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Erica Jong
Erica Jong (born 1942)

poet, women's rights activist

  • Barnard College, Columbia University

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Fear of Fifty
The Devil At Large
Seducing the demon
Fear of fifty
Four visions of America
Rambles through an Alaskan wild
Botero: La corrida
Fear of fifty : a midlife memoir
Fanny
Inventing Memory
How to Save Your Own Life
Parachutes & kisses
At the edge of the body
Fear of Flying
Loveroot
Serenissima
Sugar in my bowl
Witches
Sappho's Leap
Ordinary miracles
Ballata di ogni donna
What Do Women Want?
Any Woman's Blues
Any woman's blues
Fear of flying
Megan's book of divorce
Parachutes and kisses
Megan's Two Houses
Sappho's leap
Fear of Flying CD
Love comes first
Shylock's Daughter
How to save your own life
Witches (Abradale Books)
Fruits & vegetables
Half-lives
How to save your own life
The devil at large
Becoming Light
Here comes & other poems
Witches
Becoming light
Serenissima
Serenissima
Here comes and other poems
Cancion triste de cualquier mujer
Fruits and Vegetables
Of Blessed Memory
Fear of flying
Keine Angst vor Fünfzig
Manolito Gafotas En LA Radio
La peur de l'âge
Miedo a Los 50
No más miedo
Der Buddha im Schoß. Über Sex, Macht und Literatur
FANNY
Devil At Large Miller
Serenissima
Les parachutes d'Icare
Fanny
Bendita Memoria
At the edge of the body
Fanny ou la Ve ridique histoire des aventures de Fanny Troussecottes-Jones
De mémoire de filles
Que Queremos Las Mujeres? - 2
Any Woman's Blues International
Fruits & vegetables
Miedo a Los Cincuenta
Paracadute e baci
Inventing memory
Diazugio
Here comes & other poems
Fear of flying
De mémoire de filles
Selected Poems
La planche de salut
Miedo a volar
Serensissima
In Their Own Voices - Volumes Three and Four
Half-lives
Erica Jong Fear of Flying
Ordinary miracles
Selected Poems Vol 2
Paracaidas Y Besos/Parachutes and Kisses
Miedo a Volar/Fear of Flying
Iliggos
Parasutculer ve Opucukler
Angst vorm Fliegen
Fallschirme & Küsse
Hekse
How to Steal Millions
Botero
Fear of flying
Megan's Book of Divorce
Witches
Helen Keller
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

orator, essayist, political activist, trade unionist, peace activist, suffragette, linguist, autobiographer

  • Radcliffe College, Harvard University

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The story of my life
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
The Story of My Life
The World I Live in
My Religion
Light in my darkness
The World I Live In (New York Review Books Classics)
The Story of My Life (Enriched Classics)
Teacher
The faith of Helen Keller
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
The Story of My Life
Midstream
Midstream: my later life
The Story of My Life (Illustrated Classics Collection 2)
Midstream
The story of my life
The story of my life
Story of My Life
Wei da de san da nv xing zi zhuan =
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming =
Hailun Kaile zi zhuan =
Wo de sheng huo
המורה אן סוליבן מייסי
The story of my life =
Die Geschichte meines Lebens
Die Geschichte meines Lebens
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming
Wo di sheng he
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming
My religion
Iz zhizni sli͡epoĭ i glukhoni͡emoĭ
Hailun Kaile zi zhuan
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming =
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
We the Resistance
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Copper Level
Rezeption des Völkerrechts
To Love This Life
My Key of Life: Optimism
Helen Keller
Let us have faith
The story of my life, by Helen Keller
The open door
The world I live in and Optimism
To love this life
The Story of My Life
Optimism
My religion
The Story of My Life
The Story Of My Life And Optimism
The Story of my Life (100th Anniversary Edition)
Helen Keller's Journal
Story of My Life
Friendly Settlements Before the European Court of Human Rights
The Story of My Life
The world I live in
Teacher
The Door Opens and Our Mark Twain
The World I Live In
The Story of My Life (With Her Letters)
Teacher
The Story of My Life
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
Taking international law seriously
Out of the dark
An Alabama Christmas
Optimism
The story of my life. With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementrary account of her education. Including passages from the Reports and Letters of her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan
The Story of My Life
To Love This Life, Quotations by Helen Keller
The Story of My Life
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
Helen Keller's journal
How I would help the world
Out of the dark
The Song Of The Stone Wall
Peace at eventide
Story of My Life (Dover Large Print Classics)
The story of my life
My religion
My key of life (optimism)
Story of My Life/C-21/Pocket Classics
The Story of My Life (Watermill Classic)
Sourde, muette, aveugle
Die Flucht
Seek Happiness
Historia de Mi Vida - Ciega - Sorda - Muda
Out of the dark
The chant of the stone wall
Story of My Life (Now Age Illus Ser 2)
The song of the stone wall
Optimism
Helen Keller, her Socialist years
The world I live in, Optimism and other essays
The world I live in
El mundo donde vivo
Helen Keller's journal, 1936-1937
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 1
Ḳorot hayai
Chun feng hua yu - Sha Li Wen lao shi de gu shi
Our duties to the blind
The story of my life
The Spirit of Easter
We bereaved
Three days to see
The story of my life
My religion
Helen Keller in Scotland
My religion
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 4
Midstream
Messages to veterans blinded in World War II
The chant of the stone wall
Byline of hope
The world I live in and Optimism
Being some timely extracts from the reviews of "My religion" by Helen Keller
The modern woman
Wie ich Sozialistin wurde
Hailun Kaile zi zhuan =
The story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan
Wo de xin yang
Helen Keller papers
The world I live in
Our duties to the blind
The miracle of life
The world I live in
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 3
The story of my life
The New York that Helen Keller "sees."
Optimism
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 2
Derek Humphry
Derek Humphry (born 1930)

