Professor Mary Beard

It's a Don's Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Covers the author's famous blog, A Don's Life, that ran on the "TLS" website for over three years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 131mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781846682513
• ISBN-10: 1846682517
• Artikelnr.: 26861803

Autorenporträt

Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. She is in the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.

Rezensionen

Delightful ... it has the virtues of brevity, eclecticism and learning worn lightly ... Beard is a very funny and penetrating commentator on academic life - and has a fantastic knack for controversy. If they'd had Mary Beard on their side back then, the Romans would still have their empire Sam Leith Daily Mail