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Jung Chang
Jung Chang (born 1952)

autobiographer, biographer, linguist, poet, historian

  • University of York, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

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Wild Swans
Mao
Mme Sun Yat-sen
Empress Dowager Cixi
Hui gu zhan wang tan tao
Hong
Seitaikō hiroku
William Manchester
William Manchester (1922-2004)

historian, professor, biographer

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Missouri

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American Caesar
The Death of a President
The Last Lion
The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968
The Last Lion
A World Lit Only by Fire
In Our Time
Goodbye, Darkness
The death of a president, November 20-November 25, 1963
Controversy and other essays in journalism, 1950-1975
American Caesar
The Last Lion
The glory and the dream: a narrative history of America, 1932-1972
The last lion, Winston Spencer Churchill
Goodbye, Darkness
Portrait of a President
The Last Lion
The Glory and the Dream
The arms of Krupp, 1587-1968
One brief shining moment
A Rockefeller family portrait
The City of Anger
The caged lion
The last lion, Winston Spencer Churchill
One Brief Shining Moment
One brief shining moment
The glory and the dream
American Caesar
American Caesar
Winston Churchill
The City of Anger
The last lion
The death of a president
The death of a president
The Death of a President
The arms of Krupp, 1587-1968
The glory and the dream
Disturber of the Peace
The Glory and the Dream
The Arms of Krupp
The death of a president
The arms of Krupp, 1587-1968
American Caesar
Portrait of a President
The Glory and the Dream
La mort d'un president
The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968
The death of a president
Muerte de un presidente, 20 de Noviembre-23 de Noviembre, 1963
Last Lion
Portrait of a President
On Mencken
The Sage of Baltimore:The Life and Riotous Times of H.L.Mencken
One brief shining moment
The Glory And The Dream Part 1 Of 5
The death of a president, November 20-November 25, 1963
Disturber of the Peace
H. L. Mencken
Goodbye, darkness
The glory and the dream
Der Tod des Präsidenten
One brief shining moment
Portrait of a President
The City of Anger
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill; Alone
The last lion, Winston Spencer Churchill
The Long Gainer
Les Rockefeller
The Arms Of Krupp 1587-1968 (Part 1 Of 2)
The Glory and the Dream (Part III)
Last Lion Alone-V2
The Glory and the Dream (Vol. 4)
Disturber of the peace
The Glory and the Dream (Vol. 5)
The Glory and the Dream Part 5 of 5
Last Lion
American Caesar (Part II)
The Glory and the Dream Part 2 of 5
The caged lion
American Caesar (Part B)
Rockefeller Family Portrait
Last Lion
The glory and the dream
H.L. Mencken
The Glory and the Dream (Part II)
Beard the Lion
Last Lion
The Glory and the Dream (Part I)
The Last Lion
The death of a President, November 20-November 25, 1963
The arms of Krupp
The caged lion
The Arms Of Krupp 1587-1968 (Part 2 Of 2)
The Sage of Baltimore:The Life and Riotous Times of H.L.Mencken
Last Lion
The glory and the dream
Goodbye, darkness
