Posted on January 25, 2008 by bradhinton
Last night I watched a documentary on Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand mountaineer who (with Tenzing Norgay) became the first men to climb to the summit of Mt Everest in Nepal. Hillary died last fortnight, so the documentary wasn’t just coincidental!
The documentary was particularly revealing to me about the actual mission and ascent up the Himalayas by [...]
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Posted on May 15, 2007 by bradhinton
I was saddened to hear of the death last week of American, Alfred Chandler Jr., aged 88. Chandler was widely regarded as the father of business history, particularly industrial history. He was the author of the ground-breaking Scale and scope: the dynamics of industrial capitalism.
I came across “Scale and Scope” in my Economics degree in Sydney (many [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2007 by bradhinton
Today in Australia is ANZAC Day in which Australia (and New Zealand) commemorate their people who served in the armed forces from the Boer War in 1899 to more current conflicts. ANZAC Day is founded in the battles at Gallipoli in Turkey in World War I. Les Carlyon’s book on Gallipoli is a worthy read.
Today is also an [...]
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