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Simon Schama
Simon Schama (born 1945)

art historian, historian, television presenter

  • University of Cambridge, Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School

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Dead certainties
Rembrandt's eyes
Two Rothschilds & the Land of Israel
Dead certainties
Bet Rotshild ve-Erets-Yisrael
The face of Britain
Rembrandt's eyes
The Face of Britain
Citizens
The American future
A History of Britain
The Embarrassment of Riches
The Power of Art
Rough Crossings
Hang-Ups
Rough crossings
Landscape and memory
Rough Crossings
A history of Britain
Rough Crossings
A History of Britain
The embarrassment of riches
The American future
Jews/America
Rough Crossings CD
The story of the Jews
Death of a Harvard man
Patriots and liberators
A History of Britain
A History of Britain
Patriots and liberators
Scribble, scribble, scribble
History of Britain Boxed Set
Rough Crossing
The Story of the Jews
A History of Britain, Volume 1
The American Future LP
The Story of the Jews
A History of Britain, Volume II
A History of Britain
A History of Britain, Volume 3
A History of Britain at the Edge of the World
Landscapes From Brueghel To Kandinsky
A History of Britain I
Flesh in the Age of Reason
L'embarras de richesses
A History Of Britain 3
Anya Gallaccio
A History of Britain 2
Landscape and memory
Simon Schama's power of art
Certezas Absolutas
A History of Britain, Volume II, The Wars of the British, 1603-1776
Rembrandt's Eyes (Allen Lane History)
Le paysage et la mémoire
Cy Twombly
A History of Britain the Fate of the Empire 17762000
Overvloed en onbehagen
Belonging
Dead Certanties
Landschaften von Brueghel bis Kandinsky. Die Sammlungen Thyssen und Carmen Thyssen- Bornemisza
The Story of the Jews
Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper
The essential Cy Twombly
A History of Britain at the Edge of the World? 3500 B.C. - 1603 A.D
Auge y Caida del Imperio Britc?nico
Confesiones y Encargos
A History of Britain
A History Of Britain 3 (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
Scribble, scribble, scribble
A history of Britain
Rembrandt's Eyes - British Ed
Les Yeux de Rembrandt
The Cambridge Mind
The Ambarassment of the Ritchies
Rembrandt's Eyes - Dutch Ed
Ciudadanos
The American Future
Youtai ren de gu shi
überfluss und schöner Schein
De Amerikaanse toekomst
Cy Twombly
Waar is de tolerantie gebleven?
Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit (born 1961)

art historian, journalist, environmentalist

  • San Francisco State University, University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

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Recollections of My Nonexistence
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
River of Shadows
The faraway nearby
Motion Studies
Orwell's Roses
Wanderlust
Savage Dreams
Men Explain Things To Me
A book of migrations
As Eve Said to the Serpent
A paradise built in hell
Storming the gates of paradise
Hope in the Dark
Hollow City
Infinite City
The Mother of all Questions
The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle
Unfathomable City A New Orleans Atlas
Call them by their true names
Celebrate people's history
The encyclopedia of trouble and spaciousness
Mona Hatoum
Secret Exhibition
Ann Hamilton: Sao Paulo/Seattle
The Blue of Distance
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
Cinderella Liberator
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
A California Bestiary
Hollow City
Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change
Whose Story Is This?
Sanctuary Exhibition Catalogue
Best American Essays 2019
City of Women (London)
Recollections of My Nonexistence
Tracing cultures
Rex Ray
Paradise Wavering
¿De quién es esta historia? / Whose Story Is This?
Tom Joyce - Sculpture
Sobre l'art de perdre's
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
Architecture of life
Drowned River
Meghann Riepenhoff
The Beat Generation
Esperanza en la oscuridad
Kaybolma Kilavuzu
Yosemite in Time
Una guía sobre el arte de perderse
Change Everything Now
Gå vilse. En fälthandbok
Men Explain Things to Me
La mare de totes les preguntes
Yol Aski - Yürümenin Tarihi
Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World ...
Not Too Late
La madre de todas las preguntas
Sindirella - Özgürlük Kedisi
Yakindaki Uzak
De Quem E Esta Historia - Feminismos para os tempos atuais (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Els homes m'expliquen coses
HOMBRES ME EXPLICAN COSAS, LOS
La Ventafocs alliberada
Call Them by Their True Names
Waking Beauty
Records de la meva inexistència (El fil d'Ariadna) (Catalan Edition)
Esperança dins la foscor
Tracing Cultures
Inside Out
Die Dinge beim Namen nennen
L'Art de marcher
Homeland
Humphrey Carpenter
Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005)

