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Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)

autobiographer, playwright

  • University of Cambridge, King's College London

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My guru and his disciple
Christopher and his kind
Diaries
Ramakrishna and his disciples
Lost years
Liberation
October
Lions and shadows: an education in the Twenties
The Sixties Diaries
The Animals
The Sixties
Goodbye to Berlin
The Berlin Stories
The Other Persuasion
The Memorial
Down There on a Visit
Kathleen and Frank
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow
Prater Violet
Mr Norris Changes Trains
A single man
Short Stories from the New Yorker
Where joy resides
The world in the evening
A meeting by the river
The Condor and the Cows
Journey to a war
All the conspirators
Exhumations
People one ought to know
Vedanta for the Western World
Kathleen and Christopher
Isherwood on Writing
The song of God
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden
Bhagavad Gita
Great English short stories
Frankenstein
Literary Voices #1
Cabaret
Prison etiquette
The Mortmere stories
Seven Great British Short Novels
Mon gourou et son disciple
A meeting by the river
Rencontre au bord du fleuve
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
Sally Bowles
Christopher e il suo mondo
Yoga und Gotteserfahrung
An approach to Vedanta
The wishing tree
The ascent of F.6 and On the frontier
Cabaret
Prater Violet
Vedanta for the Western World
Zi luo lan gu niang
Cabaret, Farväl till Berlin
The Berlin stories
Gefährdungsanalyse der Heuschrecken Deutschlands. Verbreitungsatlas, Gefährdungseinstufung und Schutzkonzepte.
Shankara's Crest-Jewel of Discrimination
Bhagavad-Gita
Desde lo más profundo
The last of Mr. Norris, by Christopher Isherwood
An Isherwood selection
Ramakrishna and his disciples
Goodbye to Berlin
Down there on a visit
Sukui naki hitobito
Vedanta for modern man
Christopher Isherwood's Commonplace book
Vedanta und Wir
Un Homme au singulier
Kathleen y Christopher
The last of Mr. Norris
The memorial, portrait of a family
The world in the evening
All the conspirators
Vedanta for the western world
Der Einzelgänger
Frankenstein
Praterveilchen
October
The Repton letters
Ākhrī salām
Jonathan Spence
Jonathan Spence (1936-2021)

historian, sinologist

  • Winchester College, University of Cambridge

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Treason by the Book
The question of Hu
Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor
The memory palace of Matteo Ricci
Mao Zedong
Return to dragon mountain
Mao Zedong
Treason by the Book (Allen Lane History)
Emperor of China
Return to Dragon Mountain
Mao
Qian chao meng yi
Ts ao Yin and the K ang-hsi Emperor
Treason by the Book
Hu Ruowang de yi wen =
Limadou de ji yi gong dian
Yongzheng wang chao zhi da yi jue mi
The search for modern China
The death of woman Wang
The Chan's great continent
God's Chinese Son
Chinese Roundabout
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
The Chinese century
Octave Chanute papers
To change China
The Taiping vision of a Christian China, 1836-1864
The China helpers
Mao.
Wen hua lei tong yu wen hua li yong
El Palacio De LA Memoria De Matteo Ricci
Mao Zedong
Death of Woman Wang, The
Mao (Lives)
Wen hua lei tong yu wen hua li yong (Bei da xue shu jiang yan cong shu)
Sri Lanka
Mao Zedong
Chinas Weg in die Moderne
To change Europe
Imperial China
God's Chinese Son - The Paiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
Inside China
China and the West
Emperor of China Self-portrait of K'ang-hsi
The search for modern China
La Traicion Escrita
The search for modern China
From Ming to Ch'ing
The historical precedents for our new relations with China
Peach Blossom Fan
China helpers
The death of woman Wang
Chan's Great Continent
The China helpers
Da han zhi guo
Gai bian Zhongguo
God's Chinese Son
Da han zhi guo: xi fang yan zhong de Zhongguo
Mao Zedong
To change China
Chinese Century
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Diarmaid MacCulloch (born 1951)

