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academics who wrote autobiography
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967)

actor, academic, translator

  • Boston University, Barnard College

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In altre parole
The Clothing of Books
Translating Myself and Others
Unaccustomed Earth
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005
The Lowland
Interpreter of maladies
El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca)
Dove mi trovo
In Other Words
Tierra Desacostumbrada/ Unaccustomed Earth
Selected Shorts
Interpreter of Maladies/The Namesake
Roman Stories
Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
Namesake
Ḳarḳaʻ lo mukeret
Brahma's Weapon
The Lowland
Nizina
ha-Biḳʻah
Galpa saptadash
De naamgenoot
Interpreter of Maladies
Der Namensvetter.
INTERPRET D'EMOCIONS
Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
Only Goodness
Cuentos romanos
Il quaderno di Nerina
Unaccustomed Earth
Whereabouts
Una terra estranya
Vreemd Land
Antonello da Messina
Great Italian Stories
Un nom pour un autre
Einmal im Leben
Interpreter of maladies
Eberhard Jäckel
Eberhard Jäckel (1929-2017)

historian of Modern Age, historian

  • University of Tübingen, University of Paris

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Hitler in history
Hitlers Weltanschauung
"Historikerstreit"
Das deutsche Jahrhundert
Umgang mit Vergangenheit
La France dans l'Europe de Hitler
The Jews in the secret Nazi reports on popular opinion in Germany, 1933-1945
Deutsche Parlamentsdebatten
Der Mord an den Juden im Zweiten Weltkrieg
David Irving's Hitler
Hitlers Herrschaft
Die Schleswig-Frage seit 1945
Die deutsche Frage 1952-1956
Die Funktion der Geschichte in unserer Zeit
Die Juden in den geheimen NS-Stimmungsberichten 1933-1945
Die deutsche Frage 1952-1956
Von Heuss bis Herzog
Dänemark und die Niederlande unter deutscher Besetzung
Wirtschaft Gesellschaft Geschichte
Die Juden, das sind doch die anderen
Die Funkaufklärung und ihre Rolle im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Kriegswende Dezember 1941
Frankreich in Hitlers Europa
Städte im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Adam Zagajewski
Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021)

linguist, poet, translator, essayist

  • Jagiellonian University

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W cudzym pięknie
Poems
Without end
Eternal Enemies
Tremor
Two cities
A Defense of Ardor
Helicopter
Solidarity, solitude
Tierra del Fuego
Asymmetry
Dwa miasta
Slight Exaggeration
SELECTED POEMS; TRANS. BY CLARE CAVANAGH
Polish Writers on Writing (Writer's World, The)
Mystik für Anfänger
Trítons
Trítons
True Life
Two cities
Tremor
Polish writers on writing
Unseen Hand
"C International Photo Magazine"
Xawery Wolski
Polen
Slight Exaggeration
Trítons
Ich schwebe über Krakau. Erinnerungsbilder
Trítons
Asymmetry
Mystique pour débutants et autres poèmes
Poetry of Rilke
Unseen hand
Poeta rozmawia z filozofem
Selected Poems
Die Republik Österreich 1918/2008
Drugi oddech
Terra del foc
Poezja dla poczatkujacych
Pragnienie
Solidarité, solitude
En defensa del fervor
Cienka kreska
Obrona zarliwosci
Powrót
Ciepło, zimno
Unseen Hand
Defense of Ardor
Poeta rozmawia z filozofem
A defense of ardor
List
Una leve exageración
Obrona żarliwości
Późne święta
Płótno
Deseo
Die kleine Ewigkeit der Kunst
Terra del foc
Ziemia ognista
Poesie Hängt die Weiße Flagge Aus
Tremor
Pragnienie
Solidarność i samotność
Das absolute Gehör
Terra del foc
Coup de croyon
Dzikie czereśnie
From the Terreiro
Eternal Enemies
Komunikat
Terra del foc
Pozne swieta
Jechać do Lwowa i inne wiersze
Sklepy mięsne
Andrzej Dudziński
Niewidzialna ręka
Asymetria
Zbigniew Herbert
Elektrisk elegi och andra dikter
W cudzym pięknie
Jechać do Lwowa i inne wiersze
Dos ciudades
Anteny
Mali Larus
Lekka przesada
Wiersze wybrane
Trzej aniołowie
W obcych miastach
List
Dwa miasta
Solidarność i samotność
En la belleza ajena
Bildungsnähe(n)
List ; Oda do wielości ; Nowe wiersze
Winfried Schulze
Winfried Schulze (born 1942)

