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Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

journalist, essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, political scientist

  • University of Oxford, The Leys School

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The Missionary Position
Thomas Jefferson
The trial of Henry Kissinger
Hitch-22
Mortality
Hitch-22
Hitch-22
Thomas Jefferson Author Of America
God Is Not Great
No one left to lie to
Arguably
Unacknowledged legislation
A Long Short War
The Elgin Marbles
For the Sake of Argument
Love, Poverty, and Wer
Imperial spoils
Why Orwell matters
Letters to a young contrarian
Prepared for the worst
The Quotable Hitchens
Thomas Paine's Rights of man
Blood, class and nostalgia
Is Christianity good for the world?
Arguably
Love, poverty, and war
The Portable Atheist
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (Books That Changed the World)
The Parthenon marbles
Blood, class, and empire
Hostage to History
The portable atheist
"Vanity Fair's" Hollywood
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring)
Prepared for the worst
The monarchy
THOMAS PAINE'S RIGHTS OF MAN: A BIOGRAPHY
Cyprus
The General
Orwell's victory
The Best American Essays 2010
The monarchy
Ta Elgíneia mármara
Left Hooks, Right Crosses
Mortality
The Three Hostages
Regime change
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Letters to a Young...)
The Elgin marbles
Widerwort. Eine Verteidigung der kritischen Vernunft
Inequalities in Zimbabwe
Blood, class, and nostalgia
Lettres à un jeune rebelle
Inequalities in Zimbabwe
Juicio a Kissinger
GOD IS NOT GREAT: THE CASE AGAINST RELIGION
Safe Area Gorazde
Les crimes de Monsieur Kissinger
American Presidents Eminent Lives Boxed Set
Dieu n'est pas grand
Margiad Evans
Margiad Evans (1909-1958)

poet, autobiographer

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Autobiography
The old and the young
Turf Or Stone
Country Dance (Library of Wales)
Country dance
The wooden doctor
A ray of darkness
Contemporary verse
A candle ahead
Claude Schopp
Claude Schopp (born 1943)

biographer

  • Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3

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Alexandre Dumas, Genius of Life
Correspondance
Correspondance Generale. Tome V
Lettres de Prosper Mérimée à Madame de Montijo
Les romans de la Renaissance
Correspondance Generale. Tome IV
Trois jours décisifs de la vie d'Alenxandre Dumas
Correspondance Generale. Tome VI
La grande sonate
Le roman de Violette
Theatre Complet. Tome I
Alexandre Dumas
L'atelier des cinéastes
El origen del mundo
Les trois mousquetaires, Le comte de Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas sous les feux de la critique
Dumas en bras de chemise
Dictionnaire Alexandre Dumas
Le château de Monte-Cristo
James Lovelock
James Lovelock (1919-2022)

biologist, chemist, mythographer, ecologist, environmentalist, biochemist, futurist, independent scientist, autobiographer, scientist

  • University of Manchester, Strand School

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Homage to Gaia
Homage to Gaia
Gaia
The vanishing face of gaia
The Revenge of Gaia
The ages of Gaia
Healing Gaia
A Rough Ride To The Future
Novacene
Gaia, the practical science of planetary medicine
Tracers in the Ocean
Caving
A caving manual
Revenge of Gaia
The evolving Gaia theory
ATMOSPHERIC HOMEOSTASIS BY AND FOR THE BIOSPHERE
Welkom in het Novaceen
Homenaje a Gaia
HANDS UP FOR THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS
Future
James Lovelock et Al. the Earth and I
James Lovelock et Al. la Terre et Moi
La venjança de la Terra
THE GREAT EXTINCTION
Life and death underground
Les âges de Gaïa
Climbing
Great Extinction
Rough Ride to the Future
THE GREAT EXTINCTION WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS AND DEVASTATED THE EARTH
Gaia : a New Look at Life on Earth
La venganza de la Tierra
Earthdance
Homage To Gaia - The Life Of An Independant Scientist
Der wissende Kosmos. Die Entdeckung eines neuen Weltbildes
AS/a Level Music - Rock and Pop, Musical Theatre and Jazz
We Belong to Gaia
Han Suyin
Han Suyin (1917-2012)

