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Gustav Landauer
Gustav Landauer (1870-1919)

politician, translator, journalist, editor, philosopher, bookseller, publisher, playwright, theatre critic, editing staff, dramaturge

  • Bismarck-Gymnasium Karlsruhe, Heidelberg University

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Die Botschaft der Titanic
Briefe und Tagebücher 1884–1900
Auch die Vergangenheit ist Zukunft
Staat und Geist
Die Revolution
Revolution and Other Writings
Friedrich Hölderlin in seinen Gedichten
Skepsis und Mystik
Aufruf zum Sozialismus
Signatur
Der Todesprediger
Arnold Himmelheber
Gustav Landauer und die Revolutionszeit 1918–1919
Rechenschaft
Zwang und Befreiung
Zeit und Geist
Literatur
La comunità anarchia
Briefwechsel 1890–1919
Beginnen
Shakespeare
Antipolitik
Philosophie und Judentum
Briefe aus der Französischen Revolution 2
Anarchisten gegen den Krieg
„Sei tapfer und wachse dich aus.“
Erkenntnis und Befreiung
Antipolitik
Briefe aus der Französischen Revolution 1
Literatur
Esilio e anarchia
Wenige besitzen die Erde…
Abschaffung des Krieges
Wortartist
Briefe an Clara Tannhauser
Nation, Krieg und Revolution
Briefe aus der französischen revolution
Entstaatlichung
Gustav Landauer
Gustav Landauer Werkausgabe
Der werdende Mensch
Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Individuums
Werkausgabe
Ein Weg zur Befreiung der Arbeiter-Klasse
Internationalismus
Anarchismus
Macht und Mächte
Dichter, Ketzer, Aussenseiter
Gesammelte Schriften Esays Und Reden Zu Literatur, Philosophie, Judentum (Gustav Landauer Werkausgabe)
Ein Weg deutschen Geistes
Briefe Aus der Französischen Revolution
Briefe 1899-1919
Call to Socialism
Internationalismus
Entstaatlichung
Der werdende Mensch
Gesammelte Gedichte
Anarchismus
Di reṿolutsye
Aufruf zum Sozialismus
Een weg tot bevrijding der arbeidersklasse
Die Abschaffung des Kriegs durch die Selbstbestimmung des Volks
Ḳeriʾah le-sotsyalizm
Social democracy in Germany
Ketavim u-mikhtavim
Ketavim u-mikhtavim
Skepsis und Mystik
Oyfruf tsum Sotsyalizm
Bruce Fairchild Barton
Bruce Fairchild Barton (1886-1967)

politician, essayist, entrepreneur, legislator, philanthropist

  • Amherst College

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The Man Nobody Knows
The Man Nobody Knows
A young man's Jesus
The Book nobody knows
The Man Nobody Knows
What can a man believe?
What Can a Man Believe?
The Making Of George Groton
A Young Man's Jesus
The woman who came at night
On The Up And Up
A parade of the states
The One Year Book of Daily Prayer
Marigraph
More power to you
It's a good old world, being a collection of little essays on various subjects of human interest
More Power to You
The Book that nobody knows
He upset the world
The Man and the Book nobody knows
It's a good old world, being a collection of little essays on various subjects of human interest
When your father dies
The Man of Galilee
Calvin Coolidge
The Man Nobody Knows: a Discovery of the Real Jesus
Life Application Study Bible - Gospel of John (New Living Translation)
I am New York and this is my creed
When Your Father Dies
The book nobody knows
Silver lining and common sense
It's a good old world
Better days
When is a boy too old to go to church?
A personal letter to the Kaiser
On the up and up
الرجل الذي لا يعرفه احد
A path through stone
John McCain
John McCain (1936-2018)

politician, naval officer, autobiographer, fighter pilot, aircraft pilot, television presenter

  • United States Naval Academy, National War College

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Faith of my fathers
Worth the fighting for
Last letters home
Hard call
The restless wave
Thirteen soldiers
The restless wave
Hard call
Hard Call
Thirteen soldiers
Last letters home
Hard call
The restless wave
Why courage matters
Obama Vs Mccain Voting Records Of Barack Obama John Mccain For The 109th And 110th Congress
Character is destiny
Forging a military youth corps
Why courage matters
Deterrence in decay
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917-2008)

