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Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

playwright, philosopher, literary critic, essayist, journalist

  • Saint Petersburg State University

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The Journals of Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Anthem
The Fourth Science Fiction MEGAPACK
The New Left
We the living
The Virtue of Selfishness
For the New Intellectual
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
Capitalism
Letters of Ayn Rand
The Return of the Primitive
The Early Ayn Rand
Night of January 16th
The Romantic Manifesto
The Art of Fiction
The Ayn Rand lexicon
The Night of January 16th (Plume)
Three Plays
The Art of Nonfiction
The New Left
LA BÚSQUEDA DE DIOS
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
The Fountainhead
The Voice of Reason
The Early Ayn Rand: Revised Edition
Philosophy
Russian writings on Hollywood
Anthem
Ayn Rand answers
The Ayn Rand reader
The unconquered
Anthem
Why businessmen need philosophy
Ideal
Ayn Rand's Marginalia
Anthem
Atlas Shrugged
Out of this World
Ideal (Penguin Modern Classics)
Ninety-Three
The romantic manifesto
Atlas Shrugged
Box A Revolta de Atlas - 3 Volumes
La virtud del egoismo/ The Virtue of Selfishness
Anthem
La Source Vive
Philosophy, Who Needs It / Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
The Virtue of Selfishness
ANTHEM (Chump Change Edition)
Anthem
The Night of January 16
Fountainhead
The Virtue of Selfishness
The Virtue of Selfishness
Virtue of Selfishness
The Fountainhead
Anthem
Atlas Shrugged (volume 2 of 3)
Ayn Rand 2-copy set
Der Ursprung
Ayn Rand papers
Anthem Illusarted Edition
Night of January 16th
The Ayn Rand Centennial Collection Boxed Set
Morality of Individualism
The Objectivist Newsletter
The Voice of Reason
Anthem
The Fountainhead. By Ayn Rand. Blakiston Edition
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Gimn
Atlas Silkini Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
La Vertu d'Egoisme
La virtud del egoismo
Anthem Annotated
Ayn Rand's Anthem
Atlas Shrugged (volume 1 of 3)
ANTHEM (Annotated)
Anthem (a Classics Illustrated Edition)
La Greve
Ka-maʻyan ha-mitgaber
Philosphy
We the living
ANTHEM : This Very Special Edition Includes
The Objectivist
Romantic Manifesto
Anthem, the Complete Novel : Book Club Edition
Ayn Rand Anthem
The Romantic Manifesto by Rand, Ayn (1971) Mass Market Paperback
The New Left
La Virtud del Egoismo
Anthem
Anthem Annotated Hard Science Fiction Book
Manantial / the Fountainhead (Spanish Edition)
Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Fountainhead (Part 2, Tapes 14-24 of 24 tape set)
Essays
Philosophy (The Ayn Rand Library)
ANTHEM (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
Fountainhead (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Athem
CAPITALISMO, EL IDEAL DESCONOCIDO
For the New Intellectual
For the new intellectual
VIRTUD DEL EGOISMO, LA
Capitalism, the unknown ideal [by] Ayn Rand, with additional articles by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen
Ayn Rand 2-copy boxed set
Anthem (Annotated)
America's persecuted minority
Ayn Rand Box Set
Anthem (Signet books)
Anthem
los que vivimos
Ideal
THE FOUNTAINHEAD (25th Anniversary Edition)
Atlas zbuntowany
Anthem (Coterie Classics with Free Audiobook)
Anthem by Ayn Rand
קפיטליזם : האידאל
Glossary of Objectivist Definitions
The Fountainhead
La Greve / Atlas Shrugged
Capitalism, the unknown ideal
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Faith and Force
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
The objectivist newsletter
Anthem, the Original Classic
Anthem - Complete Edition
Anthem
El manantial
Atlas Shrugged
Mered ha-nefilim
Philosophie Pour Vivre Sur la Terre
New Left
El Manantial
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. )
Fountainhead (Set)
My zhivye
Ayn Rand's Marginalia
Anthem (Mass Market Paperback)
The Objectivist
Philosophy
Classic Sci-Fi Collection
Atlas Shrugged (volume 3 of 3)
Anthem by Ayn Rand
La Rebelion de Atlas (Obra Completa)
Anthem, by Ayn Rand
Virtue Selfishness
Anthem
The Fountainhead (1943)
Anthem Another Edition
Anthem by Ayn Rand Illustrated Edition
Anthem (Illustrated)
Ayn Rand
Anthem, Large-Print Edition
Capitalism
Return of the Primitive
The Romantic Manifesto. A Philosophy of Literature. Art and Cognition
La nuit du 16 janvier
Dobrodetelʹ ėgoizma
Anthem (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Romantic Manifesto
Filosofía
Anthem: A Short Science Fiction Novel
Anthem
El manantial
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Himno
Istochnik
Not Yet Assigned
Atlas Shrugged
Anthem
Источник
Atlas Shrugged SparkNotes Literature Guide
Screen Guide for Americans
La Rebelion de Atlas
Introducción a la epistemología objetivista. - 1. edición
Anthem
Noch'iu 16 ianvaria
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand Column
Anthem Illustrted
Atlas Shrugged SparkNotes Literature Guide
The Any Rand Sampler
Himno/ Anthem
The Art of Fiction
The Early Ayn Rand
Nous les Vivants
Survival of the Unfittest?
Conservatism
Rope of Sand
Early Ayn Rand Vol. II
Ethics in Education
The objectivist ethics
The Moratorium on Brains
The Fountainhead Part 2 of 2
Sanction of the Victim
Glossary of objectivist definitions
The Ayn Rand letter
Night of January Sixteenth
The Esthetic Vacuum of Our Age
Fiction Writing
Ayn Rand Centennial 16-copy mixed prepack
Ayn Rand Library
What Is Capitalism
De eeuwige bron
Nous Les Vivants
Apollo and Dionysis
Ayn Rand Letter 1971-1976
The Fountainhead Part 1 of 2
Yasamak istiyorum
The Objectivism Research CD Rom
Robber Barons
Fountainhead (Part 1, Tapes 1-13 of 24 Tape set)
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon (born 1963)