midwife, autobiographer, physician, sinologist

  • Peking University, Yenching University

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Birdless summer
The crippled tree
Eldest son
My house has two doors
Destination Chungking
A mortal flower
China
Destination Chungking
My house has two doors
Wind in my sleeve
The Crippled Tree (China : Autobiography, History, Book 1)
Birdless summer
Fleur de soleil
The crippled tree
Zai sheng feng huang
Zhou Enlai yu da di shi ji
Eldest Son
Han Suyin zi zhuan (Hai wai Yan Huang jing ying cong shu)
A share of loving
S'il ne reste que l'amour
Zhou Enlai yu ta di shi ji
Fleur de soleil
Der grosse Traum
Wu niao de xia dian
Zhou Enlai yu xian dai Zhongguo, 1898-1976
Han Suyin zi zhuan
Shang can di shu
Le siècle de Zhou Enlai
Huai nian Mao Zedong
Wu niao di xia tian
Diao xie di hua duo
The crippled tree
Lhasa, the open city
The morning deluge
Wind in the tower
The Morning deluge
Till morning comes
The mountain is young
The enchantress
... and the rain my drink
A many-splendoured thing
Cast But One Shadow
A mortal flower
China in the year 2001
A many-splendored thing
Tigers and butterflies
A mortal flower
Two loves
Le déluge du matin
The four faces
The morning deluge
China in the year 2001. --
Till Morning Comes
Ming tian di yan jing (Hai wai Hua ren Hua yi zuo jia jia zuo xi lie)
Winter love
Phoenix harvest
La Moisson du Phenix
Asia today
et la pluie pour ma soif
And the rain my drink
Le soleil en embuscade
Le vent dans ma poche
Mountain Is You
Les quatre visages
The four faces
Les yeux de demain
Une fleur mortelle
Winter Love
La montagne est jeune
A mortal flower
Destination Tchoungking
Lasa, xing xing, hua duo =
Le siècle de Zhou Enlai
L' arbre blessé
Un été sans oiseaux
Un été sans oiseaux
Till morning comes
A Mortal Flower
China in the Year 2001
Amour d'hiver by Suyin
Jusqu'au matin
The crippled tree
Multiple splendeur, précédé de "Han Suyin et son oeuvre" par Daria Olivier.
Enchantress
Crippled Tree
Birdless Summer
The mountain is young
Cast but one shadow; and, Winter love
A Many-Spendored Thing
Le Premier Jour Du Monde
A Moral Flower
Many Splendored
Cast but One Shadow
Il fiume sotterraneo
Birdless Summer. China. Autobiography. History
Chinas Sonne über Lhasa
Jusqu'au matin
La montagne est jeune.
Amour d'hiver
Une fleur mortelle -la chine autobiographie histoire
Givʻat ha-ahavah
Lhasa, the Open City
Birdless Summer
Le vent dans ma poche
Birdless Summer (China : Autobiography, History, Book 3)
Multiple splendeur
A Mortal Flower; China
A Many Splendored Thing
Two Loves
Salate - Schlemmereien für jeden Tag - Viele schöne Salatrezepte
Ton ombre est la mienne
The Four Faces
A mortal flower : China
Destination Chungking
China 1890-1938
THE MOUNTAIN IS YOUNG
A Mortal Flower
Multiple splendeur
La montagne est jeune
Lhassa, étoile-fleur
... and the rain my drink / Han Suyin
Alle Herrlichkeit auf Erden
Jusqu'au matin tome 1
Amour d'Hiver.
Destination Chungking.
Manches Jahr bin ich gewandert. Suyin Han. [Aus d. Engl. übers. von Dorothea Naumann-Preiswerk], Ullstein Bücher ; Nr. 307/308
Share of Loving
Le déluge du matin.
A Mortal Flower (China : Autobiography, History, Book 2)
Till morning comes
And Rain My Dri
ton ombre est la mienne
Destination Chungking
Le premier jour du monde
La incantatrice
Manches Jahn bin ich Gewandert
Multiple splendeur
Fu nü, jia ting, xin sheng huo
Sabah Tufani
... Et la pluie pour ma soif
Ma maison a deux portes
L'arbre blessé.
China 1890-1938
My House Has Two Doors
Jusqu'au matin tome 2
Fleur de soleil
The Mountain is Young
La cité des sortilèges
- and the Rain My Drink
Les Quatre visages
le deluge du matin
Et la pluie pour ma soif
Many Splendored
Destination Tchoungking
My House Has Two Doors
Les quatre visages
Mortal Flower
Une fleur mortelle.
La montagna e giovane
The Mountain Is Young
S'il Ne Reste Que L'amour
Wo die Berge jung sind
China 1890-1938
And the Rain My Drink
Hasta Que Llegue LA Manana/Till Morning Comes
Alle Herrlichkeit Auf Erden
China in the year 2001
Destination Chungking (Penguin Books. no. 1381.)
Phoenix Harvest (My House Has Two Doors, Vol 2)
Eldest Son
La montagne est jeune
...et la pluie pour ma soif
A Many -Splendored Thing
The Crippled Tree
Wind in My Sleeve
Un été sans oiseaux
THE CRIPPLED TREE. CHINA. BIOGRAPHY. HISTORY. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Le déluge du matin. traduit de l'anglais par renée bridel avec la collaboration de jean-gérard chauffeteau
Die Zauberstadt
Destination Chungking
The mountain is young
Morgen over Kina
Chūgoku no me Ajia no me
Le soleil en embuscade
Jusqu'au matin
The mountain is young
Der Wind ist mein Kleid
A mortal flower
La Cite Des Sortileges
THuong vê Trung khanh =
Asia today
A many splendored thing
Destination Chungking
Chi Chao
Cast but one shadow
1900-1938
Yazhou de feng lei
Qing shan bu lao
La Chine
2001 nian de Zhongguo
China in the year 2001
Un été sans oiseaux
S'il ne reste que l'amour
Birdless summer
Steven Pressman
Steven Pressman (born 1955)

