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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Cervantes in Algiers : a captive's tale	María Antonia Garcés	"Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to A…	OL12285588W
Redesigning innovative healthcare operation and the role of knowledge management	Murako Saito	"This book offers a compilation of chapters on how knowledge impacts the layout and design of the medical industry"--Provided by publisher.	OL13766543W
Stand Up, Mr. Dickens	Charles Dickens,Edward Blishen	Extracts from Dickens' stories, with biographical commentary	OL14869578W
A la recherche d'Ithaque. La ferme d'Eumée. Le palais d'Ulysse	Gilles Le Noan	Comme Homère localise Ithaque à l’ouest des autres contrées du royaume d’Ulysse, nous devons considérer qu’elle n’était pas une île mais une presqu’île et la situer dans la presqu’île de Paliki, part…	OL15673384W
Verdi's Shakespeare	Garry Wills	This book is a dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare -- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In Verdi's Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Ga…	OL15951845W
Charles Dickens and the street children of London	Andrea Warren	Warren takes you on a journey into the workhouses, slums, factories, and schools of Victorian England, and into the world of Dickens. She shows now he used his pen to do battle on behalf of the poor,…	OL16450694W
Jane Austen and her readers, 1786-1945	Katie Halsey	viii, 290 p. ; 24 cm	OL16489804W
Khantili Nari	Deepak Pithwa	Prestigious & Excellent ‘Khantili Nari’ Book by Mr Deepak Pithwa Prestigious Enterprising Kuchhi Women Issue 2005 stating Lifestory of 60 Women of the Gujarati Kutchhi Community from India. Sur…	OL16640871W
Virginia Woolf, modernity and history	Angeliki Spiropoulou	"This new study analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographica…	OL16984013W
Strindberg	Per Hedstrom,Erik Hook,Agneta Lalander,Goran Soderstrom,Douglas Feuk	"The literary works of August Strindberg are admired throughout the world, but few people outside his native Scandinavia are aware of his accomplishments as a painter and photographer. This book brin…	OL18453962W
Regarding Sedgwick	David L. Clark	"Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is one of the most original and influential thinkers in critical and gender theory. Her work includes such groundbreaking books as Epistemology of the Closet and Between Men: E…	OL19163451W
Science and the Founding Fathers	I. Bernard Cohen	For Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison, science was an integral part of life -- including political life. This is the story of their scientific education and of how th…	OL1977465W
Eye of the beholder	Laura J. Snyder	Taking readers to 17th-century Holland, where artists and scientists gathered, an extraordinary story reveals how two geniuses --a self-taught natural philosopher and an artist -- transformed the way…	OL19996328W
Mara the Meerkat Fairy	Daisy Meadows	Mara the Meerkat Fairy is in terrible trouble. Jack Frost has stolen her magical keyring, which helps her protect all meerkats. Mara goes to find Rachel Walker and Kirsty Tate at the Wild Woods Natur…	OL20006078W
Virginia Woolf and the essay	Beth Carole Rosenberg,Jeanne Dubino	"Unbeknown to many, Virginia Woolf spent the first twenty years of her career writing essays and book reviews. So well-known is Woolf for her fiction that her readers may easily overlook the fact tha…	OL21224658W
Le Léonard des enfants, petits et grands	Hélène Lamarche	Ce livre sert de guide à l'exposition Léonard de Vinci, ingénieur et architecte, organisée par le Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal à l'occasion du centenaire de l'ingénierie canadienne et présentée d…	OL24279352W
Species, phantasms, and images	Carolyn P. Collette	"Species, Phantasms and Images situates Chaucer's poetry within a number of discourse communities that have not generally been recognized as the intellectual context of Chaucer's work and creates new…	OL3272058W
Imagination and the arts in C.S. Lewis	Peter J. Schakel	"Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis will appeal to students and teachers of both children's literature and twentieth-century British writers. It will also be of value to readers who wish to comp…	OL3363349W
Fernando Pessoa e os Mundos Esotéricos	José Manuel Anes	"José Manuel Anes oferece-nos um estudo detalhado e rigoroso, com toda a credibilidade científica que já lhe é conhecida, aliada à sua hábil – e rara! – neutralidade na exposição destas matérias. (..…	OL36530066W
Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science	Stillman Drake	Stillman Drake was one of the 20th century's authors on the subject of Galileo's scientific work. This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers Drake published, most on Galileo but some on m…	OL3744398W