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Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)

architect, historian of technology, historian, sociologist, literary critic, philosopher, journalist, urban planner, architectural theoretician, art historian

  • City College of New York, New School

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Looking Backward from 2000 to 1888 (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
The city in history
Transformations of Man
Values for Survival
Values for survival
The human prospect
The culture of cities
Technics and civilization
The condition of man
In the name of sanity
Herman Melville
The myth of the machine
The pentagon of power
The highway and the city
The brown decades
The urban prospect
The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects
Interpretations and forecasts, 1922-1972
The story of Utopias
The golden day
Roots of contemporary American architecture
Art and technics
Sticks and stones
Mumford on modern art in the 1930s
The letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn
Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes
Men must act
"In old friendship"
The Lewis Mumford reader
Sketches from life
The conduct of life
Sticks and Stones
Sidewalk critic
Art and Techniques (Bampton Lecture Ser. in American : No.4)
Findings and keepings
The South in architecture
Architecture as a home for man
The myth of the machine
The Lewis Mumford/David Liebovitz letters, 1923-1968
Tecnica y Civilizacion
Faith for living
The culture of cities
City development
Arts in Renewal
The Arts in renewal
Technics and Civilization
City development; studies in disintegration and renewal
Herman Melville. A study of his life and vision
Transformations of Man
Art and Technics (Bampton Lectures in America)
Art and technics
la cultura de las ciudades
My works and days
Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s
America & Alfred Stieglitz
The transformations of man
Social Theories of a City
Faith for living
Sticks and Stones
Technics and Human Development
From the Ground Up
The city in history
The Myth Of The Machine - The Pentagon Of Power
Essential Issues in Management Accounting
La cité à travers l'histoire
Herman Melville
The future of technics & civilization
The city in history
A Century of Early Ecocriticism
The Condition of man
Green memories
The urban prospect
The myth of the machine
The Human Prospect ... Edited by Harry T. Moore and Karl W. Deutsch. [A selection from the writings of L. Mumford.].
The Arts in renewal
The Conduct of Life (Harvest Book, Nb 34)
From the ground up
The human way out
La cité à travers l'histoire
The plan of London county
Herman Melville
Man as interpreter
The myth of the machine
Art and Technics
The Urban Prospect [Harvest Book HB 156]
The transformation of man
Roots of Contemporary American Architecture
Highway and City
In the name of sanity
The Highway Anf The City
Art and technics (Bampton lectures in America)
MEN MUST ACT.
The role of the creative arts in contemporary society
The Condition of Man
South in Architecture
From the Ground Up. Observations on Contemporary Architecture, Housing, Highway Building, and Civic Design
Lewis Mumford
The Conduct of Life
Sticks and Stones
The story of Utopias (Compass books)
From the Ground Up
The human prospect (Beacon paperbacks)
The City in History
The conduct of life
Les transformations de l'homme
The morals of extermination
Mythos der Maschine
Technique et Civilisation
Regional planning and the small town
The conduct of life / Lewis Mumford
The Brown Decades, A Study of the Arts of America 1865-1895
Portmeirion
City in History
Memoirs of Waldo Frank
Faith for living
Herman Melville
The Story of Utopias (C112: Compass Books Edition)
Technics and Civilization
Condition of Man
Man as interpreter
Herman Melville 1929
The Highway and the City (A Harvest book)
Povijest utopija
La Cultura Delle Città
Architecture
Le Déclin des villes
Programme for survival
The Ecological Basis of Planning
Sticks and stones;
American taste
Geijutsu to gijutsu
Tarih Boyunca Kent - Kokenleri, Gecirdigi Donusumler ve Gelecegi
The golden day;
Regional planning in the Pacific Northwest
The story of Utopias (Compass books)
The brown decades
The Conduct of Life The Making of Man
The brown decades;
Insanin Durumu
The Brown Decades; a Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895
The Story of Utopias
The city in history
Atomic war--the way out
Transformations of Man
The Conditions of Man
La Ciudad En La Historia
Aesthetics, a dialogue
Sticks and Stones, a Study of Amercian Architecture and Civilization
Pentagon of Power
The Culture of Cities
The South in architecture
Stocks and stones
Le declin des villes
City Development
Story of Utopias
Technics and Civilization
Alternatives to the H-bomb
Green memories
The Highway and the City
The culture of cities
The letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn
Brown Decades a Study of the Arts of 2ND Edition
Vom Blockhaus zum Wolkenkratzer. Eine Studie über amerikanische Architektur und Zivilisation
The brown decades
The social foundations of post-war building
The Brown Decades, A Study of the Arts of America 1865-1895
Two Chicago fairs
The highway and the city
Whither Honolulu?
Technics and civilization
The seventh New Yorker album
Thomas Beer
New world theme
The morals of extermination
The story of Utopias
Architecture
The golden day
Technics and civilizations
Aesthetics, a dialogue
Faith for today
The transformations of man
The Story of Utopias
The story of Utopias, ideal commonwealths and social myths
Progamme for survival.
Art and technics
De sociale grondslagen van het na-oorlogsche bouwen
The story of Utopias
Sticks and stones
The golden day
Architecture and civilization
The sky line
The conduct of life
Art and technics
The Arts in renewal
The story of Utopias
The social foundations of post-war building
Men must act
Herman Melville
Vom Blockhaus zum Wolkenkratzer
Art and technics
Faith for living
The letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn
The myth of the ma
The letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn
Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth
Sticks and stones
Regional planning in the Pacific Northwest
Toward a free world
The culture of cities
How war began
The transformations of man
Faith for living
The myth of the machine
The highway and the city
The theory and practice of regionalism ...
Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose (born 1931)

