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John Biggs
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in Hobart, Australia
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Evaluating the Quality of Learning: The Solo Taxonomy : Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome
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1982
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5 editions
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Tin Dragons
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2008
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Changing Universities: A memoir about academe in different places and times.
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2013
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2 editions
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Tasmania Over Five Generations: Return to Van Diemen's Land?
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2011
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The Process of Learning
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Towards Forgiveness: Sino-Tasmanian stories from two islands.
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2012
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Disguises
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2013
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The Girl In The Golden House
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2003
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2 editions
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Project Integrens
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Student Approaches to Learning and Studying
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1987
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| The nazi built Hindenburg Zeppelin was meant as a showcase of German might, including its large swastika emblems. The cabin boy Werner, the Captain Prus, Max the navigator, stewardess Emilie, and a few passengers and theirt children are real characte ...more | |
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| This is typical Valpy structure: Young person, Ruby who tells the contemporary story, meets old person (Hanna), who is a tough old biddy who Ruby is hired to look after: with much difficulty. Nevertheless Ruby is the lever to open up Hanna’s story to ...more | |
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| Set in a Cambridge college in 1953, the “affair” was about the falsification of a scientific experiment by the removal of a key photograph. Was it done by the highly respected Palairet now dead, or by his student, the left wing and disliked Howard? T ...more | |
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| Walsingham has hired Bruno to find evidence against Catholic Mary Queen of Scots who sees herself and her Catholic supporters, especially priest Ballard, as rightful Queen of England and not Elizabeth. The issue is more than just that: Philp King of ...more | |
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| Over 70 years since I’ve read a Biggles book, so it was a nostalgic experience. Despite the formal old fashioned language and the need for every verb to have an adverb and avoidance of the word “said” – ‘Good grief,’ ejaculated Algy grimly’ – it was ...more | |
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| A rich powerful family, the Jamissions ran most shipping to the US, led by tyrant Sir George and his two sons, the brutal and selfish Robert and playboy Jay. Then aristract tomboy Lizzie and the vwery tough coal miner Malachi Mcasch, or Mack. Despite ...more | |
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| A detailed fictionalization of Tasmania’s Huon Valley and the rise and fall and rationalization of the apple industry. We start with the terrible 1967 fires that all but destroyed Hobart suburbs, to 2020. Stephens refers to the important events that ...more | |
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| Jane Savillle’s sister Charlotte is pregnant but not to the rich playboy she intends to marry. Their mother and Charlotte force Jan to pretend the child is hers and to go away to Salisbury and hide. The boy Harry and Jane bond fiercely. He is loved b ...more | |
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Just finished The October Horse by Colleen McCullough ***. Interesting take on Caesar's assassination -- would have been a darn sight more interesting if her editor had got to work with an axe. I got the feeling she was showing off telling in minute detail the minutiae of Roman history and customs.