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Norman Maclean
Norman Maclean (1902-1990)

journalist

  • Dartmouth College, University of Chicago

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Young men & fire
Young Men & Fire
A river runs through it and other stories
A river runs through it
Wild
The Norman Maclean reader
A River Runs Through It
A River Runs Through It
The Norman Maclean Reader
A River Runs Through It
Young Men & Fire
Manual for instruction in military maps and aerial photographs
A River Runs Through It
Dwellers in the mist
La part du feu
Norman Maclean Reading
Montana, 1919
The Norman Maclean reader
USFS 1919
La rivière du sixième jour
An Interview With Norman Maclean
Young Men and Fire-36 Copy Dump
On the Big Blackfoot
Manual for instruction in military maps and aerial photographs
Norman MacLean Collection
John Reed
John Reed (1887-1920)

journalist, poet, trade unionist, communist

  • Harvard University, Morristown-Beard School

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Izbrannoe
Labor's grand old man
Insurgent Mexico
Ten Days That Shook the World
The Education of John Reed
The Collected Works of John Reed
The war in eastern Europe
John Reed for the Masses
Adventures of a young man
John Reed and the RussianRevolution
Tamburlaine
Collected poems
Daughter of the revolution, and other stories
The complete poetry of John Reed
Villa y la Revolución Mexicana
Red Russia
Romania during World War I
The day in Bohemia, or, Life among the artists
The day in Bohemia
I saw the new world born
Daughter of the revolution
John Reed, Romania in 1915
La guerre dans les Balkans
Tsehn ṭeg ṿos hoben oyfgeruderṭ di ṿelṭ
Hija de la revolución y otras narraciones
Shall socialism triumph in Russia
The Provincetown plays
Vosstavshai︠a︡ Meksika
An anthology
Red Russia
To Max Eastman
John Reed Romania in 1915
Zhen han shi jie de shi tian
The Sisson documents
10 dneĭ, kotorye potri︠a︡sli mir
The education of John Reed
Sangar
The New York communist
Zehn Tage die die Welt erschütterten
Guerra en Paterson y otras cronicas
Shall socialism triumph in Russia
Writings of John Reed
Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth (born 1948)