mathematician, physicist, philosopher, astronomer, astrophysicist

  • University College London, University of Cambridge

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White Mars; or, the Mind Set Free
The Road to Reality
Shadows of the mind
The large, the small and the human mind
The Emperor's New Mind
Cycles of Time
Nature and the Greeks
Collected works
Cycles of Time
The nature of space and time
Spinors and space-time
Stephen Hawking
What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013
Three Princeton Lectures on the Mathematics and Physics
Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity
Les ombres de l'esprit
Droga do rzeczywistości
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
Computerdenken
Les ombres de l'esprit
Hermann Weyl
Les deux infinis et l'esprit humain
White Mars
On space and time
Spinors and Space-Time
On Space And Time
Cosmology of Consciousness
Analytical and numerical approaches to mathematical relativity
Hermann Weyl
Einstein's Miraculous Year
Spinors and Space-Time, Volume 1
Ciclos del tiempo
Ciclos del tiempo
El camino a la realidad
Der Weg zur Wirklichkeit
Conversations with Einstein
Lo grande, lo pequeño y la mente humana
Zyklen der Zeit
Zihnin Gölgeleri
Fizigin Gizemi Kralin Yeni Usu 2. Cilt
Techniques of differential topology in relativity
Eschermatics
Artificial Intelligence Versus Natural Intelligence
Science, spirituality, and the nature of reality
Zaman Döngüleri
Gercegin Yollari
A la découverte des lois de l'univers
Consciousness and the Universe
Quantum gravity 2
Kralin Yeni Akli
Twistor Symmetries and Particle Physics
Us Nerede? Kralin Yeni Usu 3. Cilt
Eschermatics
Emperor's New Mind
Mr Tompkins in Paperback
Consciousness and the universe
Kralin Yeni Akli
La Mente Nueva del Emperador
Evrenin Yeni Fiziğinde Moda, İnanç ve Fantezi
Emperor's Guide to the Physical Universe
The Emperor's New Mind - Concerning Computers , Minds , and the Law of Physics
Lo grande, lo pequeño y la mente humana
L'esprit, l'ordinateur et les lois de la physique
Lo grande, lo pequeno y la mente humana
Lo grande, lo pequeño y la mente humana
Altair Design
Bilgisayar ve Zeka Kralin Yeni Usu 1. Cilt
Moda, fe y fantasía en la nueva física del universo
How Consciousness Became the Universe
Quantum gravity
Schatten des Geistes: Wege zu einer neuen Physik des Bewußtseins (German Edition)
Mary Daly
Mary Daly (1928-2010)

