The Coombs : a house of memories

The Coombs : a house of memories /

"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 founda...

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Other authors / contributors: Lal, Brij V. (Editor), Ley, Allison (Editor)
Edition:2nd edition.
Imprint: Canberra ACT, Australia : ANU Press, 2014.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Coombs Building (Canberra, A.C.T.) > History > Anecdotes.
Australian National University > History > Anecdotes.
Australian National University > Alumni and alumnae.
Australian National University
Universities and colleges > Australia > Canberra (A.C.T.) > History.
Universities and colleges.
Table of 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.

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