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Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022)

journalist, historian, essayist, peace activist, politician, immunologist, opinion journalist, political activist, feminist

  • Reed College, The Rockefeller University
Living with a wild god
Bait and Switch
For her own good
The Snarling Citizen
Witches, midwives, and nurses
Nickel and Dimed
Complaints and disorders
The hearts of men
Dancing in the Streets
Long march, short spring
This land is their land
The worst years of our lives
Global woman
Blood rites
Fear of falling
Re-making love
Kipper's game
The American health empire
Bright-sided
Fear of falling
Had I Known
Bright-sided
Natural causes
Living with a Wild God
Bright-sided
Maid
Divided
Bright-sided
L' Amérique pauvre
On achève bien les cadres
Power Trip
Die Herzen der Männer
Maid
sonrie o muere
This Land Is Their Land
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
The American health empire: power, profits, and politics
Natural causes
Blood Rites
Socières, sages-femmes et infirmières ; une histoire de femmes et de la médecine
Smile or die
Complaints and disorders
Kipper's Game
Had I Known
Witches, midwives and nurses
Sorcières, sages-femmes et infirmières
The American helath empire
Sex Trafficking and Global Woman
Arbeit poor. Unterwegs in der Dienstleistungsgesellschaft
The American Health Empire
Des experts et des femmes
Hexen Hebammen Und Krankenschwestern
Living with a Wild God
Maid Lib/E
Por cuatro duros
Ritos De Sangue. Um Estudo Sobre As Origens Da Guerra (Em Portuguese do Brasil)
Sūpā ritchi to sūpā pua no kuni Amerika
Illusion of Control
Untitled Ehrenreich 1/1 Nonfiction On Welfare
Smile Or Die
Witches, Midwives & Nurses
Sorcières, sages-femmes et infirmières
The manufacture of housework
Drone Warfare
Microeconomics, Study Guide And Nickle & Dimed
At the Heart of Work and Family
Criada
Kipper's Game
Going to Extremes
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
Blood Rites
Bait and switch
Saglik Salgini
Witches, midwives, and nurses
Kipper's Game
Sokaklarda Dans
The worst years of ourlives : irreverent notes from a decade of greed
The revolt of the middle classes
Fear of Falling
This Land Is Their Land
Natural Causes
Microeconomics, Nickel And Dimed, And Aplia Activation Card
Natural Causes
Por cuatro duros
Bright-Sided
Natural Causes
Witches, midwives and nurses
Bait and Switch
Lost Ground
Had I Known
Microeconomics, Nickel & Dimed, Aplia Activation Card, & Agricultural Economics
Criada
The national conference on socialist feminism
Living with a Wild God
For Her Own Good
Criada
Criada
Sorginak, emaginak eta erizainak
Hexen, Hebammen und Krankenschwestern
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States & Nickle and Dimed
Global Woman
Bright-sided
The Social Animal + Nickel And Dimed
Sex Trafficking & Global Woman
Thomas Cahill
Thomas Cahill (1940-2021)

historian

  • Columbia University, Fordham University
A saint on death row
Desire of the Everlasting Hills
The gifts of the Jews
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Sailing the wine-dark sea
Mysteries of the Middle Ages
Pope John XXIII
How the Irish saved civilization
Heretics and Heroes
The Gifts of the Jews (The Hinges of History)
A literary guide to Ireland
Sailing the wine-dark sea
The Gift of the Jews
The Gifts of the Jews (Hinges of History)
Luke
El Deseo De Las Colinas Eternas/Desire of the Everlasting Hills
Pope John XXIII (Lives) (Lives)
How the Irish saved civilisation
Wie die Iren die Zivilisation retteten
Juan Xxiii (Vita Breve)
De cómo los Irlandeses salvaron la civilización
Abrahams Welt. Wie das jüdische Volk die westliche Zivilisation erfand
Big city stories by modern American writers
Gunnar's Daughter
The gifts of the Jews
de Como Los Irlandeses Salvaron La Civilizacion
Los Dones de Los Judios
De cómo los irlandeses salvaron la civilización
Dankzij de Ieren
COMO OS IRLANDESES SALVARAM A CIVILIZAÇÃO - A Heróica Contribuição daIrlanda Entre a Queda de Roma e o Surgimento da Europa Medieval -(EURO 23.04)
DÁDIVA (A) DOS JUDEUS - Como uma Tribo do Deserto Moldou Nosso Modo dePensar -(EURO 25.14)
Jak Irové zachránili civilizaci
Desire of the everlasting hills
HERANÇA (A) JUDAICA - Como uma Tribo de Nómadas do Deserto Mudou o Modocomo Todos Nós Pensamos e Sentimos -(EURO 15.96)
James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson (born 1936)