church historian, theologian, historian, presenter

  • University of Cambridge, Ripon College Cuddesdon

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Tudor church militant
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cranmer - A Life
Letters from Redgrave Hall
Seditious Sectaryes
Tudor rebellions
Christianity
Silence
The Reformation
The Reign of Henry VIII
A history of Christianity
Christianity
The Later reformation in England, 1547-1603
Suffolk and the Tudors
Disney Winnie the Pooh Movie Theater Storybook & Movie Projector
All things made new
Letters from Redgrave Hall
Reformation
Groundwork of Christian history
Building a Godly Realm (New Appreciations in History)
Tudor Church Militant (Allen Lane History)
History of Treason
Silence
historia de la cristiandad
Royal arms in Suffolk churches
REFORMATION: EUROPE'S HOUSE DIVIDED, 1490-1700
Bay Psalm Book
Christentum
Die zweite Phase der englischen Reformation (1547-1603) und die Geburt der anglikanischen via Media
The Reign of Henry VIII
Thomas Cranmer
The Reign of Henry VIII
Reformation
The Chorography of Suffolk
Balthasar Hubmaier and the Clarity of Scripture
History of Christianity
Later Reformation in England, 1547-1603
Christianity
Tudor Church Militant
The Reformation Lib/E
Christianity
Silence in Christian History
Die Reformation 1490-1700
Lower Than the Angels
The Later Reformation in England 1547–1603
Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

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

  • University of Cambridge, Winchester College

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Disturbing the universe
The Scientist as Rebel
Maker of patterns
Yu zhou po lan =
What Are You Optimistic About?
Weapons and hope
From Eros to Gaia
Imagined worlds
The sun, the genome & the Internet
Infinite in all directions
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
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
Nicolao Merker
Nicolao Merker (1931-2016)

philosopher, historian

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Karl Marx, 1818-1883
Karl Marx
Il sangue e la terra
Atlante storico della filosofia
Marxismo e storia delle idee
Atlante storico della filosofia
La Germania
Alle origini dell'ideologia tedesca
Europa oltre i mari
Introduzione a Lessing
Il socialismo vietato
L' Illuminismo tedesco
L' Illuminismo in Germania
Dialettica e storia
Die Aufklärung in Deutschland
Sarmila Bose
Sarmila Bose (born 1959)

academic, journalist

  • Harvard University, Bryn Mawr College

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Dead reckoning
Dead reckoning
Money, energy, and welfare
Jyotibābura Paścimabaṅga
Katsu Kaishū
Katsu Kaishū (1823-1899)

politician, historian, military personnel, samurai

  • Toyo University, Nagasaki Naval Training Center

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Hikawa seiwa
Hikawa seiwa
Katsu Kaishū
Bōyūjō
Kaigun rekishi
Kaishū zadan
Katsu Kaishū zenshū
Hiroku to zuisō
Kaishū shokan, Kaishū ate shokan
Eiketsu kyojin o kataru (Bushido sosho)
Shokan to kengen
黙々静観
大勢順応
Ryūhō iboku
Kaishū ate shokan, Kaishū bekki, hoka
Eiketsu kyojin o kataru
Katsu Kaishū bungen shō
旗本移転後の始末
猟官運動
Katsu Kaishū zenshū
Kaishū zenshū
Kaishū nisshi
Katsu Kaishū bungen shō
Katsu Kaishū genkōroku
Bōyūchō, Seitan to itsuwa
Katsu Kaishū no kotoba
Kaigun katsuyō
Kaishū goroku
Kainanroku, Kengen shorui
Suijinroku
Katsu Kaishū jiden
Rikugun rekishi
Suijinroku
Katsu Kaishū kankei shiryō
Kaikoku kigen
Václav Vladivoj Tomek
Václav Vladivoj Tomek (1818-1905)

historian, journalist, politician, teacher

  • Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague

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Jan Žižka
Jan Žižka
Základy starého místopisu Pražského
Dějepis města Prahy
Die Grünberger Handschrift: Zeugnisse über die Auffindung des"libušin Soud"
Dějé University Pražské
Dějepis města Prahy
Geschichte der Prager Universität
Sněmy české dle obnoweného zřízení zemského Ferdinanda II
Dějé University Pražské
Geschichte der Prager Universität
Djepis msta Prahy
Děje Králowstwí českého
Děje království českého
Děje Království českého
Die Grünberger Handschrift
Příruční kniha dějepisu Rakauského
W. Wladiwoje Tomka Děje mocnářstwí rakauského
Krátká mluwnice česká pro Čechy
Geschichte der Stadt Prag. Bd. 1
Dje Králowstwí eského
Kurzgefasste böhmische sprachlehre für Böhmen
Základy starého místopisu Pražského
Děje království českého
Po troskách české slávy
Povjest kraljevine Česke
Pamti z mého iwota
Johann Z̆iz̆ka
Geschichte der Prager Universität
Geschichte der Stadt Prag
Paměti z mého žiwota
Dějepis města Prahy