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George R. Stewart
George R. Stewart (1895-1980)

historian, toponymist

  • Princeton University

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Earth abides
Earth Abides (eBook)
International trade and intellectual property
Entsiḳlopedyah madaʻit la-noʻar
Names on the land
American place-names
American given names
Fire
The California trail
Storm
Names on the globe
The year of the oath
The pioneers go west
Ordeal by hunger
To California by covered wagon
The years of the city
Committee of Vigilance
Not so rich as you think
La tierra permanece
There is the egg-there is the seed-then life gets complicated
Shetland fireside tales
Curiosities of Glasgow citizenship
Bret Harte
We Three: [A Story Of A Revolution After A Failed Democracy
Pickett's charge
Understanding Gender Dysphoria
Take your Bible in one hand
Canada Under the Administration of the Earl of Dufferin
The story of Scottish education
Optical Fibre Amplifiers and Lasers (Optics and Optoelectronics)
Understanding Mental Illness (Understanding)
U.S. 40; cross section of the United States of America
N.A. 1: The North-South Continental Highway
Reflections, moral and political. ..
John Phoenix, Esq., the veritable Squibob
The technique of English verse
The parent's success guide to baby names
Stevenson in California
Sheep rock
Dangerousness
The technique of English verse
Donner Pass and those who crossed it
Men's names in Plymouth and Massachusetts in the seventeenth century
American ways of life
Apple Programme Factory
The Macintosh Program Factory
Fraudulent conveyances and preferences
Leben ohne Ende/Störfaktor - Zwei SF-Romane in einem Band
Man: an autobiography
Commodore 64 Programme Factory
Doctor's oral
Storm
Ordeal By Hunger
A visit to California in 1841
The technique of English verse
Opening of the California Trail
Names of the Land
U.S. 40; cross section of the United States of America
The Ladies' and Gentlemen's Etiquette
East of the giants
Man - An Autobiography by George R. Stewart
The years of the city
A bibliography of the writings of Bret Harte in the magazines and newspapers of California, 1857-1871
A concise dictionary of American place-names
Good lives
Man
Good Lives
Looking north, looking south
East of the Giants
John Phoenix Esq
This California
Donner Pass and those who crossed it
Storm
Bret Harte, argonaut and exile,
Committee of vigilance; Revolution in San francisco, 1851
A bibliography of the writings of Bret Harte in the magazines and newspapers of California, 1857-1871
Ordeal by Hunger
A little of myself
Earth Abides (Ace Star Book No. K-154)
Sheep Rock
American ways of life
Fire,
Ordeal by Hunger
Not so rich as you think
Pickett's charge
Opening of the California Trail
Modern metrical technique as illustrated by ballad meter (1700-1920)
Evenings in the library
A Visit to California in 1841
Ada Palmer
Ada Palmer (born 1981)

historian

  • Harvard University, Bryn Mawr College

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Seven Surrenders
The Will to Battle
Too Like the Lightning
Perhaps the Stars
Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance
Sundown
Trace Elements
Kaybolan Simsek Gibi
Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway (born 1944)

philosopher, sociologist, historian, biologist

  • Yale University, Colorado College

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Simians, cyborgs, and women
Modest₋Witness@Second₋Millennium.FemaleMan₋Meets₋OncoMouse
The Haraway reader
How like a leaf
Primate visions
Crystals, fabrics, and fields
Monströse Versprechen
Ciencia Cyborgs y Mujeres
When species meet
A Cyborg Manifesto
Concrete Jungle
Saibōgu feminizumu
Arkady Martine
Arkady Martine (born 1985)

historian, urban planner, adviser, opinion journalist

  • University of Chicago, University of Oxford

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A Memory Called Empire
A Desolation Called Peace
The Mythic Dream
Memory Called Empire and a Desolation Called Peace
An Alphabet of Embers
Rose/House
Luna Station Quarterly Issue 033
Reckoning 4
Desolation Called Peace Sneak Peek
Gennady Gor
Gennady Gor (1907-1981)

poet, art historian

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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
Fletcher Pratt
Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956)

translator, historian

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Assignment in Tomorrow
Land of unreason
The great science fiction series
World of Wonder
The incomplete enchanter
Double jeopardy
Well of the Unicorn, The
Double in space
Expedition to Pluto
The Blue Star
The Long View
The undying fire
Tales from Gavagan's bar
Invaders from Rigel
What the citizen should know about modern war
America and total war
America and total war
The compleat enchanter
War for the world
The Monitor and the Merrimac
A Short History of the Civil War
Rockets, jets, guided missiles and space ships
The battles that changed history
Science Fiction Gems, Volume Fourteen
Civil War in pictures
Profile by Gaslight
A short history of the Civil War
The carnelian cube
Night work: the story of Task force 39
Stanton: Lincoln's Secretary of War
The Blue Star
Eleven generals
All about famous inventors and their inventions.
The Civil War
Enchanter Compleated
Wall of serpents
Amazing Stories - Vol. 3 No. 2
Civil War on western waters
Tales from Gavagan's Bar
Intrepid Enchanter
A man and his meals
Startling Stories
Secret and urgent
The Incompleat Enchanter
Eleven generals
The U.S. Army
The heroic years
All about rockets and jets
Ordeal by fire
The Incomplete Enchanter (Pyramid SF, G530)
The battles that changed history
The compact history of the United States Navy
Road to empire
Preble's boys
The Onslaught From Rigel
The Navy has wings
Famous inventors and their inventions
La reconquête du Pacifique par les "marines" américains, 1943-1945
The Marines' war
The navy
The Navy
The Battles That Changed History
Fighting ships of the U. S. navy
The Empire and the glory
All about rockets and jets
The Navy's war
The navy, a history
Famous inventors and their inventions
Well of the Unicorn
Hail, Ceasar!
Well of the Unicorn
Wonder Stories Quarterly, Winter 1932
The third king
The Conditioned Captain
Fletcher Pratt's naval war game
All about famous inventors and their inventions
Onslaught Form Rigel
Wonder Stories Super Pack
Fleet against Japan
The U.S. Army
A short history of the army and navy
Invaders from rigel
Short History of the Civil War
Empire and the sea
City of the Living Dead
The Complete Enchanter; The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea
Front de mer, Pacifique: 1941-1942
Ordeal by Fire
The Well of the Unicorn
The Well of the Unicorn
Sea power and today's war
The Monarch of Mars & The Onslaught from Rigel
Onslaught from Rigel
Civil War In Pictures
Octopus Cycle
Hail Caesar!
A short history of the Civil War
Preble's Boys; Commodore Preble And The Birth Of American Sea Power
Land of unreason
Hail, Caesar!
The Well of the Unicorn
The Civil War (No. 05402)
The battle that changed history
Blue Sky
Civil War in pictures
Mah atah yodeʻa ʻal
W. Michael Gear
W. Michael Gear (born 1955)

