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Margaret MacMillan
Margaret MacMillan (born 1943)

historian

  • University of Oxford, Trinity College

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Stephen Leacock
Peacemakers
The War That Ended Peace
History’s People
War
The uses and abuses of history
Women of the Raj
Nixon and Mao
Nixon in China
Paris 1919
Dangerous Games
Dangerous Games Modern Library Chronicles
The uneasy century
Making war, making peace
14-18 Now
Lessons of history
Canada's house
Paris, 1919
History's People
Six Months that Changed the World - The Treaty of Versailles and the Road to World War II (Portable Professor)
The War That Ended Peace
Nixon and Mao
Canada and NATO
Peacemakers Six Months That Changed the World
París, 1919
Canada and NATO
Rhyme of History
Paris 1919
La guerra
Women of the Raj
Oi eirēnopoioi
Lion's Cub - le Lionceau
Barisa Son Veren Savas
Parties Long Estranged
Yalta
Nixon and Mao
Zhi zheng zhao xi
Uses and Abuses of History
The mission of children
Mírotvorci
Geschiedenis
Parties long estranged
Les artisans de la paix
Seize the Hour
Irish Postcard Book
Clayton Christensen
Clayton Christensen (1952-2020)

priest, missionary

  • Brigham Young University, Harvard Business School

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How Will You Measure Your Life
The Innovator's Dilemma
Seeing What's Next
The innovator's solution
How disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns
The innovative university
The Innovators Prescription
Harvard Business Review on Innovation
HBR's 10 must reads
How will you measure your life?
The innovator's method : bringing the lean startup into your organization
Disrupting class
HBR's 10 must reads on managing yourself
Innovation and the general manager
El dilema de los innovadores (Futuro)
How Will You Measure Your Life?
HBR's 10 Must Reads Leadership Collection (4 Books) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
Fast Innovation
The Innovator's Solution
HBR Classics Boxed Set (16 Books)
Innovator's DNA, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation
Harvard Business School Business Essentials Collection
The Power of Everyday Missionaries
The innovator's prescription
The Clayton M. Christensen Reader
HBR's 10 Must Reads Ultimate Boxed Set (14 Books)
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
Disrupting Class, Expanded Edition
Competing Against Luck
The Innovators Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth (Chinese Edition)
Harvard Business Review Leadership and Strategy Boxed Set (5 Books)
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation
HBR's 10 Must Reads Boxed Set with Bonus Emotional Intelligence (7 Books) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
HBR's 10 Must Reads
El ADN del innovador : claves para dominar las cinco habilidades que necesitan los innovadores - 1. edición
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking
Innovator's Prescription
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017
The Disruptive Innovation Set (2 Books)
The innovator's solution
Inovasyonda Ustalasmak
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Organizational Resilience (with Bonus Article Organizational Grit by Thomas H. Lee and Angela L. Duckworth)
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Creative Teams Collection (7 Books)
Innovative University
Ni yao ru he heng liang ni de ren sheng?
Power of Everyday Missionaries
פתרון החדשנות
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Technology and Strategy Collection (7 Books)
Innovator's Solution, with a New Foreword
Competir Contra la Suerte
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation (with Featured Article Reinventing Your Business Model by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann)
Competing Against Luck
Yenilikcinin Ikilemi; Yeni Teknolojiler Sirketleri Nasil Basarisizliga Sürüklüyor
How Will You Measure Your Life?
De succesfactor
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2015
Got Skills?
Innovator's Dilemma, with a New Foreword
Innovation killers
HBR At 100
Toeval is geen goede strategie
Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood (born 1933)

historian

  • Tufts University, Harvard University

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Friends divided
The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
The American Revolution
The radicalism of the American Revolution
Revolutionary Characters
The Purpose of the Past
The United States
Empire of liberty
The idea of America
The making of the Constitution
Representation in the American revolution
The American revolution
Confederation and the Constitution
Friends divided
Power and Liberty
The rising glory of America, 1760-1820
Revolution and the political integration of the enslaved and disenfranchised
The American Revolution
Russian-American Dialogue on the American Revolution (Russian-American Dialogues)
Revolucion Norteamericana (Breve Hist)
Empire Of Liberty A History Of The Early Republic 17891815
The Idea of America
The American Revolution
La création de la République américaine, 1776-1787
Revolucion Norteamericana, La
The Rising glory of America, 1760-1820
The idea of America
Social radicalism and the idea of equality in the American Revolution
The Confederation and the Constitution
Purpose of the Past
Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Revolución Norteamericana / the American Revolution
Making of the Constitution
Revolutionary Characters
Essays by the Free Republican, 1784-1786
Radicalism of the American Revolution
Imagined Histories
Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux (born 1941)

