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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
Hank Green
Hank Green (born 1980)

YouTuber, podcaster, businessperson, teacher, inventor, environmentalist, television producer, science communicator, blogger, entrepreneur, singer, comedian

  • Eckerd College, University of Montana

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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back - From a Certain Point of View
From a Certain Point of View
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Esto te va a sorprender
Esto te va a sorprender
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

architect, inventor, diarist, scientist, poet, artist, visual artist, engineer, philosopher, designer, mathematician

  • Harvard University, Bates College

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Nine chains to the moon
Intuition
Approaching the benign environment
Fuller's earth
Comprehensive thinking
Approaching the benign environment [by] R. Buckminster Fuller, Eric A. Walker [and] James R. Killian, Jr. Pref. by Taylor Littleton
Pound, synergy, and the great design
50 years of the design science revolution and the World Game
Science fact/fiction
Critical path
Operating manual for spaceship earth
Synergetics
Earth, Inc.
Your private sky
Inventions
Humans in universe
Education automation
R. Buckminster Fuller on education
Buckminster Fuller
Synergetics 2
American Earth
The Complete Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller
Guinea Pig B
Grunch of giants
Ideas and integrities
Tetrascroll
And it came to pass--not to stay
Untitled poem on the history of industrialization
The Buckminster Fuller reader
I seem to be a verb
Naga
Utopia Or Oblivion
Utopia or oblivion: the prospects for humanity
Fuller R. Buckminster - Now and Tomorrow
Synergetics dictionary
Cosmography
Buckminster Fuller
World design science decade, 1965-1975
What I am trying to do
Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller-A Comprehensive Collection of His Designs and Drawings
No more seconhand God, and other writings
The world game
The dymaxion world of Buckminster Fuller
Ideas and integrities
Buckminster Fuller to children of earth
The artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller
World design science decade 1965-1975
Utopia or oblivian
The design initiative
Integrity Day
Designing Environments
4D time lock
Fuller projection Dymaxion air-ocean world
The Buckminster Fuller reader
The Critical Path (2 tapes)
A Twentieth Century Renaissance
Éducation, automation
Three structures by Buckminster Fuller in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Only Integrity Is Going to Count
Approaching the Benign Environment (The Franklin lectures in the sciences and humanities)
Fifty years of the design science revolution and the world game
Synergetics / The Parajo Dunes Tapes
Buckminster Fuller at Camberwell
And it came to pass--not to stay
Windfall Poems, 1977
Education for Human Development
Universal architecture
Grunch Giants
Fifty Year Experiment
Better homes for lower incomes
World game report
4 D
Is There Enough to Go Around
Buckminster Fuller
In the Tuileries Garden
Vanna Bonta
Vanna Bonta (1958-2014)

actor, poet, voice actor, film actor, inventor

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Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967)

inventor, editor

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The Science Fiction Roll of Honor
The Scientific Adventures Of Baron Munchhausen
Ralph 124C 41+
Ultimate world
Ultimate Worlds
Evolution of modern science fiction
Amazing Stories - Vol. 1 No. 4
Amazing Stories - Vol. 3 No. 2
Amazing Stories - Vol. 1 No. 1
Amazing Stories - Vol. 1 No. 2
Radio for all
Radio-Craft: 50 Years of Radio
Official radio service manual and complete directory of all commercial wiring diagrams, 1930
Ralph One Hundred Twenty Four C, Forty One Plus
RALPH 124C 41plus
Official Radio Service Manual and Complete Directory of All Commercial Wiring Diagrams, 1930
Murray Leinster
Murray Leinster (1896-1975)

