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Karen Cushman
Karen Cushman (born 1941)

  • Stanford University

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The Midwife's Apprentice
Grayling's song
Will Sparrow's road
Catherine, Called Birdy
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Matilda Bone
Rodzina
The loud silence of Francine Green
Alchemy and Meggy Swann
Literature Guide
Catherine, Lady wider Willen. Sonderausgabe
Alyce und keine andere. Sonderausgabe.
Die Ballade von Lucy Whipple.
Matilda Bone
Matilda Bone
Catherine, Called Birdy (rpkg) (Trophy Newbery)
La Balade de Lucy Whipple
Newbery Award Library III
Catherine, Lady wider Willen
El libro de Catherine/ Catherine, called Birdy
The ballad of Lucy Whipple
Mathilda Bone
El Libro De Catherine (Periscopio (Edebe), 59.)
Le Livre de Catherine
L'Apprentie sage-femme
Grayling's song
Aprendiz De Comadrona/Midwife's Apprentice (Nomadas, 3)
Dàt nooit!
Donald Keene
Donald Keene (1922-2019)

linguist, translator, historian, japanologist

  • Harvard University, Columbia University

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Modern Japanese literature
Travelers of a hundred ages
Dawn to the West
World within walls
Japanese literature
The pleasures of Japanese literature
Modern Japanese diaries
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
Masterful Illusions
Anthology of Japanese literature, from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century
Sources of Japanese tradition
Seeds in the Heart
Some Japanese Portraits
The Japanese discovery of Europe, 1720-1830
Emperor of Japan
Emperor of Japan
Bunraku
Landscapes and portraits, appreciations of Japanese culture
Anthology of Japanese literature, from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century
Five Modern Japanese Novelists
Essays in Idleness
Nō ; and, Bunraku
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion
On familiar terms
Sources of Japanese tradition
Koten o tanoshimu
Koe no nokori
Living Japan
Sources of Japanese Tradition, 1600 to 2000
The old woman, the wife and the archer
Living in Two Countries
The blue-eyed tarōkaja
War-wasted Asia : letters, 1945-46
Twenty plays of the Nō theatre
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture)
Modern Japanese novels and the West
Winter Sun Shines In
Futatsu no bokoku ni ikite
Frog in the well
Frog in the Well
Hyakudai no kakaku
ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANESE LITERATURE TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Anthology of Japanese Literature
The Battles of Coxinga
TWENTY PLAYS OF THE NO THEATRE
Flowers of Buffoonery
La literatura japonesa entre Oriente y Occidente
Travels in Japan
Watashi no daiji na basho =
So lovely a country will never perish
Les journaux intimes dans la littérature japonaise
The Major Plays of Chikamatsu
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
Chronicles of my life
World Within Walls (Pb)
No
Tales of Ise
Nihonjin no biishiki
Appreciations of Japanese Culture
Nihon bungaku no rekishi
Three Plays by Kobo Abe
Zoku hyakudai no kakaku
The Winter Sun Shines In
Los placeres de la literatura japonesa
Eyewitness to history
Japan at the dawn of the modern age
Mō hitotsu no bokoku Nihon e =
Nihon o rikaisuru made
Seeds in the Heart
Aoi me no Tarō Kaja
Essays in Idleness
Anthology of Chinese literature
Nō: the classical theatre of Japan
So lovely a country will never perish
Meeting with Japan
Five Modern Noh Plays
Landscapes and Portraits
Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age
Nihon bungaku o yomu
The first modern Japanese
Anthology of Japanese literature
Donarudo Kīn watashi no Nihongo shugyō
Nihon no miryoku
Tsui saki no utagoe wa
Nihonjin no shitsumon
Nihon to no deai
Kinō no senchi kara
Nihon no haiku wa naze sekai bungaku nano ka
Moshi moshi, sumimasen, dōmo =
Modern Japanese Novels and the West
Nihon bungaku no naka e
Twenty plays of the No theatre
Nō
KCTS Chefs 2005
Nihon no sakka
The distinctiveness of the Japanese
Landscapes and portraits, appreciations of Japanese culture
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
Hyakudai no kakaku
Donarudo Kīn no omban fūshi kaden
No
No
