John Harris: 126 books

Book cover of Above the Falls
by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011

In May 1936, George Dalziel flew far up the Nahanni River to check on Bill Eppler and Joe Mulholland, who were working one of his traplines. He found their cabin burned to the ground and no sign of them anywhere. What had happened to the healthy young men? Had there been an accident, or was a killer...
Book cover of Sensation and Perception
by Dr. John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014

Sensation and Perceptioncovers in detail the perceptual processes related to vision and hearing**, taste and smell, touch and pain** as well as the vestibular and proprioceptive systems. Individual chapters cover separate topics including the fast-developing areas of perception of emotions and attractiveness...
Book cover of Diary of a Desert Rat & the Battle of El Alamein
by John Harris, Mary Berry
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013

This is the exact text of a Diary kept (against Regulations) by Private John Harris whilst with the 8th Army in  North Africa during World War 11. It includes his experiences at the famous battle of El Alamein. Among the drama of the battlefield he pauses for lighter moments such as...
Book cover of Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

Exploring the Fandemonium

by Roger C. Aden, Greg G. Armfield, David E. Beard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011

Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
Book cover of The Backpacker
by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009

‘Leaving the blinding sand for the cool shade of the trees, I walked carefully through the undergrowth to where Dave, using two twigs as chopsticks, was picking up a freshly severed human finger…’ John’s trip to India starts badly when his girlfriend returns home and he finds himself...
Book cover of China Seas
by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

In this action-packed adventure, Willie Sarth becomes a survivor. Forced to fight pirates on the East China Seas, wrestle for his life on the South China Seas and cross the Sea of Japan ravaged by typhus, Sarth is determined to come out alive. Dealing with human tragedy, war and revolution, Harris presents a novel which packs an awesome punch.
Book cover of The Old Trade of Killing
by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012

Harris’ exciting adventure is set against the backdrop of the Western Desert and scene of the Eighth Army battles. The men who fought together in the Second World War return twenty years later in search of treasure. But twenty years can change a man. Young ideals have been replaced by greed. Comradeship...
Book cover of The Trial of Maximo Bonga: The Story of the Strangest Guesthouse in South East Asia
by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015

There was someone standing further along the beach, facing out to sea. An old man dressed in... I blinked... battle fatigues? Second World War U.S. by the looks of the helmet. I looked on for a moment, squinting into the sun-streaked coconut smoke. ‘You won’t like Bonga’s Guest House,...
Book cover of Howard Hughes: the Las Vegas Years

Howard Hughes: the Las Vegas Years

The Women, the Mormons, the Mafia

by John Harris Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011

Many people know about Howard Hughes, Americas first billionaire. He was an aviation engineer, an Oscar-winning motion picture producer and director, and a hotel and casino owner in Las Vegas and Reno, with seven establishments. He built the biggest airplane in the world at the timeknown as the Spruce...
Book cover of Tumulte
by John Harris Dunning
Language: French
Release Date: May 25, 2019

Désabusé par un quotidien trop lisse, dont la perfection est devenue étouffante, Adam Whistler aspire à vivre le fameux tumulte qui le révélera à sa propre existence. Ce jour arrive quand il rencontre Morgane, une jeune femme ténébreuse qui souffre de trouble dissociatif de l’identité....
Book cover of A Funny Place To Hold A War
by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011

Ginger Donnelly is on the trail of Nazi saboteurs in Sierra Leone. Whilst taking a midnight paddle with a willing woman in a canoe cajoled from a local fisherman, Donnelly sees an enormous seaplane thunder across the sky only to crash in a ball of brilliant flame. It seems like an accident…at least until a second plane explodes in a blistering shower along the same flight path.
Book cover of Take Or Destroy
by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011

Lieutenant-Colonel George Hockold must destroy Rommel’s vast fuel reserves stored at the port of Qaba if the Eighth Army is to succeed in the Alamein offensive. Time is desperately running out, resources are scant and the commando unit Hockold must lead is a rag tag band of misfits scraped from the dregs of the British Army. They must attack Qaba. The orders? Take or destroy.
Book cover of North Strike
by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012

It is 1939. The Royal Navy urgently needs information about German raiders. There is only one place to get it…the port of Narvik and only one man capable – Magnusson. A story of the daring, outrageous exploits of a spy rescuing British prisoners from the Altmark and swept up in to the German battle for Norway.
Book cover of The Mercenaries
by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011

Ira Penaluna, First World War pilot, sees his airline go bankrupt in Africa and grabs at the chance to instruct pilots in China. But Ira hasn’t reckoned on the beat-up, burnt-out wrecks he is expected to teach his students in, or on the fact that his pupils speak no English. Though aided and abetted...
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