The Glory and the Dream Part 3 of 5
H.L.Mencken
Krupp (The arms of Krupp, dt.).
Shadow of the Monsoon
American Caesar Vol. 1
The Glory And The Dream Part 4 Of 5
The Arms of Krupp,1587-1968
The glory and the dream
Muerte de un presidente
Portrait of a President
The Glory and the Dream (CD)
The Glory and the Dream (Vol. 3)
The sage of Baltimore
Disturber of the peace
Historia Oficial de La Ryder Cup 1927-1991
American Caesar Vol. 2
Portrait of a president;
A Rockefeller Family Portrait
American Caesar (Part I)
The Last Lion
Controversy and other essays in journalism, 1950-1975
Glory and the Dream-V2
The Glory and the Dream (Vol. 1)
The Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill
Disturber of the Peace
The death of a President, November 20-November 25, 1963
The city of anger
Last Lion
Shadow of the monsoon
In our time
Portrait of a president
The death of a president
The city of anger
Goodbye, Darkness
One brief shining moment
A Rockefeller family portrait
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964.
In our time
In Our Time
The Glory and the Dream
The Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill, VOLUME ONE
The arms of Krupp, 1587-1968
Beard The Lion.
Ḳesar Ameriḳani
American Caesar
H. L. Mencken
Magnum
A Rockefeller family portrait, from John D. to Nelson
The Glory and the Dream, a Narrative History of America 1932-1972, 2 Volume Set
Shadow of the monsoon
the death of a president
The long gainer
Der Tod des Präsidenten
Shadow of the monsoon
H. L. Mencken
The Caged Lion
Beard the lion
The long gainer a novel.
Portrait of a president
The death of a president
Portrait of a president
Disturber of the peace
Muerte de un presidente, 20 de Noviembre-23 de Noviembre, 1963
The Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill
Guang rong yu meng xiang
H.L. Mencken
The Last Lion
The city of anger
The city of anger, a novel
William Manchester : The Last Lion, Volume 2
Goodbye Darkness
Last Lion : Volume 2 Vol. 2 : Winston Spencer Churchill
Last Lion Box Set
Last Lion Vol. 3
Mort d'un president
The Arms of Krupp
Life and Riotous Times of H. L. Mencken
Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968
WINSTON CHURCHILL T1 REVES GLOIRE
THE DEATH OF A PRESIDENT November 1963
Last Lion : Volume 2 : Winston Spencer Churchill
The Glory and the Dream Volume Two
De Dood Van Een President 20 November - 25 November 1963
De glorie en de droom
Portrait of a President, With a New Introduction and Epilogue
The Glory and the Dream Lib/E
Portrait of a President
My Early Life
The Glory and the Dream vol 1
Death of a President - Nov 20 - Nov 25 1963
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Last Lion Alone-V3
American Caesar
Last Lion : Volume 1 Vol. 1 : Winston Churchill
American Caesar
The Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume Three
Winston Spencer Churchill
American caesar Dfouglas MacArthur 1880-1964
Goodbye Darkness A Memoir of the Pacific War
H L Mencken Disturber of the Peace
Controversy
Last Lion : Volume 1 : Winston Churchill
The Glory and the Dream, Volume 1 & 2
One Brief Shining Moment
The Glory and the Dream a narrative History of America 1932-1972 Vol. 1
Joseph Ellis
Joseph Ellis (born 1943)

