Democracy's Danger: Addresses on Various Occasions

Gepp, Sir Herbert

Verlag: Angus & Robertson Limited, Sydney and London, 1939

Beschreibung

Sir Herbert William Gepp (1877-1954): Australian mining metallurgist & manager, public servant, industrialist and publicist. Awarded Gold Medal of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (UK) with Gilbert Rigg (1924). --- Original red cloth boards, lettered gilt on spine (18.7 cm height). Scattered age spotting to edges and preliminary leaves. Pp. xiii, 316 (last colophon) including A Biographical Note (by G. C. Remington), Contents [addresses take place between 1923 and 1938]: - The Defence of Australia and the Part of Her Primary and Secondary Industries In That Defence - Dynamics of Development - Hard Times and Hard Thinking - The Responsibility of the Individual - The Mining Industry - The World's Present Economic Position and the Relation of the Primary Industries of Australia Thereto - The Future of Gold - The Work of the Royal Commission on the Industries of Wheat, Flour, and Bread - The School of Agriculture, University of Melbourne, and Its Director - The Place of an Economic Research and Advisory Council in the Modern State - Gold and the National Economy - Youth Employment - Forest Problems - Gold and the Cost of Living - The Scientist in Industrial Administration - Soil Erosion - Problems of National Development - The Real Purpose of Life - One Democracy to Another - Duties and Responsibilities of Youth - First Principles - Some Recent Impressions of the Economic Position in the United States of America - At What Age Does Youth End?

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 020890

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Democracy's Danger: Addresses on Various Occasions
• Verlag: Angus & Robertson Limited, Sydney and London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1939
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine