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Lillian Faderman
Lillian Faderman (born 1940)

historian, literary critic

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Naked in the promised land
Scotch Verdict
Surpassing the Love of Men
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
The gay revolution
Chloe Plus Olivia
To Believe in Women
I Begin My Life All Over
Speaking for ourselves
Gay L.A.
Scotch Verdict
Harvey Milk
Lesbian-feminism in turn-of-the-century Germany
Gay, lesbian, bisexual transgender events, 1848-2006
Lesbians in Germany
Lesbians in Germany
My mother's wars
Scotch Verdict
Surpassing the Love of Men
Speaking for Ourselves
Scotch Verdict
Suggestions for using Speaking for ourselves
Desnuda En La Tierra Prometida
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975)

politician, diplomat, philosopher, translator, historian

  • University of Madras, University of Calcutta

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The philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Indian philosophy
Eastern religions and western thought
A source book in Indian philosophy
Eastern religions and Western thought
The Hindu view of life
Radhakrishnan
Contemporary Indian philosophy
Recovery of faith
The Brahma sūtra
Religion and culture
The world's unborn soul
The Bhagavadgītā
An idealist view of life
The reign of religion in contemporary philosophy
The philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore
The philosophy of the Upaniṣads
The concept of man
The philosophy of the Upanisads
Dharmonuṃ milana
Kalki
The concept of man
The concept of man
The principal Upanisads
History of philosophy
The Dhammapada
Religion in a changing world
The Bhagavadgītā
Religion and society
The creative life
Radhakrishnan, an anthology
Indian philosophy
Mahātmā Gāndhi
Living with a purpose
Felicitation volume presented to Sripad Krishna Belvalkar
Kalki or the future of civilization
Occasional speeches and writings
Eastern religions and western thought
Source Book in Indian Philosophy
Speeches and writings, May 1964-May 1967
President Radhakrishnan's speeches and writings
The principal Upaniṣads
East and west in religion
Religion and society
Indian religions
Towards a New World
The theism of the Bhagavadgita
Indian Philosophy
Eastern religions and western thoughts
Idealist View of Life (Mandala Books)
A source book in Indian philosophy
Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore
Is this peace?
Indian Religions
Our Heritage
Śikshāśāstrīya racanāeṃ
East and west in religion
Education, politics and war
Living With a Purpose
Sublime thoughts of S. Radhakrishnan
The Principal Upanisads (Philosophy of Religion)
An idealist view of life
Freedom and culture
Mahatma Gandhi and one world
The principal Upaniṣads
Mahatma Gandhi and one world
Indian religions
Mahatma Gandhi
India and China
Fellowship of the spirit
The Bhagavadgita
Gautama the Buddha
The Hindu view of life
Great Indians
The Bhagavadgītā
East and West
Mahātmā Gāndhī
Religion and culture
The creative life
The heart of Hindusthan
Die lebensanschauung des Hindu
Religion and Society
Occasional Speeches and writings
Occasional speeches and writings, October 1952-January 1956
Eastern religions and western thought
The Reign of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy
Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years
The Principal Upani sads
Philosophy of Hinduism
The Hindu View of Life (Mandala Books)
Philosophy of Hinduism and other essays
Eastern religions and Western thought
Dhammapada
Gautama Buddha
A critique of Sir S. Radhakrishnan's Basis for human fellowship
Recovery of Faith
Radhakrishnan, centenary volume
The Bhagavadgītā
Fellowship of the Spirit
Indian Philosophy
A world community
The Concept of Man
History of philosophy, eastern and western
Towards a new world
The Bhagavadgītā
Meine Suche nach Wahrheit
Search for truth
Hindu View of Life
The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore
Basic writings of S. Radhakrishnan
History of Philosophy Eastern and Western Volume 2
The spirit of religion
Indian Philosophy Volume I
Essentials of Psychology
Bhagavad-gita
Radhakrishnan reader
Brahma Sutra
The Vedānta according to Śaṁkara and Rāmānuja
Indian Philosophy (Muirhead Library of Philosophy)
The Dhammapada
The religion we need
East and West, some reflections
The spirit of religion
The present crisis of faith
The principal Upanishads
The Reign of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy
The principal Upanisads
East and West in religion
The Bhagavadgäitäa
A source book in Indian philosophy
Indian religions
Recovery of faith
Essentials of psychology
Contemporary Indian philosophy
The Dhammapada
An idealist view of life
President Radhakrishnan's speeches and writings
The principal Upaniṣads
eastern religious and western thought
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The Bhagavadgītā
East and West
Eastern Religions and Western Thought
An idealist view of life
The Hindu view of life
Indian Philosophy
The reign of religion in contemporary philosophy
Recovery of faith
Indian philosophy
La filosofia indiana
Aharam Traditional Cuisine of Tamil Nadu
Our heritage
Bhārata kī antarātmā
History of philosophy, eastern and western
Foundation of Civilisation
Religion and society
David F. Ford
David F. Ford (born 1948)

theologian

  • University of Tübingen, University College Dublin

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Marriage as a path to holiness
The Modern Theologians
The business marketing course
Theology
Shaping Theology
The Shape of Living
Mastering Equity Derivatives ("Financial Times" Market Editions)
Shape of Living, The
Studying men and masculinity
Shape of Living, The,
Managing business relationships
Technology strategy for business
The business marketing course
Christian Wisdom
The shape of living
Ice, Land and Man (Man and Environment)
Cyprus
The modern theologians
Interreligious Reading After Vatican II Directions in Modern Theology
Barth and God's story
Understanding Business Marketing and Purchasing
Spotter's guide to aquarium fishes
Self and salvation
The future of Christian theology
A long rumour of wisdom
The modern theologians reader
Understanding Business Markets
The promise of scriptural reasoning
Peces de Acuario
The investor's guide to traded options
Mobile Location Services
Adult basic reading instruction in the United States
Jesus
The Modern theologians
Living in praise
A position classification system for non-certificated personnel for the Springfield Public Schools
The marketing of central heating with particular reference to the channels of distribution
Barth and Gods Story
Who's the Thief
An investigation of methods of introducing anti blocking agents to polymers and their effect on the anti blocking processand quality of dispersion
Reading texts, seeking wisdom
The drama of living
Understanding business markets
Reading texts, seeking wisdom
Shaping theology
Musics of belonging
Managing and Marketing Technology
Nancy Isenberg
Nancy Isenberg (born 1957)