historian

  • Yale University, College of William & Mary

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His Excellency
Founding Brothers
American Sphinx
American Creation
The Quartet
Passionate Sage
After the Revolution
Revolutionary summer
School for soldiers
First Family Abigail And John Adams
First Family
American Dialogue
The New England mind in transition
Sie schufen Amerika
What Did the Declaration Declare? and What Did the Consitution Mean to Early
James Gleick
James Gleick (born 1954)

biographer, journalist, historian of science, essayist

  • Harvard University, Harvard College

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Faster
The Information
Chaos
Genius
Time Travel
Isaac Newton
What Just Happened
Nature's Chaos
The Best American Science Writing 2000
Genius Hb S/Wx10
Chaos X10 S/W Whs
Genius Export X12 D/B
Genius Hb D/Bx12
Genius Pb Tsp
Genius B D/Bx18
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1499-1558)

conquistador, explorer, military personnel, historian

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Relación y comentarios
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the unknown interior of America
Castaways
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Historiadores primitivos de Indias
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
The Shipwrecked Men
The narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
The South American expeditions, 1540-1545
The journey and ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca
Chronicle of the Narváez expedition
Chronicle of the Narváez expedition
The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536
The Account
Relación de los naufragios y Comentarios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Relation et naufrages d'Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca
Los Comentarios de Alvar Núñez
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Naufragios y comentarios
Naufragios (COLECCION HISTORIA) (Humanidades / Humanities)
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Relación de los naufragios y Comentarios de Alvar Nú?nez Cabeza de Vaca ... ilustrados con varios documentos inéditos .
Naufragios (Viajes)
Naufragios y comentarios/Shipwrecks and commentaries (Cronicas De America)
Relation de voyage
Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543
The Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca
Adventures in the unknown interior of America
Relation of Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Naufragios
Naufragios y comentarios / Disasters and Commentaries
The power within us
Commentaires d'Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca
Naufragios
The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
La relacion y comentarios del gouernador Aluar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, de lo acaescido en las dos jornadas que hizo a las Indias
The narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca
Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543
Naufragios y Comentarios
The narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Naufragios (Intemporales)
Naufragios y comentarios
The Account of Cabeza de Vaca
Naufragios y comentarios, con dos cartas
Relation that Alvar Núñez Cabeça de Vaca gave of what befel the armament in the Indias whither Pánphilo de Narváez went for governor (from the years 1527 to 1537) when with three comrades he returned and came to Sevilla.+
Adventures In The Unknown Interior Of America
The journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536
The journey of Alvar N©Øu©Þnez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528- 1536
Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca
Naufragios
Naufragios de Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Relation of Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
Relación de Los Naufragios y Comentarios de Alvar Nú?nez Cabeza de Vaca ... Ilustrados con Varios Documentos Inéditos; 6
Relation et naufrages
Naufragios Y Comentarios (Relecturas Viajes)
The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to ...
Naufragios y comentarios
Narrative of the Narváez expedition
Comentarios
Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536;
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Historiadores Primitivos de Indias
Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536
Narrative Of The Narvaez Expedition
The shipwrecked men
Naufragios
Naufrágios E Comentários - Coleção L&PM Pocket (Em Portuguese do Brasil)
Relacion de Los Naufragios y Comentarios; Volume 1
Castaways
La relacion que dio Aluar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca de lo acaescido en las Indias en la armada donde yua por gouernador Pa[m]philo de Narbaez, desde el año de veynte y siete hasta el año d[e] treynta y seys que boluio a Seuilla con tres de su compañia
Naufragios y comentarios con dos cartas
Naufragios y Comentarios (Ilustrado)
Naufragios de Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Naufragios y relación de la jornada que hizo a la Florida con el adelantado Pánfilo Narvaez
Naufragios
Naufragios y comentarios
Naufragios
Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543
Naufragios
Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca
Relacion de los Naufragios y Comentarios
Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555. ) I. Voyage of Ulrich Schmidt to the Rivers la Plata and Paraguai. from the Original German Ed. , 1567. II. the Commentaries of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. from the Original Spanish Ed. , 1555. Tr. from The...
Relacion de los Naufragios y Comentarios
Los naufragios y relacioń
Naufragios
Relación De Los Naufragios Y Comentarios De Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca
Naufragios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Comentarios de Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, adelantado, y governador del Rio de la Plata
Relacion de Los Naufragios y Comentarios
Commentaires d'alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, ... valladolid, 1555...
Naufragios
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
La relacion y comentarios del gouernador Aluar Nuẽz Cabeca de Vaca, de lo acaescido en las dos jornadas que hizo a las Indias
Los naufragios
Adventures in the Unknown
Relación De Los Naufragios Y Comentarios De Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
NAUFRAGIOS
Naufragios y relación de la jornada que hizo a la Florida con el adelantado Pánfilo Narvaez
Naufragios
Los Comentarios de Alvar Núñez
Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeca de Vaca
De Vaca's journey to New Mexico, 1535-63
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Naufragios
The journey of Alvar NuSnez Cabeza de Vaca
Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543
Vida y Naufragios de Cabeza de Vaca
The narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca
Marcel Brion
Marcel Brion (1895-1984)

