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David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)

essayist

  • Amherst College, University of Arizona

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David Foster Wallace : The Last Interview Expanded with New Introduction
Infinite jest
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
Everything and more
This is water
Oblivion
Boston Noir 2
Consider the lobster, and other essays
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
The Pale King
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
Signifying Rappers
David Foster Wallace The Last Interview And Other Conversations
McCain's promise
String Theory
Up, Simba!
The David Foster Wallace Reader
The Broom of the System
The Pale King An Unfinished Novel
Girl With Curious Hair
The Future of Fiction
Consider the Lobster
Algo supuestamente divertido que nunca volveré a hacer
Both Flesh and Not: Essays
Extincion
La Nia del Pelo Raro
Quack This Way David Foster Wallace Bryan A Garner Talk Language And Writing
Schrecklich amüsant, aber in Zukunft ohne mich
Kurze Interviews mit fiesen Männern
Verso occidente l'Impero dirige il suo corso
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
The Best American essays 2007
El tenis como experiencia religiosa
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace Reader
Consider the Lobster
Der Besen im System.
Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Signifying Rappers
Vergessenheit
Considérations sur le homard - tome 2
Kurze Interviews mit fiesen Männern.
On Tennis
Oblivion - Stories
David Foster Wallace : In His Own Words
Blady król
Pale King
Der Spaß an der Sache
La Nina Del Pelo Raro
Considérations sur le homard - tome 2
Fate, Time, and Language
Consider the Lobster, and Other Essays
La escoba del sistema
Krótkie wywiady z paskudnymi ludźmi
Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All
Der Planet Trillaphon im Verhältnis zur Üblen Sache
Der bleiche König
Girl with Curious Hair
Der große rote Sohn
McCain's Promise
Future of Fiction
Quack This Way David Foster Wallace Bryan A Garner Talk Language And Writing
La broma infinita - 5. ed.
Alles ist grün
Il tennis come esperienza religiosa
Broma Infinita
Pórtatil
Something to Do with Paying Attention
la scopa del sistema
Georg Cantor
ALGO SUPUESTAMENTE DIVERTIDO QUE NUNCA VOLVERÉ A HACER
Broom of the System
Entrevistas Breves Con Hombres Repulsivos/ Brief Interview With Obnoxious Mens
In alter Vertrautheit
Signifying Rappers
Schrecklich amüsant - aber in Zukunft ohne mich
Nina del Pelo Raro, La
Schicksal, Zeit und Sprache
Oblivion
Open City Number Five
Inculte #18
Although of course you end up becoming yourself
La niña del pelo raro
Kleines Mädchen mit komischen Haaren.
Schrecklich amüsant - aber in Zukunft ohne mich
En cuerpo y en lo otro
Esto es agua
Although of course you end up becoming yourself
Extincion/ Extinction
Denis Leary
Denis Leary (born 1957)

comedian, composer, film actor, television actor, voice actor, film producer, showrunner, television producer, actor, film director

  • Emerson College

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Why we suck
Suck on this year
Denis Learys Merry Fin Christmas
Rescue me uncensored
No cure for cancer
Why we suck
Open Net
Why we don't suck
Firehouse
Suck on this year
Suck on this year
Denis Leary's Merry F#%$in' Christmas
Suck on this year : lyfao @ 140 characters or less
Ross J. Anderson
Ross J. Anderson (1956-2024)

cryptographer, mathematician, computer scientist

  • University of Cambridge

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The Quality of Mercy
The Forgotten Front
Turner Brooks
The diversions of keramos
Abbott Handerson Thayer
Information Hiding
The Battle of Tanga, 1914 (Battles and Campaigns)
Cul Es El Mensaje Del Libro De Mormn Una Gua Cristiana Y Breve Al Libro Sangrado De Los Mormones
Global Internet Trust Register
Personal Medical Information Security, Engineering, and Ethics
Fast Software Encryption: Cambridge Security Workshop Cambridge, U.K., December 9-11, 1993
A Brush With Shakespeare
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward (born 1977)

autobiographer

  • Stanford University, University of Michigan

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Dust tracks on a road
Salvage the Bones
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jonah's gourd vine
Men We Reaped
The Fire This Time
Where the line bleeds
The Fire This Time
Let Us Descend
Navigate Your Stars
Guernica #2
De mannen die we oogstten
Fire This Time
Vor dem Sturm
Kasırga Tutulması
Canteu, esperits, canteu
Navigate Your Stars
Fire This Time
The Best American Short Stories 2021
Het lied van de geesten
Söyle Hayalet Sarkini Söyle
Esta vez el fuego
Paul Thomas
Paul Thomas (1943-2016)

political scientist

  • University of Manchester, Harvard University

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx and the Anarchists
Culture and the State
Alien politics
Rational choice Marxism
Marxism and Scientific Socialism
Alfred Schütz
Alfred Schütz (1899-1959)

