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Russell Freedman
Russell Freedman (1929-2018)

journalist

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The Voice That Challenged a Nation
Lincoln
Out of Darkness
Eleanor Roosevelt
Wright Brothers
Marco Polo
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Martha Graham, a dancer's life
Kids at Work
The life and death of Crazy Horse
Indian Chiefs
Becoming Ben Franklin
Freedom Walkers
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
An Indian Winter
Who was first?
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
100 People Who Changed America
The Wright brothers
Lafayette and the American Revolution
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Freedom walkers
Kids at work
Teenagers who made history
Houghton Mifflin Reading: The Nation's Choice: Theme Paperbacks, Above-Level Grade 6 Theme 5 - Lincoln, A Photobiography
The voice that challenged a nation
Lafayette in the American Revolution
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Voice That Challenged a Nation
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
Pearson Literature - California - Reading and Language
Children of the Wild West
Give me liberty!
Immigrant kids
Buffalo Hunt
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Copper Level
Children of the Great Depression
Rattlesnakes
Hanging on
Cowboys of the Wild West
In the days of the vaqueros
Because they marched
When winter comes
The Boston Tea Party
Getting born
How animals defend their young
Confucius
Killer snakes
Cowboys of the wild West
Animal architects
Animal Superstars
Tooth and claw
Sharks
How birds fly
Can bears predict earthquakes?
Killer fish
We will not be silent
Farm babies
Survival at Valley Forge
Growing up wild
Confucius
They lived with the dinosaurs
The brains of animals and man
In defense of liberty
The war to end all wars
2000 years of space travel
Animal fathers
In defense of liberty
Holiday House, the first fifty years
Angel Island
How animals learn
Die grossen Häuptlinge.
In the days of the vaqueros
Because They Marched
Animal games
The Sinking of the Vasa
The first days of life
Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence
Who Was First?
Holiday House, the first sixty-five years
Dinosaurs and their young
Animal instincts
The war to end all wars
Lafayette and the American Revolution
Lafayette and the American Revolution
How animals learn
Eleanor Roosevelt Homework Set
Indian Chiefs (Scholastic Book Guides Grades 6-9)
Jules Verne
Lincoln
Lincoln a Photobiography
2000 Years of Space Travel
Scouting with Baden-Powell
Adventures of Marco Polo
Cowboys of the Wild West
Animal instincts
Becoming Ben Franklin
Immigrant Kids
Kids at Work
A Lesson Plan Book for Indian Chiefs
Teenagers Who Made History
Scouting with Baden-Powell
Jules Verne, portrait of a prophet
Los Grandes Jefes Indios
The war to end all wars
Indian Winter
Washington at Valley Forge
Lincoln
Two-Thousand Years of Space Travel
Team Management
Vietnam
The Wright Brothers
Children of the Wild West
100 People Who Changed America
Inmigrant Kids
The Voice That Challenged A Nation
Eleanor Roosevelt a Life of Discovery
Children of the Wild West
Kids at Work
Jules Verne, portrait of a prophet
Scholastic Interview with Author
Thomas Alva Edison
Scouting with Baden-Powell
The Wright Brothers
The War to End All Wars
Boston Tea Party
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003)

politician, historian of Modern Age, historian, journalist, essayist, military officer, intelligence officer, opinion journalist

