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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter (born 1924)

naval officer, diplomat, politician, farmer, autobiographer, submariner, statesperson, environmentalist, businessperson, engineer, peace activist, human rights activist, humanitarian

  • Georgia Southwestern State University, Georgia Tech

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Keeping Faith
An hour before daylight
Everything to Gain
Why not the best?
A remarkable mother
An outdoor journal
Sharing good times
Beyond the White House
A FULL LIFE
Christmas in Plains
The spiritual journey of Jimmy Carter, in his own words
Beyond the White House
Faith
Sharing good times
Faith
Christmas in Plains
A full life
Omar!
Bao chi xin xin
Mā warāʼa al-Bayt al-Abyaḍ
Beyond the White House
We can have peace in the Holy Land
The Hornet's Nest
Living faith
Our Endangered Values
Turning point
The hornet's nest
Talking peace
The blood of Abraham
Always a reckoning, and other poems
The little baby Snoogle-Fleejer
The virtues of aging
Sources of Strength
White House Diary
The wit and wisdom of Jimmy Carter
The Nobel Peace Prize lecture
A call to action
A government as good as its people
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Leading a Worthy Life: Sunday Mornings in Plains
Empower Zone
Measuring Our Success: Sunday Mornings in Plains
Conversations with Carter
The hornet's nest
Negotiation, the alternative to hostility
Faith & Freedom
The personal beliefs of Jimmy Carter
To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process
Carter on the arts
Talking Peace A Vision For The Next Generation
Bringing Peace to a Changing World: Sunday Mornings in Plains
United States encyclopedia
State of the Union address
Through the year with Jimmy Carter
As Time Goes by
Negotiation
Niv Lessons From Life Bible Personal Reflections With Jimmy Carter
Atlanta
Kids' letters to President Carter
Public lecture
White House diary
James Carter
444 rūz
State Of The Union Addresses
"I'll never lie to you"
Mémoires d'un président
Family of Wiley Carter
The United States and the Soviet Union : [remarks]
Remarks of President Jimmy Carter at the opening session of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped
Hang time
SALT II
Kingfisher Junior Illustrated Dictionary
Jimmy Carter
Le meilleur de nous-même
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Through the year with Jimmy Carter
National security goals
SALT-2: President Carter's address to Congress
U. S. Law Affecting Americans Living and Working Abroad
The American Revolution
Everything to Gain-LTD
State of the Union Addresses of Jimmy Carter
Public papers of the presidents of the United States
Life after the White House
The Hornets Nest Thorndike Paperback Bestsellers
Das Beste geben. Interaktiver Workshop
Everything to Gain
Virtues of Aging (Library of Contemporary Thought)
Trade Agreements Act of 1979
Oral History Interview with Jimmy Carter [exact date unavailable], 1974
Conference for Global Development Cooperation
Living Faith 6cp Counter W/Ris
Mei Zhong jian jiao qian hou
As virtudes de envelhecer
America's African policy
Jimmy Carter
piksel raders
Parlons de paix
America's African policy
1990 elections in the Dominican Republic
Walter Rodney
Walter Rodney (1942-1980)

activist, historian, political activist

  • School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, University of the West Indies

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Walter Rodney speaks
Lakshmi out of India
"And finally they killed him"
Walter Rodney, revolutionary and scholar
A history of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800
The groundings with my brothers
A history of the Guyanese working people, 1881-1905
The birth of the Guyanese working class and the first sugar strikes, 1840/41 and 1847
Migrant labour in Tanzania during the colonial period
West Africa and the Atlantic slave-trade
Russian Revolution
People's power, no dictator, and The struggle goes on
Como Europa subdesarrollo a Africa
Sign of the times
GOLD AND SLAVES ON THE GOLD COAST
Decolonial Marxism
Kofi Baadu art of Africa
World War II and the Tanzanian economy
Guyanese sugar plantations in the late nineteenth century
Tanzanian Ujamaa and scientific socialism
James W. Douglass
James W. Douglass (born 1936)