theologian, philosopher, women's rights activist

  • The Catholic University of America, University of Fribourg

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Quintessence-- realizing the archaic future
Outercourse
GENDER AND THE WELFARE STATE: CARE, WORK AND WELFARE IN EUROPE AND THE USA
Gyn/ecology
Beyond God the Father
Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation
Pure Lust
Beyond God the Father
The church and the second sex
Aging in America
The Gender Division of Welfare
Amazon grace
QUINTESSENCE
The church and the second sex
Quintessence
Against all odds
Gyn Ecology - The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
Gyn Ecology the Metaethics of Radical Fe
The problem of speculative theology
Le Deuxième sexe conteste
Natural knowledge of God in the philosophy of Jacques Maritain
Anywhere But Here
Gravestone inscriptions from Mount Auburn Catholic Cemetery, Watertown, Massachusetts
Abandoned: profile of Europe's homeless people
Dublin, the Deposed Capital
The Mary Daly reader
Natural knowledge of God in the philosophy of Jacques Maritain
Beyond God the Father Toward a Philosoph
Kyohoe wa che-2 ŭi sŏng
Hananim Abŏji rŭl nŏmŏsŏ
Hananim apachiruru nomoso
Gender and the Welfare State
John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)

poet, philosopher, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, Sherborne School

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Three fantasies
A Glastonbury Romance
Wolf Solent
Owen Glendower
Porius
Maiden Castle
Weymouth Sands
The Meaning of Culture
Visions and revisions
The Brazen Head
Morwyn
Wood and Stone
After My Fashion
The Art of Happiness
The complex vision
Atlantis
Homer and the Aether
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Hal W. and Violet Trovillion
Autobiography
Rodmoor
Confessions of two brothers, John Cowper Powys [and] Llewellyn Powys
Suspended judgments
Mortal strife
One hundred Dante books
Samphire
Mandragora
Ducdame
Dostoevsky
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Glyn Hughes
Les sables de la mer
The pleasures of literature
The diary of John Cowper Powys 1931
Essays On De Gourmont And Byron
One hundred best books, with commentary and an essay on books and reading
John Cowper Powys letter, 1937-54
Odes and Other Poems
In defense of sensuality
Essays on de Maupassant, Anatole France, William Blake
Romer Mowl and other stories
Up and Out
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Ichiro Hara
The letters of John Cowper Powys to G.R. Wilson Knight
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Philippa Powys
La fosse aux chiens
The diary of John Cowper Powys, 1930
Rabelais, his life
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg
John Keats, or, Popular paganism
The art of growing old
The Dorset year
The diary of John Cowper Powys
Wolf's-Bane
Powys on Keats
The Inmates
All or Nothing
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Sven-Erik Täckmark
Les enchantements de Glastonbury
In spite of
The war and culture
Dorothy M. Richardson
Letters of John Cowper Powys to his brother Llewellyn
An Englishman up-state
Real Wraiths
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Clifford Tolchard
A philosophy of solitude
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Frank Warren
The letters of John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson
Jobber Skald
Letters to Henry Miller
The religion of a sceptic
John Cowper Powys
Psychoanalysis and morality
The diary of John Cowper Powys for 1929
Granit
Obstinate Cymric
Paddock calls
Letters from John Cowper Powys to C. Benson Roberts
100 Best Books
Letters of John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson, 1935-1956
Poems 1899
Rabelais : His life
Suspended judgments, essays on books and sensations
The pleasures of literature;
Owen Glendower T1 Les tours de Mathrafal
John Cowper Powys
Wolf's-Bane Rhymes
Den Otidsenlige och den aktuelle
Brazen Head
Letters to His Brother Llewellyn Volume I (1975)
Poems
John Cowper Powys Autobiography
LES ENCHANTEMENTS DE GLASTONBURY (DU MONDE ENTIER)
Samphire
Visions and Revisions; a Book of Literary Devotions
Powys and Lord Jim
V & a Style Calendar 2006
Complex Vision
John Cowper Powys on vivisection in "Autobiography."
Wolf Solent
Confessions of Two Brothers, John Cowper Powys [and] Llewellyn Powys
Syllabus of a course of six lectures on English novelists
Dostoievsky
John Cowper Powys on Thomas Hardy
Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams (1921-1988)