historian

  • Gustavus Adolphus College, Johns Hopkins University
To the Best of My Ability
Battle Cry of Freedom
For cause and comrades
Ordeal by Fire
The American journey
The Negro's Civil War
Hallowed Ground
What if?
Ordeal by Fire
Embattled Rebel
The War that Forged a Nation
Crossroads of freedom
Abraham Lincoln and the second American Revolution
The struggle for equality
What they fought for, 1861-1865
Tried by war
Civil War (1860-1865), Volume 1
Fields of fury
Gettysburg
The abolitionist legacy
Marching toward freedom
The hammer and the anvil
Drawn With The Sword
Tried by War
Why the Confederacy lost
Abraham Lincoln
Is blood thicker than water?
Hearts touched by fire
The Atlas of the Civil War
Writing the Civil War
Civil War (1860-1865), Volume 2
The Democratic Experience
We Cannot Escape History
Encyclopedia of Civil War Biographies, Volume 1
This mighty scourge
Liberty, Equality, Power
The most fearful ordeal
The Enigmatic South
Battle chronicles of the Civil War
The American Journey
Encyclopedia of Civil War Biographies, Volume 8
Blacks in America
Liberty, equality, power
War on the waters
American Heritage History of the Civil War
Region, race, and Reconstruction
Treasures of the Civil War
Into the West
How Lincoln won the war with metaphors
Marching toward freedom
Thomson Advantage Books
Cengage Advantage Books : Liberty, Equality, Power
Negro's Civil War
AP Sg Liberty Equality Power
Battle Chronicles Of The Civil War
Lamson of the Gettysburg
Discovering Our Past
A Very Civil War
Reveille in Washington 1860 - 1865 (In Slip Case)
Ordeal by Fire
The American Journey, Florida Student Edition
Liberty, Equality, Power Volume II Southwest Tennessee Community College (Liberty, Equality, Power Southwest Tennessee Community College Volume II Since 1863, Volume 2)
The Civil War, 1860-1865 (Vol. 1 & 2)
Discovering Our Past A History of The United States Early Years Teacher Edition
Battle Chronicles of the Civil War
Liberty, equality, power
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Marching toward freedom the negro in the civil war
Bundle: Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Volume 2: Since 1863, Loose-leaf Version, 7th + MindTap History, 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card
Fields of Honor
Bundle : Liberty, Equality, Power
Cengage Advantage Books : Liberty, Equality, Power : A History of the American People, Volume 1
Receding Tide
Liberty, equality, power
Days of destiny
Cengage Advantage Books : Liberty, Equality, Power : A History of the American People, Volume 2
The American presidents
Fur Die Freiheit Sterben: Die Geschichte des Amerikanischen Burgerkrieges
Gettysburg battlefield
The American Vision
Summer's Bloodiest Days
Co. Aytch : The First Tennessee Regiment or a Side Show to the Big Show
Für die Freiheit sterben
Liberty, Equality, and Power Vol. 1
Liberty, equality, power
Liberty, equality, power
Liberty, equality, power
Lincoln and the Millennium
Drawn with the Sword
Abraham Lincoln And The Second American Revolution
Images of the Civil War
Ordeal by Fire
Impact California Social Studies United States History & Geography
Battle Cry of Freedom Part 1 of 3
The American Journey
The Abolitionist Legacy from Reconstruction to the NAACP
Speeches honoring Abraham Lincoln
Blacks in America; Bibliographical Essays
Liberty, equality, power
Liberty, equality, power
Liberty, equality, power
La Guerre de Sécession
Battle Cry Of Freedom   Part 3 Of 3
Liberty, equality, power
Civil War Set
Copperheads
Battle Cry of Freedom Part 2 of 3
Liberty, Equality, and Power Vol. 1
HistoryUnbound : Interactive Explorations in History for Murrin/Johnson/McPherson/Gerstle/Rosenberg/Rosenberg’s Liberty, Equality, and Power
Liberty, Equality, and Power - To 1877 Vol. 1
Liberty, Equality, and Power
BATTLE CHRONICLES OF THE CIVIL WAR/6 VOL SET
Liberty, Equality, Power
Lincoln and the strategy of unconditional surrender
Liberty, Equality, Power : Volume II
Musical Links to the Past CD-ROM for Murrin/Johnson/McPherson/Gerstle/Rosenberg/Rosenberg’s Liberty, Equality, and Power
Battle Chronicles of the Civil War 1864
Liberty, equality, power
Liberty Equality Power : A History of the American People
Liberty, Equality, Power Vol. 2
Liberty, Equality, Power
Liberty, Equality, Power
Hermann Glaser
Hermann Glaser (1928-2018)

