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Nadezhda Mandelstam
Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980)

biographer, poet, teacher, memoirist, linguist, lecturer

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Vtorai︠a︡ kniga
Mozart & Salieri
Poems
Hope Against Hope
Ob Akhmatovoĭ
[Kniga tretʹi͡a︡
Vtoraya kniga
Chapter 42
Mozart and Salieri
Mozart and Salieri
Hope abandoned
Moe zaveshchanie i drugie ėsse
Tretʹi︠a︡ kniga
Dushi vysokai︠a︡ svoboda
Vtorai Ła kniga
Nadejda Mandelshtam. Tretya kniga
Contre tout espoir
Moĭ muzh - Osip Mandelʹshtam
"Posmotrim, kto kogo pereupri︠a︡mit ..."
Chapter 42 and The goldfinch and other poems
Correspondance avec Alexandre Soljenitsyne et Nadejda Mandelstam
Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli (1898-1967)

politician, autobiographer, teacher

  • University of Glasgow, Adams College

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Let My People Go
Africa's freedom
Luthuli
The road to freedom is via the cross
W domu niewoli
Lutuli speaks
Luthuli papers
Mein Land, Mein Leben
Wangari Muta Maathai
Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011)

biologist, teacher, veterinarian, politician, environmentalist, activist

  • Benedictine College, University of Pittsburgh

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Unbowed
The Green Belt Movement
Replenishing the earth
The challenge for Africa
Little Hummingbird
The challenge for Africa
Pour l'amour des arbres
The Canopy of Hope
The bottom is heavy too
Devolver la abundancia a la tierra
The challenge for Africa
World We Once Lived In
Celle qui plante les arbres
Wangari Speaks Out
Flight of the Hummingbird
Movimiento Cinturón Verde.Compartiendo propuestas y experiencia
The challenge for Africa
Randy Pausch
Randy Pausch (1960-2008)

motivational speaker, computer scientist, pedagogue

  • Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University

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The last lecture
The last lecture
Learning to program with Alice
Last Lecture
Lifestyle and Career Advice
The Last Lecture CD
The Last Lecture
Le dernier discours (French Edition)
Zui hou de yan jiang
The Last Lecture Lib/E
última Lección / the Last Lecture
La Ultima Leccion - Randy Pausch
A Última Aula
Last Lecture -- Platt Edition
Posledn︠i︡a︠i︡a lek︠t︡si︠i︡a
Hē teleutaia dialexē
La última lección
ההרצאה האחרונה
Zui hou de yan jiang
Last Lecture -- Indiana State University Edition
La Ultima Leccion
L'ultima lezione
Time Management
Ostatni wyklad
Luis Bazal
Luis Bazal (1905-1990)

teacher

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Bipin Chandra Pal
Bipin Chandra Pal (1858-1932)

head teacher, politician, freedom fighter

  • Hindu School, Presidency University

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Bengal Vaishnavism
Memories of my life and times
Sattara bat̲asara
Saint Bijayakrishna Goswami
Beginnings of freedom movement in modern India
Sir Ashutosh Mookherjea, a character study
The soul of India
An introduction to the study of Hinduism
Indian nationalism
Swadeshi & Swaraj, the rise of new patriotism
Mrs. Annie Besant; a psychological study
Nationality and Empire
Europe asks
Svargīẏa Aśvinīkumāra Datta
Writings and speeches [by] Bipinchandra Pal
Nabayugera Bāṃlā
The Brahmo Samaj and the battle for swaraj in India
Swaraj, the goal & the way
Mārkiṇe cārimāsa
Character sketches
Sattara bat̲sara
Speeches of Bepin Chandra Pal, delivered at Madras
The soul of India
Indian nationalism; its principles and personalities
Speeches of Bepin Chandra Pal, delivered at Madras
Baṅkima cintā
The new economic menace to India
Memories of my life and times
Studies in the Bengal renaissance
A short account of the life of Raja Ram Mohun Roy
Swadeshi & swaraj
Nirbācita prabandha
Nationality and empire
The soul of India
Antonio Alonso Ríos
Antonio Alonso Ríos (1887-1980)

politician, teacher

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Gwendolyn Hooks
Gwendolyn Hooks (1919-2018)

teacher

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