inventor

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The Hugo Winners [volume I]
Machines That Think
Science Fiction of the forties
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (The Future in Question / Space Mail)
Great Science Fiction About Doctors
Before the Golden Age
Monsters
Young extraterrestrials
The Forgotten Planet
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts
The Great Science Fiction Stories. Volume 7, 1945
The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction
The golden years of science fiction -- fourth series
This World Is Taboo
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Fifth Series
Operation
The Planet Explorer
Tomorrow's children
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 (1948)
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 8 (1946)
Twists in Time
Four from Planet 5
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (1956)
Operation Terror
First Contacts
Land of the Giants #2
The Pirates of Zan
City on the moon
Planet Explorer
The Last Spaceship
Men Into Space
Space Tug
Gateway to elsewhere
The Runaway Skyscraper and Other Tales from the Pulps
From Beyond the Stars
Time Tunnel #2 Timeslip!
The Mutant Weapon
Talents, Incorporated
Logic Named Joe
The Brain Stealers
Out of this world
The Duplicators
Planets of Adventure
The Black Galaxy
BEST OF M LEINSTER (Del Rey Books)
The best of Murray Leinster
A Murray Leinster omnibus
Sand Doom
Pirates of Ersatz
Quarantine World
Masters of Darkness
Creatures of the Abyss
Space platform
Sidewise in time and other scientific adventures
Doctor to the Stars
Brain Stealers
Talents, Incorporated
Checkpoint Lambda
Great stories of science fiction
Three in one
Land of the Giants
Wailing Asteroid
Colonial survey
The aliens
Space platform
The other side of here
Space Tug
The brain-stealers
S.O.S. from three worlds
The mutant weapon
Sand Doom
Talents, Incorporated
Monsters and such
Sand Doom
Operation
Med ship
War with the gizmos
Witches
The Hugo Winners, Volumes one and two
The Fourth Science Fiction MEGAPACK
Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1
The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack No. 1: Fifteen hundred pages of fiction
Favorite Science Fiction Stories
Histórias de Robôs - Volume 3
Before the Golden Age, Book 3
The Challenge From Beyond
Giants
Science Fiction Gems
Space Mail, Volume II
Before The Golden Age. (Book 3 of 4)
The Best of Amazing Stories
Four from Planet 5
The Med Series
Before the Golden Age, Book 2
Miners in the Sky
Librivox Short Mystery Story Collection Vol. 003
A Sense of Wonder
Time tunnel
Star Struck : 2 Classic Sci-Fi Masterpieces : Star Born & Operation Outer Space
Worlds of Maybe
Land of the Giants
The last space ship
The Daughter of Thor & Talents, Incorporated
The Pirates of Zan & The Stars, My Brothers
Portal Hacia Otro Lugar
The listeners
The Flying Threat & The Fifth-Dimension Tube
Adventures on Other Planets
The Corianis Disaster & Deathworld
The Life Watch & Creatures of the Abyss
The monster from Earth's End
Sinister Invasion, The, & Operation Terror
Peril of the Starmen & The Forgotten Planet
Classic Martian Stories, Vol. 6
War with the Gizmos
The Wailing Asteroid & The World that Couldn't Be
Time tunnel
High Adventure #140
Genius Beasts, The & This World is Taboo
Matter of Importance
A Logic Named Joe
