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Barry Jones' Dictionary of Word Biography by Barry Jones
Category: Biography
There is no other book to turn to for a comprehensive guide to history's biggest names including, to name just a few... Homer, Julius Caesar, Jesus, Christopher Columbus, Michelangelo, William Shakespeare, J S Bach, Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong. And ...Show more
Dictionary of World Biography by Barry Jones
Category: Education
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 A ...Show more
Dictionary of World Biography, 7th edition by Barry JONES
Category: Biography | Series: ANU Lives Series in Biography Ser.
Weaves historical facts with perspective on the subjects and the influence they had on theirs and on modern times. Gain a unique insight into the life and times of important identities, cultural icons and controversial characters, including Shakespeare, Freud, Mari I, Nero, Matisse and Pol Pot.
In Parenthesis by David Jones; Sebastian Barry (Foreword by)
Category: Gift
In Parenthesis is one of the greatest works to emerge from the First World War. 'The holy book of twentieth-century visionary modernism. Ancient and brand-new, In Parenthesis is this island's book of all books, an incomparable and ever-intensifying masterpiece. It is radical, beautiful, humane and myst ...Show more
Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections by Barry Jones
Category: Non-Fiction
This collection of insights from Barry Jones includes new and updated reflections on the big issues and concerns locally, nationally and internationally. Understand more about the key immediate and long term issues and problems that face our world and lives, from climate change and discrimination to the ...Show more
Looking Into The Abyss by Barry Jones
Category: Politics
This collection of insightful articles from Barry Jones follows in the footsteps of the acclaimed Knowledge Courage Leadership (2016) and includes reflections on the big political and social issues and concerns locally, nationally and internationally. Understand more about key issues including religious ...Show more
Procurement, Principles and Management by Peter Baily; David Farmer; Barry Crocker; David Jessop; David Jones
Category: Reference
Now in its eleventh edition, Procurement Principles and Management has been essential reading for practitioners and students of purchasing and procurement for nearly 50 years. This new edition will provide the reader with a reflection of mainstream practice alongside insight into developing ideas and ap ...Show more
THINKING REED by Barry Jones
Category: Biography
The long-awaited life of an Australian polymath, a passionate advocate for;Australia, a politician held in great affection by all sides of politics.
The Penalty Is Death: State Power, Law, and Justice by Barry Jones ed
Category: Current Affairs
An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria - the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital ...Show more
Thinking Reed by Barry Jones
Category: Biography
From quiz kid to Australian Minister for Science, from frustrated school teacher to National President of the ALP, from the suburbs of Melbourne to UNESCO in Paris, Barry Jones has had a prodigious public life...Barry Jones first came to public prominence as Pick-a-Box quiz champion, and from then on he ...Show more
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
Category: Non-Fiction
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
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