Best Selling Books by John Harris

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In Sierra Leone, a remote community crackles with racial tensions. Few white people live amongst the natives of Freetown, where life revolves around an iron mine with a man in charge who dictates peace and prosperity for everyone. But his leadership is a matter of life or death where every decision is like being snatched by the claws of mercy.

In Friend and Foe, Frederick Harris examines the life and works of French authors Marcel Proust and André Gide. Proust and Gide clearly defined French literature in the first part of the twentieth century. This book contains the whole of correspondence between Proust and Gide, some letters translated in English for the first time. By looking at Proust and Gide simultaneously, looking at Proust and the whole coterie of writers and critics that gathered around Gide at the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), Harris provides a new context in which to assess both Proust and Gide. It forces consideration in a more incisive way of the key issues in both their careers: the Dreyfus Affair, World War I, homosexuality, and their art.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.

A critical survey of the issues in a controversial field, The Value of Life explores the dilemmas in current medical practice and research. Harris argues for a radical reappraisal of our ways of thinking about medical ethics.

This tense, unusual novel begins with the seemingly divine reappearance of a wooden cross once belonging to a sixth-century bishop. The vision emerges from the depths of an Italian lake, and a menacing local antagonism is subsequently stirred. But what can the cross mean?

"The primary object of this manual is to teach natives to converse in English. It is designed to help carry out the plan o the Government to extend English schools among the indigenous race of these islands. At the same time, the work is designed to assist strangers, speaking the English, to acquire the correct colloquial speech of the Hawaiians"--p. [iii].

The True Survivors is a fictional ethnography about an Anthropologist that travels into the future and ends up studying the first post-apocalyptic state-level society after the fall of man king. The books features photographs of one-of-a-kind metalwork, tools, artwork, and jewelry created by author John Harris to show the material culture of the Lamellain people.

The Atari Video Computer System, aka VCS, later renamed the Atari 2600 after its model number (CX2600), was the first popular programmable home video game console. The VCS wasn't the first in any area except one: it was the first really popular programmable home video game console. Sales of the VCS were gigantic. Atari would ultimately move 30 million units, and the machine remained in production until 1992. It lasted a venerable 15 years, and survived long enough to compete against the SNES. And it did all this with a hardware set that could at best be described as ludicrous. This is generally a book of reviews of interesting Atari VCS games, but there are some important caveats. For inclusion, the most playable version of the game has to be for the VCS. For example, the VCS port of Missile Command is a very good game. But the arcade version is much better: it has three bases instead of one adding a touch more strategy to it, it has missile "matchbooks" that let you use one explosion to touch off others, there are more and more varied types of enemies, and it's generally just a better game overall. You're about as likely to be able to play the VCS or Arcade versions these days, so, why not play the arcade one? This also rules out a host of arcade conversions. In a few cases, the stars of programmer skill and hardware capability combine in such a way that the version on the lowly Atari VCS, a machine with 128 bytes of RAM and ludicrously primitive display capability, is actually a competitive version, and sometimes it is superior in one or more ways. Two games this is true for is Asteroids (whose game variations provide interesting ways to play the arcade doesn't try to match) and Space Invaders (the two-player co-op versions of which make it actually more interesting than the arcade). This is a book of such games. Reasons to scour eBay for tapes, or else drag out an emulator. Gameplay doensn't go obsolete, but some games do become, ah, less accessible over time. Here are 21 that don't.