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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

philosopher, historian, political scientist, essayist, sociologist, political theorist, resistance fighter

  • Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Marburg

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Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Human Condition
Between past and future
Rahel Varnhagen
Men in dark times
On violence
Essays in understanding, 1930-1954
Between Friends
On revolution
Crises of the Republic
Love and Saint Augustine
The Promise of Politics
Lectures on Kant's political philosophy
The Portable Hannah Arendt
Thinking
Willing
The life of the mind
Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin
The Jewish Writings
Hannah Arendt/Karl Jaspers correspondence, 1926-1969
Briefwechsel
" Édifier un monde"
Gespräche mit Hannah Arendt
EICHMANN AND THE HOLOCAUST (GREAT IDEAS S.)
The Jew as pariah
Responsibility and Judgment
Hannah Arendt/Heinrich Blücher
Thinking without a banister
Briefe 1925 bis 1975
Within four walls
The Life of the mind (in 2 vols.)
Vor Antisemitismus ist man nur noch auf dem Monde sicher
--in keinem Besitz verwurzelt
Juger
Conferencias Sobre La Filosofia Politica de Kant
Les Origines du totalitarisme, tome 1
Hannah Arendt, Kurt Blumenfeld
Totalitarianism
Wahrheit und Lüge in der Politik
Les Origines du totalitarisme, tome 2
La Tradicion Oculta
Letters, 1925-1975
Hannah Arendt
Correspondence 1926-1969
Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht
Was ist Politik?
Denktagebuch
The Life of the Mind (Combined 2 Volumes in 1)
Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
Hannah Arendt/Karl Jaspers Briefwechsel, 1926-1969
Reflections on Literature and Culture (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Que Es La Politica? (Pensamiento Contemporaneo)
Die verborgene Tradition
Bayna al-māḍī wa-al-mustaqbal
Die ungarische Revolution und der totalitäre Imperialismus
Von der Menschlichkeit in finsteren Zeiten
Arendt und Benjamin
Der Briefwechsel 1967-1975
La vida del espiritu
Reflections on literature and culture
Vita activa, ili O dei︠a︡telʹnoĭ zhizni
La disobbedienza civile
Vita activa oder Vom tätigen Leben
Hannah Arendt - Diario Filosofico - Vol 2
L'Impérialisme
Was ist Existenzphilosophie?
Bayna al-māḍī wa-al-mustaqbal
Origenes del Totalitarismo 3
Qu'est-ce que la politique ?
Ich will verstehen
De La Historia a La Accion
Macht Und Gewalt
Una Revision De La Historia Judia
Una Revision de La Historia Judia y Otros Ensayos
Rahel Varnhagen. Lebensgeschichte einer deutschen Jüdin aus der Romantik
Revolutionary Russia
Origenes del Totalitarismo 1 - Antisemitismo
La Philosophie de l'existence et autres essais
Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers
Lettere 1925-1975
Im/Ts Kreise
Vies politiques
La última entrevista y otras conversaciones
Diccionario de Derecho Civil Vol. 1
Vida del Espiritu, La
La crise de la culture
La nature du totalitarisme
Imperialism
Que Es La Politica/What is Politics? (Pensamiento Contemporaneo)
I Anthropini Kalastasi
LA Tradicion Oculta/the Hidden Tradition
Hombres En Tiempos de Oscuridad
Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft
Eichmann en Jerusalén
Freedom to Be Free
Die Freiheit, frei zu sein
Briefwechsel 1926-1969
Denken ohne Geländer
Essays und Kommentare 1. Nach Auschwitz
Rahel Varnhagen. Lebensgeschichte einer deutschen Jüdin aus der Romantik
Che cos'è la filosofia dell'esistenza?
Rede am 28. September 1959 bei der Entgegennahme des Lessingpreises der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
Verdad y mentira en la política - 1. edición
Über das Böse
Origens do totalitarismo
Música para Água Ardente (Portuguese Edition)
