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Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)

poet, street artist, musician, pianist, film actor, record producer, singer, lyricist, drawer

  • McGill University, Columbia University

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The flame
The favourite game
Beautiful losers
Stranger music
Dance me to the end of love
Selected poems, 1956-1968
Death of a lady's man
The Spice Box of Earth
Leonard Cohen
The energy of slaves
Book of mercy
Leonard Cohen On Leonard Cohen Interviews And Encounters
God is alive
Let us compare mythologies
Cohen
Flowers for Hitler
Songs from the life of Leonard Cohen
The Leonard Cohen Collection
Ballet of Lepers
Poems, 1956-1968
The Future
Leonard Cohen
Cohen, The Selected Poetry of
Leonard Cohen for Easy Piano
Gorkemli Kaybedenler
The lyrics of Leonard Cohen
Mi-shire Leʹonard Kohen
Fingerpicking Leonard Cohen
I'm your man
Leonard Cohen Anthology (Pvg)
New skin for the old ceremony
Leonard Cohen
Hallelujah
Words of Love and Hate
Hermosos perdedores
Libro Del Anhelo
Solitude of Strength/La Solitudine Della Forza
Il tormento della bellezza
Divni gubitnici
コロナウイルス：いいえ、あなたは私を怖がらせません！
Seductive Harmonies The Poetry Of Music
Hallelujah
El libro del anhelo
Parasites of heaven
Leonard Cohen for Ukulele
Two views
Various positions
Leonard Cohen greatest hits
Live songs
Pandemic Flue : You Don't Scare Me!
Hallelujah (Sheet Music)
Hallelujah for Saxophone Quartet
Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers
New Tattoo Coloring Book
Hallelujah - Piano Solo
Hermosos Perdedores / Beautiful Losers
Hallelujah for Clarinet Quartet
La llama
Hallelujah
Memorias de un mujeriego
En Sevilen Oyun
The Essential Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen Vol.2
Leonard Cohen - Sheet Music Collection
Gözde Oyun
Leonard Cohen - Strum & Sing Guitar
El libro de la misericordia
Jeux de dames
Les Perdants magnifiques
Leonard Cohen Anthology
Hallelujah per Quartetto Di Clarinetti
Choosing to work
La Caja de Especias de La Tierra
Poets of Contemporary Canada 1960- 1970.
Leonard Cohen
Songs of love and hate
Almost Young. A Tribute
A mil besos de profundidad
Greatest hits
ספר הכמיהה
Étrange musique étrangère
1957
The best of Leonard Cohen
Sheet music collection, 1967-2016
Yndlingslegen
Ke-tsipor ʻal ha-tayil
ha-Miśḥaḳ he-ahuv
Kjaerlighet og Hat
Musique d'ailleurs
ha-Shirim
Mój Cohen
Robert James Waller
Robert James Waller (1939-2017)

musician, photographer, economist

  • University of Northern Iowa, Indiana University Kelley School of Business

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One good road is enough
Just beyond the firelight
The Bridges of Madison County
Almanac of British Politics
Slow waltz in Cedar Bend
Border music
The Long Night of Winchell Dear
Old songs in a new café
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
Puerto Vallarta squeeze
A Thousand Country Roads
High Plains Tango
A thousand country roads
Slow waltz in Cedar Bend
The Dukeries transformed
High plains tango
Old songs in a new café
Tango En El Paraiso
Iowa
Old Songs in a New Cafe
Thousand Country Roads, A
The Almanac of British Politics
The long night of Winchell Dear
Ballads of Madison County
Bridges of Madison County/slow
Der Weg der Liebe
Los Puentes De Madison County
Los viejos puentes de madera
Images
Die Brücken am Fluß / Die Liebenden von Cedar Bend
Die Brucken Am Fluss
Ballads of Madison Co
I Ponti Di Madison County
Love in Black and White
Sur la route de Madison
Images
Los Amantes De Puerto Vallarta
Valse lente à cedar bend
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend
Los Caminos Del Recuerdo
Bridge of Madison County ('Mai di xun zhi qiao', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English)
Los Puentes de Madison
Romance
Valse lente
Border Music
The Writer Speaks
Bridges of Madison County Movie Television Tie
The Atlas of British Politics
Musica de Frontera
Border Music-16 Copy Floor Display
The long night of Winchell Dear
High plains tango
Puerto Vallarta
de Bruggen van Madison county
The Summer Nights Never End Until They Do Life Liberty And The Lure Of The Shortrun
Die Liebenden von Cedar Bend
Los puentes de Madison County
Musica de Frontera - L.E. -
A thousand country roads
Man man chang ye
Damals in Puerto Vallarta
Retour à Madison
Une saison au Texas (Ailleurs) (French Edition)
Lang qiao yi meng
Els Camins del record
Le piège de Puerto Vallarta
Langsamer Walzer für Georgia Ann
Sure la route de Madison
Sur la route de Madison
Peter Weiss
Peter Weiss (1916-1982)

