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Guy Consolmagno
Guy Consolmagno (born 1952)

astronomer, school teacher, planetary scientist, brother, physicist

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Arizona

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Brother Astronomer
God's mechanics
Turn left at Orion
Worlds apart
Turn left at Orion
The heavens proclaim
The way to the dwelling of light
El Otro Cielo
L'infinitamente grande
The new physics and the old metaphysics
Cornelius Ryan
Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974)

journalist, historian

  • Synge Street CBS

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A private battle
Great World War II Stories
The Last Battle
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
The Epistles of the Sundays and festivals with an introduction, notes, and moral reflections
Across the space frontier
Suqūṭ Barlīn
La Dernière bataille
Conquest
Man on the moon
Secrets & Spies Behind-the-Scenes Stories of World War II
MAC ARTHUR
Star-Spangled Mikado
Edmund S. Morgan
Edmund S. Morgan (1916-2013)

historian of Modern Age, historian

  • Harvard University, University of London

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The Puritan dilemma
American heroes
The Puritan Dilemma
The gentle Puritan
Benjamin Franklin
The genius of George Washington
American Heroes
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Gentle Puritan
The national experience
American slavery, American freedom
The birth of the Republic, 1763-89
The Stamp act crisis
The genuine article
Visible saints
American Slavery-American Freedom
The Puritan family
Virginians at home
The Meaning of Independence
The challenge of the American Revolution
So what about history?
The Genuine Article
Roger Williams
The American Revolution: two centuries of interpretation
Puritan political ideas, 1558-1794
Puritan political ideas, 1558-1794
Puritan Political Ideas
Inventing the people
Virginians at Home
The founding of Massachusetts
The Puritan family
The birth of the Republic, 1763-89
The birth of the republic, 1763-89
The birth of the Republic, 1763-89
Visible Saints
The Stamp Act crisis
Visible saints
Challenge of the American Revolution
Prologue to revolution
Puritan Political Ideas, 1558-1794
The Puritan Dilemma
The gentle Puritan
Puritan political ideas, 1558-1794
The Stamp Act crisis
The Puritan dilemma
The National Experience
Prologue to revolution
The challenge of the American Revolution
American Slavery, American Freedom
The American Revolution
The American revolution
The Genius of George Washington (George Rogers Clark Lecture, 3rd)
The Stamp Act Crisis
Visible saints
Virginians at Home Family Life in the Eighteenth Century
Prologue to Revolution, Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766
Virginians at Home
Virginians at home, family life in the eighteenth century
The Stamp act crisis;
The Puritan Dilemma, the Story of John Winthrop
The American Revolution
Genuine Article
Challenge of the American Revolution
So What about History?
Virginians at Home
Inventing the People
The Puritan Dilemma; the Story of John Winthrop
The Founding of Massachusetts Historians and their Sources
The Puritan Dilemma
The American Revolution
Prologue to Revolution
La invención del pueblo
Puritan political ideas, 1558-1794
Die amerikanische Revolution
Stamp Act Crisis
Not Your Usual Founding Father
Visible Saints
Virginians at home
Roger Williams
Prologue to Revolution
Prologue to Revolution
Puritan Political Ideas.
Virginians At Home
The Stamp act crisis; prologue to Revolution
Visible saints
The emergence of the American
Inventing the People
The Founding of Massachusetts
Genius of George Washington
The Birth of the Republic 1793-1789
The National Experience
Anthony Terrance Wiley
Anthony Terrance Wiley (born 1978)

theologian

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Angelic Troublemakers
Christian Wiese
Christian Wiese (born 1961)

theologian, Judaic scholar, historian, religious studies scholar, pastor

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The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas
Jüdische existenz in der Moderne
Redefining Judaism in an Age of Emancipation
Judaism and the phenomenon of life
Janusfiguren
Wissenschaft des Judentums und protestantische Theologie im wilhelminischen Deutschland
Hans Jonas
Erinnerungen: Nach Gespr achen mit Rachel Salamander
Years of persecution, years of extermination
Modern Judaism and historical consciousness
Heimkehr ins Exil. Jüdische Existenz in der Begegnung mit dem Christentum.
Jüdische Bildung und Kultur in Sachsen-Anhalt von der Aufklärung bis zum Nationalsozialismus
Years of persecution, years of extermination
A. C. Benson
A. C. Benson (1862-1925)