Qu'est-ce que la philosophie de l'existence ? Suivi de "L'Existentialisme français"
Participar del món
Between Past and Future
Zwischen Vergangenhei und Zufunft
Istina i laž u politici
Walter Benjamin 1892-1940
Journal de pensée
Vita activa. La condizione umana
Correspondance, 1926-1969
Ensayos de comprensión
Verantwoordelijkheid en oordeel
Considérations morales
Verdade e Política
La condició humana
Briefe 1936-1968
On Lying and Politics
Antisemitism
The burden of our time
Denktagebuch. Bd. 1: 1950-1973. Bd. 2
Sobre a Violência
Qualitat Des Lernens Im Internet
Sobre la violència
Sulla rivoluzione
Entre o passado e o futuro - between past and future of the great books of Hannah Arendt in Portuguese
Menschen in finsteren Zeiten
La Promesa De La Politica
Entre el pasado y el futuro
Entre Amigas - Correspondencia
Korzenie totalitaryzmu
OASE 106 : Table Settings
Crises of the Republic
Disput |ber den Totalitarismus: Texte und Briefe (Berichte Und Studien) (German Edition)
Denktagebuch (2 B ande)
The Modern Challenge to Tradition
On Violence
Zur Zeit. Politische Essays
Escritos judíos
Kant'ın Siyaset Felsefesi Üzerine Dersler
Ich will verstehen
Pensar sem corrimao - Compreender 1953-1975
Life of the Mind
Vom Leben des Geistes. Das Denken / Das Wollen
Crises of the Republic
Insanlik Durumu
Zihnim Yasami; Secme Eserler 9
Über die Revolution
Una revisión de la historia judía y otros ensayos
Wir Juden
Siyasette Yalan
In der Gegenwart. Übungen im politischen Denken 2
Auschwitz et Jérusalem
Eichmann Em Jerusalem
Philosophie contemporaine
Eichmann y el Holocausto
Zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Übungen im politischen Denken 1
Eichmann en Xerusalén
Totalitarizmin Kaynaklari 1 - Antisemitizm
The Life of the Mind (2 vols. Volume I: Thinking, Volume II: Willing)
What Remains
La vie de l'esprit
Totalitarizmin Kaynaklari 2 - Emperyalizm
Fragwürdige Traditionsbestände im politischen Denkender Gegenwart
Das Urteilen. Texte zu Kants politischer Philosophie
LM/Wk Kreise
Hannah Arendt papers
Totalitarianism
Antisemitism
Life of the Mind
La pluralidad del mundo
Im Vertrauen. Briefwechsel 1949 - 1975
Los hombres y el terror
Freedom to Be Free
Set Grote Klassieken – Arendt en Seneca
Siddet Uzerine Secme Eserler 6
Eichmann war von empörender Dummheit
La libertad de ser libres
Eichmann Jerusalemen
Devrim Uzerine
Penser l'événement
Hannah Arendt und Patrizia Nanz über Wahrheit und Politik
Hombres en tiempos de oscuridad
¿Qué es la política?
Crisis De La Republica
El valor de pensar
Kotulugun Siradanligi
La liberté d'être libre
Imperialism
Tiempos presentes
Besuch in Deutschland
Entre amigas
Sur l'antisémitisme :les origines du totalitarisme
Les origines du totalitarisme
Warriors
Der Liebesbegriff Bei Augustin
Kanto seiji tetsugaku no kōgi
Eichmann in Jerusalem
La mentira en política
Totalitarizm
Sorumluluk ve Yargı
Wir Flüchtlinge
Indarkeriaz
Sobre la revolución
La promesa de la política / The Promise of Politics
Der Briefwechsel
Diario filosófico 1950-1973
Entre El Pasado Y El Futuro
La vita della mente
"Ich bin Dir halt ein bisschen zu revolutionär"
Eichmann la Ierusalim
Antisemitismen
Von der Menschlichkeit in finsteren Zeiten
חליפת מכתבים
Ketavim Yehudiyim
Hannah Arendt/Karl Jaspers Briefwechsel, 1926-1969
Sechs Essays
Die verborgene Tradition
Skrytai͡a tradit͡sii͡a
Sur l'antisémitisme
Hartsaʼot ʻal ha-filosofyah ha-poliṭit shel Ḳanṭ
Schreib doch mal hard facts über dich
Rahel Varnhagen
Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin
Wie ich einmal ohne Dich leben soll, mag ich mir nicht vorstellen
Eichmann w Jerozolimie
Desobediència civil
Yesodot ha-ṭoṭaliṭariyut
We Refugees
Journal de pensée
Ich selbst, auch ich tanze
Eichmann Jerusalemen
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan (born 1955)

