Download or read book The Dons written by Noel Annan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two hundred years Oxford and Cambridge Universities were home to some of Britain's greatest teachers and intellects, each forming the minds of the passing generations of students and influencing the thinking and practice of university learning throughout the country and the world. In this entertaining, informative book, Noel Annan is at his incisive best. Displaying his customary mastery of his subject, he describes the great dons in all their glory and eccentricities: who they were, what they were like, why they mattered, and what their legacy is. Written with love and wisdom, the great minds of the past—figures such as John Henry Newman, John Sparrrow, and Isaiah Berlin—are brought alive. In addition, Annan's often quoted article "The Intellectual Aristocracy" is included in this book. No other work has ever explained so precisely and so intimately the significance of the dons and their important role in shaping higher education—at a time when the nature of learning is ever more the subject of dissension and uncertainty. "With a charming mixture of analyses and anecdotes, Annan builds up a picture of the changing Oxbridge scene that keeps a reader's imagination. . . . [T]he comical-satirical narrative of which he was a master is a joy to read, and The Dons will deservedly be enjoyed as a bedside book by those who treasure English eccentricity."—Stephen Toulmin, Los Angeles Times Book Review "[A]n affectionate elegy for a class that has largely expired."—Robert Fulford, National & Financial Post "[A] wonderfully gifted and energetic writer. . . . Noel was one of the few figures in English public life known simply by his first name. There was no mistaking him for anyone else."—Jonathan Mirsky, New Yorker "A sparkling collection of essays."—Michael Davie, Times Literary Supplement "[A] highly affectionate . . . look at some of the more remarkable academic personages to distinguish-and sometimes dumbfound-Oxford and Cambridge over the last two centuries. . . . For all that it cherishes eccentricity and abounds in Oxbridge gossip, The Dons is at heart a deeply serious book, one dedicated to a conception of learning and culture that is at once increasingly rare . . . yet very far from being outmoded."—Mark Feeney, Boston Globe "Annan writes elegantly and winningly throughout his book. . . . Leaving arguably the best for last, Annan ends The Dons with a reprinting of his celebrated essay 'The Intellectual Aristocracy,' . . . [B]oth a dazzling tour de force and a clever jeu d'esprit."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "A witty, erudite, insider account-exactly what one would expect from the best of their type."—Andrew Lycett, Sunday Times

Download or read book The Silver Dons written by Richard F. Pourade and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the Spanish Dons wrested the Californian lands from the missionaries and lost them to the American pioneers with the start of the gold rush.

Download or read book Dandy Dons written by James W. Johnson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1950s three unrecruited black basketball players, coached by a white former prison guard who had never before coached a college team, led a small Jesuit university in San Francisco to two national titles. The Dandy Dons describes for the first time how the unprecedented accomplishment of the Dons, led by coach Phil Woolpert and future hall-of-famers Bill Russell and K. C. Jones, paved the way for black talent in major college basketball and transformed the sport. James W. Johnson traces the backgrounds of the coach and players, chronicles the heart-stopping games on the road to the championships, and details the Dons’ novel techniques: a more vertical game, more central defense, and intimidation as part of game strategy. He also gives a textured picture of life on an integrated basketball team amid a culture of racism and Jim Crow in mid-twentieth-century America.

Download or read book Last of the Dons written by Yolanda Tenorio and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of this book is composed of short stories and accounts from the people of Anton Chico, New Mexico, the grandfathers (the Dons), and grandmothers (the Doñas). This book contains accounts of the paths our families traveled from Santa Fe, San Miguel del Bado, Chaperito, and the neighboring communities to Anton Chico.

Download or read book The Revolution of the Dons written by Sheldon Rothblatt and published by ACLS History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dons written by Archimede Fusillo and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul is trying to escape. He's trying to escape from an Italian heritage that just doesn't seem to have relevance for him any more, and he's trying to escape from his nonno. They come from two different worlds, he and his grandfather, and Paul is more interested in his own world – his friends, the girls, the fast cars, the go-carts – than Nonno's strange and embarrassing behaviour. Nonno is more than just a silly old man getting in the way of Paul's lifestyle, though. Nonno has more stories to tell than Paul can even begin to imagine. But there is one big problem – Nonno is losing his mind. From the author of the highly successful Sparring with Shadows comes an irresistible, inspiring and brilliantly evocative story of family love, loyalty and wisdom.

Download or read book The Dons and Mr Dickens written by William J. Palmer and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-04-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oxford don’s death in an opium den is investigated by the literary detective duo—with some help from fellow author Charles Dodgson . . . One dank November night, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins are called to a part of London notorious for its opium dens—where an Oxford history don has been found murdered. Eager to escape the drudgery of a London winter, the two amateur detectives willingly accept Inspector Field’s orders to travel on the new railway line to Oxford, where Collins was once a student, to conduct an undercover investigation. Once in Oxford, they enlist the help of Collins’s old schoolmate, Charles Dodgson (who will soon be known to the world as Lewis Carroll), a brilliant mind on the verge of becoming the youngest don in Oxford’s history. Together, they encounter a complex conspiracy punctuated by murder, political radicalism, and revenge . . . “Vibrant Victorian social history and intriguing biographical details about Dickens” enliven this unique historical mystery with a literary twist from the author of The Detective and Mr. Dickens (Booklist).

