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Antonia Grunenberg
Antonia Grunenberg (born 1944)

political scientist

  • University of Tübingen, Goethe University Frankfurt

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Hannah Arendt und Martin Heidegger
Bürger und Revolutionär
Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger
Hannah Arendt.
Totalitäre Herrschaft und republikanische Demokratie
Antifaschismus, ein deutscher Mythos
Perspektiven politischen Denkens
Die Lust an der Schuld
Einschnitte
Aufbruch der inneren Mauer
Der Schlaf der Freiheit
Raum der Freiheit
Einspr uche: Politik und Sozialstaat im 20. Jahrhundert. Festschrift f ur Gerhard Kraiker
Die Massenstreikdebatte
Christine Schlegel
Welche Geschichte wählen wir?
Manning Marable
Manning Marable (1950-2011)

anthropologist, political scientist, historian, sociologist

  • University of Maryland, Earlham College

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W.E.B. DuBois, Black radical democrat
Malcolm X
Black Leadership
The Portable Malcolm X Reader
The Autobiography Of Medgar Evers
W.E.B
Beyond Black and White
Race, reform and rebellion
Black American Politics
How capitalism underdeveloped Black America
Freedom
From the grassroots
Speaking truth to power
Freedom on my mind
The Crisis of Color and Democracy
Black liberation in conservative America
African-American thought
Beyond Boundaries
Let Nobody Turn Us Around
Souls of W. E. B. du Bois
The great wells of democracy
African and Caribbean politics
Barack Obama and African American empowerment
Seeking higher ground
Beyond Race
African-American thought
Blackwater
The new Black renaissance
Race, Politics and Power
Living Black history
Race matters in the new labor movement
Transnational Blackness Navigating The Global Color Line
The New Black Renaissance
Beyond Black and White
Black politics in transition
Black routes to Islam
Reaction
New social movements in the African diaspora
Black Genders and Sexualities Critical Black Studies
Black America
Black America
What Black America Thinks
Dispatches from the ebony tower
Rethinking the seventies
On being black
Souls
Race and Labor Matters in the New U.S. Economy
Souls
Speaking Truth To Power
Speaking Power to Truth
Black Leadership
Great Wells of Democracy
Souls, Volume II, No. 3
Souls Vol. 1, Bk. 4
Barack Obama and African American Empowerment
Souls
The road toward effective Black power
Race, difference, and the historical imagination
Living Black History
Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives
Race and Class 39/4: Black Fundamentalism
Souls Vol. 3
Black Routes to Islam
From the Grassroots
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower
Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives
New Black Renaissance
Racializing justice, disenfranchising lives
Souls Vol. 1, No. 2
The destruction of black higher education
The fire this time
Toward independent Black politics
Reaganism, racism, and reaction
Through the prism of race and class
The question of genocide
Obama and African American empowerment macmillan
Race, class and conflict
Barry Gustafson
Barry Gustafson (born 1938)

historian, academic, political scientist

  • University of Glasgow, University of Auckland

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Kiwi Keith
From the cradle to the grave
His Way
Michael Joseph Savage
Labour's path to political independence
The first 50 years
Social change and party organization
Social Change and Party Reorganization (Sage professional papers in contemporary political sociology ; ser. no. 06-013)
"If you ever need a friend, you have one"
Birgit Seemann
Birgit Seemann (born 1960)

social scientist, political scientist

  • Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

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Hedwig Landauer-Lachmann
Jeanette Wolff. Politkerin und engagierte Demokratin ( 1888 - 1976)
Ein „feather weight champion Cassius Clay“
Feministische Staatstheorie
Madeleine Grawitz
Madeleine Grawitz (1911-2008)

sociologist, political scientist, jurist

  • Faculté de droit d'Aix-en-Provence

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Bakounine
Méthodes des sciences sociales
Lexique des sciences sociales
Traité de science politique
Traité de science politique
Lexique des sciences sociales, 7e éditionb
Gianfranco Ragona
Gianfranco Ragona (born 1970)

political scientist

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Gustav Landauer
Gustav Landauer
Maximilien Rubel (1905-1996)
Frontier Socialism
Anarchismo
Edward Waldo Emerson
Edward Waldo Emerson (1844-1930)

