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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

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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
Cornel West
Cornel West (born 1953)

theologian, philosopher, actor, critic, executive producer, podcaster, political activist

  • Harvard University, Princeton University

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Black prophetic fire
Race Matters
Breaking bread
Keeping faith
Prophesy deliverance!
The American evasion of philosophy
Restoring Hope
Democracy Matters
Prophetic fragments
The Cornel West reader
The ethical dimensions of Marxist thought
Hope on a tightrope
Brother West
Taking Parenting Public
White on White/Black on Black
Beyond eurocentrism and multiculturalism
Go Down Moses A Celebratuin Of The Africanamerican Spiritual
Struggles in the promised land
African American religious thought
Post-analytic philosophy
The War Against Parents
Making it on broken promises
Miseducated
La pensée américaine contemporaine
The courage to hope
The Affirmative action debate
Theology in the Americas
Black Intellectual's Odyssey
Urban Voices, Racial Justice, and Community Leadership
Race Matters, 25th Anniversary Ed.
James and Royce Reconsidered
Keeping Faith
White on White/Black on Black
Brother West : Living and Loving Out Loud
Heart of American Darkness
Plough Quarterly No. 24 – Faith and Politics
Regarding Malcolm X
Making It on Broken Promises
Prophesy Deliverance! 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition
Miseducated Lib/E
Trauma of Caste
Guardian Poplar
Ethics, historicism and the Marxist tradition
Revolution Will Rhyme
Radical King
Theology in the Americas
Cornel West Reader
Conversations with Cornel West
Prophetischer Pragmatismus
Brainpower
And the Spirit Moved Them
Let the Healing Begin
Taking Parenting Public
Keeping Faith
American Evasion of Philosophy
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader (born 1934)

lawyer, historian, politician, lobbyist, environmentalist, political activist, journalist, columnist

  • Princeton University, Harvard Law School

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The Seventeen Traditions
Unsafe at any speed
No contest
The big boys
Cybermedicine
Cutting Corporate Welfare
Action for a change
The Ralph Nader Reader
Collision course
Crashing the party
The menace of atomic energy
Unstoppable
More action for a change
The lemon book
Unsafe at any speed
The Good Fight
The people's business
The Seventeen Solutions Bold Ideas For Our American Future
Winning the insurance game
Civic Arousal
Power and land in California
The good fight
Canada firsts
In Pursuit Of Justice
The Case against "free trade"
The Frugal Shopper
The seventeen traditions
The consumer and corporate accountability
Getting steamed
Return to sender
The Frugal shopper checklist book
The GMO Deception
Home Book: A Guide to Safety, Security and Savings in the Home
Breaking through power
Wrecking America
Censored 2015
Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
The Frugal Shopper Checklist Book
Crashing the Party
What to do with your bad car
Taming the giant corporation
Who's poisoning America
Main basse sur le pouvoir
The Rape of the powerless
Animal envy
Day the Rats Vetoed Congress
You and your pension [by] Ralph Nader and Kate Blackwell
Who Runs Congress
Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook
The GMO deception
Constitutionalizing the corporation
Ralph Nader in Rüschlikon, 7.-8. September 1977
Murray Atomic Energy
Action for change
Corporate Power in America
Corporate power in America
Media for the Solar Age
Taming the giant corporation
Unstoppable
Nader on Australia
Canada Firsts
You and your pension
To the ramparts
Whistle Blowing
Beware
Out of Darkness
The seventeen traditions
First Class
The Big Boys Part 1 of 2
The Big Boys Part 2 of 2
Hidden History of Monopolies
Alimentos gene ticamente modificados
Verdicts on lawyers
Reflections from the Waiting Room
Fake President
Who's Poisoning America
How the Rats Re-formed Congress
Seventeen Solutions
Vanishing air
Alimentos Genéticamente Modificados : Cambiando la Naturaleza de la Naturaleza
Told You So
On Living in a Democracy
Collision Course
Congress project
Cutting Corporate Welfare
Big Boy
Rebellious CEO
Courts and Congress
What to do with your bad car
Let's Start the Revolution
Unstoppable
In Pursuit of Justice
What to Do?
Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
Ces voitures qui tuent
I Lost My Bontalona
Lemon Books
Good Fight
Ecotactics the Sierra Club Handbook for Environment Activists
Direct Democracy
Crashing the Party
Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook
Who Runs Congress?
Unsafe at Any Speed. The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile
Ralph Nader presents : students as if they matter
Breaking Through Power
Unsafe at any speed
Unsafe at Any Speed
John Lennon
John Lennon (1940-1980)

record producer, actor, guitarist, film producer, poet, composer, film actor, pianist, singer, painter, film director, public figure, peace activist, political activist, recording artist

