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Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011)

jihadist, civil engineer, businessperson, terrorist

  • King Abdulaziz University, Al-Thager Model School

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Usāmah ibn Lādin, al-mudhakkirāt al-majhūlah
Messages to the world
Osama bin Laden
Usāmah kā paig̲h̲ām Ummat-i Muslimah ke nām
Usāmah ibn Lādin yarwī maʻārik Maʾsadat al-Anṣār al-ʻArab bi-Afgānistān
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan (born 1926)

economist, banker, politician, entrepreneur, jazz musician

  • New York University, Columbia University

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The age of turbulence
La era de las turbulencias
עידן התהפוכות
The Map and the Territory
Capitalism in America
The map and the territory 2.0
Haran no jidai
Remarks by Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System before the National Association for Business Economics, Washington D.C., March 27, 2001
Capitalism in America
Opening remarks of Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 31 2001
Weapons against inflation
Statement by Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, April 17, 1992
Dong dang de shi jie
Een turbulente tijd
Remarks by Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at the 18th Annual Monetary Conference, Cosponsored by the Cato Institute and The Economist, Washington, D.C., October 19, 2000
Le temps des turbulences
Balance of payments imbalances
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)

politician, judge, businessperson, military officer, diarist

  • University of Missouri–Kansas City

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Where the buck stops
Years of Trial and Hope
Miracle of '48
Off the record
Memoirs of Harry S. Truman 1946-1952
Year of Decisions
Memoirs. --
The autobiography of Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman in his own words
Memoirs of Truman: Volume I
Mr. Citizen
Off the record
Letters home
The words of Harry S. Truman
Correspondence
The quotable Harry S. Truman
The man from Missouri
The wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman
Talking with Harry
Strictly personal and confidential
The wit & wisdom of Harry Truman
The Truman years
Affection and Trust
Affection & Trust
The Words of Harry S. Truman (Words of)
Harry S. Truman's musical letters
The quotable Truman
Mr. President
The Truman program
Letters from father
Truman speaks
Map room messages of President Truman (1945-1946)
The Truman administration, its principles and practice
Truman Program; Addresses And Messages, The (History - United States)
Battle line for American industry
State of the Union Addresses of Harry S. Truman
State Of The Union Addresses
A new page in history
Potsdam Conference documents
Working in the U.N., a challenge to better human relations; address
State of the Union Addresses of Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids
Defending the West
Letters from father
Mr. Citizen
State of the Union Address
Harry S. Truman
Good old Harry
Peace, freedom, and world trade
President Truman's committee on civil rights
One hundred million listening
The free world and free trade
Harry S. Truman, 1884-1972 (Oceana presidential chronology series [17])
Truman Tapes
A plan for reducing armaments; address
President Truman talks price stabilization
Addresses and statements of Harry S. Truman
Correspondence between President Truman and Pope Pius XII
Letters from father
Freedom and equality, addresses
Harry S. Truman
Mémoires
A new era in world affairs
Harry S. Truman presidential oral history collection
Extracts from a foreign policy address by President Truman at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco on October 17, 1950 on his return from a Mid Pacific conference with General MacArthur
The Truman wit
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen"
Truman Tapes (Swc 2085)
The Truman administration
President Harry S. Truman's office files, 1945-1953
Dinner in honor of our fellow member the President of the United States Harry S. Truman given by the National Press Club at the Statler Hotel
Establishing the Marshall Plan
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Mr. Citizen
The Women's National Press Club annual dinner and stunt party
Truman and the United Nations
זכרונותיו של הארי ס. טרומן
Harry S. Truman
Mr. President
Moral re-armament
Memorable Words of the Man From Missouri
Harry S. Truman
Bernard Tapie
Bernard Tapie (1943-2021)

politician, businessperson, film actor, singer, ship-owner, minister, entrepreneur, actor

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Un scandale d'État, oui!
De l'énergie pour l'Europe
Librement
Des yeux trop grands
Gagner
Gewinnen auf der ganzen Linie
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz (born 1966)

engineer, businessperson, entrepreneur, opinion journalist

  • Columbia University, University of California, Los Angeles

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Ben Franklin and his notebooks
The hard thing about hard things
What You Do Is Who You Are
Unapologetically Ambitious
Ben Horowitz's The hard thing about hard things
Wenn es hart auf hart kommt
Zor Seyler Hakkinda Her Sey; Kimsenin Söz Etmedigi Start-up Sirlari
The Hard Thing about Hard Things
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu (born 1948)

film actor, stage actor, film director, film producer, television producer, businessperson, actor, voice actor, singer

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Danton
Takie dela--
Lettres volées
Gerard Depardieu (Conran Octopus Cookery)
Ma cuisine
Vivant
Ailleurs
Gerard Depardieu
My FaTher The Hero
Innocent
Annem Bir Kimyager; Yemegin Olagan Kimyasi
Masum
Sonic Coloring Book
Ca s'est fait comme ça
Hello, Goodbye
Cartes robades
Ca S'est Fait Comme Ca
Gerard Depardieu
Le Retour de Martin Guerre
I︠A︡ vse eshche zhiv!
Vivant!
Kan Kikuchi
Kan Kikuchi (1888-1948)

businessperson, playwright, politician, journalist, translator

  • Kyoto University, Meiji University

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Nihon bushōdan
Mantetsu gaishi
Nezumikozō Jirokichi
Tōjūrō's love, and four other plays
Rekishi zuisō
Tojuro's love, and four other plays
History and trends of modern Japanese literature
Kōbō Daishi to sono shūkyō
Nihon bushō tan
Nihon keiba-dokuhon
Victory or defeat (Shō hai)
Shin Nihon gaishi
Wu ming zuo jia de ri ji
Kikuchi Hiroshi zenshū
Kikuchi Kan, Minakami Takitarō shū
Kikuchi Kan
Shinju
Xi ju yan jiu
Nihon kassentan
Kikuchi Hiroshi, Hirotsu Kazuo shu
Riben xian dai ju xuan
Beyond the pale of vengeance
The realm beyond
心の日月
Kikuchi Kan shu
Kikuchi Hiroshi shu
Tengshilang di lian
Zhen zhu fu ren
Lian ai bing huan zhe
Juchikuan ji
Kikuchi Hiroshi, Hirotsu Kazuo
Shin konjaku monogatari
Juchi Kuan xi qu ji
Hyōchū Meishō genkōroku
Kikuchi Kan bungaku zenshu
James Percy FitzPatrick
James Percy FitzPatrick (1862-1931)

businessperson, politician, editor

  • Downside School

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Jock of the bushveld
South African memories
The Transvaal from within
Fitzpatrick
The origin, causes and object of the War
The outspan; tales of South Africa
The outspan
The origin, causes and object of the war
Through Mashonaland with pick and pen
Much fallacy, more fiction and a little fact according to Mr. Fitzpatrick
Lord Milner and his work: an appreciation
Gʾoḳ min ha-Bush
The origin, causes and object of the war
Jock of the bushveld
Taxation and the Transvaal
Taxation and war debt in the Transvaal
Some notes on the Transvaal question