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Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

translator, autobiographer, human rights activist, journalist, missionary

  • Cornell University, Randolph–Macon College

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The child who never grew
My several worlds
A bridge for passing
The Exile
For spacious skies
China past and present
The Man Who Changed China
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Great Short Stories of the World
Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
Mandala
The United States in Literature
Kinfolk
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
The Good Earth
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers--Volume Two
The New Year
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
The living reed
Christmas day in the morning
The three daughters of Madame Liang
Pearl S. Buck's oriental cookbook
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
The promise
The lovers and other stories
Peony
The woman who was changed, and other stories
Mrs. Starling's problem
The time is noon
The old demon
The Angry Wife
The water-buffalo children
The rainbow
Come, My Beloved
A gift for the children
The Kennedy women
Voices in the House
The good deed
Secrets of the heart
Other Gods
Little Red
Once upon a Christmas
Death in the Castle
All under heaven
Letter from Peking
Sons
Hearts come home
Story Bible, Old Testament
The people of Japan
House of earth
Portrait of a marriage
To my daughters, with love
Best Sellers
The enemy
Words of love
The illustrated Story Bible
Pavilion of Women
House Divided
The Mother
Fighting Angel
Yu Lan, flying boy of China
A Pearl Buck reader
The Dragon Fish
Imperial Woman
Fairy tales of the Orient
Shui hu zhuan
God's men
The big fight
American triptych
Home for Christmas
Dragon Seed (Progress English)
Friend to friend
Pearl S. Buck: the complete woman
The Goddess Abides
Command the morning
The joy of children
This Proud Heart
Cerca y Lejos/Far and Near
East Wind, West Wind
The Chinese story teller
American unity and Asia
Pearl S. Buck's book of Christmas
Der Tiger kommt
Can The Church Lead?
The Christmas ghost
The Chinese novel
Pearl Buck's America
The hidden flower
The First Wife and Other Stories
Story Bible, New Testament (Story Bible)
China as I see it
The Patriot
The Young Revolutionist
The Big Wave
Of men and women
HITLER EN DE GESCHIEDENIS
American argument
The laymen's mission report
The Chinese children next door
Satan never sleeps
Ana
Mrs. Stoner and the Sea
Antwort auf das Leben. Erzählungen
Good Earth E
The spirit and the flesh
Argument Argument
The townsman [by] John Sedges
Welcome child
What America means to me
East and West
The eternal wonder
Un jour de bonheur
A community success story
Is there a case for foreign missions?
The bondmaid
The delights of learning
The long love [by] John Sedges [pseud.]
The gifts they bring
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
LA TERRE CHINOISE T3 LA FAMILLE DISPERSE
Tell the people--mass education in China
Today and forever
The beech tree
A review [of The Inquiry Series, published by the Institute of Pacific Relations
How it happens
LA TERRE CHINOISE T3 LA FAMILLE DISPERSE
Children for adoption
Pearl Buck speaks for democracy
Pearl S. Buck
Eric Sloane's Americana 3 Volume Boxed Set w/slipcase
Talk about Russia with Masha Scott
Sous le même ciel
Dvahongenna
Indian Uses of Native Plants- Mendocino County Historical Society
A Field of Rice
Elements of democracy in the Chinese traditional culture
Christmas miniature
Asia and democracy
Story Bible volume 1
Akrabular
Story Bible, Volume II
La Madre
East and West and the novel
China sky
Freedom for all
The Child Who Never Grew
Oi yisi tov banuk lanuk
The exile
Shamʻ-i farozān̲
3 Titles By Pearl S. Buck
The Water-Buffalo Children and The Dragon Fish
Good Earth Trilogy
Mây nguòi con trai vuong long
Stories of China
He Sklava
Magrur Kalp
Essay on myself, and A study of Pearl S. Buck
With a delicate air, and other stories
Ogorul (Romanian Edition)
My Several Worlds - Abridged for Younger Readers
Un cœur fier
L'arc en ciel
Haha no syouzou
What America means to me
Morgens im Park
Hearts come home, and other stories
Johnny Jack and his beginnings
China Past and Present
Collected Novels Volume One
A Silk Road Journey, Including the Good Earth and a Cd
OF MEN AND WOMEN [BY] PEARL S. BUCK
THE STORY BIBLE Vol. I the Old Testament
China sky (Triangle books)
The big wave, and other stories
My mother's house
China in black and white
Stories for little children
Of Men and Women
Reader's Digest Condensed Books Volume 3-1957 (the lady / a houseful of love / the three faces of eve / letter from peking / the fbi story / mission to borneo, volume 3)
Luu dày
Sai Zhenzhu duan pian xiao shuo xuan
Je n'oublierai jamais. traduit par lola tranec.
Die goldene Blume
SparkNotes Literature Guide for The Good Earth
Une histoire De Chine
Puente De Paso
One bright day
6 Rare Books by Pearl S. Buck (The time is noon; Peony; Imperial Woman; Dragon Seed; The Exile; Fighting Angel) (Harlequin Presents #1551: Tempestuous Reunion, The Stephanides Pregnancy, Married by Arrangement, The Banker's Convenient Wife, Mistress Bought and Paid for, Married to a Mistress)
Good Earth
China sky
My Most Inspiring Moment
Little Fox in the Middle
La chine comme je la vois.
An excerpt from the big wave
Vent d'est vent d'ouest / 1976 / Buck, Pearl
The Writer's Book
Beckett Bjornson Buck Bunin (Nobel Prize Library)
To krummero lonlondi
China sky,
New evidence of the militarization of America
Fourteen stories
Bhalari Bhun
Am Teich der Lotosblüten
China flight
L'amour demeure
Trang
The Christmas mouse
Pearl S. Buck omnibus
Twenty-seven stories
Bright Procession
La Fleur cachée
La vie n'attends pas
The Three Daughters of Madame Liang
All Men are Brothers
Dragon Seed, Sons, a House Divided, the Patriot, and Portrait of a Marriage (5 Pearl S. Buck Books set)
L'amour demeure. L'enfant qui ne devait jamais grandir
L'épouse en colère (texte intégral)
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Summer 1952 Selections
La famiglia dispersa
Essay on myself
Land der Hoffnung, Land der Trauer
Navāṃ mānavī
L'esilio
ילדי סין
Die chinesische Heirat
La buona terra
Beauty in China
ʻAdhārá al-maʻbad
Altivez
Nurit
Vento dell'est, vento dell'ovest
מאנדלה
Banim
Jiu yu xin
ביתן הנשים
The World we fight for and American unity
Da di san bu qu
All men are brothers
Dian Mian gong lu de gu shi
Sun Yat-sen
La madre
Daichi
Da di san bu qu
Le tigre
זעם האהבה
Ba-nekhar
שהשמחה במעונם
Shina no sora
Deyoḳan shel ahavah
Perl S. Baḳ mesaperet li-yeladim
Zikhronot meha-ḥatser ha-gedolah
Khāk-i khub
The big wave
גברת ליאנג ושלושת בנותיה
A Certain star
The good earth
Sheng ming de lu tu
La Casa dei fiori
Sheng lu
El hombre que cambiò a China (Historia de Sun Yat-sen)
Sheʼar baśar
האם
Qun fang ting
בית מריבה
East wind
Hanʾguk esŏ on tu agassi
Watashi no mita Nihonjin
Devil Never Sleeps
Figli
ha-Adamah ha-ṭovah
ילדי התאו
Can the church lead?
Fighting angel
Long zi
Histórias do Oriente
Sun Yat-sen
Escape at midnight
Eine kleine Weihnachtsgeschichte und andere Erzählungen um die Heilige Nacht
Sheng lu
Questo indomito cuore
Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi (1926-2016)

