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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
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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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Project Integrens
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Student Approaches to Learning and Studying
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1987
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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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| 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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| A very readable account of the land occupied today by Russia. Documents go back to 1000 CE. It is a huge area with 7 time zones with successive waves of people – a palimpsest as Galeotti calls it. From early times the social structure was based on a ...more | |
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| Two Dutch girls, Aletta and Cecilia have been besties since childhood. Aletta lives with her parents but early in WW2 while Aletta delivers messages for the Dutch Underground she takes a wounded English pilot, Harry, home and puts him in a sealed cup ...more | |
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| At 16 Nero becomes emperor. At first he means well, but is haunted by the murder of his mother. As he gets more and more power he becomes obsessed with his own abilities particularly as musician and poet. He plays his lyre and sings on stage against ...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.