journalist, activist

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Jean's way
False messiah
Good life, good death
Good life, good death
Jean's way
Jean murio a su manera
Final exit
Let me die before I wake
Dying With Dignity
The Right to Die
Freedom to die
The Good Euthanasia Guide
Lawful exit
Because They're Black
Compassionate Crimes, Broken Taboos
El Derecho A Morir
Euthanasia
Lawful exit
El Ultimo Recurso
Supplement to Final exit
The cricket conspiracy
Police power and black people
Let Me Die Before I Wake & Supplement to Final Exit
Passports and politics
Let me die before I wake
The Good Euthanasia Guide 2004
The right to die
Exit final
Assisted suicide
Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford (1917-1996)

journalist, human rights activist

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Daughters and rebels
Grace had an English heart
Decca
Faces of Philip
A fine old conflict
The American way of death
The American way of birth
The trial of Dr. Spock
The American way of death revisited
Kind and usual punishment
Poison penmanship
The American way of death
The American way of death.
The American prison business
Poison penmanship
The Making of a Muckraker
Literary Voices #1
Lifeitselfmanship, or, How to become a precisely because man
The trial of Dr. Spock, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr, Michael Goodman and Marcus Raskin
Poison penmanship
The American way of death
Poison penmanship
The trial of Dr. Spock, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman and Marcus Raskin
Hons and rebels
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins (born 1961)

musician, actor, blogger, human rights activist, singer, television actor, poet, journalist, film actor, peace activist, voice actor, radio personality, recording artist, spoken word artist, lyricist

  • Bullis School, American University

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The portable Henry Rollins
The first five
Henry Rollins
Solipsist
Eye scream
Do I Come Here Often?
Fanatic!
Get in the Van
Broken Summers
Do I Come Here Often? (Black Coffee Blues, Pt. 2)
Occupants
Smile, you're traveling
Smile You're Travelling (Black Coffee Blues 3)
Jackass Theory [Uk Only]
Black Coffee Blues
Roomanitarian
Unwelcomed songs
See a grown man cry
See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die
Now watch him die
Bang !
A Dull Roar What I Did On My Summer Deracination 2006
The best of 2.13.61 Publications
Get in the Van
The First Five (Rollins, Henry)
One from none
Art to Choke Hearts and Pissing in the Gene Pool
High adventure in the great outdoors
Henry Rollins, Billy Childish, Jello Biafra, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Art to choke hearts
Body Bag [Uk Only]
Everything
Get in the Van - On the Road With Black Flag
Pissing in the Gene Pool
Lucio Urtubia
Lucio Urtubia (1931-2020)

bricklayer, money counterfeiter, activist

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La revolución por el tejado
Brigid Brophy
Brigid Brophy (1929-1995)

