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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Indonesian Muslim intelligentsia and power	Yudi Latif	History of Muslim intellectuals in the 20th century in Indonesia.	OL1031032W
D'un monde à l'autre--	Auguste Viatte	French citizen, Professor of comparative literature at Laval University, Quebec, from 1933 to 1949, Auguste Viatte was instrumental, with Marthe Simard and Elisabeth de Miribel, in founding the 'Comi…	OL1186749W
An enemy among friends	Kiyoaki Murata	In the summer of 1941, a Japanese teenager arrived in San Francisco to pursue his dream of studying in America. But, on December 7th, his life changed drastically with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Thi…	OL12673088W
Izabrani tekstovi Teodora Pavlovića	Teodor Pavlović	http://www.hi.sanu.ac.rs/	OL13853176W
Intellectuals	Paul M. Johnson,Paul Johnson,Paul Bede Johnson	A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, E…	OL14927152W
Hitch-22	Christopher Hitchens	Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter …	OL15180768W
Political Islam, Iran, and the enlightenment	Ali Mirsepassi	"Ali Mirsepassi's book argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important and disturbing currents in Western philosophy and modern Western intellectual trends"-- "Ali M…	OL15489199W
Confessions of an Original Sinner	John Lukacs	In this eloquent and thought-provoking autohistory, John Lukacs, distinguished historian and writer, describes the history of his own convictions and beliefs. The journey takes us from the Hungary of…	OL155631W
Mulatten in gelben Sesseln	Harald Schmidt	Startauflage: 1,5 Millionen. Schmidt: »Mein Ego lass ich mir was kosten.« In seinem neuen Buch veröffentlicht Harald Schmidt vorab Auszüge aus seiner Autobiographie. In den Tagebüchern 1945–52 geht e…	OL15720353W
Machiavelli	Ross King	An alternative portrait of the revolutionary political philosopher challenges popular beliefs about the cruelty of his character to reveal the complexities and sympathetic nature of his personality.	OL15802632W
Edith Wharton	Hermione Lee	From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving…	OL16025713W
The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield	Michael Bentley	This book is the first biography of the celebrated historian Sir Herbert Butterfield, written with exclusive access to private sources. Once recalled only for The Whig Interpretation of History (1931…	OL16095997W
Letters to power	Samuel McCormick	"Discusses the role of the intellectual in public life. Argues that the scarcity of public intellectuals among today's academics is a challenge to us to explore alternative, more subtle forms of poli…	OL16495345W
Sir Thomas Browne	Claire Preston,Reid Barbour	"Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most stunning prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form…	OL16954131W
Russell Kirk	Bradley J. Birzer	Emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Although …	OL19365330W
Making it	Norman Podhoretz	xi, 254 pages ; 21 cm	OL19719686W
El viajero del siglo	Andrés Neuman	"Un viajero enigmático. Una ciudad en forma de laberinto de la que parece imposible salir. Cuando el viajero está a punto de marcharse, un insólito personaje lo detiene, cambiando para siempre su des…	OL19933364W
The quintessence of lives	Dries Vanysacker	"More than twenty-five historians have written intellectual biographies of figures who created a 'second life' for themselves on paper. All persons discussed are firmly rooted in the intellectual lif…	OL22397046W
The truth of power	Benjamin Barber	"President Clinton had a romance with big ideas. He intently cultivated intellectuals, seducing them with his characteristic charm and with the promise of real influence on the political stage. Yet m…	OL2738960W
The tournament	John Clarke	The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Albert Einstein’s seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and Van Gogh are also in the top rankings. World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, 1…	OL2858611W