It's a Don's Life

It's a Don's Life
Author: Mary Beard
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-08-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1847652468

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Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching -- and much else besides. What are academics for? Who was the first African Roman emperor? Looting -- ancient and modern. Are modern exams easier? Keep lesbos for the lesbians. Did St Valentine exist? What made the Romans laugh? That is just a small taste of this selection (and some of the choicer responses) which will inform, occasionally provoke and cannot fail to entertain.


It's a Don's Life
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Mary Beard
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-06 - Publisher: Profile Books

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Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive co
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Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Mary Beard
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-05 - Publisher: Profile Books

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Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. In this second collection following on from the success of It's a Don's
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Language: en
Pages: 435
Authors: Mary Beard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-07 - Publisher: Profile Books

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Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV prese
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Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Mary Beard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-09 - Publisher: Profile Books

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The Colosseum
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Keith Hopkins
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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