Added by: miaow | Karma: 8463.35 | Other | 16 July 2015
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As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past.
Bestselling novelist Binchy (Light a Penny Candle; Silver Wedding) again explores the passions and priorities of Irish women in a seductively written tale that’s a bona fide page-turner.
This book is an attempt to provide all the information anybody could need to determine what it means to be a resident of Australia, what our national values might be and whether there is an average way of living here. You can tell a lot about a nation by the way it shops, talks, eats, laughs and entertains itself. That's the kind of detail you'll find in this book - our favourite movies, our political passions, our most popular products, our world records, our changing language... (the author)
Tulipomania - The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The object of this unprecedented speculation was the tulip, a delicate and exotic Eastern import that had bewitched horticulturists, noblemen, and tavern owners alike. For almost a year rare bulbs changed hands for incredible and ever-increasing sums, until single flowers were being sold for more than the cost of a house. Historians would come to call it tulipomania.
Roman Passions: A History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome
Roman Passions: A History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome
Immerse yourself in the sensual delights of Rome in all their guises. By the time of the emperors, the Romans had created the world's first global empire, and plundered the provinces for produce to be eaten, planted or displayed as novelties. At the same time the aesthetics of the city of Rome was being transferred to the provinces, establishing towns with public buildings, baths and the Latin language. With these attributes of civilisation came other trappings of Roman culture: lavish entertainments, elaborate dinner parties and vice.
