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Paul Avrich
Paul Avrich (1931-2006)

historian, pedagogue

  • Cornell University

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Sasha and Emma
The Modern School Movement
Kronstadt, 1921
Anarchist portraits
The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
Anarchist Voices
The Russian anarchists
The Haymarket tragedy
Sacco and Vanzetti
An American anarchist
Bakunin & Nechaev
Russian rebels
The Avrich
The Russian revolution and the factory committees
Haymarket Tragedy
Ahrne Thorne
Anarchism materials collected by Dr. Paul Avrich
Arthur L. Herman
Arthur L. Herman (born 1956)

historian

  • Johns Hopkins University

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Gandhi & Churchill
1917
Joseph McCarthy
To Rule the Waves
The cave and the light
Freedom's forge
The idea of decline in Western history
How the Scots invented the Modern World
Metternich
What Life Was Like At Empire's End
What Life Was Like in Europe's Romantic Era
1917
Douglas MacArthur
The Scottish Enlightenment
How the Scots invented the Modern World
The cave and the light
To Rule the Waves
William Woodruff
William Woodruff (1916-2008)

historian, memoirist, economic historian, academic, soldier

  • University of Nottingham, Harvard University

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Beyond nab end
Impact of western man
The Road to Nab End
Nab End and Beyond
A concise history of the modern world
Vessel of sadness
America's impact on the world
Billy Boy
Shadows of Glory
The struggle for world power, 1500-1980
Paradise galore
Impact of western man, a study of Europe's role in the world economy, 1750-1960
Wing-shooting
The rise of the British rubber industry during the nineteenth century
Technology and the changing trade patterns of the United States
The Suez Canal and the Australian economy
Gail Levin
Gail Levin (born 1948)

art historian, photographer, curator, academic, essayist, women's rights activist, historian, art theorist, artist, exhibition curator

  • Tufts University, Rutgers University

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Lee Krasner
Edward Hopper
Hopper's places
Synchromism and American color abstraction, 1910-1925
The Poetry of Solitude
Marsden Hartley in Bavaria
Ethics and the visual arts
Becoming Judy Chicago
Silent places
Twentieth-Century American Painting
Alex Katz, process and development
Theresa Bernstein A Century In Art
Aaron Copland's America
The Watercolors of Edward Hopper
The Paintings of Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper. Ein intimes Porträt
Marsden Hartley
Wassily Kandinsky and the American avant-garde, 1912-1950
Die gemalte Wirklichkeit. Edward Hopper und sein Amerika
Edward Hopper as illustrator
Reflections of Nature Flowers in American Art
Edeward Hopper as Illustrator
EDWARD HOPPER CROWN ART LIB (Crown Art Library)
Edward Hopper, prints and illustrations
Learning Through Songs
Symphonics R Us
Edward Hopper at Kennedy Galleries
Angel Mateo
Andrea Wulf
Andrea Wulf (born 1972)

historian, biographer, graphic novelist, opinion journalist

  • Royal College of Art

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The Invention of Nature
Founding Gardeners
Chasing Venus
The brother gardeners
This Other Eden
Magnificent Rebels
Private Jefferson
Magníficos Rebeldes
Psychoanalytische Behandlung Von Kindern und Jugendlichen Mit Angststörungen und Depressionen
David M. Friedman
David M. Friedman (born 1949)

historian, journalist

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The Immortalists
A Mind of Its Own
New research on YBCO superconductors
Wilde in America
Security measures in the commercial trucking and bus industries
Guidebook for evaluating fuel purchasing strategies for public transit agencies
Trial preparation & techniques in divorce cases
Accounting for family lawyers
Clean air program
Benedict Anderson
Benedict Anderson (1936-2015)