historian

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EGO-Dokumente
Der Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft, 1920-1995
Ständische Gesellschaft und soziale Mobilität
Bäuerlicher Widerstand und feudale Herrschaft in der frühen Neuzeit
Deutsche Historiker im Nationalsozialismus
Die Gründung des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz
Landesdefension und Staatsbildung
Sozialgeschichte, Alltagsgeschichte, Mikro- Historie. Eine Diskussion
Deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft nach 1945
Einführung in die neuere Geschichte
Deutsche Geschichte im 16. Jahrhundert, 1500-1618
Religion, Politics and Social Protest
Reich und Türkengefahr im späten 16. Jahrhundert
Einführung in die Neuere Geschichte
Reich und Turkengefahr im spaten 16. [i.e. sechzehnten] Jahrhundert
Frühe Neuzeit
Soziologie und Geschichtswissenschaft
Der 14. Juli 1789
La politique de la science en Allemagne au vingtième siècle
Autorität der Form, Autorisierung, institutionelle Autorität
Dimensionen der europäischen Aussenpolitik zur Zeit der Wende vom 16. zum 17. Jahrhundert
Stifterverband Für Die Deutsche Wissenschaft 1920-1995
Ständische Gesellschaft und Soziale Mobilität
Europäische Bauernrevolten der frühen Neuzeit
Geselligkeit und Gesellschaft im Barockzeitalter
Studia Germano-Polonica
Einfuhrung in die Neuere Geschichte
Teil und Ganzes
Moderne Deutsche Geschichte in 12 Bänden. Von der Reformation bis zur Vereinigung.
Aufklärung, Politisierung und Revolution
John McGahern
John McGahern (1934-2006)

farmer

  • St Patrick's College, University College Dublin

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Memoir
By The Lake
High Ground
The dark
The barracks
The pornographer
By the lake
Amongst women
The leavetaking
Getting through
Short stories
All will be well
Nightlines
Barracks
High Ground And Other Stories
The power of darkness
The dark
Dear Mr McLaverty --
The Collected Stories of John McGahern
That They May Face the Rising Sun (Great Irish Writers, 1)
The Power of Darkness (Plays)
Monaghan day
Le pornographe
Love of the world
The collected stories
The Barracks (Faber Library)
Journée dadieu
That they may face the rising sun
Creatures of the earth
Threebies
John McGahern at NUI Galway
The dark
Love of the world
Entre toutes les femmes
All will be well
Unter frauen
Gail Levin
Gail Levin (born 1948)

art historian, photographer, curator, academic, essayist, women's rights activist, historian, art theorist, artist, exhibition curator

  • Tufts University, Rutgers University

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Lee Krasner
Edward Hopper
Hopper's places
Synchromism and American color abstraction, 1910-1925
The Poetry of Solitude
Marsden Hartley in Bavaria
Ethics and the visual arts
Becoming Judy Chicago
Silent places
Twentieth-Century American Painting
Alex Katz, process and development
Theresa Bernstein A Century In Art
Aaron Copland's America
The Watercolors of Edward Hopper
The Paintings of Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper. Ein intimes Porträt
Marsden Hartley
Wassily Kandinsky and the American avant-garde, 1912-1950
Die gemalte Wirklichkeit. Edward Hopper und sein Amerika
Edward Hopper as illustrator
Reflections of Nature Flowers in American Art
Edeward Hopper as Illustrator
EDWARD HOPPER CROWN ART LIB (Crown Art Library)
Edward Hopper, prints and illustrations
Learning Through Songs
Symphonics R Us
Edward Hopper at Kennedy Galleries
Angel Mateo
Russell McCormmach
Russell McCormmach (born 1933)

historian, physicist

  • Washington State University, Case Western Reserve University

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Speculative Truth
Intellectual mastery of nature
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Weighing The World The Reverend John Michell Of Thornhill
The Personality of Henry Cavendish Profile of a Historian of Science Archimedes
Historical studies in the physical sciences
The Second Physicist
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 8 (Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences)
Historical studies in the physical sciences
H Study 1970 V2
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Third Annual Volume 1971. Volume 3
HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Power lines
Weighing the World
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 7
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 6
Historical studies in the physical sciences
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 5
Personality of Henry Cavendish - a Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities
Intellectual Mastery of Nature - Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein Vol. 2
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier (born 1960)

computer scientist, composer, programmer, essayist, artificial intelligence researcher, businessperson, philosopher, pianist, visual artist

  • New Mexico State University

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Dawn of the new everything
Who Owns the Future?
You are not a gadget
Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now
The Future of Public Space
Truth, Technology and the Visual/Virtual World
Dawn of the New Everything
You are not a gadget
Diez razones para borrar tus redes sociales de inmediato
Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality
10 аргументов удалить все свои аккаунты в социальных сетях
Futuro Es Ahora / Dawn of the New Everything
Dez Argumentos Para Você Deletar Agora Suas Redes Sociais
¿Quién controla el futuro?
Dieci ragioni per cancellare subito i tuoi account social
You are not a gadget
Fate of Power and the Future of Dignity
¿Quién controla el futuro?
Information Is An Alienated Experience
Contra el rebaño digital