philosopher, professor, sociologist, literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar

  • University of Cambridge, King Henry VIII School Abergavenny

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Tenses of imagination
Tenses of imagination
Keywords
Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America
Culture and Materialism
Essays
The country and the city
Living in the future
Modern tragedy
Writing in society
Drama from Ibsen to Brecht
George Orwell
The Politics of Modernism
Marxism and literature
All things betray thee
Communications
What I came to say
Orwell (Modern Masters)
Television
Towards 2000
The year 2000
Second generation
The volunteers
Politics and Letters
Raymond Williams On Culture And Society Essential Writings
Culture
The Raymond Williams reader
The fight for Manod
The English novel from Dickens to Lawrence
The Columbia guide to the Latin American novel since 1945
Border Country
English drama
Culture
Problems in materialism and culture
The country and the city
Resources of hope
The Volunteers
MCSE training guide
Modern tragedy
The Long Revolution
Culture and society, 1780-1950
George Orwell
Loyalties
Politics and letters
The Country and the City
People of the Black Mountains
What I Came to Say (Radius Books)
Country and city in the modern novel
Cobbett
Communications
Drama in performance
What I came to say
Secondgeneration
The sociology of culture
Cobbett
Country and city in the modern novel
Resources of hope
The defenders of Malta
Contact--human communication and its history
People of the blackmountains
Drama from Ibsen to Brecht
Modern tragedy
Culture and materialism
The English novel
Who speaks for Wales?
Border Country
Drama in a dramatised society
Culture & society
Second Generation
Towards 2000
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
May Day Manifesto 1968
The Welsh industrial novel
Historia de la comunicación
The Welsh industrial novel
Culture and Politics
Culture and technology
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
Kultur ve Materyalizm
Second Generation
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
English novel from Dickens to Lawrence
Britain in the sixties
May Day Manifesto 1968
English / H / Highlight
A lecture on realism
The existing alternatives in communications
The existing alternatives in communications
Preface to film
Britain in the sixties
The English novel
Economic development through cooperatives
Anahtar Sozcukler
Los medios de comunicación social
English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence
Reading and criticism
Introduction
Realism
Realism, naturalism and their alternatives
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
Drama in performance
Drama, from Ibsen to Eliot
Delmarva Poultry Cooperative Inc
Kültür
Il popolo delle Montagne Nere
Modernizmin Siyaseti
Loyalties
Fight for Manod
Kültür ve Toplum 1780-1950
What I Came to Say
Reading and criticism
Country and the City
On high and popular culture
Modern Trajedi
People of the Black Mountains Vol. I
Drama, from Ebsen to Eliot
People of the Black Mountains Vol. Ii
Democracy and Parliament
Socialism and ecology
Border country
Communications and community
Loyalties
Politics and Letters
Communications
Innovationen
The fight for Manod
Border country
Historia de la comunicación
Problems in Materialism
Drama from Ibsen to Brecht
Centenary Edition Raymond Williams
Communications
The long road from Leros
El Campo y la Ciudad
Raymond Williams in conversation with Kenneth Churchill
The existing alternatives in communication
The Volunteers
Raymond Williams
John Clare
Peter Lamborn Wilson
Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945-2022)

