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Jung Chang
Jung Chang (born 1952)

autobiographer, biographer, linguist, poet, historian

  • University of York, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

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Wild Swans
Mao
Mme Sun Yat-sen
Empress Dowager Cixi
Hui gu zhan wang tan tao
Hong
Seitaikō hiroku
James Gleick
James Gleick (born 1954)

biographer, journalist, historian of science, essayist

  • Harvard University, Harvard College

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Faster
The Information
Chaos
Genius
Time Travel
Isaac Newton
What Just Happened
Nature's Chaos
The Best American Science Writing 2000
Genius Hb S/Wx10
Chaos X10 S/W Whs
Genius Export X12 D/B
Genius Hb D/Bx12
Genius Pb Tsp
Genius B D/Bx18
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin (born 1933)

journalist, biographer

  • University of Cambridge, Hitchin Girls' School

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The life and death of Mary Wollstonecraft
Katherine Mansfield
Samuel Pepys
Thomas Hardy
Mrs Jordan's profession
The invisible woman
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Mrs. Jordan's profession
The life and death of Mary Wollstonecraft
THOMAS HARDY: THE TIME-TORN MAN
Shelley and his world
Samuel Pepys
The Invisible Woman The Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles Dickens
Several Strangers
The winter wife
Charles Dickens
Mrs Jordans Profession IV
Parents & children
THOMAS HARDY
Samuel Pepys
Young Bysshe
The Invisible Woman
Katherine Mansfield. Eine Lebensgeschichte
The winter wife
Mrs. Jordan's profession
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (81112)
A life of my own
The life and death of Mary Wollstonecraft
Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark (1918-2006)

poet, playwright, editor, literary critic, biographer

  • Heriot-Watt University

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Loitering with intent
Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
The girls of slender means
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Abbess of Crewe
Prentice Hall Literature--The British Edition--Volume II
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
A far cry from Kensington
The driver's seat
Robinson
The Comforters
The Mandelbaum Gate
Classic Detective Stories
The hothouse by the East River
The takeover
Reality and dreams
Symposium
The finishing school
Not to disturb
John Masefield
Territorial rights
The ballad of Peckham Rye
Doctors of philosophy
Child of light
Memento Mori
The stories of Muriel Spark
The very fine clock
Collected stories
Open to the public
Public Image, the
Muriel Spark Ominibus 1
Collected poems
Only Problem, the
Emily Bronte
The informed air
The Bronte Letters
The complete short stories
El asiento del conductor
All the Poems
Voices at play
Mary Shelly (Biography & Memoirs)
Jung gesellen =
All the poems of Muriel Spark
All the stories of Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark Omnibus 2
Frau Dr. Wolfs Methode
Las voces
Collected stories
Complete Short Stories
A Muriel Spark trio
Muriel Spark omnibus
Complete Poems
Curriculum Vitae: a Volume of Autobiography
Collected Stories, the
The golden fleece
The Essence of the Brontës
The Go-away Bird and Other Stories
The ghost stories of Muriel Spark
Authors' ghosts
A good comb
Collected Stories I
Spark's Satire
Na publiku
A hundred and eleven years without a chauffeur
Voices at play
COLLECTED POEMS I
Banquete
Collected poems
Collected Stories I.
Hanging Judge
Collected stories of Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark Omnibus 4
2 By Muriel Spark
ALL THE POEMS
Ḥilufe mishmarot
Essence of the Brontës
Author's ghosts
Memento mori [and] The girls of slender means
Leaf-Sweeper
Essence of the Brontes
Tribute to Wordsworth
Child of Light
Observing Eye
Voices at play
Golden Fleece
ENCUBRIDORES, LOS
The snobs
Gong mou
The novels of Muriel Spark
The Novels of Muriel Spark
Voices at Play
Walking on air
Observing Eye
Collected Stories 1
The Folio Book of Comic Short Stories
Collected stories ...
Informed Air
Collected Poems
Collected Poems I
Spark's Europe
Las Voces / the Comforters
Ouvert au public
Omnibus 3
Going up to Sotheby's
Harper and Wilton
A bonne école
Mary Shelley. Die Schöpferin des Frankenstein.
Päng päng, du bist tot und andere Geschichten
Quest for Lavishes Ghast
Collected Stories 1
The Fanfarlo, and other verse
The Portobello road and other stories
Memento mori, and The ballad of Peckham Rye
Two by Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Selected stories
Bang-Bang You're Dead
The French window
L'image publique
Aiding and Abetting
Intentions suspectes
Novels of Muriel Spark
Collected poems I
Novels of Muriel Spark Vols. 1-2
L'unique problème
Collected stories I
Les Célibataires
Die Lehrerin
Tim Jeal
Tim Jeal (born 1945)

biographer

  • University of Oxford, Westminster School

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Livingstone
Stanley
Swimming with my father
Explorers of the Nile
For God and glory
Until the colors fade
The missionary's wife
Baden-Powell
A marriage of convenience
The boy-man
Deep Water
Cushing's crusade
Until the colours fade
Somewhere beyond reproach
Carnforth's creation
Explorers of the Nile
For love or money
For Love or Money
Un Amour irlandais
Deep Water a Pbp
Hermann Glaser
Hermann Glaser (1928-2018)

opinion journalist, cultural historian, biographer, essayist, historian, philosopher

