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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born 1938)

playwright, essayist, philosopher

  • University of Leeds, Makerere University
Birth of a dream weaver
In the house of the interpreter
Dreams in a Time of War
Wrestling with the devil
Weep not, child
Caitaani mũtharaba-inĩ
The river between
African Short Stories
A grain of wheat
Writers in politics
Petals of blood
Secret lives, and other stories
Matigari
Wizard of the Crow
Decolonising the Mind
To stir the heart
Perfect Nine
Homecoming
The Black Hermit
Something torn and new
I will marry when I want
Trial of Dedan Kimathi
Detained
La revolución vertical
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o speaks
Work
Education for a national culture
Globalectics
Moving the Centre
Njamba Nene and the flying bus
Minutes of Glory
Re-membering Africa
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Mũrogi wa Kagogo
Bhāshā, saṃskr̥ti, aura rāshṭrīya asmitā
Barrel of a pen
Penpoints, gunpoints, and dreams
Njamba Nene's pistol
Black linguistics
The relations between scientific research in the universities and industrial research
In the Name of the Mother
Writing Against Neocolonialism
This time tomorrow
Walter Rodney's Influence on the African Continent
Öze Dönüs
The Language of Languages
The first Walter Rodney memorial lecture
民族・歴史・文学
Listening to Ourselves
Heart of a Stranger
Nyoni Nyonia Nyone
The rebels
Rwĩmbo rwa Njũkĩ
Mūrogi wa Kagogo
The wound in the heart
Homecoming
Njamba Nene's pistol
Njamba Nene and the flying bus
Carola Stern
Carola Stern (1925-2006)

journalist, historian of Modern Age

  • Free University Berlin
Doppelleben
„Ich möchte mir Flügel wünschen“
Alles, was ich in der Welt verlange
Der Text meines Herzens
Willy Brandt in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten
Kommen Sie, Cohn!
Zwei Christen in der Politik
Porträt einer bolschewistischen Partei
Auf den Wassern des Lebens
Die SED
Uns wirft nichts mehr um
Die Sache, die man Liebe nennt
Was haben die Parteien fur die Frauen getan?
Isadora Duncan und Sergej Jessenin
Manner Lieben Anders
Ulbricht
In den Netzen der Erinnerung
Eine Erdbeere für Hitler
Strategien für die Menschenrechte
Wendepunkte deutscher Geschichte, 1848-1990
DTV Lexikon zur Geschichte und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert
Wer schweigt, wird mitschuldig
Patrick French
Patrick French (1966-2023)

biographer, historian, academic

  • University of Edinburgh, Ampleforth College
The world is what it is
Tibet, Tibet
Younghusband
The World Is What It Is
India
Liberty or Death
Tibet, Tibet
India A Portrait
After Bataille
Dreams and Memories of a Lost Land
The world is what it is
Tibet, Tibet (Collections Litterature) (French Edition)
TIBET, TIBET: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF A LOST LAND
Xizang zhui zong
V.S. Naipaul
French Brothers Wild and Crazy Film Quiz Book
Jaan Kross
Jaan Kross (1920-2007)

translator, pedagogue, professor, poet lawyer, poet, politician

  • University of Tartu
Omae luloolisus ja alltekst
The conspiracy & other stories
The czar's madman
Professor Martens' departure
The Ropewalker
The Czar's madman
Der Verrückte des Zaren
Kolme katku vahel
Dans l'insaisissable. le roman de juri vilms
Kallid kaasteelised
Das Leben des Balthasar Rüssow
Le Fou Du Tzar
Professor Martens' Abreise
Sailing against the wind
Bibliograafia
Vastutuulelaev
Vahelugemised
The rock from the sky
Tahtamaa
Neli monoloogi Püha Jüri asjus
Söerikastaja
Professor Martens' Departure
Taevakivi
Vihm teeb toredaid asju
Rakvereskiĭ roman ; Ukhod professora Martensa
Imperatorskiĭ bezumet︠s︡
Keisri hull
Teosed
Czar S Madman
Voog ja kolmpii
Kamennye skripki
La Partida del Profesor Martens
Mesmeri ring
Lauljad laevavööridel
Paigallend
Väljakaevamised
Paigalend
Klio silma all
Kogutud teosed
Wikmani poisid
Kivist viiulid
Tabamatus
Na glazakh u Klio
Silmade avamise päev
Professor Martensi ärasõit
Kolmandad mäed
Kamienie Z nieba
Vuelo estático
Book of Falsehoods Between Three Plagues Volume 3
Ķeizara trakais
Uppiniskaisuuden kronikka
Tammsaare
Professor Matensi arasoit
Kross. Üksikud head mehed
Polet na meste
Between Three Plagues
CERCLE DE MESSMER - Roman - Traduit de L'estonien par Jacques Tricot
Day Eyes Were Opened
Rakvere romaan
Vier Monologe Anno Domini 1506
Le départ du professeur Martens
Trzy bicze czarnej smierci, czyli opowiesc o Baltazarze Russowie
Treading Air
Book of Falsehoods
People Without a Past
Michael Pearson
Michael Pearson (born 1949)

