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Sylvia Nasar
Sylvia Nasar (born 1947)

journalist, economist, biographer

  • Antioch University, Antioch College

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A Beautiful Mind
Grand Pursuit
The Best American Science Writing 2008
The Essential John Nash
Gwenda Blair
Gwenda Blair (born 1943)

biographer, journalist

  • University of Michigan, University of California, Berkeley

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Almost golden
The Trumps
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Donald Trump
Laura Ingalls Wild Pa
Alan Bullock
Alan Bullock (1914-2004)

politician, historian of Modern Age, historian, biographer

  • University of Oxford, Bradford Grammar School

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Hitler
Natalia Ginzburg
Hitler and Stalin
The life and times of Ernest Bevin
Building Jerusalem
Ernest Bevin
Ernest Bevin, foreign secretary, 1945-1951
Ernest Bevin
Building Jerusalem
The Fontana biographical companion to modern thought
Twentieth-century culture
The Fontana biographical companion to modern thought
Hitler & Stalin
The life and times of Ernest Bevin
Gitler i Stalin
John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett, 1902-1975
Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought
Great lives of the twentieth century
Hiṭler
Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, 1945-1951
The twentieth century: a Promethean age
Dictionary of modern thought
The humanist tradition in the West
Personality and power
The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought
The Liberal Tradition
The humanist tradition in the West
The life and times of Ernest Bevin.
Twentieth Century Culture
Is history becoming a social science?
Harper Dictionary of Modern Thought
The twentieth century
The humanist tradition in the West
The Harper dictionary of modern thought
The life and times of Ernest Bevin
The past and the future
Select List of Books on European History, 1815-1914
Has history a future?
A select list of books on European history, 1815-1914
Hitler and the origins of the second World War
History of the 20th century
The twentieth century
Life and Times of Ernest Bevin; 2
The Faces of Europe
Contemporary history in Europe
Men, chance and history
World History - Civilization From Its Beginnings
The New Fontana dictionary of modern thought
History of the 20th century
The life and times of Ernest Bevin
A new English history
A select list of books on European history, 1815-1914
Meeting teachers' management needs
Germany's colonial demands
Humanist Tradition In the West
Ernest Bevin, foreign secretary, 1945-51
The Norton dictionary of modern thought
Have the humanities ceased to be relevant?
Great Britian in the world of the twentieth century
The Doubleday pictorial library of world history
Great Britian in the world of the twentieth century
A select list of books on European history, 1815-1914
The Fontana dictionary of modern thought
Great rivers of Europe
A select list of books on European history, 1815-1914
Ernest Bevin, foreign secretary, 1945-51
Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
20th Century Culture; A Biographical Companion
The British political tradition
Die Grossen Ströme Europas
Past and the Future
The life and times of Ernest Bevin
James R. Hansen
James R. Hansen (born 1952)

academic, historian

  • Indiana University, Ohio State University

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First Man
The Bird Is on the Wing
First man
Difficult Par
Truth, lies, and O-rings
Spaceflight revolution
Dear Neil Armstrong
Engineer in charge
O Primeiro Homem
The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey Into the History of Aerodynamics in America
First Man
Spaceflight Revolution
Enchanted rendezvous
The wind and beyond
Spaceflight revolution : NASA Langley Research Center from Sputnik to Apollo
Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program - Enchanted Rendezvous, John Houbolt and the Genesis of the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous Concept, and Political and Technical Aspects of Placing a Flag on the Moon
First Man - The Annotated Screenplay
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings
Aufbruch zum Mond
Completely Mad
Reluctant Icon
Primer Hombre
Sheila Rowbotham
Sheila Rowbotham (born 1943)

historian, sociologist

  • University of Oxford, University of London

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Rebel Crossings
Friends of Alice Wheeldon
Promise of a dream
Edward Carpenter
Threads through time
Socialism and the new life
Daring to Hope
Dutiful Daughters
Hidden from history
Women, resistance and revolution
Woman's consciousness, man's world
Beyond the fragments
A new world for women
A century of women
Women in movement
Dreamers of a New Day
The Past Is Before Us
A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman
Women's liberation & the new politics
Homeworkers worldwide
Dreams and dilemmas
Dignity and Daily Bread
New Politics
Alexandra Kollontai
Women's liberation and revolution
Global networking around women's livelihood since the late 1970s
Women Encounter Technology
Women and radical politics in Britain, 1820-1914
Kadin bilinci erkek dunyasi
The trouble with "patriarchy"
Dusting her life away
Michael Fellman
Michael Fellman (1943-2011)

historian

  • University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Northwestern University

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Citizen Sherman
The making of Robert E. Lee
Views from the dark side of American history
Faces of the Confederacy
This terrible war
Twisting the Cross
In the name of God and country
The unbounded frame
Inside war
Antislavery reconsidered
Lincoln's Generals (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books)
Evidence of This Terrible War
Faces of the Civil War
Antislavery Reconsidered
Lincoln's Generals
Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal (born 1964)

ceramicist, printmaker, art critic, visual artist, potter

  • University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge

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The Hare With Amber Eyes A Hidden Inheritance
The White Road
Letters to Camondo
Bānādo Rīchi saikō
Za︠i︡a︠t︡s s ︠i︡antarnymi glazami
Bernard Leach
20th century ceramics
New Ceramic Design
Edmund De Waal
Japanese Netsuke
Timeless Beauty
The pot book
Ceramics (Design Sourcebook)
Edmund de Waal Library of Exile
Edmund de Waal Letters to Camondo /anglais
John Golding - Working Space. The 1971 Paintings
Quiet Spaces
Modern home
Lerets magi
Objects of Desire
Kehribar Gözlü Tavsan - Sakli Miras
Lettres à Camondo
Gouthiere's Candelabras
Lettres à Camondo
20TH CENTURY CERAMICS
Edmund De Waal at Waddesdon
Elective Affinities
From zero
ha-Arnevet ʻim ʻene ha-ʻinbar
Die weiße Straße
Memoire Retrouvee
Edmund de Waal, Giorgio Morandi
Bai ci zhi lu
Edmund de Waal at Kettle's Yard, mima and elsewhere
Dark Room
Edmund de Waal, Sally Mann - to Light, and Then Return
Kenneth Manning
Kenneth Manning (born 1947)

historian of science

  • Harvard University

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