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Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick (born 1956)

historian

  • Brown University, Duke University

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In the hurricane's eye
In the Heart of the Sea
Sea of Glory
Mayflower
Mayflower
Revenge of the Whale
Valiant ambition
The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World
Bunker Hill
The last stand
The loss of the ship Essex, sunk by a whale
Why read Moby-Dick?
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA
Away off shore
The last stand
The Mayflower Papers
En el corazón del mar
Away off shore : Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890
Travels with George
Second Wind
Abram's eyes
The passionate sailor
Ben's Revolution
In the Founders' Footsteps
The Mayflower papers
Holy Father: Pope Benedict XVI
Mayflower - Aufbruch in die Neue Welt (German text version)
In the Heart of the Sea (Young Readers Edition)
Dins el cor del mar
Sea of Glory
Dins el cor del mar
Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World
Im Herzen der See
King Philip's War
Little gray island
Xstranger Than in the Heart of
Mayflower
Özgürlügün Rehaveti
Sea of Glory : America's Voyage of Discovery
In the Heart of the Sea
Sailing Around Nantucket
Second Wind
Bai jing chuan qi
Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004)

librarian, historian, sociologist, lawyer, biographer, philosopher, Librarian of Congress

  • Harvard College, University of Oxford

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A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains
The Americans
The discoverers
The Americans, the democratic experience
The Americans, the colonial experience
The image
The lost world of Thomas Jefferson
A history of the United States
The exploring spirit
The Seekers
An American Primer
The Americans, the national experience
Cleopatra's Nose
The Creators
The republic of technology
The discoverers
The genius of American politics
The Americans
America and the image of Europe
The Discoverers
The Daniel J. Boorstin reader
The decline of radicalism
The Seekers
Democracy and its discontents
The sociology of the absurd
Hidden history
The mysterious science of the law
America and the image of Europe reflections on American thought. --
The landmark history of the American people
The Americans: the natioinal experience
The Americans: The Colonial Experience
The Genius of American Politics (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)
The indivisible world
The republic of technology
The Americans
Compendio Historico de Los Estados Unidos
The world encompassed
A history of the United States since 1861
Les Découvreurs
We Americans
Daihakken (Shueisha bunko)
L' image
Los Pensadores
A nation of readers
The Americans
Daihakken
The Library of Congress and the pursuit of happiness
An American primer
The Americans
The Creators (Premium Edition)
Beginnings
Meiguo ren
The fertile verge
Gresham's law, knowledge or information?
The image, or, What happened to the American dream
A history of the United States
The Creators
An American Primer (Plume)
The landmark history of the American people from Plymouth to Appomattox
Visiting our past
American civilization
The republic of letters
The landmark history of the American people from Appomattox to the moon
Descubridores, Los - Rustica -
The People Look at Radio (America in two centuries, an inventory)
Das image
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
Perspectives
L' histoire sans frontières
Gresham's law
THE AMERICANS 3 VOLS
Daniel J. Boorstin papers
The Portuguese discoverers
Svet otkric a
American civilization; a portrait from the twentieth century
The Americans
Delaware cases, 1792-1830
Daniel J. Boorstin papers
Daniel J. Boorstin papers
The American Image of Europe
The creators
Fa xian zhe
Nariz de Cleopatra, La
Kulleopatura ui ko
Gendai Amerika shakai
Anti-Semitism, a threat to democracy
The sociology of the absurd, or, The application of Professor X
Het imago
Daniel J. Boorstin papers
Gijutsu shakai no mirai
Daniel J. Boorstin papers
Les créateurs
The Americans
Fa xian zhe
Lndmrk His Am Ppl-VL 2
Meiguo ren, min zhu li cheng
Library
The genius of American politics
Meiguo ren, kai tuo li cheng
The decline of radicalism
Anti-semitism
Amer the Demo-V01
The lost world of Thomas Jefferson
Los Descubridores
Creators Part 2
Amer the Colonial
The Discoveries Part 1 of 3
The need for biography today
Historia de Las Civilizacion 12
The Americans, the colonial experience
Meiguo ren, jian guo li cheng
Discoverer
An American primer
Miguksa ŭi sumŭn iyagi
Amerika seiji no tokushitsu
The Americans
Imeji no jidai
ha-Meraglim
The Discoverers Part 2 of 3
Portrats from Americns
Do it the hard way
The lost world of Thomas Jefferson
The Americans
Amer the Natl-V02
Kajōka shakai
Amer the Natl-V01
Palgyŏnjadŭl
The U.S. book of facts, statistics & information for 1967
The Americans, the national experience
The Americans, the democratic experience
Creators Part 1
The Mysterious science of the law
Los descubridores
Democracy and its discontents
The communities of knowledge
Induction of Daniel J. Boorstin as the 12th Librarian of Congress, November 12, 1975, Great Hall, Library of Congress
The Discoverers Part 3 of 3
Amer the Demo-V02
Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson (born 1964)

