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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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John Biggs
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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
This not my book but author name similar. How can I remove it?
by John R. Biggs
This not my book but author name similar. How can I remove it?
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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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Project Integrens
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Student Approaches to Learning and Studying
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1987
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The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #40)
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| A mother uses Tidalwaev a Hi Tech company that produces a female bot that talked her son to kill his girl friend. The interest is not so much in AI driven bots but in the legal to and fro. The theme is that bots this one called Wren can be programmed ...more | |
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| On rereading its flaws really stood out. Follett has this annoying trait of acting both author and as editor. He steps outside his own narrative to make comments. Somebody says something. ‘this was true,’ Follett the commentator says, and then repeat ...more | |
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| This is very different from the ‘Mark’ series, which I liked. This is set in 1938 in Cairo when Hitler is ominously planning WW2. The Nimrod Theatre in Cairo, owned by Archie Nevenden, is attacked by Arab extremists and people killed. Archie has disa ...more | |
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| Full marks for imagination. I usually dislike the supernatural in stories, but after getting over the first negative reaction, I was willing to go along with it – until … Annabel Warnock was a teacher in a remote girls’ boarding school in the 40s. Sh ...more | |
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| Logan is a clever writer but the story’s just too clever, over-plotted: many blind alleys to gotcha the reader. The opening, sort of prologue, should have been scrapped: it implies the supernatural which is off-putting and indeed is not the case. Lia ...more | |
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| . Ostensible about the building of Stonehenge but that doesn’t appear significantly until around p. 300 – half way through. In that pre period 2,500 BCE it’s all about the goodies and baddies in three tribes: the farmers (a lot of baddies there), woo ...more | |
“Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot”
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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.