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The Coombs: A House of Memories

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dc.contributor.authorLal, Brijen_AU
dc.contributor.authorLey, Allisonen_AU
dc.contributor.editorBrij Lalen_AU
dc.contributor.editorAllison Leyen_AU
dc.date.accessioned2006-12-21en_AU
dc.date.accessioned2010-12-23T00:56:57Z
dc.date.available2006-12-21en_AU
dc.date.available2010-12-23T00:56:57Z
dc.date.issued2006-10en_AU
dc.date.updated2015-12-08T03:16:56Z
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_AU
dc.identifier.isbn1920942882 (pbk)en_AU
dc.identifier.isbn1920942890 (web)en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/44509en_AU
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherANU College of Asia and the Pacificen_AU
dc.relation.isversionof1st Editionen_AU
dc.rightsAuthor/s retain copyrighten_AU
dc.titleThe Coombs: A House of Memoriesen_AU
dc.typeBooken_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationCanberra Australia
local.contributor.affiliationLal, Brij, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationLey, Allison, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidLal, Brij, u9000175
local.contributor.authoruidLey, Allison, u8809764
local.identifier.absfor210303 - Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4152056xPUB23
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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