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Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood (born 1933)

historian

  • Tufts University, Harvard University

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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Revolutionary Characters
Friends divided
Friends divided
Making of the Constitution
Revolutionary Characters
The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
The American Revolution
The radicalism of the American Revolution
The Purpose of the Past
The United States
Empire of liberty
The idea of America
The making of the Constitution
Representation in the American revolution
The American revolution
Confederation and the Constitution
Power and Liberty
The rising glory of America, 1760-1820
Revolution and the political integration of the enslaved and disenfranchised
The American Revolution
Russian-American Dialogue on the American Revolution (Russian-American Dialogues)
Revolucion Norteamericana (Breve Hist)
Empire Of Liberty A History Of The Early Republic 17891815
The Idea of America
The American Revolution
La création de la République américaine, 1776-1787
Revolucion Norteamericana, La
The Rising glory of America, 1760-1820
The idea of America
Social radicalism and the idea of equality in the American Revolution
The Confederation and the Constitution
Purpose of the Past
Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Revolución Norteamericana / the American Revolution
Essays by the Free Republican, 1784-1786
Radicalism of the American Revolution
Imagined Histories
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)

essayist

  • Amherst College, University of Arizona

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Signifying Rappers
Up, Simba!
David Foster Wallace : The Last Interview Expanded with New Introduction
On Tennis
Infinite jest
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
Everything and more
This is water
Oblivion
Boston Noir 2
Consider the lobster, and other essays
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
The Pale King
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
David Foster Wallace The Last Interview And Other Conversations
McCain's promise
String Theory
The David Foster Wallace Reader
The Broom of the System
The Pale King An Unfinished Novel
Girl With Curious Hair
The Future of Fiction
Consider the Lobster
Algo supuestamente divertido que nunca volveré a hacer
Both Flesh and Not: Essays
Extincion
La Nia del Pelo Raro
Quack This Way David Foster Wallace Bryan A Garner Talk Language And Writing
Schrecklich amüsant, aber in Zukunft ohne mich
Kurze Interviews mit fiesen Männern
Verso occidente l'Impero dirige il suo corso
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
The Best American essays 2007
El tenis como experiencia religiosa
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace Reader
Consider the Lobster
Der Besen im System.
Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Signifying Rappers
Vergessenheit
Considérations sur le homard - tome 2
Kurze Interviews mit fiesen Männern.
Oblivion - Stories
David Foster Wallace : In His Own Words
Blady król
Pale King
Der Spaß an der Sache
La Nina Del Pelo Raro
Considérations sur le homard - tome 2
Fate, Time, and Language
Consider the Lobster, and Other Essays
La escoba del sistema
Krótkie wywiady z paskudnymi ludźmi
Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All
Der Planet Trillaphon im Verhältnis zur Üblen Sache
Der bleiche König
Girl with Curious Hair
Der große rote Sohn
McCain's Promise
Future of Fiction
Quack This Way David Foster Wallace Bryan A Garner Talk Language And Writing
La broma infinita - 5. ed.
Alles ist grün
Il tennis come esperienza religiosa
Broma Infinita
Pórtatil
Something to Do with Paying Attention
la scopa del sistema
Georg Cantor
ALGO SUPUESTAMENTE DIVERTIDO QUE NUNCA VOLVERÉ A HACER
Broom of the System
Entrevistas Breves Con Hombres Repulsivos/ Brief Interview With Obnoxious Mens
In alter Vertrautheit
Signifying Rappers
Schrecklich amüsant - aber in Zukunft ohne mich
Nina del Pelo Raro, La
Schicksal, Zeit und Sprache
Oblivion
Open City Number Five
Inculte #18
Although of course you end up becoming yourself
La niña del pelo raro
Kleines Mädchen mit komischen Haaren.
Schrecklich amüsant - aber in Zukunft ohne mich
En cuerpo y en lo otro
Esto es agua
Although of course you end up becoming yourself
Extincion/ Extinction
Abraham Pais
Abraham Pais (1918-2000)