journalist, professor

  • Columbia University, Bennington College

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A Place of My Own
How to Change Your Mind
Omnivore's Dilemma. A Natural History of Four Meals
In Defense of Food
Food rules
Second Nature
The botany of desire
Cooked
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Saber comer
Pollan on Food (Cooked / In Defense of Food / Omnivore's Dilemma)
Voices of the land
Caffeine
Fantastic Fungi
El detective en el supermercado
Bringing It to the Table
Shi wu wu zui
Yokmang hanŭn singmul
Brilliant Green
Cannabis, forgetting, and the botany of desire
64 Grundregeln ESSEN
Big ideas
U odbranu hrane
Essen Sie nichts, was Ihre Großmutter nicht als Essen erkannt hätte
Michael pollan collection 3 books set
An animal's place
Grass, Soil, Hope
Les Règles D'une Saine Alimentation
Cat Treat Recipes
Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley (born 1960)

philosopher, musician, opinion journalist

  • University of Essex, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis

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On Humour
The ethics of deconstruction
What We Think About When We Think About Football
Deconstruction and Pragmatism
On Heidegger’s Being and Time
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas
The Book of Dead Philosophers
Very little -- almost nothing
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying
Faith of the Faithless
Impossible Objects
Things merely are
Der Katechismus des Bürgers
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Re-reading Levinas
Infinitely Demanding
Memory Theater
The Anarchist Turn
Bowie
Violence
Notes on Suicide
Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity
Continental philosophy
Laclau
Modern ethics in 77 arguments
Mystical Anarchism
Re-reading Levinas
Apuntes sobre el suicidio
Offizielle Mitteilungen
哲学家死亡录
Emmanuel Levinas
The Stone reader
Question Everything - a Stone Reader
A companion to continental philosophy
Dread
Bald
Continental Philosophy
ABC of Impossibility
Humor
Stay, Illusion!
Very Little ... Almost Nothing
Tragedia y Modernidad
On Humour
Sobre el humor
Stay, Illusion!
Deconstructive subjectivities
Hamlet Doctrine
Problem with Levinas
Question Everything
EL TEATRO DE LA MEMORIA
Von Kung-Fu bis Ladypower. 33 Übungen in moderner Philosophie
Deborah Tannen
Deborah Tannen (born 1945)

linguist

  • Wayne State University, University of California, Berkeley

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Finding My Father
You Just Don't Understand
That's not what I meant!
You're wearing that?
I Only Say This Because I Love You
Talking from 9 to 5
Gender and discourse
You were always mom's favorite
The argument culture
Languages and Linguistics
Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Talking voices
Conversational style
You're the only one I can tell
Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse
That's not what I meant!
Piensas salir vestida asi? / You re Wearing That?
Décidément, tu ne me comprends pas!
Das hab' ich nicht gesagt
Linguistics in Context : Connecting Observation and Understanding
Laß uns richtig streiten. Vom kreativen Umgang mit nützlichen Widersprüchen
Du kannst mich einfach nicht verstehen. Warum Männer und Frauen aneinander vorbeireden
Talking From to 5
Analyzing Discourse
Décidement tu ne me comprends pas !
Argument Culture Moving From Debate to Dialogue
La Cultura De La Polemica
That's not what I meant!
Ich mein's doch nur gut. Wie Menschen in Familien aneinander vorbeireden
Lilika Nakos
That's not what I meant!
Lo Digo Por Tu Bien
Talking from Nine to Five
Yo no quise decir eso
Das hab' ich nicht gesagt. Kommunikationsprobleme im Alltag
Spoken and Written Language
That's not what I meant!
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership
Talking From 9 to 5 ('Ban gong shi nan nu due hua', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English)
Andere Worte, andere Welten. Kommunikation zwischen Frauen und Männern
That's Not What I Mean
Spoken and written language
Framing in discourse
The Argument Culture
' Warum sagen Sie nicht, was Sie meinen?'
Leadership Presence (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
¿Piensas salir vestida así?
Job- Talk. Wie Frauen und Männer am Arbeitsplatz miteinander reden
That's not what I meant!
Perspectives on silence
Family Talk
Coherence in spoken and written discourse
Gender and Discourse
Comunicacion Entre Hombres y Mujeres a la Ho
Tu No Me Entinedes
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Mu nü bu yi sui
You're Wearing That?
Genero Y Discurso
Communication matters
You're wearing that?
Discourse 2.0
Ima tamid ahavah otakh yoter!
I Only Say This Because I Love You
You Just Don't Understand; Women and Men in Conversation
You just don't understand : women and men in conversation
Talking from 9 to 5 Hb D/Bx12
Family Talk
!yo no quise decir Eso!
By Deborah Tannen - You Just Don't Understand
Linguistics in Context--Connecting Observation and Understanding
Deborah Tannen-2 Vol. Boxed Set
You Just Don?'t Understand D/Bx36
Conversational Style
Gender and conversational interaction
The Argument Culture
Décidément, tu ne me comprends pas
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1981 : Analyzing Discourse
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication
You Just Don't Understand
Advances in Discourse Processes
You Were Always Mom's Favorite!
Handbook of Discourse Analysis
You just don't understand
Perspectives on Silence
Women and public discourse
Du kannst mich einfach nicht verstehen
Gender and Conversational Interaction. Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Talking from 9 To 5
Gender and Discourse
You Just Dont Understand - Women and Men in Conversation:
You Just Dont Understand Women & Men In
Talking from 9 to 5 B D/Bx24
Talking from 9 to 5 B
Talking Voices
HBR's Women at Work Collection
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001 : Linguistics, Language, and the Real World
Men and Women
Du kannst mich einfach nicht verstehen. Warum Männer und Frauen aneinander vorbeireden.
Michel Vovelle
Michel Vovelle (1933-2018)

