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Angela Davis
Angela Davis (born 1944)

human rights activist, philosopher, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, political prisoner, feminist, professor

  • University of California, San Diego, Humboldt University of Berlin

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Angela Davis--an autobiography
Women, culture & politics
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
We the Resistance
If They Come in the Morning
Abolition democracy
Disability Incarcerated Imprisonment And Disability In The United States And Canada
The Angela Y. Davis reader
Abolition. Feminism. Now
Mujeres, Raza Y Clase (Cuestiones De Antagonismo)
Cinde'Reader
The meaning of freedom
A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass
Art on the Frontline
Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia
The Prison Industrial Complex
Great Refusal
Una historia de la conciencia
Prinsetta
Materialien zur Rassenjustiz
Decolonial Ecology
Violence against women and the ongoing challenge to racism
Radical Thinkers
Lectures on liberation
Against Police Violence: Writers of Conscience Speak Out
Black Power Mixtape
Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
La revolució avui / Revolution today
Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah
Prisons and American History
This Believer's Truth
Abolition
Beyond the frame
The Meaning of Freedom And Other Difficult Dialogs
Angela Davis speaks
What If I Am A Woman? - Volume Two
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States
Ernst Toller
Ernst Toller (1893-1939)

playwright, politician, poet lawyer, poet

  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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Eine Jugend in Deutschland
Hinkemann
Die Maschinenstürmer
Masse-Mensch
Hoppla, wir leben!
Das Schwalbenbuch
Prosa, Briefe, Dramen, Gedichte
Seven plays
Plays one
Justiz-Erlebnisse
Pastor Hall
Draw the fires!
Der entfesselte Wotan
Gedichte der Gefangenen
Toller Plays One
Letters from prison
Der Tag des Proletariats ; Requiem den gemordeten Brüdern
Die blinde Göttin
Gesammelte Werke
Look through the bars
Previously Unpublished Poems of German Playwright Ernst Toller (1893-1939: A Critical Translation (Mellen Critical Editions and Translations, V. 5)
Quer durch
Previously Unpublished Poems of German Playwright Ernst Toller (1893-1939): A Critical Translation (Mellen Critical Editions and Translations, 5)
Die Wandlung
Nie wieder Friede!
Ausgewählte Schriften
Briefe aus dem Gefängnis
Dramen Und Gedichte Aus Dem Gefangnis 1918-1924
Toller Plays Two
Wunder in Amerika
Vormorgen
Der iberḳer
Zwei Stücke der Revolution
Feuer aus den kesseln
Der Krieg, die Pest der Menschheit!
Ernst Toller
Bilder aus der grossen französischen Revolution
Mase menṭsh
Der entfesselte Wotan
The machine wreckers
Le livre de l'hirondelle
Briefe, 1915-1939
Hop la, nous vivons!
Deutsche Revolution
Sämtliche Werke
Die Wandlung
La Hirundlibro
Brokenbrow
Neʻurim be-Germanyah
Der iberḳer
Kikai hakaisha
Nationalsozialismus
Zu Ernst Toller, Drama und Engagement
די מאשינען צעשטערער
Gedichte der Gefangenen
En landsforraeder?
Henri Alleg
Henri Alleg (1921-2013)

politician, journalist, human rights activist

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La question
Le siècle du dragon
L' U.R.S.S. et les juifs
Requiem pour l'oncle Sam
Memoire algerienne
Retour sur la "Question"
Etoile rouge et croissant vert
La guerre d'Algerie
Le grand bond en arrière
S.O.S. America!
Les Problèmes du Tiers-monde
La question, suivi de Une victoire, par Jean-Paul Sartre
A Tortura
Prisonniers de guerre
La tortura
Qiĭnoq va sŭroq
Victorieuse Cuba
Buyuk Geri Sicrama
Marcel Bigeard
Marcel Bigeard (1916-2010)

politician, military personnel

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Jean François Paul de Gondi
Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613-1679)

