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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 ...
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
John Birmingham
John Birmingham (born 1964)

journalist

  • University of Queensland, St Edmund's College, Ipswich

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Dopeland
Designated Targets
Weapons of choice
Without Warning
The Cruel Stars
Without warning
Without Warning - After America
Final Impact World War 2.3
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
Designated Targets: World War 2.2
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
How to be a man
Off One's Tits
After America
Resistance: Dave vs. the Monsters (David Hooper Trilogy)
Our Time Is Now
Final Impact
How To Be A Man
Weapons of Choice
Leviathan
Weapons of Choice (The Axis of Time Trilogy, Book 1)
After America
Final Impact (Axis of Time Trilogy 3)
Shattered Skies
Final Impact (The Axis of Time Trilogy, Book 3)
Brave Ones
Empty Heavens
Angels of Vengeance
Stalin's Hammer : The Complete Sequence
Dead Skies
Stranger Thingies
Dopeland; Taking the High Road Through Australia's Marijuana Culture
On Father
Final Impact (Axis of Time, Volumn 3)
Stalin's Hammer
A Girl in Time
Without Warning - Angels of Vengeance
Resistance
Ascendance
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand : Comic Edition
Emergence: Dave vs. the Monsters (David Hooper Trilogy Book 1)
How to Be a Writer
The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco
The Cruel Stars
Emergence
Zero Day Code
Roger Cohen
Roger Cohen (born 1955)

journalist

  • University of Oxford, Westminster School

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In the eye of the storm
Soldiers and slaves
Hearts grown brutal
Danger in the desert
In the eye of the storm
The girl from Human Street
Soldiers of another war
Leo Baeck Institute at 50
Explorations in second language reading
In the Eye of the Storm
Hearts Grown Bruta
In the Eye of the Storm
Horse Training
Mastering the Art of Horse Training, 2nd Edition
An Affirming Flame
Taras Grescoe
Taras Grescoe (born 1966)

journalist

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Shanghai grand
Bottomfeeder
The Devil's Picnic
The end of elsewhere
Sacré blues
Straphanger
Shanghai Grand
Sacre Blues
Lao tao fan jian zou tian ya
Hai xian de mei wei wan ge
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert (1942-2013)

film critic, journalist, reporter, presenter, television presenter

  • University of Cape Town, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

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Life itself
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Questions for the movie answer man
The perfect London walk
A kiss is still a kiss
Scorsese by Ebert
The Pot and How to Use It
Two Weeks in the Midday Sun
The Great Movies
Roger Eberts Home Movie Companion 400
Roger Eberts Movie Yearbook 2013 Roger Eberts Movie Yearbook
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2000 (Roger Eberts Movie Yearbook, 2000)
The Tragedy of Hamlet with Connections
Roger Ebert's four-star reviews, 1967-2007
Roger Ebert's video companion.
Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1994
The great movies III
A Horrible Experience Of Unbearable Length More Movies That Suck
Roger Ebert's video companion
Awake in the Dark
Behind the Phantom's mask
Roger Ebert'S Movie Yearbook 2001
Roger Ebert's movie home companion
Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion
Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1996 edition
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005
Movie Home Companion
Las Grandes Peliculas (Ma Non Troppocine)
Your Movie Sucks
Roger Ebert'S Movie Yearbook 2002
Roger Ebert's video companion
The great movies II
The Bigger Little Book of Hollywood Cliches
The future of the movies
Grandes Peliculas 2/ Big Movies 2 (Ma Non Troppocine)
Awake in the Dark : The Best of Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert's movie yearbook 2006
Roger Ebert's movie yearbook 2009
Scorsese by Ebert
Insight
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 1999 (Serial)
Ebert's bigger little movie glossary
The great movies
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
Roger Ebert's movie yearbook 2007
The Little book of Hollywood cliches
Ebert's Little Movie Glossary
Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1997 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
A kiss is still a kiss
The great movies IV
Ebert's little movie glossary
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
Roger Ebert's book of film
Your Movie Sucks
The computer insectiary
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
Images at the horizon
Images at the Horizon
Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion, 1989 Edition
An Illini century
Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1998 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
An Illini century
Ebert's Bests
Two weeks in the midday sun
Roger Ebert's pocket video guide
Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1995/Roger Ebert's Pocket Video Guide (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
Die Zustandigkeit Der Tarifvertragsparteien Zum Abschlub Von Verbands- Und Firmentarifvertragen
Roger Ebert's movie home companion
Life Itself
Herzog by Ebert
Higman
Bth Behind Phantm Msk
The Real Tom Jones
Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan (1923-1964)

poet, journalist, playwright

  • Dublin Institute of Technology

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Borstal Boy (Nonpareil Book)
The hostage
Brendan Behan's New York
Brendan Behan's island
Poems and a Play in Irish
Confessions of an Irish rebel
The complete plays
Hold your hour and have another
Richard's cork leg
The Dubbalin [i.e. Dublin] man
Behan Complete Plays
The quare fellow
After the Wake
The letters of Brendan Behan
The quare fellow, and The hostage
The King of Ireland's Son
The Scarperer
The Letters
El Principe y el Gigante / The Prince and the Giant
An Giall/the Hostage (Irish Dramatic Texts)
The Hostage
Kathleen
Brendan Behan, interviews and recollections
James Joyce
The quare fellow : a comedy-drama
Sayings of Brendan Behan
The wit of Brendan Behan
Stücke
Moving out, and A garden party
Un otage =
An Giall ; The hostage
The quare fellow, and The hostage
An Giall
The Dubbalin man
The wit of Brendan Behan
Encore un verre avant de partir
An giall
The Quare Fellow, and the Hostage
Bekenntnisse eines irischen Rebellen
L'Escarpeur
Complete text of the hostage
Poems and stories
The quare fellow
Deux otages
The hostage
Complete text of the hostage
Poetry, Kavanagh back to Keats
El príncep i el gegant
Moving out
Confessions of an Irish Rebel
Letters of Brendan Behan
Mother of All the Behans
The Brendan Behan Quotation Book
Ram Oren
Ram Oren (born 1936)

publisher, journalist, lawyer, advocate

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Gertruda's oath
Nefesh homiyah
Yamim adumim
ha-Tsaʻif ha-adom
Meha-Tanakh be-ahavah
Grin ḳard
Ramaṭkal
Hitmakrut
Laṭrun
Sylvia Rafael
ha- Maṭarah
ha- Shevuʻah
Koaḥ ʻelyon
Stand sapwood basal area
Zehut kefulah
Leaf area index and specific leaf weight
Yeled eḥad yoter mi-dai
Silviyah
Kivśah sheḥorah
Silicon Valley - Hebrew book for Adults/israeli Literature
Aḥot ḳeṭanah
Tuzak
ʻErom
ʻEmeḳ ha-siliḳon
Latrun
Ahavah bi-delatayim segurot
Nesikhah Afriḳanit
ha- Yoreshet
Yeled eḥad yoter midai
Ḥaṿah ṿe-Adam
Mishak makhur
Przysięga Gertrudy
Zehut kefulah
Tsel shel safek
La promesa de Gertruda
Ahuvi, oyvi
Lev
ha-Gerush min ha-armon
Ot Kayin
Ot Ḳayin
Magedet ha-ʻatidot
Gertrudas Versprechen
Aşram
Meha-Tanakh be-ahavah
Ashram
Kalp
Latrun
Ima
Esh hayah
Apfelsinen aus Jaffa
Silviyah
Pitui