  • University of Oxford, Charterhouse School

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The Last Days of Hitler
Hidden life
Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645
The Goebbels diaries
Europe's physician
Yamaṿ ha-aḥaronim shel Hiṭler
Lisle Letters
Jacob Burckhardt
The rise of Christian Europe
The European witch-craze of the 16th and 17th centuries
Catholics, Anglicans, and Puritans
Letters from Oxford
Religion, the Reformation and social change
Princes and artists
From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution
The Invention of Scotland
Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans
Renaissance essays
The Romantic movement and study of the history
The European Witch-Craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
History and imagination
From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution
The European Witch-Craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The secret world
Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645
Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans
Milton and Clarendon
The age of expansion
History & imagination
Hitler's War Directives 1939-1945
Religion, the Reformation and Social Change and Other Essays
Crimes, Follies & Misfortunes
Renaissance Essays
The crisis of the seventeenth century
The rise of Christian Europe
History & imagination
Queen Elizabeth's first historian: William Camden and the beginnings of English "civil history"
Invention of Scotland
Christ Church, Oxford
Hitler's table talk, 1941-44
Historical essays
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire
Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645. --
The crisis of the seventeenth century; religion, the Reformation, and social change
History and imagination
The gentry, 1540-1640
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
George Buchanan and the ancient Scottish constitution
The European witch-craze of the 16th and 17th centuries and other essays
George Buchanan and the ancient Scottish constitution
De la Réforme aux Lumières
Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645
The gentry, 1540-1640
Collected Essays 5
Hermit Of Peking
Hitler's world policy
The Hermit of Peking
Renaissance essays
Invention of Scotland - Myth and History
Religion, the Reformation and social change. --
Catholics, Anglicans, and Puritans
Archbishop Laud
Clarendon & the practice of history
History and the Enlightenment
Archbishop Laud
Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645
The gentry, 1540-1640
History, professional and lay
History and Imagination
The age of expansion: Europe and the world 1559-1660
Essays in British history, presented to Sir Keith Feiling. --
The Goebbels diaries
World Through Blunted Sight
The Elizabethan aristocracy
Archbishop Laud
Religion, the Reformation and social change, and other essays
War der Nationalsozialismus ohne Beispiel?
The Crisis of the 17th Century
Essays in British history
History, professional and lay
The Philby affair: espionage, treason, and secret services
The Gentry,1540-1640 (Economic Historical Review Supplement)
Theodore De Mayerne
Oliver Cromwell and his parliaments
History and the Enlightenment
Golden Age Of Europe
One hundred letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper
Religion, the Reformation and social change and other essays
The Scottish enlightenment
The European witch-craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and other essays
Religion, the Reformation and social change
The plunder of the arts in the seventeenth century
Letters from Oxford
The European witch-craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
The European witch-craze of the 16th and 17th centuries
The age of expansion
Crisis of the 17th Century
Hitler's place in history
Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
The gentry, 1540-1640
Men and Essays
German intelligence service and the war
Rise of Christian Europe
Archbishop Laud 1573-1645
Essays in British history
Princes and artists
Men and events
The past and the present
The general crisis of the 17th century
The Romantic movement and the study of history
Jewish and other nationalism
The European witch-craze of the 16th and 17th centuries
LETTERS FROM OXFORD
The golden age of Europe
Larousse encyclopedia of modern history, from 1500 to the present day
Religion, the Reformation, and social change, and other essays
Men and events
Historical essays
The rise of Christian Europe
Las Conversaciones Privadas De Hitler
Essays in British history, presented to Sir Keith Feiling
Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645. --
Historia de las civilizaciones. 8
Jewish and other nationalism
History and the Enlightenment
The European witch-craze of the 16th and 17ty centuries
The crisis of the seventeenth century
1914
Religion, the Reformation, and social change, and other essays
Edmond Privat
Edmond Privat (1889-1962)

peace activist, journalist, poet, Esperantist, historian, playwright, esperantologist

  • University of Geneva

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The life of Zamenhof
Vivo de Zamenhof
Esperanto in fifty lessons
Esperanto at a glance, the international language
L'insurrection polonaise de dix-huit-cent trente et ses echos a l'Occident
Bon voisinage
Vie de Gandhi
Historio de la lingvo esperanto ..
The clash of loyalties
Trois expériences fédéralistes
The English
Les Américains, des colons aux penseurs
Esprimo de sentoj en Esperanto
L' Europe et l'oddyssée de la Pologne au 19è siècle
Le choc des patriotismes
Esperanto at a glance
L'Europe et l'oddyssée de la Pologne au 19è siècle
L'Europe et l'odyssée de la Pologne au XIXe siècle
Shi jie yu shi
Życie dra Ludwika Zamenhofa
Karlo
Javier Menéndez Flores
Javier Menéndez Flores (born 1969)

journalist

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Joaquín Sabina
Joaquín Sabina. Perdonen la tristeza
Soñar no es de locos
Los desolados
El adiós de los nuestros
Lolita
Madrid sí fue una fiesta
Sabina
Kazimierz Moczarski
Kazimierz Moczarski (1907-1975)

journalist, autobiographer, resistance fighter, biographer, jurist

  • Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw

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Rozmowy z katem
Śiḥot ʻim talyan
Alkohol w kulturze i obyczaju
Gabriele Hoffmann
Gabriele Hoffmann (born 1942)

journalist, historian of Modern Age, historian

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Heinrich Böll
Constantia von Cosel und August der Starke
Das Haus an der Elbchaussee
Frauen machen Geschichte
Max M. Warburg
Schätze unter Wasser
Versunkene Welten
Sozialdemokratie und Berufsbeamtentum
Die Schiffbrüchigen
Sommerhelden
Annas Atoll
Émile Daurand Forgues
Émile Daurand Forgues (1813-1883)

journalist, translator, literary critic

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Originaux et beaux esprits de l'Angleterre contemporaine
Histoire de Nelson
La Chine ouverte
Petites misères de la vie humaine
Petites misères de la vie humaine
Petites misères la vie humaine
Guerre de Russie en 1812
J. W. N. Sullivan
J. W. N. Sullivan (1886-1937)

journalist

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Isaac Newton, 1642-1727
Beethoven; his spiritual development
Gallio
Atoms and electrons
But for the grace of God
Beethoven
The limitations of science
The bases of modern science
Gallio Or The Tyranny Of Science
Three men discuss relativity
Three men discuss relativity
Limitations of science
Aspects of science
Beethoven
Beethoven
Aspects of science
Gallio
The limitations of science
The history of mathematics in Europe
Gallis
Yuan zi yu dian zi
Beethoven, his spiritual development
Ke xue zhi xian du
Atoms and electrons
Science
The history of mathematics in Europe
Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers
The limitations of science
Present-day astronomy
The limitations of science
Aspect of science
The limitations of science
Aspects of science
Isaac Newton
Yu zhou zhi wu li de ben xing
But for the grace of God
Contemporary mind