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John’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Shaftesbury The 'Shaston' Of Thomas Hardyincluding Fourteen Wood Engravings With A Memoir Of James Masters And The High House Press
by John R. Biggs
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by John R. Biggs
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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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John’s Recent Updates
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| Gruesome start: A one-eyed epileptic in 1380s is burned at the stake as being possessed by a devil. He curses his people for a thousand generations. Which bring us to Ben doing a spitiual spell in a monastery. Out on an errand he returns to find ll h ...more | |
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| Every Ben Hope book is over the top but this one is so over it is ludicrous. Ben is persuaded to leave on his wedding by an old flame, Roberta Ryder who was very afraid. She begged Ben follow her. And after this unlikely beginning, he left his weddin ...more | |
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| Isstvan is a Hungarian schoolboy who at age fifteen helps woman , aged about 40, to carry her shopping. What as the title suggests leads to sex. Later through the book it leads to sex. Helen is extremely rich and hires him as a chauffeur, that too le ...more | |
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| Barnes calls this a novel but it really is a biography of Shostakovich, or as Barnes calls him Dimitri Dimitrievich (as he so calls all Russian characters). Barnes is very irritating – I skipped a lot towards the end – because he plays with the story ...more | |
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| . The inspired one was Van Cliburn, American pianist, who against all “political” predictions won the 1958 International Tchaikovsky Piano competition held in Moscow. As is getting more popular, with authors it seems, there are two time streams, the ...more | |
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| Sir Roger Forsyte specializes in raising old wrecks and renovating like new. His most recent one led to him attach an attaché case to his wrist containing very precious documents: A statement from a 16th century King of Spain giving the Serrato famil ...more | |
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| The title says it all. The Land is a peninsula off the Irish coast and different voices give their But the main story is about the inhabitants, a family the rather terrifying father, Tomas who says very little but is an expert surveyor, and who goes ...more | |
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| The Albigensian Crusade was called by Pope Innocent III in 1208 against the Count of Toulouse, aiming to get him to war against the Cathar heretics, which they did with massacres and mass burning of the local population. Philip, baron of Vercy, had h ...more | |
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| Chess players will love this. I’m not but the storyline is grabbing, if fantastic. The richest men in the world for The Forum who want to reduce the world’s population by 15 out of ever 16, ostensibly for sustainability reasons. Valentina’s Tonton (U ...more | |
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| This is the last of Ben Hope series, so Mariani says. The date is 1308 and the Knights Templar are being persecuted by the Vatican because they believe that John, the disciple who Jesus loved, was in superior to Jesus: the crucifixion and resurrectio ...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.