literary critic, professor

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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The happy isles of Oceania
Figures in a landscape
The Great Railway Bazaar
The kingdom by the sea
My secret history
Picture Palace
The Mosquito Coast
The consul's file
Sunrise with seamonsters
Dark star safari
The Elephanta suite
My Other Life
Hotel Honolulu
The Pillars of Hercules
The stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and other stories
Doctor Slaughter
Sir Vidia's shadow
Kowloon Tong
Chicago loop
Deep South
Saint Jack
The end of the game
A Dead Hand
The Family Arsenal
O-Zone
Travelling the world
Millroy the magician
A Christmas card
Fresh air fiend
The Sea
Jungle lovers
Great humorous stories
Blinding light
Riding the iron rooster
Edge
Old Patagonian Express, The
Waldo
Sailing through China
Mother land
The London embassy
The black house
Girls at Play
The imperial way
Sinning with Annie, and other stories
London snow
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
World's end and other stories
The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
Today's best nonfiction
The collected stories
Fong and the Indians
To the Ends of the Earth
Under the Wave at Waimea
The Best American Travel Writing 2001
V.S. Naipaul, an introduction to his work
Mr. Bones
O-zone
V.S. Naipaul
Riding the Iron Rooster By Train Through
The lower river
Eli Reed
Murder in Mount Holly
The Family Arsenal Paul Theroux
On the Plain of Snakes
The best American travel writing 2014
The Mosquito Coast
Masterpieces of Modern Short Fiction
The tao of travel
Dr. Demarr
Deep south
The Mosquito Coast
The collected short novels
Sinning with Annie
Jan Morris : around the world in 80 years
Tierra madre
Riding the Iron Rooster:By Train Through China
Where the Roads All End
Theroux
The Silk Road - China and the Karakorum Highway
The Greenest Island
World's end
Blinding Light
Islands
Journey Without Maps
My Other Life
The lower river
Gentleman in the Parlour
Gentleman in the Parlour
Lower River
Picture Palace
Slow Trains to Simla
La Double vie de Lauren S.
The Cold World
Millroy the magician
Nurse Wolf & Dr Sacks
UC Riding the Iron Rooster
Down the Yangtze
Riding the Iron Rooster
Patagonie express
An den Gestaden des Mittelmeeres
Mein anderes Leben
Happy Iles of Oceania, the
Happy Isles of Oceania
Brazil Incarnate
The collected stories
Priya Ramrakha
Mother Land
Consul's File
The shortest day of the year
Les derniers jours de Hong Kong
Saint Jack
On the Plain of Snakes
Deep South
Hotel Honolulu
On the Edge of the Great Rift
Travelers' Tales Greece
Sandstorms
What Maisie Knew
The white man's burden
LA Calle De LA Media Luna/Half Moon Street
Bad Angel Brothers
La Chine à petite vapeur
La Costa de los Mosquitos
Die glücklichen Inseln Ozeaniens
Hotel Honolulu
Figures in a Landscape
Saint Jack (Om-Asia)
The Consul's File
Hotel Honolulu
Blinding Light-O.M.
The Happy Isles Of Oceania Part 2 Of 2
Zona Exterior
Bad Angel Brothers
Fresh-Air Fiend
My Other Life
Education by radio
Nature's Wonderlands
The Lower River
Family Arsenal
Strange Dispearance Imam Mousa Sadr
Paul Theroux Collected Stories
Sunrise with Seamonsters
Voyage excentrique et ferroviaire autour du Royaume-Uni
Ridng Iron Roostr-Opmkt
Der alte Patagonien- Express
Mi Otra Vida
Wiedersehen mit Patagonien
Lower River
Mi Historia Secreta
On the Plain of Snakes
De Laatste Dagen Van Hongkong
San Jack
Jechalem Zelaznym Kogutem
Saint Jack
De geschiedenis van een vriendschap
Mr. Bones
Der alte Patagonienexpress. 5 Cassetten
De geschiedenis van een vriendschap
Moederland
Mutterland
Happy Isles of Oceania-Open Ma
Paul Theroux
Sunrise with Seamonsters
Nurse Wolf and Dr. Sacks (Front Lines)
The London embassy
Bad Angel Brothers
La Sombra de Naipaul
Happy Isles of Oceania Part 2
Happy Isles of Oceania
Steve McCurry Lesen
Foreign Affairs
Murder in Mount Holly
El Mago Millroy
Collected Stories
Railway bazaar
Traveling the World
Fresh Air Fiend
En la Llanura de Las Serpientes
Mr Bones
Mexico
Mr. Bones
Figures in a Landscape
World's End and other Stories
Blinding Light
Belanger Brotherhood
The Happy Isles Of Oceania Part 1 Of 2
Kowloon Tong.
My Other Life
Kowloon Tong
Poems for Travellers
On the Plain of Snakes
El geólogo
Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux
Milroy the Magician
Camp Echo
Riding the Iron Rooster
Hotel Honolulu
Millroy the Magician
Wāruzu endo (sekai no hate) =
Under the Wave at Waimea
El geólogo
Fresh-Air Fiend
The return of Bingo Humpage
Deep South
Mein geheimes Leben
Silk Road : Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran
Ultimi giorni a Hong Kong
Dispatches D1
Sailing Through China by Paul Theroux (1984-01-01)
Short Story International #34
Girls at Play
California the Other State
De Bendenrivier
Figures in a Landscape
Saint Jack
Millroy the Magician
Mother Land
Le Plaisir le plus triste
Kowloon Tong
Two Stars
Riding the Iron Rooster
Half Moon Street
The Consul's File
Jungle lovers
En el Gallo de Hierro
Happy Isles of Oceania Part 1
China per trein
Saint Jack
Sailing Through China
Collected Stories, the
Millroy the Magician
En El Gallo de Hierro
El último tren a la zona verde
Deep South
Asagi Nehir
Sunrise with Seamonsters
Luce accecante
Stary Ekspres Patagonski. Pociagiem przez Ameryki
Alone
Fresh-air fiend
Happy Isles of Oceania
A Dead Hand
Blinding Light
Consul's File
Fresh-Air Fiend : Travel Writings
My Other Life
De grote spoorwegcarrousel
De grote spoorwegcarrousel retour
Millroy de tovenaar
Sunrise with seamonster
Retour au Palazzo d'Oro
Spelende meisjes
China per trein
Murder in Mount Holly
Tren fantasma a la Estrella de Oriente
Docteur De Marr
De poort naar India
Verblindend licht
En Lower River
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940)