anthropologist, archaeologist, historian

  • Colorado State University

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The way of Spider
The Artifact (Daw Book Collectors)
The Way of Spider (Spider Trilogy, No. 2)
The web of spider
Starstrike
Alpha Enigma
Dissolution
The warriors of spider
Fourth Quadrant : The Wyoming Chronicles
After The Eagle Has Fallen : The Wyoming Chronicles
People of the Weeping Eye (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Fifteen)
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, Book One)
People of the Sea (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Five)
The Visitant
People of the Silence (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Eight)
People of the Moon (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Thirteen)
People of the Lakes (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Six)
People of the River (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Four)
People of the Fire (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Two)
People of the Lightning (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Seven)
People of the Nightland (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Fourteen)
People of the raven
People of the Thunder (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Sixteen)
People of the Mist (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Nine)
People of the Earth (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Three)
People of the Owl (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Eleven)
People of the Longhouse (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Seventeen)
The warriors of spider
Coming of the Storm (Contact - The Battle for America #1)
People of the Morning Star: A People of Cahokia Novel (Book One of the Morning Star Series) (North America's Forgotten Past 21)
Coming of the Storm (Contact - The Battle for America #1)
Coming of the Storm (Contact - The Battle for America #1)
Coming of the Storm : Book One of Contact
People of the songtrail
People of the Thunder
People of the Mist
People of the Sea
People of the Masks North Americas Forgotten Past
Moon Hunt
People of the Lightning
The Broken Land
People of the Black Sun
Moon Hunt: A People of Cahokia Novel (Book Three of the Morning Star Series) (North America's Forgotten Past)
People of the Earth
People of the Morning Star
People of the Weeping Eye
Sun Born: A People of Cahokia Novel (Book Two of the Morning Star Series) (North America's Forgotten Past)
People of the Canyons
Moon Hunt
The Foundation
Sun Born: A People of Cahokia Novel (Book Two of the Morning Star Series) (North America's Forgotten Past)
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past)
People of the Longhouse: A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past
Star Path
People of the River
Unreconciled
Children of the Dawnland
Broken Land
People of the Longhouse
People of the Sea
Dark inheritance
People of the Lakes
Sun born
People of the Songtrail
Copper Falcon
Fire the Sky Bk. 2 : Book Two of Contact
Vikings in North America
People of the Fire: A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past
People of the River: A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past
Raising Abel
People of the Sea
Flight Of The Hawk : The Plains
People of the Earth
People of the Fire
Star Path
People of the Weeping Eye
Dawn Country
Novels of North America's Forgotten Past
People of the Moon
People of the Weeping Eye
It Sleeps in Me
Summoning God
People of the Nightland
People of the Masks
People of the Nightland
Betrayal : The Lost Life of Jesus
People of the Longhouse
People of the Wolf
People of the Mist
Lightning Shell
Dead Man's Doll
Implacable Alpha
People of the Wolf
Broken Land
Fracture Event
Fire the Sky : Book Two of Contact
Big Horn Legacy
People of the Songtrail
Bone Walker
People of the Thunder
People of the Lakes
Coyote Summer
This Scorched Earth
Visitant
Dark Inheritance
Outpost
People of the Silence
This scorched earth
People of the Lightning
People of the Thunder
Children of the Dawnland
People of the Earth
People of the Morning Star
Coming of the storm
People of the Owl
The Betrayal : The Lost Life of Jesus
Reckoning
Panther's Scream
Panther's Scream : Saga of the Mountain Sage, Book Three
Coyote Summer
Morning River : Saga of the Mountain Sage, Book One
Morning River
People of the Moon
Unreconciled
People of the Raven
Abandoned
Athena's Wrath
Coyote Summer
Coyote Summer : Saga of the Mountain Sage, Book Four
Implacable Alpha
White Mist Dog : Saga of the Mountain Sage, Book Two
La tribu de la tierra
Broken Land
Athena Unleashed
Summoning God
Spinnenfa den
Children of the Dawnland
Long Ride Home
Adrift
People of the Longhouse
Spinnen-Krieger
Pariah
Abandoned
Long Ride Home
Big Horn Legacy
Morning River
Flight of the Hawk
Athena Factor
Flight of the Hawk
Dusk Country
Pariah
Genesis Athena
Dawn Country