essayist, biographer, human rights activist

  • The Abbey School

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The prince and the wild geese
Prancing novelist
Beardsley and his world
Palace without chairs
In transit
Mozart the dramatist
Fifty works of English and American literature we could do without
Flesh
The adventures of God in his searchfor the black girl
Hackenfeller's ape
Black ship to hell
Hackenfeller's Ape
The snow ball. The finishing touch
Reads
The snow ball
The finishing touch
The snow ball
Don't never forget
Flesh
Baroque-'n'-roll, and other essays
Black and white
The Finishing Touch
Black and White
The burglar
Fifty Works of English and American Literature We Could Do Without
A guide to public lending right
Pussy owl
Religious education in state schools
Hackenfeller's Ape
The burglar
Mozart the Dramatist
Religious Education in State Schools
The Longford threat to freedom
King of a Rainy Country
Prancing Novelist
Flesh
In transit
The crown princess & other stories
The king of a rainy country
The crown princess
The rights of animals
Yuki no butōkai
The king of a rainy country
Hackenfeller's ape
Black and white
Hackenfeller's ape
Don't never forget
Universe opera guides W. A. Mozart
The king of a rainy country
Black ship to hell
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

educator, autobiographer, pedagogue, businessperson, politician, human rights activist, teacher

  • Hampton University

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Working with the hands
My larger education
Up from Slavery
Three Negro classics
The Booker T. Washington papers
Frederick Douglass
The story of my life and work
Pāre ghartīko purushārtha
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
The story of my life and work
Three African-American classics
The Booker T. Washington papers
Booker T. Washington Reader
Builder of a Civilization by Booker T. Washington
History's Greatest Speeches
Will to Be Free
Ātmoddhāra
The Booker T. Washington papers
Free Associations
Frederick Douglass
The story of my life and work
Hei nu cheng ming ji
An autobiography
An autobiography
The Booker T. Washington chronicles
Frederick Douglass
Hei nu cheng gong zhe zi zhuan
Words of Ages
A new Negro for a new century
The future of the American Negro
The man farthest down
The story of the Negro
Three African-American Classics
African American Literature
The Negro in the South
African-American Six Book Treasury - The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
If You Call My Name
The Negro in business
Tuskegee & its people: their ideals and achievements
The Negro in the South
Address prepared by Mr. Booker T. Washington
In Their Own Voices
Character building
Booker T. Washington Papers (13 Volumes and 1 Index)
Black History Collection
The Classic Slave Narratives
The Negro in the South, his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development
Education of the Negro
The Negro in the South, his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development
The Negro Problem
The story of slavery
The Future Of The American Negro
The educational and industrial emancipation of the negro
Black-belt diamonds
The rights and duties of the Negro
Address of Booker T. Washington
Seven Slave Narratives, seven books including
Booker T. Washington Papers Vol. 1
Character building
Three African-American Classics :
Colored American from Slavery to Honorable Citizenship
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 12
Three African American Classics : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Up from Slavery
Putting the most into life
Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery
An autobiography
Vom sklaven empor
A protest against the burning and lynching of Negroes
Address of Booker T. Washington, principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala
The Negro Problem
The story of my life and work an autobiography
Story of the Negro
The Negro problem / contributions by Booker T. Washington ... [et al.] ; with an introduction by Bernard R. Boxill
Address of Booker T. Washington, delivered at the alumni dinner of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., June 24, 1896, after receiving the honorary degree of master of arts
Negro in the South
The Hardwick bill
Booker T. Washington's Own Story Of His Life And Work
The Future of the American Negro
An address on Abraham Lincoln
An address by Booker T. Washington, prin., Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama
Souls of Black Folk, up from Slavery
Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development; Being the William Levi Bull Lectures for the Year 1907
Up From Slavery and The Atlanta Compromise Speech
Story of My Life and Work
Is The Negro Having A Fair Chance?
Address of Booker T. Washington ...
Negro education not a failure
A Will to Be Free (an African American Heritage Book)
Encouraging Words
Booker T. Washington's address at the jubilee Thanksgiving services
Booker T. Washington The Negro in Business
From Slave to College President
Pocket Guide to Writing in History 7e & Black Protest and the Great Migration & Souls of Black Folk & Up from Slavery
Souls of Black Folk & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery
Address of Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, delivered at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition, at Atlanta, Ga., September 18, 1895
African-American Six Book Treasury - the Souls of Black Folk, up from Slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
African-American Classic Three Book Set - The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Negro problem
Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery and The Life of Frederick Douglass