political scientist, anthropologist, philosopher, historian

  • Eton College, Cornell University

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A life beyond the boundaries
Imagined communities
Under Three Flags
The spectre of comparisons
Mythology and the tolerance of the Javanese
The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand
In the mirror
Language and power
Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia
Coming To Terms With The Nation Ethnic Classification In Modern China
Exploration and irony in studies of Siam over forty years
DEBATING WORLD LITERATURE; ED. BY CHRISTOPHER PRENDERGAST
Indonesia Journal
Java in a time of revolution
Indonesia Journal
Pramoedya Ananta Toer and his work
City in Transgression
Culture and politics in Indonesia
Indonesia Journal
Bibliography of Indonesian publications
Mencari demokrasi
Buried Cities
A preliminary analysis of the October 1, 1965
Indonesia - April 1994
In the Mirror
Why counting counts
Mapping the Nation
Buried City
Indonesia Journal
A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965 Coup in Indonesia
Long-distance nationalism
Java in a Time of Revolution
Spectre of Comparisons
Indonesia - April 2003
Java in a time of revolution
Indonesia Journal - April 2006
Indonesia Journal - October 2007
City in Geography
Imagined communities revisited
Indonesia Journal - April 2007
Life Beyond Boundaries
NAÇÕES (AS) UNIDAS, A INDONÉSIA E TIMOR-LESTE -(EURO 14.96)
Some Aspects of Indonesian Politics Under the Japanese Occupation
Xiang xiang de gong tong ti
City in Transgression
City in Geography
Sinirlari Asarak Yasamak - Bir Sosyal Bilimcinin Yasamindan Anilar
Indonesia Journal - April 2008
Buried City, Unearthing Teufelsberg
Indonesia Journal - October 2006
Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia
Indonesia Journal, October 1969, Volume 8
Indonesia - April 2004
Interpreting Indonesian politics
UNA VIDA MAS ALLA DE LAS FRONTERAS
Religion and social ethos in Indonesia
Some aspects of Indonesian politics under the Japanese occupation: 1944-1945
Indonesia - October 2003
Sukarno, Marxisme, dan Bahaya Pemfosilan
想像的共同體
Michael Psellos
Michael Psellos (1018-1078)

philosopher, politician, historian, poet, physician, astronomer

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Mothers and sons, fathers and daughters
The Chronographia
Theologica, Vol. I
Poemata
Orationes Hagiographicae
De operatione daemonum cum notis Gaulmini curante Jo. Fr. Boissonade: Accedunt inedita opuscula ..
Orationes Panegyricae
Orationes Forenses Et Acta
Orationes Forenses et Acta
Theologica
Philosophica Minora, vol. I
Philosophica Minora, vol. II
Psellos and the Patriarchs
Démonologie populaire, démonologie critique au XIe siècle
Orationes Hagiographicae
Orationes Panegyricae
De operatione daemonum
Oratoria Minora
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers
Fourteen Byzantine rulers
Theologica, vol. I
Fourteen Byzantine rulers
Poemata
Michaelis Pselli Philosophica minora
Michaelis Pselli Historia syntomos
Epistola a Giovanni Xifilino
Michaelis Pselli orationes hagiographicae
De omnifaria doctrina
Tou sophōtatou Psellou epilusis eis tous ex tēs philosophias tropous
Compendivm mathematicvm
Michaelis Pselli Philosophica Minora (Teaching and Training in Geriatric Medicine)
Michaelis Pselli theologica
Michaelis Pselli Compendivm mathematicvm
Chronographie
Chronographia
M. Pselli metaphrasis libri secundi Posteriorum Analyticorum Aristotelis
Scripta minora
The essays on Euripides and George of Pisidia and on Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius
The history of Psellus
Epi tre sur la Chrysope e
De operatione daemonum
De lapidum virtutibus Graece ac Latine
The Chronographia of Michael Psellus
Encomio per Giovanni piissimo metropolita di Euchaita e protosincello
Imperatori di Bisanzio (Cronografia)
The essays on Euripides and George of Pisidia and on Heliodrus and Achilles Tatius
The chronographia of Michael Psellus
Michaelis Pselli Oratoria minora
De operatione daemonum
La crisopea, ovvero, Come fabbricare l'oro
Chronographie
Michaelis Pselli Oratoria minora
Epistola a Michele Cerulario
The history of Psellus
Kommentar zur Physik des Aristoteles
Michaelis Pselli Oratoria minora
The essays on Euripides and George of Pisidia and on Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers
Chronographie; ou
The history of Psellus
Michel Italikos lettres et discours
Michaelis Pselli Commentarii in Physicen Aristotelis
Michaelis Pselli orationes panagyricae
Epistola a Giovanni Xifilino
Autobiografia
Nozioni paradossali
Epistola a Giovanni Xifilino
La tragedia greca