professor

  • University of California, Berkeley

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The woman warrior
I love a broad margin to my life
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
World Literature 1999
China men
The fifth book of peace
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
Tripmaster monkey
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
To be the poet
Experiencing Reading
Hawaiʻi one summer
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
Selected from China men & The woman warrior
Selected from China men & The woman warrior
Through the black curtain
Tripmaster monkey
Maxine Hong Kingston
The fifth book of peace
Tripmaster Monkey
I love a broad margin to my life
Maxine Hong Kingston, Interview
The Woman Warrior China Men (Excerpts)
Hawai'i One Summer
Sun xing zhe
Literature of California, Volume 1
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
Amerika no Chūgokujin
Nü yong shi /Tang Tingting zhu ; Li Jianbo, Lu Chengyi yi ; Zhang Ziqing jiao yi
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder (born 1969)

historian, literary critic, political scientist, academic

  • Brown University, University of Oxford

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The Red Prince
Bloodlands
On Tyranny
The Road to Unfreedom
Our Malady
Black earth
Thinking the Twentieth Century
The Reconstruction of Nations
Nationalism, Marxism, and modern Central Europe
Sketches from a secret war
Power of the Powerless
Understanding Ukraine
The Wall around the West
The Balkans as Europe, 1821-1914
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back
Stalin and Europe
Toward Xenopolis
On Freedom
Jett_one_of_us_is_a_conman
Getting Lead-Bottomed Administrators Excited about School Library Media Centers
Rėkanstrukt͡syi͡a nat͡syĭ
Inhuman Land
Eddie Dying
Tautų rekonstrukcija
Sobre la tirania
Under Swiss Protection
Brotherlands
Dorothee Sölle
Dorothee Sölle (1929-2003)

