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Behind Glass Doors: The World of Australian Advertising Agencies 1959-1989 by Robert Crawford
Category: Australian History
The hours were demanding but the pay was good. And the boozy lunches were even better. Australia's advertising agencies enjoyed their reputation as a glamorous and fun place to work. Not surprisingly, many of the nation's brightest and most creative young people were drawn to advertising. Behind Glass D ...Show more
But Wait, There's More... by Robert Crawford
Category: Australian History
Provides a history of the Australian advertising industry, exploring its development over the course of the twentieth century from a disorganised group of individuals selling newspaper space to a multi-billion dollar enterprise run by giant transnationals.
Eliot After The Waste Land by Robert Crawford
Category: Biography
The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most important poet, Robert Crawford completes the story he began in Young ...Show more
Eliot after the Waste Land by Robert Crawford
Category: Poetry
Young Eliot: From St. Louis to "The Waste Land" was hailed as "exceptional" and "assiduous" (The New York Times). Robert Crawford's meticulous, incisive scholarship continues in Eliot After "The Waste Land", an invaluable record of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet, and troubled man. After bei ...Show more
More Than a Glass and a Half - A History of Cadbury in Australia by Robert Crawford
Category: History
On Glasgow and Edinburgh by Robert Crawford
Category: History
Edinburgh and Glasgow enjoy a famously scratchy relationship. Resembling other intercity rivalries throughout the world, from Madrid and Barcelona, to Moscow and St. Petersburg, to Beijing and Shanghai, Scotland's sparring metropolises just happen to be much smaller and closer together--like twin stars ...Show more
On Glasgow and Edinburgh by Robert Crawford
Category: Culture
Edinburgh and Glasgow enjoy a famously scratchy relationship. Resembling other intercity rivalries throughout the world, from Madrid and Barcelona, to Moscow and St. Petersburg, to Beijing and Shanghai, Scotland's sparring metropolises just happen to be much smaller and closer together--like twin stars ...Show more
Scotland's Books: Penguin Hist by Robert Crawford
Category: Reference
Presents the glories of 15 centuries of Scottish literature. This book traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writings discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and full quotations i ...Show more
The Bard : Robert Burns, a biography by Robert Crawford
Category: Biography Memoir
No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns and no biographer has captured his energy, brilliance and radicalism as well as Robert Crawford does in "The Bard". To his international admirers Burns was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to ...Show more
Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land by Robert Crawford
Category: Biography
Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, The Wa ...Show more
Young Eliot: From St. Louis to the Waste Land by Professor Robert Crawford (CIBA-Geigy Pharmaceuticals Horsham UK)
Category: Biography
A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poets On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, the award-winning biographer Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a comprehensive account of this poetic genius. "Young Eliot" traces the life of ...Show more