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Angela Davis
Angela Davis (born 1944)

human rights activist, philosopher, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, political prisoner, feminist, professor

  • University of California, San Diego, Humboldt University of Berlin

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Angela Davis--an autobiography
A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass
Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia
Women, culture & politics
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
We the Resistance
If They Come in the Morning
Abolition democracy
Disability Incarcerated Imprisonment And Disability In The United States And Canada
The Angela Y. Davis reader
Abolition. Feminism. Now
Mujeres, Raza Y Clase (Cuestiones De Antagonismo)
Cinde'Reader
The meaning of freedom
Art on the Frontline
The Prison Industrial Complex
Great Refusal
Una historia de la conciencia
Prinsetta
Materialien zur Rassenjustiz
Decolonial Ecology
Violence against women and the ongoing challenge to racism
Radical Thinkers
Lectures on liberation
Against Police Violence: Writers of Conscience Speak Out
Black Power Mixtape
Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
La revolució avui / Revolution today
Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah
Prisons and American History
This Believer's Truth
Abolition
Beyond the frame
The Meaning of Freedom And Other Difficult Dialogs
Angela Davis speaks
What If I Am A Woman? - Volume Two
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson (born 1959)

journalist, film producer, playwright

  • University of Oxford, Accrington and Rossendale College

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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
The world and other places
Art Objects
Gut symmetries
Written on the Body
The King of Capri
The Body
Granta 110
The Battle of the Sun
The PowerBook
Tanglewreck (Blackbirds)
Weight
Boating for beginners
Frankissstein
The daylight gate
Lighthousekeeping
The stone gods
The passion
Sexing the cherry
Oranges are not the only fruit
Midsummer nights
The gap of time
Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
The Gap of Time: William Shakespeare' The Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
The Myths Series Collection : Books 1-3
Myth Series Floor Display
The Battle of the Sun
Frankenstein and Sexing the Cherry
Art and Lies Edition
Midsummer Nights
Passion Fruit
12 Bytes
The Myths
Art objects
Ox-Tales
Frankissstein
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
The powerbook
The powerbook
The gap of time
The Battle of the Sun
Oranges are not the only fruit
Oranges are not the only fruit
Simetrias Viscerales
Night Side of the River
Love
What? Why? Witch?
Lion, the Unicorn and Me
Hansel and Greta
Midsummer Nights
Going Through a Phrase, An Anthology of Writing from London's Lesbian and Gay Community
Fit for the Future
World's Wife
Love
Oranges are not the only fruit
The Lion The Unicorn And Me
Art & Lies
The battle of the sun
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Land
Gut symmetries
The gap of time
Night Side of the River
Great Moments in Aviation and Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
The bedside Guardian 2014
Khozi Łai stvo sveta
Ju zi bu shi wei yi de shui guo
J. Gordon Melton
J. Gordon Melton (born 1942)

historian, sociologist

  • Northwestern University, Birmingham–Southern College

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Religious Leaders of America
Biographical dictionary of American cult and sect leaders
Religious leaders of America
Encyclopedia of American Religions
The Church of Scientology
The encyclopedic handbook of cults in America
Encyclopedic handbook of cults in America
Encyclopedia of American religions
Melton's encyclopedia of American religions
Magic, witchcraft, and paganism in America
Nelson's guide to denominations
A directory of religious bodies in the United States
The Churches speak on--women's ordination
The Churches speak on--homosexuality
Encyclopedia of African American religions
Encyclopedia of American religions
The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena
Faith in America
New Age encyclopedia
The Churches speak on Pornography
The encyclopedia of religious phenomena
Faiths across time
The Vampire Book
Cults, Religion, and Violence
The vampire gallery
The encyclopedia of American religions, religious creeds
Religious bodies in the United States
American Religions
Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Cults, religion, and violence
The Churches speak on--abortion
The encyclopedia of American religions
Rosicrucianism in America
Religious information sources
Finding enlightenment
Religions of the World
The Churches speak on--euthanasia
Churches Speak on Abortion
Perspectives on the new age
Islam in North America
National Directory of Churches, Synagogues, and Other Houses of Worship
The cult experience
Log cabins to steeples
Islam in North America
The Churches speak on AIDS
Protestant Faith in America
The Churches speak on--sex and family life
The Vampire Book
The American religions collection
Religious celebrations
Protestant faith in America
The Peoples Temple and Jim Jones
Religions of the world
The Churches speak on--capital punishment
Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television
Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America
An open letter concerning the Local Church, Witness Lee and the God-Men controversy
Vampire Almanac
American religious creeds
An open letter concerning the Local Church, Witness Lee and The God-men controversy
Encyclopedia Of Protestantism (Encyclopedia of World Religions)
Finding Enlightenment
The encyclopedia of American religions
Will to Choose, a
Nelson's guide to denominations
A (first working) bibliography of Black Methodism
Pour en finir avec les sectes
Encyclopedia of occultism & parapsychology
The Encyclopedia of American Religions
The Children of God
Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology
The Vampire Book
VideoHound's vampires on video
Religions of the world
New Age almanac
Prime-time religion
Directory of religious organizations in the United States
The history of the churches of the Bowling Green Yoked Charge
Church Universal and Triumphant
Church Universal and Triumphant
The vampire book
Politics of the spirit
Encyclopedia of World Religions Set
Encyclopedia of Protestantism
The shape and structure of the American religious experience
Rosicrucianism in America
Un-Dead TV
Encyclopedia of American Religions Vol. 1
Religious Celebrations
Faiths Across Time
The Vampire Book
Religions of the World
Nelson's Guide to Denominations
The Catholic Pentecostal movement
Cults and New Religions
Pour en finir avec les sectes
The Church of Scientology (Studies in Contemporary Religions, series volume 1)
Religious Bodies in the U. S.
National Directory of Churches, Synagogues, and Other Houses of Worship: Western States
A ( first working) bibliography of Black Methodism
Prime-Time Religion
Log cabins to steeples
Perspectives on the New Age
Melton's encyclopedia of American religions
Cults, Religion, and Violence
A reader's guide to the church's ministry of healing
American Religions
Churches Speak on
National Directory of Churches, Synagogues, and Other Houses of Worship: Midwestern States
The Churches Speak on Sex and Family Life
The Churches Speak on: AIDS
National Directory of Churches, Synagogues, and Other Houses of Worship
The Peoples Temple and Jim Jones
Islam in North America
American Religious Creeds
Finding Enlightenment Through Ramtha
The Churches Speak on: Euthanasia
The Cult Controversy
Women's Ordination
Churches Speak Series
The Churches Speak on Homosexuality
Religious Celebrations [2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual Commemorations
Jean Joubert
Jean Joubert (1928-2015)

