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Ariel Levy
Ariel Levy (born 1974)

journalist, women's rights activist

  • Wesleyan University
The rules do not apply
Female Chauvinist Pigs
Female chauvinist pigs
The best American essays 2015
Alexander Berkman
Alexander Berkman (1870-1936)

typographer, journalist, peace activist, autobiographer

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
The Russian tragedy
Prison blossoms
Life of an Anarchist
The Kronstadt Rebellion
The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922)
Now and After
Trial and Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman in the United States District Court, in the City of New York, July, 1917
Anarchists and War Between States
Deportation, its meaning and menace
1917
What Is Communist Anarchism?
Mother Earth
What Is Anarchism?
Mother Earth
The " anti-climax"
Deportation : Its Meaning and Menace
Mother Earth; Volume 7
Mother Earth; Volume 5
Fragment of the Prison Experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
Mother Earth; Volume 1
Mother Earth; Volume 6
The tragic procession
The blast
Violence and anarchism and other essays
The Russian tragedy
Reformers, Socialists and Communists: An Anarchist Critique
Avishai Margalit
Avishai Margalit (born 1939)

essayist, philosopher, activist

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Oxford
Views in review
The decent society
The Ethics of Memory
On compromise and rotten compromises
On Betrayal
Isaiah Berlin
Occidentalism
Normal Rationality
Sektarisme als geesteshouding
Pourquoi des kamikazes?
Idolatry
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed (born 1968)

blogger, essayist, journalist, women's rights activist

  • Syracuse University, University of Minnesota
Wild
Salvaje
Wild
Wild
Na shi hou, wo zhi sheng xia yong gan
Dzika droga
Divljina
Dikai͡a
Torch
Tiny beautiful things
Brave enough
Best American essays 2013
For Your Consideration, "Wild" (Best Adapted Screenplay)
Wild
An hei zhong, wang jian zui mei li de xiao shi
Pequeñas cosas bellas
Salvaje
Two women walk into a bar
Vernon Richards
Vernon Richards (1915-2001)

peace activist, photographer, editor, editing staff, publisher

  • King's College London, Emanuel School
George Orwell at Home (and Among the Anarchists)
Life and Ideas
Lessons Of The Spanish Revolution
Malatesta
Weekend Photographers Notebook
The impossibilities of social democracy
Un attimo di verità
Protest without illusions
World War-Cold War
Philippe Soupault
Philippe Soupault (1897-1990)

journalist, poet, playwright, librettist, political activist, essayist, critic, radio personality, publisher, artist, drawer, actor, broadcast journalist

Mémoires de l'Oubli
Apprendre à vivre
Baudelaire
Lost profiles
Histoires merveilleuses des cinq continents
I'm lying
The Magnetic Fields
Terpsichore
Dernières nuits de Paris
Les dernières nuits de Paris
Vingt mille et un jours
Eugène Labiche
Poésies pour mes amis les enfants
L' amitié
Alfred de Musset
Poèmes retrouvés, 1918-1981
Ecrits sur l'art du XXe siècle
Voyage d'Horace Pirouelle
Profils perdus
Rose des vents
Le nègre
Écrits de cinéma
Le bon apôtre
Le temps des assassins
Collection fantôme
Age of assassins
Georgia, Epitaphes, Chansons et autres poèmes
Mort de Nick Carter
Henri Rouseau, le Douanier
Le bar de l'amour
Journal d'un fantôme, vu par A. Alexeieff
Sans phrases, précédé d'un entretien en guise de préf. avec Raphael Cluzel
Les moribunds
Poèmes et poésies
Helman
Jean Lurçat
Eugene Labiche
Le roi de la vie et autres nouvelles
Odes
Écrits sur la peinture
Georgia  Epitaphes et Chansons
Henri Rousseau
Paolo Uccello
Le vrai André Breton
Les deux cents plus beaux poıemes de la langue française 13e au 19e siıecles choisis par les auditeurs de la Radio-télévision française, présentés par Philippe Soupault et Jean Chouquet
Souvenirs de James Joyce
Le Ne  gre
Henri Rousseau, le douanier
Papazoff
The American influence in France
Poèmes et poésies, 1917-1973
Philippe Soupault
Guillaume Apollinaire
Écrits de cinéma 1918-1931
Lautréamont
Les deux cents plus beaux poèmes de la langue française (XIIIe au XIXe siècles)
Le grand homme
Le coeur d'or
Les frères Durandeau
Le vrai André Brenton
Where the Four Winds Blow
Le cœur d'or ..
Charlot
Eugene Labiche - Sa Vie, Son Oeuvre
Eugène Labiche; sa vie, son oeuvre
Littérature et le reste
En joue! ..
A la dérive
Poemes et Poesies /  1914 1973
Paolo Uccello
Philippe Soupault, le poete
Lautre amont
Journal d'un fantôme
Message de l'île déserte
William Blake
Ode to bombed London = Ode à Londres bombardée
Poésies complètes, 1917-1937
Le nègre
Xialuo wai zhuan
Histoire d'un blanc
Chant du Prince Igor
Guillaume Apollinaire
Philippe Soupault
Les deux cents plus beaux poèmes de la langue française (XIIIe au XIXe siècles)
Poèmes retrouvés, 1918-1981
Eugène Labiche
Philippe Soupault
Écrits de cinéma
Der Neger
Les Deux cents plus beaux poèmes de langue fran6̀aise (xiii au xix siècles) choisis
Carte postale
Georgia
Souvenirs de James Joyce
Patiences et silences de Philippe Soupault
Poèmes et poésies (1917-1973)
Le Roi de la vie
Automatic Message, The Magnetic Fields, The Immaculate Conception
Corps perdu
Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie (1979-2003)

diarist, biographer, peace activist, human rights activist

  • Evergreen State College
Let Me Stand Alone
My name is Rachel Corrie
Rachel's letters
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929)

politician, women's rights activist, economist

  • University of Cambridge
What I Remember
Five famous French women
The women's victory--and after
Some eminent women of our times
What I remember
Some eminent women of our times
Women'ssuffrage
Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoira
Tales in political economy
Women's suffrage
Janet Doncaster
Political economy for beginners
Life of the Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, Bart., M.P., F.R.S
Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria
The women's victory - and after
Political economy for beginners
Women's suffrage
Tales In Political Economy
Josephine Butler
Tales in political economy
Life of the Right. Hon. Sir William Molesworth, bart., M.P., F.R.S
Political Economy for Beginners, 1870 Edition
Tales in Political Economy, 1874 Edition
Josephine Butler
Women's suffrage
Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria
Paper read at the Bristol meeting of the Central Conference of Women Workers among Women and Children, November 1892, by Mrs. Henry Fawcett, on the amendments required in the Criminal law amendment act, 1885
Easter in Palestine, 1921-1922
Josephine Butler, her work and principles, and their meaning for the twentieth century
Women in English politics
Mr. Fitzjames Stephen on the position of women
Five famous French women
Some eminent women of our times
Extracts from various articles and speeches on women's suffrage
Life of the Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, bart
The women's victory - and after
Josephine Butler
Janet Doncaster