Author: Charles BentPublisher:
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Category : Whiteside County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
History of Whiteside County, Illinois
Author: Charles BentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Whiteside County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Genealogy of the Burbank Family and the Families of Bray, Wellcome, Sedgley (Sedgeley) and Welch
Author: George Burbank SedgleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
John Burbank (ca. 1600-ca. 1682) settled at Rowley, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman in 1640. He and his first wife, Ann, had five children, ca. 1640-1655. Descendants listed, chiefly descendants of his son, Caleb Burbank, lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and elsewhere.
Dictionary of World Biography
Author: Barry JonesPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760463809
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 989
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’.
History of Hampshire County, West Virginia
Author: Hu MaxwellPublisher:
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Category : Hampshire County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
History of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Past and Present
Author: Carl ZillierPublisher:
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Category : Sheboygan County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Wrigley's British Columbia Directory
Author: World's Masonic Register
Author: Leon HynemanPublisher:
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Royal Academy of Arts
Author: Algernon GravesPublisher:
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel
Author: John Wilson FosterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521679961
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This is the perfect overview of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Note to Self
Author: Rebekah BallaghPublisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1761060627
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
An inspirational personal development book including helpful tips and cute illustrations to aid with anxiety, overthinking and depression. This book is jam-packed with handy tips, bite-sized wisdoms & thoughtful illustrations to help you navigate through feelings like anxiety, stress, worry, guilt & sadness. Within these pages you will find practical tools & insights to help you tackle your day-to-day tricky emotions.