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John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941)

historian, biographer

  • University of Texas at Austin

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George F. Kennan
The Cold War
Strategies of containment
The United States and the origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947
The United States and the end of the cold war
Surprise, security, and the American experience
The Landscape of History
We Now Know
On grand strategy
The long peace
Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States
The age of terror
On contemporary history
Order and justice in international relations
Cold War statesmen confront the bomb
Nuclear weapons and international systemic stability
History, Big History, & Metahistory
Tectonics, history, and the end of the cold war
Containment
The Cold War : A New History
Martin J. Sherwin
Martin J. Sherwin (1937-2021)

historian

  • Dartmouth College, University of California, Los Angeles

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Ian Kershaw
Ian Kershaw (born 1943)

contemporary historian, historian, opinion journalist

  • University of Liverpool, University of Oxford

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Hitler (Profiles in Power)
Hitler 1936-1945
Hitler, 1889-1936
Hitler, 1936-1945 (Allen Lane History)
Hitler
Death In The Bunker
Walkiria
Hitler, the Germans, and the final solution
Hitler-Mythos
The end
Fateful Choices
Making friends with Hitler
Popular opinion and political dissent in the Third Reich
Popular opinion and political dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933-1945
Weimar
Hitler 1889 - 1945. Registerband
Der Hitler-Mythos
The Nazi dictatorship
To Hell and back
To Hell and Back
Stalinism and Nazism
El Mito de Hitler
Der Hitler- Mythos. Führerkult und Volksmeinung
The Bolton Priory Compotus, 1286-1325
L'opinion allemande sous le nazisme
To hell and back
Bolton priory rentals and ministers' accounts, 1473-1539
Qu'est-ce que le nazisme?
The Nazi dictatorship
Un Amigo de Hitler
Der Hitler-Mythos
The Global Age
Der NS-Staat
Höllensturz
Fateful choices
Hitlers Macht. Das Profil der NS- Herrschaft
Luck of the devil
Weimar
Comprendre Hitler et la Shoah : Les Historiens de la République fédérale d'Allemagne et l'identité allemande depuis 1949
Bolton Priory rentals and ministers' accounts, 1473-1539
Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich
Bolton Priory; the economy of a northern monastery, 1286-1325
Germany's present, Germany's past
Hitler
Dictadura Nazi, La Problemas y Perspectivas de Interpretacion
Hakhraʻot goraliyot
L'opinion allemande sous le nazisme : Bavière 1933-1945
Hitlers Freunde in England
Wendepunkte
Der NS-Staat
LA FIN ALLEMAGNE 1944-1945
Weimar (Debates in Modern History)
QuÂest-ce que le nazisme ? Problèmes et perspectives d'interprétation
Opinion allemande sous le nazisme
Keerpunten
Walter William Skeat
Walter William Skeat (1835-1912)

