Mrs. Parkinson's Law and Other Studies in Domestic Science

by C. Northcote Parkinson

On This Page

Tags

Recommendations

Member Reviews

1 review
Indeholder "Forord", "1. Den romantiske periode", "2. Ægteskabet", "3. Automotion", "4. Hjemmets arne", "5. Værter og gæster", "6- Børnene", "7. Mrs. Parkinsons lov", "8. Med og mål", "9. Teenologi", "10. Flugten fra virkeligheden", "11. Rejseliv", "12. Pensionistens lod".

"Forord" handler om ???
"1. Den romantiske periode" handler om ???
"2. Ægteskabet" handler om ???
"3. Automotion" handler om ???
"4. Hjemmets arne" handler om ???
"5. Værter og gæster" handler om ???
"6- Børnene" handler om ???
"7. Mrs. Parkinsons lov" handler om ???
"8. Med og mål" handler om ???
"9. Teenologi" handler om ???
"10. Flugten fra virkeligheden" handler om ???
"11. Rejseliv" handler om ???
"12. Pensionistens lod" handler om ???

???

Members

Recently Added By

Author Information

Picture of author.
80+ Works 3,076 Members
Author C. Northcote Parkinson was born in the north of England on July 30, 1909. He was educated at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge and at King's College, London. His graduate thesis "War in the Eastern Seas, 1793-1815" won the 1935 Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History. He taught at numerous schools, colleges, and universities show more including the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; the University of Liverpool; the University of Malaya; Harvard University; the University of Illinois; and the Univeristy of California, Berkeley. He stopped teaching in 1960 to become an independent writer. He wrote over 60 books in his lifetime; many dealing with British politics and economics. His most famous work is Parkinson's Law, which is a collection of short essays explaining the inevitability of bureaucratic expansion because work increases to fill the time allotted for it. He also wrote the Richard Delancey series about a fictional naval officer from Guernsey during the Napoleonic era. He died on March 9, 1993 in Canterbury, Kent. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Some Editions

Osborn, Robert C. (Illustrator)
Szász, Imre (Translator)
Zedlitz, Ursula von (Translator)

Series

Belongs to Publisher Series

Work Relationships

Common Knowledge

Canonical title
Mrs. Parkinson's Law and Other Studies in Domestic Science
Original title
Mrs. Parkinson's Law and Other Studies in Domestic Science
Original publication date
1968

Classifications

Genre
Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
827.9Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish humor and satire1900-
LCC
PN6231 .M3 .P35Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Collections of general literatureWit and humor

Statistics

Members
105
Popularity
307,010
Reviews
1
Rating
(3.20)
Languages
7 — Danish, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Swedish
Media
Paper
ISBNs
5
ASINs
9