Bashô's Journey of 1684
Nihon bungakushi
Hateshinaku utsukushii Nihon
Nihongo no bi
Twenty plays of the Nō theatre
Early Light
Modern Japanese poetry
Watakushi no Nihon bungaku shōyō
Anthology of Japanese literature to the nineteenth century
The Japanese discovery of Europe
Uruwashiki sengo Nihon
Meiji Tennō
Meiji Tennō o kataru
Senjō no Eroika shinfonī
Friends, a Play
Meiji Chʻŏnhwang
EDO JAPAN ENCOUNTERS THE WORLD
Watashi no sukina rekōdo
Appreciations of Japanese culture
Ikite iru Nihon
Literatura japoneză
Donarudo Kīn no Tōkyō shitamachi nikki
Nihon bungaku o yomu
Tsui saki no utagoe wa
Travels in Japan
Emperor of Japan
Kabuki
Nihon no engeki
Jiden
Ashikaga Yoshimasa
No the Classical Theatre of Japan
Twenty Plays of the No Theatre
Watashi no Nihon bungaku shōyō
Anthology of Japanese literature (UNESCO collection of representative works ; Japanese series)
Masaoka Shiki
Chushingura
So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish
Nihonjin no shitsumon
Donarudo Kīn
I︠A︡pont︠s︡y otkryvai︠u︡t Evropy, 1720-1830
Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830
Omoide no sakkatachi
Narodziny japońskich tradycji
Nihon bungaku o yomu
Living Japan
Kōenroku, "Nihon bunka to josei"
Nihon no sakka
Tsui saki no utagoe wa
Japanese literature
Nihon bungaku ni okeru nisshi no chii
Koten no tanoshimi
Meiji Tennō
Renaissance Thought and Its Sources
Nippon o kotohogu
Oku no hosomichi to Yamagata
The Old Woman, The Wife, and The Archer
Kīn daiarī
Watashi to 20-seiki no kuronikuru
Sekai no naka no Nihon bunka
Nō, bunraku, kabuki
Nihon no sakka
Living Japan
Modern Japanese Literature
Anthology of Japanese literature
La letteratura giapponese
Modern Japanese poetry
Kaiwa sakubun Eigo hyōgen jiten =
The blue-eyed tarōkaja
Zoku hyakudai no kakaku
The tale of the bamboo cutter
Donarudo Kīn chosakushū
Major Plays of Chikamatsu
The distinctiveness of the Japanese
The Manyoshu
Meeting with Japan
Five Modern Japanese Novelists
Nihon bungaku sanpo
Japanische Literatur
Chronicles of My Life
Nihon bungakushi
Ongaku tono deai to yorokobi
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion
Kono hitosuji ni tsunagarite
Kaiwa sakubun Eigo hyōgen jiten
The Japanese discovery of Europe
Twenty Plays of the Nō Theatre
Anthology of Chinese Literature, from the Fourteenth Century to the Present
Ascending to Manhood
The Tale of the Shining Princess
Anthology of Japanese literature
Living Japan (The Land, The People and Their Changing World)
Nihon no miryoku
Pleasures of Japanese Literature
Chronicles of My Life
Nihonjin no seiyō hakken
Watashi no Nihongo shugyō
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
Iapōnikē logotechnia
Living in two countries
Expatriates of No Country
Modern Japanese literature
Koten no tanoshimi
No - The Classical Theatre of Japan
Modern Japanese novels and the West
Donarudo Kīn no opera e yōkoso!
Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830
No and Bunraku
Un occidental en Japón
Two countries, two homes
Nihon bungaku ni okeru nisshi no chii
Blue-Eyed Tarokaja
Nihonjin no seiyō hakken
Nihonjin no shitsumon
Nihon bungaku wa sekai no kakehashi
Stranniki v vekakh
Bunraku
"Nyūyōku taimuzu" no Donarudo Kīn
Watanabe Kazan
Sukoshi mimi no itaku naru hanashi
Anthology of Japanese Literature
Confessions of a Japanologist
Heroes, old and new
Nihonjin no sensō
Nihon saiken
Mivḥar ha-sipur ha-Yapani
Anthology of Japanese literature to the nineteenth century
Furukushite atarashiki mono
Modern Japanese literature
Nihon o rikaisuru made
Donarudo, Kīn no onban fūshi kaden
Ishikawa Takuboku
Breaking Jewel
Meiji Tennō
Dentō to kojin
Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830
La literatura japonesa
30 things Japanese
Kabuki Today
Essays on Asian theater, music and dance
Kōyū shō
Sekai no Genji monogatari
Japanese literature
Three Plays by Kobo Abe
Anthology of Japanese literature, from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century
Hyakudai no kakaku
From a ruined empire
Nihon no bungaku
Aoi me no Tarō Kaja
Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, a Puppet Play (UNESCO collection of representative works:)
Russell McCormmach
Russell McCormmach (born 1933)

