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William F. Nolan
William F. Nolan (1928-2021)

biographer

  • Kansas City Art Institute

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100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
The End of the World -- stories of the apocalypse
Microcosmic Tales
One Hundred
Science Fiction A to Z
The Bradbury Chronicles
The Ray Bradbury companion
Helltracks
Logan's run
The work of Charles Beaumont
Wild Galaxy
Logan
Logan's Run
Logan
Logan's search
Impact 20
A wilderness of stars
Logan's Run
The pseudo-people
The Human Equation: Four Science Fiction Novels of Tomorrow
A wilderness of stars
Ray Bradbury review
Man against tomorrow
These Will Chill You
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
Scary!
Modern Masters of Horror
Darker masques
John Huston, king rebel
The Black mask boys
Hammett
Barney Oldfield
The marble orchard
Steve McQueen: star on wheels
The Last Man on Earth
The Black mask murders
How to write horror fiction
McQueen
Sharks never sleep
Nightworlds
Horrors
Urban horrors
Logan's Run
Nightshadows
Hemingway, last days of the lion
Down the long night
nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre
Raymond Chandler in the Marble Orchard (A Black Mask Boys Mystery)
Carnival of speed
Phil Hill, Yankee Champion
William F. Nolan's Dark Universe
Dark universe
Logan's world
Have You Seen the Wind?
Ill Met by Moonlight
Hammett
Let's get creative!
Things beyond midnight
Ships in the night, and other Stories
Death is for losers
Death Drive
Logan's World (Logan Series, Book 2) (Logan Series, 2nd Book)
A Sea Of Space
Max Brand Western Giant the Life and Times of Frederick Schiller Faust
Legacies
Logan's Search (Logan Series, 3rd Book)
Sharks Never Sleep
Men of thunder
Dashiell Hammett
Max Brand: Western Giant
Ships in the Night and Other Stories
Phil Hill
The Black Mask Boys
Ships in the Night
McQueen
3 for space
When engines roar
Logan's World
Steve McQueen
Phil Hill: Yankee champion
Things Beyond Midnight
The white Cad cross-up
Wonderworlds
John Huston
The Black Mask Boys
Legends and Lovers
Max Brand, western giant
Alien horizons
Nightshadows
Legends and lovers
A WILDERNESS OF STARS
Alien Horizons
Wonderworlds
Logan's Search
Makkuīn
A wilderness of stars
B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)

psychologist, philosopher, inventor, ethologist, autobiographer

  • Harvard University, Hamilton College

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B. F. Skinner papers
Cumulative record
Reflections on behaviorism and society
The technology of teaching
Science And Human Behavior
Verbal behavior
A matter of consequences
Pa.delà la liberté et la dignité
About behaviourism
Skinner for the classroom
Particulars of My Life (B.F. Skinner's Autobiography, Pt 1)
How to enjoy your old age
Contingencies of reinforcement
Notebooks
The behavior of organisms, an experimental analysis
B.F. Skinner's Walden 2
Are theories of learning necessary?
The Shaping of a Behaviorist (B.F. Skinner's Autobiography, Pt 2)
Schedules of reinforcement
El Analisis De La Conducta
Recent issues in the analysis of behavior
Upon further reflection
Disfrutar la vejez
Handwriting with Write and see
Sobre el conductismo
A digest of decisions of the Anthracite board of conciliation
Science and human behaviour
Reflections on behaviorism and society
Control of Human Behavior
La Révolution scientifique de l'enseignement
Development of methods of preparing materials for teaching machines. --
Notebooks
Cumulative record
Undervisningsteknologi
B F. Skinner
Har vi raad til frihed?
Verbal Behavior
Jenseits von Freiheit und Würde
Compassion and ethics in the care of the retardate (chap.19)
A matter of consequence
About behaviorism
Biheviyorizem
Ke xue yu ren lei xing wei
Il comportamento verbale
Beyond freedom and dignity
How to Teach Animals
Margaret Wander Bonanno
Margaret Wander Bonanno (1950-2021)

biographer

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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (born 1930)

air force officer, fighter pilot, astronaut, autobiographer, engineer, businessperson

