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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
L' œil de Platon et le regard romantique	Paolo Tortonese	« Le platonisme et le néo-platonisme placent le philosophe qui réfléchit sur l’accès de l’homme à la vérité et à la beauté dans une position très inconfortable, que Paolo Tortonese scrute avec beauco…	OL10007665W
Rabindranath Tagore and Germany	Martin Kämpchen	On Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941, Indian poet.	OL1054597W
Gods of our fathers	Richard A Gabriel	"A new look at Judaism and Christianity by which Gabriel attempts to trace their historical theological roots, not to the revelations of God, but to the common theological ancestor: the religions of …	OL11742641W
Literature and heresy in the age of Chaucer	Andrew Cole	After the late 14th century, English literature was fundamentally shaped by the heresy of John Wyclif and his followers. This study demonstrates how Chaucer, Langland, John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, T…	OL11885949W
The pages In between	Erin Einhorn	In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the Holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navi…	OL11929214W
Un' idea di umanità	Paolo Costa	TABLE OF CONTENTS (in English) Introduction Chapter 1: Facing Nature 1. Modern Dilemmas 2. In Search of Human Nature 3. Naturalistic Fallacies 4. Between Nature and Identity Chapter 2: A…	OL11948257W
Leonardo and central Italian art, 1515-1550	Kathleen Weil Garris Posner	xi, 91 p., [16] leaves of plates : 29 cm	OL13361338W
Defending the master race	Jonathan Peter Spiro	"Scholars have labeled Madison Grant everything from "the nation's most influential racist" to "the greatest conservationist that ever lived." His life illuminates early twentieth-century America as …	OL13609133W
From Nietzsche down to Hitler	M. P. Nicolas	xiii, 149 p. 19 cm	OL1392296W
Civil War ends	Corinne J. Naden	Describes the aftermath of the Civil War, including the assassination of Lincoln, Reconstruction, and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.	OL14856464W
Justice Hall	Laurie R. King	Justice Hall (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #6) by Laurie R. King Hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving the murky riddle of The Moor, a bloodied but oddly familiar stranger poun…	OL14860209W
The legacy of Edward W. Said	William V. Spanos	With the untimely death of Edward W. Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. Figures on the n…	OL15287142W
Thomas Grochowiak \| Lust auf Farbe – von Mozart inspiriert	Thomas Grochowiak,Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ullrich,Dr. Hans-Jürgen Schwalm	Katalog zur Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Recklinghausen vom 8. September bis 6. Oktober 1991.	OL15344453W
The puritan gift	Kenneth Hopper	"The Puritan Gift traces the origins and characteristics of an American managerial culture which, over the course of three centuries, turned a handful of small colonies into the greatest economic and…	OL15477993W
Calvin at the centre	Paul Helm	Calvin at the Centre explores the consequences of various ideas in the thought of John Calvin, and the influence of his ideas on later theologians. The book sets to one side the assumption that Calvi…	OL15495485W
State building in Putin's Russia	Brian D. Taylor	"Building a strong Russian state was the central goal of Vladimir Putin's presidency. This book argues that Putin's strategy for rebuilding the state was fundamentally flawed. Taylor demonstrates tha…	OL15538554W
The Columbia history of the Vietnam War	David L. Anderson	Rooted in recent scholarship, The Columbia History of the Vietnam War offers profound new perspectives on the political, historical, military, and social issues that defined the war and its effect on…	OL15616888W
Darkness in El Dorado	Patrick Tierney	Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yanomami Indians, one of the Amazon Basin's oldest tribes.	OL15835650W
Dark side	Jane Mayer	In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. Radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were m…	OL15835654W
Outside Valentine	Liza Ward	Haunted by the serial murders committed by Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate years earlier, Manhattan collector of antiquities Lowell finds the case further complicated by a self-appointed te…	OL15857455W