journalist, biographer

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Fifty major economists
Fifty Major Economists
Fifty Major Economists
Fifty Major Economists (Routledge Key Guides)
50 Children
50 children
Outrageous betrayal
ETHICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE; ED. BY KARL WIDERQUIST
How Social Forces Impact the Economy
Alternative theories of state
Poverty in America
Alternative Theories of the State
Quesnay's Tableau économique
Empirical post Keynesian economics
Post Keynesian and ecological economics
Interactions in Political Economy
Economics and its discontents
John Erskine
John Erskine (1879-1951)

composer, pianist, musicologist, literary critic, biographer, music critic

  • Columbia University, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School

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Leading American novelists
The complete life
My life in music
The human life of Jesus
My life as a teacher
George Edward Woodberry, 1855-1930
The influence of women and its cure
The kinds of poetry
Song without words
The Elizabethan lyric
Written English
The kinds of poetry, and other essays
The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays
A pageant of the thirteenth century
The shadowed hour
A musical companion
The moral obligation to be intelligent
Contemporary war poems
A pageant of the thirteenth century, for the seven hundredth anniversary of Roger Bacon
The memory of certain persons
The private life of Helen of Troy
American character and other essays
Democracy and ideals
Prohibition and Christianity
The delight of great books
Venus, the lonely goddess
The literary discipline
Tristan and Isolde restoring Palamede
What is music?
The Philharmonic-symphony society of New York, its first hundred years
The Philharmonic-symphony society of New York
Actaeon
Collected poems
Cinderella's daughter
Penelope's man
The start of the road
Amateur music and recreation leadership
Casanova's women
The President's mystery story
Universal training for national defense
Solomon, my son!
Collected poems, 1907-1922
Jack and the beanstalk
Forget if you can
The brief hour of François Villon
Actæon
Unfinished business
The Elizabethan lyric; a study
Hélène, retour de Troie
Young love
Sonata
Adam and Eve
Das privatleben der schönen Helena
The enchanted garden
Mrs. Doratt
The voyage of Captain Bart
The Cambridge history of American literature
Why study?
Cinderella's daughter and other sequels and consequences
Bachelor-of arts
Sincerity
Galahad
The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and ...
The Cambridge history of American literature
The delight of great books
Uncle Sam in the eyes of his family
Adam and Eve, though he knew better
The Cambridge history of American literature
A musical companion
Written English
Democracy and idealism
Walt Whitman
Leading American novelists
Give me liberty
American character and other essays, selected from the writings of John Erskine
The delight of great books
The Cambridge history of Amrican literature
Hearts enduring
The Cambridge history of American literature
Adam and Eve
Prohibition and Christianity
Galahad
An experiment in sincerity
The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays
The complete life
The Elizabethan lyric
Peter kills the bear
The Cambridge history of American literature
The Cambridge history of Amrican literature
Henry Plomer
Henry Plomer (1856-1928)

biographer

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Wynkyn de Worde & his contemporaries from the death of Caxton to 1535
William Caxton (1424-1491)
Robert Wyer, printer and bookseller
A dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667
A dictionary of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725
Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775
A dictionary of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1726 to 1775
English printers' ornaments
A short history of English printing
Abstracts from the wills of English printers and stationers, from 1492-1630
A short history of English printing, 1476-1898
Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland, 1557-1775
English printing, 1476-1900
The life and correspondence of Lodowick Bryskett
Abstracts from the Wills of English printers and stationers, from 1492 to 1630
Abstracts From The Wills Of English Printers And Stationers
Wynkyn de Worde & his contempories from the death of Caxton to 1535
William Caxton
A short history of English printing, 1476-1900
Notices of printers and printing in the state papers