essayist, columnist, television producer

  • University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University

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Pops
Bookends
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Telegraph Avenue
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Gentlemen of the road
Moonglow
Manhood for amateurs
Fight of the Century
People of the Book
The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man
Nothing But You
Fault Lines
I Married My Mother-In-Law
Die allerneueste klassische Sau
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - Eleventh Annual Collection
The Final Solution
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Summerland
My California
The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist. Volume 1
I found this funny
Steampunk
The Norton reader -- fourteenth edition
The Bedford Introduction to Literature -- Reading, Thinking, Writing -- Seventh Edition
Maps and legends
Novel ideas
McSweeney's enchanted chamber of astonishing stories
Wonder boys
The Best American Short Stories 2002
The Norton Introduction to Literature--tenth edition
Reading Pop Culture -- second edition
The Norton introduction to literature--ninth edition
Scoring from second
The Best American Short Stories 2005
The Norton introduction to literature--shorter tenth edition
Awesome Man
The Norton Introduction to Literature--ninth edition
Feeling very strange
Amazing Adventures
A model world and other stories
Kingdom of olives and ash
The Good Parts
Amazing Adventures of the Escapist 7
Amazing Adventures of the Escapist
Werewolves in their youth
Amazing Adventures of the Escapist 6
Gary Giannis Monstermen and Other Scary Stories
Reading culture -- fifth edition
Herma
Go All The Way
Escape
Amazing Adventures of the Escapist 8
English 105 "The Literary Imagination" Introduction to Literature
The Return of the Amazing Cavalieri
Mann sein für Anfänger
D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The amazing adventures of The Escapist. 3-4
English Mercury Reader
Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier y Clay
Des garçons épatants
Unti Chabon Novel "A"
The Norton reader -- thirteenth edition
Metaḥ gavoha
Zap! Pow! Bam! the superhero
Collected Fiction
Sympathy for the Devil
Reading culture -- sixth edition
Literature--Compact Seventh Edition
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal (1925-2012)

playwright, actor, essayist, literary critic, politician, journalist, opinion journalist