playwright, painter, director, film director, illustrator, essayist, graphic artist, librettist, film producer, musician, production designer

  • University of Westminster, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague

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Fluchtpunkt
Hölderlin
Die Ermittlung
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands
Abschied von den Eltern
Das Gespräch der drei Gehenden
Briefe an Hermann Levin Goldschmidt und Robert Jungk, 1938–1980
Peter Weiss im Gespräch
Trotzki im Exil
The new trial
Hölderlin
Der Schatten des Körpers des Kutschers
Rekonvaleszenz
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 1
Rapporte
Discourse on Vietnam (Playscripts)
Notizbücher 1960–1971
Marat/Sade ; The investigation ; and The shadow of the body of the coachman
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats
Two plays
L'Esthetique de la résistance, tome 3
Diskurs über die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des lang andauernden Befreiungskrieges in Viet Nam als Beispiel für die Notwendigkeit des bewaffneten Kampfes der Unterdru?ckten gegen ihre Unterdru?cker
Notizbücher
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, Ln, in 3 Bdn., Bd.2
Réponse à Johnson sur les bombardements limités ou l'Escalade U. S. au Vietnam d'avril á juin 1968
Das Kopenhagener Journal
Rapport om Förenta staternas förstärkta angrepp mot Nordvietnam efter den 31 mars 1968
'Limited bombing' in Vietnam
Dramen
Bodies and shadows
Die Situation
Diskurs über die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des lang andauernden Befreiungskrieges in Viet Nam
Der neue Prozess
Peter Weiss
Vietnam
Diesseits und jenseits der Grenze
Stücke
Notizen zum kulturellen Leben in der Demokratischen Republik Viet Nam
Das Duell
Der Maler Peter Weiss
Der Turm
The conversation of the three walkers
Füreinander sind wir Chiffren
Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II
Inferno
Leavetaking
Werke in sechs Bänden
Peter Weiss als Maler
Two plays
Discours sur la genèse et le déroulement de la très longue guerre de libération du Vietnam
Peter Weiss
Gesang vom Lusitanischen Popanz
Nacht mit Gästen ùnd Wie dem Herrn Mockinpott das Leiden ausgetrieben wird
Diskurs über die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des lang andauernden Befreiungskrieges in Viet Nam
Gesang vom Lusitanischen Popanz und andere Stücke
Comment Monsieur Mockinpott fut libéré de ses tourments
Chant du fantoche lusitanien
Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I
In Gegensätzen denken
Gesang vom lusitanischen Popanz und andere Stucke
Landskapen i drömmarna
Leavetaking [and] Vanishing point
Turandot oder Der Kongre der Weiwscher / Publikumsbeschimpfung / Helm / Genusien / Fulein Julie / Goldene Stdte / Der frhliche Weinberg (Spectaculum -
Peter Weiss
Diskurs uber...Viet Nam
Holderlin
Die Herausforderung Peter Weiss
Rapporte 2
Canto do papão lusitano
Stücke II
Discourse on Vietnam
Bericht über die Angriffe der US-Luftwaffe und-Marine gegen die Demokratische Republik Viet Nam nach derErklärung Präsident Johnsons über die "begrentze Bombardierung" am 31. März 1968
Wie dem Herrn Mockinpott das Leiden ausgetrieben wird
Briefe an Henriette Itta Blumenthal
Situationen
Leavetaking
Notizbücher, 1960-1971
Die Besiegten
Bericht über die Angriffe der US-Luftwaffe und- Marine gegen die Demokratische Republik Viet Nam, nach der Erklärung Präsident Johnsons über die "begrenzte Bombardierung" am 31
Sången om Skråpuken
Werke in sechs Bänden
Aufsätze, Journale, Arbeitspunkte
Viaje a la España de Franco
Peridah min ha-horim
Trotsky en exil
Das Duell
DER SCHATTEN DES KÖRPERS DES KUTSCHERS
רדיפתו ורציחתו של זאן פול מרה
Fluchtpunkt
DIE ÄSTHETIK DES WIDERSTANDS
Das Gespräch der drei Gehenden
ha-Tsel shel gufo shel ha-ʻeglon
מרה סאד
Erzählungen. 2 Cassetten.
Abschied von den Eltern
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats, dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade
Bericht über die Angriffe der US-Luftwaffe und -Marine gegen die Demokratische Republik Viet Nam
Nacht mit Gästen
Nya processen
Joseph Beuys Plakate
Two plays
Caritas im geeinten Deutschland
Abschied von den Eltern/Fluchtpunkt
Kursbuch
Der Prozess
The persecution and assassination of Marat as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis of Sade
Die Notizbücher
Diskurs über die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des lang andauernden Befreiungskrieges in Viet Nam als Beispiel für die Notwendigkeit des bewaffneten Kampfes der Unterdrückten gegen ihre Unterdrücker, sowie über die Versuche der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika die Grundlagen der Revolution zu vernichten
Diskurs über die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des lang andauernden Befreiungskrieges in Viet Nam als Beispiel für die Notwendigkeit des bewaffneten Kampfes der Unterdrückten gegen ihre Unterdrücker
De besegrade
Peter Weiss
Dramen
Notes on the cultural life of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats, dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade
The persecution and assassination of Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the marquis de Sade
Från ö till ö
Diskurs über die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des lang andauernden Befreiungskrieges in Viet Nam als Beispiel für die Notwendigkeit des bewaffneten Kampfes der Unterdrückten gegen ihre Unterdrücker, sowie über die Versuche der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika die Grundlagen der Revolution zu vernichten
Peter Weiss reading from his works
The Marquis De Sade
La indagación
Redifato u-retsiḥato shel Z'an Pol Marah kefi she-hutsag ʻal yede lahaḳat ha-śaḥḳanim shel bet ha-marpe le-ḥole-nefesh be-Sharenṭon be-hadrakhato shel ha-Marḳiz Deh Sad
Cristy Road
Cristy Road (born 1982)

