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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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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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| . My first reaction was 2 stars: somehow I just couldn’t get into this and started skipping towards the end. Minimum 4 stars for his other books. The Enigma comments and the characters of Jason and the useless Peyton put me right off. However I can s ...more | |
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| Mortimer takes roughly 1000AD to 1600 as “medieval”, but his point is to show just how much development across several “horizons” occurred, and how much of that development underpins present day life. He visits violence and war, inequality and wealth ...more | |
"1.5⭐️
This was, unfortunately, not a gem. I have a huge interest in how we interact with the past and how it's perceived, which means this should have been the perfect book for me! However, I've also studied the Medieval and Early Modern periods in so" Read more of this review » |
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| Despite the title, this book must be the most depressing I have ever read. It describes how families suffered the serially catastrophic changes from warlords, to Mujahedeen to Russian to Taliban to 2001 when the US controlled the city. The shocking c ...more | |
"I got this from Amazon First Reads. The book description sounded interesting and that it would be a good, suspenseful read. I was disappointed. It was a quick read as it was only 200ish pages. But it was far fetched and not believable. I wouldn’t rec"
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| A disappointing cliché ridden melodrama. The villain Hossle Jester (!!) and his hired killer all black, the goodies all white, like Dean his FBI brother Eric and April. Yes, I did keep turning the pages, but with increasing skipping, for the story ha ...more | |
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| Probably the best of the Flashman series. It starts with how Harry Flashman found himself despite his cowardice at the Battle at Balaclava in the Crimea. He finds himself as mentor of Prince William of Celle, after a game of billiards, to the Battle ...more | |
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| Broken Bay is on the SA Limestone Coast which is riddled with sinkholes. They are often narrow very deep with brilliant clear water and a cave system underneath, which attracts cave divers despite the dangers of getting trapped in squeeze holes or ru ...more | |
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| Having thoroughly enjoyed Kay’s diaries I was deeply disappointed in his attempt at fiction. Grossly overwritten and exaggerated. DNF. | |
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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.