In Our Time examines Australian loyalties to socialist agitators at the end of the nineteenth century and challenges the accepted versions of the social and political ferment which gave rise to the labour movement and its parliamentary ...
Socialism and the rise of Labor, 1885 -1905 Verity Burgmann. worker is justified in preferring capitalist democracy, warts and all—especially when one notes that since World War 2, and until recently, Australian workers have had ...
“Martin, my husband, drove a bunch of us down,” says Alix Kates Shulman, then a thirty-six-year-old housewife and mother. “I never told Martin, but we needed to buy a block of tickets so a group could get inside Convention Hall.
To honour this major anniversary of BBC broadcasting, this beautifully illustrated book provides a lively and colourful guide to fifty of the most captivating discussions from the past two decades of In Our Time, as chosen by Melvyn and the ...
For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and takes us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from philosophy, physics and history to religion, literature and biology.
This is a captivating gift for all fans and a celebration of this iconic series.
Its title is derived from the English Book of Common Prayer, "Give peace in our time, O Lord". The collection's publication history was complex.
'Bragg gives short shrift to pretension of any kind, while remaining stalwart in his search for knowledge. His methodology in In Our Time is... not unlike that of a man...
" In Our Time tells the story of that transformation, as only Brownmiller can.
This is an anthology with many voices: dictators and democrats, liberals and conservatives, nationalists and internationalists, soldiers and peace-makers, popes and presidents.The oratorical skills of some of the greatest political figures ...
In Our Time: The Flowering of Jewish-Catholic Dialogue
Published to tie-in with the new series of the popular BBC Radio 4 programme, IN OUR TIME guides us through the most significant moments in our history.
Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--approaches the critical problems of our time with the common sense that leads to startling conclusions and recommendations for an optimistic future. ...
When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American writers of that period ...
In Our Time, published in 1925, was the collection that first drew the world's attention to Hemingway.
Ernest Hemingway, (1899 – 1961) was an American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
In Our Time
Their themes of alienation, loss, and grief continue the work Hemingway began earlier in his career. The collection includes two of his best-known Nick Adams stories: “Indian Camp” and “Big Two-Hearted River.”