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Gods, Mongrels, and Demons: 101 Brief but Essential Lives - Hardcover

Calder, Angus

 
9781582344317: Gods, Mongrels, and Demons: 101 Brief but Essential Lives
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1582344310 ISBN 13: 9781582344317
Verlag: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

An entertaining compilation of concise biographies celebrates the lives and accomplishments of the world's oddballs, philosophers, freaks, saints, nutters, and other characters, including the Japanese poet Basho, modernist artist Kurt Schwitters, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Winkie the carrier pigeon, and Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie doll.

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Angus Calder (b. 1942) has taught in schools all over the world, including several African universities, but mostly for the Open University in Scotland, from which he retired as reader in Cultural Studies in 1993. His many books include the seminal social history The People's War: Britain 1939-45 (1969) and Revolutionary Empire (1981). His hobbies include cooking, shopping for food, music, cricket, curling, and swimming in the sea.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1582344310
ISBN 13 
9781582344317
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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