from existing numeracy measu…
The Social Amplification of Risk: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Applications
The social experience of risk is not confined to the technical definition of risk, i.e., the product of probability and magnitude. What human beings perceive as threats to their well‐being is influenced by their values, attitudes, social influences, and cultural identity. This article introduces the framework of social amplification of risk, which integrates the technical assessment and the social experience of risk. This viewpoint proposes that …
Economic Aid and American Policy toward Egypt, 1955-1981
Use of oscillating waterbeds and rhythmic sounds for premature infant stimulation
22 nouveau-nes en bonne sante apres une gestation de 28 a 32 semaines sont repartis dans un groupe experimental et un groupe controle 4 jours apres la naissance. Les sujets experimentaux sont places dans un incubateur pourvu d'un matelas alternating et de sous rythmiques pendant 4 semaines. On en verifie les effets au moyen du Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assesment
Can Follow-up Response Rates to a Mail Survey Be Increased by Including Another Copy of the Questionnaire
In a mail survey of business respondents, this experiment tested the hypothesis that return rates from follow-ups which included another copy of the questionnaire would be more effective than letter-only follow-ups. Sending another copy of the questionnaire in the follow-up could increase returns for a number of reasons, such as providing another questionnaire for respondents who had discarded the original. The two methods were equally effective …
Use of oscillating waterbeds and rhythmic sounds for premature infant stimulation
22 nouveau-nes en bonne sante apres une gestation de 28 a 32 semaines sont repartis dans un groupe experimental et un groupe controle 4 jours apres la naissance. Les sujets experimentaux sont places dans un incubateur pourvu d'un matelas alternating et de sous rythmiques pendant 4 semaines. On en verifie les effets au moyen du Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assesment
Economic Aid and American Policy toward Egypt, 1955-1981
Trust as a Determinant of Opposition to a High‐Level Radioactive Waste Repository: Analysis of a Structural Model
Residents in the State of Nevada hold strong opinions about the federal government's proposal to site the nation's first high‐level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The model developed in this study is designed to examine the relationship between public perceptions of risk, trust in risk management, and potential economic impacts of the current repository program using a confirmatory multivariate method known as covariance structur…
The Social Amplification of Risk: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Applications
The social experience of risk is not confined to the technical definition of risk, i.e., the product of probability and magnitude. What human beings perceive as threats to their well‐being is influenced by their values, attitudes, social influences, and cultural identity. This article introduces the framework of social amplification of risk, which integrates the technical assessment and the social experience of risk. This viewpoint proposes that …
Sir Matthew Hale 1609-1676: Law, Religion, and Natural Philosophy
Introduction: a summary life Part I. Law: 1. Coke: the appeal to reason 2. Selden: the appeal to contract 3. The rights of the Crown 4. Interregnum 5. Protectorate 6. Restoration: 'the nature of laws' 7. Restoration: constitutional theory 8. Restoration: legal practice Part II. Religion: 9. Hales's 'puritanism' 10. Hale's 'latitudinarianism' 11. Hale and religious dissent Part III. Natural Philosophy: 12. Natural motions 13. The Torricellian expe…
Last Battle of the Cold War: An Inside Account of Negotiating the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe
Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. In order to distinguish and catalog new plant and animal species, they developed new techniques of observing and recording, created botanical gardens and herbaria, and exchanged correspondence and specimens within an international community. Drawing …
Instrumental in War: Science, Research and Instruments between Knowledge and the World
Walton Chapter One, Mathematical Instruments and the Creation of the Military Gentleman, Steven A. Walton Chapter Two, Surveying and the Cromwellian Reconquest of Ireland, William A. Lynch Chapter Three, Like Clockwork? Clausewitzian Friction and the Scientific Siege in the Age of Vauban, Jamel Ostwald Chapter Four, Calorimeters and Crushers: The Development of Instruments for Measuring the Behavior of Military Powder, Seymour H. Mauskopf Chapter…
Development and Testing of an Abbreviated Numeracy Scale: A Rasch Analysis Approach
Research has demonstrated that individual differences in numeracy may have important consequences for decision making. In the present paper, we develop a shorter, psychometrically improved measure of numeracy-the ability to understand, manipulate, and use numerical information, including probabilities. Across two large independent samples that varied widely in age and educational level, participants completed 18 items from existing numeracy measu…
Knowledge and Power: Science in World History
Knowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different historical settings from the Middle Ages through to the Cold War. Five case studies are examined within this book: the creation of modern science by Muslims, Christians and Jews in the medieval Mediterranean; the global science of the Jesuit order in …
We Just Thought We Were Superhuman: An Oral History of Noise and Piecework in Paisley's Thread Mills
Paisley, in the West of Scotland, was once the world capital of industrial thread making. Existing scholarship on the thread works has focused on the "great men" of the mill-owning Coats and Clark families, neglecting the experience of female factory workers. This article explores the hidden history of the experience of work-induced illness and disability over the long term, from the perspective of women who worked in Paisley's thread mills. It d…
Through the Mill: Girls and Women in the Quebec Cotton Textile Industry, 1881-1951
Through the Mill: Girls and Women in the Quebec Cotton Textile Industry, 1881-1951." The Oral History Review, 48(2), pp. 282–283
Unfeeling
The theme of ‘unfeeling’ promised an urgent exploration of what it is to be human after the enforced separation, dislocation, and artificially recreated forms of social interaction that were prevalent during the pandemic and continue to be so. It is almost that we have discovered how to be posthuman. Unfeeling, we suggest, dislocates the internal subjective experience and the external expression thereof in a culturally legible manner. This perhap…
‘Something like words for | motion’: Ian Patterson’s Shell Vestige Disputed
What should we make of this series of opaque observations and reflections, composed in what might strike an unfamiliar reader at first as a peculiarly rapid form of shorthand? Looked at again, these stanzas constitute two remarkably sustained syntactical performances, whose respective hypotaxis and parataxis are, however, hard to construe: a crisscrossing of a remembered past tense and second-order commentary that in each case leaves their speake…
Jessica Lewis Luck. Poetics of Cognition: Thinking through Experimental Poems
Creative Critique
In the opening lines of Jorie Graham's 'The Veil', we are introduced to a number of devices intended to involve, or at least puzzle, the poem's reader:In the Tabernacle the veil hangs which is (choose one): the dress dividing us from ----; the sky; the real, through which the x ascends (His feet still showing on this side) into the realm of uncreated things, up, swift as proof, leaving behind this red over our row of poplars now, then just the po…
Our idea of distortion: Misprision between Bloom and Ashbery
This paper offers a revisionary account of John Ashbery’s relationship to Harold Bloom, arguing that Bloom’s critical patronage of his poetry served less to impose a burdensome interpretation on it than offer a way for the poet to rethink his stance towards his audience, in terms of Bloom’s redescription of criticism, and poetry, as ‘misprision’, or creative misreading. Drawing on extant correspondence between poet and critic, I place the poetry …
Fantasy Academic Editor: What’s Missing from the Yale Jewish Lives Series
Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series of short biographical volumes produced in association with the Leon D. Black Foundation has won great and deserved acclaim. At seventy volumes and counti
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