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

  • University of Bristol
"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
Maria Janion
Maria Janion (1926-2020)

literary historian, literary critic, activist, translator, literary theorist

  • University of Warsaw
Tragizm, historia, prywatność
Kobiety i duch inności
Projekt krytyki fantazmatycznej
Życie pośmiertne Konrada Wallenroda
Zło i fantazmaty
Odnawianie znaczeń
Günther Grass i polski Pan Kichot
Bohater, spisek, śmierć
Zwierciadła północy
Wobec zła
Żyjąc tracimy życie
Biografie romantyczne
Niesamowita słowiańszczyzna
Płacz generała
Wampir
Polskie pytania o Grassa
Inny, inna, inne
Romantyzm, rewolucja, marksizm
Zygmunt Krasiński
Romantyzm
Gorączka romantyczna
Romantyzm, Janion, fantazmaty
Purpurowy Paszcz Mickiewicza
Honor - Bog - ojczyzna
Romantyzm i jego media
Do Europy
Romantyzm i egzystencja
Lucjan Siemieński, poeta romantyczny
"Czy będziesz wiedział, co przeżyłeʹs"
Romantyzm i historia
Czas formy otwartej
Purpurowy płaszcz Mickiewicza
Hero, Conspiracy, and Death : the Jewish Lectures
Rozmowy na nowy wiek
Style zachowań romantycznych
Polka
Romantyzm, rewolucja, marksizm
Literatura polska wobec rewolucji
Polish-Swedish literary contacts
Positionen polnischer Literaturwissenschaft der Gegenwart
Polskie pytania o Grassa
Humanistyka
Odyseja wychowania
Proces historyczny w literaturze i sztuce
Reduta
Maski
Sprawa Stawrogina
Dzieci
Literatura krajowa w okresie romantyzmu, 1831-1863
Hero, Conspiracy, and Death
Władysław Broniewski w poezji polskiej
Transe, traumy, transgresje
Wobec końca wieku
Lucjan Siemieński
The Jewish colonel
Barry S. Strauss
Barry S. Strauss (born 1953)