Download or read book The Dons of Necropolis written by Richard Louis and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricky needs to unearth why his father committed suicide on Christmas Eve twenty years ago. He returns to New York as a Funeral Director to investigate rumors that his father's suicide was murder.

Download or read book The Dons of Warrington written by Isobel Wycherley and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2021-12-19 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Mafia families wreak havoc across the globe, two unexpected twin sisters cause even more of a stir when they unite with the Italian Mafia family operating in Manchester - the exact family their father, DC Tim Shelley, is tailing. Sent on treacherous missions by Don Fontana, the twins set out to make a name for themselves in the criminal underworld, with the police hot on their tail. But is it worth the fight? Assassinations, SWAT team raids and illegal activity all take their toll on one character after another in this riveting race for power and control.

Download or read book The Dons of Warrington Trilogy written by Isobel Wycherley and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All three books in Isobel Wycherley's 'The Dons of Warrington Trilogy', now in one volume! The Dons of Warrington: In this thrilling crime novel, Detective Constable Tim Shelley refuses to carry out an Italian Mafia family's hit, so they kidnap his twin daughters, Al and Sonny Shelley. After realizing the girls' exceptional intelligence, the Fontanas enlist them for their first drug-smuggling mission to Amsterdam, followed by a request to kill the Detective who defied them. As the police close in, a raid on the Fontanas results in a devastating revenge plot that sets off a chain of events leading to the assassination of the German mafia Don, Helmut Baulsack. The Shelley twins, with help from other mafias, corner Helmut at his family restaurant, but the mission uncovers something more sinister than they ever imagined. World War Warrington: In the second book of The Dons of Warrington series by Isobel Wycherley, two novice gangsters are tasked with a crucial mission - to assassinate the notorious Helmut Baulsack. Failure would result in global disaster. However, with the aid of German mystic Bertolt Bertalt III, the impossible becomes possible. Readers can expect a journey filled with cruelty, mistrust, cunning plans, and blatant stereotypes. Don's Vendetta: DC Tim Shelley and his daughter's twin sister Sonny are on a mission to avenge Al's death, with Shelley teaming up with Bertolt to find the killer, while Sonny trails ex-mafia colleague Mario Fontana. Anastacia Smirnoff also plays her part as they make their way to the ultimate showdown in Milan. But who will emerge victorious in the final battle?

Download or read book THE DONS OF THE OLD PUEBLO written by PERCIVAL J. COONEY and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Don of the Dons written by Bello Bakare and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece and well crafted design in creative fiction, loaded with suspense imperative that capture your imagination and subject your emotion to turbulent roller coaster. A Nigerian crime syndicate with international complexities with ingenuity and sophistication in network so characteristically distinctive the pages of the book will create a convulsive emotional imbalance. A book to read that will ignite a yearning for continuance.

Download or read book A Daughter of the Dons written by William MacLeod Raine and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Daughter of the Dons" (A Story of New Mexico Today) by William MacLeod Raine. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Mission Tales in the Days of the Dons written by Harrie Rebecca Piper Smith Forbes ("Mrs. A. S. C. Forbes.") and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book It s a Don s Life written by Mary Beard and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching -- and much else besides. What are academics for? Who was the first African Roman emperor? Looting -- ancient and modern. Are modern exams easier? Keep lesbos for the lesbians. Did St Valentine exist? What made the Romans laugh? That is just a small taste of this selection (and some of the choicer responses) which will inform, occasionally provoke and cannot fail to entertain.

Download or read book The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Deluxe Edition written by Don Rosa and published by Complete Life and Times of Scr. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented comics collection of Scrooge McDuck's life story, this epic Duckburg serial is back for keeps in a beyond-complete oversized full color deluxe edition--and comes slipcased with a special commemorative coin, available nowhere else!

Download or read book Operation Don s Main Attack written by David M. Glantz and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the defeat and destruction of German Sixth Army at Stalingrad all but certain at the end of 1942, the war on the Eastern Front took a definitive turn as the Germans struggled to erect a new defensive front to halt the Soviet juggernaut driving west. Operation Don’s Main Attack is the first detailed study of the dramatic clash of armies that followed, unfolding inexorably over the course of two months across an expanse of more than 1,600 kilometers. Using recently released Russian archival material never before available to researchers, David M. Glantz provides a close-up account, from both sides, of the planning and conduct of Operation Don—the Soviet offensive by the Red Army's Southern front that aimed to capture Rostov in January–February 1943. His book includes a full array of plans, candid daily reports, situation maps, and strength and casualty reports prepared for the forces that participated in the offensive at every level. Drawing on an unprecedented and comprehensive range of documents, the book delves into many hitherto forbidden topics, such as unit strengths and losses and the foibles and attitudes of command cadre. Glantz’s work also presents rare insights into the military strategy, combat tactics, and operational art of such figures as Generals Eremenko and Malinovsky and Field Marshal Erich von Manstein. A uniquely informed study of a critical but virtually forgotten Soviet military operation, Operation Don’s Main Attack offers a fresh perspective on the nature of the twentieth century’s most terrible of wars.