The coombs : a house of memories / Brij V. Lal, Allison Ley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lal, Brij V., author.

Ley, Allison, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian National University--History--Anecdotes.

Australian National University.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 305 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : ANU Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Coombs Building at The Australian National University is a Canberra icon. Named after one of Australia’s greatest administrators and public intellectuals—‘Nugget’ Herbert Cole Coombs—for more than forty years the building has housed two of the University’s four foundational Schools: the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and the Research School of Social Sciences. This volume of recollections is about the former. It looks at life in the building through the prism of personal experience and happenstance. Part memoir, part biography, and part celebration, this book is about the people of Coombs, past and present. Through evocative and lucid reflections, present and former denizens of the building share their passions and predilections, quietly savour their accomplishments and recall the failings and foibles of the past with a kindly tolerance.

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed June 4, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781921934186

1921934182

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_502534