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William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)

anthropologist, political scientist, historian, sociologist, philosopher, political theorist, economist

  • Yale College

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Alexander Hamilton And Robert Fulton
Folkways
What social classes owe to each other
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson as a public man
The financier and the finances of the American Revolution
A history of American currency
Protectionism
andrew jackson
Lectures on the history of protection in the United States
Andrew Jackson as a Public Man: What He Was, what Chances He Had, and what He Did with Them
A History of American Currency: With Chapters on the English Bank Restriction and Austrian Paper ..
Lectures on the History of Protection in the United States: Delivered Before ..
The Conquest of the United States by Spain: A Lecture Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale ..
The challenge of facts
Protectionism: The -ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth
Earth-hunger and other essays
The conquest of the United States by Spain
Essays
Problems in political economy
Lectures on the History of Protection in the United States: Delivered Before the International ..
On liberty, society, and politics
The forgotten man
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
Protection and revenue in 1877
War and other essays
Andrew Jackson as a Public Man: What He Was, what Chances He Had, and what ..
Folkways - A Study Of The Sociological Importance Of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores And Morals
Forgotten Man and Other Essays
A History of American Currency (Business Classics)
The science of society
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
The forgotten man's almanac
A History of American Currency
Social Darwinism
Address of William G. Sumner ... at dinner of the Committee on tariff reform of the Reform club in the city of New York. June 2nd, 1906
Sumner today
A history of American currency
Essays of William Graham Sumner
Folkways
The Predominant Issue
Soziale Pflichten, oder was die Klassen der Gesellschaft einander schuldig sind
Essays and Lectures-The Forgotten Man
The Financier And The Finances Of The American Revolution V1
What social classes owe to each other
Andrew Hamilton
FOLKWAYS
The challenge of facts, and other essays
Robert Morris
Andrew Jackson as a public man
A history of American currency
American Finance
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
The Financier And The Finances Of The American Revolution V2
Robert Morris
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
Alexander Hamilton
History of American Currency : With Chapters on the English Bank Restriction and Austrian Paper Money
Folkways
Advancing social and political organization in the United States
Folk
Collected essays in political and social science
Specimans of investment securities
War and other essays. by William Graham Sumner. Edited with int
The science of society
Andrew Jackson as a Public Man, What He Was, What Chances He Had and What He Did with Them
War, and other essays ..
Lectures on the history of protection in the United States
Lectures on the History of Protection in the United States [microform]
The English bank restriction and The bullion report of June 8, 1810
A History of Banking in Germany & Austria-Hungary, in the Netherlands, in the Scandinavian Nations, in Japan & China
Folkways and mores
History of Banking in the Latin Nations
Folkways
Folkways; a study of the sociological importance of usages. mann
Selected essays of William Graham Sumner
The challenge of facts and other essays
A history of American currency with chapters on the English bank restriction and Austrian paper money
Discipline
On Plutocracy
Discipline and other essays from the collected works of William Graham Sumner
What social classes owe to each other
American finance
Andrew Jackson as a public man
War
Discipline
Protectionism
The coin shilling of Massachusetts Bay
Andrew Jackson
The conquest of the United States by Spain
What social classes owe to each other
Problems in political economy
Bimetallism
The first century of the Republic
Fōkuweizu
The forgotten man, rediscovered after fifty years
Collected essays in political and social science
Political economy and political science
A History of banking in all the leading nations
Folkways
Protection and revenue, in 1877
A history of American currency
Address of William G. Sumner ... at dinner of the Committee on Tariff Reform of the Reform Club in the City of New York, June 2nd, 1906
Social Darwinism
Jeremy Gray
Jeremy Gray (born 1947)

mathematician, historian of mathematics

  • University of Warwick, University of Oxford

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Henri Poincaré
The geometrical work of Girard Desargues
The Hilbert Challenge
Linear differential equations and group theory from Riemann to PoincareĢ
Ideas of space
The architecture of modern mathematics
Mathematical conversations
Worlds Out of Nothing
Plato's ghost
Geometry
The Symbolic Universe
Hidden Harmonyā€•Geometric Fantasies
Topics in the History of Mathematics - The Route to Calculus
The Real and the Complex
Topics in the History of Mathematics - Non-Euclidean Geometry
Simply Riemann
History of Mathematics
The History of mathematics
The History of Mathematics
The Riemann-Roch Theorem
Topics in the History of Mathematics - Projective Geometry and the Axiomatisation of Mathematics
Topics in the History of Mathematics - Descartes
A History of Abstract Algebra
Topics in the History of Mathematics - Style and Formalism in the Eighteenth Century
János Bolyai, non-Euclidean geometry, and the nature of space
Change and Variations
Episodes in the history of modern algebra (1800-1950)
L'Europe mathématique
Lan Cao
Lan Cao (born 1961)