poet, academic, diarist

  • Eton College, University of Cambridge

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Joyous Gard
Alfred Tennyson
The house of quiet
Edward Fitzgerald
The leaves of the tree
The life of Edward White Benson
Men of might
Edwardian excursions
The diary of Arthur Christopher Benson
Hugh - Memoirs Of A Brother
Memories and friends
Walter Pater
Fasti etonenses
Ruskin; A Study In Personality
The life of Edward White Benson
Brontë poems
The Upton letters
The Isles of Sunset
At large
Where No Fear Was
The Child of the Dawn
Rossetti
The Altar Fire
Until the evening
The thread of gold
The trefoil
The reed of Pan
Along the road
The schoolmaster
Meanwhile
Father Payne
William Laud
Genealogy of the Family of Benson of Banger House and Northwoods, in the ..
Essays
The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years ...
Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories
The professor
Ghosts in the House
The Silent Isle
The gate of death
Beside still waters
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Peace
The Life Of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop Of Canterbury V1
Thy rod and Thy staff
Life and letters of Maggie Benson
From A College Window
Escape, and other essays
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B.A
Chris Gascoyne
Lyrics
Cambridge Essays on Education
Tennyson
Le cahier jaune
Secret Wells
Watersprings (1913)
Rossetti
The orchard pavillion
Letters of Queen Victoria 9 Volume Set
The Temple of Death and Other Stories
The happy warrior
The poems of A.C. Benson ..
The house of Menerdue
Collected Works of Arthur Christopher Benson
The letters of one, a study in limitations by Charles Hare Plunkett
The book of the queen's dolls' house
Bensoniana
Cressage
Lord Vyet, and other poems
Magdalene College Cambridge
Godolphin
Rossetti
The Life Of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop Of Canterbury V2
Poems
Extracts from the letters of Dr. A.C. Benson to M.E.A
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of A. C. Benson: One Novel 'The Child of the Dawn,' One Novelette 'The Uttermost Farthing' and Eight Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual
Herb Moly and Heartsease
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of A. C. Benson
Cambridge Essays in Education
Rambles and reflections
Essays of to-day and yesterday
Lest we forget
Basil Netherby
The canon
The hill of trouble and other stories
Thomas Gray
A. C. Benson
Everybody's book of the queen's dolls' house
Selected poems
Poems
Essays
Thy rod and Thy staff
The secret of Christ, the essentials of Christianity
The orchard pavillion
Father Payne
Walter Pater
The Upton letters
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton
Lyrics
A Cluster of Grapes
Life and letters of Maggie Benson
Poems
The beauty of life
The child of the dawn
Ode to Japan
Beside still waters
William Laud, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury
Monnow
Ode in memory of the Rt. Honble. William Ewart Gladstone
Edward Fitzgerald
Pierre François Tissot
Pierre François Tissot (1768-1854)

grammarian, historian, translator, journalist, professor, biographer, poet, literary scholar

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Souvenirs historiques sur la vie et la mort de Talma
Histoire complète de la révolution française
Histoire de Napoléon
Chansons de P.-J. de Beranger
Mémoires historiques et militaires sur Carnot
Etudes sur Virgile, compare avec tous les poetes epiques et dramatiques des anciens et des ...
Études sur Virgile
Mémoires historiques et militaires sur Carnot, rédigés d'après ses ...
Etudes sur Virgile, compare avec tous les poetes epiques et dramatiques des ...
Souvenirs historiques sur la vie et la mort de F. Talma ...
Les trois conjurés irlandais; ou, L'ombre d'Emmet
Précis, ou, Histoire abregée des guerres de la révolution française, depuis 1792 jusqu'a 1815
Etudes sur Virgile, compare avec tous les poetes epiques et dramatiques des anciens et des ...
Leçons et modèles de littérature française ancienne et moderne
Etudes sur Virgile, compare avec tous les poetes epiques et dramatiques des ...
Mohan Singh
Mohan Singh (1905-1978)

poet, academic

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Kabir and the Bhagti movement
Pañja pāṇī
Do kadama
Sāwe pattara
Cāra hañjhū
Mākhiuṃ
Adhawāṭe
Kaca saca
Kasumbhaṛā
Jandare
Būhe
Niraṅkārī sākhīāṃ
Nanakāiṇa
Tilaṅgānā tūṃ karawaṭa lai
Merī coṇawīṃ kawitā
Tinna paṛā
Waḍḍa welā
Nikkī nikkī wāshanā
Merī coṇawīṃ kawitā
Pañjābī Kawitā