linguist, philologist, etymologist

  • University of Cambridge, Highgate School

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A concise etymological dictionary of the English language
Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula
Supplement to
Fables & folk-tales from an eastern forest
Principles of English etymology
A Mœso-Gothic glossary, with an intr., an outline of Mœso-Gothic grammar, and a list of Anglo ..
English dialects from the eighth century to the present day
An English-Anglo-Saxon vocabulary
The concise dictionary of English etymology
A glossary of Tudor and Stuart words, especially from the dramatists, collected by Walter W. Skeat ..
The wars of Alexander
Questions for Examination in English Literature: Chiefly Selected from College-papers Set in ..
Malay magic
Reprinted glossaries
A student's pastime
The Gospel According to Saint Mark: In Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian Versions, Synoptically ..
Rime-index to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
The Chaucer canon, with a discussion of the works associated with the name of Geoffrey Chaucer
Rime-index to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Malay magic
Specimens of English Literature from the 'Ploughmans Crede' to the ..
A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes and Queries,"
A glossary of Tudor and Stuart words
Early English proverbs, chiefly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with illustrative quotations
The past at our doors
A Mœso-Gothic glossary
Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the 'Shepheardes calender,' A.D. 1394-A.D. 1579
The problem of spelling reform
The science of etymology
A Moeso-Gothic Glossary with an Introduction: An Outline of Moeso-Gothic ..
Original glossaries
Pierce the Ploughmans Crede (about 1394 A.D.)
A primer of classical and English philology
The place-names of Berkshire
A Moeso-Gothic glossary
Malay magic
The Gospel according to Saint John: with collations exhibiting all the readings of all the mss
Twelve facsimiles of old English manuscripts
The place-names of Suffolk
Nine specimens of English dialects
Notes on English etymology
A bibliographical list of the works that have been published, or are known to exist in MS., illustrative of the various dialects of English
The place-names of Bedfordshire
Specimens of English Literature, from the 'Ploughmans Crede' to the 'Shepheardes Calender', A.D ..
A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
The place-names of Bedfordshire
The past at our doors; or, The old in the new around us
The Lay of Havelock the Dane
Specimens of English Literature from the 'Ploughmans Erede' to the 'Shepheardes Calender,' A. D ..
Malay Magic
The Chaucer Canon: With a Discussion of the Works Associated with the Name ..
The Holy Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and Old Mercian Versions: Synoptically Arranged ..
An English-Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary
A Primer of English Etymology
The evolution of the Canterbury tales
An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (Dictionary)
Specimens of English Literature from the 'Ploughmans Crede' to the 'Shepheardes Calendar,' A.D ..
Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula
Glossarial index to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer
The place-names of Cambridgeshire
A bibliographical list of the works that have been published
Original glossaries, and glossaries with fresh additions. III
( Havelok the Dane). The lay of Havelok the Dane
Alexander And Dindimus
Early English proverbs, chiefly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
The romance of William of Palerne
Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the 'Shepheardescalendar,' A.D. 1394- A.D. 1579
A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
The Wars Of Alexander
Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula
CONCISE DICTIONARY OF ENG
The Romance Of William Of Palerne
The Lay Of Havelok, The Dane
Sakei tribes in Selangor
Concise Etymological Dictionary
Joseph of Arimathie Otherwise Called The Romance of the Seint Graal or Holy Grail
A glossary of Tudor and Stuart words especially from the dramatists
Original glossaries. XXIII. Isle of Wight words
A Primer of English etymology
Specimens of English literature
The eight-text edition of the Canterbury tales
Fables [and] folk-tales from an eastern forest
Language and Linguistics on CD
The Chaucer canon
A student's pastime
The tiger's mistake
The evolution of the Canterbury tales
Malay magic, being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula
An English - Anglo-Saxon vocabulary
Shakespeare's Plutarch
Nine Specimens Of English Dialects
Twelve facsimiles of old English MSS., with transcriptions and an introd
On the history of spelling
A list of English words
The place-names of Cambridgeshire
Original glossaries, and glossaries with fresh additions
The gospel according to Saint Mark
Isle of Wight words
Aelfric's lives of Saints
Eymological dictionary of the English language
Specimens of English literature from the "Ploughmans Crede" to the "Shepheardes Calender" A.D. 1394
Specimens of English literature