historian, memoirist, illustrator, graphic novelist, musician

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Indestructible
Bad habits
Spit and passion
Next World Tarot
Next World Tarot : Pocket Edition
Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan (1918-2002)

comedian, journalist, stage actor, film actor, poet, actor, musician, television actor, playwright

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Mussolini
Milligan's War
Depression and How to Survive It
Monty, His Part in My Victory
"Rommel?"-"Gunner who?"
Goodbye soldier
Where have all the bullets gone?
Milligans Meaning of Life
It Ends With Magic
Milligans Meaning of Life
Goodbye Soldier (War Biography)
More Spike Milligan letters
Peace Work
The family album
Gunner Milligan, 954024
Puckoon
Adolf Hitler
Goblins
The Bible
The Essential Spike Milligan
Silly Verse for Kids
Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall
The book of the Goons
The Lost Goon Shows
Frankenstein
The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan
The Goon Show scripts
Dr. Who
Box 18
Wuthering Heights According to Spike Milligan
The Q Annual
Milligan's ark
Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
The Spike Milligan letters
Badjelly the witch
Bible, the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan, a celebration
The Murphy
Unspun socks froma chicken's laundry
Black Beauty
William McGonagall, the truth at last
Startling Verse for All the Family
Spike Milligan
William McGonagall
Classic Adventures According to Spike Milligan
More Goon cartoons
The Looney
A dustbin of Milligan
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
The Magical World of Milligan
Hidden Words
Scunthorpe revisited, added articles and instant relatives
D.H. Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane according to Spike Milligan
That's Amazing
Classic Adventures
Open Heart University
A potboiling dustbin full of bits
The Goon Show Classics
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan
Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan
Indefinite articles
William McGonagall meets George Gershwin
Condensed animals
Dip the puppy , a fairy story ; with, The terrible monster jelly
The bald twit lion
A mad medley of Milligan
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Small dreams of a scorpion
More Goon Show scripts
The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (Poetry)
Sir Nobonk and the terrible, awful, dreadful, naughty, nasty dragon
Rommel? Gunner Who? ; Monty
Two Tales of Wonder
The Goon Show Classics Volume 21 "The Missing Battleship"
A book of bits or a bit of a book
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
Spike Milligan at the Beeb
The 101 best and only limericks of Spike Milligan
Monty
Badjelly the witch
Dip the puppy
The Lost "Goon" Shows
Spike Milligan'sfurther transports of delight
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
Spike Milligan's transports of delight
The little pot boiler
The Goon Show and More Guests, Vol. 18
There's a lot of it about!
The Compulsive Spike Milligan
The Milligan book of records
The bedside Milligan
Fleas, Knees and Hidden Elephants
The mirror running
The Goon cartoons
A book of bits
Floored masterpieces with worse verse
Values
Spike's Poems
The mini Milligan collection
Lady Chatterley According to Spike Milligan