politician, Scrabble player, publisher, broadcaster, journalist

  • University of Oxford, Bedales School

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Philip and Elizabeth
Philip and Elizabeth
John Gielgud
Charles & Camilla
PHILIP AND ELIZABETH
The funniest man on earth
John Gielgud
John Gielgud
Charles & Camilla
John Gielgud
The magic of Houdini
John Gielgud
Who Is Nick Saint?
The super joke book
Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder
Amazing facts about animals
Writing secret codes and sending hidden messages
The world's best indoor games
Your vital statistics
The big book of silly riddles
The joy of lex
Last word
The biggest tongue twister book in the world
The great book of optical illusions
Oscar Wilde and the dead man's smile
The book of solo games
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
Famous Last Words and Tombstone Humor
Great theatrical disasters
Last Word
This is your body
Pranks, tricks, and practical jokes
Total nonsense Z to A
Jokes, jokes, jokes
Oscar Wilde and a death of no importance
Bruno Bruin Discovers America (Bruno Bruin)
Oscar Wilde And The Murders At Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
The Christmas book
A game-a-day book
Famous last words & tombstone humor
The Teddy Bear Joke Book
Amazing facts about the body
Word games
The 7 Secrets Of Happiness An Optimists Journey
Max, the Boy Who Made a Million
Oscar Wilde And The Ring Of Death
Oscar Wilde And The Murders At Reading Gaol
Fascinating body facts
The Hiccups at No.13
Discovering pantomime
Great Party Games
Robinson Crusoe's activity book
Breaking the code
The Word Book
Games for rains, planes, and trains
Cinderella's indoor activity book
Brain Teasers and Mind Benders
The word book
Numberplay
The great big funny book presents the funniest show on earth -- the tale of Superpuss, starring Superpuss and a cast of thousands in a feline extravaganza extraordinary in 23 stupendous scenes, with special guest star Leofric of Limerick, the lilting lad himself
Jokes! Jokes!! Jokes!!! (Joke Book)
Venice Midnight
Home entertainment for all the family
Have You Eaten Grandma?
The Scrabble Book
1000 crazy records
Scrambled exits
Party Games
Seeing is not believing
The Mermaid at No.13
Everyman's indoor games
The Bedside Book of Great Sexual Disasters
Amazing facts about prehistoric animals
Brandreth's book of waiting games
Everyman's Modern Phrase and Fable
The Slippers That Talked
Pears book of words
Madcap Bumper Book Of Laughs
The complete puzzler
Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
Joke-a-thon
Brandreth's Christmas book
A royal scrapbook
Knight Book of Fun and Games for a Rainy Day
Classic puzzles
Oscar Wilde And The Murders At Reading Gaol
Amazing facts about our earth
The book of excuses
Messing About in Quotes
Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers Oscar Wilde Mysteries Paperback
The Beaver book of magic
The Rudest Joke Book in the World
Welcome to Mouse Village (Mouse Village Series)
A guide to playing the Scrabble brand crossword game
The little red darts book
The Scrabble companion
Knitability Fun Knits for all the Family
Oscar Wilde And The Candlelight Murders
The Search for the Golden Puffin
Monopoly Omnibus
Who is Nick Saint?
Matt Mouse & The Big Surprise (Tales From Mouse Village-Matt Mouse)
Brief encounters
Robin Hood's outdoor activity book
Emergency joke kit
Superheroes
Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders
Cats' Tales
The Joke Box
The Search for the Golden Puffin
Knight Book of Fun and Games for Journeys
Teddy Bear Craft Book
The word book
The Joy of Lex
The scrabble puzzle book
The Scrabble Brand Puzzle Book
Sinbad's round the world activity book
The complete book of scrabble
Gyles Brandreth's big book of jokes
Great Theatrical Disasters
Complete Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde
Created in captivity
John Haden Badley, 1865-1967
Oscar Wilde and a game called murder
The Rock Penguins
The Facts Factory
Children's Games
More joy of lex
The Bumper Book of Jokes
Knight book of party games
Frankenstein's Monster Fun Book
Knight Book of Scrabble
Christmas Book
The New Pears Family Quiz Book
Big Book of Little Poems
Something sensational to read in the train
The Emergency Excuses Kit
Joy of Lex an Amazing and Amusing Z to A
1000twisters
Classic Optical Illusions
The Slippers That Sneezed
Do-it-Yourself Genius Book:1
The Emergency Joke Kit
The Amazing Book of Mazes
The Oscar Wilde Quotation Book
The joy of lex
How to Interview and Be Interviewed
Knight Book of Mazes
The Super Joke Book
Madcap Giant Book of Jokes (Joke Book)
Bedroom bloopers
The Scrabble omnibus
Everyman's book of children's games
Me!
The complete public speaker
Pears Family Quiz Book
Wordplay
The puzzle mountain
Nattie and Nuffin (Kites)
Oscar Wilde y el club de la Muerte
The complete husband
Do-it-Yourself Genius Book:2
Bet You Can, Bet You Can't
The Do-It-Yourself Genius Kit
The Ghost at No.13
MINDBENDERS/BRAINTEASERS
The complete puzzler
Amanda Mouse and the Birthday Cake (Tales from Mouse Village)
Crazy Graffiti (Madcap Pounders)
Rotten Haystacks
Philip
Fun & Games for Every Day of the Year
The Great Games Gazette
Gyles Brandreth's complete book of home entertainment
Project, castles and historic houses
Tales From Mouse Village-Jack Mouse
My Records Book
Quick and Easy Magic Tricks
The big book of magic
Word Play
Help Jokes
The big book of practical jokes
More Joy of Lex
Oscar Wilde et le meurtre aux chandelles (French Edition)
Do-it-Yourself Genius Book:4
Everyman's word games
Medical profession
The Longest, Shortest, Biggest, Smallest, Best and Worst Joke Book in the World
WHAT Nonsense]
Whitaker's almanack 2002
Famous Last Words and Tombstone Humor
Help, Help, Help, Jokes
The Big book of mind stretchers
The Book of Classic Puzzles and Word Games
The complete homeentertainer
The Do-it-yourself Genius Kit
The story of Humpty Dumpty
Madcap Bumper Book of Horror-Things That Go Bump
The Witch at No.13
Knight Book of Christmas Fun
Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
Help Help Help Help Jokes
Elizabeth
Maisie
Knight Book of Party Games for Young Children
My Secrets
1000 brain-teasers