literary critic, art historian

  • Lycée Thiers, Collège Champittet

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Budda, ego zhizn', uchenie
Les labyrinthes du temps
The Medici: a great Florentine family
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
Théodoric, roi des Ostrogoths, 454-526
Venice, the masque of Italy
Les Vaines montagnes
Les peintures de Dieu
Pompeii and Herculaneum
Art romantique
Michelangelo
Mémoires d'une vie incertaine
Algues
Villa des hasards
Les ailleurs du temps
Michel-Ange
German painting
La vie quotidienne à Vienne au temps de Mozart et de Schubert
Les escales de la haute nuit, et autres nouvelles fantastiques
The world of archaeology
L' Allemagne romantique
Giotto
Peinture romantique
Orplid, ou, une certaine idée de l'Allemagne
Les Vaines montagnes
Le château de la princesse Ilse
Meisterwerke der modernen Malerei
Modern painting
Bartolomé de las Casas, "Father of the Indians"
La alemania romántica
Bartholmé de las Casas
Se perdre dans Venise
La fête de la Tour des Ames
Mozart
Le siècle de Laurent le Magnifique
Kandinsky
Guardi
Le journal du visiteur
Charles le Téméraire
Lumière de la renaissance
Cézanne
Art since 1945
Art abstrait
L' ermite au masque de miroir
Lumière de la Renaissance
Romantic art
Art of the romantic era
Geschichte der abstrakten Kunst
La résurrection des villes mortes
Albrecht Dürer
Breughel
Le pré du grand songe
La Vie des Huns
Francis Bott
Le caprice espagnol
The Medici
Génie et destinée Goethe
Chagall
Les Miroirs et les gouffres, roman
La révolte des gladiateurs
La Provence
Daily life in the Vienna of Mozart and Schubert
L' ombre d'un arbre mort
Savonarole, le héraut de Dieu
De l'autre côté de la forêt
La rose de cire
L' enchanteur
Ces palais où Dieu habite
Catherine Cornaro
Lorenzo il Magnifico [di] Brion Marcello
Discours de réception de Marcel Brion a l'Académie française et reponse de René Huyghe
Château d'ombres; roman
La vie quotidienne à Vienne
Les Miroirs et les gouffres
Animals in art
L' art en Sicile
The Bible in art
Le pape et le prince
Bayard
Machiavel
Mozarts Meisteropern
Provence
Léonor Fini et son oeuvre
Schumann et l'âme romantique
Paris in color
Siècle des Medicis
La Musique et l'amour
Meloni
De César à Charlemagne
Léonard de Vinci
The Medici
Pierre Puget
Frédéric II de Hohenstaufen
Bartolomé de las Casas, padre de los indios
La ville de sable, roman
Vermeer
Suite fantastique
Botticelli
La Musique et lhamour
Les Borgia
Bartholomé de las Casas, "Father of the Indians"
Frédégonde et Brunehaut
Vermeer
La folie Céladon
Bartholomé de Las Casas
Alaric, the Goth
Le portrait de Bélinda
Charles le Téméraire, grand-duc d'Occident
Gœthe
Theoderich
Titien
Le portrait de Belinda
De Pompéi à l'île de Pâques
L' Ombrie
Venice
Discours--
Les escales de la haute nuit
Contes fantastiques
Fabrizio Clerici
L' œil, l'esprit et la main du peintre
Schumann & the romantic age
Art of the Romantic era: Romanticism, Classicism, Realism
Kunst der Romantik
L' art fantastique
Histoire de l'Égypte
La vie d'Attila
Nous avons traversé la montagne
La chanson de l'oiseau étranger et autres contes
Albrecht Dürer: his life and work
La vie quotidienne à Vienna à l'époque de Mozart et de Schubert
Les Amantes
La Grande aventure de la peinture religieuse, le sacré et sa représentation
Gobineau, avec un portrait par la Comtesse de la Tour
Art fantastique
Le théâtre des esprits
Laurent le Magnifique
The story of the Huns
Discours ... par M. Marcel Brion ..
L' art romantique
Tamerlan
Rembrandt
Le Siècle des Médicis
Ivre d'un rêve héroïque et brutal
Paris
Attila, the scourge of God
Michelangelo
La ville de sable
La Folie Céladon
Attila, the scourge of God
Art since 1945
Brion · Buzzati
La Provence
La Folie Céladon
Gobineau
La Grande aventure de la peinture religieuse
L'art en Sicile
Bartholmé de las Casas
La reine Jeanne
Romantic art
Algues
Les eaux mortes
Rembrandt
Animals in art
La vie quotidienne a Vienna a l'époque de Mozart et de Schubert
Fabrizio Clerici
Giotto, par Marcel Brion
HISTOIRE DE L'EGYPTE
Dürer
Charles le Téméraire
Art since 1945
Alaric, the Goth
Le caprice espagnol
Geschichte der abstrakten Kunst
Les peintres en leur temps
Blanche de Castille, femme de Louis VIII, mère de Saint-Louis, 1188-1252
Provence
Maiṉ hūṉ Taimūr
Pompeii and Herculaneum
Bartolomé de las Casas, "Father of the Indians"
Daily life in the Vienna of Mozart and Schubert
La résurrection des villes mortes
Franc̜ois Ximénès
La vie dA̓laric
David G. Dalin
David G. Dalin (born 1949)