physician, physicist

  • Harvard Medical School, Harvard University

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Emerson in Concord
Life and letters of Charles Russell Lowell
The early years of the Saturday Club, 1855-1870
Henry Thoreau as remembered by a young friend
Henry Thoreau, as remembered by a young friend, Edward Waldo Emerson
Charles Eliot Norton
Life and letters of Charles Russell Lowell, captain Sixth United States Cavalry, colonel Second Massachusetts Cavalry, brigadier-general United States Volunteers
The Early Years of the Saturday Club 1855 to 1870
The winning game
Henry Thoreau
A Correspondence Between John Sterling And Ralph Waldo Emerson
A History of the gift of painless surgery
The Early Years Of The Saturday Club
Emerson in Concords
Address on Oliver Wendell Holmes, April 27, 1909
Letters to Edwin B. Hill
The man as doctor
Emerson in Concord
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, addresses and poems of Edward Waldo Emerson
Emerson in Concord
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, economist, philosopher, engineer, astronomer

  • University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge

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The works of Charles Babbage
The economy of machinery and manufactures
Charles Babbage
Passages from the life of a philisopher
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
The exposition of 1851
Decline of Science in England
Testt
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108000
Observations on the temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples
Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions
A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives
Examples of the solutions of functional equations
The analytical engine and mechanical notation
Ninth Bridgwater Treatise Fragment
Abstract of a paper entitled Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli
Science and reform
Memoirs of the Analytical Society
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 9
Demonstration of a theorem relating to prime numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 3
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 5
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 10
Abstract of a Paper entitled. Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli
The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England
Examples of the Solutions of Functional Equations
The history of science and technology
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 1
Geometry and Faith: A Fragmentary Supplement to the Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 2
How to invent machinery
A letter to sir Humphry Davy, Bart. president of the Royal Society, etc. etc. on the application of machinery to the purpose of calculating and printing mathematical tables
Observations on the measurement of heights by the barometer
On the theoretical principles of the machinery for calculating tables
Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings
On the advantage of a collection of numbers, to be entitled the constants of nature and of art
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
On machinery for calculating and printing mathematical tables
Babbage's occulting telegraph
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 8
Report of the Committee, appointed by the Council of the Royal Society, to consider the subject refferd to in Mr. Stewart' Letter, relative to Mr. Babbage's Calculating machine, and to report thereupon / [I.T.W. Herschel]
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England
Memoir of the life and labours of Charles Babbage ..
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 11
An examination of some questions connected with games of chance. By Charles Babbage ..
On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings
Examples of the Solutions of Functional Equations
Preussens Deutsche Politik und Ihre Gegner
On the application of analysis to the discovery of local theorems and porisms. By Charles Babbage ..
Works of Charles Babbage
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 6
Babbage's Calculating Engines
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
The Exposition of Eighteen Fifty-One
Tables of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000
The difference engine and table making
Exposition Of 1851
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 4
On the advantage of a collection of numbers, to be entitled the constants of nature and art / by Charles Babbage
A chapter on street nuisances
Mathematical papers
An examination of some questions connected with games of chance
La macchina analitica
Ninth Bridgwater Treatise Fragment
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. a Fragment
Observations on the analogy which subsists between the calculus of functions and other branches of analysis. By Charles Babbage ..
Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli Near Naples; With an Attempt to Explain the Causes of the Frequent Elevation and Depression of Large ... Prove That Those Causes Continue in Action at
Laws of mechanical notation (for consideration) / [C. Babbage]
Scientific and miscellaneous papers
Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation. By C. Babbage ... and J. F. W. Herschel ..
The Exposition of 1851
Table of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000
Table of Logarithms of the Natural Numbers
Barometrical observations made at the fall of the Staubbach
Minutes of the Council of the Royal Society relating to the report of the Committee on Mr. Babbage's Calculating machine. February 12, 1829
On currency, on a new system of manufacturing, andon the effet of machinery on human labour
Observations on the discovery in various localities of the remains of human art
Specimen of logarithmic tables printed with different coloured inks on variously coloured papers
Essay on General Principles Which Regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures
A letter to T.P. Courtenay, on the proportionate number of births of the two sexes under different circumstances
Table of the Logarithms of the Natural Numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 7
Scientific and miscellaneous papers II
Thoughts on the principles of taxation
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
Of the constants of nature
A chapter on street nuisances
Charles Babbage on the principles and development of the calculator
Table of logarithms of the natural numbers
The Exposition of 1851
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
On the influence of signs in mathematical reasoning
An analysis of the statistics of the Clearing House during the year 1839
Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions
Observations addressed at the last anniversary, to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society, after the delivery of the medals
Scientific and miscellaneous papers I.
A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
The Exposition of 1851, or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England
The Exposition of 1851, or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England