Optical Illusion Flip-Book
My Diary
Brief Encounters
Brainteasers Trivia Quizbook
The amazing almanac
Myrtle Mouse & The Naughty Twins (Tales From Mouse Village-Myrtle Mouse)
Cardplayers Omnibus
Future Perfect
Here comes Golly!
Under the Jumper
Oscar Wilde & the Nest of Vipers
Mother Goose
1000 Firsts And Lasts
My Secret Notebook
Book of Solo Games
Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes
1000 firsts and lasts
The Family Games Book
Puzzle Omnibus
Do-it-Yourself Genius Book:3
Knight Book of Easter Fun
Pears family quiz book
The Politician's Quotation Book
The Merry Christmas Joke Book
The Biggest Kids' Book of Fun Ever (Madcap Pounders)
Sinbad's Round-The-World Activity Book
Bumper book of horror
The Scrabble Companion
Oscar Wilde et le nid de vipères
Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes
The Law Is an Ass (A Pan Original)
Two Little Pigs Make Friends (Tales of the Tamworth Two)
Knight Book of Tongue Twisters
The bumper book of jokes
THE BOOK OF SNUBS
1000 secrets
Wanted (Tales of the Tamworth Two)
Knight book of holiday fun and games
A Riot of Riddles
Fascinating facts
Even Greater Sex Disaster
The daft dictionary
Dictionary of Insults
Madcap Bumper Book of Magic
The Amazing Adventures of Bruno Bruin
The Ghost at No.13
The big book ofsilly questions
Even Greater Sexual Disasters
Pranks, Tricks and Practical Jokes
Have You Eaten Grandma?
El Fantasma Del Numero/the Ghost of Apt
Solo Games
Help Help Jokes
The Ultimate Joke Encyclopaedia
How to be funny
Queen
365 Question Answer Quiz Book
The puzzle omnibus
Word box
Big Book of Secrets
New Pears Family Quiz Book
Philip and Elizabeth
Crazy Inventions (Madcap Pounders)
Crazy Tongue Twisters (Madcap Pounders)
Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder Lib/E
Brandreth's Party Games
Generation Quiz Book
Crazy Words (Madcap Pounders)
Dr. Dilemma's daffy dictionary
Knockout Knock-knock Joke Book
1000 horrors
The Bumper Book of Indoor Games
1000 jokes, the greatest joke book ever known
Pears All-The-Year-Round Quiz Book
Jack the Ripper
The Super Joke Book
The new Pears family quiz book
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
Oscar Wilde and the dead man's smile
Vital statistics
Game-A-Day Book
The Amazing Almanac
Great party games
The Bedside Book Of Great Sexual Disasters
Brandreths bedroom book
Venice Midnight a Pbp
Me!
The Scrabble Omnibus
Everyman's classic puzzles
Superheroes
Oscar Wilde et le jeu de la mort
The Date-it-yourself Time Capsule
Gyles Poetry
Pears Family Quiz Book
The bedside book of great sexualdisasters
See-zers
El fantasma del número 13
Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
Don't you believe it!
Aargh!
Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder
Brain Power
Crazy Hoaxes (Madcap Pounders)
Dancing by the Light of the Moon
Untitled Biography
What Am I?
The big book of superstitions
Scrambled exits
Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers
Snowman Joke Book
Project, number fun
Juegos Con Numeros / Games with Numbers
What Goes up White and Comes down Yellow?
Around the World Quiz Book
The great big funny book
Teach Yourself Indoor Games
Writing Secret Codes and Sending Hidden Messages
Der verlorene Traum
The Amazing Fun and Games Book
Be Kind to Mum and Dad (Beaver Bks.)
Brain-Teasers and Mind-Benders
Crazy World Records (Madcap Pounders)
Game-A-Day Book
Something Sensational to Read on the Train
Pencil and Paper Games and Puzzles
History of Britain in Just a Minute
The big book of ghosts
The Puzzle Omnibus
Hocus pocus
John Gielgud
Everyman's book of solo games
History of Britain in Just a Minute
7 Secrets of Happiness
The Mermaid at No 13 (CSA Young Ones)
The Christmas book
Quick and Easy, Magic Tricks (Mind Benders and Fun Facts Series)
1000 blunders
The Scrabble book
The big book of amazing names
The Winner's Guide to Games
Big Book of Silly Riddles
Brandreths book of waiting games
Elizabeth
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile Lib/E
Bumper Wonder Book
Challenge
101 Brain Teasers and Mind Benders
Hotchpotch (Carousel Books)
Breaking the Code
The big book of useless inventions
Brandreth's Brainbusters
Fortune telling fun
What's Black and White and Red All Over?
New Pears Family Quiz Bk a S/Wx12
Oscar Wilde ve Mum Isigi Cinayetleri
What's Black and White and Red All Over?
Cockburn's A-Z of after-dinner entertainment
The Hiccups at No.13
Lost Art of Having Fun
The Ghost at No 13 (CSA Young Ones)
Your Vital Statistics
Nuevos Juegos Para Fiestas
Crazy Spy File
Charles and Camilla
Word Box
Jack the Ripper
Shadow shows
7 Secrets of Happiness
Odd Boy Out
The crazy word book
Breaking the Code
Cinderella
My record book
Great Trials Oscar Wilde
Number games and puzzles
The crazy book of world records
Complete Book of Scrabble X12 S/W
Play it alone!
Pencil & Paper Puzzle Games (Mind Benders and Fun Facts Series)
Charles & Camilla
Oscar Wilde y la sonrisa del muerto
1000 blunders
Book of Ghastly Rhymes
Crazy Riddles (Madcap Pounders)
Rather Rottener
Project Castles And Historic Houses
Last Word
Crazy Jokes (Madcap Pounders)
Have You Eaten Grandma?
The Big Book of Silly Riddles
Domino Games and Puzzles
WAC jokes
World Championship Scrabble (Chambers)
Oscar Wilde y una muerte sin importancia
Wordplay
On Christmas
Optical Illusion Flip Book
(Almost) Impossible Crossword Book
Max, the boy who made a million
Amanda Mouse and the Birthday Cake
The Book of Mistakes
Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper
Optical Illusions
Aladdin
365 Day Quiz Book
If I Ruled the World
Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
Bumper book of magic
Crazy days
Book of mistaikes
Round the world quiz book
My diary
The mermaid at no. 13
The crazy encyclopaedia
1000 laughs
Total nonsense Z to A
The date-it-yourself time capsule
Hey diddle diddle
Ich über mich
1000 knock-knocks
Four thousand amazing trivial facts
The hullabaloo at no. 13
Everyman's indoor games
The story of Humpty Dumpty
The slippers that talked
The monsters at no. 13
Aargh!
1000 facts
The longest, shortest, biggest, smallest, best and worst joke book in the world
Acertijos contemporáneos
Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaes (born 1960)

