Author: Charles Larcom Graves
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Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Mr. Punch's History of Modern England
Author: Charles Larcom Graves
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Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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A History of the World's Columbian Exposition Held in Chicago in 1893
Author: Rossiter Johnson
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Category : World's Columbian Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Category : World's Columbian Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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The Printer's Art
Author: Alexander A. Stewart
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII
Author: Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752434554
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752434554
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII by Marie Belloc Lowndes
History of the Swedes of Illinois ...
Author: Ernst Wilhelm Olson
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans
Author: Rossiter Johnson
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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The World's Columbian Exposition Illustrated: March 1892 to March 1893
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Dictionary of World Biography
Author: Barry Jones
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
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.
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
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.
University of Illinois Directory
Author: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)
Publisher:
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Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 1436
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Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 1436
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The History of South Australia from Its Foundation to the Year of Its Jubilee
Author: Edwin Hodder
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Category : South Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : South Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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