activist, theologian, peace activist

  • Santa Clara University

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JFK and the unspeakable
Gandhi and the unspeakable
The non-violent cross
Lightning East to West
Resistance and contemplation
The Nonviolent Coming of God
Dear Gandhi
Lightning East to West; Jesus, Gandhi, and the nuclear age
The non-violent cross
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben (born 1960)

activist, environmentalist, climate activist

  • Harvard University

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Long Distance
Oil and honey
Oil and Honey
Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus
Oil and Honey
The end of nature
Hope, human and wild
Eaarth
The Greening of Faith
Maybe one
I'm with the bears
The comforting whirlwind
The age of missing information
Deep Economy
Enough
Plough Quarterly No. 4
The Age of Missing Information
Fight Global Warming Now
Eaarth
The End of Nature
American Earth
Hundred dollar holiday
The Bill Mckibben reader
American Earth
Hamish Fulton
Falter
The Global Warming Reader A Century Of Writing About Climate Change
Birch Browsings
Wandering home
ENOUGH
Anonymization
Wilderness Comes Home
Coming of age at the end of nature
Falter
Climate Church, Climate World
Memory of Stone
Long distance
The Urban Garden
Green Ideas Slipcase
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
Three essays
Radio free Vermont
GWR
Democracy in a Hotter Time
The eleventh commandment
Duunya
Sacred Balance, 25th Anniversary Edition
Adirondacks
Ignition
Change Everything Now
Solved
We Are Better Together
Age of Missing Info
Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon
Wrenched from the Land
Lewis and the lighthouse
Meat Me Halfway
This Is Life
25 bicycle tours in the Adirondacks
For our common home
Eco-Reformation
An Idea Can Go Extinct
Wandering home
Deep economy
Falter
Dīpu ekonomī
Manual de desobediència civil
Seeing Silence
End of Nature
I am coyote
Maybe One
While Glaciers Slept
25 Bicycle Tours in the Adirondacks
Sea Is Rising and So Are We
Climate Solutions
Life's Philosophy
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up
Greenprint for a Healthy America
Pipeline and the Paradigm
Idea Can Go Extinct
Hundred Dollar Holiday
Stewards of the Earth
Posters for the Planet : Tear, Paste, Protest
Petrol ve Bal
There Is No Way to Reassemble Nature
Comforting Whirlwind
Bill Mckibben Reader
Eaarth
Age of Missing Information
Global Warming Reader
Thriving Beyond Sustainability
Wandering Home
Art from above Vermont
Diet for a Hot Planet
The Wild Within
Enough
La Nature assassinée
End of Nature
Early Spring
Long distance
Greening of Faith
Solutionary rail
Grower's Guide to Balancing Soils
Downstream
Yeter! Genetik Muhendisligi ve Insan Dogasinin Sonu
In Katrina's Wake
Radiant Days
Making Peace with the Land
Herbs and the Earth
La fine della natura
Wisdom of John Muir
At Home in the Northern Forest
Deep Economy
Fight Global Warming Now
Anna Louise Strong
Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970)

