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Tim Page
Tim Page (born 1954)

music critic, literary critic, biographer, journalist

  • Columbia University, Mannes College The New School for Music

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Parallel play
Dawn Powell
Music from the road
What's God Got to Do with It?
Selected letters of dawn powell
Carnegie Hall treasures
Tim Page on music
Selected letters of dawn powell
The Hip pocket guide to Los Angeles
Tim Page on Music
Parallel play
Party punches
The Hip pocket guide to New York City
Music from the Road
Tim Page on Music
William Kapell
Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell
The Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson
Instants de grâce
Virgil Thomson
Morton Gould
Party Punches
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952-1997)

journalist, editor-in-chief

  • Lycée Condorcet

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Scaphandre et le papillon
Le Scaphanore Et Le Papillon
Le scaphandre et le papillon
Schmetterling und Taucherglocke
The Diving-bell and the Butterfly
La escafandra y la mariposa
The diving bell and the butterfly
Schmetterling und Taucherglocke. Großdruck
Diving Bell & Butterfly
Raoul Lévy
Vlinders in een duikerpak
Christina Lamb
Christina Lamb (born 1965)

journalist, biographer

  • University of Oxford

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Small Wars Permitting
I am Malala
The sewing circles of Herat
House of stone
The Africa house
Waiting for Allah
Farewell Kabul : from Afghanistan to a more dangerous world
I Am Malala
Farewell Kabul
Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair
The Girl from Aleppo
THE SEWING CIRCLES OF HERAT. My Afghan Years.
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields
Nuestros cuerpos, sus batallas
Our Bodies Their Battlefield
Jo sóc la Malala
Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless
Ich bin Malala
Drones, Baby, Drones
One Day in April
Ik ben Malala
Painting the Amazon
Looking for Trouble : 'One of the Truly Great War Correspondents
Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi (born 1954)

professor, literary critic, faculty member, public figure, journalist

  • University of Oklahoma

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Reading Lolita in Tehran
Things I've Been Silent About
The republic of imagination
Shirin Neshat
Reading Lolita in Tehran
READING \"LOLITA\" IN TEHRAN
Republic of Imagination
Read Dangerously
Things I've been silent about : memories of a prodigal daughter
Leer Lolita En Teheran
That Other World
Things I've Been Silent About - Memories of a Prodigal Daughter
Leer Lolita en Teherán
Leer 'Lolita' En Teheran / Reading Lolita In Teheran
Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies (1848-1887)

poet, journalist

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The story of my heart
Bevis
The Open Air
Wild life in a southern county
Nature near London
The Life of the Fields
Hodge and His Masters
The Amateur Poacher
Field and hedgerow
After London
The toilers of the field
Red deer
The gamekeeper at home
After London or Wild England
Wood magic
Landscape with figures
Round about a great estate
Amaryllis at the fair
The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography
Bevis, the story of a boy
World's end
The hills and the vale
After London: Or, Wild England
The Scarlet Shawl: A Novel
The pageant of summer
Wild Life in a Southern Country
Class, power, and ideology in Ghana
At Home on the Earth
Wood Magic
Bevis
Wood Magic: A Fable
Jefferies' Land: A History of Swindon and Its Environs
Hodge and His Masters
Heavy Weather
Restless human hearts
Walks In The Wheatfields
Restless Human Hearts V3
Jefferies' land
The story of my heart
A memoir of the Goddards of North Wilts
Summer in the woods
Landscape & labour
The dewy morn
The gamekeeper at home ; the amateur poacher
The early fiction of Richard Jefferies
The old house at Coate
The Story of My Heart An Autobiography
A classic of English farming
Amaryllis at the Fair: A Novel
The Story of my Heart - My Autobiography
Bevis, the story of a boy
The Gamekeeper At Home - Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life
An English Village
The Amateur Poacher - Poachers and Poaching
Chronicles of the hedges
A rook book
Richard Jefferies Centenary
The story of my heart. An Autobiography With- The Pageant of Summer
Jefferies' England
A classic of English farming
The Dewy Morn: A Novel
Round About a Great Estate, and The Pageant of Summer
The amateur poacher
Richard Jefferies
Thoughts from the writings of Richard Jefferies
Readings for Native People of North America
Bevis: the story of a boy
Bits of oak bark
The gamekeeper at home
Greene Ferne Farm
Chronicles of the hedges and other essays
The wood from the trees
The spring of the year
Hodge And His Masters V1
Country vignettes
Under the Acorns
Amaryllis at the fair [Book]
The pageant of summer
Memoir of the Goddards of North Wilts
Jefferies' countryside
Amateur Poacher Annotated
Field and Hedgerow
Sea, sky, & down
Beauty is immortal (Felise of "The dewy morn")
The Gamekeeper at Home, Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life [Signed R.J.]
The story of my heart
Jeffries' land, a history of Swindon and its environs
Field and Hedgerow Annotated
Return to Jefferies' land
After London Illustrated
After London Annotated
Amaryllis At The Fair
Amateur Poacher(annotated)
Beloved Land
HNC horticulture conifer study pack
The old house at Coate, and other hitherto unpublished essays
Jefferies' England; nature essays
Saint Guido
Gamekeeper at Home
Red Deer
Hours of spring and Wild flowers
Out-of-doors with Richard Jefferies
Wild flowers
The pageant of Summer, and other essays
Eye of the beholder
Amateur Poacher Illustrated
The Jefferies companion
After London (Illustrated)
After London
After London - Large Print
After London and Amaryllis at the fair
The sun and the earth
The nature diaries and note-books of Richard Jefferies
Field and Hedgerow - Publishing People Series
Richard Jefferies' London
Amateur Poacher
The scarlet shawl
A Book of rooks
Field and farm
The makers of summer
Richard Jefferies, selections of his work
Field sports in art
The hills and the vale
Bevis & Mark
The story of my heart
Bevis at home
A Richard Jefferies anthology
An English Village: A New Ed. of Wild Life in a Southern County
Field and hedgerow
The nature diaries and note-books of Richard Jefferies
The hills and the vale
A little book of nature thoughts
The story of my heart
Meadow thoughts
Bevis
Greene Ferne Farm
Bevis & Mark, from Bevis
The pageant of summer
The birth of a naturalist
The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life
By the brook
Nature near London...
The amateur poacher
After London
The toilers of the field
The story of my heart; my autobiography
Nature and eternity
Hours of spring
The toilers of the field
The essential Richard Jefferies
The amateur poacher ...
The story of my heart, my autobiography
The Farmer's World
Green Ferne Farm
Beauty is immortal (Felise of 'The dewy morn')
The story of my heart [my autobiography] ed. with the first draft of the author's manuscript and an introd. and notes by Samuel J. Looker
Round about a great estate
Saint Guido
By the brook
The water colley
The pageant of summer
Ester Armanino
Ester Armanino (born 1981)

