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Leonard J. Arrington
Leonard J. Arrington (1917-1999)

historian, biographer

  • University of Idaho, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Mothers of the Prophets
Brigham Young
Sunbonnet sisters
Adventures of a church historian
Brigham Young American Moses
The Presidents of the church
From Quaker to Latter-Day Saint
Utah's audacious stockman, Charlie Redd
David Eccles
Saints without halos
Madelyn Cannon Stewart Silver
W. W. Clyde
Harold F. Silver
The Mormon experience
Great Basin Kingdom
Japanese Americans, from relocation to redress
Japanese Americans, from relocation to redress
Beet sugar in the West
Building the city of God
Rescue of the 1856 Handcart Companies
The richest hole on earth
Faith Intellect As Partners In Mormon History
The price of prejudice
Reflections of a Mormon Historian
Great Basin Kingdom
Orderville, Utah
The Great Basin Kingdom
The collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon history lectures
The Mormons in Nevada
History of Idaho
The Presidents of the Church
New views of Mormon history
A dependent commonwealth
Orderville, Utah
Faith and Intellect
Tracy Collins Bank & Trust Company : a record of responsibility, 1884-1984
Federally Financed Industrial Plants Constructed in Utah During World War Two
Richest Hole on Earth
Federally-financed industrial plants constructed in Utah during World War II
Faith and intellect as partners in Mormon history
The changing economic structure of the Mountain West
Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures
Great Basin Kingdom
Mothers of the Prophets
Utah, the New Deal and the Depression of the 1930s
Charles C. Rich, Mormon general and Western frontiersman
Mothers of the Prophets
Beet sugar in the West
From wilderness to empire
Robert Caro
Robert Caro (born 1935)

historian, journalist

  • Harvard University, Princeton University

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The years of Lyndon Johnson (Volumes 1-3)
Extraordinary Lives
The passage of power
The Path To Power
Means of Ascent
Master of the Senate
Working
The Power Broker
The Power Broker
The years of Lyndon Johnson (Volumes 1-2)
The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York
The years of Lyndon Johnson (Volumes 1-4)
[( By Caro, Robert A ( Author )Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II (Years of Lyndon Johnson Series #0002) Paperback Mar- 06-1991 )]
Power Broker Vol. 1
Der Nachfolger
Master of the Senate Vol. 3
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro(2009-10-27)
Means of Ascent Vol. 2
On Power
Path to Power Vol. 1
The Theodore H. White lecture with Robert A. Caro
Master of the Senate Sticker
The Years of Lyndon Johnson The Path to Power
[ THE PATH TO POWER (YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON) ] By Caro, Robert A ( Author) 1982 [ Hardcover ]
Charles Nicholl
Charles Nicholl (born 1950)

journalist, historian, biographer, singer

  • University of Cambridge

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The reckoning
The lodger
The Lodger Shakespeare
Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind
Somebody else
A cup of news
Elizabethan writers
The lodger Shakespeare
Rimbaud En Africa
Leonardo da Vinchi
INTERRUPTED LIVES IN LITERATURE; ED. BY ANDREW MOTION
לאונרדו דה וינצ׳י
Traces Remain
The Sea
The creature in the map
Borderlines
The Chemical Theatre
The Fruit Palace
Screaming In The Castle
Journeys
Leonardo da Vinci
Zones frontières
La Ruta de La Coca
Reckoning
Wild Things
Reckoning 24 Copy Bin
Leonardo. Los Vuelos de La Mente
Anthology
Leonardo da Vinci
Somebody Else
Rimbaud na África
Borderlines
The Fruit Palace
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Untitled
Sheila Rowbotham
Sheila Rowbotham (born 1943)

historian, sociologist

  • University of Oxford, University of London

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Rebel Crossings
Friends of Alice Wheeldon
Promise of a dream
Edward Carpenter
Threads through time
Socialism and the new life
Daring to Hope
Dutiful Daughters
Hidden from history
Women, resistance and revolution
Woman's consciousness, man's world
Beyond the fragments
A new world for women
A century of women
Women in movement
Dreamers of a New Day
The Past Is Before Us
A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman
Women's liberation & the new politics
Homeworkers worldwide
Dreams and dilemmas
Dignity and Daily Bread
New Politics
Alexandra Kollontai
Women's liberation and revolution
Global networking around women's livelihood since the late 1970s
Women Encounter Technology
Women and radical politics in Britain, 1820-1914
Kadin bilinci erkek dunyasi
The trouble with "patriarchy"
Dusting her life away
Andrea Wulf
Andrea Wulf (born 1972)

historian, biographer, graphic novelist, opinion journalist

  • Royal College of Art

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The Invention of Nature
Founding Gardeners
Magnificent Rebels
Chasing Venus
The brother gardeners
This Other Eden
Private Jefferson
Magníficos Rebeldes
Psychoanalytische Behandlung Von Kindern und Jugendlichen Mit Angststörungen und Depressionen
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
Michel Dewachter
Michel Dewachter (born 1953)

historian, egyptologist

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Champollion
Pour les yeux d'Isis
Collections égyptiennes de l'Institut de France
Monuments of Egypt
La reine de Saba et l'encens des dieux
L' Égypte et l'opéra
Voir l'Orient autrefois
J.-F. Champollion e il contributo italiano alla riscoperta dell'antico egitto
L'égyptologie et les Champollion
Eduard Engel
Eduard Engel (1851-1938)

literary historian

  • Humboldt University of Berlin

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Goethe, der Mann und das Werk
William Shakespeare
Sprich Deutsch!
Der Wohnsitz der Odysseus
Geschichte der Litteratur Nordamerikas
William Shakespeare
Psychologie der französischen literatur
Die Aussprache des Griechischen
Kurzgefasste Deutsche Literaturgeschichte
Geschichte der deutschen Literatur
Gutes deutsch
Geschichte der englischen Literatur von ihren Anfängen bis auf die neueste Zeit
Eisenbahnreform
Verdeutschungsbuch
Geschichte der deutschen Literatur
Geschichte der deutschen Literatur des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts und der Gegenwart
Geschichte der englischen literatur von den anfängen bis zur gegenwart
Deutsche Meisterprosa
Griechische frühlingstage
1914
Deutsche Sprachschöpfer
1914, eine tagebuch
Der Zonentarif
Was bleibt?
Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart
Das jüngste Deutschland
Deutsche stilkunst
Der Wohnsitz der Odysseus
Psychologie der französischen literature
Eisenbahnreform