Author: Hans KrebsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Reminiscences and Reflections
Author: Hans KrebsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
G. Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union
Author: Georgiĭ Konstantinovich ZhukovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marshals
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Being Lucky
Author: Herman B WellsPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253006163
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
The autobiography of the legendary Indiana University president, as he originally intended. Painstakingly restored from original archival materials and featuring over a dozen fascinating vignettes and talks that were cut from the original edition, Being Lucky: Reminiscences and Reflections, The Complete Edition is a must read for Hoosiers everywhere. In this absorbing autobiography, Herman B. Wells recalls his small-town childhood, the strong influence of his parents, and his pioneering work with Indiana banks during the Great Depression. His first contact with Indiana University was as an undergraduate in 1921, when the still provincial school had fewer than three thousand students. At the end of his twenty-five-year tenure as president in 1962, IU had gained an international reputation and a student body that would soon exceed 30,000. Wells’ reflections on his years as university president are both lighthearted and illuminating. They describe in candied detail how he approached the job, his observations on effective administration, his thoughts on academic freedom and tenure, his approach to student and alumni relations, and his views on the role of the university as a cultural center. Also included are his fifty maxims for young college presidents. Finally Wells discusses the national and international service that helped shape his presidency and the university. Being Lucky is a nourishing brew of the memories, advice, wit, and wisdom of a remarkable man. “Much more than the title might suggest [this is] a heart-warming account of a young boy and his parents determined that a son should have a college education, a classic and detailed account of his widening involvement with every aspect of higher education, and a stirring story of a wise administrator. [Wells’s] life is an astonishing success story. . . . He was not just lucky, he was careful and courageous.” —Journal of Higher Education “Being Lucky is as entertaining as it is informative. Wells’ biographer, James H. Capshew, called it “a manual of higher education management.” . . . Reading Wells’ fascinating autobiography shows why it is no wonder that Indiana University is so proud of the great man and honors his accomplishments.” —Louisville Courier Journal “An honest report by a most successful educator [and] a tribute to a great university and to a man with foresight who also had the courage to act on his convictions.” —The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette “Wells’s humor, wit, and humanity pervade every chapter.” —Indiana Magazine of History
Reminiscences and Reflections
Author: Shivraj PatilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Autobiographical accounts and political and social views.
I Hope
Author: Raisa GorbachevPublisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books
ISBN: 9780708986721
Category : Heads of state
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Reminiscences and Reflections
Author: John McLeod CampbellPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385218721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Reminiscences and Reflections of a Chief Justice
Author: B. P. SinhaAn Endless Struggle
Author: Paul KuttnerPublisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533154982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Hugged and hated by Hitler, cheered by Churchill, traumatized by Tracy and Turner, loved and wounded by luscious women--Paul Kuttner's life can only be described as an accumulation of sky-high adventurous summits and, on the other side of the human scale, an endless row of diabolically hard times. An early life of goo fortune turned when Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Two meetings with the Gestapo, and an internment by the English on the Isle of Man for suspected spying later, and Mr. Kuttner made his way to the United States where he worked as a Hollywood reporter. This thrilling and poignant memoir recounts a sensational life filled with personal struggles and lingering memories of extraordinary encounters with Hollywood legends, a few saintly people, and some of the most heinous war criminals of the twentieth century.
Without Fear Or Favour
Author: Neelam Sanjiva ReddyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
An Old Woman’s Reflections
Author: Peig SayersPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789122376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Peig Sayers was ‘the Queen, of Gaelic story-tellers’. She was born in the parish of Dunquin in Kerry and married into a neighbouring island, the Great Blasket, where she spent most of her life. Students and scholars of the Irish language came from far and wide to visit her. She was, as Robin Flower wrote in The Western Island, ‘a natural orator, with so keen a sense of the turn of phrase and the lifting rhythm appropriate to Irish that her words could be written down as they leave her lips, and they would have the effect of literature with no savour of the artificiality of composition’. Her Reflections are a collection of her fireside stories, most of them tales of her friends and neighbours on the Great Blasket, the island that also produced Maurice O’Sullivan’s Twenty Tears A-Growing and Tόmas ό Crohan’s The Islandman.