theologian, Dichter, poet, Germanist

  • University of Cologne

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Dorothee Soelle
Watch For The Light
The arms race kills even without war
Wählt das Leben
To work and to love
Grosse Frauen der Bibel in Bild und Text
The window of vulnerability
Mystik und Widerstand
Creative disobedience
Theology for skeptics
Den Himmel erden
Thinking about God
On Earth as in heaven
The strength of the weak
Die Wahrheit ist konkret
Christentum und Sozialismus
Not just yes and amen
Träume mich, Gott
Politische Theologie
Welches Christentum hat Zukunft?
Gott denken
Zur Umkehr fähig
Political theology
Mystik des Todes
Celebrating resistance
Gegenwind
Christ the representative
Phantasie und Gehorsam
Fürchte dich nicht, der Widerstand wächst
Verrückt nach Licht
The truth in concrete
Revolution ohne Todesstrafe
Das Recht ein anderer zu werden
Stations of the Cross
Death by bread alone
Beyond mere dialogue
Ein Volk ohne Vision geht zugrunde
Zivil und Ungehorsam
Stellvertretung
Fliegen lernen
Of war and love
Und ist noch nicht erschienen, was wir sein werden
Die Hinreise
Spiel doch von Brot und Rosen
Realisation
Gewalt
Gott im Müll
Leiden
Sympathie
Suffering
Dorothee Sölle im Gespräch
New Yorker Tagebuch
Aufrüstung tötet auch ohne Krieg
Meditationen & Gebrauchstexte
Die revolutionäre Geduld
Im Hause des Menschenfressers
Untersuchungen zur Struktur der Nachtwachen
Atheistisch an Gott glauben
Untersuchungen zur Struktur der Nachtwachen von Bonaventura
Revolutionary patience
Salvador de Madariaga
Salvador de Madariaga (1886-1978)

diplomat, historian, biographer, essayist, poet, engineer, opinion journalist, literary critic, politician, journalist, academic