lawyer, jurist

  • Yale Law School, Mount Holyoke College

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Family in Six Tones
Monkey bridge
Culture in Law and Development
The Lotus and the Storm
C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962)

sociologist

  • Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin

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C. Wright Mills
The power elite
Images of man
Power, politics and people
The New Men of Power
The Marxists
Sociology and pragmatism
Listen, Yankee
Les causes de la troisième guerre mondiale
Character and social structure
L'imagination sociologique
The politics of truth
The Puerto Rican journey
The Intersections Collection Pearson Custom Sociology
From Max Weber
Character and Social Structure
Mass society and liberal education
From Max Weber
Power, Politics, and People
From Max Weber
Puerto Rican Journey
Les cols blancs
Who Controls America (P191)
Binesh-e jame'e-shenakht-i
Makteliten
Reglas para criticos
From Max Weber
Power, Politics and People
Sosyolojik Tahayyül
Iktidar Seckinleri
Las burocracias : una aproximación distinta a la manera en la que pensamos el Estado (2014)
The new men of power
Castro's Cuba
Listen, Yankee
The Norton Mix Sociology Saddleback College
CRITIQUES SOCIOLOGIQUES
Images of Man
White Collar The American Middle Class
The Middle Classes in Middle-Sized Cities
Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive
Sociology and Pragmatism
El fin de las ideologías
Los Intelectuales y el poder
Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal (born 1964)

ceramicist, printmaker, art critic, visual artist, potter

  • University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge

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The White Road
The Hare With Amber Eyes A Hidden Inheritance
Bernard Leach
20th century ceramics
New Ceramic Design
Edmund De Waal
Japanese Netsuke
Timeless Beauty
Letters to Camondo
The pot book
Ceramics (Design Sourcebook)
Edmund de Waal Library of Exile
Edmund de Waal Letters to Camondo /anglais
John Golding - Working Space. The 1971 Paintings
Quiet Spaces
Modern home
Lerets magi
Objects of Desire
Kehribar Gözlü Tavsan - Sakli Miras
Lettres à Camondo
Gouthiere's Candelabras
Lettres à Camondo
20TH CENTURY CERAMICS
Edmund De Waal at Waddesdon
Elective Affinities
From zero
Bānādo Rīchi saikō
ha-Arnevet Ź»im Ź»ene ha-Ź»inbar
Die weiße Straße
Zaļø iļø”aļø tļø”s s ļø iļø”antarnymi glazami
Memoire Retrouvee
Edmund de Waal, Giorgio Morandi
Bai ci zhi lu
Edmund de Waal at Kettle's Yard, mima and elsewhere
Dark Room
Edmund de Waal, Sally Mann - to Light, and Then Return
David Miller
David Miller (born 1935)

journalist, editor, researcher

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Sebastian Coe
Olympic Revolution
England's Last Glory
The official history of the Olympic Games and the IOC
Official commemorative book of the Centennial Olympic Games
World Cup
Cup magic
Father of football
England's last glory
Sports writer's eye
Father of Football
Olympic revolution
The Peter Cushing companion
Sebastian Coe--born to run
Croquet and how to play it
Korea's Olympic Icon
World Cup 1970
Jacques Borel
Jacques Borel (1925-2002)

journalist, translator, philologist, scholar of English

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Propos sur l'autobiographie
The bond
Journal de la meĢmoire
Sur les poeĢ€tes
L' aveu diffeĢreĢ
MeĢdecine et psychiatrie balzaciennes
Histoire de mes vieux habits
Commentaires
Rue de l'exil
Marcel Proust
Proust et Balzac
PoeĢsie et nostalgie
Sur les murs du temps
Le deĢferlement
CommeĢmorations
L' effacement
Le retour
L' attente. La clôture
Tata ou De l'éducation
L' adoration
Petite histoire de mes reĢ‚ves
Un voyage ordinaire
"SeĢraphiĢ‚ta" et le mysticisme balzacien
Personnages et destins balzaciens
La DeĢpossession: journal de LigeneĢ€re
Le Lys dans la valleĢe et les sources profondes de la creĢation balzacienne
GeĢnie et folie de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Le lys dans la vallée et les sources profondes de la création balzacienne
J'écris je crie
Romanciers au travail
Tata, ou De l'éducation
Le Lys dans la vallée et les sources profondes de la création balzacienne
Kenneth Manning
Kenneth Manning (born 1947)

historian of science

  • Harvard University

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Black Apollo of Science
MIT--shaping the future
Blueprint for change
Asking the right questions