Aliens
Sand Doom : Published in
The Wailing Asteroid
The Fifth-Dimension Tube
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1930)
World of the Mist & The Invaders
The Invaders : Original Edition
Operation Terror
Murray Leinster Collection: Volume 2
Talents Incorporated
Die besten Stories von Murray Leinster.
The Leader
Twists in Time
THE FORGOTTEN PLANET
The Sentimentalists
Murray Leinster Collection
Pariah Planet
Ambulance Made Two Trips
Murray Leinster Collection: Volume 1
Die Irrfahrten der Spindrift
Planet Nightmare
White Spot
Creatures of the Abyss
Talents, Incorporated
The Aliens
La Galaxie Noire
Adventures In The Fifth-Dimension: Includes The Fifth-Dimension Catapult and The Fifth Dimension Tube
The Fifth-Dimension Tube
This World Is Taboo
Operation
Twists in Time
The Murder of the U.S.A.
Space Tug
Doctor To The Stars
Sidewise in Time
Sentimentalists
First Contact
THE BEST OF MURRAY LEINSTER
Mad Planet by Murray Leinster (illustrated)
Murder Madness
The Silver Menace
The Runaway Skyscraper
The Hate Disease
Murray Leinster Collection Volume I (Volume 1)
Space Tug : Published in
The Pirates of Ersatz
Mad Planet
Med Ship
Space Platform
Space Tug
Wailing Asteroid
Space Platform
The Fifth-Dimension Tube : Published in
Space Mail
Isaac Asimov Präsentiert Sagenwelt Der Fantasy
First Contact/Exploration Team
Murray Leinster Resurrected: Science Fiction Stories from the 1950's
Operation
Operation
Third Murray Leinster Megapack
Planet of Dread and other Stories
The First Murray Leinster MEGAPACK ®
Il pianeta dimenticato.
Pirates of Ersatz
The Hate Disease
Operation Terror
Long Ago, Far Away
Anthology of Sci-Fi V25, the Pulp Writers - Murray Leinster
The Forgotten Planet
The Red Dust
Sidewise in Time
Wailing Asteroid
Operation Terror
Planet of the Small Men & Masters of Space
The Pirates of Zan
Sand Doom and Other Tales of Adventure
The Other Side of Nowhere
Forgotten Planet
The Runaway Skyscraper
Startling Stories: Spring 2009
Librivox Short Story Collection 088
The Machine That Saved The World
Tyrants of Time & Pariah Planet
War with the Gizmos
Space Platform
Pariah Planet
Aliens
Doctor
Pirates of Zan
Four from Planet Five
Men into Space
Land of the giants
The Forgotten Planet
Med ship
Med Ship Man
Mad Planet Illustrated
The Pirates of Ersatz
The Invaders
Invasion
Last Spaceship
Aliens and Other Stories
SPACE GYPSIES
The Mad Planet
If You Was a Moklin
The Fifth-Dimension Tube
Space Platform
This World Is Taboo
Planet of Dread & Twice Upon a Time
Planet of Sand
Runaway Skyscraper (Annotated)
Red Dust
Morale (A Story of the War of 1941-43)
The Silver Menace
Nightmare Planet
MALAY COLLINS - Master Thief of the East
The Second Murray Leinster MEGAPACK®: 18 Classic Stories
Space-Can
The Brain - Stealers
Fight for life
Out of this world 1
First Contact/Exploration Team/Molded Vinyl Case
The Greks Bring Gifts
Regulations
THE MUTANT WEAPON (AND) THE PIRATES OF ZAN
The Devil of East Lupton, Vermont
Doctor to the Stars
Miners in the sky
Sidewise in Time
Scalps
La Galaxie Noire
Sidewise in Time/the Strange Case of John Kingman
The wailing asteroid
Murder madness
The Greks Bring Gifts (Macfadden SF, 50-418)
The monster from earth's end
Out of This World 6
Chetvertye zvezdnye voÄ­ny
Miners In The Sky
John Jacob Astor IV
John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912)