Catholic priest, memoirist, politician, Catholic bishop

  • Lycée Louis-le-Grand

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Memoires
Mémoires
Mémoires
Mémoires
Mémoires
Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz
Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz
Mémoires
Euvres
Mémoires
Mémoires
Œuvres du cardinal de Retz
Mémoires
Mémoires
Cardinal de Retz ..
Œuvres
Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz
Oeuvres du cardinal de Retz
Memoirs Of Cardinal De Retz
Mémoires ; précédés de, La conjuration du comte de Fiesque
Me moires
Anecdotes, scènes et portraits extraits des Mémoires
Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz
Mémoires
Secret Memoirs of Cardinal De Retz
France no friend to England, or, The resentments of the French upon success of the English. As it is expressed in a most humble and important remonstrance to the King of France, upon the surrendring of the maritime ports of Flanders into the hands of the English. Wherein, much of the private transactions between Cardinal Mazarin and the late Protector Oliver, are discovered
The memoirs of Cardinal de Retz
Me moires
Mémoires du cardinal de Retz
Mémoires. La conjuration du comte Jean-Louis de Fiesque. Pamphlets
Mémoires du cardinal de Retz
Œuvres du cardinal de Retz
Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz, containing the particulars of his own life, with the most secret transactions of the French Court and the Civil Wars
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (Complete)
The Entire Memoirs Of Cardinal De Retz
The Memoirs of Cardinal De Retz
The memoirs of Cardinal de Retz
La conjuration de Fiesque
Mémoires
Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz
Oeuvres
Mémoires
Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz [Ed. du Grand Trianon]
Conjuration du comte de Fiesque [adapted from the Ital. of A. Mascardi].
Memoires du cardinal de Retz
Mémoires
La conjuration de Fiesque
Œuvres complètes
Mémoires
Mémoires
Le Cardinal de Retz
Mémoires, pamphlets, Conjuration de Fiesque, correspondance
Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz Containing the Particulars of his own Life, With the Most Secret Transactions at the French Court During the ... Mazarin, To Which are Added Pieces, v 3 of 4
Pamphlets
Mémoires
Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi
Mémoires, adressés à Madame de Caumartin
Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz, Containing All the Great Events During the Minority of Lewis XIV. and Administration of Cardinal Mazarin. Done Out of French
Discours sur l'hypocrisie
Mémoires
Mémoires du cardinal de Retz, de Guy Joli, et de la duchesse de Nemours
Censvre de Monseignevr l'illustrissime & reverendissime Archeuesque de Paris, contre le Liure intitule , Epitome de l'Histoire, ou Chronique d'Ademarus & les notes & additions sur iceluy, auec sa continuation depuis l'an 1032 iusques a l'an 1652
Censvre d'vn livre intitvle Apologie povr les casvistes, &c
Mémoires du cardinal de Retz contenant ce qui s'est passé de remarquable en France pendant les premieres années du Regne de Louis XIV
Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz. Containing, the Particulars of His Own Life, with the Most Secret Transactions of the French Court and the Civil ... French. in Four Volumes. ... of 4; Volume 3
Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz. Containing the Particulars of His Own Life, with the Most Secret Transactions at the French Court During the Administration of Cardinal Mazarin of 4; Volume 4
La Fronde
Anecdotes, sce nes et portraits extraits des me moires du Cardinal de Retz
Mémoires
La conjuration du comte de Fiesque
Histoire de la conjuration du comte Jean-Louis de Fiesque
Memoirs of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
Mémoires
Mémoires du cardinal de Retz, de Guy Joli, et de la duchesse de Nemours
Mémoires
Me moires du cardinal de Retz
Anecdotes, scènes et portraits
Mémoires
Mémoires (extraits)
Memoirs of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
Mémoires, La conjuration du Comte Jean-Louis de Fiesque, pamphlets
Conjuration Comte de Fiesque
Memoires
Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz
Aduis important et necessaire a monsieur de Beaufort et monseiur le coadiuteur
