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Book A Dictionary of Edwardian Biography

Download or read book A Dictionary of Edwardian Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Edwardian Biography

Download or read book A Dictionary of Edwardian Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Edwardian Biography

Download or read book A Dictionary of Edwardian Biography written by William Thomas Pike and published by Edinburgh : Peter Bell. This book was released on 1983 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of World Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of World Biography written by Barry Jones and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post‑industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the *Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016. He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia’s five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s 100 ‘living national treasures’ in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life’. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.

Book Welsh Women

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  • Author : Constance Wall Holt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 872 pages

Download or read book Welsh Women written by Constance Wall Holt and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 2,100 annotated entries for English-language books, articles, dissertations, and manuscripts identified through research in Wales, England, and the U.S.

Book A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest

Download or read book A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest written by Sir John Edward Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  Randolph Rippingille

Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Randolph Rippingille written by Henry Colin Gray Matthew and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

Book Writing Welsh History

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  • Author : Huw Pryce
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2022-05-05
  • ISBN : 0198746032
  • Pages : 507 pages

Download or read book Writing Welsh History written by Huw Pryce and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years, 'Writing Welsh History' analyses and contextualizes historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, to open new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh.

Book Walford s Guide to Reference Material  Social and historical sciences  philosophy and religion

Download or read book Walford s Guide to Reference Material Social and historical sciences philosophy and religion written by Albert John Walford and published by London : Library Association Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Volume II (last published in 1994) has been extensively expanded and revised in all areas. Fully updated, the new edition includes major changes and covers a span of topics from archaeology through medieval history to statistics. It includes philosophy, psychology, religion, social sciences, geography, biology and history. All areas have been completely updated with additional material in economics, business and management.

Book Walford s Guide to Reference Material

Download or read book Walford s Guide to Reference Material written by Albert John Walford and published by London : Library Association. This book was released on 1994 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of this guide contains descriptions of 8300 plus critically evaluated & recommended reference resources available in all formats. Organized by Universal Dewey Classification, the topics covered are those usually found in the 100s--Philosophy & Psychology, 200s--Religion, 300s--Social Sciences, & the 900s--Geography, Biography & History. This volume particularly reflects the proliferation of travel & tourist guides, & reference works on Eastern Europe & Central Asia following the collapse of communism. Over the last few years an enormous expansion has also been noted of reference works in both religion & philosophy. Volume 1 covers Science & Technology. Volume 3 covers Generalia, Languages & Literature, & the Arts. Recommended in: Choice, Reference Reviews, American Reference Books Annual.

Book Whitaker s Book List

Download or read book Whitaker s Book List written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jesus College  Oxford

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : PediaPress
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Jesus College Oxford written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on 2004 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Claiming the Streets

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  • Author : Paul O'Leary
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2012-10-15
  • ISBN : 1783162740
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Claiming the Streets written by Paul O'Leary and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street processions were a defining feature of life in the Victorian town. They were diverse in character and took place regularly throughout the year in all towns. They provided opportunities for men and women to display themselves in public, carrying banners and flags and accompanied by musical bands. Much of the history of nineteenth-century Wales has been written around political demonstrations and revolt, but this book examines how urban communities in Victorian Wales created inclusive civic identities by using the streets for peaceful processions.

Book Chamber s Encyclopaedia

Download or read book Chamber s Encyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland  Volume 3  Ambition and Industry 1800 1880

Download or read book Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland Volume 3 Ambition and Industry 1800 1880 written by Bill Bell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-23 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century Scotland was transformed from an agricultural nation on the periphery of Europe to become an industrial force with international significance. A landmark in its field, this volume explores the changes in the Scottish book trade as it moved from a small-scale manufacturing process to a mass-production industry. This book brings together the work of over thirty leading experts to explore a broad range of topics that include production technology, bookselling and distribution, the literary market, reading and libraries, and Scotland's international relations.