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Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. [1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa.
They acquired the rights to Murray’s Handbooks in 1915 from the cartographical publisher Edward Stanford, who had bought them 14 years earlier from John Murray IV. In the same year they established their company, Muirhead’s Guide-books Limited .
In 1972 Murray took a leave of absence from that position to run in California's 32nd Congressional District. [2] He was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee against longtime Republican incumbent Craig Hosmer. [3] Murray taught at the USC School of International and Public Affairs, and later served as Vice President for Development at Whittier ...
As a result, only two trustees of the College of California became regents of the university and Martin Kellogg was the only faculty member of the college hired by the new university. [2] The College of California had been founded and run by Protestants, who were dismayed to discover that the university's Board of Regents included several men ...
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Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality is a 2008 book by Charles Murray. [1] He wrote the book to challenge the "Educational romanticism [which] asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top."
The California Community Colleges is a postsecondary education system in the U.S. state of California. [1] The system includes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges and 73 community college districts. The districts currently operate 116 accredited colleges.
First edition with artwork by John Craxton. A Time of Gifts (1977) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor.Published by John Murray when the author was 62, it is a memoir of the first part of Leigh Fermor's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople (officially Istanbul) in 1933/34.