Silly verse for kids and animals
The great McGonagall scrap book
Spike Milligan's The melting pot
Black Beauty according to Spike Milligan
Poems
Spike Milligan Cut-Out
Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler
Ifonly I were bald
The hound of the hound of Baskervilles according to Spike Milligan
Get in the Q annual
Puckoon. Eine irische Dorfgeschichte
Chill air
Milligan's ark
The bedsitting room
Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan (Penguin Modern Authors)
Wolf Tales: Wolves, Witches & Giants
World of Beachcomber (Comedy Club S.)
There's lot of it about!
M25
A book of bits, or
"Rommel
Milligan's War and Peace Memoirs
Frankenstein according to Spike Milligan
Lady Chatterley's lover according to Spike Milligan
Theb edsitting room
Milligan Preserved
D.H.Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane
A Book of Milliganimals
Rommel? Gunner Who? (Abridged - 2 Audio Cassettes)
For Lucy Gates
Esquimau
The Bible According to Spike Milligan
The Goon Again
He's Innocent of Watergate or Dick's Last Stand
Live at Cambridge University (Comedy Club S.)
Mussolini, his part in my downfall
In a jam
Twelve poems that made December colder
Monty His Part in My Victory and Rommel? Gunner Who?
The war memoirs
Monty (War Biography)
Sunday - midnight
The Goon Show Compendium
The bedside Milligan, or, Read yourself to insomnia
Tombstone Humour
A dustbin of Millgan
The Best of Milligan's Wake (Comedy Club S.)
The Bedside Milligan or Read Your Way to Insomnia
Teeth
My mother
Milligan's Meaning of Life
The dancer
Scunthorpe Revisited
Rommel? Gunner Who?
Help I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Tube
Open Heart University
Giant Tales
The Completely Essential Spike Milligan
Box 18:The Unpublished Spike Milligan
A book of bits or a bit of a book
A Collection of Spikes
Help, I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Factory
Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler
Spike Milligan's Peace
Vivat Milligna
Letters
Poems for Toni Savage
Witch Tales
The Goon Shows
Brian Garfield
Brian Garfield (1939-2018)

musician

  • University of Arizona

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The Meinertzhagen Mystery
Hopscotch
Great Stories of the American West
The Paladin
Death wish
The thousand-mile war
The Romanov succession
Recoil
Death sentence
Line of succession
Wild times
Western films
The Crime of My Life
Necessity
Kolchak's gold
What of Terry Conniston?
Manifest destiny
Relentless
19th International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics
Valley of the shadow
Apache Canyon
Checkpoint Charlie
Tripwire
The Vanquished
Deep cover
The hit
Last Hard Men
Thousand-Mile War, The
The Proud Riders
The Villiers touch
Sweeney's Honor
I, Witness
Last Hard Men,the
The Arizonans
The hit and The marksman
The threepersons hunt
Arizona
The lawbringers
Checkpoint Cha
Fear in a Handful of Dust
La Grande Traque
Deep cover
Ten Thousand Mile War
RECOIL (Fawcett Crest Book)
Vultures in the sun
Sweeny's Honor
Complete Guide to Western Films
Oyunun kurallari
A déguster froid
The last bridge
Death wish
Bugle and Spur
Sliphammer
Melchior La Carte
Arizonans,the
Hopscotch
Justice at Spanish Flat
Neumolimyĭ
Smertelʹnoe zhelanie
Der Teufel schiesst schneller
Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah (1958-2023)

