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John McPhee
John McPhee (born 1931)

academic

  • Princeton University, University of Cambridge

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Coming into the country
A sense of where you are
A roomful of Hovings and other profiles
Levels of the Game
The headmaster
Curve of Binding Energy
Silk parachute
The art of John Glover
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
Silk Parachute
Silk Parachute
Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
Sense of Where You Are
A sense of where you are
Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
The control of nature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
Coming Into the Country
La Place de la Concorde Suisse
The Pine Barrens
Rising from the plains
Irons in the fire
Looking for a ship
Uncommon Carriers
Basin and range
Assembling California
Prentice Hall Literature
The crofter and the laird
Table of contents
Oranges
The John McPhee reader
Annals of the former world
The Founding Fish
Encounters with the archdruid
Alaska
In Suspect Terrain
Giving Good Weight
Alaska
The ransom of Russian art
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
Pieces of the Frame
Survival of the Bark Canoe
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume I - 1967
Wimbledon: a celebration
The second John McPhee reader
American Earth
Blood Quest (Survival 2000)
Wimbledon
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
Levels of the game
Heirs of General Practice
Outcroppings
Looking for a Ship
Table of Contents
Princeton Anthology of Writing
The American Shad
A Roomful of Hovings
The patch
Tabula Rasa, Volume 1
Levels of the Game (Sports Classics)
In the Highlands and the Islands
The Pine Barrens
Draft No. 4
The Princeton anthology of writing : favorite pieces by the Ferris/McGraw writers at Princeton University
The Princeton reader
Draft no. 4
A world history
The Swiss Army
The Headmaster, Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield
Annals of the Former World
Oranges
Draft No. 4
Crofter and the Laird
Headmaster
The effects of electrical power variations upon computers
Survival of the Bark Canoe and Heirs of General Practice
Great Collections
Encounters with Archdruid
Place de la Concorde Suisse
The Catechumenate
Irons in the Fire
Final Sunset
The Headmaster Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield
Australian decorative arts in the Australian National Gallery
Founding Fish
Annals of the Former World
Earth System History, Annals of the Former World & Scientific American Special Issue
Oranges
Irons in the Fire
Riding the Boom Extension (Metacom Limited Edition Series)
Assembling California
Patch
Coming Into the Country
Second John Mcphee Reader
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
Table of Contents by John McPhee (1985-10-07)
Swiss Army La Place
Basin and Range
Coming into the Country
The crofter and the laird
La Place de La Concorde Su
Earth System History & Annals of the Fomer World
Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
Looking for a Ship
Levels of the Game
Rising from the Plains
Encounters W/The Archdr
In Suspect Terrain
Patch
Giving Good Weight
Levels of the Game
A Sense of Where You Are
Illustrated Catalog of American Fruits and Nuts
Heirs of General Practice
Encounters with the Archdruid
Table of Contents
The Founding Fish
Swiss Army La Place De La Concorde Suiss
Australian Social Worker and the Law
The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
Ethics and Law for the Health Professions
Australian Medico-Legal Handbook with PDA Software
Ransom of Russian Art
Coming into the country
Uncommon Carriers
Deltoid Pumpkin Seed (7)
John Glover
Pieces of the Frame
The John McPhee Reader
Survival of the Bark Canoe
In Suspect Terrain
Cargo
Turning the World Upside Down
Earth Systems History Loose Leaf + Annals of the Former World
Table of contents
En Alaska
Encounters with the archdruid [by] John McPhee
Roadkills
Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović (born 1946)

performance artist, photographer, video artist, sculptor, sound artist, film producer, scenographer, film director, artist, visual artist

  • Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb

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Marina Abramović
The biography of biographies
Walk Through Walls Signed and Numbered Collector's Edition
Walk Through Walls
Sviluppi non premeditati
Artist body
The Lovers
Marina Abramovic
Hans Ulrich ObristMarina Abramovic Conversation Verlag Der Buchhandlung
7 easy pieces
Portraits In The Presence Of Marina Abramovic
The bridge =
Marina Abramovi
Marina Abramovic MAI
Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic
Cleaning the House
Pulcherrimae strade
Milano
Der Schock des 11. September und das Geheimis des Anderen
Youssef Nabil
La Torre Di Pisa
Sur la voie
The next Documenta should be curated by an artist
The next Documenta should be curated by an artist
Mystic
Body
Unfinished business
Relation work and detour
Marina Abramovic/Ulay
David Shields
David Shields (born 1956)

academic, film director, essayist

  • Brown University, University of Iowa

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Salinger
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (Vintage)
The inevitable
Enough about you
Other people
The inevitable
Yong yuan de mai tian bu shou Shalinjie
Reality hunger
How Literature Saved My Life
Dead languages
Pemex
Fakes
Body politic
The Death Issue Meditations On The Inevitable
I think you're totally wrong
War is beautiful
Baseball Is Just Baseball The Understated Ichiro
Re-mote
Heroes
James Lovelock
James Lovelock (1919-2022)

biologist, chemist, mythographer, ecologist, environmentalist, biochemist, futurist, independent scientist, autobiographer, scientist