historian, assistant professor, assistant professor, researcher, lecturer, docent

  • Lumière University Lyon 2, École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud

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Mémoires vives ou perdues
The fall of the French monarchy, 1787-1792
Marat
Idéologies et mentalités
La Révolution française
The Revolution Against the Church
Combats pour la Révolution française
Les Paysans de la Haute-Marne et la révolution française
Enlightenment portraits
1789
Histoires figurales
Les âmes du purgatoire, ou le travail du deuil
1793
La chute de la monarchie, 1787-1792
Les Jacobins
La découverte de la politique
La ville des morts
Les folies d'Aix, ou, La fin d'un monde
Religion et révolution
Les aventures de la raison
L' irrésistible ascension de Joseph Sec, bourgeois d'Aix, suivi de quelques clefs pour la lecture des "Naïfs"
1789-1799
L'administration napol©♭onienne en Europe
Les républiques-sœurs sous le regard de la Grande Nation (1795-1803)
Proverbes et dictons provençaux (Provençal/Français)
Ville et campagne au 18e siècle
Les mots de la Révolution
Les métamorphoses de la fête en Provence de 1750 à 1820
Les Images de la Révolution française
Le mystérieux monument Joseph Sec à Aix-en-Provence
L'Heure du grand passage
Mourir autrefois
Théodore Desorgues, ou, La désorganisation
Piété baroque et Déchristianisation en Provence au XVIIIème siècle
La mentalité révolutionnaire
La révolution contre l'Église
Die Französische Revolution - Soziale Bewegung und Umbruch der Mentalitäten
Révolution et République: L'exception française : actes du colloque de Paris I, Sorbonne 21-26 septembre 1992 (Collection "Le Sens de l'histoire") (French Edition)
La révolution et l'ordre juridique privé
1793, la révolution contre l'Église
Les jacobins. de robespierre a chevenement
Nouvelle Histoire de la France contemporaine, tome 1
De la cave au grenier
La Révolution contre l'Eglise
L'Etat de la France pendant la Révolution
Le tournant de l'an III
L'An 1 des droits de l'homme
Piété baroque et déchristianisation en Provence au XVIIIe siècle
Bourgeoisies de province et Révolution
Ville et campagne au 18e [i.e. dix-huitieme] siecle
Image de La Revolution Francaise
Le Siècle des Lumières
Les republiques-seurs sous le regard de la Grande Nation (1795-1803)
La mort et l'Occident
Le sans-culotte, sa femme et le diable
Les images de la Révolution française
En Güzel Fransiz Devrimi
Introduccion a la Historia de Revolucion Francesa
Héritages de la révolution française à la lumière de Jaurès
Limage De La Revolution Francaise
ACCOMPAGNER TRENTE ANS DE SOINS PALLIATIFS ENFRANCE
L'être suprême
La Revolution Francaise
Die französische Revolution
REVOLUTION FRANCAISE ET LA NAISSANCE DE LA DEMOCRATIE ELECTORALE
El hombre de la Ilustración
La Morte oggi
La Révolution française, 1789-1799
Chute de La Monarchie
La Revolution Francaise (Collection Cursus. Serie "Histoire")
Paris et la Révolution
El hombre de la Ilustración
Perspectives entorn de la Revolució Francesa
1789-1989
L'uomo dell'Illuminismo
Recherches sur la Révolution
La Révolution française expliquée à ma petite-fille
Piété baroque et déchristianisation en Provence au XVIIIe siècle
Escarapelas y coronas
Les Colloques du Bicentenaire
Nouvelle histoire de la France contemporaine
Les Sans-culottes marseillais
L'Homme des Lumières
La Rochelle, ville frontière
Atlas de la Révolution française
Paris et la révolution
La Révolution au village
Idéologies et mentalités
La bataille du bicentenaire de la Révolution
Sheila Rowbotham
Sheila Rowbotham (born 1943)

