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  • IVANHOE - DER SCHWARZE RITTER
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    IVANHOE - DER SCHWARZE RITTER
    SIR WALTER SCOTT
    Ivanhoe ist ein 1820 veröffentlichter Roman von Sir Walter Scott und zugleich der Name der Hauptperson des Romans, des Kreuzritters Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe. Die Geschichte thematisiert die Rivalitäten in England zwischen Angelsachsen und Normannen nach dem Sieg Wilhelms des Eroberers sowie die Spätfolgen der Kreuzzüge mit der Geiselnahme des englischen Königs Richard Löwenherz i...

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  • DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION
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    DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION
    H. LEE WILLIS AND WALTER G. SCOTT
    In the view of many power experts, distributed power generation represents the paradigm of the future. Distributed Power Generation: Planning and Evaluation explores the preparation and analysis of distributed generators (DGs) for residential, commercial and industrial, as well as electric utility applications. It examines distributed generation versus traditional, centralized ...

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  • THE SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS WORKBOOK
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    THE SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS WORKBOOK
    JONATHAN T. SCOTT / WALTER R. STAHEL
    Whether you are undertaking the exercises for your own purposes or with the intent of completing a certification course in sustainable development, this workbook will be of help. The companion text for this publication is The Sustainable Business: A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Long-Term Profitability and Competitiveness (2nd edition). Read the companion text thoroughly be...

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  • IVANHOE
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    IVANHOE
    WALTER SCOTT
    A young Saxon knight proves his worth in Sir Walter Scott's immortal classic blending history and romance In the twelfth century, England is in ruins. The tension between the Saxons and Normans are at an all-time high. While King Richard the Lion Heart is away, his brother Prince John sits on the throne, allowing the Norman nobles to ravage the Saxon countryside further. There ...

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  • THE TEACHING LIBRARY
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    THE TEACHING LIBRARY
    SCOTT WALTER
    Get the information needed to advocate for the significance of your library! How do you make the case that your library is a valuable instruction center? The Teaching Library helps librarians assess data on information literacy instruction programs so that they can better support the teaching role of the academic library in campus settings. This practical, professional resource...

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  • MOBILIZATION AND REASSEMBLY OF GENETIC INFORMATION
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    MOBILIZATION AND REASSEMBLY OF GENETIC INFORMATION
    SCOTT, WALTER
    Mobilization and Reassembly of genetic information ...

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  • LAS AVENTURAS DE ROBIN HOOD
    LAS AVENTURAS DE ROBIN HOOD
    SCOTT, WALTER
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  • IVANHOE (CLASICOS INFANTILES)
    IVANHOE (CLASICOS INFANTILES)
    SCOTT WALTER
    Esta historia cuenta las Increíbles aventuras de Wilfredo de Ivanhoe, un joven caballero que vivía en Inglaterra, en la Edad Media. él era el más valiente de todos, y nadie podía vencerlo en los torneos. Por aquel tiempo, el rey de Inglaterra, Ricardo Corazón de León, andaba peleando contra los moros en las Cruzadas, y su hermano, el malvado Juan sin Tierra, se había apoderado ...
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  • ROB ROY
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    ROB ROY
    WALTER SCOTT
    Set in England and Scotland, this historical novel is inspired by the life of a Jacobite and outlaw who became a hero to his people. Narrated by Frank, a merchant's son in search of help for his family's troubled business, this sweeping tale is based on the life and times of Rob Roy MacGregor. Enmeshed in a rivalry with a conniving cousin and filled with yearning for a woman wh...

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  • THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR
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    THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR
    WALTER SCOTT
    Edgar, the brooding young master of Ravenswood, retains none of his ancestral estates but a crumbling castle. Embittered by the lawsuits that have stripped him of his patrimony and shortened his despairing father's life, he determines to confront Sir William Ashton, the lawyer whose machinations led to the decline of Ravenswood's fortunes. But Edgar's plans take an abrupt turn ...

