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Cornel West
Cornel West (born 1953)

theologian, philosopher, actor, critic, executive producer, podcaster, political activist

  • Harvard University, Princeton University

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Black prophetic fire
Brother West
The courage to hope
Black Intellectual's Odyssey
James and Royce Reconsidered
Brother West : Living and Loving Out Loud
Race Matters
Breaking bread
Keeping faith
Prophesy deliverance!
The American evasion of philosophy
Restoring Hope
Democracy Matters
Prophetic fragments
The Cornel West reader
The ethical dimensions of Marxist thought
Hope on a tightrope
Taking Parenting Public
White on White/Black on Black
Beyond eurocentrism and multiculturalism
Go Down Moses A Celebratuin Of The Africanamerican Spiritual
Struggles in the promised land
African American religious thought
Post-analytic philosophy
The War Against Parents
Making it on broken promises
Miseducated
La pensée américaine contemporaine
The Affirmative action debate
Theology in the Americas
Urban Voices, Racial Justice, and Community Leadership
Race Matters, 25th Anniversary Ed.
Keeping Faith
White on White/Black on Black
Heart of American Darkness
Plough Quarterly No. 24 – Faith and Politics
Regarding Malcolm X
Making It on Broken Promises
Prophesy Deliverance! 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition
Miseducated Lib/E
Trauma of Caste
Guardian Poplar
Ethics, historicism and the Marxist tradition
Revolution Will Rhyme
Radical King
Theology in the Americas
Cornel West Reader
Conversations with Cornel West
Prophetischer Pragmatismus
Brainpower
And the Spirit Moved Them
Let the Healing Begin
Taking Parenting Public
Keeping Faith
American Evasion of Philosophy
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
Steve Earle
Steve Earle (born 1955)

mandolinist, singer, actor, guitarist, peace activist, radio personality, record producer

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I Can't Remember If We Said Goodbye
Doghouse roses
I'll never get out of this world alive
Steve Earle Songbook
Guitar town
So you wannabe an outlaw
Steve Earle - Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet
Jerusalem
No saldré vivo de este mundo
The revolution starts now
Fritz Klein
Fritz Klein (1932-2006)

psychiatrist, researcher, LGBTQ rights activist

  • Yeshiva University, University of Bern

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Das Neue Hermann-Löns-Brevier
The Bisexual Option
Bisexualities
The Bisexual Option
Two Lives to Lead
Bisexual and gay husbands
The Bisexual Option, Second Edition (Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies)
Das neue Herrmann-Löns-Brevier
Im Zeichen des Kultbaues
The Bisexual Option, Second Edition (Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies)
DAS ALTE TRAISMAUER
Neue Studien Zum Imperialismus Vor 1914
Vorbereitung, Entfesselung und Verlauf des Krieges Bis Ende 1914
Kriegsgefahren und Friedenschancen Im 20. Jahrhundert
Bisexuality and Transgenderism
250 JAHRE ANSIEDLUNG SALZBURG
Im Zeichen des Kultbaues
Das alte Traismauer
Studien Zum Deutschen Imperialismus Vor 1914
Österreich-Ungarn in der Weltpolitik 1900 Bis 1918
Bisexual and Gay Husbands
Es Begann in Sarajevo
Mit Hermann Löns durch Niedersachsen
Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Molekülverbindungen des 2,6-Dimethoxybenzochinons und zur Kenntnis der Cörulignons
Julian Assange
Julian Assange (born 1971)

Internet activist, hacker, programmer, computer scientist, television producer, television director, journalist, presenter, businessperson, whistleblower, television presenter

  • Central Queensland University, University of Melbourne

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Julian Assange
When Google Met Wikileaks
Cypherpunks, Freedom, and the Future of the Internet
Cuando Google encontró a Wikileaks
Menace sur nos libertés
David Harris
David Harris (1946-2023)

journalist, peace activist

  • Stanford University

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Dreams die hard
The genius
I shoulda been home yesterday
Coming out
The League
Goliath
The crisis
The last stand
Our war
The last scam
The last stand
Kurt Hiller
Kurt Hiller (1885-1972)

journalist, politician, poet lawyer, LGBTQ rights activist

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Köpfe und Tröpfe
Profile
Zwischen den Kriegen
Rote Ritter
Geist werde Herr
Politische Publizistik von 1918-33
K.H. an K.H
Leben gegen die Zeit
Rote Ritter
Leben gegen die Zeit
Die Weisheit der Langenweile
Der Kondor
Ratioaktiv. Reden, 1914-1964
Ratioaktiv
Die Weisheit der Langenweile
Der Aufbruch zum Paradies
Ein deutsches Herrenhaus
Pazifismus der Tat, revolutionärer Pazifismus
Politische Publizistik von 1918-33
After nazism--democracy?
Ziel
Der kondor
Köpfe und Tröpfe
Ich war nie Expressionist
Logokratie, oder Ein Weltbund des Geistes
Der Aufbruch zum Paradies
Die Weisheit der Langenweile
Geistige Grundlagen eines schöpferischen Deutschlands der Zukunft
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895)

jurist, journalist, LGBTQ rights activist

  • University of Göttingen, Humboldt University of Berlin

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Letters to his kinsfolk
Armer Junge!
The riddle of "man-manly" love
Forschungen über das Rätsel der mannmännlichen Liebe
Gladius furens
Gladius furens
Manor
Die Wegwalt-Drucke
PIONEROS DE LO HOMOSEXUAL
Letters to his kinsfolk
Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe (Bibliothek rosa Winkel)
Refuge of hope
Fori Reconventionis Origines et Doctrina
Alaudae
Forschungen Uber Dars Ratsel Der Mannmannlichen Liebe (Homosexuality)
Forschungen Über das Räthsel der Mannmännlichen Liebe, Buch IX
Matrosengeschichten und Gedichte
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs zu Ehren
Incubus
Argonauticus
Ara spei
Inclusa
Incubus
Vindex
Memnon, Teil 1
"Memnon"
Critische Pfeile
Memnon, Teil 2
Araxes
Vindicta
Prometheus
Formatrix