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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 ...
Vincent Price
Vincent Price (1911-1993)

art collector, art historian, voice actor, autobiographer, character actor, stage actor, film actor, television actor

  • Courtauld Institute of Art, Yale University

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I Like What I Know
18 Best Stories
A Treasury of Great Recipes
Vincent Price, His Movies, His Plays, His Life
Public opinion
Monsters
Treasury of American Art
Tales of witches, ghosts and goblins
Monsters
The Vincent Price treasury of American art
La Opinion Publica / Public Opinion
Tales of Terror Audio
Cooking Price-wise
The book of Joe
The Saint
The Ghouls
A Treasury of Great Recipes
Vincent Price, actor and art collector
Tales of Witches, Ghosts and Goblins
The Price of Fear
Tales of Witches, Ghosts and Goblins (1393/Cassette)
Three hundred years of great American poetry, from Anne Bradstreet through Stephen Crane
Vincent Price collects drawings
How to Host a Murder
Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham (born 1969)

journalist, historian, biographer, editor-in-chief, editor

  • Sewanee: The University of the South, The McCallie School

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Destiny and power
American lion
His Truth Is Marching On
Franklin and Winston
American Gospel
Voices in Our Blood
Thomas Jefferson
The Hope of Glory
The soul of America
Songs of America
The impeachment report
Voices in Our Blood
American Lion
The soul of America
The Donald J. Trump presidential twitter library
Impeachment
Franklin and Winston
We Do Our Part
And There Was Light
Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
Rose Water
On Democracy
Soul of America
In the Hands of the People
Voices in our blood
Civil War Trilogy Box Set : With American Homer : Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic the Civil War
Reconciliation, Healing, and Hope
TIME Andrew Jackson
Call to Serve : The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush
Beyond Bin Laden
The soul of America
Voices in Our Blood
American Gospel
American Lion
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas DiLorenzo
Thomas DiLorenzo (born 1954)

economist, historian, pedagogue

  • Virginia Tech

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The Problem with Lincoln
The real Lincoln
Hamilton's curse
Public health profiteering
Frightening America's elderly
The profits of nonprofits
Unfunded federal mandates
Lessons from abroad
Hidden politics
EL VERDADERO LINCOLN
From Pathology to Politics
The problem with socialism
Austro-Libertarian Critique of Public Choice
Politically Incorrect Guide to Economics
Organized Crime
EL VERDADERO LINCOLN
William H. Bartsch
William H. Bartsch (born 1933)

historian

  • University of London

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The old breed of marine
Victory Fever on Guadalcanal
Doomed at the Start
December 8, 1941
Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall (born 1946)

historian, philosopher

  • University of London, University of Sussex

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William Godwin
Nature's Web
Demanding the Impossible
Cuba Libre
Riding the wind
The Magic Circle of Rudolf II
Europe's Lost Civilization
World Astrology
Cuba libre
The Theatre of the World
Riding the Wind
William Godwin
Celtic Gold
The Mercurial Emperor
Between Earth and Empire
William Blake, visionary anarchist
The philosopher's stone
THEATRE OF THE WORLD: ALCHEMY, ASTROLOGY AND MAGIC IN RENAISSANCE PRAGUE
La Piedra Filosofal
Romantic Rationalist
The Philosopher's Stone
Spectrum Guide to the Maldives (Spectrum Guides)
Nature's Web
Around Africa
Anarsizmin Tarihi
Mercurial Emperor
Theatre of the World
Cuba Libre
WORLD ASTROLOGY: THE ASTROLOGER'S QUEST TO UNDERSTAND THE HUMAN CHARACTER
Anthropology, Ecology, and Anarchism
Bir Anarşist Olarak William Blake
Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland
Riding the Wind
The theatre of the world
Riding the Wind
Spectrum Guide to Maldives (Spectrum Guide)
André Thévet
André Thévet (1515-1592)

explorer, journalist, cosmographer, geographer, historian, translator, engraver, world traveler, visual artist

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André Thevet's North America
La grande et excellente cité de Paris
Portraits from the Age of Exploration
Cosmographie moscovite
Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres (1584)
Les singularités de la France antarctique
Jean Guttemberg, inventor of printing
La cosmographie universelle d'André Thevet, cosmographe du roy
Vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres
La cosmographie universelle d'André Thevet, cosmographe du roy
La cosmographie universelle d'André Thevet, cosmographe du roy
Histoiré d'André Thevet Angoumoisin, cosmographe du Roy de deux voyages par luy fait aux Indes Australes et Occidentales
Histoire d'André Thevet Angoumoisin, cosmographe du roy, de deux voyages par luy faits aux Indes australes, et occidentales
Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins et payens
Les singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amérique
La cosmographie universelle d'André Thevet cosmographie du Roy
Jeanne d'Arc
Histoire des plus ilustres et scavans hommes de leurs siecles
Les singularitez de la France antarctique; nouv. éd
The new found worlde or Antarctike
Les singularitez de la France antarctique
Le Brésil d'André Thevet
La grande et excellente cité de Paris
Cosmographie de Levant
Les singularités de la France antarctique autrement nommée Amérique et de plusieurs terres et îles découvertes de notre temps
Les singvlaritez de la France antarctiqve, avtrement nommée Amerique
The New found vvorlde, or Antarctike
Le Brésil et les Brésiliens
Description du plusieurs isles
Les singvlaritez de la France Antarctiqve, avtrement nommeé Aḿerique
Les singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique, & de plusiers terres & isles decouvertes de nostre temps
Singularidades da França Antarctica
Histoire des plus illustres et scavans hommes de leurs siecles
Les singularitez de la France antarctique acutrement nommée Amerique & de plusieurs terres & isles decouvertes de nostre temps
Les singularitez
Les singularitez de la France antarctique
Cosmographie de Levant
La cosmographie vniuerselle
As singularidades da França Antartica
Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion
Le Brésil d'André Thevet
The new found worlde, or Antarctike, wherein is contained wonderful and strange things, as well of humaine creatures, as beastes, fishes, foules, and serpents, trees, plants, mines of golde and silver: garnished with many learned aucthorities
Historia dell' India America detta altramente Francia Antartica
A cosmografia universal de André Thevet, cosmógrafo do rei
Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion
Juanita Brooks
Juanita Brooks (1898-1989)

historian, biographer

  • Columbia University, Brigham Young University

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Emma Lee
John Doyle Lee
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
John Doyle Lee--zealot, pioneer builder, scapegoat
Jacob Hamblin, Mormon apostle to the Indians
On the ragged edge
Quicksand and cactus
Indexes to A Mormon chronicle
The Christmas tree
On the Mormon Frontier
Dudley Leavitt
George Brooks, artist in stone
Frontier tales; true stories of real people
History of the Jews in Utah and Idaho