historian

  • Rutgers University, University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Fallen Founder
White trash
Sex and citizenship in antebellum America
The Problem of Democracy
Left Elsewhere
Mortal remains
Questioning bodies in Shakespeare's Rome
White Trash
White Trash
Gender and the Law
Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America
White Trash Lib/E
Rip Van Winkle's Republic
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 1970)

essayist, oncologist, academic, scientist

  • Stanford University, University of Oxford

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A cancer in the family
The Emperor of All Maladies
The Gene
The Best American Science Writing 2003
The Song of the Cell
The best American science and nature writing 2013
The laws of medicine
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
Lisa Yuskavage
Process Engineering and Plant Design
In the Sum of the Parts
Science Mind Box Set
The Gene
William Zinsser
William Zinsser (1922-2015)

journalist, literary critic

  • Deerfield Academy, Buckley Country Day School

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Writing about your life
Inventing the Truth
On Writing Well
American Places
The Worlds of Childhood (The Writer's Craft)
Easy to Remember
Writing places
Extraordinary Lives
Speaking of Journalism
Writing with a word processor
Writing to learn
Pop goes America
The lunacy boom
Spring training
The haircurl papers and other searches for the lost individual
The Writer Who Stayed
Seen any good movies lately?
Spiritual quests
Willie and Dwike
Search & research
Going on faith
Mitchell & Ruff
Weekend guests
The paradise bit
The city dwellers
Any old place with you
Annual report of the National Refractory & Brake Company
They went
Willie and Dwike
A family of readers
How to Write a Memoir
Thoughts on leaving Wesleyan
Peterson's Birds
Iyi Yazmak Üzerine
Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi (born 1982)

historian, editor

  • Florida A&M University, Temple University

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How to Be an Antiracist
Barracoon
Four Hundred Souls
Stamped from the Beginning
Stamped
Stamped [adaptation]
Antiracist Baby Board Book
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
Kendi x Hurston Picture Book #1
Be Antiracist
How to Raise an Antiracist
New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
Antiracist's Workbook
Stamped from the Beginning
Goodnight Racism
Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
The Making of Butterflies
Stamped Chapter Book
Black Campus Movement
Troublemaker 9-Copy SIGNED Floor Display W Riser
The Antiracist Deck
A. C. Benson
A. C. Benson (1862-1925)

poet, academic, diarist

  • Eton College, University of Cambridge

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Joyous Gard
Brontë poems
The Upton letters
The Isles of Sunset
At large
Alfred Tennyson
Where No Fear Was
The Child of the Dawn
Rossetti
The Altar Fire
The house of quiet
Until the evening
Edward Fitzgerald
The thread of gold
The trefoil
The reed of Pan
Along the road
The schoolmaster
Meanwhile
Father Payne
William Laud
The leaves of the tree
Genealogy of the Family of Benson of Banger House and Northwoods, in the ..
Essays
The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years ...
Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories
The life of Edward White Benson
Men of might
The professor
Edwardian excursions
Ghosts in the House
The Silent Isle
The diary of Arthur Christopher Benson
The gate of death
Hugh - Memoirs Of A Brother
Beside still waters
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Peace
Memories and friends
The Life Of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop Of Canterbury V1
Thy rod and Thy staff
Life and letters of Maggie Benson
Walter Pater
From A College Window
Escape, and other essays
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B.A
Chris Gascoyne
Lyrics
Cambridge Essays on Education
Fasti etonenses
Tennyson
Le cahier jaune
Secret Wells
Watersprings (1913)
Rossetti
The orchard pavillion
Ruskin; A Study In Personality
Letters of Queen Victoria 9 Volume Set
The Temple of Death and Other Stories
The happy warrior
The poems of A.C. Benson ..
The house of Menerdue
Collected Works of Arthur Christopher Benson
The letters of one, a study in limitations by Charles Hare Plunkett
The book of the queen's dolls' house
Bensoniana
Cressage
Lord Vyet, and other poems
Magdalene College Cambridge
Godolphin
Rossetti
The Life Of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop Of Canterbury V2
Poems
Extracts from the letters of Dr. A.C. Benson to M.E.A
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of A. C. Benson: One Novel 'The Child of the Dawn,' One Novelette 'The Uttermost Farthing' and Eight Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual
Herb Moly and Heartsease
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of A. C. Benson
Cambridge Essays in Education
Rambles and reflections
Essays of to-day and yesterday
Lest we forget
Basil Netherby
The canon
The hill of trouble and other stories
Thomas Gray
A. C. Benson
Everybody's book of the queen's dolls' house
Selected poems
Poems
The life of Edward White Benson
Essays
Thy rod and Thy staff
The secret of Christ, the essentials of Christianity
The orchard pavillion
Father Payne
Walter Pater
The Upton letters
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton
Lyrics
A Cluster of Grapes
Life and letters of Maggie Benson
Poems
The beauty of life
The child of the dawn
Ode to Japan
Beside still waters
William Laud, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury
Monnow
Ode in memory of the Rt. Honble. William Ewart Gladstone
Edward Fitzgerald