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Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)

architect, historian of technology, historian, sociologist, literary critic, philosopher, journalist, urban planner, architectural theoretician, art historian

  • City College of New York, New School

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"In old friendship"
The human prospect
The culture of cities
Technics and civilization
The condition of man
In the name of sanity
Herman Melville
The city in history
The myth of the machine
The pentagon of power
The highway and the city
The brown decades
The urban prospect
The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects
Interpretations and forecasts, 1922-1972
The story of Utopias
The golden day
Roots of contemporary American architecture
Art and technics
Sticks and stones
Mumford on modern art in the 1930s
The letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn
Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes
Men must act
The Lewis Mumford reader
Sketches from life
The conduct of life
Sticks and Stones
Sidewalk critic
Art and Techniques (Bampton Lecture Ser. in American : No.4)
Findings and keepings
The South in architecture
Architecture as a home for man
The myth of the machine
The Lewis Mumford/David Liebovitz letters, 1923-1968
Tecnica y Civilizacion
Faith for living
The culture of cities
City development
Arts in Renewal
The Arts in renewal
Technics and Civilization
City development; studies in disintegration and renewal
Herman Melville. A study of his life and vision
Transformations of Man
Art and Technics (Bampton Lectures in America)
Art and technics
la cultura de las ciudades
My works and days
Looking Backward from 2000 to 1888 (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s
America & Alfred Stieglitz
The transformations of man
Social Theories of a City
Faith for living
Sticks and Stones
Technics and Human Development
From the Ground Up
The city in history
The Myth Of The Machine - The Pentagon Of Power
Essential Issues in Management Accounting
La cité à travers l'histoire
Herman Melville
The future of technics & civilization
The city in history
A Century of Early Ecocriticism
The Condition of man
Green memories
Transformations of Man
The urban prospect
The myth of the machine
The Human Prospect ... Edited by Harry T. Moore and Karl W. Deutsch. [A selection from the writings of L. Mumford.].
The Arts in renewal
The Conduct of Life (Harvest Book, Nb 34)
From the ground up
Values for Survival
The human way out
La cité à travers l'histoire
The plan of London county
Herman Melville
Man as interpreter
The myth of the machine
Art and Technics
The Urban Prospect [Harvest Book HB 156]
The transformation of man
Roots of Contemporary American Architecture
Highway and City
In the name of sanity
The Highway Anf The City
Art and technics (Bampton lectures in America)
MEN MUST ACT.
The role of the creative arts in contemporary society
The Condition of Man
South in Architecture
From the Ground Up. Observations on Contemporary Architecture, Housing, Highway Building, and Civic Design
Lewis Mumford
The Conduct of Life
Sticks and Stones
The story of Utopias (Compass books)
From the Ground Up
The human prospect (Beacon paperbacks)
The City in History
The conduct of life
Les transformations de l'homme
The morals of extermination
Mythos der Maschine
Technique et Civilisation
Regional planning and the small town
The conduct of life / Lewis Mumford
The Brown Decades, A Study of the Arts of America 1865-1895
Portmeirion
City in History
Memoirs of Waldo Frank
Faith for living
Herman Melville
The Story of Utopias (C112: Compass Books Edition)
Technics and Civilization
Condition of Man
Man as interpreter
Herman Melville 1929
The Highway and the City (A Harvest book)
Povijest utopija
La Cultura Delle Città
Architecture
Le Déclin des villes
Programme for survival
The Ecological Basis of Planning
Sticks and stones;
American taste
Geijutsu to gijutsu
Tarih Boyunca Kent - Kokenleri, Gecirdigi Donusumler ve Gelecegi
The golden day;
Regional planning in the Pacific Northwest
The story of Utopias (Compass books)
The brown decades
The Conduct of Life The Making of Man
The brown decades;
Insanin Durumu
The Brown Decades; a Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895
The Story of Utopias
The city in history
Atomic war--the way out
Transformations of Man
The Conditions of Man
La Ciudad En La Historia
Aesthetics, a dialogue
Sticks and Stones, a Study of Amercian Architecture and Civilization
Pentagon of Power
The Culture of Cities
The South in architecture
Stocks and stones
Le declin des villes
City Development
Story of Utopias
Technics and Civilization
Alternatives to the H-bomb
Green memories
The Highway and the City
The culture of cities
The letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn
Brown Decades a Study of the Arts of 2ND Edition
Vom Blockhaus zum Wolkenkratzer. Eine Studie über amerikanische Architektur und Zivilisation
The brown decades
The social foundations of post-war building
The Brown Decades, A Study of the Arts of America 1865-1895
Two Chicago fairs
The highway and the city
Whither Honolulu?
Technics and civilization
The seventh New Yorker album
Thomas Beer
New world theme
The morals of extermination
The story of Utopias
Architecture
The golden day
Technics and civilizations
Aesthetics, a dialogue
Faith for today
The transformations of man
The Story of Utopias
The story of Utopias, ideal commonwealths and social myths
Progamme for survival.
Art and technics
De sociale grondslagen van het na-oorlogsche bouwen
The story of Utopias
Sticks and stones
The golden day
Architecture and civilization
The sky line
The conduct of life
Values for survival
Art and technics
The Arts in renewal
The story of Utopias
The social foundations of post-war building
Men must act
Herman Melville
Vom Blockhaus zum Wolkenkratzer
Art and technics
Faith for living
The letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn
The myth of the ma
The letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn
Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth
Sticks and stones
Regional planning in the Pacific Northwest
Toward a free world
The culture of cities
How war began
The transformations of man
Faith for living
The myth of the machine
The highway and the city
The theory and practice of regionalism ...
Marc Spitz
Marc Spitz (1969-2017)

