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It's a Don's Life
Mary Beard
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Description for It's a Don's Life
paperback. Covers the author's famous blog, A Don's Life, that ran on the "TLS" website for over three years. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
235g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846682513
SKU
V9781846682513
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About Mary Beard
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 ... Read more
Reviews for It's a Don's Life
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
Enjoyable ... Beard ... Read more
Sam Leith
Daily Mail
Enjoyable ... Beard ... Read more