LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ian hancock

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  • Sir Josiah Symon KCMG KC
    Ian Hancock
    Josiah Symon arrived in South Australia from Scotland in 1866 just before his 20th birthday. His baggage included two boxes of books, references praising his primary school teaching and a few English pounds. In 1934 he left an estate valued in modern terms at $A 22 million.Symon acquired his wealth as the acknowledged leader of the Adelaide Bar for 30 years, by investments in s...
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    44,53 €

  • Ainsley Gotto
    Ian Hancock
    In 1968 the new Prime Minister, John Gorton, appointed Ainsley Gotto, aged 22, as his principal private secretary.  Ainsley became one of the most talked-about young women in Australia.  Hitherto, no woman had been so close to the centre of power, and certainly none was known publicly to be so close.Ainsley refused to see herself as a role model for secretaries and said she cou...
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    48,31 €

  • Nick Greiner
    Ian Hancock
    Nick Greiner was an unusual post-war Premier of NSW. He came into office in 1988 wanting to do more than change lifestyles, win re-election and remain popular, and he proceeded to implement a wide-ranging and enduring transformation of what he called 'NSW Inc.'Greiner’s personal story is also unusual. Born in Budapest, the elder son of a Hungarian father and Slovak mother, Nick...
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    51,78 €

  • Rhodesians Never Die
    Ian Hancock / Peter Godwin
    This book tells the story of how White Rhodesians, three-quarters of whom were ill- prepared for revolutionary change, reacted to the 'terrorist' war and the onset of black rule in the 1970s. It shows how internal divisions--both old and new--undermined the supposed unity of White Rhodesia, how most Rhodesians begrudgingly accepted the inevitability of black majority rule witho...
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    87,10 €

  • The Gypsies of Eastern Europe
    David Crowe / Ian Hancock / John Kolsti
    The essays in this collection detail the fate of gypsies in the countries of Eastern Europe through the socialist era, and pay special attention to the experience of the Nazi holocaust. The volume includes essays on Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary and Romania. ...
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    77,52 €

  • The Gypsies of Eastern Europe
    David Crowe / Ian Hancock / John Kolsti
    The essays in this collection detail the fate of gypsies in the countries of Eastern Europe through the socialist era, and pay special attention to the experience of the Nazi holocaust. The volume includes essays on Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary and Romania. ...
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    302,07 €

  • Pidgins and Creoles
    David De Camp / Ian Hancock
    A collection of work on pidgins and creoles that includes discussions of the English-derived creole of San Andres Island and the French-derived creole of Cayenne, the theoretical contributions of creolistics to general linguistic theory, decreolization, generative phonological treatment of a hypothesized English-derived proto-creole, and the little-known Shelta language. ...
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    31,22 €