Dictionary of world biography / / Barry Jones

• Autore: Jones Barry O.
• Pubblicazione: ANU Press, 2015; Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University E Press, , 2015
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (938 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 920.02
• Soggetto topico: Biography
• Soggetto non controllato: dictionary; biography
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: About the author --Abbreviations --Introduction --A --B --C --D --E --F --G --H --I --J --K --L --M --N --O --P --Q --R --S --T --U --V --W --X --Y --Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Jones, Barry Owen (1932- ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972-77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977-98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983-90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987-90 and Customs 1988-90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991-95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992-2000, 2005-06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860- (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dictionary of world biography
• ISBN: 1-925022-25-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910131513803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: ANU.Lives series in biography.