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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969)

politician, activist, journalist, scientist

  • Leiden University

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Infidel
Nomad
Mijn vrijheid
Mō fukujū shinai
כופרת
The Caged Virgin
Heretic
Yo Acuso / I Accuse
De zoontjesfabriek
Ayaan verzameld
Nomad
Ich klage an
Ma vie rebelle
De maagdenkooi
Insoumise
Nomade
Reformemos el Islam
Adan & Eva
Ayaan
Reformiert euch!
Mein Leben, meine Freiheit
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

anarchist, journalist, political philosopher, women's rights activist, lecturer, publisher, peace activist, autobiographer, nurse, philosopher, politician, pacifist

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Vivre ma vie
Emma Goldman
Nowhere at home
Vision on fire
Emma Goldman, Vol. 1: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1
Vision on fire
A woman without a country
Emma Goldman
The tragedy of woman's emancipation
Viviendo mi vida
Voltairine De Cleyre
Anarchism and Other Essays
Quiet Rumours
The social significance of the modern drama
Trial and Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman in the United States District Court, in the City of New York, July, 1917
Red Emma speaks
My disillusionment in Russia
Red China speaks
Emma Goldman
My disillusionment in Russia [1923 version; first 11 chapters of 33]
My further disillusionment in Russia
Anarchy and the Sex Question
My two years in Russia
The traffic in women and other essays on feminism
A fragment of the prison experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
Marriage And Love
1917
My Disillusionment of Russia
The Emma Goldman papers
Emma Goldman, Vol. 2: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 2
L'Epopée d'une anarchiste
El anarquismo y otros ensayos
FRATERNALMENTE, EMMA
The psychology of political violence
Anarchist Encounters
Anarchismn And Other Writings
Mother Earth
Feminismo y anarquismo II
Trotsky protests too much
Mother Earth
Emma Goldman
Patriotism
Textsammlung
Dancing in the revolution
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume Two: Making Speech Free, 1902-1909 (Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years)
Emma Goldman: a Documentary History of the American Years
Anarchisten über freie Liebe
Deportation : Its Meaning and Menace
Mother Earth; Volume 7
Preparedness
Mother Earth; Volume 5
The Modern Drama
Modern Dramanin Toplumsal Uyumu
Emma Goldman - A Documentary History of the American Years Vol. 2
Modern Tiyatronun Toplumsal Onemi
Living My Life, Vol. 1
Fragment of the Prison Experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
Anarchismo e Altri Saggi
Dans Edemeyeceksem Bu Benim Devrimim Degildir
Emma Goldman, Vol. 1
Recopilatorio de escritos de Emma Goldman
Baking Cookbook for Teenagers
Buruh Berkuasa
Viviendo mi vida Vol. II
Simple 5-Ingredient Ketogenic Diet Cookbook
Emma Goldman, Vol. 2
Anarsizm Neyi Savunur?
Hva Gikk Galt Med Den Russiske Revolusjon I 1917?
Benim Inandigim
Anarchism and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)
The Pocket Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Writings : (Aberdeen Classics Collection)
Anarchism
Syndicalism
A Criticism On Christianity
The crushing of the Russian revolution
The Essential Emma Goldman
Mother Earth; Volume 1
Feminismos para la revolución
Feminismo y anarquismo
Ciò Che Io Credo
Rusyadaki Hayal Kirikligim
Mother Earth; Volume 6
Gelebtes Leben
Viviendo mi vida
Living My Life
Recopilatorio de escritos de Emma Goldman
Some Collected Works
Living My Life, Vol. 2
Vivre ma vie
Der Anarchismus und seine wirkliche Bedeutung
Épopée d'une anarchiste
Essential Emma Goldman-Anarchism, Feminism, Liberation (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Hayatimi Yasarken - Ikinci Cilt
Hristiyanlik Üzerine Bir Elestiri
Anarchism
The Suppression of free speech in New York and in New Jersey
Zi you de nü xing
To remain silent is impossible
Anarkhizm
The trial and imprisonment of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
Victims of morality ; and The failure of Christianity
The place of the individual in society
Josei kaihō no higeki
Writings of Emma Goldman
1. Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter
Heyraṭ un fraye liebe
Anākizumu
Didier Lestrade
Didier Lestrade (born 1958)

diarist, journalist, HIV/AIDS activist

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Cheikh : Journal de campagne
Act Up
Kinsey 6
Sida 2.0
Revue Miroirs/Miroirs Num. 1
Pourquoi les gays sont passés à droite
The end
Pourquoi les gays sont passés à droite
Minorités
Olaf Stapledon
Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950)