The place-names of Bedfordshire
Alexander and Dindimus: or, The letters of Alexander to Dindimus, King of the Brahmans, with the replies of Dindimus
A primer of English etymology
A concis etymological dictionary of the English language
The tale of Gamelyn
The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, and Richard the Redeles, by William Langland, edited from numerous manuscripts, with prefaces, notes, and indexes by Walter W. Skeat
Fables and Folk Tales from an Eastern Forest
Chaucer Canon
Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula
Fables and folk-tales from an eastern forest
Aelfric's Lives Of Saints Part One
The wars of Alexander: an alliterative romance translated chiefly from the Historia Alexandri Magni de preliis
Romans of Partenay or of Lusignen
A Moeso-Gothic glossary with an introduction
A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words (Anglistica and Americana, Vol 4)
The Tale Of The Man Of Lawe; The Pardoneres Tale; The Second Nonnes Tale; The Chanouns Yemannes Tale
A bibliographical list of the works that have been published
The lay of Havelok the Dane
Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the 'Shepheardes calendar,' A.D. 1394-A.D. 1579
Nine Specimens of English Dialects (English Dialect Society Publications Ser)
An etymological dictionary of the English language
Twelve facsimiles of Old English manuscripts, with transcriptions and an introduction
The Gospel of Saint Mark in Gothic
The lay of Havelok the Dane
Pierce The Ploughman's Crede, About 1394 A.D
Specimens of English literature from the "Ploughmans Crede" to the "Shepheardes Calender" A.D. 1394
The place-names of Hertfordshire
Etymological dictionary of the English language
Malay Magic: Being an Introduction to the Folklore and Popular Religion of ...
The Proverbs Of Alfred
A Concise Dictionary of Middle English (1888)
Glossarial index to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucerian and Other Pieces
Aelfric's Lives Of Saints Part Two
Questions for examination in English literature
English dialects
English-Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary
Lancelot of the Laik
The lay of Havelok the Dane
Joseph of Arimathie: otherwise called, The romance of the Seint Graal, or Holy Grail
Original glossaries, and glossaries with fresh additions
The corrupt spelling of old English names
The lay of Havelok the Dane
Joseph of Arimathie
The proverbs of Alfred
The Kingis Quair: Together with a Ballad of Good Counsel
The tale of Gamelyn
John Peile, Litt. D., 1838-1910
Lancelot of the Laik
The Gospel according to Saint Matthew and according to Saint Mark
The lay of Havelok the Dane
The place-names of Berkshire
Malaysian fables, folk tales & legends
Hand-list of some cognate words in English, Latin, and Greek
The gospel of St. Mark in gothic
Pierce the Ploughmans crede (about 1394 A.D.)
An etymological dictionary of the English language
Specimens of English dialects
An English-Anglo-Saxon vocabulary
The Bruce
Pierce the Ploughmans crede (about 1394 A.D.)
Glossary of Stuart and Tudor Words/ Anglistica and Americana Series Number Four
The Gospel according to Saint Matthew in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and old Mercian versions
Nine specimens of English dialects
Early English proverbs
Alexander and Dindimus: or, The letters of Alexander to Dindimus, King of the Brahmans, with the replies of Dindimus
English Dialect Society
The problem of spelling reform
Joseph of Arimathie, otherwise called The romance of the Seint Graal, or ...
The proverbs of Alfred
Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula
The Kingis Quair: Together with a Ballad of Good Counsel
The Romans of Partenay, Or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as the Tale of Melusine:
A tale of Ludlow Castle
The place-names of Huntingdonshire
Lancelot of the laik
Reprinted glossaries
The "kingis Quair"
Original glossaries
Concise etymological dictionary of the English language
A primer of English etymology
Lancelot of the Laik
The alliterative romance of Alexander and Dindimus
A concise etymological dictionary of the English language
English-Anglo-Saxon vocabulary
The proverbs of Alfred, re-edited from the manuscripts
A bibliographical list of the works that have been published, or are known to exist in ms
Pierce the Ploughmans crede (about 1394 A.D.)
The romance of William of Palerne
The Romans of Partenay, Or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as the Tale of Melusine
The Gospel according to Saint John in Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian versions synoptically arranged
The Gospel according to Saint Luke
A concise etymological dictionary of the English language
A glossary of Tudor and Stuart words, especially from the dramatists,
Joseph of Arimathie
An etymological dictionary of the English language
English Dialects from the Eighth Century to Present Day
Joseph of Arimathie
The place-names of Hertfordshire
The Gospel according to Saint Luke and according to Saint John
Cleveland words (supplementary)
Lancelot of the Laik
The lay of Havelok the Dane
Evolution of Canterbury Tales
Margaret Heiden Sterne
Margaret Heiden Sterne (1904-1977)