economic historian, historian, economist, journalist

  • University of Oxford, University of Oxford

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The House of Rothschild, Vol. 1
The ascent of money
The Pity of War
The War of the World
The cash nexus
The House of Rothschild, Vol. 2
The great degeneration
Civilization
Doom
Paper and Iron
Empire
High Financier
The House of Rothschild, Vol. 1 & 2
1914
The World's Banker
Virtual History
The shock of the global
Inside the House of Money
Colossus
Kissinger
Does The 21st Century Belong To China Kissinger And Zakaria Vs Ferguson And Li The Munk Debate On China
Square and the Tower
Kissinger : 1923-1968
America's National Security Architecture
Constraints and Room for Manoeuvre in the German Inflation of the Early 1920s
1914
Is This the End of the Liberal International Order?
Hazin Savas 1914 - 1918
Politik ohne Macht. Das fatale Vertrauen in die Wirtschaft
Kissinger
End of the Liberal Order?
SINKING GLOBALIZATION
Zhongguo jiang cheng ba 21 shi ji ma?
Kissinger : Volume I : 1923-1968
The "thin film of gold"
WAR OF THE WORLD
Blood Borders
Civilización
Get-Well-Quick Kit Counterpack
Dinero y Poder En El Mundo Moderno 1700-2000
The Arbroath and Forfar Railway (Oakwood Library of Railway History)
Der falsche Krieg. Der erste Weltkrieg und das 20. Jahrhundert
Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore (born 1966)

historian, journalist, essayist, academic

  • University of Michigan, Yale University

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Book of Ages
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
These Truths
The name of war
New York Burning
Encounters in the New World
The Whites of Their Eyes
The story of America
A is for American
The Mansion Of Happiness
A história secreta da mulher maravilha
If Then
This America
A Teacher's Guide to Encounters in the New World
Joe Gould's teeth
Websterisms
These Truths
Story of America
The Mansion of Happiness
Book of Ages
Nom de la Guerre
New York Burning
Whites of Their Eyes
Secret History of Wonder Woman
This America : the Case for the Nation
Mansion of Happiness, The
Blindspot : By a Gentleman in Exile & a Lady in Disguise
E. P. Thompson
E. P. Thompson (1924-1993)

historian of Modern Age, historian, journalist, biographer, labor historian, peace activist, anti-nuclear weapons activist

  • University of Cambridge, Dragon School

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William Morris
The making of the English working class
Witness against the beast
William Morris
The romantics
Making history
The poverty of theory and other essays
Mad Dogs
Star Wars
The Sykaos papers
The essential E.P. Thompson
Double exposure
The heavy dancers
Whigs and hunters
Writing by Candlelight
Beyond the frontier
Romantics, The
Beyond the Cold War
Family and inheritance
Alien homage
Protest and survive
Warwick University Ltd
The defence of Britain
Albion's fatal tree
La formación de la clase obrera en Inglaterra
The poverty of theory, or An orrery of errors
Britain and the bomb
Beyond The Frontier The Politics Of A Failed Mission
"Alien Homage"
Star Wars
The Poverty of Theory
Customs in common
Unknown Mayhew
The state versus its "enemies"
Time
Infant and Emperor
Zero option
Protest and survive
Protest and survive
Collected poems
The railway
Exterminism and cold war
Protest and survive
Star Wars
Writing by Candelight
Fascist threat to Britain
The new Hungarian peace movement
La Guerre du blé au XVIIIe siècle
The Communism of William Morris
Exterminism and Cold War
The communism of William Morris
La Formacion de La Clase Obrera En Inglaterra
Witness against the beast
Out of apathy
Fascist threat to Britain
Making Working Class Spec
Folklore anthropology and social history
The secret state
Star wars
Agenda Para Una Historia Radical
Human rights and disarmament
Education and experience
Diritti umani e disarmo
Customs in common
Star wars
Visions of History
Albion's Fatal Tree
Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi (born 1951)

historian, professor, sociologist, literary historian, literary critic, journalist, film critic, peace activist

  • Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania

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Truth and Narrative
Shirin Neshat
Theology of Discontent
Close Up
Authority in Islam
Islamic Liberation Theology
Iran
Post-orientalism
Makhmalbaf at Large
Koorosh Shishegaran
Staging a revolution
Iran
Can Non-Europeans Think?
The green movement in Iran
Corpus anarchicum
Iran
Persophilia
Last Muslim Intellectual
Brown skin, white masks
Masters & Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema
Iran the Green Movement and the USA
Emperor Is Naked
On Edward Said
Being a Muslim in the World
Dreaming of Baghdad
Europe and Its Shadows
Shi'ism
Shi'ism
The world is my home
Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture
Expectation of the millennium
The Arab spring
Reversing the Colonial Gaze
IRAN
Green Movement in Iran
Theology of discontent
Iran Without Borders
The Shahnameh
End of Two Illusions
Iranian Childhood
Ayn Al-Qudat Al-Hamadhani
Fundamental Fear
End of Two Illusions
World of Persian Literary Humanism
Corpus Anarchicum
Truth and Narrative
Theology of Discontent
Post-Orientalism
Islamic Liberation Theology
Iran, the Green Movement and the USA
Expectation of the Millennium
Shahnameh
Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed
Shi'ism
Islamic Liberation Theology
Dreams of a nation
Authority in Islam
Iran
Arab Spring
Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema
In Search of Lost Causes
World of Persian Literary Humanism
Brown Skin, White Masks
Reversing the Colonial Gaze
Staging a revolution
Authority in Islam
CLOSE-UP: IRANIAN CINEMA
Iranian Childhood
The Persian Prince
Europe and Its Shadows
Last Muslim Intellectual
The world of Persian literary humanism
Theology of Discontent
Forugh Farrokhzad a quarter-century later
Expectation of the millennium
ʻAyn al-Quz̤āt Hamadānī va ḥāl va havā-yi ʻaqlānī-i zamān-i ū
Theology of discontent
Onomadopean
Paul Preston
Paul Preston (born 1946)

historian, professor, biographer, Hispanist

  • St Edward's College, Oriel College

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Juan Carlos
The Coming of the Spanish Civil War
We saw Spain Die
Doves of War
The Spanish Holocaust
Mother father deaf
The politics of revenge
La Guerra Civil española
The Republic Besieged
La muerte de Guernica
The Spanish Civil War
La Guerra Civil
The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39
Revolution and War in Spain, 1931-1939
The War without End
Franco
The Triumph of Democracy in Spain
Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century
Spain in crisis
A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War
The Last Stalinist
El gran manipulador
La guerra civil española
Comrades!
The Popular front in Europe
Spain, the EEC, and NATO
A People Betrayed
Las derechas españolas en el siglo XX
Las Tres Españas Del 36
The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War
Elites and power in twentieth-century Spain
The Spanish Right under the Second Republic
Arquitectos del terror
La destrucción de la democracia en España
Connie
Increase profits through more effective motor carrier selling
Historia gráfica de la Guerra Civil
Botxins i repressors
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
Politics of Revenge
Leadership strategies for health care managers / Paul Preston
British documents on foreign affairs
British documents on foreign affairs
Last Days of the Spanish Republic
España ante la CEE y la OTAN
De la revolución liberal a la democracia parlamentaria
Juan Carlos
La destrucción de la democracia en España
La Guerra Civil espanyola
Salvador de Madariaga and the Quest for Liberty in Spain
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
Silencios desde la guerra civil española
Leviatán
Paul Preston's Voyages, Travels and Remarkable Adventures As Related by Himself
Destruction of Guernica
Never More Alive
Fighter Fell in Love
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
Josep Massot i Muntaner. El combat per la història
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print, Part 3, From 1940 through 1945: Series G, Africa (5 Volumes)
The Alpine guide, or, The veteran of Marengo
British documents on foreign affairs
La Guerra Civil Española
La guerra civil espanola / A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War
Conscience and Conflict
British documents on foreign affairs
The Princess of Viarna, or, The Spanish Inquisition in the reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth
La política de la venganza
España en la guerra civil europea
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
The count's niece, or, The veteran of Marengo
British documents on foreign affairs
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
Herbert Edward Read
Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968)