  • Phillips Exeter Academy, Sidwell Friends School

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Two Sisters
Point to Point Navigation
The city and the pillar
Myra Breckinridge
The Other Persuasion
Julian
Washington, D.C.
The Smithsonian Institution
Creation
Kalki
Gore Vidal
Myron
Dreaming War
Screening history
Messiah
Empire
Live from Golgotha
1876
Death before Bedtime
Burr: a novel
Williwaw
The Golden Age
Imperial America
The judgment of Paris
Hollywood
The best man
Palimpsest
The decline and fall of the American empire
Dark Green, Bright Red
Perpetual war for perpetual peace
Where joy resides
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
A search for the king
Virgin Islands
Views from a window
An evening with Richard Nixon
Visit to a small planet
Vidal in Venice
The Last Empire
A thirsty evil
Duluth
Homage to Daniel Shays
Death Likes it Hot
Clouds and Eclipses
Deadly Sins
The Red-Headed League and other mystery plays
Death in Fifth Position (Mentor Books)
The essential Gore Vidal
Reflections upon a sinking ship
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1957; Featuring *Visit to a Small Planet*
The second American revolution and other essays (1976-1982)
Lincoln (Narratives of a Golden Age)
I Told You So Gore Vidal Talks Politics Interviews With Jon Wiener
Armageddon?
At home
Three by Box
Matters of fact and of fiction
Great American Families
Three by Box
Brighton Beach Memoirs (L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections)
Imperio
Thieves fall out
Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis
Rocking the boat
Live for Golgotha
Inventing a Nation (American Icons)
Hollywood (Narratives of a Golden Age)
In a yellow wood
Vidal vs. Mailer
Dangerous voyage
Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking
The season of comfort
Death likes it hot
Visit to a small planet, and other television plays
Great American Families
Weekend
A view from the Diners Club
La Invencion de una Nacion
Political Animal
Juliano el Apóstata
Patria E Imperio
At Home: Essays
Death in the fifth position
Das ist nicht Amerika!
Against the beast
Selected Essays
Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (Vintage International)
The American presidency
Conversations with Gore Vidal
The Golden Age (Narratives of Empire)
I Told You So
Pink triangle and yellow star
Death in the fifth position
Golden Bowl
Essential Gore Vidal
Imperio
跟我学单词(12-36个月费雪宝宝的第一本双语学习书)
1876 (Narratives of a Golden Age)
The Luminous Years
Best television plays
Ewiger Krieg für ewigen Frieden. Wie Amerika den Hass erntet, den es gesät hat
Romulus
The best man: a play about politics
Juliano El Apóstata
Three by Gore Vidal
Live from Golgotha
Burr
A Search For The King
MATERS FACT&FICTN V516
Rocking the Boat
Live from Golgotha B D/Bx24
Palimpsest B d/Bx24 Custom Header
Empire
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
The judgment of Paris
La fine della libertà
Rare 1984 ~ Lincoln ~ Gore Vidal ~ Hardcover ~ Dust Jacket
Burr by Gore Vidal (1976-05-03)
To A Small Planet
Death Likes it Hot
Burr
I Told You So : Gore Vidal Talks Politics
Myra
Gore Vidal X20 D/B
A Thirsty Evil
Best television plays 1956
Visit to a small planet, and other television plays
I Told You So
Visit to a Small Planet
Lincoln Part 2
Creation
Lincoln (A novel):
Messiah (A Ballantine reprint)
Lincoln Part 1
Burr
Gore Vidal X12 D/B
Myra Breckinridge and Myron
Palimpseste. M'Moires
Myra Breckinridge
Berg and Vidal (Author Speaks)
Two Sisters
INSTITUTO (O) SMITHSONIAN
Myra Breckinridge
Ensayos 1952-2001
Empire
Clouds and Eclipses
WASHINGTON, D.C. a Novel
A Novel 1876.
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Imparatorluk
Bocksgesang. Antworten auf Fragen vor und nach dem 11. September
In a Yellow Wood
Kalki
Lincoln
Mesias
Julian, a novel (Signet book)
Live from Golgotha
Gore Vidal's Washington D.C.
The city and the pillar
Inventing a Nation
Institucion Smithsoniana, La
MYRA BRECKINRIDGE. A Novel.
The Best Man -A Play About Politics
Washington D.C.
Washington, D. C.
Sonando La Guerra
Point to Point Navigation
Gore Vidal Pack 1 Mixed B S/Wx12
Messiah
America First!
Messiah
Three By Box
Palimpsest
en direct du golgotha
Julian
Death in the Fifth Position
Romulus
La mort en tenue de soirée
Verde Oscuro, Rojo Vivo/Dark Green, Bright Red
Dangerous journey
Burr by Gore Vidal (1974-11-01)
Impero
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Judgment of Paris
Black List
Myra Breckinridge and Myron
Best Man
Rocking the boat
Hollywood
Conversations with JFK
Williwaw
Dreaming War
Buckley vs. Vidal
Julian - A Historical Novel
Vidal X21 Mixed Backlist Bin
Gore Vidal Pack 2 Mixed B S/Wx12
Three by Vidal
Kent ve Tuz
Lincoln
Sex, death, and money
Imperial America
1876
Das goldene Zeitalter
Myron
La edad de oro / The Golden Age
La Fin de la liberté
The Smithsonian Institution
1876 a Novel
Permanente oorlog voor permanente vrede
Best of the Nation
Death Before Bedtime
By Gore Vidal - Myra Breckinridge (1905-06-07) [Paperback]
A Search for the King
Sex, death, and money
Death Before Bedtime
Julian
Smithsonian Institution
Gore Vidal Mixed B S/Wx12
Messiah - U5022
Creacion
Le café Julien
Gore Vidal Mixed X24 D/B
Crǎtion
Palimpseste
Stworzenie s wiata
Ricardo Corazon de Leon
The Best TV Plays
Armageddon Essays 1983 1987
Messiah
The best man
Hollywood Signed Edition
Caligula
New world writing
Rocking the boat
The best man
Visit to a small planet
Sexualmente Hablando (Ensayo-Act)
Trubadur króla Ryszarda
Hollywood-Limited Ed
Una Memoria
Jim
Creación
En Directo del Golgota
Pochemu nas nenavidi︠a︡t?
El Juicio de Paris
Dark green, bright red
Beriʼah
Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky (born 1948)

