The Coombs A House of Memories

• מחבר ראשי: V. Lal, Brij (auth)
• מחברים אחרים: Ley, Allison (auth)
• פורמט: אלקטרוני Book Chapter
• שפה: אנגלית
• יצא לאור: ANU Press 2014
• נושאים: Universities; the australian national university; coombs building; Papua New Guinea
• גישה מקוונת: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

סיכום

The Coombs Building at The Australian National University is a Canberra icon. Named after one of Australia's greatest administrators and public intellectuals-'Nugget' Herbert Cole Coombs-for more than forty years the building has housed two of the University's four foundational Schools: the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and the Research School of Social Sciences. This volume of recollections is about the former. It looks at life in the building through the prism of personal experience and happenstance. Part memoir, part biography, and part celebration, this book is about the people of Coombs, past and present. Through evocative and lucid reflections, present and former denizens of the building share their passions and predilections, quietly savour their accomplishments and recall the failings and foibles of the past with a kindly tolerance.

ISBN

OAPEN_502534

גישה

Open Access