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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Storm of shadows	Christina Dodd	The Chosen Ones #2 When the world was young, twins were born. One brought light to a dark world; the other, darkness and danger. They gathered others around them, men and women destined to use…	OL15462018W
Portraits of pride II	L. P. Leung	288 p. : 27 cm. +	OL15897163W
Undue Influence	Anita Brookner	Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she meets his wife, a far more spectacular…	OL166422W
The savage garden	Mark Mills	"Young Cambridge scholar Adam Banting is in Tuscany, assigned to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden--a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills, and classical in…	OL17726857W
Stranger in a Strange Land	George Prochnik	**Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem—the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah—Prochnik combines biography and memoir to …	OL18146831W
Swann	Carol Shields	Mary Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her…	OL18339W
Historiadores de México en el siglo XX	Enrique Florescano,Ricardo Pérez Montfort	"The first part of this work offers biographical sketches of historians, including their contributions to the profession. The second part features historians' responses to a questionnaire exploring h…	OL19228989W
Burton	Byron Farwell	Full-blooded biography, published in England in 1963 but only now making its US debut, of England's most notorious explorer; by the author of Eminent Victorian Soldiers (1985) and The Great War in Af…	OL1945983W
Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab	Crawford, Michael (Consultant)	Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) aroused great controversy in his lifetime. More than two centuries after his death, he still elicits strong views. For some he is the model of a pious religiou…	OL19663305W
America's obsessives	Joshua C. Kendall	"Behind every great man (or woman), there's a compulsion"--Provided by the publisher.	OL19965089W
Engaging with C.H. Dodd on the gospel of John	Tom Thatcher	"C.H. Dodd's Historical tradition in the Fourth Gospel, published in 1963, marked a milestone in New Testament research and has become a standard resource for the study of John. Historically, biblica…	OL20956522W
I (still) believe	John Byron	I (Still) Believe explores the all-important question of whether serious academic study of the Bible is threatening to one's faith. Far from it -- faith enhances study of the Bible and, reciprocally,…	OL20974129W
To laugh or to weep	Anthony J. Jordan	Conor Cruise O'Brien had a high opinion of his own abilities. He was an honours student and a brillaint diplomat. He was seconded to the United Nations in the Congo in 1960. The situation in Katanga …	OL2300407W
VIVO	Katy Börner	The world of scholarship is changing rapidly. Increasing demands on scholars, the growing size and complexity of questions and problems to be addressed, and advances in sophistication of data collect…	OL24805806W
Malestar	Elea Giménez Toledo	Este libro es una suerte de serena discusion por escrito entre los distintos actores de la comunidad academica en relacion a la evaluacion cientifica y al malestar que suele generar entre los investi…	OL26502707W
Welcome to Boston	Karen Rudnick	This handbook is packed with handy tips and cultural interpretation about life in the United States. Designed to help international students and scholars manage a move to Boston, it is much more than…	OL28956047W
Athanasius Kircher's theatre of the world	Joscelyn Godwin	n the 17th century Athanasius Kircher was a phenomenon. In the 21st he has become a cult. He had an extraordinary imagination, comparable to the most avant-garde modern artist, even (or often especia…	OL2946067W
Andrés Bello	Ivan Jaksic	"This is the first biography of Andres Bello to appear in English. Bello, the most important intellectual of nineteenth-century Latin America, made enduring contributions to the fields of internation…	OL4624282W
The Winter Knights (Edge Book #8) (Edge Chronicles)	Paul Stewart,Chris Riddell	Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy, Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a different kind brews bet…	OL7978877W
Das Glasperlenspiel	Hermann Hesse	Hesse’s most highly acclaimed book, The Glass Bead Game is set in a fictional state in Central Europe in the 25th Century. The state of Castalia is the home of an austere order of intellectuals who r…	OL872781W