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Angela Davis
Angela Davis (born 1944)

human rights activist, philosopher, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, political prisoner, feminist, professor

  • University of California, San Diego, Humboldt University of Berlin

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Angela Davis--an autobiography
A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass
Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia
Women, culture & politics
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
We the Resistance
If They Come in the Morning
Abolition democracy
Disability Incarcerated Imprisonment And Disability In The United States And Canada
The Angela Y. Davis reader
Abolition. Feminism. Now
Mujeres, Raza Y Clase (Cuestiones De Antagonismo)
Cinde'Reader
The meaning of freedom
Art on the Frontline
The Prison Industrial Complex
Great Refusal
Una historia de la conciencia
Prinsetta
Materialien zur Rassenjustiz
Decolonial Ecology
Violence against women and the ongoing challenge to racism
Radical Thinkers
Lectures on liberation
Against Police Violence: Writers of Conscience Speak Out
Black Power Mixtape
Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
La revolució avui / Revolution today
Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah
Prisons and American History
This Believer's Truth
Abolition
Beyond the frame
The Meaning of Freedom And Other Difficult Dialogs
Angela Davis speaks
What If I Am A Woman? - Volume Two
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962)

politician, police officer

  • Bundesrealgymnasium Linz Fadingerstraße

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Das Eichmann-Protokoll
Ich, Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmanns Erzaehlungen in Argentinien
6,000,000 accusers; Israel's case against Eichmann
ha-Yoʻets ha-mishpaṭi la-memshalah neged Adolf Aikhman
The trial of Adolf Eichmann
ha- Yoʻets ha-mishpaṭi neged Adolf Aikhman
Eichmann par Eichmann
Protokoly Ėĭkhmana
Transcript of the trial in the case of the attorney-general of the government ofIsrael v. Adolf
ha- Shoʼah ṿeha-mishpaṭ
ha-Shoʾah ṿeha-mishpaṭ
Processo Eichmann
היועץ המשפטי לממשלה נגד אדולף אייכמן
Der Prozess von Jerusalem
Günter Bartsch
Günter Bartsch (1927-2006)

journalist, opinion journalist, trade unionist, union member, politician

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Zwischen drei Stühlen
Silvio Gesell
Anarchismus in Deutschland
Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit
Anarchismus in Deutschland
Trotzkismus als eigentlicher Sowjetkommunismus?
Revolution von rechts?
Totalitärer, marxistischer oder demokratischer Sozialismus?
Die NWO-Bewegung Silvio Gesells
Wende in Osteuropa?
Anarchismus in Deutschland
Kommunismus, Sozialismus, Anarchismus
Stirners Anti-Philosophie ; &, Die revolutionären Fisiokraten : zwei Essays
Frauenmond
Wende in Osteuropa?
Terrorismus
Milovan Djilas
Vom Kronstadt--zum Achbergerlebnis
Die letzten Jahre Artur Mahrauns, 1945 bis 1950 und die Folgen
Deutsches Rechtsbuch
Yukio Ozaki
Yukio Ozaki (1858-1954)

politician, journalist

  • University of Tokyo, Keio University

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Gakudō kaikoroku
Kindai kaiketsuroku
Kaiko manroku
Japan at the cross-roads
Waga yuigon
Seiji-dokuhon
Ozaki Yukio-shi daienzetsushū
Gakudō mandan
Rikkenkoku seinen danjo no kokoroe
Haisen no hansei
Minken tōsō shichijūnen
Ozaki Gakudō zenshū
Kokka kakushin an
Ginkō kokuei ron
Kokka kakushinʼan
Fusen-dokuhon
Sotsuō yawa
Rikken kinnōron
Zuisōroku
Fūunkaku kanwa
Nihon kenseishi o kataru
Leonid Leonov
Leonid Leonov (1899-1994)

