John Harris
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The Black Lives Matter movement is bringing the characters of powerful people in colonial times into sharp focus, particularly their attitudes and actions towards slavery and indigenous peoples. Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie are among those being scrutinised and reassessed. They arrived at the penal colony of NSW, a remote outpost of the British empire in 1809. The European invaders had barely survived two decades in an alien environment but, for...
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Spiritualism is a religious movement based on the belief that spirits of the deceased exist and are able to communicate with living people. It began to develop in the 1840s and had reached its peak of popularity by the 1920s, particularly in English-speaking countries. "Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men" is a 1901 work by John Harris that looks at notable accounts and historical cases of purported spirit apparition and communication....
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Cannon to the left of them; cannon to the right of them… The legend of an extraordinary defeat brought vividly to life
The cavalry charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War remains one of the most iconic disasters in British military history. Here bestseller John Harris casts a fresh view on the subject, rejecting conventional wisdom.
The calamity was, he argues, brought about by something much more complex than the usually suspected cause:...
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John Harris is the Lord David Alliance Professor of Bioethics at the University of Manchester School of Law, joint editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics, and a member of Britain's Human Genetics Commission. His many books include On Cloning and Clones, Genes, and Immortality.
In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes...
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'…and if there had been only one survivor, there would have been no mystery in any of these cases…'
Bestselling author John Harris freshly investigates seven of the most gripping and intriguing voyages of the past 150 years. Bringing his unique skills as a novelist and sailor to reassess the fragmentary evidence, he aims to finally answer these enduring and terrifying mysteries.
He takes us:
• Aboard Erebus and Terror on Sir John Franklin's...
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Chapter 34 includes: What Is an Accountable Care Organization? Why Should Accountable Care Organizations be Interested in Urgent Care Centers? - Reducing Total Costs of Care - Improving Accessibility of Care and Patient-Satisfaction Indicators - Involving Urgent Care Primary-Care Physicians Why Should Urgent Care Centers be Interested in Accountable Care Organizations? Strategic Accountable Care Organization Options for Urgent Care Centers - Option...
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This is the fascinating autobiography of Ernst Toller. Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was a German left-wing playwright, best known for his expressionist plays. He also famously served for six days in 1919 as the President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, later being imprisoned for his actions. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in twentieth-century European history. Contents include: "Childhood", "A Student in France",...
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A Canadian mobster gets his day in court in this comic crime novel by the author of The Weird World of Wes Beattie.
Cranky beyond his years, Canadian lawyer Sidney Grant has a loathing for social hypocrisies and a fondness for poking at them. And his smart-alecky new bride June feels much the same way. Now both are brimming with indignation when Vince Lamberti gets blamed for the murder of a rich old lady.
It's not that Vince is exactly innocent....
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These are the recollections of a draftee assigned to an infantry platoon in an air cavalry troop. BlueGhost Reveille follows me as a twenty-two-year-old as I became a squad leader and then Platoon Sergeant during the war in Vietnam.
The pieces of this book are as factual as fifty-year-old memories will allow. There is no intentional fiction in this work. The stories are about everyday life during this year in a combat unit. Some pieces are mundane,...
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Based on the notorious Maungatapu Murders of 1866, this action-packed historical novel is a gripping tale of murder and greed.Fifteen-year-old Henry Appleton lives on an isolated farm in Nelson, New Zealand. He devours dime novels about American cowboys and dreams of having his own rifle and becoming a gunslinger like Wild Bill Hickok. But his daydreaming becomes a terrifying reality when two strangers ride into town: the physician Zephaniah Smith,...
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The Cleveland Browns set the standard by which all professional football teams were measured in the 1940s and '50s, but when they won the National Football League championship in 1964 it came as a surprise. Sports Illustrated called it "one of the biggest of all football upsets." Redemption in '64 tells the story of these 1964 NFL champion Browns, focusing on four individuals who were redeemed by the team's 27–0 win over the Baltimore Colts: owner...
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Bank robbers … classroom bullies … highwaymen … a rampaging bull. The challenges young Henry Appleton faces, as he struggles to stand up for what he believes in, make this a classic 'cowboy' yarn. And it takes place not in the American West but in the rough-and-tumble world of Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1860s.Although Henry dreams of having his own rifle and becoming a gunslinger like Wild Bill Hickok, he is in most ways just an ordinary kid...
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Random House
Pub. Date
2005
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xxxi, 504 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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A retrospective assessment of the Clinton presidency analyzes the key personal, political, and policy decisions of the administration, assessing Clinton's successes and failures and the long-term implications of his presidency.
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Peachtree
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c2011
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1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
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Tells the story of how, in Savannah, Georgia, in 1857 James Lord Pierpont sat down to write a song for his congregation's Thanksgiving program and, homesick for the cold New England weather he remembered, came up with an enduring classic.
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Marshall Cavendish Children
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c2010
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31 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
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Recounts the 1827 journey of a young giraffe named Belle, a gift from the Pasha of Egypt to King Charles X of France, as she makes her way by boat and land to Paris, accompanied by her devoted caretaker, Atir.
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Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
2012
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col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
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Relates the story, told by a monk named Notker the Stammerer, of how the Emperor Charlemagne sent an ambassador to Baghdad, the center of the Muslim world, to learn about the great ruler in the East, Haroun al Rashid. Includes notes on the factual basis of the story.
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Apple
Pub. Date
2021.
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238 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.
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Drawing on over 120 hours of sound recordings, this official account of the creation of the Beatles' final album, "Let It Be," told in their own words, comes to life with hundreds of previously unpublished images.
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Monterey Museum of Art
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c2002.
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1 DVD (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Chronicles the important photographic heritage of the Monterey region and pays tribute to some of the most important men and women in American photography, masters whose creative and technical visions changed the way the world views photographic art. Photographers included are Ansel Adams, Edward, Brett and Cole Weston, Wynn and Edna Bullock, Morley Baer, Henry Gilpin, John Sexton, Richard Garrod, Al Weber, Sonya Noskowiak, Margrethe Mather, among...