historian, professor, newspaper editor

  • Humboldt University of Berlin

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Imanol Murua Uria
Imanol Murua Uria (born 1966)

journalist

  • University of the Basque Country, University of Nevada, Reno

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David Brewster
David Brewster (1781-1868)

botanist, civil engineer, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, inventor, biographer

  • University of Edinburgh

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The martyrs of science
Memoirs of the life, writings, and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
Letters on Natural Magic
The life of Sir Isaac Newton
Brewster and Wheatstone on vision
More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian
The stereoscope; its history, theory, and construction
More worlds than one
The stereoscope
The kaleidoscope, its history, theory and construction with its application to the fine and useful arts
The history of free masonry
More Worlds Than One
A treatise on optics
More worlds than one
A treatise on magnetism
Letters on natural magic addressed to Sir Walter Scott, bart
More Worlds Than One
Letters on Natural Magic Addressed to Sir Walter Scott 1832
Nouveau manuel de magie naturelle et amusante
The martyrs of science
Observations on the mean temperature of the globe
Letters on natural magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott
On the existence of two new fluids in the cavities of minerals, which are immiscible, and possess remarkable physical properties
Account of two remarkable rainbows
On a new analysis of solar light
On the refractive power of the two new fluids in minerals
The life of Sir Isaac Newton, the great philosopher, rev. and edited by W.T. Lynn
Observations on the relation between the optical structure and the chemical composition of the apophyllite and other minerals of the zeolite family
Description of a monochromatic lamp for microscopical and other purposes, &c
On the absorption of polarized light by doubly refracting crystals
Description of a new reflecting telescope
Notice respecting the existence of the new fluid in a large cavity in a specimen of sapphire
Observations on the optical structure of lithion-mica
A treatise on new philosophical instruments, for various purposes in the arts and sciences. With experiments on light and colours
On the connexion between the optical structure and chemical composition of minerals
On some remarkable affections of the retina
Description of a copper battle-axe found in Ratho Bog
On the optical properties and mechanical condition of amber
On the phenomena and laws of elliptic polarization
Memoirs of the life, writings and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
On a singular development of crystalline structure by phosphorescence
Letters on natural magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart
On the formation of single microscopes from the lenses of fishes, etc
Account of the native hydrate of magnesia, discovered by Dr. Hibbert in Shetland
On the separation of epistilibite from heulandite, as demonstrated by optical characters
Notice respecting Professor Hansteen's chart of the variation and dip of the needle
More worlds than one
On a new series of periodical colours produced by the grooved surfaces of metallic and transparent bodies
Optics
A treatise on new philosophical instruments, for various purposes in the arts and sciences
Observations on the pyro-electricity of minerals
Observations on the structure and crystalline forms of haytorite
On the action of the second surfaces of transparent plates upon light
On the optical and general properties of tabasheer
A treatise on magnetism
On a new cleavage in calcareous spar
On some properties of light
On the phenomena of dichroism, or the absorption of common light by crystallised bodies
Description of gmelimite, a new mineral speries
On the mean temperature of the equator
Observations on the diurnal variation of the needle from 1775-1780, at Zwanenburg in Holland
Results of the thermometrical observations made at Leith Fort every hour of the day and night during the whole of the years 1824 and 1825
Account of comptonite, a new mineral from Vesuvius
Notice respecting a method of producing an intense heat from gas for various purposes in the arts
On the existence of a group of moveable crystals of carbonate of lime in a fluid cavity of quartz
On the phosphorescence of minerals
The life of Sir Isaac Newton, the great philosopher
Treatise on the kaleidoscope
Account of some single microscopes upon a new construction
More worlds than one
Account of a remarkable peculiarity in the structure of glaberite
Letters on natural magic
Description of withamite, a new mineral species found in Glenco
On a singular luminous property of wood &c. steeped in solutions of lime and magnesia
Reply to a note in the Annales de chimie by M. Arago, on the phosphorescence of fluor-spar
Description of two surfaces composed of siliceous filaments incapable of reflecting light
On the natural history and properties of tabasheer, the siliceous concretion in the bamboo
Account of the establishment of a scientific prize by the late Alexander Keith
Observations relative to the motions of the molecules of bodies
On the law of partial polarization of light by reflection
On the accomodation [sic] of the eye to different distances
On the principle of illumination for microscopic objects
Farther observations on levyne, a new mineral species
Notice respecting some new species of lead-ore from Wanlockhead and Lead Hills
Description of levyne, a new mineral species
Experiments on the structure and refractive power of the coats and humours of the human eye
Observations on vision through coloured glasses
On the reflection and decomposition of light at the separating surfaces of media of the same and of different refractive powers
On a new species of double refraction, accompanying a remarkable structure in analcime
On the construction of polyzonal lenses and mirrors of great magnitude
Account of an improvement on the nautical eye-tube
Description of a teinoscope for altering the lineal proportions of objects
Account of the new galvano-magnetic condenser invented by M. Poggendorff
On the laws of the polarization of light by refraction
Notice respecting a singular optical property of tabasheer
The Edinburgh encyclopædia
Account of meteorological observations made in North America by Dr. Holyoke and Prof. Dewey
Notice respecting the mean temperature of the equator
A treatise on new philosophical instruments for various purposes in the arts and sciences. With experiments on light and colours. By David Brewster
Description of a new double image micrometer for measuring the diameter of minute celestial objects
The kalaeidoscope
On a new optical and mineralogical structure, exhibited in certain specimens of apophyllite and other minerals
Description of a new reflecting microscope
Account of a new monochromatic lamp depending on the combustion of compressed gas
On the production of regular double refraction in the molecules of bodies by simple pressure
Reply to Mr. Brooke's observations on the connexion between the optical structure of minerals and their primitive forms
Observations on the visions of impressions on the retina
Account of a singular experiment depending on the polarization of light by reflexion
Description of oxahverite, a new mineral from oxahver, in Iceland
Notice respecting a singular structure in the diamond
Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry
The martyrs of science, or the lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
A treatise on optics
Optics
On the life-boat, the lightning conductor, and the lighthouse
Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun (1907-2012)