journalist, historian

  • Butler University

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COD; A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
Salt
1968
A Continent of Islands
The white man in the tree and other stories
Salt
Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue
The story of salt
A Chosen Few
Boogaloo on Second Avenue
The Last Fish Tale
Choice Cuts
World without Fish
Nonviolence
The Girl Who Swam to Euskadi
Big Oyster New York in the World
The Food of a Younger Land
The Basque
The Food of a Younger Land
The Cod's Tale
Hank Greenberg
The Food of a Younger Land
Ready For a Brand New Beat
Edible stories
Non-violence
Birdseye
Edible Stories
Bugs in Danger
Choice cuts
The Eastern stars
Salz. Der Stoff, der die Welt veränderte
Kabeljau. Der Fisch, der die Welt veränderte
1968 (Imago Mundi)
Battle fatigue
Die Basken. Eine kleine Weltgeschichte
Las Estrellas Orientales Cmo El Bisbol Cambi El Pueblo Dominicano De San Pedro De Macors
What?
Choice Cuts 18-copy mixed floor
The last fish tale
Choice cuts
Birdseye
The Eastern stars
El Bacalao
Un poisson à la conquête du monde ou la fabuleuse histoire de la morue
BACALHAU (O) Biografia do Peixe que Mudou o Mundo -(EURO 17.46)
The Eastern stars
World without fish
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen (born 1959)