journalist, activist, trade unionist, peace activist

  • Bryn Mawr College, Oberlin College

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I change worlds
Huan liao ren jian
Biographical studies in the Bible in the text of the American revised Bible
I change worlds
One-fifth of mankind
On the eve of home rule
The psychology of prayer
A consideration of prayer from the standpoint of social psychology
The new soviet constitution
The Kuomintang-communist crisis in China
Child-welfare exhibits
Red star in Samarkand
The soviets conquer wheat
China's millions
Modern farming--Soviet style
The first time in history
The Road to the Grey Pamir (Equestrian Travel Classics)
When serfs stood up in Tibet (Modern China series :)
Storm songs and fables
The song of the city
How the communists rule Russia
The Stalin era
Peasant life in Soviet Russia
The Soviets expected it
Was Lenin a great man?
The Russians are people
Spain in arms, 1937
Children of revolution
The road to the grey Pamir
The King's Palace
Wild river
The new Poland
The rise of the people's communes
China-Reise
This soviet world
Kitaĭ v ogne
Dictatorship and democracy in the Soviet Union
How business is carried out in Soviet Russia
How business is carried on in Soviet Russia
The rise of the Chinese people's communes
I saw the new Poland
The Chinese conquer China
Tibetan interviews
Letters from China
Inside North Korea
Cash and violence in Laos and Viet Nam
Workers' life in Soviet Russia
China's fight for grain
Inside liberated Poland
Tomorrow's China
In North Korea
When serfs stood up in Tibet
The thought of Mao Tse-Tung
Zhongguo de ju bian
Litauens nya väg
Remaking an American
My native land
Peoples of the USSR
Soviet farmers
New lives for old in today's Russia
China's new crisis
At Fords in Detroit
China fights for freedom
Chibetto nikki
The Soviet Union and world peace
Marriage and morals in Soviet Russia
The new Lithuania
The rise of the people's communes in China
Selected works on China's revolution
Lithuania's new way
What about Russia?
Cash and violence in Laos
Jimmin Kōsha wa hirogari fukamaru
Peoples of the U. S. S. R.
La agricultura en el país de los soviets
Children of revolution
Nepobedimyĭ Kitaĭ
Wo wei shen mo zai qi shi er sui de shi hou lai dao Zhongguo
Ren de xin shi jie yu xin shi jie de ren
The rise of the Chinese people's communes
The Soviets expected it
China's millions
China's fight for grain
Sitelang zai Zhongguo
The rise of the people's communes
From Stalingrad to Kuzbas
Child-welfare exhibits
The Stalin era
Tomorrow's China
Qi chong tian
The Chinese conquer China
Peoples of the USSR
The first time in history
Ren lei di wu fen zhi yi. Zhongguo ren zheng fu Zhongguo
Baiwan nong nu zhan qi lai
The Soviet Union and world peace
Letters from China
Xizang nong nu zhan qi lai
When serfs stood up in Tibet
The road to the grey Pamir
Vinoba Bhave
Vinoba Bhave (1895-1982)

philosopher, politician, human rights activist, social reformer

  • Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

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Ahĩsecā śodha
Ekanāthācī bhajane, prastāvanā khaṇḍa
Premapantha ahĩsecā
Ahĩsecā śodha
Selections from Vinoba
Bhoodan yajna
Third power
Talks on the Gita
The intimate and the ultimate
Khrista-dharma-sāra
The Intimate and the Ultimate
Sarvodaya-vicāra
Bhūdāna-Gaṅgā
Svarājyaśāstra
Gītā-pravacanẽ
Gītā pravacano
Sarvodaya yātrā
Jīvana-dr̥shṭi
Sthitaprajña-darśana
Dharma samanvaya
Bhū-dā-yajña
Rājaghāta kī sannidhi meṃ
Bhūdānayajña
Talks on the Gita
Commentary on Japuji, Guru Nanak's great composition
Vinobā aur Kashmīr
Ahiṃsā: vicāra aura vyavahāra
Language problem
Shanti sena
Saṃyama aura santati
Vinoba on Gandhi
Vicāra-pothī
Swarāj śāstra
Krānta-darśana
Moved by love
Bhoodan yajna
Shanti sena
Vinobāñce itihāsa-vicāra
Śrāddhanā tera divasa
Śānti-yātrā
Sarvodaya aura Sāmyavāda
Pūjā-gīta
Ahiṃsā
Khādī-vicāra
Gītāī-śabdārtha-kośa
Talks on the Gita
Viṣṇu sahasranāma
Gāndhī
Talks on Gita
Upanishadã̄cā abhyāsa
Dāna-dhārā
Vinobā sārasvata
Steadfast wisdom
Revolutionary Sarvodaya
Abhaṅga-vratẽ
Strī-śakti
Rūḥ al-Qurʻān
Tīsarī śakti
Dhammapadaṃ; nava-saṃhitā
Random reflections
Sĩhāvalokana
Madhukara
Pūjā-gīta: eka cintana
Selected conversations of Vinoba Bhave
Vinobā sārasvata
Vinobā ke patra
The Sarvodaya Movement in India in the 1950s
Nāṭōṭi tokutta Vin̲ōpāvin̲ pon̲mol̲ikaḷ
Gītāī
Women's power
Ātmajñāna āṇi vijñāna
Sarvodayācī trividha ghoshaṇā
Jīvana aura śikshaṇa
The essence of Quran
Loka-nīti
Talks on the Gita
Democratic values and the practice of citizenship
Shanti Sena
Vinobāñce itihāsa-vicāra
Īśāvāsya-vr̥tti
Vinobha on Gandhi
Vinobājīnā sānnidhyamāṃ
Ācāryakula
Talks on the Gita
Kucha sāmayika praśna
Gramdan for gramswaraj
Random reflections by Vinoba
The Dhammapada; nava-saṁhita (re-arrangement of the Pali text)
Śikshā, śikshaka aura śikshārthī
Vinobā vicāra saṅkalana ; Viśvanātha Ṭaṇḍana
Dharma samanvaya
Grāmadāna-praśnottarī
School of non-violence: a handbook
Vinōbā vāṇi
Grāma pañcāyata
Swaraj Sastra
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)