cultural historian, historian, philosopher, critic, educator

  • Columbia University

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Darwin, Marx, Wagner
Berlioz and his century
A Stroll with William James
The United States in Literature
From Dawn to Decadence
Teacher in America
Simple & direct
The Modern researcher
God's country and mine
An essay on French verse
The American university
Darwin, Marx, Wagner: critique of a heritage
Begin here
Burke & Hare
On writing, editing, and publishing
Teacher in America
The House of intellect. --
The use and abuse of art
The house of intellect
Classic, romantic, and modern
The energies of art
A stroll with William James
A word or two before you go--
Pleasures of music
The French race
The delights of detection
Clio and the Doctors
Clio and the doctors
A catalogue of crime
The American university
Science: the glorious entertainment
Essays
What man has built
Scholarship today
Critical questions on music and letters, culture and biography, 1940-1980
The culture we deserve
The culture we deserve
From Dawn to Decadence
A stroll with William James
Begin here
Critical questions on music and letters, culture and biography, 1940-1980
Clio and the doctors
Gender and thought
Darwin, Marx, Wagner. Critique of a heritage by Jacques Barzun
Teacher in America
Music in American life
God's country and mine
Classic, romantic, and modern
The Use and Abuse of Art (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)
From Parnassus
Critical questions on music and letters, culture and biography, 1940-1980
The bibliophile of the future, his complaints about the twentieth century
Four more sidelights on opera at Glimmerglass
Race, a study in superstition
Berlioz and the romantic century
Darwin, Marx, Wagner
Of human freedom
What man has built
Clio and doctors : psycho-history, quanto-history & history. --
The modern researcher
Literature in Liszt's mind and work
Science
Science
Lincoln, the literary genius
Race
A book of prefaces to fifty classics of crime fiction, 1900-1950
From Dawn to Decadence, Part 2
Science, The Glorious Entertainment
The second foreign mission
The Modern Researcher
Simple & direct
Berlioz and the Romantic Century
The Interpretation of history
The tyranny of idealism in education
Music into words
Classic, romantic, and modern
A birthday tribute to Rex Stout
Art in basic education
Is Democratic Theory for Export (Morgenthau Memorial Leture on Ethics and Foreign Policy, No. 6)
The use and abuse of art
Visual outline of English history
Race; a study in modern superstition
Romanticism and the modern ego
The modern researcher
A Conversation with Jacques Barzun
THE MODERN RESEARCHER
Music in American life
Classic stories of crime and detection
In Your Hands
[Selections from the works of Jacques Barzun]
Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the teaching of history
Three talks
From Dawn to Decadence, Part 1
Lincoln's philosophic vision
Modern Researcher
Present-Day Thoughts on the Quality of Life
Romanticism and the modern ego
Classic short stories of crime and detection
Berlioz and the Romantic Century Volume II
We who teach
Begin here
A stroll with William James
A company of readers
Cong li ming dao shuai luo
Music in American life
The French race
The press and the prose
Modern araştırmacı
The Written word
The interpretation of history
Open admissions: the pros & cons
Cong li ming dao shuai tui
Remembering Carlton Hayes
Berlioz and his century
A word or two before you go
Simple & direct
A catalogue of crime
Critical questions on music and letters, culture and biography, 1940-1980
The delights of detection., edtied with and introd
The culture we deserve
Tomorrow's illiterates
Lincoln, the literary genius
What man has built
Race
Exploration of the ways, means, and values of museum communication with the viewing public
Rhetoric and change
An essay on French verse
The modern researcherd
Rhetoric and change
Race
The modern researcher