Barr and Lower Ardmillan Series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, South-West Ayrshire, with Descriptions of the Brachiopoda - Softcover

Williams, Alwyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0903317044 ISBN 13: 9780903317047

Publisher: Geol.Soc.,London, 1962

Synopsis

There is no subject that is more useful, or indeed indispensable. Some evidence of the growing awareness of this may be seen in the immense increase in the interest of the reading public in history, and the much larger place the subject has come to take in education in our time. This series has been planned to meet the needs and demands of a very wide public and of education they are indeed the same. I am convinced that the most congenial, as well as the most concrete and practical, approach to history is the biographical, through the lives of the great men whose actions have been so much part of history, and whose careers in turn have been so moulded and formed by events. The key idea of this series, and what distinguishes it from any other that has appeared, is the intention by way of a biography of a great man to open up a significant historical theme; for example, Cromwell and the Puritan Revolution, or Lenin and the Russian Revolution. My hope is, in the end, as the series fills out and completes itself, by a sufficient number of biographies to cover whole periods and subjects in that way. To give you the history of the United States, for example, or theB ritish Empire or France, via a number of biographies of their leading historical figures. That should be something new, as well as convenient and practical, in education.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Geol.Soc.,London
• Publication date: 1962
• ISBN 10: 0903317044
• ISBN 13: 9780903317047
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 267