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Martin Duberman
Martin Duberman (born 1930)

historian, playwright

  • Horace Mann School, Yale University

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Cures
Mother Earth
Midlife Queer
Paul Robeson
The worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
James Russell Lowell
Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886
Waiting to Land
Howard Zinn
Paul Robeson (Lives of the Left)
Hidden from History
Stonewall
Left out
The antislavery vanguard
In white America
Black Mountain
About Time
Haymarket
Visions of Kerouac
A Queer World
Queer Representations
Radical acts
The uncompleted past
Black Mountain-An Exploration in Community
Male Armor
The memory bank
Uncompleted Past
Jews, queers, Germans
Black Mountain
In white America, a documentary play
In White America
The abolitionists and psychology
A queer world
In White America
Queer representations
Black Mountain; an exploration in community
James Russell Lowell
Has the gay movement failed?
NYC Sex
Antislavery Vanguard
The uncompleted past
The memory bank
In white America
Lorenz Jäger
Lorenz Jäger (born 1951)

journalist, sociologist, Germanist

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Adorno
Heidegger
Walter Benjamin
Messianische Kritik
Das Hakenkreuz
Signaturen des Schicksals
Was nie geschrieben wurde, lesen
Hauptsachen
Richard Bushman
Richard Bushman (born 1931)

historian, missionary

  • Harvard University

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Joseph Smith
On the road with Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith and the beginnings of Mormonism
The refinement of America
King and people in provincial Massachusetts
Believing history
The Great Awakening
King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (Institute of Early American History & Culture)
Mormonism
Society, freedom, and conscience
The Great Awakening
From Puritan to Yankee Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America
In Old Virginia
Uprooted Americans
War & peace in our times
Making Space for the Mormons (The Arrington Lecture Series)
From Puritan to Yankee Character and the Social Order
Parallels and convergences
American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century
From Puritan to Yankee
Parallels and convergences
Madeleine Grawitz
Madeleine Grawitz (1911-2008)

sociologist, political scientist, jurist

  • Faculté de droit d'Aix-en-Provence

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Bakounine
Méthodes des sciences sociales
Lexique des sciences sociales
Traité de science politique
Traité de science politique
Lexique des sciences sociales, 7e éditionb
Heimo Rau
Heimo Rau (1912-1993)

indologist

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Mahatma Gandhi in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten
Nepal
Stilgeschichte der indischen Kunst
Reflections on Indian art
Indonesien
Indien
Kretische Paläste, mykenische Burgen
Normannische Kunst in Sizilien
Wim van Dooren
Wim van Dooren (1934-1993)

philosopher

  • University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University

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Bakunin zur Einführung
Atheïsme, humanisme, socialisme
Vragenderwijs
Het totaliteitsbegrip bij Hegel en zijn voorgangers
Dialektiek
Denkwegen in de geschiedenis van de nieuwere wijsbegeerte
Wolfram Eilenberger
Wolfram Eilenberger (born 1972)

journalist, philosopher, opinion journalist, coach, literary editor, presenter

  • Otto-Hahn Gymnasium, Karlsruhe, Heidelberg University

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Zeit der Zauberer
Feuer der Freiheit
Kleine Menschen, große Fragen
Philosophie für alle, die noch etwas vorhaben
This is not America
Der Tatort und die Philosophie
Das Werden des Menschen im Wort
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, economist, philosopher, engineer, astronomer

  • University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge

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The works of Charles Babbage
The economy of machinery and manufactures
Charles Babbage
Passages from the life of a philisopher
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
The exposition of 1851
Decline of Science in England
Testt
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108000
Observations on the temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples
Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions
A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives
Examples of the solutions of functional equations
The analytical engine and mechanical notation
Ninth Bridgwater Treatise Fragment
Abstract of a paper entitled Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli
Science and reform
Memoirs of the Analytical Society
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 9
Demonstration of a theorem relating to prime numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 3
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 5
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 10
Abstract of a Paper entitled. Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli
The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England
Examples of the Solutions of Functional Equations
The history of science and technology
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 1
Geometry and Faith: A Fragmentary Supplement to the Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 2
How to invent machinery
A letter to sir Humphry Davy, Bart. president of the Royal Society, etc. etc. on the application of machinery to the purpose of calculating and printing mathematical tables
Observations on the measurement of heights by the barometer
On the theoretical principles of the machinery for calculating tables
Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings
On the advantage of a collection of numbers, to be entitled the constants of nature and of art
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
On machinery for calculating and printing mathematical tables
Babbage's occulting telegraph
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 8
Report of the Committee, appointed by the Council of the Royal Society, to consider the subject refferd to in Mr. Stewart' Letter, relative to Mr. Babbage's Calculating machine, and to report thereupon / [I.T.W. Herschel]
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England
Memoir of the life and labours of Charles Babbage ..
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 11
An examination of some questions connected with games of chance. By Charles Babbage ..
On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings
Examples of the Solutions of Functional Equations
Preussens Deutsche Politik und Ihre Gegner
On the application of analysis to the discovery of local theorems and porisms. By Charles Babbage ..
Works of Charles Babbage
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 6
Babbage's Calculating Engines
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
The Exposition of Eighteen Fifty-One
Tables of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000
The difference engine and table making
Exposition Of 1851
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 4
On the advantage of a collection of numbers, to be entitled the constants of nature and art / by Charles Babbage
A chapter on street nuisances
Mathematical papers
An examination of some questions connected with games of chance
La macchina analitica
Ninth Bridgwater Treatise Fragment
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. a Fragment
Observations on the analogy which subsists between the calculus of functions and other branches of analysis. By Charles Babbage ..
Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli Near Naples; With an Attempt to Explain the Causes of the Frequent Elevation and Depression of Large ... Prove That Those Causes Continue in Action at
Laws of mechanical notation (for consideration) / [C. Babbage]
Scientific and miscellaneous papers
Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation. By C. Babbage ... and J. F. W. Herschel ..
The Exposition of 1851
Table of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000
Table of Logarithms of the Natural Numbers
Barometrical observations made at the fall of the Staubbach
Minutes of the Council of the Royal Society relating to the report of the Committee on Mr. Babbage's Calculating machine. February 12, 1829
On currency, on a new system of manufacturing, andon the effet of machinery on human labour
Observations on the discovery in various localities of the remains of human art
Specimen of logarithmic tables printed with different coloured inks on variously coloured papers
Essay on General Principles Which Regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures
A letter to T.P. Courtenay, on the proportionate number of births of the two sexes under different circumstances
Table of the Logarithms of the Natural Numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 7
Scientific and miscellaneous papers II
Thoughts on the principles of taxation
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
Of the constants of nature
A chapter on street nuisances
Charles Babbage on the principles and development of the calculator
Table of logarithms of the natural numbers
The Exposition of 1851
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
On the influence of signs in mathematical reasoning
An analysis of the statistics of the Clearing House during the year 1839
Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions
Observations addressed at the last anniversary, to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society, after the delivery of the medals
Scientific and miscellaneous papers I.
A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
The Exposition of 1851, or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England
The Exposition of 1851, or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England