  • Lycée Chaptal, École polytechnique

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Vida del muy magnífico señor don Cristóbal Colón
Bolívar
The fall of the Spanish American empire
El corazón de piedra verde
Americans
Guía del lector del "Quijote."
El crimen fue en Granada
Christopher Columbus
Disarmament
Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards
Latin America between the eagle and the bear
Shelley & Calderón
Retrato de un hombre de pie
España
Ensayos anglo-españoles
The rise of the Spanish American empire
Cuadro histórico de las Indias
Españoles de mi tiempo
Memorias, 1921-1936
Portrait of Europe
Guerra en la sangre ; Una gota de tiempo
The genius of Spain
Anarchy or hierarchy
Carácter y destino en Europa
Don Juan y La Don-Juanía
Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards
"Don Quixote"
The heart of jade
Anarquía o jerarquía
El corazón de piedra verde
Mujeres españolas
Spanish folk songs
The sacred giraffe
El toisón de oro, y tres obras más
Arceval y los ingleses
Obra poética
Dios y los españoles
Esquiveles y Manriques
Cuando estalle la paz
The blowing up of the Parthenon
Victors beware
The world's design
Mi respuesta
First principles
Essays with a purpose
Vida Del Muy Magnifico Señor Don Cristobal Colon/life of the Magnificant Man Christopher Columbus
Aims and methods of a chair of Spanish studies
Herman Cortès
La guerra desde Londres
G. B. S
Morning without noon: memoirs
El semental negro ; Satanael
Adult interests, (Studies in adult education)
Democracy versus liberty?
Charles Quint ..
Ingleses, franceses, españoles
Memorias de un federalista
Charles Quint
Salvador de Madariaga
L' essor de l'empire espagnol d'Amérique
Theory and practice in international relations
Semblanzas literarias contemporáneas
War in the blood
Bosquejo de Europa
Guia del lector del "Quijote"
De la angustia a la libertad
Mujeres españoles
Cosas y gentes
Una Gota De Tiempo (38080)
Homenaje a Gabriela Mistral
El Corazon De Piedra Verde/ the Green Stone Heart
Anarquía o jerarquía
El Corazon De Piedra Verde
Rettet die Freiheit!
A la orilla del río de los sucesos
Elysian Fields
De Galdo s a Lorca
Bolivar
De l'angoisse à la liberté
Elysian Fields A Dialogue
On freedom
Spanien
Presente y porvenir de Hispanoame rica, y otros ensayos
Elegía en la muerte de Unamuno
General, márchese usted
El enemigo de Dios
The price of peace
Sir Bob
Rosa de cieno y ceniza
On Hamlet
Nature of Liberty
The anatomy of the cold war
The Rise of the Spanish American Empire - The Fall of the Spanish American Empir
The rise of the Spanish American empire (Free Press paperback)
Perfil de España
Historical Guide to World War II
El corazón de piedra verde II
Latin America Between The Eagle and The Bear
La fuente serena
Über die Freiheit
Romances de ciego
Essor de lèmpire espagnol dÀmerique
Obras escogidas
Guía del lector del "Quijote", ensayo psicoĺ3gico sobre el "Quijote"
Weltpolitisches Kaleidoskop; Reden und Aufsätze
Don Juan y la Don-Jaunía
El auge del imperio español en América
El ocaso del Imperio Español en América
War in the blood
Portrait de l'Europe (Portrait of Europe)
Elegía en la muerte de Federico Garcia Lorca
Campos eliseos
L' Amerique latine entre l'ours et l'aigle
El semental Negro
Guia Del Lector Del " Quijote "
Spain and the Jews
Vida del Muy Magnifico Senor Don Cristobal Colon
Don Quixote (Oxford paperbacks)
La formación profesional de los trabajadores ..
Christophe Colomb
El ciclo hispánico
El Corazon De Piedra Verde I (Nueva Austral Ser Vol, 55)
Discursos internacionales
Genius of Spain, and Other Essays on Spanish Contemporary Literature (Essay Index Reprint)
La mappe monde et le pape monde
HernGan CortGes, conqueror of Mexico
Christopher Columbus Being The Life Of The Very Magnificent Lord Don Cristobal Colon
Selecciones de Madariaga
El ocaso del Imperio Espaõl en América
Guia De Lectura Del Quijote (Austral)
Ingleses, Franceses, Españoles
!Ojo, vencedores!
Teatro en prosa y verso
The blowing up of the Parthenon
Diálogos famosos
Portrat Europas
Sanco Panco
Hernán Cortés, conqueror of Mexico
Christopher Columbus
Elysian fields
The Heart of Jade
Una gota de tiempo
Portrait Of Europe, New Edition Copyright Salvador De Madariaga 1967, Printed In Great Britain For Hollis & Carter Ltd., By Lowe & Brydone (Printers) Ltd., London
The sword and the spirit
El Corazon de Piedra Verde [Tercera Parte]
De Colo n a Boli var
BolGivar
Selecciones de Madariaga
Anarquia o jerarquia
El corazón de piedra verde I
Los tres estudiantes de Salamanca
Anarchie oder Hierarchie
El ciclo hispánico
El semental negro
Vida del muy magnífico señor don Cristóbal Colón
Guerra en la sangre
Don Quixote
A Bunch of Errors
Carlos V
Novelas de nuestro tiempo
Bolívar
El corazón de piedra verde
Yo-yo y yo-él
Ensayos anglo-espanoles
Una gota de tiempo
Quatre Espagnols à Londres
La jirafa sagrada
El auge y el ocaso del imperio español en América
La cruz y la bandera, y Las tres carabelas
Aims & methods of a chair of Spanish studies
Vida del muy magnífico señor don Cristóbal Colón
Memorias, 1921-1936
Portrait of a man standing
Hernán Cortéz, conqueror of Mexico
La jirafa sagrada
Ramo de errores
Ingleses, franceses, españoles
The genius of Spain
El sol, la luna y las estrellas
De la angustia a la libertad
Bat ha-Atsṭeḳim
Anglais, Franc ʹais, Espagnols
Poesía
La camarada Ana
Rettet die Freiheit!
Guía del lector del "Quijote"