paramedic, philosopher, peace activist

  • University of Oxford, University of Liverpool

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An Olaf Stapledon reader
Antología de la literatura fantástica
Last and First Men
Last men in London
Odd John & Sirius
Star Maker
Philosophy and living
Last and first men, & Star maker
Sirius
Talking across the world
Darkness and the Light
Last and first men, and Last men in London
To the end of time
Nebula maker
Far Future Calling
Nebula maker ; & Four encounters
Hacedor de Estrellas
The Flames
Worlds of wonder
A Man Divided
LA Ultima Y Primera Humanidad
A modern theory of ethics
Saints and revolutionaries
New hope for Britain
Death into life
Juan Raro
Waking world
The opening of the eyes
Man Divided Illustared
Youth and tomorrow
Last and First Men (Annotated)
Death into Life Annotated
Last Men in London Illustrated
Death into Life Annotated
Last and First Men Illustrated
Latter-day psalms
Beyond the "isms"
Last Men in London (Annotated)
Last Men in London-Original Edition;illustrated
Alevler
Last Men in London Annotated
Last and First Men Annotated
Last Men in London Annotated and Unabridged
Last and First Men Annotated and Unabridged
Last Men in London-Original Edition(Annotated)
Last and First Men Annotated
Last and First Men (Annotated)
Last Man in London (illustrated Edition)
Last and First Men Illustrated Edition
Last Men in London (annotated)
Last and First Men
Last and First Men Annotated
Old man in new world
Man Divided Annotated
World of Sound
THE PORTABLE NOVELS OF SCIENCE. Includes
Last and First Man Illustrated
Last Man in London Illustrated Edition
Last and First Men Illustrated
Last Men in London Annotated
Son ve Ilk Insanlar
Flames Illustared
A modern theory of ethics
Créateur d'Étoiles
Stew Albert
Stew Albert (1939-2006)

activist

  • Pace University

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Who the hell is Stew Albert?
The Sixties Papers
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
Uri Avnery
Uri Avnery (1923-2018)

journalist, politician, newspaper editor, peace activist, human rights activist, opinion journalist

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My friend, the enemy
1948
Opṭimi
Bi-śedot Peleshet 1948
Israel's vicious circle
Israel without Zionists
Chronique d'un pacifiste israélien pendant l'intifada (Octobre 2000-septembre 2002)
Die Jerusalem Frage
Israel without Zionism
Zwei Völker, zwei Staaten
Israel without Zionists
Lenin lo gar poh yoter
Mon frère, l'ennemi
Mein Freund, der Feind
Guerre du Liban, un Israélien accuse
Israel without Zionism
Wir tragen das Nessos-Gewand
1948
ha- Tsad ha-sheni shel ha-matbeʻa
Ein Leben für den Frieden
Von Gaza nach Beirut
Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue
Truth against truth
Milḥemet ha-yom ha-sheviʻi
Bomben auf Bagdad
Reale Utopien
Friedenskrafte in Israel
Israel and the Palestinians
ha-Tsad ha-sheni shel ha-maṭbeʻa
Israel without Zionists
Los zorros de Sansón
Oyf di felder fun Negev
Israel sin sionistas
Bi-śedot Peleshet 1948
Me-hitgonenut le-milḥamah
"Two states or one state?"
Olha Kobylianska
Olha Kobylianska (1863-1942)

women's rights activist, opinion journalist, translator

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Slova zvorushenoho sert͡si͡a
Zibranni͡a tvoriv u 10 tomakh
Nekulʹturna
On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs
"Za hotar"
Snytsia
"Za hotar"
Snytʹsi͡a
V nedili͡u rano zilli͡a kopala..
Za sytuatsii︠a︡my
Tvory v dvokh tomakh
Tvory
Warm the Children, O Sun (Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature, Vol. V) (Women's voices in Ukrainian literature)
Povisti, opovidanni͡a, novely
Meli͡ankholiǐnyǐ valʹs
Vybrani tvory
La terre
T͡Sarivna
Apostol cherni
V nedili︠u︡ rano zilli︠a︡ kopala
Ohrivaĭ, sont͡se--
Nekulʹturna
Apostol cherni
On Sunday morning she gathered herbs
Meliankholïǐnyǐ valets'
Li︠u︡dyna. Zemli︠a︡
V nedïli͡u rano zïli͡e kopala
Tvory v dvokh tomakh
Arystokratka
Zemli︠a︡ ; "V nedili︠u︡ rano zilli︠a︡ kopala"
Zvorushene sert︠s︡e
Snyt'sia
Vovchykha
U nediliu rano zillia kopala
Kleinrussische Novellen
Li︠u︡dyna ; Tsarivna
Kleinrussische Novellen
U nedili︠u︡ rano zilli︠a︡ kopala
TSarivna
Zemli͡a
Cherez kladku
Opovidanni︠a︡
V nedilíù rano zillíà kopala ..
Li︠u︡dyna. Zemli︠a︡. "V nedili︠u︡ rano zilli︠a︡ kopala ... "
Zemli︠a︡
Zemli︠a︡
Vasylka