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Brian Eno
Brian Eno (born 1948)

composer, painter, record producer, singer, photographer, musician, video artist, conceptual artist

  • University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art

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Jeff Koons
A year with swollen appendices
More dark than shark
Small Acts. Performance, the Millennium and the Marking of Time
Kleines Wörterbuch der Tonkunst
Brian Eno
Eno, place no.13
Headcandy with Music by Brian Eno
Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy)
Ambient 4
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
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

playwright, poet, autobiographer, musician, teacher, photographer, diarist

  • Montclair State University, Columbia University

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Kerouac
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice
Journals
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems
Iron Curtain Journals
Allen Ginsberg
The essential Ginsberg
South American Journals
Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971
The visions of the great rememberer
Journals mid-fifties, 1954-1958
Best minds
Kanreki
Howl
White shroud
Howl, and Other Poems
Spontaneous Mind
Reality Sandwiches, 1953-60
Poems
Gay Day
Mind Breaths
Family Business
Deliberate prose
Plutonian ode
Indian journals, March 1962-May 1963
As ever
The letters of Allen Ginsberg
The Fall of America
Automatic refinement of expert system knowledge bases
Collected Poems 1947-1980
The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder
Allen verbatim: lectures on poetry, politics, consciousness
Allen Ginsberg CD Poetry Collection
Death & fame
Journals Mid-Fifties
Voice of the Poet
Illuminated Poems
Travels With Ginsberg
Cosmopolitan greetings
The Best Minds of My Generation
Planet News, 1961-1967 (Pocket Poets)
First blues
Straight hearts' delight
Wichita Vortex Sutra
Selected Poems
Howl Kaddish And Other Poems
Chicago trial testimony
Allen Ginsburg collected poems, 1947-1997
Allen Ginsberg : Holy Soul Jelly Roll
On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg
Wait till I'm dead
Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960 (Pocket Poets Series)
Reality Sandwiches, 1953-1960 (Pocket Poets Series, No. 18)
Aullido y otros poemas
Souffles d'esprit
Indian Journals
Programming by questionnaire
Potpourri of Poetry
An application of decision theory to a medical diagnosis-treatment problem
Cartas
Illuminated Poems
Philip Glass
Journals Early Fifties Early Sixties
KADDISH (A Bengali translation by Malay Roychoudhury ) ক্যাডিশ
Empty mirror
Beat Culture
Aullido
Hints and Allegations
Notes after an evening with William Carlos Williams
Scenes along the road
As Ever, Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady
Allen verbation
Cartas de Amor Ambiguo
First Thought Best Thought
Howl + Auw
Yage Letters
Best Minds of My Generation
Your reason & Blake's system
Poesia Beat
Kadish ve-shirim aherim
Composed on the tongue
To Eberhart from Ginsberg : a letter about Howl, 1956
Journal, 1952-1962
Allen Verbatim
Planet News
Snapshot poetics
Iron horse
La chute de l'Amérique
Muerte y Fama - Poemas 1993-1997
Luminous Dreams
Linceul blanc
The gates of wrath
Hao jiao =
Old love story
Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991
Cosmopolitan Greetings
Amerika'nin Düsüsü
Cosmopolitan Greetings (New Penguin Poetry)
Oda plutoniana
Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg 1894-1956
Uluma
Howl, Kaddish ve Öteki Siirler
Mind Writing Slogans
Uluma - Howl
Aullido - 1. ed.
Book of Martyrdom and Artifice : First Journals and Poems
Essential Ginsberg
Toplu Halusinasyon
Mostly Sitting Haiku
Collected Poems 1947-1997
Allen Ginsberg and Hiro Yamagata
Literary History of the Beats
Ankor wat
City Lights Journal
Azougue especial
Open head
T.V. baby
T.V. baby poems
Television Was a Baby Crawling Towards That Death Chamber
Maderia and Toasts for Basil Buntings Seventy-Fifth Birthday
Günlükler
Van Gogh's Ear
Reality Sandwiches (Pocket Poets Series, No. 18)
Letters of Allen Ginsberg
Reality Sandwiches Fotografien
Oda Plutoniana y Otros Poemas
Bibliography of Works by Allen Ginsberg
Diario indiano
Poems for the nation
Planet news, 1961-1967
Edebiyat Tarihi; Gördüm Kusagimin En Iyi Beyinlerini
Kaddish, and other poems
Ginsberg Esencial
Kaddish
Urlo & Kaddish
Uluma ve Oteki Siirler
Earthly Paradise
kaddish et autres poemes
Poems all over the place, mostly 'seventies
Yage Mektuplari
Beat Voices
Bixby Canyon ocean path word breeze. -
Antologii︠a︡ poėzii bitnikov
Una carta degli hippies
Diario Beat
Returning to the county for a brief visit
The complete songs of innocence and experience
Ginsberg at Evergreen
Wales visitation
Some mantras
Poetry
To Eberhart from Ginsberg
Wichita vortex sutra
New year blues
Take care of my ghost, ghost
La caduta dell'America
Ḳadish
Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg, 1894-1956
America today!
Kral Majales
Ankor wat
Howl
Plutonian ode
Moloch
Who be kind to
Scrap leaves
Improvised poetics
The Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection
Airplane dreams
Notes after an evening with William Carlos Williams
Iron horse
Skowyt i inne wirsze
Scrap leaves
Allen Ginsberg reads Kaddish
Testimonianza a Chicago
Minzey marijuana sacrament trial
Collected poems
A strange new cottage in Berkeley
Planet news, 1961-1967
Wales--a visitation, July 29, 1967
Documents on police bureaucracy's conspiracy against human rights of opiate addicts & constitutional rights of medical profession causing mass break-down of urban law & order
Wales - a visitation
Allen Ginsberg fotografier 1947-1987
Allen Ginsberg photographs
Rain-wet asphalt heat, garbage curbed cans overflowing
Howl, and other poems
Kaddish, and other poems 1958-1960
The rune
Sad dust glories
The moments return
Honorable courtship
T.V. baby poems
Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973
"The Fall of America" wins a prize
Howl
Entering Kansas City High
Wichita vortex sutra
Making it up
Allen Ginsberg on tour Feb. 16, 1983, with Peter Orlovsky & Steven Taylor
Honorable courtship
Careless love
Ginsberg's improvised poetics
V. Vale
V. Vale (born 1942)

