Taught by Jonathan Steinberg University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., Cambridge University
Thirty-five of the most influential people who lived during the 200 most difficult years in the history of the West form the subject of this dramatically different course. Who were these artists, writers, scientists, and leaders in the context of history? How and why did their lives shape our times and reflect their own?
This book was developed over a number of conversations with many people over many years. To all of them we say thank you. As editors, we have all, inevitably, had very different autoethnographic experiences of autoethnography. It was our unique and different positions that encouraged and prompted us to want to collect a number of chapters from different perspectives and disciplines, showing how some of the many forms and guises that constitute autoethnography can be presented.
This wonderful book takes an affectionate, entertaining and perceptive look at the English people. Here are their traditions, foibles, quirks, customs, humour and achievements, triumphs and failures, peccadilloes and passions. Travel through England from coast to coast and learn how every county contributes in unique and different ways to the distinct English personality.
This irresistible book is packed with fascinating trivia and amusing stories that will entertain and inform for hours on end.
Noah and the Ark is one of the best-known and most beloved stories of the Old Testament. Children will enjoy learning the details of the story while coloring many different pairs of animals.
(36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