art historian, poet, philosopher, anarchist, literary critic, critic

  • University of Leeds

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Henry Moore
The Philosophy of Modern Art
Education Through Art
A concise history of modern painting
The green child
A concise history of modern sculpture
A One-Man Manifesto
The art of sculpture
Art and industry
The meaning of art
Art Now
Collected essays in literary criticism
Paul Klee on modern art
Henry Moore
Art and society
The contrary experience
English prose style
The Philosophy of Anarchism
The grass roots of art
The forms of things unknown
Anarchy and order
Green Child
Icon and idea
Phases of English poetry
Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists
Psychology and Alchemy
Poems
Reason and romanticism
Icon and idea
Art and industry
To hell with culture, and other essays on art and society
Art and alienation
Kunst, Kultur und Anarchie
The true voice of feeling
On beauty
Annals of innocence and experience
The practice of design
Existentialism, Marxism, and anarchism
Form in Modern Poetry
Wordsworth
Henry Moore
A letter to a young painter
Pursuits & verdicts
A concise history of modern sculpture
Form in modern poetry
Henry Moore
English stained glass
A concise history of modern painting
Form in Gothic
A concise history of modern painting
English Prose Style
Art and industry
Between The Riccall And The Rye Selected Writings On Ryedale From Herbert Reads Poetry And Prose
Surrealism
In retreat
This way delight: A book of poetry for the young;
The book of art
The green child
Contemporary British art
Unit 1
The knapsack
A concise history of modern sculpture
The nature of literature
Byron
The English vision
Poetry and anarchism
The nude
Eclogues
The tenth muse
The innocent eye
Art and the evolution of man
Ashley Havinden and the art of publicity
The cult of sincerity
Surrealism
Wordsworth
The Anatomy Of Art
Freedom, is it a crime?
Art and Industry
The origins of form in art
Essential communism
The Thames and Hudson dictionary of art and artists
Essays in literary criticism: particular studies
Klee (1879-1940)
Contemporary British art
La Decima Musa
The weathering of art
A world within a war
News from Thrush Green
The true voice of feeling
The art of sculpture
Historia de La Pintura Moderna
This way, delight
Lord Byron at the opera
A concise history of modern sculpture
Reason and romanticism
Histoire de la peinture moderne
The sense of glory
In defence of Shelley and other essays
Selected Poetry
Diccionario Del Arte Y Los Artistas
Coleridge as critic
Icon and idea
Julien Benda and the new humanism
Form in modern poetry
Ben Nicholson
The styles of European art
Modern Sculpture
In defence of Shelley
The art of Jean Arp
Jan Le Witt
Wordsworth
Modern art and French decadence
Histoire de la peinture moderne
Reason and romanticism
In retreat
T. S. E., a memoir
Thirty-five poems
Design and tradition
Annals of innocence and experience
Staffordshire pottery figures
The Thames and Hudson dictionary of art and artists
The Green Child
The redemption of the robot
Coleridge as critic
The grassroots of art
Encyclopaedia of the arts
Paul Nash
Phases of English poetry
In defence of Shelley & other essays
The redemption of the robot
The sense of glory
Annals of innocence and experience
Concise History of Modern Painting
Lynn Chadwick
The end of a war
In Defense of Shelley and Other Essays
Edvard Munch
The anatomy of art
Nature of Literature
The Forms Of Things Unknown
Poetry and experience
Aristotle's mother
The sense of glory
The quest and the quarry
Meaning of Art
The place of art in a university
Eric Gill
In Defence Of Shelley And Other Essays
Five European Sculptors
Tenth Muse
Child art
The art of sculpture
The Innocent Eye
Johannes Vermeer
THE ART OF SCULPTURE
The London Book Of English Prose (1931)
Arp
The significance of children's art
Icon and Idea
Arp
The art of Jean Arp
The innocent eye
The Creative arts in American education