rabbi, historian

  • University of California, Berkeley, Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Icon of evil
The myth of Hitler's Pope
Making a life, building a community
American Jews & the Separationist Faith
Jewish justices of the Supreme Court
The Presidents of the United States & the Jews
The Pius war
Icon of evil
Putiya Sōviyat̲t̲ȧ sāmr̲ājyaṃ
Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience
Secularism, spirituality, and the future of American Jewry
Jews and American Public Life
The Pius War
Religion, Race, and the American Presidency
La mezzaluna e la svastica
Wieland Schmied
Wieland Schmied (1929-2014)

art historian, literary editor, poet lawyer, jurist, literary scholar

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KunstHausWien
Horst Janssen
Edward Hopper
Attersee
Xenia Hausner
Francis Bacon
Giorgio de Chirico
Hundertwasser architecture
The Prestel dictionary of art and artists of the 20th century
Hundertwasser: 1928 - 2000; Pers onlichkeit, Leben, Werk
Caspar David Friedrich
Nach Klimt
De Chirico und sein Schatten
Thomas Bernhards Österreich
Schach mit Marcel Duchamp und andere Gedichte für Künstler
Kuhle Blick
Caspar David Friedrich
Tobey
H.C. Artmann, 1921-2000
German art in the 20th century
Zweihundert Jahre phantastische Malerei
Leidenschaft und kühler Blick
Ezra Pound
GegenwartEwigkeit
Edward Hopper
Daniel Spoerri: coincidence as master
Hundertwasser Catalogue Raisonne
Thomas Bernhards Häuser
Ezra Pound Studien
Wegbereiter zur modernen Kunst
Wohin geht die Reise der Kunst: Essays
Neue Sachlichkeit und Magischer Realismus in Deutschland 1918-1933
Paul Celan
Berührungen
Leidenschaft und k uhler Blick: vergleichende Betrachtungen uber die Moderne in der Kunst
Hundertwasser
Giorgio de Chirico, München, 1906-1909
Malerei nach 1945 in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Der Zeichner Alfred Kubin unter Mitwirkung der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina und des Oberöserreichischen Landesmuseums
Carl Unger
Friedensreich Hundertwasser 19282000
Nitsch: der Mensch hinter seinen Aktionen
H.C.Artmann: 1921-2000; Erinnerungen und Essays
Austrian Painting 1945-1995
Begegnung mit Samuel Beckett in Berlin
Giorgio de Chirico, der Metaphysiker
C.D. Friedrich
Von den Chinesen zu den Kindern
Links und rechts die Nacht
Mark Tobey
Harenberg Malerlexikon
Zeichen des Glaubens, Geist der Avantgarde
Max Weiler
Gegenwart Ewidkeit
Rudolf Hradil
Fritz Wotruba
Werner Heldt
Richard Oelze
Fantasy Art
De Chirico
Friedensreich Hundertwasser 1928-2000
Nicht nur Farbe, sondern auch Blut
Die andere Moderne
Brauer
Giorgio DeChirico. Reise ohne Ende
Hoflehner
Erinnerungen an Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Malerei in Österreich 1945-1995
Wohin geht die Reise der Kunst?
Rudolf Hausner
Giorgio de Chirico, betraying the muse
Zwischen Nachtseite und Tagseite
Das Kunstjahrbuch 77/78
Sammlung Sprengel, 2, 1965-1969
Auersbergers wahre Geschichte und andere Texte über Thomas Bernhard
Der Künstler, dem die Welt ein Rätsel blieb
Von der Schöpfung zur Apokalypse
Die Wiener Schule des phantastischen Realismus
René Magritte
Wieland Schmied
Lust am Widerspruch
Neue Sachlichkeit und Magischer Realismus in Deutschland 1918-1933
Deutsche Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert
De Chirico
Henri Michaux
Austria
Utopie und Wirklichkeit im Werk von Heinz Mack
German art in the 20th century
Kunst=Kapital
Forschungen eines Vogels über die Natur der Dinge
Heart matters
Werner Berg
Eröffnungen
Hommage à Picasso
Giorgio de Chirico
Andere Stimmen
Harenberg Museum der Malerei. 525 Meisterwerke aus sieben Jahrhunderten.