The Romance of Names
Author | : Ernest Weekley |
Publisher | : London J. Murray 1914. |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Names, Personal |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ernest Weekley |
Publisher | : London J. Murray 1914. |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Names, Personal |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barry Jones |
Publisher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 941 |
Release | : 2017-05-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1760461261 |
Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at 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, 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), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). 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, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.
Author | : Barry Jones |
Publisher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 2021-09-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1760464678 |
Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at 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, 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), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). 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, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016. He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 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.
Author | : Andrew Dickson White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Religion and science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Manjunath.R |
Publisher | : Manjunath.R |
Total Pages | : 2658 |
Release | : 2021-07-03 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
This book takes readers back and forth through time and makes the past accessible to all families, students and the general reader and is an unprecedented collection of a list of events in chronological order and a wealth of informative knowledge about the rise and fall of empires, major scientific breakthroughs, groundbreaking inventions, and monumental moments about everything that has ever happened.
Author | : Frederick Lewis Allen |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2022-11-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Lewis Allen is a history textbook about the lively gloriousness of Roaring 20s America. Contents: "II. BACK TO NORMALCY III. THE BIG RED SCARE IV. AMERICA CONVALESCENT V. THE REVOLUTION IN MANNERS AND MORALS VI. HARDING AND THE SCANDALS VII. COOLIDGE PROSPERITY VIII. THE BALLYHOO YEARS IX. THE REVOLT OF THE HIGHBROWS X. ALCOHOL AND AL CAPONE XI. HOME, SWEET FLORIDA."
Author | : William Mathews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Names, Personal |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ernest Weekley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Dickson White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Religion and science |
ISBN | : |