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Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader (born 1934)

lawyer, historian, politician, lobbyist, environmentalist, political activist, journalist, columnist

  • Princeton University, Harvard Law School

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Crashing the party
The Seventeen Traditions
The seventeen traditions
Crashing the Party
The seventeen traditions
Congress project
Unsafe at any speed
No contest
The big boys
Cybermedicine
Cutting Corporate Welfare
Action for a change
The Ralph Nader Reader
Collision course
The menace of atomic energy
Unstoppable
More action for a change
The lemon book
Unsafe at any speed
The Good Fight
The people's business
The Seventeen Solutions Bold Ideas For Our American Future
Winning the insurance game
Civic Arousal
Power and land in California
The good fight
Canada firsts
In Pursuit Of Justice
The Case against "free trade"
The Frugal Shopper
The consumer and corporate accountability
Getting steamed
Return to sender
The Frugal shopper checklist book
The GMO Deception
Home Book: A Guide to Safety, Security and Savings in the Home
Breaking through power
Wrecking America
Censored 2015
Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
The Frugal Shopper Checklist Book
What to do with your bad car
Taming the giant corporation
Who's poisoning America
Main basse sur le pouvoir
The Rape of the powerless
Animal envy
Day the Rats Vetoed Congress
You and your pension [by] Ralph Nader and Kate Blackwell
Who Runs Congress
Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook
The GMO deception
Constitutionalizing the corporation
Ralph Nader in Rüschlikon, 7.-8. September 1977
Murray Atomic Energy
Action for change
Corporate Power in America
Corporate power in America
Media for the Solar Age
Taming the giant corporation
Unstoppable
Nader on Australia
Canada Firsts
You and your pension
To the ramparts
Whistle Blowing
Beware
Out of Darkness
First Class
The Big Boys Part 1 of 2
The Big Boys Part 2 of 2
Hidden History of Monopolies
Alimentos gene ticamente modificados
Verdicts on lawyers
Reflections from the Waiting Room
Fake President
Who's Poisoning America
How the Rats Re-formed Congress
Seventeen Solutions
Vanishing air
Alimentos Genéticamente Modificados : Cambiando la Naturaleza de la Naturaleza
Told You So
On Living in a Democracy
Collision Course
Cutting Corporate Welfare
Big Boy
Rebellious CEO
Courts and Congress
What to do with your bad car
Let's Start the Revolution
Unstoppable
In Pursuit of Justice
What to Do?
Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
Ces voitures qui tuent
I Lost My Bontalona
Lemon Books
Good Fight
Ecotactics the Sierra Club Handbook for Environment Activists
Direct Democracy
Crashing the Party
Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook
Who Runs Congress?
Unsafe at Any Speed. The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile
Ralph Nader presents : students as if they matter
Breaking Through Power
Unsafe at any speed
Unsafe at Any Speed
George V. Higgins
George V. Higgins (1939-1999)

lawyer, poet lawyer, journalist

  • Stanford University, Boston College Law School

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The Progress of the Seasons
Style versus substance
The Best American Short Stories 1973
Swan boats at four
Sandra Nichols found dead
Outlaws
Victories
Wonderful years, wonderful years
The judgment of Deke Hunter
Impostors
At end of day
Penance for Jerry Kennedy
A Change of Gravity
Cogan's trade
The Agent
Defending Billy Ryan
Boston Noir 2
The patriot game
Dreamland
On writing
The friends of Eddie Coyle
Kennedy for the defense
Bomber's Law
The Digger's game
Trust
The rat on fire
A year or so with Edgar
The Mandeville talent
The easiest thing in the world
Kennedy for Defense
A city on a hill
The Rat On Fire A Novel
A change in gravity
The friends of Eddie Coyle
A choice of enemies
Killing Them Softly A Novel
The Digger's game
The friends of Richard Nixon
Cogans Trade A Novel
Penance for Jerry Kennedy
Paris risqués
Cogan's Trade/a Choice of Enemies
Imposters
At end of day
The friends of Eddie Coyle
Cogan's trade
Victories
Rat on Fire
The sins of the fathers
Los Amigos De Eddie Coyle
The judgement of Deke Hunter
The friends of Eddie Coyle
Outlaws
Wonderful Years Wonderful Year
Patriot Games
Old Earl died pulling traps
Le rat en flammes
A city on a hill
Trust
Jaan Kross
Jaan Kross (1920-2007)

