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Robert Conquest
Robert Conquest (1917-2015)

historian, poet, editor

  • University of Oxford, Winchester College

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A world of difference
Spectrum 5
The great terror
The harvest of sorrow
The politics of ideas in the U.S.S.R
Stalin
Justice and the legal system in the U.S.S.R
Kolyma
The great terror; Stalin's purge of the thirties
Inside Stalin's secret police
The Gulag collection
Poems
Blokelore and Blokesongs
Russia after Khrushchev
Religion in the U.S.S.R
The Soviet political system
Present danger
Common sense about Russia
New lines
The Dragons of Expectation
Agricultural workers in the U.S.S.R
The Soviet police system
Tyrants and Typewriters
The Man-made famine in Ukraine
Soviet nationalities policy in practice
Power and policy in the U.S.S.R
The Last Empire
Dragons of Expectation
Stalin and the Kirov murder
Flawed Succession
Arias from a love opera
Industrial workers in the U.S.S.R
The nation killers
Where Marx went wrong
The abomination of Moab
New lines-II
Marxism to-day
The human cost of Soviet communism
Forays
History, humanity, and truth
The Pasternak affair
Lenin
Back to life
Great Terror, the
Between Mars and Venus
The nation killers
New lines
Justice and the legal system in the U.S.S.R.
Industrial workers in the U.S.S.R.
The politics of ideas in the U. S. S. R.
Where do Marxists go from here?
The Soviet deportation of nationalities
We & they
The great terror
Courage of genius
Power and policy in the U. S. S. R.
Spectrum : No. 1
Spectrum
Arias from a love opera, and other poems
Soviet nationalities policy in practice
Spectrum
Russia after Khrushchev
The Soviet deportation of nationalities
Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk (1918-1994)

political scientist, philosopher, literary critic, historian, journalist, peace activist

  • University of St Andrews, Duke University

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The Color of Evil
Ghosts
The American cause
The conservative mind, from Burke to Santayana
The Essential Russell Kirk
Beyond the dreams of avarice
The roots of American order
The Portable conservative reader
The conservative mind : from Burke to Eliot / Russell Kirk
Enemies of the Permanent Things: Observations of Abnormity in Literature and Politics
Objections to conservatism
The Dark Descent
Dark Forces
The Surly Sullen Bell
Eliot and His Age
Academic freedom
The Sword of Imagination
Old House of Fear
Lord of the hollow dark
Edmund Burke
A program for conservatives
Ancestral shadows
The Politics of Prudence
America's British culture
John Randolph of Roanoke
The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2
The political principles of Robert A. Taft
Decadence and Renewal in the Higher Learning
The princess of all lands
Watchers at the strait gate
Redeeming the Time
The wise men know what wicked things are written on the sky
Prospects for conservatives
The intemperate professor
The conservative Constitution
The Assault on religion
Rights and duties
Economics
Gateway to the Stoics
St. Andrews
What Shadows We Pursue
A creature of the twilight: his memorials
Randolph of Roanoke
Confessions of a bohemian Tory
The intelligent woman's guide to conservatism
Orestes Brownson
What Is Conservatism?
Fiction # 169
Off the Sand Road
Modern age
Lord Acton on revolution
保守主义思想
Muhafazakar Anlayış
Collected Letters of John Randolph to Dr. John Brockenbrough
Government's role in solving societal problems
Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism
Theodore Roscoe
Theodore Roscoe (1906-1992)

historian, biographer

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Z Is for Zombie (Starmont Facsimile Fiction Ser. : No. 2)
Theodore Roscoe's Z is for zombie
Seven men
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
Only in New England
True tales of bold escapes
This is your Navy
The Trent Affair, November, 1861: U.S. detainment of a British ship nearly brings war with England
Toughest in the legion
The Lincoln assassination, April 14, 1865
United States submarine operations in World War II
Pig boats
Picture history of the U.S. Navy
The web of conspiracy
United States destroyer operations in World War II
To live and die in Dixie
Pig Boats
DANGER TRAIL, THE - 08/28
Wonderful Lips of Thibong Linh
On the seas and in the skies
Theodore Roscoe's A grave must be deep
Murder on the way!
Poems by Contemporary Women
The web of conspiracy
Pig boats
Pig boats
United States Destroyer/United States Submarine Operations
I'll grind their bones
Ronald Wright
Ronald Wright (born 1948)