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Military Academy

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The return
Encounter with Tiber
Return
Welcome to Mars
Magnificent Desolation
No dream is too high
First on the moon
Reaching for the Moon
Mission to Mars
Men from earth
Guinness World Records 2017
Look to the stars
Return to earth
Reaching for the Moon
Buzz Aldrin Reaching for the Moon
Return to earth
Return to Earth
Paper astronaut
Men From Earth
Return to Earth
Space Atlas
The Everyday Space Traveler Discover 9 Lifeaffirming Insights Into The Wonders Of Inner And Outer Space
To the Moon and Back
Men from Earth-19.95
The Wright Stuff
Men from Earth
Investing in Our Future
Galileo for Kids
Space 2.0 Lib/E
Guinness Dünya Rekorlar Kitabi 2017
Die Rückkehr.
NASA
Space Encyclopedia
Space 2. 0
Beyond Flagpoles and Footprints
Return to Earth
Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon (1931-2023)

activist, autobiographer, opinion journalist, journalist

  • University of St Andrews

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Darcy's utopia
Rhode Island blues
Big girls don't cry
The heart of the country
Mantrapped
Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide
Auto da Fay
A Hard Time to Be a Father
The president's child
Splitting (Weldon, Fay)
Leader of the band
Watching me, watching you
Trouble
Worst Fears (Weldon, Fay)
She May Not Leave
What makes women happy
The Spa Decameron
The new countess
Praxis
The stepmother's diary
Before the war
Growing rich
Big Women
The Pocket Canons Bible
Long live the king
Die Teufelin. Großdruck. Roman
Moon Over Minneapolis
Puffball
The fat woman's joke
Godless in Eden
Habits of the house
The Shrapnel Academy; A Night of Disaster
Rebecca West
Heat Haze
Kehua
The Rules of Life
Down Among the Women (Cassandra Editions)
Polaris and other stories
Words of advice
The Bulgari Connection (Weldon, Fay)
Little Sisters
Chalcot Crescent
Remember Me
Angel, all innocence, and other stories
Der Mann ohne Augen. Stories
MADAME BOVARY: BREAKFAST WITH EMMA: FROM THE NOVEL BY GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Herzenswünsche
Die Klone der Joanna May. Roman
The Wife's Revenge and Other Stories
Wicked Women (Weldon, Fay)
Sacred cows
Life Force 8-copy
Affliction
Letters to Alice On First Reading Jane A
Leven En Liefdes Van Een Duivelin
Corinthians
Naked Graffiti
Party Puddle
Wolf the Mechanical Dog
Madame Bovary
Bram Stoker's Dracula Omnibus
Spaltungen
Beste Feindinnen
DE HARTEN EN LEVENS VAN MANNEN
Copies conformes
Action replay
The reading group
I love my love
THE CLONING OF JOANNA MAY; AFFLICTION
Trio in Twinsets
How to Be a Writer: The Definitive Guide to Getting Published and Making a Living from Writing
Miss Felicitys kleine Geheimnisse
Flood warning
AFFLICTION/THE CLONING OF JOANNA MAY
The Pilgrims Progress
Female Friends (Pavanne Books)
Wicked Women / the Cloning of Joanna
Mischief
After the Peace
Vida Y Amores De Una Maligna
Kerstverhalen
The Hole In The Top Of The World
FLOOD WARNING
The day the world began
A question of timing
Simple Steps to Public Life
Strange Days Indeed Weldon
Best Radio Plays of 1978
Greenfinger Fay Weldon
Devil in the Flesh
Vier starke Frauen
Death of a She Devil
The Bottom Line andthe Sharp End:&Other Stories
The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
La diable
Podrugi
Grote vrouwen
... and the wife ran away
Vier starke Frauen
Birthday
...and the wife ran away.
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
Przyjaciolki
Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
Sacred Cows
Tatil Itiraflari
Ted Dreams
Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
Heart of the Country and the Rules of Life
Herzenswunsche
Majo to yobarete
Collected Novels Volume Three
Salt on My Skin
Collected Novels Volume One
Collected Novels Volume Two
The Fat Woman's Joke. (Lernmaterialien)
Fay Weldon Omnibus
Remember Me
3 Great Historical Novels
House Divided
Holy Stones
Watching Me, Watching You
Why Will No-One Publish My Novel?
Nobody Likes Me
New stories
Love and Inheritance Trilogy
Julian May
Julian May (1931-2017)