ontologist, poet, historian, translator, philosopher, theorist

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Semiotext(e) SF
Pirate Utopias
T.A.Z.
Sacred drift
Angels
To Dare Imagining
Unbearables Big Book of Sex
The Drunken Universe
Millennium
Immediatism
Ploughing the Clouds
Green hermeticism
Chaos
Black Fez Manifesto
Scandal
Escape from the 19th Century and Other Essays
Orgies of the hemp eaters
The Little Book of Angel Wisdom (The "Little Books" Series)
"Shower of stars" dream & book
The little book of angels
Utopian Trace
Peacock Angel
Shower of Stars
Angels Messengers Of The Gods
A ruota libera
rain queer
Cauda Pavonis
False documents
Divan
Nasir-I Khusraw
Anarchist Ephemera
Heresies
The Temple of Perseus at Panopolis
Riverpeople
Gothick Institutions
Vanished signs
Lucky Shadows
Ec(o)logues
Daniel Joseph Martinez
Melanin Stay Poppin
The winter calligraphy of Ustad Selim, & other poems
False messiah
School of Nite
Avant gardening
Night Market Noodles and Other Tales
Kings of Love
Open City
Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser (born 1947)

philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, feminist

  • CUNY Graduate School and University Center

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Time and Again
Justice interruptus
Der Streit um Differenz
Scales of justice
Adding insult to injury
Unruly practices
Cannibal Capitalism
Umverteilung oder Anerkennung?
Redistribution or recognition?
Redistribution or Recognition
¿Reconocimiento o redistribución?
Feminism for The 99%
Great Regression
Commercium
Capitalism
El síntoma Trump
Transnationalizing the Public Sphere
Fortunas del feminismo
COURTING TROUBLE
Fortunes of feminism
Widerspenstige Praktiken. Macht, Diskurs, Geschlecht. ( Gender Studies)
Cannibal Capitalism
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
Revaluing French Feminism
Scales of Justice New Directions in Critical Theory Paperback
Die halbierte Gerechtigkeit. Schlüsselbegriffe des postindustriellen Sozialstaates
Scales of Justice
Globalizing Critical Theory
Redistribution or Recognition?
Feminisme per al 99%
Eye of the Pharaoh
Return of the Wolfe
Dilemas de la Justicia en el siglo XXI
Trust Me
Catisan Feminizmler
Prácticas Rebeldes
Seduced by the Handyman
Unruly Practices
Empathy and interaction
D*mn near Perfect
Kapitalaren lantegi ezkutuak
Feminist Contentions
Cellet 4GB MicroSD for Plum boom Smartphone custom flash memory, high-speed transmission, plug and play, with Full Size SD Adapter.
Christmas Comes to Dickens
Foucault in modern power
Mysterious Mrs. Pennybaker
Do You Want Me
Her Timeless Gamble
PRACTICAS REBELDES
Drogi feminizmu
Justice Interruptus
Ihtiyaclar Mucadelesi
Secrets of Gable House
Capitalismo. Una conversación desde la Teoría Crítica
Feminist Contentions
Muse
Social movements vs. disciplinary bureaucracies
Little Bit of Dickens
Contra la izquierda conservadora
Escalas de justicia
Douglas Hofstadtesr
Douglas Hofstadtesr (born 1945)

philosopher, computer scientist, physicist

  • Stanford University, University of Oregon

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Mathenauts
The Mind's I
Metamagical Themas
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Le Ton beau de Marot
I Am a Strange Loop
Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics
A Bouquet for the Gardener
Piano Music
Shakespeare's plays weren't written by him, but by someone else of the same name
Butterfly in the Quantum World
Rhapsody on a theme by Clément Marot
To Light the Flame of Reason
Ambigrammi
The Tumult of Inner Voices or What Is the Meaning of the Word 'I'? (Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values, 1982)