historian

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A scientific romance
A scientific romance
A short history of progress
Stolen continents
Time among the Maya
Criminal procedures
Henderson's spear
On Fiji Islands
Cut Stones and Crossroads
Empire States
The gold eaters
An Illustrated Short History of Progress
Condition critical
Breve Historia Del Progreso/ Brief History of Progress
Lonely Planet Quechua
Home And Away
What is America?
Quechua phrasebook
A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright Massey Lectures
What Did God Say?
Time Among the Maya Travels In Belize Gu
La fin du progrès?
Brève histoire du progrès
Chronique des jours à venir
Stolen Continents - The "New World" through Indian Eyes
Karin Priester
Karin Priester (1941-2020)

historian

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Mary Shelley
Geschichte der Langobarden
Mary Wollstonecraft
Der italienische Faschismus
Rassismus
Rassismus und kulturelle Differenz
Studien zur Staatstheorie des italienischen Marxismus
Mythos Tod
Hat der Eurokommunismus eine Zukunft?
Anna Banti
Anna Banti (1895-1985)

translator, art historian, publisher, biographer

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The signorina and other stories
Artemisia
Grido lacerante
Artemisia
La signorina e altri racconti
Noi credevamo
Artemisia (European Women Writers)
Lettere ad Alberto Arbasino
Lavinia fuggita
Matilde Serao
Zum Fürchten schön und tüchtig - Artemisia
Allarme sul lago
Artemisia (Second Edition) (European Women Writers)
Noi credevamo
Da un paese vicino
Le donne muoiono
Le donne muoiono
La camicia bruciata
Il coraggio delle donne
Sette lune
La monaca di Sciangai
Campi Elisi
Giovanni da San Giovanni
Due storie
La casa piccola
Le mosche d'oto
Corte Savella
Le monache cantano [di] Anna Banti
Le monache cantano
Le Mosche d'oro
Opinioni
La monaca di Sciangai [di] Anna Banti
Je vous écris d'un pays lointain
La casa piccola, romanzo
Un grido lacerante
Matilde Serao [di] Anna Banti
Quando anche le donne si misero a dipingere
Il coraggio delle donne, di Anna Banti
Il bastardo
Lorenzo Lotto
Cinema
Campi Elisi; racconti [di] Anna Banti
Campi Elisi
Il bastardo
Matilde Serao
Le donne muoiono
Le Mosche d'oro
Allarme sul lago
Tomas M. Milich
Tomas M. Milich (born 1932)

physicist, astronomer, astrophysicist, historian, faculty member, political activist, lecturer, lawyer

  • Cornell University, New York University

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A view from the year 3000
The 100
The 100
Extraterrestrials Where Are They?
Understanding human history
The One Hundred: The 100
Extraterrestrials--where are they?
Big-time baseball
100 Maiores Personalidades da Historia (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Preserving western civilization
En Etkin 100
Dünyaya Yön Veren En Etkin 100
Puzzles and Paradoxes
Extraterrestrials
The 100. A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
Virginia DeMarce
Virginia DeMarce (born 1940)

historian, genealogist

  • Stanford University

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1635
Carter of Deerfield, Mass., and Norwalk, Conn., Chartier of Quebec Province, Canada, and New York
1635
The settlement of former German auxiliary troops in Canada after the American Revolution
Mercenary troops from Anhalt-Zerbst, Germany, who served with the British forces during the American Revolution
Canadian participants in the American Revolution
The family and ancestry of Hermann Joseph Jongebloed and his wife Marie Emma Zuhlke in Germany and America
Data on Demers/Dumais families in Québec, 1648-1835
1635
A tentative outline of U.S. Easley lines primarily to the year 1800
Baptisms and burials
Supplement to A tentative outline of U.S. Easley lines primarily to the year 1800
An annotated list of 317 former German soldiers who chose to remain in Canada after the American Revolution
Now living in Boone County, Missouri
Sorting out the family of Edward Graham and Green Graham of Warren and Allen counties, Kentucky
Clues to the ancestry of Solomon Mace of Boone Co., Mo., the Mase/Mace family of Ralls and Pike Cos., Mo., the Mase/Mace family of Bourbon and Bath Cos. Ky., the Mace family of Hampshire/Hardy Cos., Va/W.V. Preliminary draft
The French-Canadian settlement in Waterville Township, Pepin Co., Wisconsin
Notebook, French-Canadian settlement in the Champlain Islands, Grand Isle County, Vermont before the year 1880