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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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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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| This book particularly in the excellent first third, lives up to its musical name. Unusually, Kingsolver lists musical works to be played while reading given sections in which the piece is analysed both technically and for its meaning in that piece o ...more | |
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| English Hazel, trained by SOE, is dropped into wartime France and meets there her old French friend Rose, and German born Sophia. There are two themes, bonding between the three women, an old Lane theme, which is schmaltzy and way too sentimental, an ...more | |
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| Katie is an 18 year old Amish girl who appears to have murdered her illegitimate baby. She is charged with murder and is tried by US Federal law. Katie’s perspective however is Amish, where wrongdoing is treating with shunning, after a confession bef ...more | |
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| . Sir Francis Drake is waiting in Plymouth to set sail against the Spaniards, but a murder has been committed, Robert Dunne, and as it involves one of his crew he can’t sail until the murder is solved, a murder clumsily made to look like suicide. If ...more | |
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| Joe Crater was a judge who had a brilliant career ahead, but he went missing, and probably never found: Lawhon turns that into very likely he was found much later. Stella his wife was angry at his serial faithlessness, Ritzi one of his mistresses, an ...more | |
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| 1939 Australia’s best hotel The Wrest Point Riviera opened; in 1973its successor and the first casino Wrest Point. As a Hobartian I found this interesting, but to me the plot goes astray with the introduction of once Tasmanian now world celebrity gla ...more | |
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| Stillwell is Connolly’s latest cop in the Catalina series. Catlina is a nice Island off LA. Stil is at the airport when a plane drops off a gunman who shoots Quigley and several wounds Ramirez, two cops. This is one plot. The other is about a park ra ...more | |
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| A mystery in 88 letters. Grenville had come across 88 letters between Joseph Connor, schoolmaster in rural NSW, and various parents, pupils and Education Department officials. They revealed contradictory accounts about Connor, but being largely offic ...more | |
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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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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.