Bøger af Mark Harris

This book offers a solutions-based approach to climate change problems which impact human beings within the tropics. It largely comprises research articles with supplementary applications and illustrations, discusses specific problem areas, and provides an overview of geotechnical and sustainable solutions to lessen the impact of climate.

What would it feel like to actually travel back in time? How meaningful or dangerous could it be to embark on such a voyage? Where on earth might a suitable candidate and launch site be found? And when would be the chosen era for a journey to the past?

Henry Wiggen, the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball ""with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family."" More than a novel about baseball, Bang the Drum Slowly is about the friendship and the lives of a group of men as they each learn that a teammate is dying of cancer.

Rimrose was well-read, smart, and strong. As the editor of the campus Sentinel, he was perfectly placed to observe how a university worked, and ideally inclined to expose its ethical weaknesses.Supported by his parents, he could concentrate on things that mattered: his writing, his wife-to-be, and his friends and enemies.

Written by a boy about a boy: much the same boy, two boys in one, one white boy, one black boy. Each boy sees all around him giants and dragons where most folk see only windmills.

A seamstress from "somewhere out West" writes to Henry, her hero, that she will be in New York to watch the Mammoths play on the Fourth of July. When she arrives in New York, both the married Henry and his pal, the very unmarried Thurston "Piney" Woods, are at a loss as to what to do with their visitor.

Henry Wiggen was the bedraggled six-foot-three, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths. This work talks about Wiggen's midlife crisis on familiar American turf: the baseball diamond.

John Bunyan * Origen * Evelyn Underhill * John Newton * The Desert Fathers *Julian of Norwich * John of Ruysbroek * Bernard of Clairvaux * Margery Kempe* George Herbert * The Celtic Saints * Aelred of RievaulxEach of these classic Christian writers has something to teach us about lifewith God. Weaving together life today with the wisdom of these saints, MarkHarris has created a practical guide to spiritual growth. The book coversdifficult issues such as working through spiritual dryness, prayerlessness,temptation and discouragement. In addition we learn how to keep focusing onJesus, develop spiritual friendships and reach out to others in love.In this small book you will meet more than a dozen spiritual companions whowill shape and transform your journey with God.

It's well into the first decade of the 21st century. Londoner Steve, a retired professional and a published fiction author in his fit early sixties, is on a creative journey to Berlin.

In Men, Love and Birth, male midwife Mark Harris shares his invaluable experience and first-hand insight, man-to-man, in a practical and honest guide to pregnancy, childbirth and beyond.

The contexts of these fictional tales embrace an eclectic range of Jewish-themed situations, historical and contemporary, extraordinary and at times controversial, cathartic and occasionally bizarre, sensitive and sometimes emotional, intriguing and periodically droll. Many of the stories reveal an unexpected twist in the tail.

Presents the story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a right-handed world. Written in Henry's own words, this funny novel follows his eccentric course from bush league to the World Series.

Features thirteen short stories representing Mark Harris's distinguished work in this genre from 1946 to 1993. They were undertaken at a time when he was becoming famous as a novelist. He loves and writes about the pleasures of baseball. While baseball is absent from the stories, his appreciation of human variety is not lacking.

This fascinating collection of 24 stories looks at the lives of ordinary Jewish people who have been caught up in extraordinary, often tragic, circumstances and have something significant or meaningful to tell us about the trials and tribulations and joys of life...