journalist, architect

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Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013)

journalist, diplomat, literary critic, autobiographer, literary editor, television presenter

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Mein Leben
Deutsche Literatur in West und Ost
Nachprüfung
Entgegnung. Zur deutschen Literatur der siebziger Jahre
Thomas Bernhard
Mehr als ein Dichter
Lauter Verrisse
Meine Geschichten
Zwischen Diktatur und Literatur
Meine Bilder
Der Fall Heine
Meine Gedichte
Erst leben, dann spielen
Kritik als Beruf
Thomas Mann und die Seinen
Thomas Mann and his family
Unser Grass
Günter Grass
und alle Fragen offen
Über Ruhestörer
Wer schreibt, provoziert
Vladimir Nabokov
Auch dort erzählt Deutschland
Herz, Arzt und Literatur
Literarisches Leben in Deutschland
Über Amerikaner
Ungeheuer oben
Wolfgang Koeppen
Max Frisch
Martin Walser
Der romantische Prophet
Aus persönlicher Sicht
Die verkehrte Krone
Ohne Rabatt
Der doppelte Boden
Nichts als Literatur
Vom Tag Gefordert
Zur Literatur der DDR
Verteidigung der Zukunft
Über Literaturkritik
Heine und die Liebe
Goethe noch einmal. Reden und Anmerkungen
Lauter schwierige Patienten
Sieben Wegbereiter
Nachpruefung
Die Anwälte der Literatur
Gesichtete Zeit
Aus pers onlicher Sicht
Entgegnung
Lauter Lobreden
Reden auf Hilde Spiel
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.20
Lauter Verrisse. Mit einem einleitenden Essay
Wir sitzen alle im gleichen Zug
Die Ungeliebten; sieben Emigranten
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.11
Literatur der kleinen Schritte. Deutsche Schriftsteller in den sechziger Jahren
Deutsch literatur in west und ost
Über Hilde Spiel
Notwendige Geschichten 1933-1945
Guenter Grass
Literatur der kleinen Schritte
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.18
Frauen dichten anders. Sonderausgabe. 181 Gedichte mit Interpretationen
Ein Gespräch mit Wolfgang Koeppen
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.19
Ma vie
Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen. Deutsche Gedichte und ihre Interpretationen
Insel Taschenbücher, Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen
Ungeheuer oben. Über Bertolt Brecht
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.24
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.21
Los Abogados De La Literatura
Thomas Mann und die Seinen. ( Literaturwissenschaft)
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.10
Mein Leben. Großdruck
Ueber Ruhestoerer
Wer screibt, provoziert
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.17
The king and his rival
"Lieber Marcel"
Die jüdische Welt von gestern 1860-1938. Text- und Bild- Zeugnisse aus Mitteleuropa
Deutsche Erzaehler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Band 1, Von Joseph Roth bis Hermann Burger
1400 Deutsche Gedichte und ihre Interpretationen. Chronologisch von Walther von der Vogelweide bis Durs Grünbein
In Sachen Boll
Romane von gestern, heute gelesen II. 1918 - 1933
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.23
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.12
Meine Schulzeit im Dritten Reich. Erinnerungen deutscher Schriftsteller
Frankfurter Anthologie 25. Gedichte und Interpretationen
Notwendige Geschichten
Anbruch der Gegenwart; deutsche Geschichten 1900-1918
Profile, Bd.3, Hilde Spiel
Mehr als ein Dichter. Über Heinrich Böll
Deutsche Erzähler des 20. Jahrhunderts, Ld, 2 Bde., Von Joseph Roth bis Hermann Burger
Marcel Reich-Ranicki antwortet auf 99 Fragen
Der Kanon
Meine Schulzeit im Dritten Reich
Meine Schulzeit im Dritten Reich
Thomas Mann Y Los Suyos
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.16
Täter und Denker. Profile und Probleme von Cäsar bis Jünger
Joseph Roth
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.7
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.22
Was halten Sie von Thomas Mann?
Más que un poeta
Verteidigung der Zukunft
Deutsche Erzaehler des 20. Jahrhunderts, Band 2, Von Arthur Schnitzler bis Robert Musil
Frankfurter Anthologie, Bd.1
Kleine Schriften Bd. I Musterung
Deutsche Erzähler des 20. Jahrhunderts
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov (born 1963)