critic, jazz musician, radio personality, biographer, historian, journalist

  • University of Oxford, Dragon School

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Geniuses together
The Brideshead Generation
A serious character
W.H. Auden, a biography
Inklings
The brideshead generation
Benjamin Britten
Jesus
W.H. Auden
Tolkien
Geniuses together
Spike Milligan
Founders of faith
Robert Runcie
Dennis Potter a Biography
Founders of faith
Founders of faith
Secret gardens
A Great, Silly Grin
The envy of the world
Secret gardens
Shakespeare without the boring bits
Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits
More Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits
The Oxford companion to children's literature
The Angry Young Men
The Captain Hook affair
A great, silly grin
THAT WAS SATIRE, THAT WAS
OUDS
The Joshers
That was satire that was
The Puffin book of classic children's stories
W. H. Auden
Secret gardens
[Daniel Day Lewis as Hamlet at the National Theatre]
SPIKE MILLIGAN: THE BIOGRAPHY
Jesus (Past Masters)
Oxford Children's A-Z of Music
Makers of Christianity (Past Masters)
J.R.R. Tolkien. Uma Biografia
Benjamin Britten a Biography
Oxford Children's A-Z of Music
Shakespeare with a Difference
The Seven Lives of John Murray
W.H.Auden
Wellington and Boot
The Captain Hook Affair
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Charlie Crazee's teevee
The Oxford Children's A to Z of Music
Het leven van J.R.R. Tolkien
The Joshers: Or, London To Birmingham with Albert and Victoria
W.H.Auden (Oxford Lives)
Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham (born 1969)

journalist, historian, biographer, editor-in-chief, editor

  • Sewanee: The University of the South, The McCallie School

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Destiny and power
American lion
Thomas Jefferson
His Truth Is Marching On
Rose Water
Civil War Trilogy Box Set : With American Homer : Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic the Civil War
Franklin and Winston
American Gospel
Voices in Our Blood
The Hope of Glory
The soul of America
Songs of America
The impeachment report
Voices in Our Blood
American Lion
The soul of America
The Donald J. Trump presidential twitter library
Impeachment
Franklin and Winston
We Do Our Part
And There Was Light
Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
On Democracy
Soul of America
In the Hands of the People
Voices in our blood
Reconciliation, Healing, and Hope
TIME Andrew Jackson
Call to Serve : The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush
Beyond Bin Laden
The soul of America
Voices in Our Blood
American Gospel
American Lion
Thomas Jefferson
Rudolf von Gottschall
Rudolf von Gottschall (1823-1909)

chess player, autobiographer, literary historian, literary critic, poet lawyer

  • University of Königsberg, Humboldt University of Berlin

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Der neue Plutarch
Literarische Charakterköpfe
Porträts und Studien
Die deutsche Nationallitteratur des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts
Die Deutsche Nationalliteratur in der ersten Hälfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts
Dramatische Werke
Amy Robsart
Die deutsche Nationalliteratur des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts
Das Fräulein V. ST. Amaranthe: Roman
Die deutsche Nationalliteratur des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, literararhistorisch und kritisch dargestellt
Censur-flüchtlinge: Zwölf Freiheitslieder
Zur Kritik des modernen Dramas
Die deutsche Nationalliteratur des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts
Novellen-Album für Bojanowo
Carlo Zeno: Ein Dichtung
Nikolaus Lenau ...
Censur-Flüchtlinge
Neue gedichte
Poetik
Janus
Der Nabob
Franz Grillparzer
Withered leaves, from the Germ. by B. Ness
Lieder der Gegenwart
Blütenkranz neuer Deutscher Dichtung
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
Gedichte
Poetik
Friedrich von Schiller
Gutenberg
Moderne Rothäute
Paris unter dem zweiten Kaiserreich
Literarische Todtenklänge und Lebensfragen
Aus meiner Jugend: Erinnerungen von Rudolf von Gottschall
Literarische Todtenklänge und Lebensfragen
Das Theater und Drama der Chinesen
Aus meiner Jugend
Der neue Plutarch
Kriegslieder
Studien zur neuen deutschen Litteratur
Georg Ebers
Censur-Flüchtlinge
Literarische Totenklaenge und Lebensfragen
Deutsche Lyrik des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts bis zur modernen Aera
Eusebius of Caesarea
Eusebius of Caesarea (0264-0339)

theologian, priest, historian

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Ion Idriess
Ion Idriess (1889-1979)

historian

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The desert column
Flynn of the inland
Lasseter's last ride
The red chief
Our Stone Age mystery
Prospecting for gold
Fortunes in minerals including uranium
Opals and sapphires
Men of the jungle
Flynn of the Inland
Our living stone age
Forty fathoms deep
The Cattle King
Outlaws of the Leopolds
Drums of Mer
Jacob Campo Weyerman
Jacob Campo Weyerman (1677-1747)

painter, botanical illustrator, art historian, etcher

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De levens-beschryvingen der Nederlandsche konst-schilders en konst-schilderessen
De leevens byzonderheden van Johan Hendrik, Baron van Syberg, Heer van Ermelinghoven en Bonckersbek, &c
Den vrolyke tuchtheer
Den Heer is betoovert, en de Juffer is behext ; De Schoone Dwaalstar, of de vereenigde gelieven ; De Vruchtbaare Juffer
DE ROTTERDAMSCHE HERMES
Den Persiaansche zydewever ; Demokriets en Herakliets ; Brabandsche voyagie ; De Hollandsche zinlykheyt ; Den Antwerpsche courantier ; en, De gehoornde broeders
Pieter Paulus Rubens, de kosmische schilder
Geconfineert voor altoos
Het vermakelijk wagenpraatje