World Within a War
Staffordshire pottery figures
Ambush
The practice of design
Hans Richter
Design and tradition
The styles of European art
The politics of the unpolitical
Gauguin (1848-1903)
The art of sculpture
The sense of glory: essays in criticism
Surrealism
Conflicts in contemporary art
Edvard Munch
Surrealism. Edited with an introd. by Herbert Read. Contributions by Andre Breton [and others]
Grass Roots of Art
Poetry and experience
The Thrones of Earth and Heaven
A letter to a young painter
Moderne malerkunst
The parliament of women
Concise History of Modern Painting
Poems ; 1914-1934
The book of art
Pursuits & verdicts
The meaning of art
The ethics of power
Education for peace
The politics of the unpolitical
To hell with culture
Lynn Chadwick
Culture and education in world order
Art and industry
The styles of European art
Jan Le Witt
Icon and idea
The education of free men
The true voice
Collected poems 1913-25.
Collected poems
Essays in literary criticism
Coleridge as critic
Coleridge as critic
Poems 1914-1934
In defence of Shelley & other essays
The place of art in a university
Yi shu de yi yi
Mutations of the phoenix
The sense of glory
High noon and darkest night
Mutations of the phoenix
Redemption Robot
Henry Moore
Reason and romanticism
Form in modern poetry
English stained glass
This way delight
The cult of sincerity
The grass roots of art
In retreat
The parliament of women
The politics of the unpolitical
Naked warriors
The education of free men
English prose style
Henry Moore, sculptor
Selected writings
Collected Poems
A coat of many colours
Escultura Moderna, La
Philosophy of Modern Art
A world within a war
The True voice of feeling
Education for peace
The paradox of anarchism
Form in modern poetry. --
Contemporary British art
The forms of things unknown
The Thames and Hudson encyclopaedia of the arts
Psychopathology of reaction in the arts
The London book of English prose
Collected essays in literary criticism
Zum 85. Geburtstag von Professor Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, 26. Juli 1960
Collected essays in literary criticism
English stained glass
A Tribute to Herbert Read, 1893-1968
A coat of many colours
The Art of Sculpture
Art and society
Letters from Sooke
A concise history of modern painting
English prose style
El Arte de La Escultura
The Limits of Permissiveness in Art
Selected Writings, Poetry and Criticism / with a Foreword by Allen Tate
Collected poems
Art and Society
The London book of English prose
Art and industry
The London book of English verse, selected by Herbert Read and Bonamy Dobrée
Art and the evolution of man
The London book of English verse
The London book of English verse
Sense of Glory
Paul Nash
An Introduction to Herbert Read's Work by Several Hands
Art education
Carta a Un Joven Pintor
Selected writings
Xian dai hui hua jian shi
Tribute to Wordsworth
Freedom, is it a crime?
Selected writings
Selected writings
Wordsworth
Henry Moore, sculpture and drawings
The meaning of art
The true voice of feeling
The London book of English verse
Icon and idea
Selected writings
Contemporary British Art
The redemption of the robot
Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Modern sculpture
La Nina Verde
Kandinsky (1866-1944)
The Contrary Experience
The art of Jean Arp
The anthology of English prose
Imagen e idea
The end of a war
English prose style
A Modern Szobraszat
A concise history of modern painting
The contrary experience
The art of sculpture
Form in modern poetry
Poems, 1914-1934
A coat of many colours
DuMont's Künstlerlexikon
Collected poems / by Herbert Read
Moon's Farm
The philosophy of modern art
A arte de agora, agora
Moon's Farm, and poems mostly elegiac
Collected poems, 1913-25
Pintura actual
In Retreat
Art and industry, the principles of industrial design
English prose style
Art and industry
The quest and the quarry
Art now
Ambush
Naked warriors
Freedom, is it a crime?