  • Liverpool College of Art, Calderstones School

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Lennon remembers
John Lennon in his own words
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
Imagine
Real love
In His Own Write
Yellow submarine
The John Lennon Letters
Skywriting by word of mouth, and other writings, including The ballad of John and Yoko
All We Are Saying
John Lennon
The John Lennon Letters
John Lennon - Imagine
John Lennon - Imagine
The Lennon companion
Lennon - The Solo Years
John Lennon - Guitar Collection
The Lennon play
Tourism Statistics
Peace at Last
In his own write; & A spaniard in the works
Hospitality management
Great Songs of Lennon and Mccartney
158. The John Lennon Collection
Search for liberation
The John Lennon conversations
Skywriting by Word of Mouth
The Lennon play: In his own write
A Spaniard in the works
John Lennon - Greatest Hits
50 by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Ai
The Beatles anthology
The writings of John Lennon
The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
The John Lennon Collection
The Lennon tapes
Lennon - The Solo Years
John Lennon in his own write
EKM #248 - John Lennon - Imagine
Real love
In His Own Write
Amor verdadero
Power To The People The Hits
The Penguin John Lennon
The lyrics of John Lennon
Society and health in Guyana
Imagine
In his own write ; and A Spaniard in the works
Last interview
The Great Songs of John Lennon
Cal 96 Artwork
Bag one
Lennon on Lennon
Strawberry Fields Forever
Ai: Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes
John Ono Lennon
Lennon and Mccartney, Together Alone
Imagine John Yoko
Songs of John Lennon
A Hard Day's Night
The lyrics of Lennon & McCartney
En flagrant délire
Sometime in New York City
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles Lyrics
Por Su Propio Cuento Un Espaolito En Obras
John Lennon Piano Solos
Una Mala Faena
Last Lennon Tapes
Double fantasy
John Lennon
Golden Beatles
Lennon & McCartney
Best of the Beatles Greatest Hits
Beatles Anthology
Shaved Fish
The Beatles, 1962-1966
Hey Jude
Imagine
Muntliga röksignaler och andra stycken, däribland Balladen om John och Yoko
Les Beatles, Yoko Ono et moi
Beatlemania
Lennon and Mccartney
Le yoga des Beatles
Jon renon 120 no kotoba
Penny Lane
Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Oh! Darling
Imagine =
"Gimme some truth"
Lennon and McCartney
Zwei Jungfrauen oder wahnsinnig in Da nemark
Real love
Homenaje a John Lennon
Yellow Submarine
Beatles Piano Solos
Imagine
Plastic Ono Band
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem (born 1934)

journalist, reporter, activist, essayist, editor, lecturer, women's rights activist, actor, human rights activist, political activist

  • Smith College

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My life on the road
The Women's Suffrage Movement
The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!
My life on the road
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Revolution from within
Marilyn
Choice Words
Feminist Family Values
Marilyn, Norma Jeane
Doing Sixty and Seventy
Free to Be You and Me
Moving beyond words
Moving beyond words
Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles
Wonder Woman
Women Respond to the Men's Movement
Revolution from Within
Revolution from within
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Enslaved
Brass Notebook
Gloria Steinem on Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Une révolution intérieure
Içimizdeki devrim
Ir Mas Alla De Las Palabras
The Women’s Suffrage Movement
On Self Esteem and Scholars, Witches And Other Freedom Fighters
Gloria Steinem
Autostima
Herstory - Women Who Changed the World
The essential Gloria Steinem reader
The beach book
Uncommon Knowledge (Esprit Presents)
50 Years of Ms
Wonder woman
Spirit of Houston the First National Women's Conference
Letters to Ms.
The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off
Doing Sixty and Seventy
MI VIDA EN LA CARRETERA
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (Korean Language Edition)
Beach Book
Moving Beyond Words : Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles
Maririn
Arab Spring Dreams
My Forbesganj Garden