translator, pedagogue, professor, poet lawyer, poet, politician

  • University of Tartu

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Kallid kaasteelised
Omae luloolisus ja alltekst
The conspiracy & other stories
The czar's madman
Professor Martens' departure
The Ropewalker
The Czar's madman
Der Verrückte des Zaren
Kolme katku vahel
Dans l'insaisissable. le roman de juri vilms
Das Leben des Balthasar Rüssow
Le Fou Du Tzar
Professor Martens' Abreise
Sailing against the wind
Bibliograafia
Vastutuulelaev
Vahelugemised
The rock from the sky
Tahtamaa
Neli monoloogi Püha Jüri asjus
Söerikastaja
Professor Martens' Departure
Taevakivi
Vihm teeb toredaid asju
RakvereskiÄ­ roman ; Ukhod professora Martensa
Imperatorskiĭ bezumet︠s︡
Keisri hull
Teosed
Czar S Madman
Voog ja kolmpii
Kamennye skripki
La Partida del Profesor Martens
Mesmeri ring
Lauljad laevavööridel
Paigallend
Väljakaevamised
Paigalend
Klio silma all
Kogutud teosed
Wikmani poisid
Kivist viiulid
Tabamatus
Na glazakh u Klio
Silmade avamise päev
Professor Martensi ärasõit
Kolmandad mäed
Kamienie Z nieba
Vuelo estático
Book of Falsehoods Between Three Plagues Volume 3
Ķeizara trakais
Uppiniskaisuuden kronikka
Tammsaare
Professor Matensi arasoit
Kross. Üksikud head mehed
Polet na meste
Between Three Plagues
CERCLE DE MESSMER - Roman - Traduit de L'estonien par Jacques Tricot
Day Eyes Were Opened
Rakvere romaan
Vier Monologe Anno Domini 1506
Le départ du professeur Martens
Trzy bicze czarnej smierci, czyli opowiesc o Baltazarze Russowie
Treading Air
Book of Falsehoods
People Without a Past
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum (born 1958)

politician, lawyer

  • Pennsylvania State University, University of Pittsburgh

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American patriots
It Takes a Family
Blue Collar Republicans
Rick Santorum
State and Private Forestry Programs
Preserving America¬s Future Today
Sam Houston
Sam Houston (1793-1863)

politician, lawyer

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The autobiography of Sam Houston
Naval retiring board
Nebraska bill, Indian tribes
Speech of Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas, on the subject of compromise
The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston
Speech of Sam Houston, of Texas, on the bill for the relief of Yucatan
Speech of Mr. Houston, of Texas, favoring a Mexican protectorate
The compromise measures
Speech of the Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas, in reply to, and in explanation of, articles published in the "Southern Press"
Speech of Mr. Houston, of Texas, on the Oregon question
Ever thine truly
Speech of Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas, exposing the malfeasance and corruption of John Charles Watrous, judge of the federal court in Texas, and of his confederates
Speech of Senator Houston of Texas on the Nebraska and Kansas bill previous to the final passage of the same by the Senate of the United States Friday night March 3, 1854
Letter of General Sam Houston to General Santa Anna
Speech of Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas, exposing the malfeasance and corruption of John Charles Watrous, judge of the federal court in Texas, and of his ... Senate of the United States, Feb. 3, 1859
The writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863
Speeches of Sam Houston, of Texas, on the subject of an increase of the army, and the Indian policy of the government, delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 29 and 31, 1855
Life of General Sam Houston
Documents of Major Gen. Sam Houston, commander in chief of the Texian army, to His Excellency David G. Burnet, Pres. of the Republic of Texas
Speech of Sam Houston, of Texas, on the bill for the relief of Yucatan
The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston, 1848-1852 (Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston)
The life of Sam Houston
Speech of Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas, on the Three Million Bill, delivered in the Senate of the United States, Friday, February 19, 1847
Elmer Rice
Elmer Rice (1892-1967)

