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Author : Jasper Rose
Publisher : London, Gollancz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Camford Observed written by Jasper Rose and published by London, Gollancz. This book was released on 1964 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Bruce Wheeler
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780922108
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The London of Sherlock Holmes written by Thomas Bruce Wheeler and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All serious Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts want to visit London to see the places mentioned in the Great Detective s adventures. The e-book version of See the London of Sherlock Holmes allows enthusiasts to -visit- London from their home computers, or internet connected TVs. This is achieved by hyperlinking the latitude & longitude addresses in the book to the -Street View- feature in Google Maps. The map coordinates are also GPS addresses for those who visit London with hand-held GPS devices. The book groups the 400+ Sherlock Holmes sites by the nearest underground or railway station. Entering GPS addresses after arriving at the station will generate turn-by-turn directions from one Sherlock Holmes site to another. Six walking tour maps are also included. These are not the usual rambling tours, but walks in Holmes and Watsons footsteps. Finally, for those with a statistical bent, the book lists 454 characters named in the book, and statistically analyzes their titles and occupations.
Author : David Lawday
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398459798
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)
Download or read book A Time in Paris written by David Lawday and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sweltering Indian summer of 1870, a young Englishman is sent to Paris as Prussian invaders advance on the French capital with the largest siege army ever assembled. The City of Light is cut off from the outside world, the population trapped behind its tall ramparts. As the siege continues for a month, then a second, a hungering third, a frozen fourth and into a starved fifth, the Englishman, a stock young gentleman of his Victorian times, falls in love with a radical French enchantress who by chance saves his hide. The lovers’ fate is entwined with those of a tormented French general appointed to defend Paris and an impatient Prussian grandee (Otto von Bismarck) hell-bent on bringing the ‘capital of civilisation’ to its knees. The unlikely love story turns upon true events that have shaken our world through to the present. Praise for David Lawday’s recent book Danton: Giant of the French Revolution: “Spirited and highly readable... Lawday creates some great set pieces and striking turning points... He is able to capture the atmosphere of the early revolution: its inflammable mix of devilment and righteousness, reckless selflessness and flagrant self-promotion. He sees that Danton was more than the sum of his crimes, the sum of his secrets; he celebrates his ‘large heart and violent impulses in an irresolvable conflict’.” Hilary Mantel, The London Review of Books.
Author : Burton R. Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520325923
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Higher Education written by Burton R. Clark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476763496
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Knew Infinity written by Robert Kanigel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his mathematical achievements, and his mathematical collaboration with English mathematician G. H. Hardy. The book also reviews the life of Hardy and the academic culture of Cambridge University during the early twentieth century.
Author : María Jesús González Hernández
Publisher : Apollo Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845195359
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Raymond Carr written by María Jesús González Hernández and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in collaboration with the Ca'anada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies."
Author : William Whyte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192513443
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Redbrick written by William Whyte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two centuries Britain has experienced a revolution in higher education, with the number of students rising from a few hundred to several million. Yet the institutions that drove - and still drive - this change have been all but ignored by historians. Drawing on a decade's research, and based on work in dozens of archives, many of them used for the very first time, this is the first full-scale study of the civic universities - new institutions in the nineteenth century reflecting the growth of major Victorian cities in Britain, such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, York, and Durham - for more than 50 years. Tracing their story from the 1780s until the 2010s, it is an ambitious attempt to write the Redbrick revolution back into history. William Whyte argues that these institutions created a distinctive and influential conception of the university - something that was embodied in their architecture and expressed in the lives of their students and staff. It was this Redbrick model that would shape their successors founded in the twentieth century: ensuring that the normal university experience in Britain is a Redbrick one. Using a vast range of previously untapped sources, Redbrick is not just a new history, but a new sort of university history: one that seeks to rescue the social and architectural aspects of education from the disregard of previous scholars, and thus provide the richest possible account of university life. It will be of interest to students and scholars of modern British history, to anyone who has ever attended university, and to all those who want to understand how our higher education system has developed - and how it may evolve in the future.
Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226038459
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The American University written by Jacques Barzun and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was published in 1968, a year noted for historic student protests on campuses across the country, The American University spoke in Jacques Barzun's characteristically wise and lucid voice about what colleges and universities were really meant to do—and how they actually worked. Drawing on a lifetime of extraordinary accomplishment as a teacher, administrator, and scholar, Barzun here describes the immense demands placed on the university by its competing constituencies—students, faculty, administrators, alumni, trustees, and the political world around it all. "American higher education is fortunate to have had a scholar and intellectual of Jacques Barzun's stature give so many years of service to the daily bread-and-butter details of running a great university and then share his reflections with us in a literate, humane, and engaging book."—Charles Donovan, America
Author : Noel Annan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226021072
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
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
Author : Cyril Shirley Belshaw
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1926820169
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Towers Besieged written by Cyril Shirley Belshaw and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tamara Lejeune
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 1420120328
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Christmas With The Duchess written by Tamara Lejeune and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas St. Austell's Christmas Wish List --An invitation to a holiday house party --A shiny gold pocket watch --An introduction to Emma, the Duchess of Warwick --Roasted chestnuts --A dance with Emma --A new pair of Hessians --A kiss from Emma under the mistletoe --Christmas with the Duchess. . .
Author : M. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137521309
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Conflict in the Academy written by M. Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining an intramural conflict that erupted within the English Faculty at Cambridge University in the early 1980s, this book develops a theoretical analysis of disputes as they unfold within the academy and explores the broader historical shifts within Higher Education and how these related to developments in Continental Europe.
Author : John R. Thelin
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421428830
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book A History of American Higher Education written by John R. Thelin and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone studying the history of this institution in America must read Thelin's classic text, which has distinguished itself as the most wide-ranging and engaging account of the origins and evolution of America's institutions of higher learning.
Author : Ted Tapper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048191548
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Collegial Tradition in the Age of Mass Higher Education written by Ted Tapper and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of our writing re?ects a long-term commitment to the analysis of the col- gial tradition in higher education. This commitment is re?ected most strongly in Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition (2000), which we are pleased to say will re-appear as a considerably revised second edition (Oxford, The Collegiate University: Con?ict, Consensus and Continuity) to be published by Springer in the near future. To some extent this volume, The Collegial Tradition in the Age of Mass Higher Education, is a reaction to the charge that our work has been too narrowly focussed upon the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (Oxbridge). Not surpr- ingly, you would expect us to reject that critique, while responding constructively to it. The focus may be narrow, and although the relative presence and, more arguably, the in?uence of Oxford and Cambridge may have declined in English higher e- cation, they remain important national universities. Moreover, as the plethora of so-called world-class higher education league tables would have us believe, they also have a powerful international status. This, however, is essentially a defensive response dependent upon the alleged reputations of the two universities. This book is intent on making a more substantial argument. To examine the c- legial tradition in higher education means much more than presenting a nostalgic look at the past.
Author : Blaise Cronin
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0081005628
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Cathedrals of Learning written by Blaise Cronin and published by Chandos Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cathedrals of Learning: Great and Ancient Universities of Western Europe provides a conspectus of the great Western European universities, pithily tells their life stories, showcases their architectural heritage, and describes the art, literary, and natural history collections they have accumulated over the centuries. This book profiles the ancient universities and their distinctive organizational cultures, reveals their customs, ceremonies, and traditions, their quirks and quiddities, recounts their complicated histories, describes their architectural wonders (libraries, museums, anatomy theaters, botanical gardens) and treasures (rare manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, and objects d'art of all kinds), and introduces their famous alumni, distinguished scholars, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, and famously eccentric personalities. It is a book for scholars, researchers, and anyone interested in these ancient institutions that remain centers of learning in the contemporary world. - Contains a collection of mini biographies, pen portraits of some of the world's most venerable universities - Offers twelve institutional biographies that can be used to compare universities and their complex histories - Written in an easy and rigorous style, with accessible coverage - Compiled by a leading figure in information science, with a wide experience of great universities and the trends with which they are associated
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Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
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Author : Donald J. Albers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107135559
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The G. H. Hardy Reader written by Donald J. Albers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. H. Hardy ranks among the greatest twentieth-century mathematicians. This book introduces this extraordinary individual and his writing.