poet

  • Faculty of Arts of Paris, University of Montpellier

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Les sabots rouges
White owl and blue mouse
La Possonnière Saint-Cosme
Black iris
L' assistant français, et autres nouvelles
Un bon sauvage
Une embellie
L' homme de sable
Hibou blanc et souris bleue
Les vingt-cinq heures du jour
Poèmes d'absence
La forêt blanche
Les poèmes
Cinquante toiles pour un espace blanc ; suivi de Récits-poèmes
Le chasseur de Sylans précédé de Campagnes secrètes
Le sphinx et autres récits
Anthologie personnelle
Saison d'appel
Mademoiselle Blanche
Histoires de la forêt profonde
La main de feu
Les neiges de juillet
Une maison de miroirs
Le voyage à Poudrenville
Le lézard grec
Corps désarmé à la merci des arbres
Rivages du sud
Rivages du Sud
Mademoiselle Blanche
L'alphabet des ombres
Rote Sonne, schwarzer See
Le pays hors du monde
Cinquante toiles por un espace blanc suivi de recits-poemes
La Possonniere, Saint-Cosme. Maison de Ronsard
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay (born 1974)

essayist, journalist, editing staff, literary critic

  • Michigan Technological University, Phillips Exeter Academy

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Hunger
Not that bad
Women of the 116th Congress
Original Sisters
Best Actress
Zombies
Difficult Women
Bad Feminist
An Untamed State
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Woman's Right to Pleasure
Ayiti
The Best American Short Stories 2018
Black Panther
Sacrifice of Darkness
Dress like a woman
Drawing Power
Love and Resistance
Mickalene Thomas
Wakanda
Power Book
The Banks Box Set
The New Black: A Neo-Noir Anthology
Tage der Furcht
Banks
Frick Madison
Frequencies
Kötü Feminst
Urgent, Unheard Stories
Radicals, Volume 1 : Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
Kafes
Opinions
Writing into the Wound
Dawn of the Midnight Angels
Balance ta bulle - 62 dessinatrices témoignent du harcèlement et de la violence sexuelle
Banks
Year I Learned Everything
Moon Milk Review 2011
No es para tanto
Unti on Writing
How to Be Heard
Do the Work
Sigrun Bielfeldt
Sigrun Bielfeldt (born 1999)

translator, slavist

  • University of Tübingen

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Dmitrij Tschižewskij und Ludolf Müller erinnernd
„Der schwere Schritt in die Wirklichkeit“
Selbst Oder Natur
Die čhechische Moderne im Frühwert Šaldas
Die čhechische [i.e. čechische] Moderne im Frühwert Šaldas
Moskau
Dharamvir Bharati
Dharamvir Bharati (1926-1997)

