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2nd edition. |
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1 online resource |
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Previous edition: Canberra : Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2006. |
| Contents |
Foreword : the Coombs Building / William C. Clarke -- Preface / Brij V. Lal -- Part I. The Coombs : a portrait -- The Coombs : journeys and transformations / Brij V. Lal -- Part II. A room at the top -- The salad days / Oskar Spate -- An OHB beginner / Anthony Low -- People and the Coombs effect / Wang Gungwu -- In the room at the top / R. Gerard Ward -- Coombs reflections / Merle Ricklefs -- Turn right at the Buddha / James J. Fox -- Part III. Coombs journeys -- Hexagonal reflections on Pacific history / Niel Gunson -- Seriously, but not solemnly / Bryant Allen -- A wurm turned in Coombs / Darrell Tryon -- Northern exposure : the New Guinea Research Unit / R.J. May -- On the wrong side of Coombs? / John Ravenhill -- Prehistory : a late arrival / Jack Golson -- We, the ethnographers / Kathryn Robinson -- Real Australians in economics / Ross Garnaut -- Reflections of a defence intellectual / Desmond Ball -- Political and social change : not the Research School of Politics and Sociology / R.J. May -- Part IV. Running the Coombs -- Sue's story / Sue Lawrence -- PAMBU, the Islands and the Coombs / Ewan Maidment -- EGW and me / Claire Smith -- Editing reflections / Maxine McArthur -- Finding nuggets in Coombs / Allison Ley -- The fly on the wall of Room 4225 / Jude Shanahan and Julie Gordon -- Fieldwork and fireworks : a lab assistant's tales / Gillian Atkin -- Coombs administration / Ann Buller -- At the leading edge : computer technology in Coombs / Allison Ley -- Part V. Across Coombs -- Have you got a title? Seminar daze / Hank Nelson -- Space wars / Colin Filer -- Dark side of the Coombs / Grant Rebbeck, Peter Adams, Andrew Muirden and Allison Ley -- All corridors lead to the tea room / Sophie (Vilaythong) and Lisa (Alicia Dal Molin) -- Part VI. Coombs memories -- Work and play in the Coombs Building 1967-73 / Peter Corris -- Recalling the Coombs : Pacific history, 1970-73 / Kerry Howe -- 1970s Coombs dramas / Grant McCall -- The 'Catacoombs' / Michael R. Godley -- The old hospital building / Anton Ploeg -- Part VII. The corridors of Coombs -- The corridors of Coombs / Tessa Morris-Suzuki. |
| 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."--Amazon |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Coombs Building (Canberra, A.C.T.) -- History -- Anecdotes.
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Australian National University -- History -- Anecdotes.
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Australian National University -- Alumni and alumnae.
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Australian National University
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Universities and colleges -- Australia -- Canberra (A.C.T.) -- History.
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Universities and colleges.
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colleges (institutions)
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universities (institutions)
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Universities and colleges
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Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae
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Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmP6BTMTWWrWJdDDTDDv3
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Anecdotes |
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Anecdotes
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History
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Anecdotes.
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Anecdotes.
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| Added Author |
Lal, Brij V., editor.
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Ley, Allison, editor.
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| Other Form: |
1921934174 |
| ISBN |
9781921934186 (electronic bk.) |
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1921934182 (electronic bk.) |
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9781921934179 |
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1921934174 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000053140262 |
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AU@ 000069181446 |
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GBVCP 1008662038 |
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