human rights activist, poet, educator

  • University of Calcutta, Visva-Bharati University

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Breast stories
Rudali
Bait Four Stories
Imaginary Maps
Mother of 1084
After Kurukshetra ; Three Stories
Till Death Do Us Part
La mère du 1084
Our Non-Veg Cow
Five Plays
Chotti Munda and His Arrow
Titu Mir
Outcast
Bashai Tudu
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman (born 1953)

programmer, blogger, engineer, inventor, activist, documentary participant

  • Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Open sources
Debugging with GDB
Software libre para una sociedad libre
Free Software, Free Society
GNU Emacs manual
GNU make
Texinfo
Richard Stallman et la révolution du logiciel libre
Using and Porting GNU CC
Libres enfants du savoir numérique
Richard Stallman et la révolution du logiciel libre. Une biographie autorisée.
GNU Emacs Manual, For Version 21, 15th Edition
Using GCC
Gnu Make Ver 3.79
Gcc Command Options
Using and Porting the Gnu Compiler Collection Gcc
GNU Emacs Manual, For Version 21, 15th Edition
Gnu Reference
No Sir, no monopoly!
Bison Manual
GNU Emacs manual
Using & Porting Gnu Cc, Version 2.3
Gnu Tools Micellany
Using and Porting GNU CC for Version 2.8
Gcc Target Description Macros
Termcap Manual
Bison Manual for Version 1.875
GNU Emacs Manual Version 20
GNU Make
Bison: the YACC-compatible parser generator, November 1995, Bison version 1.25
The Bison Manual
GNU Emacs LISP Reference Manual
The termcap manual
GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
Debugging With Gdb, V.4.16
GNU Make
The GNU C Library Reference Manual for Version 1.09 Beta
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin (born 1964)

politician, autobiographer, model, anti-vaccine activist

  • University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, North Idaho College

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Going Rogue
America By Heart
America by Heart Unabridged CD
Benjamín Carrión
Benjamín Carrión (1898-1979)

diplomat, journalist, cultural activist

  • Central University of Ecuador

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Raimund Wolfert
Raimund Wolfert (born 1963)

historian, LGBTQ rights activist

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Jorge Guerrero de la Torre
Jorge Guerrero de la Torre (born 1970)

human rights activist, environmentalist

  • Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Valerii Markus
Valerii Markus (born 1993)

blogger, military personnel, activist, traveler, soldier, paratrooper

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