journalist, biographer, music critic

  • Bennington College

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NOBODY LIKES YOU
God and man
How soon is never?
Nobody likes you
Bowie
Too much, too late
Jagger
We Got the Neutron Bomb
Nobody likes you
Twee
Poseur
Bowie
David Bowie
Green day
Jagger (Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue)
Loud Pictures
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert (1942-2013)

film critic, journalist, reporter, presenter, television presenter

  • University of Cape Town, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

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Life itself
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Questions for the movie answer man
The perfect London walk
A kiss is still a kiss
Scorsese by Ebert
The Pot and How to Use It
Two Weeks in the Midday Sun
The Great Movies
Roger Eberts Home Movie Companion 400
Roger Eberts Movie Yearbook 2013 Roger Eberts Movie Yearbook
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2000 (Roger Eberts Movie Yearbook, 2000)
The Tragedy of Hamlet with Connections
Roger Ebert's four-star reviews, 1967-2007
Roger Ebert's video companion.
Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1994
The great movies III
A Horrible Experience Of Unbearable Length More Movies That Suck
Roger Ebert's video companion
Awake in the Dark
Behind the Phantom's mask
Roger Ebert'S Movie Yearbook 2001
Roger Ebert's movie home companion
Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion
Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1996 edition
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005
Movie Home Companion
Las Grandes Peliculas (Ma Non Troppocine)
Your Movie Sucks
Roger Ebert'S Movie Yearbook 2002
Roger Ebert's video companion
The great movies II
The Bigger Little Book of Hollywood Cliches
The future of the movies
Grandes Peliculas 2/ Big Movies 2 (Ma Non Troppocine)
Awake in the Dark : The Best of Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert's movie yearbook 2006
Roger Ebert's movie yearbook 2009
Scorsese by Ebert
Insight
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 1999 (Serial)
Ebert's bigger little movie glossary
The great movies
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
Roger Ebert's movie yearbook 2007
The Little book of Hollywood cliches
Ebert's Little Movie Glossary
Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1997 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
A kiss is still a kiss
The great movies IV
Ebert's little movie glossary
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
Roger Ebert's book of film
Your Movie Sucks
The computer insectiary
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
Images at the horizon
Images at the Horizon
Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion, 1989 Edition
An Illini century
Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1998 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
An Illini century
Ebert's Bests
Two weeks in the midday sun
Roger Ebert's pocket video guide
Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1995/Roger Ebert's Pocket Video Guide (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
Die Zustandigkeit Der Tarifvertragsparteien Zum Abschlub Von Verbands- Und Firmentarifvertragen
Roger Ebert's movie home companion
Life Itself
Herzog by Ebert
Higman
Bth Behind Phantm Msk
The Real Tom Jones
Judith Wright
Judith Wright (1915-2000)

poet, human rights activist, historian, literary critic, environmentalist

  • University of Sydney

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Half a lifetime
The double tree
Born of the conquerors
The cry for the dead
The equal heart and mind
We call for a treaty
Charles Harpur
Collected poems, 1942-1970
The generations of men
A human pattern
With love & fury
Poems
Birds
Fourth quarter
The gateway
The other half
Going on talking
Because I was invited
Preoccupations in Australian poetry
Five senses
Alive: poems 1971-72
Tales of a great aunt
The moving image
A human pattern
The coral battleground
Alive
Conservation as an emerging concept
Range the mountains high
The day the mountains played
The nature of love
A book of Australian verse
The river and the road
Judith Wright reads from her own work
Woman to man
Phantom dwelling
A book of Australian verse
Selected Poems
Judith Wright
Andrzej Stasiuk
Andrzej Stasiuk (born 1960)

publisher, literary critic, journalist, poet, opinion journalist

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On the road to Babadag
On the road to Babadag
Dziewięć
Fado
Dukla
Tales of Galicia
Przez rzeke
Zima
Biały kruk
Opowieści galicyjskie
Dukla
Die Mauern von Hebron
Der weiße Rabe
Die Welt hinter Dukla
Galizische Geschichten
Mury Hebronu
Dojczland
Wie ich Schriftsteller wurde. Versuch einer intellektuellen Autobiographie
Neun
Moi͡a︡ I͡E︡vropa
Ciemny las
Grochów
White Raven
Ciemny las
Dziennik pisany później
El mundo detrás de Dukla
Nie ma ekspresów przy żółtych drogach
Opowieści wigilijne
Noc
Fado
On the road to Babadag
Nine
Jadac do Babadag
Mein Europa
De camino a Babadag
Jak zostałem pisarzem
Noc
Jadąc do Babadag
Dojczland
Tekturowy samolot
Zycie to jednak strata jest
Przez rzekę
Nine
NieObcy
Negen
Opowies ci galicyjskie
Czekając na Turka
Dziewięć
Cuentos de Galitzia
Wiersze miłosne i nie
Jadąc do Babadag
Jadąc do Babadag
Taksim
Jadąc do Babadag
Onderweg naar Babadag
Frederic Tuten
Frederic Tuten (born 1936)

journalist, film critic, essayist

  • City College of New York, New York University

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My Young Life
Tintin in the New World
The Green Hour
Tallien
Van Gogh's Bad Cafe
The adventures of Mao on the long march
Dostoyevsky's Crime and punishment
Roy Lichtenstein bronze sculpture, 1976-1989
The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García
Photographic Work of Robin Broadbent
TINTIN IN THE NEW WORLD
TALLIEN
Tallien. Ein Roman
Tintin en el nuevo mundo
Self Portraits
Autorretrato con toros =
Tintin in the New World. Frederic Tuten
ha-Ḥeṭ ṿe-ʻonsho
Tim und Struppi in der Neuen Welt
Autorretrato con toros =
Autoritratto con Sicilia
Uzun Yuruyus’te Mao’nun Maceralari
Bar at Twilight
Clive James
Clive James (1939-2019)

