Gods, Mongrels, and Demons: 101 Brief But Essential Lives

Calder, Angus

ISBN 10: 1582344310 / ISBN 13: 9781582344317

Verlag: Bloomsbury USA, 2004

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Inhaltsangabe:

An entertaining compilation of concise biographies celebrates the lives and accomplishments of the world's oddballs, philosophers, freaks, saints, nutters, and other characters, including the Japanese poet Basho, modernist artist Kurt Schwitters, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Winkie the carrier pigeon, and Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie doll.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Angus Calder (b. 1942) has taught in schools all over the world, including several African universities, but mostly for the Open University in Scotland, from which he retired as reader in Cultural Studies in 1993. His many books include the seminal social history The People's War: Britain 1939-45 (1969) and Revolutionary Empire (1981). His hobbies include cooking, shopping for food, music, cricket, curling, and swimming in the sea.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Gods, Mongrels, and Demons: 101 Brief But ...
Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: very_good