columnist, biographer, journalist

  • Yale University, Jonathan Edwards College

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Coolidge
Coolidge
The Forgotten Man
Germany
The greedy hand
The forgotten man
The Great Society
Silent Majority
The greedy hand
Great Society
Great Society CD
Bei yi wang de ren
Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Der vergessene Mann (German Edition)
Mark of Power
Great Society Low Price CD
Coolidge Unabridged CD
Dieter E. Zimmer
Dieter E. Zimmer (1934-2020)

journalist, translator, opinion journalist, editing staff

  • Free University Berlin, University of Münster

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Nabokovs Berlin
Die Bibliothek der Zukunft
Redens Arten
So kommt der Mensch zur Sprache
Tiefenschwindel
Deutsch Und Anders
Ich möchte lieber nicht, sagte Bartleby
Sprache in Zeiten ihrer Unverbesserlichkeit
Sprache in Zeiten ihrer Unverbesserlichkeit
Die Vernunft der Gefühle Ursprung, Natur und Sinn der menschlichen Emotion
Vladimir Nabokov
Experimente des Lebens
A guide to Nabokov's butterflies and moths
Schlafen und träumen
Nabokov reist im Traum in das Innere Asiens
Die Vernunft der Gefühle
Die Wortlupe
Unsere erste Natur
Die Elektrifizierung der Sprache
Der Mythos der Gleichheit
Der Mythos der Gleichheit
Der Streit um die Intelligenz
Die Grenzen literarischer Freiheit
Rowohlt Literaturmagazin, H.40, Vladimir Nabokov
Vierunddreissig neue Kurzgeschichten aus der ZEIT
Ein Medium kommt auf die Welt
Aus dem Wörterbuch des Teufels
Materialen zu James Joyces 'Dubliner'
Wirbelsturm Lolita
Mein Gedicht
Neunundzwanzig neue Kurzgeschichten aus der Zeit
Lothar Mertens
Lothar Mertens (1959-2006)

historian of Modern Age, social scientist, opinion journalist

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Lexikon der DDR-Historiker
Unermüdlicher Kämpfer für Frieden und Menschenrechte
Davidstern unter Hammer und Zirkel
Soziale Ungleichheit in der DDR. Zu einem tabuisierten Strukturmerkmal der SED-Diktatur. Mit Tab., Abb. (Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung; GDF 82)
Rote Denkfabrik?
Wider die sozialistische Familiennorm
Nur politisch W urdige: die DFG-Forschungsf orderung im Dritten Reich 1933 - 1937
Priester der Klio oder Hofchronisten der Partei?: kollektivbiographische Analysen zur DDR-Historikerschaft
Vernachlässigte Töchter der Alma Mater
Rote Denkfabrik?
Alija
Religion und Politik
Priester der Klio oder Hofchronisten der Partei?
Nur politische Würdige
Alexander Mitscherlich
Alexander Mitscherlich (1908-1982)

psychologist, historian of Modern Age, chemist, physician, opinion journalist, philosopher, actor, scientist, psychoanalyst