playwright, poet lawyer, theatrical director

  • New York Law School

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Minority report
Famous Plays of Crime and Detection
Elmer Rice: Three Plays
The winner
Three plays
Love among the ruins
The living theatre
The Adding Machine.
Seven Plays
Imperial city
Two on an island
The adding machine
We, the people
Court of Last Resort
Minority Report
On trial
Seven plays
Judgment day
Black sheep
Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre Second Series Complete
Imperial city, a novel
Dream girl
Street scence
Cock Robin, a play in three acts
The house in Blind alley
On Trial; a Dramatic Composition in Four Acts
Flight to the west,
Dream girl, a comedy
Street Scene - A Play in Three Acts
Plays of Elmer Rice
The passing of Chow-Chow
Cue for passion
A new life
Counsellor-at-law, a play in three acts
We, the people,
Show Must Go On, The
Counsellor-at-law
Cue for passion
A new life
A new life, a play in nine scenes
Imperial City
See Naples and die
Street scene
Judgement Day
The left bank,
Cock Robin
Counsellor-At-Law
Two plays
American Landscape
The show must go on
The left bank
The supreme freedom
The subway
Imperial city
American landscape
The grand tour,
A voyage to Purilia
The grand tour
Street Scene
Not for children, a comedy in two acts
Adding Machine
The iron cross
Counsellor At Law, Theatre Programme Piccadilly Theatre programme 1934
The home of the free
Counselor-at-law
Street scene,
The living theatre
Two plays
Cock Robin
The subway
The iron cross
Not for children
Three plays without words
See Naples and die
Other plays, and Not for children
A voyage to Purilia
SEE NAPLES AND DIE
Counsellor-at-law
Love among the ruins,
Plays of Elmer Rice
See Naples and Die
Flight to the west
Judgment day
The adding machine
The show must go on
Three plays (A Mermaid dramabook, MD35)
Judgment day,
Judgment day,
The winner,
Blacksheep
American landscape
Two on an island
Naʻarat ha-ḥalomot
Counsellor at law
Dream girl
A voyage to Purilia
The home of the free
Three plays
Yom ha-din
Street scene
La calle
The iron cross
The living theatre
The subway
On trial
Cock Robin
Counsellor-at-law, a play in three acts
New York vládne
Minority report
Galart de Montjoie
Galart de Montjoie (1746-1816)

lawyer, journalist, librarian, jurist

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Eloge historique et funèbre de Louis XVI, roi de France et de Navarre
Histoire de la conjuration de Maximilien Robespierre
Histoire de la conjuration de Louis-Philippe-Joseph d'Orléans
Avis a la Convention nationale sur le jugement de Louis XVI
Re ponse aux Re flexions de M. Necker, sur le proce s intente a Louis XVI
Mount pausilyppo, or, A manuscript found at the tomb of Virgil
Avis a la Convention nationale sur le jugement de Louis XVI
Histoire de la conjuration de Louis-Philippe-Joseph d'Orléans ... surnommé Egalité
D'Aveyro, or, The head in the glass cage
L'ami du roi, des françois, de l'ordre et sur-tout de la vérité, ou, Histoire de la Révolution de France, et de l'Assemblée nationale
Histoire de quatre espagnols
Histoire de Marie-Antoinette-Josephe-Jeanne de Lorraine, archiduchesse d'Autriche, reine de France
History of the conspiracy of Maximilian Robespierre
Lettre des gens du Tiers-etat de la commune de Paris, a leurs de pute s aux Etats-ge ne raux
Lettre sur le magn©â™­tisme animal, o©£ l'on examine la conformit©â™­ des opinions des peuples anciens et modernes, des s©Ê¹avans, et notamment de M. Bailly avec celles de M. Mesmer; et o©£ l'on compare ces m©®mes opinions au Rapport des commissaires charg©â™­s par le roi de l'examen du magn©â™­tisme animal ...
Ludwig Uhland
Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862)