essayist, opinion journalist

  • Swarthmore College, Free University Berlin

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The End of the End of the Earth
Freedom
The Corrections
Strong motion
The Best American Short Stories 1997
How to Be Alone
The Discomfort Zone
Freedom
Farther away
Purity: A Novel
Freedom
Freedom
Crossroads
The discomfort zone
How I write
PURITY
Freedom
Kraus Project
Purity
Freedom
Farther Away. Jonathan Franzen
ESSAYS
Farther Away
Freedom
The Kraus Project Essays
The Twenty-seventh City
Matchbook Classics Box Set
The best American essays 2016
Farther Away
Más afuera
Crossroads
Freiheit
The End of the End of the Earth
KRAUS PROJECT HB
Freedom
Zuiverheid
The Twenty-Seventh City
Libertad
The Twenty-Seventh City (Bestselling Backlist)
De onbehaaglijkheidsfactor
Crossroads
Personnages désespérés
Discomfort Zone
Libertad
Pureza
Kraus Project
What If We Stopped Pretending?
Svoboda
Das Kraus-Projekt
Farther away
Vrijheid
Cruïlles
Bez skazy
Libertà
Freiheit
Més enllà
Die Korrekturen
De correcties
Schweres Beben
Duzeltmeler
Pureza
Farther Away
De correcties
Zi you
Purity
Twenty-Seventh City
Ozgurluk
La zone d'inconfort (French Edition)
Corrections
Best American Essays 2016
Are we feeling better now?
Strong Motion
Aile Sirlari
Die Unruhezone
Freedom
Crossroads
Zona fría
Encrucijadas / Crossroads
Ciutat vint-i-set
Zona Templada / The Comfort Zone (Seix Barral Unicos)
Como Estar Solo
Freedom (Korean Edition)
Die Korrekturen, Sonderausgabe
Spark Birds :
Strong Motion
Unschuld
Twenty-Seventh City, The
Twenty-Seventh City
The Discomfort Zone
The End of the End of the Earth
Zona fría
Discomfort Zone
Saflık
Unschuld
Uzaktaki
Crossroads Chapter Sampler
Korekty (Polska wersja jezykowa)
Weiter weg
Crossroads (A Key to All Mythologies)
De Correcties
Purity
What If We Stopped Pretending?
Strong Motion
End of the End of the Earth
Llibertat
Il progetto Kraus
El hombre del traje gris
Freedom
Freedom
Purity
Vrijheid
Purity
Ḥerut
Corrections (Mandarin Edition)
Die 27ste Stadt
Vingt-Septi'me Ville
Freedom
Anleitung zum Einsamsein.
Les correccions
De correcties
Chun zhen =
Frihet
Silny wstrzas
The 27th city
Puresa
Purity
Fin Del Fin de la Tierra / the End of the End of the Earth
Short End of the Sonnenallee
Zi you
Das Ende vom Ende der Welt
La zone d'inconfort
Como Estar Solo (Tres Mundos. Ensayo)
Schokgolven
Anleitung zum Einsamsein
Ciudad Veintisiete/the Twenty-seventh City
The Discomfort Zone (A Personal History)
Les corrections
De kunst van het alleenzijn
Selected essays from How to be alone
Vivre à deux
Vrijheid
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright (born 1947)

journalist, playwright

  • Tulane University, The American University in Cairo

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God Save Texas
The Looming Tower
Remembering Satan
Thirteen days in September
Going Clear
In the new world
The End of October
Saints & sinners
Twins
City children, country summer
Perspective in perspective
God's Favorite
The Plague Year
Mr. Texas
The terror years
The siege (1998)
THE MAN BEHIND BIN LADEN
Erik Larson
Erik Larson (born 1954)

journalist

  • University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

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The splendid and the vile
In the garden of beasts
The Devil in the White City
Lethal Passage
Thunderstruck
Dead Wake
The naked consumer
Lusitania
Your Journey of Personal Development
Law and Society Reader II
Le diable dans la ville blanche
David Remnick
David Remnick (born 1958)

journalist, editing staff, editor

  • Princeton University, Yavneh Academy

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The Bridge
King of the World
Secret Ingredients
Wonderful town
Resurrection
Lenin's tomb
Reporting
The only game in town
Wonderful Town
The bridge
The New Gilded Age
LIFE STORIES - Profiles from The New Yorker
King of the World
The devil problem
Fragile Earth
Rey Del Mundo/King of the World (Pequeña Gran Historia)
The Bridge
The bridge
The Devil Problem & Other True Stories
The bridge
Disquiet, please! : more humor writing from the New Yorker
Wonderful town
King of the World
The devil problem and other true stories
Life stories
The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons
The Only Game In Town Sportswriting From The New Yorker
A Velocity of Being
Reporting
The 40s
Reportero
Reporting Always
The New Yorker Book of Business Cartoons
The 60s
Lenin's Tomb Part 2 of 2
Holding the Note
Life Stories
Resurrection The Struggle For A New Russia
Lives of Artists
The new gilded age
The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons, Deluxe Edition
The complete cartoons of the New Yorker
Life stories
The new gilded age
Fierce pajamas
Second John Mcphee Reader
Disquiet, Please!
The Matter of Black Lives
The complete New Yorker
Just Enough Liebling
Fierce pajamas
King of the World
Barack Obama
La tumba de Lenin
La tumba de Lenin
United States and Russia
La tumba de Lenin
Muhammed Ali - Dünyanin Krali
Mogila Lenina
New Gilded Age
Fierce pajamas
Liening de fen mu
Rey del mundo
The only game in town
Disquiet, Please!
Rey del mundo
La tumba de Lenin
New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons
Melekh ha-ʻolam
Martin Schoeller Close Up
Obamah
A ponte
Secret Ingredients : the New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
La tumba de Lenin : los últimos días del imperio soviético (1. ed.) (2011)