physicist, historian of science, nuclear physicist

  • Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam

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Subtle Is the Lord
A tale of two continents
Einstein Lived Here
The Genius of Science
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Tale of Two Continents, A
Paul Dirac
" Subtle is the Lord-- " : the science and the life of Albert Einstein
Paul Dirac
Subtle is the Lord ...
A Tribute to Niels Bohr
Inward bound
Niels Bohr's times
Niels Bohr's times, in physics, philosophy, and polity
Projective theory of meson fields and electromagnetic properties of atomic nuclei ..
Lectures on dispersion relations
On the theory of elementary particles
On the photo-disintegration of the deuteron
Albert Einstein
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Developments in the theory of the electron
Philip Levine
Philip Levine (1928-2015)

professor, poet, school teacher, scholar of English, essayist, educator

  • Wayne State University, University of Iowa

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The bread of time
Don't ask
My lost poets
Earth, stars, and writers
The simple truth
Character and crisis
Poems
What work is
Breath
The mercy
New selected poems
So Ask
The names of the lost
Sweet will
One for the rose
News of the world
Detroit Images
The last shift
1933; poems
Ashes
7 years from somewhere
Pili's wall
News of the world
They feed they lion
Unselected poems
Sweet will
Not this pig
Thistles
First Light
One for the Rose
Red dust
Stranger to nothing
STRANGER TO NOTHING: SELECTED POEMS
Walk/th.jeffersn-Tipd
A walk with Tom Jefferson
On the edge
On the edge & over
Ploughshares Vol.14 No.4
5 Detroits
Șerban Savu
Blue
Simple Truths Signed
February 14th
New season
Llanto
Nineteen hundred and thirty-three
Five Detroits
Smoke
Dreaming in Swedish
On the edge
Naming
Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed (born 1958)

historian, legal historian, jurist

  • Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School

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The Hemingses of Monticello
Vernon can read!
On Juneteenth
The Hemingses of Monticello
"Most blessed of the patriarchs"
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Race on trial
Race on Trial
Andrew Johnson : The American Presidents Series
A Slave in the White House
Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
Irki Mahkemeye Cikarmak
Black Man in the Huddle
In the Hands of the People
Black Writers of the Founding Era
Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic
Race on Trial
Russell McCormmach
Russell McCormmach (born 1933)

historian, physicist

  • Washington State University, Case Western Reserve University

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Weighing The World The Reverend John Michell Of Thornhill
Speculative Truth
The Personality of Henry Cavendish Profile of a Historian of Science Archimedes
Power lines
Weighing the World
Intellectual mastery of nature
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Historical studies in the physical sciences
The Second Physicist
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 8 (Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences)
Historical studies in the physical sciences
H Study 1970 V2
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Third Annual Volume 1971. Volume 3
HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 7
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 6
Historical studies in the physical sciences
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 5
Personality of Henry Cavendish - a Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities
Intellectual Mastery of Nature - Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein Vol. 2
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Helmut Fleischer
Helmut Fleischer (1927-2012)

philosopher, historian

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Aus Hitlers Krieg durch Stalins GULag
"Historikerstreit"
Marxism and history
Marxismus und Geschichte
Das 20. Jahrhundert: Zeitalter der tragischen Verkehrungen. Forum zum 80. Geburtstag von Ernst Nolte
Wertphilosophie in der Sowjetunion
Philosophie in der Sowjetunion 1964-1965
Transporturi uzinale în industria lemnului
Marx und Engels
Marx und Engels
Kleines Textbuch der kommunistischen Ideologie
Short handbook of communist ideology
Ethik ohne Imperativ
Epochenphänomen Marxismus
Sozialphilosophische Studien
Short handbook of communist ideology
Short handbook of Communist ideology : synopsis of the "Osnovy marksizmaleninimzma" with complete index
Sozialphilosophische Studien
Reflexionen zur geschichtlichen Praxis
Der Marxismus in seinem Zeitalter
Short handbook of Communist ideology
Nicolai Hartmanns Ontologie des idealen Seins
Ger van Roon
Ger van Roon (1933-2014)

historian of Modern Age

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Het Duitse verzet tegen Hitler
Zwischen Neutralismus und Solidarität
Neuordnung im Widerstand
Small States in Years of Depression
Kleine landen in crisistijd
Derde Wereld en depressie
Protestants Nederland en Duitsland 1933-1941
Wilhelm Staehle
Europa en de Derde Wereld
Dutch economic appeasement (1914-1941)
Der Kreisauer Kreis zwischen Widerstand und Umbruch