biographer

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The golden torc
THE MANY-COLORED LAND
A Pliocene companion
Jack the Bodiless
Intervention
The nonborn king
Conqueror's moon
Isaac Asimov Presents Great Science Fiction #13 (1951)
Perseus Spur
Sagittarius whorl
Magnificat
Conqueror's Moon (Boreal Moon)
Sky Trillium
ORION ARM (RAMPART WORLDS S.)
Diamond Mask
The Nonborn King
Orion Arm: The Rampart Worlds
Ironcrown moon
Sagittarius Whorl
Orion Arm (Rampart Worlds)
Orion Arm (The Rampart Worlds: Book 2)
The adversary
Conqueror's Moon (The Boreal Moon Tale)
The Manycoloured Land
Golden Torc Saga of the Exiles
The many coloured land
Orion arm
The Adversary Saga of the Exiles
The living blanket on the land
Black Trillium
Show me the world of electronics
Why people are different colors
The Denver Broncos
The New York Jets
The Green Bay Packers
The masters tournament of golf
Alligator hole
Frank Robinson
The Dallas Cowboys
The Minnesota Vikings
Metaconcert
The Super Bowl
The Baltimore Colts
The San Diego Chargers
America's Cup yacht race
Sea Otter
The Miami Dolphins
Islands of the tiny deer
The U.S. Open golf championship
Blood trillium
Do you have your father's nose?
The World Series
The New York Giants
Die Zauberin von Ruwenda
Amelia Earhart: pioneer of aviation
Bobby Hull, hockey's golden jet
Jim Brown runs with the ball
The San Francisco 49ers
The cloud book
How the animals came to North America
Matthew Henson, co-discoverer of the North Pole
Why plants are green instead of pink
Willie Mays, most valuable player
The Arctic ... top of the world
The Oakland Raiders
Sojourner Truth: freedom-fighter
The N.B.A. playoffs, baske[t]ball's classic
Los Angeles Rams
Glacier Grizzly
The life cycle of a snapping turtle
Giant condor of California
Hillary and Tenzing
The Adversary
The Antarctic: bottom of the world
Quanah, leader of the Comanche
Eagles of the valley
Captain Cousteau, undersea explorer
The Pittsburgh Steelers
Cascade cougar
Deserts, hot and cold
A. J. Foyt
Wimbledon
The Indianapolis 500
The winter Olympics
Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux
The life cycle of a cottontail rabbit
Before the Indians
The life cycle of a raccoon
The life cycle of a monarch butterfly
Snowfall!
Gale Sayers, star running back
Sea Lion Island
Boxing's heavyweight championship fight
Forest Hills & The American tennis championship
The prairie has an endless sky
Chris Evert
The PGA championship tournament
Mickey Mantle slugs it out
The Stanley Cup playoffs
A new baby comes
The Olympic games
The Surveillance
Vince Lombardi
Muhammad Ali, boxing superstar
The Rose Bowl
O. J. Simpson
Wild turkeys
Bobby Orr, star on ice
Forests that change color
Thor Heyerdahl; modern Viking adventurer
The Kentucky Derby
Johnny Unitas and the long pass
Plankton; drifting life of the waters
Adversary
Prairie pronghorn
Living things and their young
The Many-coloured Land
The Triple Crown
Millions of years of eggs
Hank Aaron clinches the pennant
Roberto Clemente and the world series upset
The land is disappearing
Evel Knievel, daredevil stuntman
The life cycle of a Polyphemus moth
The metaconcert
The Washington Redskins
Horses; how they came to be
What will the weather be?
The Daytona 500
The life cycle of a red fox
Billie Jean King, tennis champion
Diamond Mask
Fran Tarkenton, scrambling quarterback
There's adventure in atomic energy
Joe Namath, high-flying quarterback
The Grand Prix
Ernie Banks, home run slugger
Magnificat
Lee Trevino, the golf explosion
Cactus fox
Show me the world of modern airplanes
Phil Esposito, the big Bruin
How to build a body
There's adventure in rockets
The land beneath the sea
The mysterious evergreen forest
The Kansas City Chiefs
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, cage superstar
Blue River
The warm-blooded dinosaurs
Sorcerer's Moon (Boreal Moon Tale Series)
Wildlife in the city
Sorcerer's moon
The Golden Torc
Man and woman
Nonborn King
Bobby Clarke
Tiger stripes and zebra stripes
Rainbows, clouds, and foggy dew
Arthur Ashe, dark star of tennis
Show me the world of astronomy
Show me the world of space travel
Rockets
THE NONBORN KING
The life cycle of an opossum
Pelé, world soccer star
The life cycle of a bullfrog
Brede's tale
The big island
The Baltimore Colts (Superbowl Champions)
Saga of the Pliocene #03
Why birds migrate
There's adventure in jet aircraft
The Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL today)
The Pittsburgh Steelers, Super Bowl champions
Why the earth quakes
They turned to stone
L'éperon de Persée
Sorcerer's Moon (The Boreal Moon Tale)
Dodos and dinosaurs are extinct
The first men
Roy Campanella, Brave Man of Baseball
Evonne Goolagong
The Earliest Memory
Der Sporn des Perseus
Die Nebel des Sagittarius
Janet Lynn, figure skating star
Weather
The Cincinnati Bengals
The first living things
Magnificat (Galactic Milieu Trilogy, No 3)
The first horses
Les trois amazones
Climate
Baltimore Colts (NFL Today)
La saga des exilés. 2, Les conquérants du pliocène
Astronautics
The Dallas Cowboys
They lived in the ice age
Die Schulter des Orion
Saga of the Pliocene #02
Moving hills of sand
How we are born
Roy Campanella, brave man of baseball
These islands are alive
the first living things
La saga des exilés. 3, Le torque d'or
The Stanley Cup Play Offs (Sports Classic)
The Life Cycle of a Monarch / Book, Chart, & Cards (Creative Education Mini Book)
The nonborn king ; The adversary
Man and Woman
The Saga of Pliocene Exile
There's adventure in chemistry
Saga Pliocene #04 the Adversary
The non born King
the mysterious evergreen forest
You and the earth beneath us
There's adventure in geology
Het veelkleurig land 2: De gouden halsring
P G A Championship Tournament (Sports classic)
The differentiation of the urbanization process under apartheid
The many-colored land ; The golden torc
Forest Hills and the American Tennis Championship
The real book of robots and thinking machines
Robots and Thinking Machines
There's adventure in marine science
There's adventure in electronics
De gouden halsring
Het land der Zieners
The non born King
De tegenstrever
Françoise d'Eaubonne
Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920-2005)

