by Mary Beard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781846685361
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«All in a Don's Day» is a collection of essays by Mary Beard, published by Profile Books in 2012 in paperback (288 pages, in English).
A compilation of articles from Mary Beard's celebrated blog, focusing on teaching, university life and the classical world. Mary Beard comments with humor and irony on matters such as whether Gaddafi's house was Roman, the terror of the hairdresser's, or grading illegible handwritten exams.
Second volume in the «It's a Don's Life» series. The paperback edition was published on April 5, 2012.
For those who enjoy nonfiction and essays on classical culture, university and academic life.
Mary Ritter Beard was an American historian, author, women's suffrage activist, and women's history archivist who was also a lifelong advocate of social justice. As a Progressive Era reformer, Beard was active in both the labor and women's rights movements. She also authored several books on women's role in history including On Understanding Women (1931), America Through Women's Eyes, and Woman as Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities (1946), her major work. In addition, she collaborated with her husband, historian Charles Austin Beard, as coauthor of seven textbooks, most notably The Rise of American Civilization (1927), two volumes, and America in Midpassage: A Study of the Idea of Civilization (1939) and The American Spirit (1942), the third and fourth volume of The Rise of American Civilization series. A standalone book, Basic History of the United States, was their best-selling work.
