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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Pilgrim's Progress	John Bunyan	Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley …	OL107195W
De László in Holland	Tonko Grever	80 p. : 28 cm	OL11720415W
Débâcle	Émile Zola	Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Leva…	OL118976W
Working stiffs	Michael L Carlebach	"The tintype, patented in 1856, was a cheap, fast, easy-to-make, practically indestructible type of photograph that became enormously popular among the working class in the late nineteenth century. F…	OL12036054W
You look beautiful like that	Michelle Lamuniere,Sidibe Malick,Seydou Keita,Malick Sidibe,Michelle Lamunière	"Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe, two commercial photographers from Mali, took mesmerizing portraits in Bamako, the capital, during the period before and after the country achieved independence from F…	OL12350361W
Rainer Maria Rilke, life and work in pictures	Ingeborg Schnack	Now Rilke's own life and work makes great demands on the receptivity, the empathy, the sensitivity of his readers; even his contemporaries were only hesitantly willing to receive his work. Chronologi…	OL1307357W
Romantic royal marriages	Barbara Cartland	It is generally supposed that until this century and after the First World War, all Royal Marriages were arranged for political or national motives. The first English King to marry for love was Willi…	OL135011W
TRUE FACE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; TRANS. BY ALAN BANCE	Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel	What the Bard Truly Looked Like In this ground breaking study, Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel offers a convincing solution to the centuries-old question of what William Shakespeare really looked l…	OL13665574W
Emil Nolde	Manfred Reuther,Emil Nolde,Jolanthe Nolde,Barnett Newman	The book, its title a reference to a characterization that his artist friend Paul Klee bestowed on Nolde, is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Emil Nolde' at Zentrum Paul Klee and includes…	OL1392435W
Picasso	Pierre Daix,Jean-Louis Andral,Pablo Picasso	In 1946, when Picasso received the offer to use one of the great rooms in the castle at Antibes as a studio, he exclaimed enthusiastically: “I'm not only going to paint, I'll decorate the museum too.…	OL145191W
Che's Afterlife	Michael Casey	Casey, Buenos Aires bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires, examines intellectual property and iconography through the lens of the famous image of Che Guevara captured by fashion photographer Alberto K…	OL14990541W
Jewels	Michael Cunningham,Michael Cunningham	Photographer Michael Cunningham (coauthor of Crowns) and author Connie Briscoe, a New York Times bestselling novelist, profile 50 women over the age of 50 who have been remarkably successful--whether…	OL15186860W
The picture of Morty & Ray	Daniel Manus Pinkwater	Inspired by a movie plot, Morty and Ray paint pictures of each other and then do mean things at school to see if their portraits will become ugly.	OL15287922W
Palmetto Portraits Project	Medical University of South Carolina	The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), in partnership with the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston have developed a multi-year collaboration called the Palmett…	OL15297558W
him too..?? Oz Almog's Concise Index Judeorum	Oz Almog	The sound of genuine surprise in Almog’s title Him too..?? is one that is often echoed in social conversations and one which references the use of the Jewish face as a subject for racist, anthropolog…	OL15297827W
WALLS OF SOUND	Oz Almog	Only very few people are aware of the fact that many popular melodies and compositions such as “God bless America“, “The Christmas Song“, “Edelweiß“, “An der schönen blauen Donau“, “Hello Dolly“ or “…	OL15305682W
Reading Writers Reading	Danielle Schaub	In candid text, accompanied by intimate photographs, 164 Canadian, Québécois and Franco-Canadian writers personally reflect on the transformative experiences of reading. With unguarded images, Daniel…	OL15306938W
Grammatical institute of the English language. Part 3	Noah Webster	Printed and sold by Hudson & Goodwin with the privilege of copy-right	OL15333889W
Original photographs of Abraham Lincoln	George B. Ayres	Adevrtisement of prints from two negatives "taken at Springfield, Ill., in June, 1860."	OL15356157W
Regarding Emma	Ann Patchett,Melissa Ann Pinney	"Inspired by the birth of her daughter, Emma, and dedicated to her departed mother, Regarding Emma is a provocative collection of complex, allegorical images of girls and women and the mysterious wor…	OL15363894W