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Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit (born 1961)

art historian, journalist, environmentalist

  • San Francisco State University, University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

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Recollections of My Nonexistence
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
The faraway nearby
Wanderlust
Savage Dreams
Men Explain Things To Me
A book of migrations
As Eve Said to the Serpent
A paradise built in hell
Storming the gates of paradise
Hope in the Dark
Hollow City
Infinite City
River of Shadows
The Mother of all Questions
The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle
Unfathomable City A New Orleans Atlas
Call them by their true names
Celebrate people's history
The encyclopedia of trouble and spaciousness
Motion Studies
Mona Hatoum
Orwell's Roses
Secret Exhibition
Ann Hamilton: Sao Paulo/Seattle
The Blue of Distance
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
Cinderella Liberator
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
A California Bestiary
Hollow City
Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change
Whose Story Is This?
Sanctuary Exhibition Catalogue
Best American Essays 2019
City of Women (London)
Recollections of My Nonexistence
Tracing cultures
Rex Ray
Paradise Wavering
¿De quién es esta historia? / Whose Story Is This?
Tom Joyce - Sculpture
Sobre l'art de perdre's
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
Architecture of life
Drowned River
Meghann Riepenhoff
The Beat Generation
Esperanza en la oscuridad
Kaybolma Kilavuzu
Yosemite in Time
Una guía sobre el arte de perderse
Change Everything Now
Gå vilse. En fälthandbok
Men Explain Things to Me
La mare de totes les preguntes
Yol Aski - Yürümenin Tarihi
Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World ...
Not Too Late
La madre de todas las preguntas
Sindirella - Özgürlük Kedisi
Yakindaki Uzak
De Quem E Esta Historia - Feminismos para os tempos atuais (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Els homes m'expliquen coses
HOMBRES ME EXPLICAN COSAS, LOS
La Ventafocs alliberada
Call Them by Their True Names
Waking Beauty
Records de la meva inexistència (El fil d'Ariadna) (Catalan Edition)
Esperança dins la foscor
Tracing Cultures
Inside Out
Die Dinge beim Namen nennen
L'Art de marcher
Homeland
William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)

anthropologist, political scientist, historian, sociologist, philosopher, political theorist, economist

  • Yale College

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Alexander Hamilton And Robert Fulton
Folkways
What social classes owe to each other
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson as a public man
The financier and the finances of the American Revolution
A history of American currency
Protectionism
andrew jackson
Lectures on the history of protection in the United States
Andrew Jackson as a Public Man: What He Was, what Chances He Had, and what He Did with Them
A History of American Currency: With Chapters on the English Bank Restriction and Austrian Paper ..
Lectures on the History of Protection in the United States: Delivered Before ..
The Conquest of the United States by Spain: A Lecture Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale ..
The challenge of facts
Protectionism: The -ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth
Earth-hunger and other essays
The conquest of the United States by Spain
Essays
Problems in political economy
Lectures on the History of Protection in the United States: Delivered Before the International ..
On liberty, society, and politics
The forgotten man
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
Protection and revenue in 1877
War and other essays
Andrew Jackson as a Public Man: What He Was, what Chances He Had, and what ..
Folkways - A Study Of The Sociological Importance Of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores And Morals
Forgotten Man and Other Essays
A History of American Currency (Business Classics)
The science of society
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
The forgotten man's almanac
A History of American Currency
Social Darwinism
Address of William G. Sumner ... at dinner of the Committee on tariff reform of the Reform club in the city of New York. June 2nd, 1906
Sumner today
A history of American currency
Essays of William Graham Sumner
Folkways
The Predominant Issue
Soziale Pflichten, oder was die Klassen der Gesellschaft einander schuldig sind
Essays and Lectures-The Forgotten Man
The Financier And The Finances Of The American Revolution V1
What social classes owe to each other
Andrew Hamilton
FOLKWAYS
The challenge of facts, and other essays
Robert Morris
Andrew Jackson as a public man
A history of American currency
American Finance
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
The Financier And The Finances Of The American Revolution V2
Robert Morris
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
Alexander Hamilton
History of American Currency : With Chapters on the English Bank Restriction and Austrian Paper Money
Folkways
Advancing social and political organization in the United States
Folk
Collected essays in political and social science
Specimans of investment securities
War and other essays. by William Graham Sumner. Edited with int
The science of society
Andrew Jackson as a Public Man, What He Was, What Chances He Had and What He Did with Them
War, and other essays ..
Lectures on the history of protection in the United States
Lectures on the History of Protection in the United States [microform]
The English bank restriction and The bullion report of June 8, 1810
A History of Banking in Germany & Austria-Hungary, in the Netherlands, in the Scandinavian Nations, in Japan & China
Folkways and mores
History of Banking in the Latin Nations
Folkways
Folkways; a study of the sociological importance of usages. mann
Selected essays of William Graham Sumner
The challenge of facts and other essays
A history of American currency with chapters on the English bank restriction and Austrian paper money
Discipline
On Plutocracy
Discipline and other essays from the collected works of William Graham Sumner
What social classes owe to each other
American finance
Andrew Jackson as a public man
War
Discipline
Protectionism
The coin shilling of Massachusetts Bay
Andrew Jackson
The conquest of the United States by Spain
What social classes owe to each other
Problems in political economy
Bimetallism
The first century of the Republic
Fōkuweizu
The forgotten man, rediscovered after fifty years
Collected essays in political and social science
Political economy and political science
A History of banking in all the leading nations
Folkways
Protection and revenue, in 1877
A history of American currency
Address of William G. Sumner ... at dinner of the Committee on Tariff Reform of the Reform Club in the City of New York, June 2nd, 1906
Social Darwinism
George Dyson
George Dyson (born 1953)