playwright, journalist, politician, poet

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Dela i dumy
Russkiĭ les
Soviet river
Barsuki
Teatr
Skutarevskiĭ
Sotʹ
Literatura i vremi͡a︡
Russkiĭ les
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Vzi︠a︡tie Velikoshumska
Chariot of wrath
Literaturnye vystuplenii͡a︡
Slovo o Gorʹkom
Vzi︠a︡tie Velikoshumska ; Povesti i pʹesy
Slovo o Tolstom
Viziatie Velikoshumska
Piramida
Radi zhizni na Zemle
Der Selbstmörder
Publit︠s︡istika
La Fin d'un petit homme
Lënushka
The Russian forest
Saranchuki
O prirode nachistotu
Evgenia Ivanovna
Evgenia Ivanovna
Ba-ganim
Begstvo mistera Mak-Kinli
Plays
Sobranie sochineniĭ v desi͡a︡ti tomakh
Weg zum Ozean
Droga na ocean
Petushikhinskiĭ prolom
Fin d'un petit homme
Lënushka
Kasař
Zolotai͡a︡ kareta
Vzi︠a︡tie Velikoshumska
Vzi︠a︡tie Velikoshumska
Polovchanskie sady
Sobranie sochineniĭ v shesti tomakh
Saranchuki
Volk
Gibelʹ Egorushki
The thief
Suote
River
Qin lue
Russkiĭ les, roman
Rannie rasskazy
V gody voĭny i posle
Izbrannoe
Begstvo mistera Mark-Kinli
Publit͡s︡istika ; Fragmenty iz romana
Russkii les
Ranni︠a︡i︠a︡ proza
[Barsuki]
Der Dieb
Pʹesy
The thief
Povesti i rasskazy
Sotʹ
The Badgers
Sarancha
Doroga na okean
Ranni͡ai͡a proza
Evgenīa Ivanovna
Izbrannoe
Vor
Tuatamur
Sarancha
Doroga na okean
Teatr
Publit︠s︡istika
[Barsuki]
Begstvo mistera Mak-Kinli
Professor Skutarewski
Russikii les
Russky les
Rannie rasskazy
Evgenia Ivanova
Gibelʹ Egorushki
Skutarevskiĭ
Vor
Putʹ k pobede
Ranni͡ai͡a proza
Erzählungen
Derevi︠a︡nnai︠a︡ koroleva
Doroga na okean
Sotʹ
Barsuki
Petushikhinskiĭ prolom
Povesti
Nashestvie
Proza, p'esy, stat'i, rechi
Reminiscences of Lev Tolstoi by his contemporaries
Road to the ocean
Vor
Povesti i rasskazy
Russkiĭ les
Aufbau
Luigi Settembrini
Luigi Settembrini (1813-1876)

professor, politician, jurist, literary historian

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Ricordanze della mia vita
Protesta del popolo delle due Sicilie
Lettere edite e inedite, 1860-1876
Lezioni di letteratura italiana dettate nell\'Università di Napoli
1951-2001
Made in Italy, 1951-2001
Lezioni di letteratura italiana
Lezioni di letteratura italiana, dettate nell'Università di Napoli
Lettere ad Adelaide Capece Minutolo e a Raffaele Masi
Opuscoli politici editi e inediti (1847-1851) A cura di Mario Themelly
I neoplatonici
Lezioni de litteratura italiana
Lezioni de litteratura italiana
Lettere dall'ergastolo, a cura di Mario Themelly
Opere scelte
Scritti vari di letteratura
Epistolario
Luigi Settembrini
Il palazzo Como
Le più belle pagine di Luigi Settembrini
Lezioni de litteratura italiana
Lezioni de litteratura italiana
Bipin Chandra Pal
Bipin Chandra Pal (1858-1932)

head teacher, politician, freedom fighter

  • Hindu School, Presidency University

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Memories of my life and times
Sattara bat̲asara
Saint Bijayakrishna Goswami
Indian nationalism
Svargīẏa Aśvinīkumāra Datta
Character sketches
Indian nationalism; its principles and personalities
Bengal Vaishnavism
Beginnings of freedom movement in modern India
Sir Ashutosh Mookherjea, a character study
The soul of India
An introduction to the study of Hinduism
Swadeshi & Swaraj, the rise of new patriotism
Mrs. Annie Besant; a psychological study
Nationality and Empire
Europe asks
Writings and speeches [by] Bipinchandra Pal
Nabayugera Bāṃlā
The Brahmo Samaj and the battle for swaraj in India
Swaraj, the goal & the way
Mārkiṇe cārimāsa
Sattara bat̲sara
Speeches of Bepin Chandra Pal, delivered at Madras
The soul of India
Speeches of Bepin Chandra Pal, delivered at Madras
Baṅkima cintā
The new economic menace to India
Memories of my life and times
Studies in the Bengal renaissance
A short account of the life of Raja Ram Mohun Roy
Swadeshi & swaraj
Nirbācita prabandha
Nationality and empire
The soul of India
James Percy FitzPatrick
James Percy FitzPatrick (1862-1931)

businessperson, politician, editor

  • Downside School

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Jock of the bushveld
South African memories
The Transvaal from within
Fitzpatrick
The origin, causes and object of the War
The outspan; tales of South Africa
The outspan
The origin, causes and object of the war
Through Mashonaland with pick and pen
Much fallacy, more fiction and a little fact according to Mr. Fitzpatrick
Lord Milner and his work: an appreciation
Gʾoḳ min ha-Bush
The origin, causes and object of the war
Jock of the bushveld
Taxation and the Transvaal
Taxation and war debt in the Transvaal
Some notes on the Transvaal question