physician, essayist, women's rights activist, human rights activist

  • Bedford College, Geneva Medical College

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Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women
Pioneer work for women
Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women : autobiographical sketches
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
Counsel to parents on the moral education of their children
Address on the Medical Education of Women
Essays in medical sociology
On the decay of municipal representative government
Medicine and morality
Why hygienic congresses fail
Christian socialism
The human element in sex
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches
Scientific method in biology
Rescue work in relation to prostitution and disease
The laws of life with special reference to the physical education of girls
The religion of health
Influence of Women in the Profession of Medicine. Address Given at the ... London School of Medicine for Women. [Microform]
Wrong and right methods of dealing with social evil
The moral education of the young in relation to sex, under medical and social aspects
Religion of Health [electronic Resource]
Medicine as a Profession for Women
The laws of life
Letter to Lady Byron, March 4, 1851
The influence of women in the profession of medicine
Pioneer work for women
Counsel to parents on the moral education of their children
The influence of women in the profession of medicine
A medical address on the benevolence of Malthus
Human element in sex
The Herbal of the Count Palatine
Counsel to parents on the moral education of their children, in relation to sex
The religion of health
Aryeh Eliav
Aryeh Eliav (1921-2010)

politician, pedagogue, diplomat, human rights activist, Aliyah Bet activist

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Mi-shene ʻevre ha-maʻbarah
Ṭabʻot shaḥar
Olam male
Ṭabʻot ʻedut
Land of the hart: Israelis, Arabs, the territories
Between hammer and sickle
ha- Sefinah Uluʼah
Sipurah shel sefinat maʻpilim
The voyage of the Ulua
Ben ha-paṭish ṿeha-magal
Lev hadash ve-ruah hadashah
New heart, new spirit
ha- Ruaḥ lo yiḳaḥ
New targets for Israel
No time for history
Between hammer and sickle
Teʾome Tseviyah
Shalom
Boʾi be-shalom
Between hammer and sickle
Erets ha-tsevi
La imagen de nuestra sociedad
Some observations on regional planning practice
Kefitsat ha-derekh
Nosotros y los palestinos
ʻAl ha-shalom
Sulam Yiśraʾel ḥalom ve-shibro
Yeʻadim ḥadashim le-Yiśraʾel
Lev ḥadash ṿe-ruaḥ ḥadashah
Sulam Yiśraʾel
New targets for Israel
Ben ha-paṭish ṿeha-maʻagal
El kibutz
הרוח לא יקח
ʻOlam male
La odisea del "Ulúa"
La odisea del "Ulúa"
Mellan hammaren och skäran
Teʼome Tseviyah
El problema judio en la Union Sovietica
La imagen de nuestra sociedad
Nosotros y los palestinos
Naperegonki so vremenem
Yeʻadim ḥadashim le-Yiśraʾel
El pais del ciervo