  • Heidelberg University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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Ein Leben für die Psychoanalyse
Auf dem Weg zur vaterlosen Gesellschaft
Thesen zur Stadt der Zukunft
Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern
Die Idee des Friedens und die menschliche Aggressivität
Der Kampf um die Erinnerung
Die Unwirtlichkeit unserer Städte. Anstiftung zum Unfrieden
Thesen zur Stadt der Zukunft
Il feticcio urbano
Über Eigentum und Gewalt
Freiheit und Unfreiheit in der Krankheit
Endlose Diktatur?
Über Treue und Familie
Der Kranke in der modernen Gesellschaft
Eine deutsche Art zu lieben
Doctors of infamy
Krankheit als Konflikt
Wege in die städtische Zukunft
Massenpsychologie ohne Ressentiment
Versuch, die Welt besser zu bestehen
Inability to Mourn
Das Ich und die Vielen
Freier Sozialismus
Medizin ohne Menschlichkeit
Psycho-Pathographien
Bis hierher und nicht weiter
Toleranz, Überprüfung eines Begriffs
Glück, Gerechtigkeit
Vom Ursprung der Sucht
Entfaltung der Psychoanalyse
Das Ich und die Vielen
Wissenschaft ohne Menschlichkeit
Über Feindseligkeit und hergestellte Dummheit
The death doctors
Vers la société sans pères
Massenpsychologie ohne Ressentiment
Hauptworte, Hauptsachen
Addresses at the Frankfurt Book Fair 1969
Toleranz-Überprüfung eines Begriffs
Psycho-Pathographien des Alltags
Das Diktat der Menschenverachtung
Das Beschädigte Leben
SINNIEREN ÜBER SCHMUTZ
Krankheit als Konflikt
Auf dem Weg zur vaterlosen Gesellschaft
Die Unwirtlichkeit unserer Stad̈te
Vers la société sans pères
Eine deutsche Art zu lieben
Christian Zentner
Christian Zentner (1938-2023)

journalist, historian

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100 Deutsche
Adolf Hitler
Die Kriege der Nachkriegszeit
Der Kriegsausbruch, 1. September 1939
Der Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Militärgerichtshof, Nürnberg, 14. November 1945-1. Oktober 1946
Deutschland 1870 bis heute
Der Zweite Weltkrieg
Der Schritt über die Grenzen
Der Frankreichfeldzug, 10. Mai 1940
Schlacht um England
Bildatlas östliches Europa
Illustrierte Geschichte des Dritten Reiches
Illustrierte Geschichte der Ära Adenauer
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf
Das große Lexikon des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Das Verhalten von Georg Leber analysiert unter dem Aspekt seiner macht-politischen Bedeutung für die deutsche Gewerkschaftsbewegung und die Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer
Der Zweite Weltkrieg
Tief im Feindesland
Der Erste Weltkrieg. Daten, Fakten, Kommentare
Der totale Krieg
Illustrierte Geschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs
Heraldik
Heim ins Reich
... den Dolch im Gewande
Stalingrad. Wie es wirklich war
Große Geschichte des Dritten Reichs und des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Das Grosse Lexikon des Dritten Reiches
Der grosse Bildatlas zur Weltgeschichte
Illustrierte Geschichte des deutschen Kaiserreichs
Waffen im Einsatz
In Freundschaft
Deutschland von der Reichsgründung bis heute
Der Bombenkrieg
Soldaten im Einsatz
Las Guerras de la Posguerra (II) (Grandes Guerras De Nuestro Tiempo, 4)
The encyclopedia of the Third Reich
Zentners illustrierte Weltgeschichte
Drittes Reich und Zweiter Weltkrieg
Zentners Geschichtsführer in Farbe
Der Tag der Einheit
Deutsche Geschichte
Lexikon der Weltgeschichte
Las guerras de la postguerra
Anmerkungen zu "Holocaust"
Lexikon des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Weltkonflikt im Nahen Osten
Deutsche Automobile
Flucht und Vertreibung
Lexikon der deutschen Geschichte
Chronik 2. Weltkrieg