Jonathan Harris, Author Four Winds $15.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-02-742744-8
In textbook-like fashion, Harris ( Drugged America ) here provides perhaps more than young readers want to know about alcohol. The information splits roughly into halves: the first operates from a stated intention to reveal ``insights into a nation's
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Jonathan Harris, Author Four Winds $14.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-02-742730-1
Black-and-white photos illustrate Harris's well-written account of Liberty's agonizingly slow progress to her permanent site and of people, past and present, involved with her historically. In essence, the viewpoint of this book differs from others.
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Jonathan Harris, Yale Univ., $40 (336p) ISBN 978-0-300-11786-8
The Greek-speaking culture of Byzantium, the eastern region of the Roman Empire, continued long after the Fall of Rome and well into the 15th century. Harris picks up Byzantium's storied history in the last 50 years of the empire, when it had been...
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Jonathan Harris, Author . Sourcebooks $22 (272p) ISBN 978-1-57071-712-3
It's disappointing when a thriller equipped with a complex plot, international settings and a varied cast of intriguing characters never really comes to life on the page. Harris's debut involves the search for the legendary Amber Room, the $1
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Jonathan Harris. Yale Univ., $38 (280p) ISBN 978-0-300-17857-9
Harris (The End of Byzantium), professor of the history of Byzantium at the University of London, challenges the commonplace view of the Byzantine empire as a forgettable relic. He contends that the empire, which endured for over 1000 years, was one
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