philosopher, sociologist, musicologist

  • University of Vienna

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Philosophers in exile
Reflections on the problem of relevance
On phenomenology and social relations
On Phenomenology and Social Relations (Heritage of Sociology Series)
Collected papers
The theory of social action
Strukturen der Lebenswelt
The phenomenology of the social world
Life forms and meaning structure
Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt
Essais sur le monde ordinaire
Eine Freundschaft, die ein Leben ausgehalten hat
Werkausgabe
Studies in phenomenological philosophy
Alfred Schütz, Aron Gurwitsch
Estudios Sobre Teoria Social
Theorie der Lebensformen
Studies in social theory
The problem of social reality
Alfred Schutz
Strukturen der Lebenswelt
Das Problem der Relevanz
Don Chisciotte e il problema della realtà
Collected papers [of] Alfred Schutz
The phenomenology of the social world
Collected papers
Strukturen der Lebenswelt
Phenomenology as a dialogue
Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt
Ecrits sur la musique
Phenomenology and social reality
Sinn und Zeit
Mark Schorer
Mark Schorer (1908-1977)

professor, critic

  • Harvard University, University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Sinclair Lewis (University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Number. 27)
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
Short Stories from the New Yorker
Sinclair Lewis
The literature of America: twentieth century
William Blake
Modern British fiction
Galaxy
Harbrace college reader
The state of mind
Criticism
The world we imagine
The novelist in the modern world
Pieces of life
Galaxy
Harbrace college reader
Sinclair Lewis ; an American life
Lawrence in the war years
The wars of love
The University of California centennial
Society and self in the novel
The story
HB College Reader
William Blake; the politics of vision
A house too old
The story
Harbrace college reader
The literature of America
The world we live in
Sinclair Lewis
The hermit place
The world we imagine
American literature
William Blake
Galaxy
Korrupsii︠a︡
Criticism
D.H. Lawrence
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, economist, philosopher, engineer, astronomer

  • University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge

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Charles Babbage
The works of Charles Babbage
The economy of machinery and manufactures
The exposition of 1851
Decline of Science in England
Testt
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108000
Observations on the temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples
Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions
A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives
Examples of the solutions of functional equations
The analytical engine and mechanical notation
Ninth Bridgwater Treatise Fragment
Abstract of a paper entitled Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli
Science and reform
Passages from the life of a philisopher
Memoirs of the Analytical Society
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 9
Demonstration of a theorem relating to prime numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 3
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 5
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 10
Abstract of a Paper entitled. Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli
The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England
Examples of the Solutions of Functional Equations
The history of science and technology
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 1
Geometry and Faith: A Fragmentary Supplement to the Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 2
How to invent machinery
A letter to sir Humphry Davy, Bart. president of the Royal Society, etc. etc. on the application of machinery to the purpose of calculating and printing mathematical tables
Observations on the measurement of heights by the barometer
On the theoretical principles of the machinery for calculating tables
Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings
On the advantage of a collection of numbers, to be entitled the constants of nature and of art
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
On machinery for calculating and printing mathematical tables
Babbage's occulting telegraph
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 8
Report of the Committee, appointed by the Council of the Royal Society, to consider the subject refferd to in Mr. Stewart' Letter, relative to Mr. Babbage's Calculating machine, and to report thereupon / [I.T.W. Herschel]
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England
Memoir of the life and labours of Charles Babbage ..
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 11
An examination of some questions connected with games of chance. By Charles Babbage ..
On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings
Examples of the Solutions of Functional Equations
Preussens Deutsche Politik und Ihre Gegner
On the application of analysis to the discovery of local theorems and porisms. By Charles Babbage ..
Works of Charles Babbage
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 6
Babbage's Calculating Engines
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
The Exposition of Eighteen Fifty-One
Tables of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000
The difference engine and table making
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Exposition Of 1851
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 4
On the advantage of a collection of numbers, to be entitled the constants of nature and art / by Charles Babbage
A chapter on street nuisances
Mathematical papers
An examination of some questions connected with games of chance
La macchina analitica
Ninth Bridgwater Treatise Fragment
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. a Fragment
Observations on the analogy which subsists between the calculus of functions and other branches of analysis. By Charles Babbage ..
Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli Near Naples; With an Attempt to Explain the Causes of the Frequent Elevation and Depression of Large ... Prove That Those Causes Continue in Action at
Laws of mechanical notation (for consideration) / [C. Babbage]
Scientific and miscellaneous papers
Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation. By C. Babbage ... and J. F. W. Herschel ..
The Exposition of 1851
Table of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000
Table of Logarithms of the Natural Numbers
Barometrical observations made at the fall of the Staubbach
Minutes of the Council of the Royal Society relating to the report of the Committee on Mr. Babbage's Calculating machine. February 12, 1829
On currency, on a new system of manufacturing, andon the effet of machinery on human labour
Observations on the discovery in various localities of the remains of human art
Specimen of logarithmic tables printed with different coloured inks on variously coloured papers
Essay on General Principles Which Regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures
A letter to T.P. Courtenay, on the proportionate number of births of the two sexes under different circumstances
Table of the Logarithms of the Natural Numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 7
Scientific and miscellaneous papers II
Thoughts on the principles of taxation
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
Of the constants of nature
A chapter on street nuisances
Charles Babbage on the principles and development of the calculator
Table of logarithms of the natural numbers
The Exposition of 1851
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
On the influence of signs in mathematical reasoning
An analysis of the statistics of the Clearing House during the year 1839
Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Observations addressed at the last anniversary, to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society, after the delivery of the medals
Scientific and miscellaneous papers I.
A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
The Exposition of 1851, or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England
The Exposition of 1851, or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England