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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
Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong (born 1944)

theologian, Islamicist, historian of religion

  • University of Oxford

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Muhammad
St. Paul
A history of God
The great transformation
The Spiral Staircase
Islam
The Case for God
The Gospel according to woman
Jerusalem
Holy war
The Bible
A Short History of Myth
The battle for God
Pocket Canons Bible II
Fields of Blood
In the Beginning
Through the narrow gate
Visions of God
Buddha
A Short History of Myth (Canongate Myths)
The Lost Art of Scripture
Gospel According to Woman, The
Remembering Karelia
The History of God CD
Tongues of Fire
Jerusalem CD
Living Into Hope
Freedom from Fear
Pocket Canons Bible II
Feminist theology
Islam (Universal History)
Beginning the world
The Bible A Biography
Una Historia De Dios/ A History of God
Fields of blood
The Battle For God CD
The Case for God
Mahoma
A Short History of Myth (Myths, The)
Buddha (Lives)
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Campos de sangre
Le Bouddha
The end of silence
Le combat pour Dieu
The Future of God
History of Jerusalem
A Short History of Myth
Francis of Assisi
Lost Art of Scripture
Breve Historia Del Mito
Every Eye Beholds You
The Myths Series Collection : Books 1-3
Buddha
Historia De Jerusalen / Jerusalem
Muhammad
Muhammad Prophet For Our Time
The Battle for God
San Pablo
Sacred Nature
Historia de la biblia
The changing face of God
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
El Islam/ Islam (Breve Historia Universal / Brief Universal History)
Jerusalen
The Myths
Shifting Ground and Cultural Bodies
The Case for God
Holy War
St Paul
Kleine Geschichte des Islam
Sacred Nature
Buddha
La Escalera De Caracol/ the Spiral Staircase
Short History of Myth, A (The Myths)
St Paul
Pladoyer Fur Gott
Resisting modernity
Shifting ground and cultured bodies
Tongues of fire
Sacred
Jerusalem:One City,Three Faiths
Las preguntas siguen
The Great Transformation
The Bible
Una Historia de Dios
In the Beginning
Die Botschaft
From the Heart
Angel Eyes
Short History of Myth
Breu història de l'islam
BIBLE: A BIOGRAPHY
A Short History of Myth
Los Origenes del Fundamentalismo En El Judaismo, El Cristianismo y El Islam
Une brève histoire des mythes
The Bible
El Islam / Islam
Maum ui chinbo
Een Geschiedenis van god
Musalmanon ka siyasi uruj o zaval
Tanri Adina Savas
In the Beginning
Keto Diet for Women Over 50
Em Nome de Deus (Em Portuguese do Brasil)
Spiral Staircase
Twelve steps to a compassionate life
Tanrı Savunusu
Battle for God
El arte perdido de las Escrituras
Fields of blood
En defensa de Dios
Hz.Muhammed
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Starting A Cake Business
Coming Back to Life
History of Jerusalem
The great transformation
Muhammad
Incil
Is the recommended dose of plant food the most appropriate for the plant in the case of cress(Lepidium sativum) plants
Bible
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
On the Bible
The First Christian
Una historia de Dios
Fields of Blood
A Life of Christ
Im Namen Gottes
Religion
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
Mahoma. Biografía del Profeta
History of God
Historia de la Biblia
Islam
In the Beginning
Die Geschichte von Gott
Religion
Through the Narrow Gate
MuhammadSangNabi : SebuahBiografiKritis [Muhammad
Doce pasos hacia una vida compasiva
In the Beginning
Een Geschiedenis van god
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Spiral Staircase
Bible
Gospel Accord Woman
Los orígenes del fundamentalismo en el judaísmo, el cristianismo y el islam
Een Geschiedenis van god
History of God CD SP
De wenteltrap
The Great Transformation The Beginning of our Religious Traditions Unabridged
Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews
Muhammad
Mitlerin Kisa Tarihi
Büyük Dönüşüm
Breve historia del mito
Tanri'nin Tarihi
Blood Red Roses
El Islam
Short History of Myth, A
Xue tian
Istori︠i︡a Boga
La gran transformación
Buddha
The English mystics of the fourteenth century
Historia de Jerusalén
muhammod mohanobi saw er jiboni bangla
Sejarah Tuhan
Berperang demi Tuhan
Dějiny Boha
Istorii͡a Boga
The battle for God
The spirit of Palestine
Wijsheid
ha-Hisṭoryah shel Elohim
Shen de li shi
Histoire de Dieu
Twelve steps to a compassionate life
Los orígenes del fundamentalismo
Bitva za Boga
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
Richard Lourie
Richard Lourie (born 1940)

