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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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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
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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| Fiction or non fiction? Fiction, it says, but Beaumont was a genuine spy and he writes like it is a manual for spies. Can’t blame him for that except that is technical and dull. DNF. | |
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| Same situation as “The Housemaid”: a plausible monster, Douglas, his battered wife Wendy and Millie, and no one is what they seem even Milly the ex con.. As in my review of the former, the situation has already been milked dry. This time Millie’s voi ...more | |
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| The incredible story of Anastasia, daughter of Nicholas II, and Anna Schanzkowsaki/Anderson who claimed she was Anastasia, who had somehow escaped the family massacre by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg. Most of the Romanov family vehemently asserted s ...more | |
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| Cold case murders – 80 year old skeletons found in the Murray River wetlands. Lucic and Nell are sent to investigate. Three time zones are involved: the early 40s, the mid 70s and the present, with some bits in between. Family vendettas and Nell’s an ...more | |
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| Ivan Lucic, a homicide detective from Sydney, is sent to Finnigans Gap to assist in the murder investigation of an opal miner who has been found crucified down his own mine. Working with local but inexperienced investigator Nell Buchanan to find who ...more | |
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| *** A 1950s childhood. Nostalgia time. Set in England, it fits Australian experience of what it was like to be a child in the 1950s. At first quite evocative, but as I read on, I felt swamped by trivia. Recalled old TV and Radio programmes, which was ...more | |
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| The fictionalized biography of Henry Jones, who created Jone IXL jams as well as a lot of other ventures. I enjoyed reading this as a Hobartian, knowing the background very well. The Hobart of the early 1800s, around Wapping especially, is very well ...more | |
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“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.