  • University of Bristol

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"Ach!"
Wege der deutschen Literatur
Maschinenwelt und Alltagsleben
Bundes Republikanisches Lesebuch
The German mind of the nineteenth century
Deutsche Kultur, 1945-2000
Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts in Motiven
Kleine Kulturgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945-1989
Die Kulturgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Die Nürnberger Massenverhaftung
Fluchtpunkt Jahrhundertwende
Das Dritte Reich
Wie Hitler den deutschen Geist zerstörte
Wege der deutschen Literatur
Spießer-Ideologie
Museum und demokratische Gesellschaft
Aus den Trümmern zur Post-Moderne
Weshalb heisst das Bett nicht Bild?
Sexualität und Aggression
Die Kultur der Wilhelminischen Zeit
Kleine Kulturgeschichte Deutschlands im 20. Jahrhundert
Von der Kultur der Leute
Soviel Anfang war nie
Bildungsbürgertum und Nationalismus
Kleine deutsche Kulturgeschichte
Von der Moderne der Renaissance
Bundesrepublikanisches Lesebuch
Tageszeiten, ein Lesebuch zur Geschichte des Alltags
Im Packeis des Unbehagens
What remains, what lies ahead
Die Wiedergewinnung des Ästhetischen
Die Kulturstadt und die Zukunft der Industriegesellschaft
Deutsche Kultur
Sigmund Freud et l'âme du XXe siècle
1945
Kleine Geschichte der modernen Weltliteratur
Das o ̈ffentliche Deutsch
Gedanken zur Reform der höheren Schule
Jugend-Stil, Stil der Jugend
Grundfragen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Ein Lesebuch
Cultural Roots of National Socialism
Erfolgreiche Wundbehandlung. Aus der Praxis anthroposophisch erweiterter Krankenpflege
Die Bundesrepublik zwischen Restauration und Rationalismus
Drama - Theater - Kommunikation
Jugend zwischen Aggression und Apathie
Die Post in ihrer Zeit
Bürgerrecht Kultur
Radikalität und Scheinradikalität
Eros in der Politik
Der sadistische Staat
Kleine Kulturgeschichte der Gegenwart
Ein deutsches Bilderbuch 1870-1918
Nationalsozialismus und Demokratie
Kleine deutsche Kulturgeschichte von 1945 bis heute
Jenseits von Parkinson
Das öffentliche Deutsch
The rubble years
Urbanistik
Team Teaching--konkret
Behagen und Unbehagen in der Kulturpolitik
Der Gartenzwerg in der Boutique
Das öffentliche Deutsch
Die Mauer Steht, Die Mauer Lie
Bundesrepublikanisches Lesebuch
Kleinstadt-Ideologie
Der sadistische Staat
Adolf Hitlers Hetzschrift "Mein Kampf"
Das Verschwinden der Arbeit
Die 50er Jahre
Das Dritte Reiche
Spurensuche
Ins Land der Franken fahren ...
Protest der Jugend
Kulturgeschichte der deutschen Eisenbahn
Spurensuche
Protest der Jugend
Kleine Kulturgeschichte der Gegenwart
Aus den trummern zurpost-moderne
Steven Pressman
Steven Pressman (born 1955)

journalist, biographer

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Fifty major economists
50 Children
50 children
Outrageous betrayal
ETHICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE; ED. BY KARL WIDERQUIST
Fifty Major Economists
How Social Forces Impact the Economy
Fifty Major Economists
Alternative theories of state
Poverty in America
Alternative Theories of the State
Quesnay's Tableau économique
Empirical post Keynesian economics
Fifty Major Economists (Routledge Key Guides)
Post Keynesian and ecological economics
Interactions in Political Economy
Economics and its discontents
Kitty Kelley
Kitty Kelley (born 1942)

journalist, biographer

  • University of Washington

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The Royals
Oprah
The Family
His Way
Nancy Reagan
Jackie Oh!
Elizabeth Taylor, the last star
Capturing Camelot
The Royals
La Familia
Oprah La Biografia
The Family - The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
Jackie Oh!
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor, the last star
A Su Manera: Biografia No Autorizada De Frank Sinatra/His Way
Nancy Reagan
Nancy Reagan
Die Royals:Glanz Und Elend Einer Englischen Familie
The glamour spas
Nancy Regan
Last Star
The royals
His way
Elizabeth Taylor, the last star
De familie Bush
Los Windsor
La Maison Windsor
Oprah