publisher, television presenter, musician

  • University of California, Berkeley

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William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin
Real Conversations Henry Rollins Jello Biafra Lawrence Ferlinghetti Billy Childish Interviews
Bob Flanagan
Ed Hardy
Angry Women
Pranks 2
Swing! The New Retro Renaissance (V/Search)
Industrial culture handbook
Re/Search #14
Zines! Volume Two (Zines!)
ZINES! Volume One
Pranks! (Re-Search # 11)
Bob Flanagan
Modern Primitives (Re/Search)
Swing!
Re/Search
Industrial Culture Handbook
Re/Search #10
Search & Destroy, 7-11, the Complete Reprint
Search & destroy #1-6
William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristle (Re/Search #4/5)
Modern primitives
Burroughs and Friends
J.G. Ballard (Re-Search 8/9)
Pranks!
Re/Search #6/7
Henry Rollins, Billy Childish, Jello Biafra, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Search and Destroy #1-6
Incredibly strange music
Modern pagans
Modern Primitives Re Search 12 (Re/Search ; #12)
Search & destroy #7-11
Zines!
Pranks!
Penny Rimbaud
Modern pagans
Labour in American politics
Search & Destroy
Charles Gatewood
Underground Living
Incredibly strange films
Bill Drummond
Bill Drummond (born 1953)

musician, talent agent, record producer, talent manager, composer, performance artist

  • University of Northampton

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45
17
The manual
Annual Report to The Mavericks, Writers and Film Festival
From the Shores of Lake Placid
Silent protest
K Foundation Burn a Million Quid
UK sticker
Drummond's international grey
The last page
Bad Wisdom
Wild Highway
$20,000
Jack Whyte
Jack Whyte (1940-2021)

actor, musician

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Jack Whyte
The Sorcerer
The Skystone
Standard of Honor
The Singing Sword (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 2)
Uther (Camulod Chronicles, #7)
The Eagle (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 9)
The Eagles' Brood (Camulod Chronicles, #3)
Knights of the Black and White
The Lance Thrower (Camulod Chronicles, #8)
The Fort at River's Bend (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 5)
The Saxon shore
The Skystone (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 1)
The Saxon Shore (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 4)
The eagle
The fort at River's Bend
The Singing Sword (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 2)
Uther (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 7)
Knights of the Black and White (The Templar Trilogy, Book 1)
Standard Of Honour
Order in chaos
The Eagles' Brood (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 3)
Order in chaos T#3
The Lance Thrower (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 8)
The guardian
Der Himmelsstein
The Sorceror
Clothar The Frank First Canadian Cloth Editon
Clothar the Frank
The Saxon Shore Boxed Set
L'étandard de l'honneur
UC-Standard of Honor
The forest laird
Uther (A Dream of Eagles, Book 7)
The renegade
Jan Werich
Jan Werich (1905-1980)

singer, playwright, jazz musician, stage actor, film actor, television actor, actor, director, translator

  • Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague

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Jan Werich vzpomíná--vlastně potlach
Vzpomíná-- vlastně Potlach
Listování
Když už člověk jednou je
Lincoln 1933
Úsměv klauna
Kresby
Italské prázdniny
Životní moudra pana Jana Wericha
Pětsetkrát s Janem Werichem
Americké příběhy
Všechno je jinak
Fimfárum
Falstaffovo babí líto
Povídky nejen o psech
Fimfarum
Fimfárum
Nikdy nic nikdo nemá--
George Grossmith
George Grossmith (1847-1912)

actor, composer, comedian, singer, musician

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" G.G."
The Diary of a Nobody
Great humorous stories
Diary of a Nobody
The Diary of a Nobody
The Diary of a Nobody (Bloomsbury Classic)
The Diary of a Nobody
DIARY OF A NOBODY
The Diary of a Nobody
A society clown
The diary of a nobody [by] George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
Diary of a Nobody (Gift Classics)
The Diary of a Nobody
Diary of a Nobody
The Diary of a Nobody
The Diary of a Nobody (Modern Classics)
The Diary of a Nobody
Diario de Un Don Nadie
Programme of words and songs
Haste to the wedding
Diary of a Nobody
Diary of a Nobody
The diary of a nobody
Haste to the wedding
Diary of a Nobody
Diary of a Nobody
Diary of A Nobody
Diary of a Nobody
Diary of a Nobody
Diary of a Nobody
The diary of a nobody
Diary of a Nobody
Diary of a Nobody
The diary of a nobody
Diary of a Nobody
Diary of a Nobody