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Lyman Tower Sargent

Lyman Tower Sargent is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lyman Tower Sargent rather than just read about it. In short: Lyman Tower Sargent (born 9 February 1940) is an American academic and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Lyman Tower Sargent (born 9 February 1940) is an American academic and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Sargent's main academic interests are utopian studies, political theory, American studies and bibliography. He is one of the world's foremost scholars of utopian studies, founding editor of Utopian Studies, serving in that post for the journal's first fifteen years, and recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Utopian Studies. Sargent was educated as an undergraduate at Macalester College and a graduate student at the University of Minnesota.

Career Sargent taught political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis from 1965 until 2005, when he retired and was appointed professor emeritus. He also held visiting appointments at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London; Mansfield College, Oxford; Birkbeck College, University of London; and the University of Nottingham.

Selected bibliography Lyman Tower Sargent (1969) Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis. Homewood, Illinois: Dorsey Press, 1969. 14th edition (2009) Belmont, California: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. Lyman Tower Sargent and Thomas A. Zant (1970) Techniques of Political Analysis: An Introduction. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company. Lyman Tower Sargent (1972) New Left Thought: An Introduction. Homewood, Illinois: Dorsey Press. Lyman Tower Sargent (1979) British and American Utopian Literature 1516–1975: An Annotated Bibliography. Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall. Lyman Tower Sargent (1988) British and American Utopian Literature, 1516–1985: An Annotated, Chronological Bibliography. New York: Garland. Lyman Tower Sargent (ed.) (1990) Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Reader. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole. Lyman Tower Sargent (1994) "The Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited." Utopian Studies Vol. 5, No.1: 1–37. Lyman Tower Sargent (ed.) (1995) Extremism in America: A Reader. New York: New York University Press. Lyman Tower Sargent (ed.) (1997) Political Thought in the United States: A Documentary History. New York: New York University Press. Lyman Tower Sargent and Gregory Claeys (eds) (1999) The Utopia Reader. New York: New York University Press; 2nd edn, 2017. Lyman Tower Sargent, Roland Schaer and Gregory Claeys (eds) (2000) Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World. New York: The New York Public Library/Oxford University Press. Lyman Tower Sargent and Lucy Sargisson (2004) Living in Utopia: Intentional Communities in New Zealand. Aldershot: Ashgate. Lyman Tower Sargent (2010) Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lyman Tower Sargent, Michael Freeden and Marc Stern (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lyman Tower Sargent (2016) Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography from 1516 to the Present. State College, PA: Penn State Libraries Open Publishing. Openpublishing.psu.edu/utopia. doi:10.18113/P8WC77 Lyman Tower Sargent (2017) Lyman Tower Sargent’s Bibliography [of Secondary Literature]. Porto: Advanced Research in Utopian Studies://arus.letras.up.pt/

Honors In 1997 Sargent was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award by the North American Society for Utopian Studies. The Award was subsequently renamed in his honor.

References

External links [1] Lyman Tower Sargent, in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. [2] Staff profiles at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lyman Tower Sargent

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lyman Tower Sargent claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lyman Tower Sargent before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lyman Tower Sargent ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lyman Tower Sargent

In research: Lyman Tower Sargent appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lyman Tower Sargent in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lyman Tower Sargent is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1940 births, American expatriate academics, American expatriates in the United Kingdom, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lyman Tower Sargent outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Lyman Tower Sargent in simple terms?

Lyman Tower Sargent (born 9 February 1940) is an American academic and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Why does Lyman Tower Sargent matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Lyman Tower Sargent?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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