historian, physicist

  • Washington State University, Case Western Reserve University

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Intellectual mastery of nature
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Weighing The World The Reverend John Michell Of Thornhill
Speculative Truth
The Personality of Henry Cavendish Profile of a Historian of Science Archimedes
Historical studies in the physical sciences
The Second Physicist
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 8 (Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences)
Historical studies in the physical sciences
H Study 1970 V2
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Third Annual Volume 1971. Volume 3
HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Power lines
Weighing the World
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 7
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 6
Historical studies in the physical sciences
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 5
Personality of Henry Cavendish - a Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities
Intellectual Mastery of Nature - Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein Vol. 2
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Olalla García
Olalla García (born 1973)

translator, historian

  • University of Alcalá

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Max Gallo
Max Gallo (1932-2017)

politician, historian, biographer, journalist

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La promenade des Anglais
Le pacte des assassins
Napoléon
The Sun of Austerlitz
The Immortal Man of Saint Helena
The Emperor of Kings
Au nom de tous les miens
Histoire de l'Espagne franquiste
Manifesti nella storia e nel costume
De Gaulle
Lettre ouverte à Maximilien Robespierre sur les nouveaux muscadins
Nuit des longs couteaux
Louis XIV
La baie des anges
L' amour de la France expliqué à mon fils
Jules Vallès, ou, La révolte d'une vie
The Song of Departure
Napoléon, tome 3
The Night of the Long Knives
César Imperator
La part de Dieu
Les Patriotes, numéro 2
Morts pour la France
Le Grand Jaurès
Histoire de l'Espagne franquiste
Le jardin des oliviers
Révolution Française
Les rois sans visage
Les Patriotes, tome 2
Romans
Lempereur Des Rois III
Les fanatiques
Jésus, l'homme qui était dieu
Senlik sarayi
Bleu, blanc, rouge
Les Chrétiens, tome 1
Napoléon, tome 4
Manifeste pour une fin de siècle obscure
Les Hommes naissent tous le mêmejour
Les Chrétiens, tome 2
Moi, j'écris pour agir
Italie de Mussolini
Le Soleil Dausterlitz II
France
L' âme de la France
L' Europe contre l'Europe
Sarah (Bleu Blanc Rouge)
De Gaulle, tome 3
Les idées décident de tout
De Gaulle, tome 2
Les Patriotes Tome 3
For Those I Loved
Les Patriotes, tome 1
Une femme rebelle
Les hommes naissent tous le meme jour
Victor Hugo
L'amour au temps des solitudes
Le palais des fêtes
La chambre ardente
Les fanatiques
Jeanne d'Arc
Garibaldi
De Gaulle, tome 4
La Mafia
Les patriotes
Les Chrétiens, tome 3
Et ce futla défaite de 40
La Promenade des Anglais
La croix de l'Occident
La gauche est morte
Victor Hugo
La Beie des Anges
L' Empire
Jè
L' ambitieuse
Les clés de l'histoire contemporaine
Napoléon
L' homme Robespierre
Histoires particulières
Cinquième colonne, 1930-1940
Une affaire intime
Spartacus
Le Condottiere
César impérator
Que sont les siedes pour la mer
Maximilien Robespierre