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  • THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH; OR, ST. VALENTINE'S DAY
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    THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH; OR, ST. VALENTINE'S DAY
    WALTER SCOTT
    Set in 14th Century Scotland, with feuding clans and Robert III's court fraught with intrigue, the 1828 novel "The Fair Maid of Perth" is one of Sir Walter Scott's best. Though not of the strictest historical accuracy (the famous North Inch combat took place in September, not on Palm Sunday), the story is so colorfully written that only the most pedantic would complain of its l...

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  • ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN; OR, THE MAIDEN OF THE MIST. VOLUME 1 AND 2
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    ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN; OR, THE MAIDEN OF THE MIST. VOLUME 1 AND 2
    WALTER SCOTT
    Dive into the captivating world of "Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 1 and 2" by Walter Scott, where the intricate dance of power and mystery unfolds in 15th-century Europe. In "Anne of Geierstein," the enigmatic Anne, known as the Maiden of the Mist, draws readers into a tale of adventure amid the political turmoil of Louis XI's France. As Anne navigates ...

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  • THE BETROTHED
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    THE BETROTHED
    WALTER SCOTT
    The Betrothed is the first of two Tales of the Crusaders. The action takes place in the Welsh Marches during the latter part of the reign of Henry II, after 1187. Eveline, the 16-year-old daughter of Sir Raymond Berenger, is rescued from a Welsh siege by the forces of Damian Lacy. She is betrothed to his uncle, Sir Hugo, who leaves on a crusade. Rebels led by Ranald Lacy attemp...

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  • THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER
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    THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER
    WALTER SCOTT
    From the opening sequence, a horse ride home by the surgeon of the title, Scott takes us straight into his story which contains some Dickensian surprises and later on an exotic Empire location. Scott's childhood lameness might go some way to explaining the liberating horse riding sequences which in turn might explain his popularity in America. This is a Western set in a Scottis...

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  • IVANHOE: A ROMANCE
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    IVANHOE: A ROMANCE
    WALTER SCOTT
    Ivanhoe is set in 12th-century England, with colourful descriptions of a tournament, outlaws, a witch trial and divisions between Jews and Christians. It has been credited for increasing interest in romance and medievalism; John Henry Newman claimed Scott "had first turned men's minds in the direction of the Middle Ages". (Excerpt from Wikipedia) ...

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  • ROB ROY
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    ROB ROY
    WALTER SCOTT
    When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's business and his beloved Diana Vernon, he turns in desperation to Rob Roy for help. Chieftain of the MacGregor clan, Rob Roy is a brave and fearless man, able and cunning. But he is also an outlaw with a price on his head, and as he and Francis join forces t...

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  • LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT
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    LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT
    WALTER SCOTT
    In these "Letters upon Demonology and Witchcraft," addressed to his son-in-law, written under the first grasp of death, the old kindliness and good sense, joined to the old charm in story-telling, stand firm yet against every assault; and even in the decay that followed, when the powers were broken of the mind that had breathed, and is still breathing, its own health into the m...

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  • THE TALISMAN
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    THE TALISMAN
    WALTER SCOTT
    The Talisman revolves around the Third Crusader's camp in the Holy Land whereby there exists a truce between the Christians and the Muslims. The camp, which is led by King Richard I of England (the Lion-heart) who is grievously ill, is being torn apart by tensions between rival leaders. (Amazon) ...

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  • OLD MORTALITY
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    OLD MORTALITY
    WALTER SCOTT
    Perhaps the finest and certainly the most readable of Scott's Waverley novels, Old Mortality is a swift-moving historical romance that pits an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland - the period notorious as "the killing time." Its central character, Henry Morton, finds himself torn between his love for a royalist's grand...

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  • WOODSTOCK; OR, THE CAVALIER
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    WOODSTOCK; OR, THE CAVALIER
    WALTER SCOTT
    The strengths of Walter Scott's novels are character portrayal and vivid and highly demanding language and there is both aplenty in this account from the time of the English Revolution and First Commonwealth. This is a well told and straightforward (in plot, not language!) account of the future Charles' Second's escape from his pursuers. Both Cromwell and Charles Stuart (Charle...