  • University of Manchester, Strand School

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Homage to Gaia
Homage to Gaia
Gaia
The vanishing face of gaia
The Revenge of Gaia
The ages of Gaia
Healing Gaia
A Rough Ride To The Future
Novacene
Gaia, the practical science of planetary medicine
Tracers in the Ocean
Caving
A caving manual
Revenge of Gaia
The evolving Gaia theory
ATMOSPHERIC HOMEOSTASIS BY AND FOR THE BIOSPHERE
Welkom in het Novaceen
Homenaje a Gaia
HANDS UP FOR THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS
Future
James Lovelock et Al. the Earth and I
James Lovelock et Al. la Terre et Moi
La venjança de la Terra
THE GREAT EXTINCTION
Life and death underground
Les âges de Gaïa
Climbing
Great Extinction
Rough Ride to the Future
THE GREAT EXTINCTION WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS AND DEVASTATED THE EARTH
Gaia : a New Look at Life on Earth
La venganza de la Tierra
Earthdance
Homage To Gaia - The Life Of An Independant Scientist
Der wissende Kosmos. Die Entdeckung eines neuen Weltbildes
AS/a Level Music - Rock and Pop, Musical Theatre and Jazz
We Belong to Gaia
Nader Khalili
Nader Khalili (1936-2008)

architect, translator

  • University of Tehran, Istanbul Technical University

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Racing alone
Sidewalks on the moon
Ceramic houses
Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture
Emergency sandbag shelter and eco-village
Adam Ulam
Adam Ulam (1922-2000)

historian of Modern Age, historian, political scientist

  • Harvard University, Brown University

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Stalin; the man and his era
Stalin
In the name of the people
Prophets and conspirators in prerevolutionary Russia
Expansion and coexistence
The unfinished revolution
The Bolsheviks
The fall of the American university
The Kirov affair
Dangerous relations
The Russian political system
Understanding the Cold War
The rivals
Philosophical foundations of English socialism
The rivals
Ideologies and illusions
Titoism and the Cominform
The rivals: America and Russia since World War II
The communists
A history of Soviet Russia
Staline
The new face of Soviet totalitarianism
Les Bolcheviks
International negotiation
Die Bolschewiki
Expansion and coexistence ; the history of Soviet foreign policy, 1917-67 [by] Adam B. Ulman
Russia's failed revolutions
Expansion and coexistence: Soviet foreign policy, 1917-73
Lenin and the Bolsheviks
The unfinished revolution
The rivals
John Erskine
John Erskine (1879-1951)

composer, pianist, musicologist, literary critic, biographer, music critic

  • Columbia University, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School

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Leading American novelists
The complete life
My life in music
The human life of Jesus
My life as a teacher
George Edward Woodberry, 1855-1930
The influence of women and its cure
The kinds of poetry
Song without words
The Elizabethan lyric
Written English
The kinds of poetry, and other essays
The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays
A pageant of the thirteenth century
The shadowed hour
A musical companion
The moral obligation to be intelligent
Contemporary war poems
A pageant of the thirteenth century, for the seven hundredth anniversary of Roger Bacon
The memory of certain persons
The private life of Helen of Troy
American character and other essays
Democracy and ideals
Prohibition and Christianity
The delight of great books
Venus, the lonely goddess
The literary discipline
Tristan and Isolde restoring Palamede
What is music?
The Philharmonic-symphony society of New York, its first hundred years
The Philharmonic-symphony society of New York
Actaeon
Collected poems
Cinderella's daughter
Penelope's man
The start of the road
Amateur music and recreation leadership
Casanova's women
The President's mystery story
Universal training for national defense
Solomon, my son!
Collected poems, 1907-1922
Jack and the beanstalk
Forget if you can
The brief hour of François Villon
Actæon
Unfinished business
The Elizabethan lyric; a study
Hélène, retour de Troie
Young love
Sonata
Adam and Eve
Das privatleben der schönen Helena
The enchanted garden
Mrs. Doratt
The voyage of Captain Bart
The Cambridge history of American literature
Why study?
Cinderella's daughter and other sequels and consequences
Bachelor-of arts
Sincerity
Galahad
The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and ...
The Cambridge history of American literature
The delight of great books
Uncle Sam in the eyes of his family
Adam and Eve, though he knew better
The Cambridge history of American literature
A musical companion
Written English
Democracy and idealism
Walt Whitman
Leading American novelists
Give me liberty
American character and other essays, selected from the writings of John Erskine
The delight of great books
The Cambridge history of Amrican literature
Hearts enduring
The Cambridge history of American literature
Adam and Eve
Prohibition and Christianity
Galahad
An experiment in sincerity
The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays
The complete life
The Elizabethan lyric
Peter kills the bear
The Cambridge history of American literature
The Cambridge history of Amrican literature
David Oshinsky
David Oshinsky (born 1944)

historian, academic

  • Cornell University, Brandeis University

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A conspiracy so immense
Polio
Worse than Slavery
The case of the Nazi professor
Polio
Capital punishment on trial
Bellevue
American Passages A History Of The United States
Bellevue
The Darkest Corner of the South
Polio
American Passages
Senator Joseph McCarthy and the American labor movement
Capital punishment on trial
Senator Joseph McCarthy and the American labor movement