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Paul Goodman
Paul Goodman (1911-1972)

poet, psychotherapist, sociologist, literary critic, LGBTQ rights activist, political scientist, philosopher

  • University of Chicago, City College of New York

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Gestalt Therapy
Utopian essays and practical proposals
Making Do
New reformation
The Empire City
Communitas
The Structure of Literature
The galley to Mytilene
Drawing the Line Once Again
The society I live in is mine
The May Pamphlet
Like a conquered province
The facts of life
Compulsory mis-education
Seeds of liberation
Collected poems
Kafka's Prayer
Little prayers & finite experience
The break-up of our camp
Parent's Day
Our visit to Niagara
Nature heals =
Crazy hope and finite experience
Hawkweed; poems
Of One Blood
The moral ambiguity of America
Speaking and language: defence of poetry
The Paul Goodman Reader
Don Juan
Terapia Gestalt
Format & Anxiety
Work in a modern society
Stop-light
People or personnel
A ceremonial, stories, 1936-1940
Creator Spirit come!
The Grand piano
Information bulletin No.3
The community of scholars
Art and social nature
Freedom and order in the university
Creator Spirit Come
Homespun of oatmeal gray
Erziehung – Zwangsjacke oder Freiheit
Decentralizing power
The lordly Hudson
The Copernican revolution
The black flag of anarchism
The Democratic-Republicans of Massachusetts
The collected stories
Five years
Adam and his works
A Fragment of Victory in Italy
North Percy
The state of nature
La contre-éducation obligatoire
The dead of spring
Problemas de la juventud en la sociedad organizada
Tragedy and comedy: four cubist plays
La estructura de la obra literaria
A Message to the Military Industrial Complex
The open look
Making do
Dawson Turner
La nueva reforma
Tres Ciudades para El Hombre
New reformation
La des-educación obligatoria
Communitas
Ensayos utópicos y propuestas prácticas
Gestalt Therapy
Mass education in science
Gestalt Therapy
Silence, speaking and language
Red jacket ...
Homecoming & departure
The Copernican revolution
Day and other poems
A warning at my leisure
Ten poems
The writings of Paul Goodman
Gestalt - Therapie. Wiederbelebung des Selbst
Gestalt - Therapie. Lebensfreude und Persönlichkeitsentfaltung
The drama of awareness
Three early stories
Nature Heals
The dead of spring
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet (born 1979)

Esperantist, computer scientist, poet

  • The Open University

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Embracing the Wide Sky
Born on a Blue Day
NACIDO EN UN DIA AZUL
Thinking in Numbers
Je suis né un jour bleu
Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing
Embrasser Le Ciel Immense
Mishenka (French Edition)
La conquista del cerebro
La poesía de los números
Urodziłem się pewnego błękitnego dnia
Islands of Genius
Fragments de paradis (French Edition)
How to Be 'Normal'
Nine Minds
Born on a Blue Day (Digital Download)
Je Suis Ne un Jour Bleu
Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937-2022)

diplomat, politician, political scientist, ambassador, opinion journalist, minister, foreign minister

  • Wellesley College, Columbia University

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Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu (born 1949)

politician, diplomat, statesperson, military personnel, political scientist

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Fighting Terrorism
Correspondence
A durable peace
A place among the nations
Terrorism
Milhamah be-teror
Makom tahat ha-shemesh
DIE KONFERENZ VON JERUSALEM ÜBER DEN INTERNATIONALEN TERRORISMUS
Josef Schovanec
Josef Schovanec (born 1981)

philosopher, translator, traveler, political scientist

  • Sciences Po, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales

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Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

mathematician, theoretical physicist, nuclear physicist, professor, statistician, physicist

  • University of Cambridge, Winchester College

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Maker of patterns
What Are You Optimistic About?
Weapons and hope
From Eros to Gaia
Disturbing the universe
Imagined worlds
The sun, the genome & the Internet
Infinite in all directions
The Scientist as Rebel
A Many-Colored Glass
Origins of Life (CANTO)
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2010
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
Values at war
Origins of life
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
Disturbing the Universe
Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Imagined Worlds (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
Heretical thoughts about science and society
From Eros to Gaia
Dear Professor Dyson
Dreams of earth and sky
Imagined worlds
Los origenes de la vida
Birds and Frogs; selected papers, 1990-2014
Die Sonne, das Genom und das Internet. Wissenschaftliche Innovation und die Technologien der Zukunft
Advanced quantum mechanics
Symmetry groups in nuclear and particle physics
Imagined Worlds
Le soleil, le génome et Internet
Field theory
Die Sonne, das Genom und das Internet
Selected papers of Freeman Dyson with commentary
Disturbing the Universe
Les dérangeurs de l'univers
Yu zhou po lan =
Dyson Quantenfeldtheorie
El Infinito En Todas Direcciones
Technology and social justice (Louis Nizer lecture on public policy)
De Eros A Gaia
Neutron stars and pulsars
The world, the flesh and the devil..
Zeit ohne Ende: Physik und Biologie eines offenen Universums
Daison hakushi no taiyō genomu intānetto
SOL, (0) O GENOMA E A INTERNET - Ferramentas de Revoluções Científicas -(EURO 9.73)
Advanced quantum mechanics
Zoë Quinn
Zoƫ Quinn (born 1987)

computer scientist, game programmer, game designer, video game developer, television producer

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James D. Watson
James D. Watson (born 1928)

biologist, geneticist, zoologist, biochemist, molecular biologist, academic, chemist, physicist, biophysicist

  • Indiana University Bloomington, University of Chicago

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