The story of my life and work, Booker T. Washington
Sowing and Reaping
Character Building
The Negro Problem
Character and Culture
Character Building
Booker T. Washington Collection
The Negro Problem
Character Building
Address prepared by Mr. Booker T. Washington for delivery at a dinner given by the members of the Union League Club on February 12, 1899
The Booker T. Washington papers
The Booker T. Washington papers
Addresses in Memory of Carl Schurz, Carnegie Hall, New York, November 21 1906
"The better part," speech of Booker T. Washington delivered at the peace jubilee, Chicago, October 16, 1898
Signs of Progress among the Negroes
Selected Short Works of Booker T. Washington (Esprios Classics)
The American Negro (Southern States)
The Story of my Life and Work
Character Building
One hundred selected sayings of Booker T. Washington
Women's Magazines, 1940-1960 & Up from Slavery & American Social Classes in the 1950s & Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era
Character Building
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery
Vom Sklaven Empor
Character Building (an African American Heritage Book)
The Story of the Negro
Negro Problem
Putting the Most into Life
Booker T. Washington Papers Collection
Negro Problem; a Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-Day;
Black Prostest and the Great Migration & Up from Slavery & Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s & ... & Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic
Women's Magazines, 1940-1960 & Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975 & 1912 Election and the Power of Progressivism & Up from Slavery
The Negro and the "Solid South;"
Handarbeit
Story of the Negro Volume II
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 10
Quotations of Booker T. Washington
Selected speeches of Booker T. Washington
The Story Of The Negro
Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery Volume 1 by Booker T. Washington
American Literature for Christian Homeschoolers, Volume 4
Story of the Negro
The Negro problem
Frederick Douglass
Story of My Life and Work
Story of the Negro
The Negro in the South
The Negro Problem
Character Building and the Story of Slavery
Free Associations
Character Building and The Story of Slavery
Sowing and reaping
Story of the Negro the Rise of the Race from Slavery, Vol. 2
Character Building
Monument to Robert Gould Shaw
The Negro in the South
Up from Slavery with Related Documents
Future of the American Negro and the Atlanta Compromise Speech
The Story of My Life and Work
Negro Problem
The Negro Problems
Atlanta Compromise
Story of the Negro
Up from memory
Booker T. Washington Collection
Character Building : A Musical
Up from Slavery and the Atlanta Compromise Speech
Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery II
The Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery
Negro in Business
Story of My Life and Work an Autobiography;
Story of the Negro the Rise of the Race from Slavery, Vol. 2 Paperback
Character Building
The Story of the Negro
The Future of the American Negro
The Negro in the South
The Story of my Life and Work
Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery; Volume 01
The Negro problem
Manson Family Murders 50 Years On
The Negro Problem
The story of my life and work an autobiography;
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 3
Charakterbildung
Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 14
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery & Harlem Renaissance
Story of My Life and Work [microform]
Character Building
American Literature for Christian Homeschoolers, Volume 3 : Up from Slavery
Story of Slavery
Frederick Douglass
The Future of the American Negro and The Atlanta Compromise Speech
Story of My Life and Work (Esprios Classics)
The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development
The future of the American Negro
The Negro and the signs of civilization
The story of my life and work
The Works of Booker T. Washington : Up From Slavery
Will to Be Free (an African American Heritage Book)
The story of the Negro, the rise of the race from slavery.By : Booker T. Washington
Story of My Life and Work
The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development
Metaphysics of Love
An autobiography
The Negro problem
Me-ʻavdut le-ḥerut
The free Negro in slavery days
Address of Booker T. Washington, principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala
The papers of Booker T. Washington
Story of slavery
Memórias de um Negro Americano
The Negro problem
The negro in business--
The Negro problem
The story of the Negro
The Negro problem
The Negro in the South
The New York times
Booker T. Washington Papers, 1889-1895 Vol. 3
The fruits of industrial training
Hei wei ren
The successful training of the Negro
Some European observations and experiences
Some results of the Armstrong idea
Memórias de um Negro
On Mother Earth
Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Istitute, Tuskegee, Alabama. Delivered at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition, at Altanta, Ga. Sept. 18, 1895
Black Diamonds
The Negro and the labor unions
Some European observations & experiences
Industrial training for the Negro
Letter of Booker T. Washington on the negro and the farm labor problem of the South
Booker T. Washingtons̓ own story of his life and work
The story of the Negro
Law and order and the Negro
The Papers of Booker T. Washington, 1864-1960
Booker T. Washington Papers, 1906-1908 Vol. 9
Daily resolves
Vom sklaven empor
The story of my life and work
An open letter to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, February 19, 1898
Excerpts from the Congregationalist and Christian world