Dans l'honneur et par la victoire
Melekler körfezi
Le roman des rois
Histoire du monde
Fier d'être Français
Robespierre, histoire d'une solitude.
Rosa Luxemburg. Eine Biographie
Que passe la justice du Roi
Le pouvoir à vif
Le regard des femmes
L'ambitieuse
Le palais des fêtes - tome 2 - relié
César imperator
With the victors
LOUIS XVI
La chambre ardente
Les hommes naissent tous le même jour
Une affaire publique
L' Italie de Mussolini
Une Histoire De LA Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale - T1 1940 De L'Abime A (French Edition)
Révolution française
Historia de la España franquista
Caïn et Abel
I Manifesti nella storia e nel costume
Cinquième colonne
Les Patriotes, tome 4
Baie des anges t1
Le Condottiere
La Cruz De Occidente / the Cross of the West (Alianza Literaria)
Je: Histoire modeste et heroique d'un homme qui croyait aux lendemains qui chantent
L' Italie de Mussolini, vingt ans d'ère fasciste
La nuit des longs couteaux : 29-30 juin 1934
Le cortege des vainqueurs-romanesque
Une histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale
Je serai celui-là
Je suis une force qui va
Les rois sans visage
L' ame de la France
Que sont les siècles pour la mer
De Gaulle, les images d'un destin
Belle époque
La bague magique
Napoléon, tome 2
La cinquieme colonne ... et ce fut la defaite de 40
Le faiseur d'or
Le pont des hommes perdus
Le XXe siècle
Richelieu : La Foi dans la France
BAIE DES ANGES-COFFRET 3VOLS
Les palais des fêtes
Tombeau pour la Commune
Posters in history
1940, de l'abîme à l'espérance
La troisième alliance
Un crime très ordinaire
Robespierre the incorruptible
Dictionnaire amoureux de l'histoire de France
Mariella
L' Affaire d'Éthiopie aux origines de la guerre mondiale
La route Napoléon
Gauchisme, réformisme et révolution
I manifesti
De Gaulle, les images d'un destin
Max Gallo à l'Académie française
Napoleón
LOUIS XVI
Der Schwarze Freitag der SA
L' affiche: miroir de l'histoire, miroir de la vie
Un homme de pouvoir
De Gaulle, les images d'un destin
Et ce fut la défaite de 40
Le pacte des assassins
La femme derrière le miroir
L'oubli est la ruse du diable
Baie des anges t1
L' album de l'empereur
La nuit des longs couteaux
Les chrétiens
La Mafia
Historia de la España franquista
The Night of Long Knifes
Le fascisme italien
Le roman des rois
L'Homme Robespierre
La demeure des puissants
1914, le destin du monde
1940, de l'abîme à l'espérance
Bleu blanc rouge
Dieu le veut
La possession
Que passe la justice du Roi
Cinquie me colonne, 1930-1940
Baie des anges ; le palais des fetes ; la promenade des anglais
Le cortège des vainqueurs
Le feu de l'enfer
Chu zheng hao xiang
Louis XIV
Robespierre the incorruptible
La croix de l'Occident
I Manifesti nella storia e nel costume
Le chant du depart
L'Oiseau des origines
Le beau rivage
Le fils de Klara H
Gauchisme, reformisme et re volution
Na po lun qing shi
La marche noire
Jésus
L'âme de la France
Le chant du départ
Une affaire intime
Un paso hacia el mar
L'amour au temps des solitudes
Titus
Le chaudron des sorcières
Un pas vers la mer
Constantin le Grand
La fontaine des innocents
Spartacus
The night of long knives
Morts pour la France
Crépuscule
Les 100 visages de la Révolution
Mussorīni no jidai
Gauchisme, réformisme et révolution
Fier d'être français
Vita di Mussolini
Caïn et Abel
L' ombre et la nuit
Spartacus
Belle epoque
Robert Henry Vickers
Robert Henry Vickers (1829-1897)