historian, historian of technology

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Turing's cathedral
Darwin among the machines
Project Orion
Turings Cathedral Vintage
Baidarka
Project Orion
La catedral de Turing
New Music
Progress of Music
Turing's Cathedral
Darwin among the Machines
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Penguin Press Science)
Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship (Allen Lane Science)
Baidarka
Darwin im Reich der Maschinen
The New Music
[ Turing's Cathedral
Jeremy Gray
Jeremy Gray (born 1947)

mathematician, historian of mathematics

  • University of Warwick, University of Oxford

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Henri Poincaré
The geometrical work of Girard Desargues
The Hilbert Challenge
Linear differential equations and group theory from Riemann to Poincaré
Ideas of space
The architecture of modern mathematics
Mathematical conversations
Worlds Out of Nothing
Plato's ghost
Geometry
The Symbolic Universe
Hidden Harmony―Geometric Fantasies
Topics in the History of Mathematics - The Route to Calculus
The Real and the Complex
Topics in the History of Mathematics - Non-Euclidean Geometry
Simply Riemann
History of Mathematics
The History of mathematics
The History of Mathematics
The Riemann-Roch Theorem
Topics in the History of Mathematics - Projective Geometry and the Axiomatisation of Mathematics
Topics in the History of Mathematics - Descartes
A History of Abstract Algebra
Topics in the History of Mathematics - Style and Formalism in the Eighteenth Century
János Bolyai, non-Euclidean geometry, and the nature of space
Change and Variations
Episodes in the history of modern algebra (1800-1950)
L'Europe mathématique
William J. Mann
William J. Mann (born 1963)

historian, journalist, biographer

  • Wesleyan University

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The wars of the Roosevelts
Hello, gorgeous
The men from the boys
All American Boy
Where The Boys Are
Wisecracker
Gay Pride
The men from the boys
Object of desire
Men Who Love Men
Kate
Grave Passions
Tinseltown
The Biograph Girl
How to be a movie star
Behind the screen
Edge of midnight
Behind the screen
Edge of Midnight
Behind the Screen
Gay pride
Stallions & other studs
The Contender
Edge of Midnight
All American Boy
Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger
Hello, gorgeous
Gynecologic Surgery
All I want for Christmas
Where the boys are
Mann's tonnage conversion tables
Masters of midnight
Donde estan los chicos/ Where The Boys Are (Salir Del Armario/ to Come Out of the Closet)
Bogie and Bacall
How to be a movie star
Gay & Lesbian Reading Group Guide
Hello, gorgeous
Kate
Men Who Love Men
The men from the boys
Gay Pride
Amigos Y Amantes
Biograph Girl
Tom Goyens
Tom Goyens (born 1972)

historian

  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Storm in My Heart
Beer and Revolution
Radical Gotham
Elena Loewenthal
Elena Loewenthal (born 1960)

translator, historian

  • University of Turin

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Scrivere di sé
Buon appetito, Elia
Judaïsme
Judaïsme
Gli ebrei questi sconosciuti
Il libro di Eldad il Danita
Tel Aviv
Conta le stelle, se puoi
[Or-lusṭro] =
Attese
Ester & Rut
Ein Hering im Paradies. Eine Enzyklopädie des jüdischen Witzes
Kenneth Manning
Kenneth Manning (born 1947)

historian of science

  • Harvard University

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Black Apollo of Science
MIT--shaping the future
Blueprint for change
Asking the right questions