entrepreneur, inventor, racing automobile driver

  • Harvard University, St. Paul's School

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A journey in other worlds
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871-1954)

explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, inventor, ornithologist, naturalist, zoologist, illustrator

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Caught in the Organ Draft
The Bridge Of Light
Treasure of the Golden God
Dirigibles of Death
The American Indian
Minerals, metals and gems
Old civilizations of the new world
Shell collector's handbook
Getting together with Latin America
South and Central American trade conditions of to-day
The real story of the pirate
The boys' book of whalers
The book of camping
Panama
Jungle chums
The radio detectives
Harper's Gasoline Engine Book: How the Engine is Made, how to Use it at Home ..
The Home Radio: How to Make and Use it
America's ancient civilizations
Great conquerors of South and Central America
Gasolene Engines; Their Operation, Use and Care: A Comprehensive, Simple and ..
Foods America gave the world
The young collector's handbook
Islands And Their Mysteries
Strange sea shells and their stories
Our Indians
The American Indian, North, South and Central America
Harper's wireless book
The boy collector's handbook
They found gold
The trail of the white Indians
The amateur carpenter
Porto Rico past and present and San Domingo of today
Cuba of today
Isles of spice and palm
The Inquisition
Knots, splices and rope work
How to operate a motor car
My jungle trails
Cuba past and present
The deep sea hunters
Harper's book for young naturalists
The golden city
The real story of the whaler
Strange insects and their stories
Along New England shores
The Best of Amazing Stories: The 1929 Anthology (Amazing Stories Classics)
Before the conquerors
Brain Sinner, The, & Death from the Skies
The radio detectives under the sea
Panama of today
Strange customs, manners, and beliefs
Perfumes and spices, including an account of soaps and cosmetics
Harper's gasoline engine book
The book of the West Indies
Strange birds and their stories
Deep sea hunters in the frozen seas
Smugglers and smuggling
In Morgan's wake
The book of the sailboat
The real Americans
The boys' book of buccaneers
Rivers and their mysteries
Harpers Aircraft Book
In the wake of the buccaneers
Gasolene engines; their operation, use and care
...Strange fish and their stories
The home radio up to date
Secret treasure
The ocean and its mysteries
The Best of Amazing Stories: The 1927 Anthology (Amazing Stories Classics)
Barton's mills
Romantic and historic Virginia
In the Wake of the Buccaneers
The Knots Box Useful Knots For Every Situation Indoors And Out
Through the Crater's Rims
Under Peruvian skies
Thirty years in the jungle
The Book Of The West Indies
The home radio, how to make and use it
The strange story of our earth
The Book of the West Indies
Harper's Wireless Book; How to Use Wireless Electricity in Telegraphing, Telephoning and the Transmission of Power
In the Wake of the Buccaneers
Wonder plants and plant wonders
Deep Sea Hunters
Old Civilizations in the New World
Strange prehistoric animals and their stories..
Wonder creatures of the sea
The heart of old New England
Jury Rig
Harper's Wireless Book
Our Indians
South and Central American Trade Conditions of To-Day Including Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and Dominican Republic; With Maps and Diagrams
Harper's Gasoline Engine Book
Book of Camping
Book of the Sailboat;
Radio Detectives
Precious Stones and Their Stories - An Article on the History of Gemstones and Their Use
Knots, Splices and Rope-Work
Strange reptiles and their stories..
The American Indian
Harper's Aircraft Book: Why Aeroplanes Fly, How to Make Models, and All About Aircraft, Little and Big
The World of the Giant Ants, Illustrated Edition (Lost World-Lost Race Classics)
South and Central American Trade Conditions of To-day Including Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and Dominican Republic; With Maps and Diagrams
The World of the Giant Ants, Illustrated Edition
Mutiny on the Athol
Carib gold
Harper's Aircraft Book
The Trail of the Cloven Foot
Romantic and historic Maine
The Boys' Book Of Carpentry
Old civilization of the New world
Uncle Abner's legacy
Inca's Treasure House
Into the Green Prism & Wanderers of the Wolf Moon
Romantic and historic Florida
The Radio Detectives Southward Bound
I'll Learn'em
When the Moon Ran Wild
Gasolene Engines; Their Operation, Use and Care; a Comprehensive, Simple and Practical Work Treating of Gasolene Engines for Stationary, Marine or Vehicle Use . .
An American Crusoe
Vampires of the Desert
Strange creatures of the sea
Jamaica of today
West Indies of today
Beyond the Green Prism & Alcatraz of the Starways
American Crusoe
The boy adventurers in the forbidden land
Harper's Book for Young Naturalists
Beyond Infinity & Monsters of the Ray
A-B-C of automobile driving ..
Perfumes and spices, including an account of soaps and cosmetics
The radio detectives in the jungle
My boat trip through the Guiana wilderness
The treasure of Bloody Gut
Never a Dull Moment
The boy adventurers in the land of El Dorado
The boy adventurers in the unknown land
The boys' outdoor vacation book
Pets for pleasure and profit
Porto Rico past and present and San Domingo of today
The ocean and its mysteries
Panama, past and present
The Incas' treasure house
Lost treasure
The home radio
The book of the West Indies
The cruise of the Cormorant
Harper's book for young gardeners
The boys' book of carpentry
South and Central American trade conditions of today
The American Indian
Islands and their mysteries