biographer, militant, essayist

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George Tucker
George Tucker (1775-1861)

politician, economist, lawyer, historian, biographer

  • College of William & Mary

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A Voyage to the Moon
Progress of the United States in population and wealth in fifty years
Political economy for the people
The theory of money and banks investigated
Defence of the character of Thomas Jefferson
Valley of Shenandoah or Memoirs of the Graysons (Chapel Hill Books)
The history of the United States, from their colonization to the end of the Twenty-sixth Congress, in 1841
The life of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
The Valley of Shenandoah
A century hence
The Life Of Thomas Jefferson, Third President Of The United States V1
Speech of Mr. Tucker, of Virginia on the Restriction of Slavery in Missouri
Progress of the United States in Population and Wealth in Fity Years
A Voyage to the Moon
The History of the United States
The Life of Thomas Jefferson
The Life Of Thomas Jefferson, Third President Of The United States V2
A letter to a member of the General Assembly of North Carolina
The theory of money & banks investigated (1839) With the article "National debts" (1815) and an introductory essay, "George Tucker and economic growth"
Progress of the United States in population and wealth in fifty years, as exhibited by the decennial census
The history of the United States
Essays on Subjects of Taste, Morrals and National Policy
The laws of wages
The valley of the Shenandoah
Letters from Virginia
The theory of money & banks investigated (1839)
Autobiography of George Tucker, 1775-1861
To the freeholders of the counties of Campbell, Pittsylvania and Halifax
The life and philosophy of George Tucker
The valley of Shenandoah, or, Memoirs of the Graysons
To James Madison, fourth president of the United States. Sir, your long intimacy with Mr. Jefferson, your accordance with him in the principles of civil government ... In submitting to you the biography of that friend ..
The laws of wages, profits, and rent, investigated
Speech of Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, on the restriction of slavery in Missouri
Speech of Hon. Henry St. George Tucker
Essays
The valley of Shenandoah
Essays on various subjects of taste, morals, and national policy
Memoir of the life and character of John P. Emmet, M. D., professor of chemistry and materia medica in the University of Virginia
The theory of money and banks investigated
A discourse on the progress of philosophy and its influence on the intellectual and moral character of man
A voyage to the moon
Letters from Virginia
Speech of Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, on the restriction of slavery in Missouri
To the freeholders of the counties of Campbell, Pittsylvania and Halifax ...
The history of the United States
Political economy for the people
Progress of the United States in population and wealth in fifty years, as exhibited by the decennial census from 1790 to 1840