actor, poet, singer, dub poet, autobiographer, musician

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Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah: My Story (Collins Big Cat)
Gangsta Rap
Face
Refugee boy
Talking Turkeys
J Is for Jamaica (World Alphabets)
Funky Chickens
Wicked World!
Refugee Boy
Propa propaganda
City psalms
Primary Rhyming Dictionary
Kung Fu Trip
Too black, too strong
Rhyming Dictionary
School's Out
Benjamin Zephaniahs Refugee Boy
Refugee Boy
Teacher's dead
The Little Book of Vegan Poems (Poetry)
Refugee boy
Inna Liverpool
We Are Britain
Liam
Rasta time in Palestine
Love Poems
Verbal Riddim
The dread affair
Terror Kid
Change Your Mind, Heal Your Body
Being Cool
Nature Trail
Refugee Boy
Angry White People
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
Oxon Shell Guide
I'll be home for Christmas
Benjamin Zephaniah
Funky Turkeys
Peace Inside
Literacy Evolve
When I grow up
People Need People
Voices for Change
Siginmaci Cocuk
Rising in the east
Windrush Child
Benjamin Zephaniah : My Story
Rollercoasters Teacher's Dead
Read on; Read on Complete Level 3a 4c
Kung Fu Trip (Quick Reads Edition)
Longman School Drama NEW Titles Pack
Rollercoasters Terror Kid
Reggae Head
Les Trésors de mon jardin
Listen to your parents
We Sang Across the Sea
Off the page
Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay (1843-1899)

politician, sociologist, military engineer, historian, engineer, musician, military personnel

  • Colégio Pedro II, Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras

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Amor ao Brasil
Dous artistas maximos
Augusto Leverger
O Visconde do Rio Branco
Memórias
Memórias
Homens e cousas do imperio
Visconde de Beaurepaire Rohan
Innocencia pelo visconde de Taunay
La retraite de Laguna
Ierecê a Guaná
Campanha do Paraguay
Céos e terras do Brazil
Uma grande gloria brasileira, José Mauricio Nunes Garcia (1767-1830)
O visconde do Rio Branco, gloria do Brasil e da humanidade [por] Visconde de Taunay
Céos e terras do Brazil
Homens e cousas do Império [pelo] Visconde de Taunay
Viagens de outr'ora
Innôcencia
Innocencia
Innocencia
Entre os nossos indios
Diário do exército, 1869-1870
Inocencia,
O grande imperador
Brasileiros e estrangeiros
O Encilhamento
Inocência
La retraite de Laguna
Céus e terras do Brasil
História administrativa e econômica do Brasil
Innocencia pelo visconde de Taunay
A retirada da Laguna
A cidade do ouro e das ruinas
Uma grande gloria brasileira
O encilhamento
Ouro sobre azul
Memórias do visconde de Taunay
No declinio
Retraite de Laguna
Inocência (Edição Ilustrada)
A retirada da Laguna
Pedro II
Diario do exército
O encilhamento
Innocencia
Cartas da campanha
A mocidade de Trajano
Campanha de Matto Grosso
José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, 1767-1830
Diário do exército, 1869-1870
Na Bahia de Dom João VI
A cidade do ouro e das ruinas
Recordações de guerra e de viagem
Amelia Smith
Litteratura e philologia
Reminiscencias
Inocência
Goyaz
Visconde de Taunay
Memórias
Ouro sôbre azul
Paisagens brasileiras
O encilhamento
Ao entardecer
Dous artistas máximos
Historias brazileiras
A retirada da Laguna
Manuscripto de uma mulher
A retirada de Laguna