poet, journalist, academic

  • University of Allahabad

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Dharmavīra Bhāratī ke patra, Pushpā Bhāratī ke nāma
Bhāratī, saṅgama se sāgara
Andha yug
Dharmavīra Bhāratī granthāvalī
The sun's seventh horse
Sāhitya vicāra aura smr̥ti
Pragativāda
Banda galī ka akhiri makana
Murdoṃ kā gām̐
Gunahonka devata
Suraja ka satavam ghoda
Ādyanta
Ṭhaṇḍa lohā tathā anya kavitāem̐
Kucha lambī kavitāem̐
Andha yug
Muktakshetre yuddhakshetre
Nadī pyāsī thī
Ṭhaṇḍā lohā tathā anya kavitāem̆
Sapanā abhī bhī
Siddha-sāhitya
Andhā yuga
Gunāhoṃ kā devatā
Paśyantī
Cān̐da aura ṭuṭe hue loga
Kanupriyā
Sūraja kā sātavām̐ ghoṛā
Svarga aura pr̥thvī
Sūraja kā sātavām̐. ghoṛā
Ṭhele para Himālaya
Sāta gīta-varsha
Eka sāhityika ke premapatra
Dharmavīra Bhāratī kī sampūrṇa kahāniyām̐
Chander & Sudha
Banda galī kā āk̲h̲irī makāna tathā anya kahāniyāṁ
Kahanī anakahanī
Gyāraha sapanoṅakā deśa
Sergey Solovyov
Sergey Solovyov (1820-1879)

historian, professor, poet

  • Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University

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Obshchedostupnye chtenii︠a︡ o russkoĭ istorii
Pervye nauchnye trudy
Izbrannye trudy ; Zapiski
Moi zapiski dlia detei moikh
Izbrannye trudy
Istorii︠a︡ Rossii s drevneĭshikh vremen
The reign of Ivan III the Great
Rebellion and reform
Istoriia Rossia s drevnieshikh vremen
Istorīi︠a︡ Rossīi s drevni︠e︡ĭshikh vremen
Imperator Aleksandr Pervy
History of Russia
The character of old Russia
Russian society in the age of Ivan III
Michael Romanov, the last years, 1634-1645 (History of Russia from earliest times)
Empress Elizabeth
Istoriya Rossii s drevneĭshikh vremen
Istoriia Rossii s drevneǐshikh vremen
The time of troubles
Russia under the Tatar yoke, 1228-1389 (History of Russia)
Istoriia Rossii s drevnieǐshikh vremen
Russian society in the age of Ivan III
The shift northward
Empress Elizabeth
Empress Elizabeth's reign, 1745-1748
Istorii Ła Rossii s drevnei shikh vremen
Istorīi︠a︡ otnoshenīĭ mezhdu russkimi kni︠a︡zʹi︠a︡mi Ri︠u︡rikova doma
Istoriia Rossia s drevnieǐshikh vremen
Sochinenii͡a︡ v vosemnadt͡s︡ati knigakh
Istorĭi︡a︡ Rossĭi s drevni︠e︡ls̆kikhʹ vremenʹ
Istoriǐ͡a Rossii s drevnǐ͡eǐshikh vremen
Uchebnai︠a︡ kniga russkoĭ istorīi
Imperator Aleksandr I
Drevni︠a︡i︠a︡ russkai︠a︡ letopisʹ v perelozhenii S. M. Solovʹeva dli︠a︡ deteĭ
--Imperator Aleksandr Pervyĭ
Empress Anna
Catherine the Great in power
Istorii︠a︡ padenii︠a︡ Polʹshi
Vzgliad na istoriiu ustanovleniia gosudarstvennago poriadka v Rossii do Petra Velikago
Istoriia Rossii s drevnieshikh vremen
The shift northward
The character of old Russia
Publichnye chtenii͡a︡ o Petre Velikom
Istorīi︠a︡ padenīi︠a︡ Polʹshi
From clan to crown (History of Russia from earliest times)
The age of Vasily III
Istorii͡a padenii͡a Polʹshi
Russian Society
Istoriǐ͡a Rossii s drevnǐ͡eǐshikh vremen
Peter the Great
Publichnyi͡a︡ chtenīi͡a︡ o Petri͡e︡ Velikom
Istorii︠a︡ otnosheniĭ mezhdu russkimi kni︠a︡zʹi︠a︡mi Ri︠u︡rikova doma
History of Russia
Zapiski Sergi͡e︡i͡a︡ Mikhaĭlovicha Solovʹeva
History of Russia
Ob otnoshenīi︠a︡kh Novgoroda k Velikim kni︠a︡zʹi︠a︡m
Istorii͡a Rossii s drevni͡eǐshikh vremen
Istorii͡a Rossii s drevni͡eǐshikh vremen
Russkai︠a︡ li︠e︡topisʹ dli︠a︡ pervonachalʹnago chtenīi︠a︡
Istorīi︠a︡ padenīi︠a︡ Polʹshi
Istorii︠a︡ Rossii s drevneĭshikh vremen
Drevnerusskie kni︠a︡zʹi︠a︡
Istorī͡ia Rossīi v ͡tsarstvovanīe Aleksi͡ei͡a Mikhaĭlovicha
Istorīi︠a︡ Rossīi s drevni︠e︡ĭshikh vremen