linguist, poet, lyricist, politician, lawyer, literary historian, poet lawyer

  • University of Tübingen

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Ludwig Uhland, 1787-1862
Uhlands schriften zur geschichte der dichtung und sage
Gedichte
Alte hoch- und niederdeutsche Volkslieder
Alte hoch- und niederdeutsche Volkslieder
Walther von der Vogelweide, ein altdeutscher Dichter
Briefwechsel
Der Mythus von Thôr nach nordischen Quellen
Selections from Ballads and Romances
Schriften zur Geschichte der Dichtung und Sage
The songs and ballads of Uhland
Der Mythus von Thôr nach nordischen Quellen
Uhlands Werke
Schriften zur Geschichte der Dichtung und Sage
Gedichte und Dramen
Werke
Alte hoch- und niederdeutsche Volkslieder
Ludwig Uhland
The poems of Uhland
Graf Eberhard der Rauschebart
Hundert Gedichte
Ernst, Herzog von Schwaben
Werke
Dissertatio inauguralis juridica de juris romani servitutum natura dividua vel individua
Uhland's Gedichte
Selections from Ballads and Romances
Uhlands Werke in vier bänden
Gesammelte Werke, in sechs Bänden
Walther von der Vogelweide: Ein altdeutscher Dichter
Uhlands Gedichte und Dramen
Uhland als dramatiker
Uhlands Tagebuch, 1810-1820
Gedichte von Ludwig Uhland
Gedichte
Uhlands Briefwechsel
Alte hoch- und niederdeutsche volkslieder, mit abhandlung und anmerkungen
Gedichte
Sagengeschichte der germanischen und romanischen Völker
Tagbuch, 1810-1820
Ausgewählte Gedichte
Selections from Uhland's Ballads and Romances
Ernst von Schwaben
Wettgesang zwischen Uhland und Rückert
Gesammelte Werke in sechs Ba nden
Gesammelte Werke, in sechs Bänden
Lichstrahlen aus seinen werken
Vaterländische Gedichte
Ludwig Uhland poem
Ludwig Uhlands freiheitliches Vermächtnis
Dramatische Dichtungen
Tagbuch, 1810-1820
Ludwig Uhland Werke
Uhlands gesammelte Werke in sechs Ba nden
Gedichte
Uhlands Werke ...
Review of the life of Ludwig Uhland
Ludwig Uhlands Werke
Uhlands schriften zur geschichte der dichtung und sage
Der Mythus von Thôr nordischen Quellen
Uhland
Alte hoch- und niederdeutsche volkslieder, mit abhandlung und anmerkungen
Sagenforschungen
Dramatische Dichtung
Deutsche heldensagen
Gedichte, nebst dessen
Sechs vaterländische Gedichte
Uhland's Gedichte
Uhlands Gedichte und Dramen
Werke
Gesammelte Werke
Gedichte und dramen
Uhlands gesammelte werke
Deutscher Dichterwald
Ernst, Herzog von Schwaben
Lieder und Balladen
Keine Adelskammer!
Schwäbische Sagenkunde. Bd. 1. Suevisch-alamannische Vorzeit
Ludwig der Baier
Dichtungen, Briefe, Reden
Uhlands gesammelte werke
Ballate
WERKE IN VIER BÄNDEN
Ludwig Uhland sämtliche werke
Gedichte von Ludwig Uhland
Gedichte und Dramen
Ludwig Uhland
Frühlingsglaube