historian, sociologist

  • University of Oxford, University of London

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Threads through time
Hidden from history
Women, resistance and revolution
Rebel Crossings
Woman's consciousness, man's world
Beyond the fragments
A new world for women
A century of women
Friends of Alice Wheeldon
Women in movement
Promise of a dream
Edward Carpenter
Dreamers of a New Day
The Past Is Before Us
Socialism and the new life
Daring to Hope
A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman
Women's liberation & the new politics
Dutiful Daughters
Homeworkers worldwide
Dreams and dilemmas
Dignity and Daily Bread
New Politics
Alexandra Kollontai
Women's liberation and revolution
Global networking around women's livelihood since the late 1970s
Women Encounter Technology
Women and radical politics in Britain, 1820-1914
Kadin bilinci erkek dunyasi
The trouble with "patriarchy"
Dusting her life away
Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger (born 1963)

poet, artist, visual artist

  • Northwestern University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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Daybook, Turn, Prospect
Time Traveler's Wife
Her Fearful Symmetry
Ghostly
The Night Bookmobile
The Adventuress
Awake In The Dream World The Art Of Audrey Niffenegger
The Raven Girl
The three incestuous sisters
Her Fearful Symmetry
The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
Photoshop filters finesse
Her Fearful Symmetry
Bizarre romance
Her Fearful Symmetry
Photoshop filter finesse
Magic
Her fearful symmetry
The Book as Art
Photoshop Filters Toolkit Disk
Raven girl
Classic Penguin
The Night Bookmobile
Adventuress
Her Fearful Symmetry
The spinster
Bizarre Romance
Kai's Power Tools Finesse
Daybook
Her Fearful Symmetry
Drei Schwestern
Love
Awake in the Dream World
Three Incestuous Sisters
Ta de dui cheng ling hun
Her fearful symmetry
Time Travelers Wife FILM TIE
Imkansiz Asklar Evi
Bizarre Romance
De toute éternité
Zhena puteshestvennika vo vremeni
Ghostly
Les jumelles de Highgate
Orphan Exchange
Time Traveler's Wife
Sigan yŏhaengja ŭi anae
Raven Girl
Her fearful symmetry
Die Zwillinge von Highgate
Le temps n'est rien
Les jumelles de Highgate
Pen Connected
Julian Simon
Julian Simon (1932-1998)

economist

  • Booth School of Business, Harvard University

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A Life against the Grain
Good mood
Population matters
Basic research methods in social science
The economics of population growth
Getting into the mail-order business
Developing Decisionmaking Skills for Business
The economic consequences of immigration
The great breakthrough and its cause
The Art of Empirical Investigation
The ultimate resource 2
Basic research methods in social science
The Ultimate resource
Effort, opportunity, and wealth
Hoodwinking the nation
The Resourceful earth
How to start and operate a mail-order business
The effects of income on fertility
Applied managerial economics
How to startand operate a mail-order business
Population matters
The economics of population
Hoodwinking the Nation
Economics Against the Grain
Economics Against the Grain Volume Two
Issues in the economics of advertising
Economics against the grain
The state of humanity
Population and development in poor countries
Theory of population and economic growth
A reconciliation of the population-push and invention-pull theories of demographic-economic history
The management of advertising
The effect of immigrants on natives' incomes through the use of capital
Research in Population Economics
The economic consequences of immigration
The Economics of Population
Basic research methods in social science
The effect of population growth on agricultural saving in irrigation
The State of humanity
The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause (Economics, Cognition, and Society)
What immigrants take from, and give to the public coffers
Simon and Lechleiter family history
The Economics of Population
The welfare effect of an additional child cannot be stated simply
The influence of population growth on per-worker income in developed economies
The effect of husband's income and wife's education upon various birth orders
Issues in the economics of advertising
The only impending shortage is a shortage of bad news
Basic research methods in social sciences
The relationship between population and economic growth in LDC's
How immigrants affect Americans' living standard
Resampling
What do Zielske's real data really show about pulsing?
The present value of population growth in the western world
Immigration
Basic research methods in social science ; the art of empirical investigation [by] Julian L. Simon
Global 2000 revised
Firm size and market behavior
The Resourceful Earth
Is population growth really bad for LDC's in the long run?
The ultimate resource
Research in population economics
A constant long-run K/Y ratio is a meaningless observation / Julian L. Simon...
How do immigrants affect us economically?
The important economic implications of learning-by-doing for population size and growth
The technological progress function and labor force size
Basic research methods in social science
L'homme, notre dernière chance
The price effects of monopolistic ownership in newspapers
The overall effect of immigrants upon natives' incomes
The economics of population