Memoires du cardinal de Retz
La responce de Monseignevr le Cardinal de Retz
Mémoires du cardinal de Retz
Mémoires; la conjuration du comte Jean-Louis de Fiesque. Pamphlets
Memoires
Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, complete
Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz adresses à Madame de Caumartin
La veritable harangve faite av roy
Mémoires, adressés à Madame de Caumartin
Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz. Containing, the particulars of his own life, with the most secret transactions of the French court and the civil wars. Translated from the French. In four volumes. ..
Apologie des frondevrs
Oeuvres du cardinal de Retz
Oeuvres du cardinal de Retz
Mémoires
France No Friend to England. Or, The Resentments of the French upon the Success of the English. As it is Expressed in a most Hum- ble and Important Remonstrance to the King of France, upon the Surrendring of the Maritime Ports of Flanders into the hands of the English. Wherein, Much of the Private Transactions between Cardinal Mazarin and the late Protector Oliver, are discovered. Translated out of French
Harangue faite au roy par monseigneur le cardinal de Retz en presence de monseigneur le nonce du pape, assisté de messieurs du clergé, pour la paix general
Memoires
Œuvres du Cardinal de Retz
Deffence de l'ancienne et legitime Fronde
Memoires
Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz, containing all the great events during the minority of Louis XIV, and administration of Cardinal Mazarin. Done out of French
Discours libre et veritable sur la conduite de Monseigneur le prince, et de Monseigneur le coadiuteur
Le vray-semblable svr la condvite de monseignevr le cardinal de Retz
Memoires du cardinal de Retz
Advis de monseignevr le coadivtevr prononcé av Parlement pour l'esloignement des creatures du cardinal Mazarin le 12 iuillet 1651
Mémoires, adressés à Madame de Caumartin
Les contre-temps du sieur de Chauigny, premier ministre de Monsieur le prince
Mémoires, adressés à Madame de Caumartin
Pamphlets
Mémoires, adressés à Madame de Caumartin
Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz
Le vray et le faux de Monsieur le prince, & de Monsieur le cardinal de Retz
Memoires
Memoires du cardinal de Retz
Des kardinals von Retz Histoire de la conjuration du comte Jean Louis de Fiosque. Nach der ausg. von 1682
Aduis desinteressé sur la conduite de Monseigneur le coadiuteur
Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz
Le vray et le favx de monsieur le prince, & de monsieur le cardinal de Retz
Response au seditieux escrit intitulé L'esprit de paix fait en faueur du Mazarin & semé par toute la ville, pour décrier la conduite de Messieurs les princes & du Parlement ...
Mémoires of Jéan François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz
Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz
Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz
Harangue faite au roi par Monseigneur le cardinal de Retz
Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz
Lettre du bourgeois des-interessé.
Mémoires ; La conjuration du Comte Jean-Louis de Fiesque ; Pamphlets
Lettres aux princes qui veulent nous gouverner
Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi (born 1947)

judge, human rights activist, peace activist, lawyer, women's rights activist, politician, jurist

  • University of Tehran

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Iran awakening
Until we are free
White Torture
Refugee Rights In Iran
Ḥuqūq-i pizishkī
Ḥuqūq-i adabī va hunarī
History and documentation of human rights in Iran
Tārīkhchah va asnād-i ḥuqūq-i bashar dar Īrān
Kārgarān-i Khurdsāl
Ḥuqūq-i miʻmārī
iranienne et libre
Iran ontwaakt
Iranienne et libre
La jaula de oro
La jaula de oro
Hasta que seamos libres
Iranienne et libre
Altin Kafes
Bis wir frei sind
Golden Cage
Acilius Severus
Acilius Severus (0339-0399)

politician

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Arifur Rahman
Arifur Rahman (born 1984)

cartoonist, editorial cartoonist, animator, illustrator, entrepreneur, actor, director, film director, politician

  • National University, Bangladesh, Nansen Academy

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