  • Fordham University, University of San Francisco
Dreaming of Columbus
Imagined places
A place that's known
Shohola Falls
Innocents abroad too
John P. Clark
John P. Clark (born 1944)

social scientist, philosopher, ecologist

William Godwin
The Impossible Community
The philosophical anarchism of William Godwin
Anarchy, Geography, Modernity
Between Earth and Empire
Autonomy Is in Our Hearts
Social control in the People's Republic of China
Max Stirner's egoism
The anarchist moment
Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement
Theft by employees in work organizations
Comment un anarchiste a découvert la Terre
Florence Ashley
Florence Ashley (born 1999)

researcher, jurist, LGBTQ rights activist

  • McGill University, University of Toronto
Gender/Fucking
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves
Banning Transgender Conversion Practices
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765)

astronomer, geologist, physicist, chemist, linguist, poet, historian, philosopher, inventor, mosaicist, geographer, mathematician, politician, painter, scientist, translator

  • Slavic Greek Latin Academy, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Perepiska
Lomonossov, 1711-1765, sa vie, son oeuvre
Sochineniia
Lomonossov, 1711-1765, sa vie, son oeuvre
Physikalisch-chemische abhandlungen M. W. Lomonossows, 1741-1752
Drevni͡ai͡a rossiĭskai͡a istorii͡a ot nachala rossiĭskogo naroda do konchiny velikogo kni͡azi͡a I͡Aroslava Pervogo, ili do 1054 goda
Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov. Iz nasledii︠a︡ Lomonosova. Slovo sovremennikov o Lomonosove. Pami︠a︡tʹ vechna
Alte russische Geschichte von dem Ursprunge der russischen Nation
Sochinenie Lomonosova
Sochineniia
Polnoe sobranie sochinenii Mikhaila Vasilevicha Lomonosova
Izbrannye filosofskie sochinenii͡a︡
Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov on the corpuscular theory
Pisḿa ; Perevody ; Stikhotvorenii͡a︡ ; Ukazateli
Poltavskai͡a︡ batalii͡a︡
Pervye osnovanii︠a︡ gornoĭ nauki
Izbrannye proizvedenii͡a︡
Izbrannye trudy po khimii i fizike
Ausgewählte Schriften
Izbrannye filosofskie proizvedenii͡a︡
Rossiǐskaia grammatika
O vospitanii i obrazovanii
Zapiski po russkoĭ istorii
Izbrannye sochinenii͡a
Sochinenīi︠a︡
Meditationes de solido et fluido solemnibus sacris Augustissimi nominis serenissimae potentissimae magnae dominae imperatricis Elisabetae Petri Magni filiae autocratoris omnium Rossiarum praelectae in Academiae Scientiarum Petropolitanae conventu publico, die VI. sept. a. MDCCLX
On the strata of the Earth
Polnoe sobranīe sochinenīĭ Mikhaĭla Vasilʹevicha Lomonosova
Estestvennye nauki i filosofii͡a︡
A chronological abridgement of the Russian history
Izbrannyi︠a︡ sochinenīi︠a︡
Izbrannai︠a︡ proza
Sochinenīi︠a︡ M.V. Lomonosova v stikhakh
Polnoe sobranie sochineniĭ
Elemens de la langue russe, ou, Methode courte et facile pour apprendre cette langue conformement a l'usage
Izbrannye proizvedenii︠a︡
Slovo o proiskhozhdenīi svi︠e︡ta
Russische Grammatick
Sochinenii͡a︡
Poems
Oratio de origine lucis
Rossīĭskai︠a︡ grammatika
Sochinenii︠a︡ v stikhakh
Obozrenie rukopiseĭ lomonosova i materialov o nem, khrani︠a︡shchikhsi︠a︡ v moskovskikh i leningradskikh arkhivakh, muzeĭakh i bibliotekakh
Sochinenii͡a v stikhakh
Sochinenīi︠a︡ Lomonosova
Polnoe sobranie sochineniĭ
Sobranīe sochinenīĭ Mikhaila Vasilʹevicha Lomonosova
Pokoĭnago statskago sovetnika i professora Mikhaily Vasilʹevicha Lomonosova sobranīe raznykh sochinenīĭ v stikakh i v prozi︠e︡
Sochinenīi︠a︡
Izbrannyi͡a sochinenīi͡a
Pervyĭ russkiĭ akademik
Sobranīe raznykh sochinenīĭ v stikhakh i v prozi︠e︡ Mikhaĭly Vasilévicha Lomonosova
Rossiĭskai︠a︡ grammatika
Dukhovno-nravstvennyi︠a︡ pi︠e︡snopi︠e︡ni︠a︡ Lomonosova, Derzhavina i Karamzina
Drevni︠a︡i︠a︡ rossiĭskai︠a︡ istorii︠a︡ ot nachala rossiĭskago naroda do konchiny velikago kni︠a︡zi︠a︡ I︠A︡roslava Pervago ili do 1054 goda
A chronological abridgment of the Russian history
Na doroge v Petergof
Sochinenīi︠a︡ Lomonosova
Istorii͡a︡, filologii͡a︡, poėzii͡a︡
L'apothéose de Pierre le Grand, etc
Sochinenii︠a︡
Sistema "Planeta Zemli︠a︡"
Rassuzhdenīe o bolʹsheĭ tochnosti morskago puti
Kratkoĭ rossīĭskoĭ li︠e︡topiset︠s︡ s rodoslovīem