broadcaster, literary critic, poet, television presenter

  • University of Sydney, University of Cambridge

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May Week was in June
Unreliable Memoirs
Always Unreliable
Falling towards England
Diana
Cultural Amnesia
The Silver Castle
Unreliable memoirs
As of this writing
Brilliant Creatures
Snakecharmers In Texas
The Remake
Flying Visits
The book of my enemy
Fame in the 20th century
The dreaming swimmer
From the Land of Shadows
Opal sunset
Point of View
At the Pillars of Hercules
Clive James' Reliable Essays
Meaning of Recognition
The man from Japan
Glued to the Box
Iwerddon
Visions before midnight
Brrm! brrm! or, The man from Japan, or, Perfume at Anchorage
The crystal bucket
Collected Poems
Latest readings
Sentenced to Life
Poem of the year
Even as we speak
Flying visits
Britannia Bright's bewilderment in the wilderness of Westminster
The metropolitan critic
Charles Charming's challenges on the pathway to the Throne
Angels over Elsinore
Play all
Glued to the box
Cultural Cohesion
The River in the Sky
Other passports
North Face of Soho (Unreliable Memoirs)
First reactions
Nefertiti In The Flak Tower
The revolt of the pendulum
A manual of assessment keys for plant diseases
unreliable memoirs
Global status of commercialized biotech/GM crops, 2009
Clive James on television
The Divine Comedy
Fan-mail
THE CRYSTAL BUCKET
Fame In the Century
Injury time
Global status of commercialized biotech/GM crops, 2006
Fire of Joy
The improved version of Peregrine Prykke's pilgrimage through the London literary world
Brrm Brrm
Somewhere Becoming Rain
Poetry notebook
A Point of View
The blaze of obscurity
May Week Was in June
Gate of Lilacs
Preview: Global review of commercialized transgenic crops
Iwerddon
unreliable memoirs
Fire of Joy
River in the Sky
Isaaa Annual Report, 1996
Global status of commercialized biotech/GM crops, 2008
Crystal Bucket
Play All
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs : Volume Two
What future for Scottish Gaelic speaking communities?
Sentenced to life
Cultural Amnesia
Collected Poems
Global review of commercialized transgenic crops: 2001 feature
Iwerddon
Fin de fiesta
Nefertiti in the flak tower
Preview
Divine Comedy
Unreliable Memoirs
Preview: Global status of commercialized transgenic crops
The Dreaming Swimmer
Global Review of Commercialized Transgenic Crops
Progressing Public-Private Sector Partnerships in International Agricultural Research and Development
Global status of commercialized transgenic crops
Fin de fiesta
Collected Poems (James)
Global Status of Transgenic Crops in 1997
The fate of Felicity Fark in the land of the media
Isaaa Annual Report, 1995: Shared Solutions to Shared Problems
Somewhere Becoming Rain
Even As We Speak
Brrm] Brrm], Or, The Man from Japan, Or, Perfume at Anchorage
Loose Canon : the Extraordinary Songs of Clive James and Pete
Global Review of the Field Testing and Commercialization of Transgenic Plants, 1986-1995
בוליווד אהובתי
Mark Schorer
Mark Schorer (1908-1977)

professor, critic

  • Harvard University, University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Sinclair Lewis (University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Number. 27)
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
Short Stories from the New Yorker
Sinclair Lewis
The literature of America: twentieth century
William Blake
Modern British fiction
Galaxy
Harbrace college reader
The state of mind
Criticism
The world we imagine
The novelist in the modern world
Pieces of life
Galaxy
Harbrace college reader
Sinclair Lewis ; an American life
Lawrence in the war years
The wars of love
The University of California centennial
Society and self in the novel
The story
HB College Reader
William Blake; the politics of vision
A house too old
The story
Harbrace college reader
The literature of America
The world we live in
Sinclair Lewis
The hermit place
The world we imagine
American literature
William Blake
Galaxy
Korrupsii︠a︡
Criticism
D.H. Lawrence