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Menna Elfyn
Menna Elfyn (born 1951)

poet, playwright

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Absolute Optimist
Optimist Absoliwt
Cell angel
Perfect blemish
Perffaith nam
Ffwl Yn y Dwr
Eucalyptus
Cusan dyn dall =
Murmur
Mwyara
'Stafelloedd aros
O'r Iawn Ryw
Madfall Ar Y Mur
The Bloodaxe book of modern Welsh poetry
Trying the line
Aderyn Bach Mewn Llaw
Tro'r haul arno
Dal I Fod - Cerddi Elin Ap Hywel
Hel dail gwyrdd
Merch perygl
Door in Epynt
Florilingua
Cadwraeth
Anifeiliaid
Bondo
Y pussaka hud
Dal clêr
Sunflowers in your eyes
Teithio
Cwsg - Wythdeg Ffordd o Gwmpas y Gwely
Cyfrinachau
Er dy fod
Tosturi
Cennad
Adam Zagajewski
Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021)

linguist, poet, translator, essayist

  • Jagiellonian University

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W cudzym pięknie
Dwa miasta
Poems
Without end
Eternal Enemies
Tremor
Two cities
A Defense of Ardor
Helicopter
Solidarity, solitude
Tierra del Fuego
Asymmetry
Slight Exaggeration
SELECTED POEMS; TRANS. BY CLARE CAVANAGH
Polish Writers on Writing (Writer's World, The)
Mystik für Anfänger
Trítons
Trítons
True Life
Two cities
Tremor
Polish writers on writing
Unseen Hand
"C International Photo Magazine"
Xawery Wolski
Polen
Slight Exaggeration
Trítons
Ich schwebe über Krakau. Erinnerungsbilder
Trítons
Asymmetry
Mystique pour débutants et autres poèmes
Poetry of Rilke
Unseen hand
Poeta rozmawia z filozofem
Selected Poems
Die Republik Österreich 1918/2008
Drugi oddech
Terra del foc
Poezja dla poczatkujacych
Pragnienie
Solidarité, solitude
En defensa del fervor
Cienka kreska
Obrona zarliwosci
Powrót
Ciepło, zimno
Unseen Hand
Defense of Ardor
Poeta rozmawia z filozofem
A defense of ardor
List
Una leve exageración
Obrona żarliwości
Późne święta
Płótno
Deseo
Die kleine Ewigkeit der Kunst
Terra del foc
Ziemia ognista
Poesie Hängt die Weiße Flagge Aus
Tremor
Pragnienie
Solidarność i samotność
Das absolute Gehör
Terra del foc
Coup de croyon
Dzikie czereśnie
From the Terreiro
Eternal Enemies
Komunikat
Terra del foc
Pozne swieta
Jechać do Lwowa i inne wiersze
Sklepy mięsne
Andrzej Dudziński
Niewidzialna ręka
Asymetria
Zbigniew Herbert
Elektrisk elegi och andra dikter
W cudzym pięknie
Jechać do Lwowa i inne wiersze
Dos ciudades
Anteny
Mali Larus
Lekka przesada
Wiersze wybrane
Trzej aniołowie
W obcych miastach
List
Dwa miasta
Solidarność i samotność
En la belleza ajena
Bildungsnähe(n)
List ; Oda do wielości ; Nowe wiersze
Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010)

mathematician, economist, professor, scientist, computer scientist, engineer

  • lycée du Parc, École polytechnique

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The Fractalist
The fractal geometry of nature
Les objets fractals
An eye for fractals
The Colours of Infinity
Fractals and scaling in finance
The (mis)behavior of markets
Fractals and Chaos
Multifractals and 1/f noise
Gaussian self-affinity and fractals
Thinking in Patterns
Fractal geometry and analysis
Fractals in geophysics
Fractales, hasard et finance, 1959-1997
Fractals, graphics, and mathematics education
Fractals in physics
Fractals
Fractal Geometry and Applications Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics
Fractal geometry and applications
Neil Bissoondath
Neil Bissoondath (born 1955)

essayist

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Neil Bissoondath
Digging up the mountains
A casual brutality
Selling illusions
The innocence of age
Doing the heart good
The worlds within her
On the eve of uncertain tomorrows
Unyielding Clamour of the Night
The age of confession
The unyielding clamor of the night
If you love this country
Tous ces mondes en elle
The Age of Confession/L'Âge de la confession (The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture/ La Conférence Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye)
The soul of all great designs
Retour à Casaquemada
The innocence of age
Cartes postales de l'enfer
Le marché aux illusions
Peter Hoffmann
Peter Hoffmann (1930-2023)

historian

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Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg und seine Brüder
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Stauffenbergs Freund
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
Hitler's personal security
Germans against Nazism
Widerstand gegen Hitler
Carl Goerdeler and the Jewish Question, 1933-1942
Stauffenberg und der 20. Juli 1944
Die Sicherheit des Diktators
Behind Valkyrie
Carl Goerdeler gegen die Verfolgung der Juden
Frieden, Freiheit, Sicherheit
Wilhelm Bernsdorf
Wilhelm Bernsdorf (1904-1990)

sociologist

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Internationales Soziologen Lexikon
Internationales Soziologenlexikon
Guo ji she hui xue jia ci dian
Die Einheit der Sozialwissenschaften
Wörterbuch der Soziologie
Die Einheit de Sozialwissenschaften
Cecil Scott Burgess
Cecil Scott Burgess (1870-1971)

architect

  • Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot-Watt University

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Architecture, town planning and community
Architecture, Town Planning and Community
Armand Lunel
Armand Lunel (1892-1977)

librettist, historian

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Les chemins de mon judaïsme et divers inédits
Mon ami Darius Milhaud
Juifs, du Languedoc, de la Provence, et des Etats français du pape
Sénégal
Occasions
La belle à la fontaine
Jérusalem à Carpentras
Nicolo-Peccavi