lawyer

  • University of Dublin

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Samwiri Lwanga Lunyiigo
Samwiri Lwanga Lunyiigo

  • Makerere University, University of Ghana

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Georg Ebers
Georg Ebers (1837-1898)

egyptologist, orientalist

  • University of Göttingen, University of Jena

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The Emperor
An Egyptian Princess
The Bride of the Nile
The historical romances of Georg Ebers ...
Uarda
Cleopatra
The Burgomaster's Wife
In the Fire of the Forge
Barbara Blomberg
Serapis
A Word Only A Word
Egyptian Princess
The Sisters
Arachne
Serapis
A Thorny Path
The Sisters
The Egyptian Princess
In the Blue Pike
In the Fire of the Forge
The Burogmaster\'s Wife
Margery
An Egyptian Princess, V1
Homo sum
Eine Frage: Idyll zu einem Gemälde seines Freundes Alma Tadema
Der Kaiser: Roman
The Story of My Life
Aegypten und die Bücher Mose's: Sachlicher Commentar zu den aegyptischen Stellen in Genesis und ..
Eine aegyptische Königstochter: Historischer Roman
Die Schwestern
Papyrus Ebers, Die Maasse und das Kapitel über die Augenkrankheiten
A Word Only a Word
Homo Sum: A Novel
Homo sum
The Emperor
A Question
Joshua: A Story of Biblical Life
Sinnbildliches
Barbara Blomberg
The Burgomaster's Wife: A Romance
Joshua
The burgomaster's wife, tr. by C. Bell
Aegypten in Bild und Wort
Durch Gosen zum Sinai
A thorny path (Per aspera)
Uarda, from the Germ. by C. Bell. Copyright ed
Das wanderbuch
An Egyptian princess
Aegypten und die Bücher Mose's
The historical romances of Georg Ebers ..
An Egyptian princess
Eine aegyptische Königstochter
Per aspera
Duk̲h̲tar-i Firʻūn
Egypt: descriptive, historical, and picturesque
Eine ägyptische Königstochter
The Story Of My Life
Liste der Zeichen der heiligen Schrift
Cicerone durch das alte und neue Aegypten
Richard Lepsius
The Sisters
Josua
Homo Sum
"Sie machen sich keinen Begriff von den Reizen solcher Nilfahrt"
Cicerone durch das alte und neue AEgypten
The story of my life from childhood to manhood
Barbara Blomberg
Richard Lepsius, ein Lebensbild
An Egyptian princess
The emperor
Only a word
Der Kaiser
Pʻarawoni aghjikě
Eine ägyptische Königstochter. Historischer Roman
Eine Aegyptische Königstochter
Arachne Complete
Die Schwestern
Cleopatra Complete
Homo sum
Die hieroglyphischen Schriftzeichen der Ägypter
Eine frage
La Hija del Rey de Egipto II
L' Egitto antico e moderno
The Greylock
Im Schmiedefeuer
Joshua, a story of Biblical times
Serapis Complete
Palästina in Bild und Wort
In the Desert
Joshua, a biblical picture
Die Gred
Die Körpertheile: Ihre Bedeutung und Namen im altägyptischen
The Story of My Life Complete
The Bride of the Nile Complete
Cicerone durch das alte und neue AEgypten
Drei Märchen für Alt und Jung
In the Fire of the Forge Complete
Aegyptiaca
The sisters
In the Blue Pike - Complete
Die Gred: Roman aus dem alten Nürnberg
Word Only a Word, a Complete
Works
Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt
Egypt
Margery Complete
The Complete Short Works of Georg Ebers
Uarda, die Ägypterin. Historischer Roman aus der Zeit Ramses II
Im Schmiedefeuer: Roman aus dem alten Nürnberg
Joshua: a biblical picture; and The Burgomaster's wife, a romance
Aegypten und die bücher Mose's
Egypt, descriptive, historical, and picturesque
An Egyptian Princess Complete
Die Gred
Egypt
Georg Ebers Gesammelte werke
Per aspera, a thorny path
Arachne: Historischer Roman
The Elixir
La Hija del Rey de Egipto I
Die Gred
Homo sum, and Gred of Nuremberg
An Egyptian Princess, V8 & V9
Exodo
Barbara Blomberg Complete
Homo Sum Complete
The historical romances of George Ebers
Lorenz Alma Tadema
Egypt
The Daughter of an Egyptian King
Emperor and Serapis
Homo sum, Roman
An Egyptian princess
The Hidtorical Romances Of Georg Ebers
The Complete Short Works
The elixir, and other tales
Uarda
Homo Sum: Roman
Joshua Complete
Margery. (Gred): A Tale of Old Nuremberg
Eine Aegyptische Königstochter
Lorenz Alma Tadema: His Life and Works, by Georg Ebers ... from the German by Mary J. Safford
In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg
Im blauen Hecht
L' Égypte
Thorny Path, a Complete
The Burgomaster's Wife Complete
The Amazing Marriage
Ein Wort: Roman
The sisters
Margery, Gred
L'Egitto antico e moderno
Uarda
Die hieroglyphischen Schriftzeichen der Aegypter
Uarda
The emperor
Die Gred
Kleopatra: Historischer Roman
Durch Gosen zum Sinai
Papyros Ebers
An Egyptian princess
Die Körpertheile
Slovo
Cicerone durch das alte und neue Aegypten
Der kaiser
The Hellenic portraits from the Fayum at present in the collection of Herr Graf
The sisters
Serapis
Serapis: Historischer Roman/ von Georg Ebers
Rudolf C. Huber
Eine aegyptische Königstochter
Richard Lepsius
An Egyptian princess, an historical novel
Aegyptische studien und verwandtes
An Egyptian princess
Homo Sum: A Novel
Die frau bürgemeisterin
Ein Wort
The sisters
McAlpine's multiple sclerosis
Aegypten in Bild und Wort
Palästina in bild und wort
Cicerone durch das alte und neue Ægypten
L'Égypte
Die Schwestern
Egypt: descriptive, historical, and picturesque
Cicerone durch das alte und neue Aegypten
The emperor
Antike Portraits
The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers
Aegypten und die Bücher Mose's
Der geschnitzte Holzsarg des Hatbastru im aegyptologischen Apparat der Universität zu Leipzig ...
Aegyptische studien und verwandtes
Die schwestern
Eine Frage
Duḵẖtar-i Firʻūn
A Question: The Idyl of a Picture by His Friend Alma Tadema
Homo sum