chess player, politician, journalist, critic

  • Azerbaijan University of Languages

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Velikoe protivostoi͡anie
Unlimited challenge
Checkmate!
Winter is coming
24 lecciones de ajedrez
On my great predecessors
The Sicilian scheveningen
Garry Kasparov on my great predecessors
Caro-Kann , classical 4 ... (B)f5
Moi velikie predshestvenniki
Batsford chess openings
Toxic precision
Sicilian-- e6 and-- d6 systems
Fighting chess
Kasparov Vs Karpov 19861987 Modern Chess
Fighting chess
Moi velikie predshestvenniki
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov
How life imitates chess
Deep thinking
Garry Kasparov on Fischer
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1
London-Leningrad championship games
How Life Imitates Chess
Batsford chess openings 2
Modern Chess Series, Part 1
Lessons In Chess
Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part 2
My games
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 5 (My Great Predecessors)
Debiutnaia revoliutsiia 70-kh [The Debut Revolution of 70s]
Garry Kasparov's chess puzzle book
New world chess champion
Kasparov teaches chess
El Campeon Ensena Ajedrez
Moi Velikie Predshestvenniki: V Shesti Tomakh: V 7 TomakhTom 4: Fisher i Zvezdy Zapada[My great predeccessors: In seven volumes: Volume four: Fischer and the western stars]
Kasparov on the King's Indian
La pasión del Ajedrez
The test of time
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov's Chess Puzzle Book
Gari Kasparov 1981-1984
Child of change
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov
New in Chess Yearbook
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 3 (My Great Predecessors)
How life imitates chess
Sicilian
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 2
Garry Kasparov's Chess Challenge
24 lecciones de ajedrez / 24 Chess Lessons (Coleccion Jaque Mate / Jaque Mate Collection)
Caro-Kann
How life imitates chess
La vie est une partie d'échecs
The Attacker's Advantage
Shi jie guan jun jiao ni Xi Yang qi
Kasparov's Greatest Games
Deep Thinking
La Defensa Caro-Kann
Shakhmaty kak modelʹ zhizni
Waarom het leven op schaken lijkt
Fighting Chess
Mis geniales predecesores
My Games (An Americans Chess Promotions Chess Book.)
Velikoe protivostoi︠a︡nie
Child of Change
The centenary match: Kasparov - Karpov III
The blueprint
The Ultimate Grandmaster
Sit͡s︡ilianskai͡a︡ zashchita, Skheveningen
Learn chess with Gary Kasparov
Kasparov v. Karpov, 1990
Garry Kasparov's fighting chess
¡Jaque mate!: iniciación al ajedrez para niños
L'épreuve du temps
Batsford Chess Openings
New in Chess Yearbook
Ispytanie vremenem
Kasparov commente
New in Chess Yearbook (Supplement to New in Chess Magazine Series)
Garry Kasparov's Fighting Chess
L'est indienne entre les mains de Kasparov
Zou dui xia yi bu
Classical Caro-Kann
Learn Chess With Garry Kasparov
Batsford Chess Openings II
My sozdaëm v Rossii realʹnui︠u︡ oppozit︠s︡ii︠u︡