politician, diplomat, journalist

  • Trinity College Dublin, Sandford Park School

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Memoir
Camus
The great melody
First in Peace
Great Melody
First in peace
Edmund Burke
First in peace
Great Melody
Parnell and his party, 1880-90
Camus
The Siege
The long affair
God land
Ancestral voices
On the Eve of the Millenium
States of Ireland
On the eve of the millennium
Maria Cross
To Katanga and back
The long affair
God Land
Passion and cunning and other essays
The suspecting glance
Edmund Burke
The United Nations
Passion and Cunning
Conor
Murderous angels
To Katanga and back, a U.N. case history
Power & consciousness
Neighbours
Concise History of Ireland
Edmund Burke
Power & consciousness
Power and consciousness
Herod, reflections on political violence
To Katanga and Back
The press and the world
Reflections on the revolution in France
Religion and politics
Long Affair Thomas Jefferson and the Frenc
Address to the Friends of the Union
Freedom and censorship
Writers and politics
Writers and politics
States of Ireland
No Royalty A/C Writers and Politics
Herod
On the Eve of the Millenium
Genio y Pasión y Otros Ensayos
Passion and cunning
Murderous angels;
An epic of the '30's: Graham Greene
The Irish factor in Anglo-American relations
The shaping of modern Ireland
Parnell and his Party
Maria Cross
God Land
French Revolution
What rights should minorities have?
The Northern connection in Irish-British relations
Writers and politics
Parnell and his Party, 1880-1890
Gli Irlandesi negli Satai Uniti e il problema della divisione dell'Irlanda
Address to the annual conference of the United Kingdom Unionists Party
Passion and Cunning
L' unité de l'Irlande et les Irlandais d'Amérique
States of Ireland
First in Peace
Why did the Irish want home rule?
Writers And Politics
Uh?
Suspecting Glance
Writers and Politics
States of Ireland
Conflicting concepts of the United Nations
States of Ireland
The shaping of modern Ireland
Murderous angels
Parnell and his party, 1880-90
To Katanga and back
Maria Cross
Parnell and his party, 1880-90
Henri Alleg
Henri Alleg (1921-2013)

politician, journalist, human rights activist

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La question
Memoire algerienne
Le siècle du dragon
L' U.R.S.S. et les juifs
Requiem pour l'oncle Sam
Retour sur la "Question"
Etoile rouge et croissant vert
La guerre d'Algerie
Le grand bond en arrière
S.O.S. America!
Les Problèmes du Tiers-monde
La question, suivi de Une victoire, par Jean-Paul Sartre
A Tortura
Prisonniers de guerre
La tortura
Qiĭnoq va sŭroq
Victorieuse Cuba
Buyuk Geri Sicrama
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)

suffragette, politician, women's rights activist, human rights activist

  • École Normale Supérieure

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My Own Story
The suffragettes
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
Little People, Big Dreams Series 1 & 2
Verbatim report of Mrs. Pankhurst's speech, delivered Nov. 13, 1913 at Parsons' Theatre, Hartford, Conn
Suffragette
Speech of Emmeline Pankhurst, Columbia Theatre, Washington, D.C., Sunday, November 23, 1913
Suffrage speeches from the dock
Verbatim report of Mrs. Pankhurst's speech
The trial of the suffragette leaders
Frédéric Mitterrand
Frédéric Mitterrand (1947-2024)

film director, film producer, politician, film actor, radio personality, film critic, television producer

  • Paris Nanterre University, Sciences Po

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La mauvaise vie
Le désir et la chance
The bad life
Monte Carlo
Mémoires d'exil
Destins d'étoiles, tome 4
Les aigles foudroyés
Vidal Sassoon
Une saison tunisienne
Phan Bội Châu
Phan Bội Châu (1867-1940)

historian, poet, politician

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Overturned chariot
Tự phê phán
Ngục trung thư
Phan Bội Châu niên biẻ̂u
Cao-đả̆ng quó̂c-dân
Trung Quang tâm sử
Phan Bội Châu, về một số vấn đề văn hóa-xã hội-chính trị
Khỏ̂ng-học-đăng =
Thiên hò̂! Đé̂ hò̂! (Trời ơi! Chúa ơi!)
Hậu Trà̂n dật sử
Thơ, phú, câu đó̂i chữ Hán
Chủng diệt dự ngôn
Trùng quang tâm sử
Những tác phả̂m của Phan Bội Châu
Việt-Nam vong quõc sử
Thơ văn Phan Bội Châu
Truyện và ký
Phan Bội Châu toàn tập
Thơ văn Phan Bội Châu thời kỳ ở Hué̂, 1926-1940
Tân Việt Nam