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David Berlinski
David Berlinski (born 1942)

philosopher, mathematician

  • Princeton University, Columbia College

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Newton's Gift
A tour of the calculus
The advent of the algorithm
Less than meets the eye
A tour of the calculus
A clean sweep
Black mischief
The secrets of the vaulted sky
The Devil's Delusion
The body shop
On systems analysis
The Secrets of the Vaulted Sky
Infinite Ascent
On System Analysis
The king of infinite space
The Devil's delusion
Black mischief
On systems analysis
Infinite ascent
Tour of the Calculus, A
Apfel der Erkenntnis. Sir Isaac Newton und die Entschlüsselung des Universums
Philosophy
King of Infinite Space
Ascenso Infinito
The body shop
One, two, three
Une brève histoire des maths
The Rise of Differential Topology
The Devil's Delusion
The Deniable Darwin and Other Essays
The Devil's delusion
Wei ji fen zhi lu
La vie rêvée des maths
The Devil's delusion
Iskushenie astrologieĭ, ili Predskazanie kak iskusstvo
One, two, three
Robert Paxton
Robert Paxton (born 1932)

historian, political scientist

  • Harvard University, University of Oxford

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Le temps des chemises vertes
French peasant fascism
Vichy France
Parades and politics at Vichy
The Anatomy of Fascism (Allen Lane History)
De Gaulle and the United States
Europe in the twentieth century
Vichy France: old guard and new order, 1940-1944
Collaboration and Resistance
Armee de Vichy
La France de Vichy 1940-1944
Europe in the twentieth century
De Gaulle and the United States
La France De Vichy
Parades and politics at Vichy
Parades and politics at Vichy
Anatomia Del Fascismo (Atalaya)
Archives de la vie littéraire sous l'occupation
Europe in the Twentieth Century, 2005 Update
Europe in the 20th Century
La France de Vichy, 1940-1944
Le fascisme en action (French Edition)
Fasizmin Anatomisi
Europe in the twentieth century
Ian Stevenson
Ian Stevenson (1918-2007)

psychiatrist, parapsychologist

  • University of St Andrews, McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

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Ordered to return
A world in a grain of sand
My Life after Dying
Where reincarnation and biology intersect
Reincarnation and biology
Children who remember previous lives
Telepathic impressions
Unlearned language
Oracle8 design tips
Twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation
The psychiatric examination
Xenoglossy
Cases of the Reincarnation Type
European Cases of the Reincarnation Type
Riding from the Heart
Cases of the reincarnation
The evidence for survival from claimed memories of former incarnations
Reinkarnation. Der Mensch im Wandel von Tod und Wiedergeburt
Les enfants qui se souviennent de leurs vies antérieures
Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Volume III
Réincarnation et biologie
The diagnostic interview
Cry[p]tomnesia and parapsychology
Medical history-taking
Vida antes de la vida
Reinkarnationsbeweise
Twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation
Psychological Treatment Techniques For Social Anxiety Disorder
Gunter E. Grimm
Gunter E. Grimm (born 1945)

philologist, literary scholar, literary historian, man of letters

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Ein Gefühl von freierem Leben
Dichter- Porträts. Bilder und Daten
Deutsche Dichter
Schriftsteller Inszenierungen
Literatur und Gelehrtentum in Deutschland
Karl Wolfskehl: die Hiob-Dichtung
Letternkultur
Heroen - Götter - Scharlatane
Im Zeichen Hiobs
Rezeptionsgeschichte
Deutsche Balladen
Metamorphosen des Dichters
Literatur und Leser: Theorien u. Modelle z. Rezeption literar Werke (German Edition)
Apokalypse
Satiren der Aufklärung
Deutsche Naturlyrik. Vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart
Benutzte Lyrik
Jacques Drillon
Jacques Drillon (1954-2021)

journalist, musicologist, opinion journalist, music critic, translator

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Sur Leonhardt
Face à face
Coda
Cadence
Propos sur l'imparfait
Les Gisants
Eureka
Charles d'Orléans, ou, Le génie mélancolique
Liszt transcripteur, ou, La charité bien ordonnée
Notes de passage
Le livre des regrets
Children's corner
Schubert et l'infini
Traité de la ponctuation française
Eurêka
De la musique
Le Quiz de l'Obs - Le Grand jeu de la langue française
Le veilleur
Tombeau de Verlaine
Mort de Louis XIV
Six érotiques plus un
Nouveaux mots croisés diaboliques (French Edition)
Derniers Mots Croises Diaboliques
Mots Croisés de L'Obs
Paul Ginsborg
Paul Ginsborg (1945-2022)

historian

  • University of Cambridge

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Silvio Berlusconi
Berlusconi
The politics of Lenin
Italy and its discontents
The Politics of Everyday Life
Democracy
A history of contemporary Italy
Daniele Manin and the Venetian revolution of 1848-49
L' Italia del tempo presente
Berlusconi
The golden chain
Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State
Berlusconismo
Berlusconi Silvio
La democrazia che non c'è
Italy and Its Discontents 1980-2001
Society and politics in the Age of the Risorgimento
Stato dell'Italia
Daniele Manin e la rivoluzione veneziana del 1848-49
Democrazia che non c'é
Un'Italia minore
Berlusconi
Hans Hablitzel
Hans Hablitzel (1945-2022)

jurist, Ministerialrat

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Prof. Dr. Johann Kaspar Zeuss
Lebensphilosophie und Erziehung bei Jean-Marie Guyau (1854–1888)
Erziehung, Bildung, Recht
Recht und Staat
Migration, Beschäftigung und soziale Sicherheit
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 1939)

essayist, journalist, professor, actor, women's rights activist, critic, broadcaster, feminist, anarchist

  • University of Sydney, University of Melbourne

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The madwoman's underclothes
The obstacle race
The madwoman's underclothes
Slip-Shod Sibyls
Daddy we hardly knew you
Shakespeare's wife
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Daddywe hardly knew you
Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
Shakespeare's Wife (P.S.)
White beech
The female eunuch
Shakespeare
The Change
Sex and destiny
The change: women aging and the menopause
Whitefella jump up
Whole Woman
Germaine Greer
Lines of Life
BOY
Whole Woman, The
Change, The
White Beech The Rainforest Years
Winged Words
La femme eunuque
The Change - Women, Ageing and The Menopause
On Rage
Poems for Gardeners
101 Poems by Women
The boy
White beech
The female eunuch
Sex and destiny
Martin Creed
Kissing the rod
Tacita Dean (Contemporary Artists)
SHAKESPEARE'S WIFE
The female eunuch
Old black ram
Greer Germaine
Change: Women, Aging, and Menopause
La femme eunuque
Kissing the rod
Sexe & destinée
Die ganze Frau. Körper, Geist, Liebe, Macht
Juliet's wedding
Chico, El - El Efebo En Las Artes
WHITEFELLA JUMP UP
The Female Eunuch Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Shakespeare's Wife
Der weibliche Eunuch. Aufruf zur Befreiung der Frau
Kissing the Rod
The Whole Woman
El Cambio
La Mujer Eunuco
Sexo Y Destino/Sex and Destiny
Kissing the rod
Sexe et destinée
Mujer Completa, La
Kissing the rod
Madwomans Underclothes Essays and Occasion
The female eunuch
Gai bian : nü xing, lao hua yü ting jing
La femme entière
Lysistrata