Snow on the Pea Soup: And Other Anecdotes
Gregory Randall
(Author)
Description
This book represents 50 years of collecting anecdotes, starting at Oxford University at the end of its golden age of developing the personality as well as the brain. So different from nowadays where Britain's left wing conservative government requires the world's best known University to waste its money and time explaining to stupid schoolchildren who won't apply because they think they will be murdered because the "Inspector Morse" murder mysteries are set In Oxford, that they are fiction- pupils this stupid don't deserve any university education. It goes forward to 2013, with a big airport denying there is an airline called British Airways, and the potential sighting of the ghost of a cowled monk in an ancient churchyard. Geographically it includes the little visited countries of Kazakhstan (a real anecdote, not the silliness of Borat) and the tiny coral Cook Islands in the middle of the Pacific.
Product Details
Price
$33.56
Publisher
Authorhouse UK
Publish Date
August 29, 2013
Pages
164
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.5 inches | 0.88 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781491876268
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About the Author
Gregory Randall was born in New York City in 1960, then lived eight years in Mexico, fourteen in Cuba, eleven in France and since 1994 has resided in Uruguay. He and his wife have three children and one grandchild. He did his undergraduate work in telecommunications in Cuba and earned his doctorate in information technology from the University of Orsay, France. Since 1994 he has been a professor of electrical engineering at the University of the Republic in Montevideo. From 2007 to 2014 he was also that institution's vice president for research, during which time he promoted and oversaw the establishment of several university campuses in the interior of the country. TO HAVE BEEN THERE THEN: MEMORIES OF CUBA 1969-1983 (The Operating System, 2016) is his first book, a memoir of childhood and young adulthood in the Cuba of the 1970s and 80s, with moving, often breathtaking stories of what it was like for a young boy to grow up in revolution.