historian, classical scholar

  • Yale University, Cornell University
Ten Caesars
Fathers and sons in Athens
The Trojan War
The anatomy of error
The Battle of Salamis
Rowing against the current
Masters of command
The death of Caesar
Western Civilization Beyond Boundaries
Athens after the Peloponnesian War
The Spartacus war
ROWING AGAINST THE CURRENT
The battle of Salamis
Western Civilization Volume II Since 1560
Athens after the Peloponnesian War
Cengage Advantage Books : Western Civilization
War and democracy
Hegemonic rivalry
Western Civilization
The Spartacus War
Salamis
Western Civilization : Beyond Boundaries, Volume II
The Death of Caesar
War That Made the Roman Empire
War and Democracy
Division and conquest, Athens, 403-386 B.C
Athens after the Peloponnesian War
La muerte de César
Trojan War
Fathers and Sons in Athens
War and Democracy : a Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War
Battle of Salamis
Tarihe Yon Veren Buyuk Komutanlar
Salamis Proof
Masters of Command
Western Civilization : Beyond Boundaries, Volume C
Fathers and Sons in Athens
La guerra de Espartaco
Ethnicity and Empire in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Jul Sezar'in Olumu
André Aciman
André Aciman (born 1951)

literary critic, journalist, romanist, literary theorist, literary historian

  • Harvard University, Lehman College
Tell me true
Out of Egypt
Call Me by Your Name
Find Me
False papers
Eight white nights
Enigma variations
The Best American Essays 1999
World Monuments
Letters of transit
Harvard Square
Chiamami col tuo nome
ENCUÉNTRAME
llámame por tu nombre
The Proust project
Eight white nights
Out of Egypt
Alibis
Out of Egypt
Last Summer in the City
Harvard Square
Call Me By Your Name Book Series 2 Books Collection Set By Andre Aciman
ALIBIS
Noem me bij jouw naam
Homo Irrealis
Homo Irrealis
When I first held you
Entrez
Harvard Square
The Maid By Nita Prose, Find Me By André Aciman & Peak Peril By Sharna Jackson 3 Books Collection Set
Letters of transit
Call Me by Your Name
find me
Homo Irrealis
ZnajdĹş mnie - Andre Aciman [KSIÄĹťKA]
Alexandrian Summer
Vind me (Dutch Edition)
Bul Beni
Adinla Cagir Beni
False Papers
Proust Projesi
Out of Egypt
Eight White Nights
Harvard Meydani
Homo Irrealis / Homo Irrealis : the Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been
Lejos de Egipto
Trouve-moi
La Huida de Egipto
Les variations sentimentales
Damals in Alexandria. Erinnerung an eine verschwundene Welt
Out of Egypt
Yi ni de ming zi hu huan wo
Find Me a Novel
Valse papieren
The Proust Project
Sekiz Beyaz Gece
Ocho noches blancas
Call Me by Your Name (Chinese Edition)
Find Me
Variaciones enigma
Justine
Ultima notte ad Alessandria
Alibis
Ieşrea din Egipt
Find Me (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)
The Best American Essays 2020
Ruf mich bei deinem Namen
Llámame por tu nombre
Harvard Square
Enigma Variations
Ai de bian zou qu =
Llamame Por Tu Nombre
Letters of Transit
Eight White Nights
Harvard Square
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born 1950)

