Books with author John L. Harris

High Quality FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION: :Harris, L. (Lawrence) :With Mulai Hafid At Fez: Behind The Scenes In Morocco :1909 :Facsimile: Originally published by London : Smith, Elder & Co. in 1909. Book will be printed in black and white, with grayscale images. Book will be 6 inches wide by 9 inches tall and soft cover bound. Any foldouts will be scaled to page size. If the book is larger than 1000 pages, it will be printed and bound in two parts. Due to the age of the original titles, we cannot be held responsible for missing pages, faded, or cut off text.

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Bellies come in all shapes and sizes. There are big ones, small ones, hot ones, cold ones, and even green ones! Learn about all kinds of bellies and the best way to take care of your very own belly–no matter what kind you have!Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning.From the Hardcover edition.

Novelist John Harrison has captured the feeling of adventure in this new novel set in a dark time. A prophecy cast from the dawn of time is coming to be fulfilled in a time when almost all hope of salvation is lost. The lands are in chaos and everyone is trying to survive. The last queen was slain through treachery and decades have passed since there has been any form of solid rule in Cennicus. In the interim the races have split from one another and are amassing for a war that threatens to consume them all. This is a time of legends and need. Somehow wrapped up in it all is one boy searching for his past and the keys to his future. Namir and his friends valiantly search out vestiges of his father's past...a trek that may lead them into the very heart of darkness itself. This is the first book of the Shadow Saga, a must read for any fantasy enthusiast. Join with us as we explore the darkness that is Cennicus. Will they lead us to salvation? Or deeper into the very darkness we seek to escape?

A prophecy cast from the dawn of time is coming to be fulfilled in a time when almost all hope of salvation is lost. The lands are in chaos and everyone is trying to survive. The last queen was slain through treachery and decades have passed since there has been any form of solid rule in Cennicus. In the interim, the races have split from one another and are amassing for a war that threatens to consume them all. This is a time of legends and need. Somehow wrapped up in it all is one boy searching for the keys to his past and his future. Namir and his friends valiantly search out vestiges of his father's past... a trek that may lead them into the very heart of darkness itself. Will they lead us to salvation? Or deeper into the very darkness we seek to escape?

The darkness makes itself known to Namir and his friends in harsh ways. Things are never what they seem and those struggling to survive find it even harder. Threats, like death, come unannounced. Although the search for Halin nears its end, Nurn and Jerine still have hardships to face. Meanwhile, Hessa and Aves face a different kind of threat. All the while Namir finds new challenges in his quest to obtain his birthright.

John Harris may seem an unlikely source of information about hitting a baseball. Though he taught everything from Latin, Greek, and French to English Composition to Classical and World Literature for three and a half decades, he never found any competent instructor to train him in the fine art of batsmanship during his formative years. Like so many American boys, he played until he surpassed his very modest skill level, then continued to other things….Until he became a father. With a boy on his hands who was fascinated by the game of baseball, he used all his researching savvy to plunge into books, videos, online tutoring—and soon noticed that the lessons being transmitted were neither very detailed nor very inspired. All the “cutting-edge” wisdom appeared to recycle the same clichés, and the message was especially—even exclusively—suited to big, tall boys whose physique generated a lot of bat speed without the help of much technique. A coach couldn’t go far wrong with students like those!But what about fellows with a smaller build? Dr. Harris’s research eventually came to focus on the all-but-forgotten hitters of the so-called Deadball Era (in the first decades of the twentieth century): not just Ty Cobb, but Tris Speaker, Honus Wagner, Napoleon Lajoie, Edd Roush, and many others. In 2017, he published Hitting Secrets From Baseball’s Graveyard, and a year later he followed with Landing Safeties. Both books contained a wealth of information about how batters of a century ago played the “small ball” game of reaching base over 40 percent of the time, often, while striking out perhaps once a week. The lingering problem in the case of both studies, though, was that such techniques couldn’t be transferred to the contemporary metal bat.Or could they? Metal Ropes quickly took shape as Harris’s experiments finally broke through a conceptual logjam and suggested to him how the metal bat might indeed be adapted to strike sizzling line drives (or “ropes”). These discoveries have come too late to help his own son, whose fate in the hands of a monolithic coaching establishment was fully predictable. The pain of that protracted experience, however, was a powerful motivator for this book, as its final chapter reveals.Metal Ropes advocates essentially three kinds of Old School stroke. One involves the long-striding “Fall Step”, another the highly flexible “Shuffle Step”, a third the dynamic “Hitch-and-Glide”. All three maneuvers are anathema in today’s coaching circles; yet the techniques of which they are composed—gripping the handle in the “knocker knuckles”, shifting weight fully to the front foot, and swinging downward to impart backspin—were all part of yesteryear’s lost gospel. It’s difficult to say that “progress” has discredited that gospel when today’s elite hitters struggle to break .250 against extreme infield shifts. Nevertheless, the establishment is sure to reject these lessons with disdain—and with little time wasted on counter-arguments. Harris would embrace that verdict: it just means that those few who keep an open mind and dare to excavate the past will have less competition for batting titles!

This unique hitting manual has a complicated history. Dr. Harris wrote HITTING SECRETS FROM BASEBALL'S GRAVEYARD as a salute to great Deadball Era batsmen like Cobb, Speaker, and Wagner after investing twenty years of off-and-on research in the project. The techniques he unearthed from first-hand accounts, old photos, and much experimental reverse-engineering stunned him to a point that he found himself wanting to recommend their revival. LANDING SAFETIES fulfills that wish. This volume is a straight-up, unapologetic set of techniques for hitting low line drives so as to increase your chances of reaching base. The modern hitting game has become almost the exclusive province of tall body types employing styles that generate “big flies”—so much so that, halfway through the Major League season, you find regular starters still struggling to reach .200 against radical shifts and multiple Big League clubs averaging nine strikeouts per contest. Left-on-base numbers are also soaring as runners-in-scoring-position averages plunge. As the period’s name says bluntly, balls didn’t travel well in the Deadball Era. Hitters therefore developed techniques to drive the unlively ball through or over the infield: that was the “percentage” move. It still is, especially for shorter players who will never be able to compete at “long ball” with teammates a foot taller than they. Equipped with the techniques laid out in this book, those same players of the shorter (and often more athletic) body type will be forcing the coach to choose between a giant who homers every third game while striking out twice each game, on the one hand, and a more compact fellow who bats around .400. With almost a hundred black-and-white images, this book represents the Old School approach very graphically. Photos of yesteryear’s stars are stirred in with Harris's modeling positions himself for which few or no photos exist (usually because they are mid-swing shots that earlier cameras couldn’t capture). The results should be very useful to young players—girls as well as boys—who eagerly seek a way to out-perform their larger, more attention-getting rivals.NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION: a step-by-step, fully illustrated breakdown of Tris Speaker's dynamic load into the pitch from a "shuffle-step"; a full chapter on approach, emphasizing the importance of opposite-field and up-the-middle hitting; and two angles featuring frozen-frame analysis of how well front-foot hitting with the Old School downward stroke covers the zone when compared to more recent swing paradigms.