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  • THE PIRATE
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    THE PIRATE
    WALTER SCOTT
    Sir Walter's usual great cast of characters but with a slightly different setting this time: the Shetlands and Orkneys, which he makes clear to the reader, may be ruled by Scotland but are populated by a proud race of Scandinavians who would rather be left alone. (Goodreads) ...

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  • A LEGEND OF MONTROSE
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    A LEGEND OF MONTROSE
    WALTER SCOTT
    Against the background of Montrose's campaign of 1644-5, this spirited novel centres on one of Scott's most memorable creations - Sir Dugald Dalgetty of Drumthwacket. This hard-headed Aberdonian contrasts tellingly with the weird and passionate Highland feud in which he becomes perilously entangled, as the narrative moves from Dalgetty's unflinching encounter with the Duke of A...

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  • PEVERIL OF THE PEAK
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    PEVERIL OF THE PEAK
    WALTER SCOTT
    Set against the backdrop of the Popish Plot to overturn Charles II, Peveril of the Peak explores the on-going tensions between Cavalier and Puritan loyalties during the fraught years of Restoration England. Ranging from Derbyshire to the Isle of Man and culminating in London, it is a novel which interweaves political intrigue, personal responsibilities and the ways in which the...

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  • THE MONASTERY
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    THE MONASTERY
    WALTER SCOTT
    In "The Monastery'' we find ourselves in Protestant England. So widespread has been the Reformation, that the monks are not only alarmed about their prestige, but their property as well. The country has been in a general state of unrest from the beginning of Queen Mary's reign until the year 1550; when peace is restored and the monks repair their ravaged shrines. "The Monastery...

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  • THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL
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    THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL
    WALTER SCOTT
    Greenhorn Scotch nobleman Lord Glenvarloch comes south to try and reclaim the money his father had loaned to the skinflint King James I when he was merely James VI of Scotland. He falls in with a motley crew of fellow emigres, all of whom make various plans for Nigel. (Goodreads) ...

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  • ST. RONAN'S WELL
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    ST. RONAN'S WELL
    WALTER SCOTT
    The novel is set in 1812 and portrays the fashionable society of the spa-town of St. Ronan's. The plot revolves around the enmity of two half-brothers, Valentine Bulmer and Francis Tyrrel. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN
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    THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN
    WALTER SCOTT
    This novel, regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard; when his life is saved by the distant monarch they ignore the Queen and resolve to take their own revenge. Closely connected with these events is the story of the novel's heroine, Jeanie Deans, a peasant gi...

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  • THE BLACK DWARF
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    THE BLACK DWARF
    WALTER SCOTT
    The Black Dwarf is set in the immediate aftermath of the Union between England and Scotland in 1707. The political action is centred on the first uprising to be attempted by Jacobites after the Union, the aborted landing of the exiled James Francis Edward Stuart and a large French fleet in March 1708. The dwarf of the title is Sir Edward Mauley, who, in his youth, has embraced ...

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  • LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, VOLUME I-V
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    LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, VOLUME I-V
    WALTER SCOTT
    As Napoleon did everyone the courtesy of leaving behind a rich and complicated wake, Scott was able in this volume to forgo his usual tendency of shoehorning some hapless everyman into European history, and instead adhere to the story of the Emperor himself. Free from any obligation to narrative invention, Scott delivers a whirlwind, no-frills account that avoids, when possible...

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  • REDGAUNTLET: A TALE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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    REDGAUNTLET: A TALE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
    WALTER SCOTT
    Set in the mid-eighteenth century in the fictitious third Jacobite rebellion, Redgauntlet (1824) tells of Darsie Latimer, a student of law who becomes embroiled in a plot to put Prince Charles Edward (aka, Bonnie Prince Charlie) on the British throne. The events in Redgauntlet never actually took place, but they are probable, and form the culmination of Scott's series of Jacobi...

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