essayist, literary critic, genealogist, historian, journalist, philosopher

  • Potomac State College of West Virginia University, Yale University
The Souls of Black Folk
Life upon these shores
The slave's narrative
The classic slave narratives
The Philadelphia Negro
Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Dusk of dawn
The signifying monkey
Loose Canons
Colored people
Gay rebel of the Harlem renaissance
In battle for peace
Wonders of the African world
Transition 75/76. Selections from Transition, 1961-1976
Figures in Black
The Suppression Of The Slave Trade To The United States Of America 1638-1870
The Greatest Taboo
Africa, its geography, people, and products
Africana
The future of the race
The African-American century
Finding Oprah's Roots
America Behind The Color Line
The dictionary of global culture
Reading black, reading feminist
The Classic slave narratives
Black folk
John Brown (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
Stony the Road
The trials of Phillis Wheatley
And Still I Rise
The Black Church
Unchained Memories
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
Gloria Naylor
In Search of Our Roots
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Thirteen ways of looking at a Black man
The Image Of The Black In Western Art
Light of Truth
Tradition and the Black Atlantic
To Make Their Own Way in the World
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
African American Studies
The classic slave narratives
The Image Of The Black In Western Art
Black Lives 1900
Black in Latin America
The White Issue
Philadelphia Negro (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
The Classic Slave Narratives
Black cool
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers
Harlem
Making Futures
Zora Neale Hurston Essays
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
Called to be free
Fateful Triangle
The African American national biography
"Race," writing, and difference
Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography
Gordon Parks Collected Works, 1942-1998
Understanding Jim Crow
Wonders of the African world
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reader
African American national biography
The annotated African American folktales
Portable Anna Julia Cooper
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
100 amazing facts about the Negro
The image of the Black in African and Asian art
Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex
The New Negro Aesthetic
Reconsidering Race
The African Americans
Teaching with the Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Finding Your Roots, Season 2
To Make a Poet Black
In search of Hannah Crafts
Black Literature and Literary Theory
Bearing Witness
The Oxford handbook of African American citizenship
Transition 97/98
Uncle Tom
Black literature, 1827-1940
John Brown (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
Soulfires
Transition 96
May Day at Yale,1970 : Recollections
In Search of Our Roots
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
World and Africa and Color and Democracy (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
New Negro
Faces of America
Dark Sky Rising
Finding your roots
Finding Oprah's Roots
Bearing witness
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisiting New England: The New Regionalism)
Lincoln on Race and Slavery
Cosmopolitanism
African American Studies
Chinua Achebe
Black Church
From Slave to Statesman
Harriet Wilson's New England
The Norton anthology of African American literature
Bearing Witness
13 ways to look at a Black man
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisting New England: the New Regionalism)
The bondwoman's narrative by Hannah Crafts
Ralph Ellison
In search of our roots
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Who's Black and Why?
Philadelphia Negro (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
Stony the Road
Race, Writing and Difference
African American Lives
Colored People
Farbige Zeiten
African American lives
Microsoft Encarta africana
Finding your roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr
America Behind The Color Line
Signifying Monkey
America Behind The Color Line
Reading Black, Reading Feminist
What to Do about Race
Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 1
Signifying Monkey
LIFE Lincoln
The Third World of Theory (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature)
Black America since MLK
COLORED PEOPLE
Truth of Consequences
Image of the Black in Western Art Vol. V
Slave Narratives (college)
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
Africana
Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee
Harriet A. Jacobs
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
The Bondwoman's Narrative
A Chronology of African-American History from 1445-1980
'Race Is Everything'
Finding Your Roots
Four Classic Slave Narratives
Colored People
Signifying Monkey
Image of the Black in Western Art Vol. IV, Pt. 2
African American national biography
Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 2
Black literature and literary theory
The dictionary of global culture
Image of the Black in Western Art Vol. V, Pt. 1
Wole Soyinka
Ann Petry
Dictionary Global Culture
Annotated African American Folktales (the Annotated Books)
Faces of America
Now and Forever Windows by Kerry James Marshall at Washington National Cathedral
Literature, Language, and Politics
A Chronology of African-American History
Stony the Road
Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations
Anthology of African American Literature
Wonders of the African world
Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives
Finding Your Roots
In Search of Hannah Crafts
America beyond the color line
Black Literature and Literary Theory
Our Gang
Modern Liberty
Harriet Jacobs
Balthazar
Dictionary of Global Culture
In Search Of Identity: African American Lives
Ann Petry
Microsoft Encarta africana 2000
Strange Fruit, Volume I
FROM RAGTIME TO RAP
Three Classic African American
In the house of Oshugbo
The Anniversary Issue
Figures in Black
The Norton anthology of African American literature
Gloria Naylor
The Norton Anthology African American Literature
Africana 2003 Engagement Calendar
Call and response
Africana
The Classic Slave Narratives
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reader
Come Sunday
Black Is the Color of the Cosmos
The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
The Essential Soyinka
Afro-American Women Writers