translator, opinion journalist, journalist, columnist, historian

  • Boston University, University of California, Berkeley

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Putin
First loyalty
Sakharov
Hunting the devil
Zero gravity
The autobiography of Joseph Stalin
Letters to the future
Predicting Russia's future
Staln, LA Novela
Joop
Russia speaks
A Hatred for Tulips
Sagittarius in Warsaw
Le démon de Rostov
A Hatred for Tulips
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz
Stalin
Stalin. Die geheimen Aufzeichnungen des Jossif Wissarionowitsch Dschugaschwili
Moi, Staline
Stalin - La Novela
Hunting the Devil-22.00
Autobiografia Stalina
Charles Nicholl
Charles Nicholl (born 1950)

journalist, historian, biographer, singer

  • University of Cambridge

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The lodger
The Lodger Shakespeare
The reckoning
The Sea
The creature in the map
Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind
Borderlines
Somebody else
The Chemical Theatre
The Fruit Palace
Screaming In The Castle
A cup of news
Elizabethan writers
The lodger Shakespeare
Journeys
Leonardo da Vinci
Rimbaud En Africa
Zones frontières
La Ruta de La Coca
Reckoning
Leonardo da Vinchi
Wild Things
INTERRUPTED LIVES IN LITERATURE; ED. BY ANDREW MOTION
Reckoning 24 Copy Bin
Leonardo. Los Vuelos de La Mente
Anthology
לאונרדו דה וינצ׳י
Leonardo da Vinci
Traces Remain
Somebody Else
Rimbaud na África
Borderlines
The Fruit Palace
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Untitled
Paul Veyne
Paul Veyne (1930-2022)

historian, translator

  • Lycée Thiers, École Normale Supérieure

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Seneca
Did the Greeks believe in their myths?
The Roman Empire
Roman erotic elegy
L' élégie érotique romaine
Pain et le cirque
Writing history ; essay on epistemology
Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes?
Les mystères du gynécée
Foucault, his thought, his character
Le quotidien et l'intéressant
René Char en ses poèmes
Comment on écrit l'histoire
Le pain et le cirque
Foucault, sa pens{e, sa personne
L' empire gréco-romain
L' inventaire des différences
Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien, (312-394)
La société romaine
Le pain et le cirque
Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leur mythes?
Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes?
Comment on écrit l'histoire
Propagande expression roi, image idole oracle
Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien (312-394)
Did the Greeks believe in their myths?
Die Römische Gesellschaft
Palmyra
L' inventaire des différences
Glaubten die Griechen an ihre Mythen?
Foucault
Writing history
When our world became Christian, 312-394
Et dans l'éternité, je ne m'ennuierai pas
Palmyra
La Elegia Erotica Romana
Lec̜on inaugurale faite le vendredi 5 mars 1976
Sexe et pouvoir à Rome
When our world became Christian, 312-394
Creyeron Los Griegos En Sus Mitos ?
L' Empire gréco-romain
Mon musée imaginaire, ou, Les chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture italienne
I greci hanno creduto ai loro miti?
Comment on e crit l'histoire
Seneca y El Estoicismo
Sobre El Individuo
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
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