PhD Scholarships
PhD scholarship arrangements at the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research The Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, including the Australian National Herbarium, is a collaborative research centre formed between CSIRO Plant Industry and the ... [... more]
Australian National Botanic Gardens |
Peter Schickele
In this long-awaited hoax, possibly the most unimportant piece of scholarship in over two thousand years, Professor Peter Schickele has... Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach What little-known son of a famous genius has been called: "The worst ... [... more]
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Tudor Parfitt
In a mixture of travel, adventure, and scholarship, historian Tudor Parfitt sets out in search of answers to a fascinating ethnological puzzle: is the Lemba tribe of Southern Africa really one of the lost tribes of Israel, descended from King ... [... more]
Random House |
Ronald Spector
Only now can the full scope of the war in the Pacific be fully understood. Historian Ronald Spector, drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, an abundance of British and American archival material. Japanese scholarship and documents, and ... [... more]
Random House |
Laura Pedersen
When the death of her father leaves her mother bereft and incapacitated, card shark Hallie Palmer returns home from college to raise Hallie's eight younger siblings. Hallie's older brother has a scholarship and a sensible major-which ... [... more]
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V.S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books ... [... more]
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The Northern Lights
Lucy Jago is a former documentary producer for Channel 4 and the BBC. She has been awarded two academic scholarships and a Double First Class Honours Degree from King's College, University of Cambridge, and a master's degree from the Courtauld ... [... more]
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David Nicholls
The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his ?rst term at university. The usual freshman anxiety over ?tting in is compounded by the gap between his own humble origins and the privileged backgrounds of ... [... more]
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Origins of the Tarot
Conventional wisdom traces tarot cards to medieval Italy, but their roots go much further back in time and draw on a startling variety of cultures and spiritual traditions. Combining pioneering scholarship with practical spiritual instruction, ... [... more]
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Peter Opie
First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of ... [... more]
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Jordan A. Schwarz
This bold new analysis of the New Deal dramatically revises our vision of the Roosevelt legacy -- and of the new relation between government and business it made a central fact of American life. With impressive scholarship and narrative brio, ... [... more]
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Summer Scholarships 2006-2007
Summer Scholarships offered by the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Aust. university summer holidays. The Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research is a collaborative link between CSIRO Plant Industry and the Department of the Environment and ... [... more]
Australian National Botanic Gardens |
