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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969)

politician, activist, journalist, scientist

  • Leiden University

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Infidel
Nomad
Mijn vrijheid
Mō fukujū shinai
כופרת
The Caged Virgin
Heretic
Yo Acuso / I Accuse
De zoontjesfabriek
Ayaan verzameld
Nomad
Ich klage an
Ma vie rebelle
De maagdenkooi
Insoumise
Nomade
Reformemos el Islam
Adan & Eva
Ayaan
Reformiert euch!
Mein Leben, meine Freiheit
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

journalist, essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, political scientist

  • University of Oxford, The Leys School

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The Missionary Position
Thomas Jefferson
The trial of Henry Kissinger
Hitch-22
Mortality
Hitch-22
Hitch-22
Thomas Jefferson Author Of America
God Is Not Great
No one left to lie to
Arguably
Unacknowledged legislation
A Long Short War
The Elgin Marbles
For the Sake of Argument
Love, Poverty, and Wer
Imperial spoils
Why Orwell matters
Letters to a young contrarian
Prepared for the worst
The Quotable Hitchens
Thomas Paine's Rights of man
Blood, class and nostalgia
Is Christianity good for the world?
Arguably
Love, poverty, and war
The Portable Atheist
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (Books That Changed the World)
The Parthenon marbles
Blood, class, and empire
Hostage to History
The portable atheist
"Vanity Fair's" Hollywood
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring)
Prepared for the worst
The monarchy
THOMAS PAINE'S RIGHTS OF MAN: A BIOGRAPHY
Cyprus
The General
Orwell's victory
The Best American Essays 2010
The monarchy
Ta Elgíneia mármara
Left Hooks, Right Crosses
Mortality
The Three Hostages
Regime change
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Letters to a Young...)
The Elgin marbles
Widerwort. Eine Verteidigung der kritischen Vernunft
Inequalities in Zimbabwe
Blood, class, and nostalgia
Lettres à un jeune rebelle
Inequalities in Zimbabwe
Juicio a Kissinger
GOD IS NOT GREAT: THE CASE AGAINST RELIGION
Safe Area Gorazde
Les crimes de Monsieur Kissinger
American Presidents Eminent Lives Boxed Set
Dieu n'est pas grand
Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé (born 1954)

historian, political scientist

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Oxford

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The rise and fall of a Palestinian dynasty
Out of the frame
Atsulat ha-arets
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
The forgotten Palestinians
The Idea Of Israel A History Of Power And Knowledge
The Biggest Prison on Earth
The making of the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1947-51
On Palestine
Ten myths about Israel
The Israel/Palestine question
A History of Modern Palestine
The modern Middle East
Britain and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948-51
Gaza in crisis
The modern Middle East
Across the wall
Profil shel sakinai
The Israel/Palestine Question
Israel
New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine
Le Champ du Possible
Middle Eastern politics and ideas
Les Démons de la Nakbah
Gaza
Historical Dictionary of Palestine
Our Vision of Liberation
Israel
Peoples Apart
Politics of History in Israel
The Modern Middle East, Second Edition
Middle East and South Asia 2023-2024
La propagande d'israel
Qaṣr al-awānī al-muhashshamah
Palestine in a World on Fire
Researching the Middle East
ʻArvim ṿi-Yehudim bi-teḳufat ha-Mandaṭ
Middle East and South Asia 2022-2023
Ṣūhyūnīyah jadīdah naffāthah
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Human rights and the forgotten histories of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict
Robert Paxton
Robert Paxton (born 1932)

historian, political scientist

  • Harvard University, University of Oxford

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Le temps des chemises vertes
French peasant fascism
Vichy France
Parades and politics at Vichy
The Anatomy of Fascism (Allen Lane History)
De Gaulle and the United States
Europe in the twentieth century
Vichy France: old guard and new order, 1940-1944
Collaboration and Resistance
Armee de Vichy
La France de Vichy 1940-1944
Europe in the twentieth century
De Gaulle and the United States
La France De Vichy
Parades and politics at Vichy
Parades and politics at Vichy
Anatomia Del Fascismo (Atalaya)
Archives de la vie littéraire sous l'occupation
Europe in the Twentieth Century, 2005 Update
Europe in the 20th Century
La France de Vichy, 1940-1944
Le fascisme en action (French Edition)
Fasizmin Anatomisi
Europe in the twentieth century
James Lovelock
James Lovelock (1919-2022)

biologist, chemist, mythographer, ecologist, environmentalist, biochemist, futurist, independent scientist, autobiographer, scientist

  • University of Manchester, Strand School

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Homage to Gaia
Homage to Gaia
Gaia
The vanishing face of gaia
The Revenge of Gaia
The ages of Gaia
Healing Gaia
A Rough Ride To The Future
Novacene
Gaia, the practical science of planetary medicine
Tracers in the Ocean
Caving
A caving manual
Revenge of Gaia
The evolving Gaia theory
ATMOSPHERIC HOMEOSTASIS BY AND FOR THE BIOSPHERE
Welkom in het Novaceen
Homenaje a Gaia
HANDS UP FOR THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS
Future
James Lovelock et Al. the Earth and I
James Lovelock et Al. la Terre et Moi
La venjança de la Terra
THE GREAT EXTINCTION
Life and death underground
Les âges de Gaïa
Climbing
Great Extinction
Rough Ride to the Future
THE GREAT EXTINCTION WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS AND DEVASTATED THE EARTH
Gaia : a New Look at Life on Earth
La venganza de la Tierra
Earthdance
Homage To Gaia - The Life Of An Independant Scientist
Der wissende Kosmos. Die Entdeckung eines neuen Weltbildes
AS/a Level Music - Rock and Pop, Musical Theatre and Jazz
We Belong to Gaia
Brian May
Brian May (born 1947)

guitarist, astrophysicist, singer, composer, pianist, television presenter, record producer, actor, physicist, research fellow, YouTuber, lyricist

  • Imperial College London, University of London

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Queen in 3-D
Crinoline
Diableries
The Poor Man's Picture Gallery
A Village Lost And Found
The modernist as pragmatist
Understanding Russia
How to Make the Most of Your Tractor
Extravagant postcolonialism
Bang!
Guitar Styles
Indonesian Tragedy
Interactive Japanese Bk. 1
"Queen"
Adam Ulam
Adam Ulam (1922-2000)

historian of Modern Age, historian, political scientist

  • Harvard University, Brown University

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Stalin; the man and his era
Stalin
In the name of the people
Prophets and conspirators in prerevolutionary Russia
Expansion and coexistence
The unfinished revolution
The Bolsheviks
The fall of the American university
The Kirov affair
Dangerous relations
The Russian political system
Understanding the Cold War
The rivals
Philosophical foundations of English socialism
The rivals
Ideologies and illusions
Titoism and the Cominform
The rivals: America and Russia since World War II
The communists
A history of Soviet Russia
Staline
The new face of Soviet totalitarianism
Les Bolcheviks
International negotiation
Die Bolschewiki
Expansion and coexistence ; the history of Soviet foreign policy, 1917-67 [by] Adam B. Ulman
Russia's failed revolutions
Expansion and coexistence: Soviet foreign policy, 1917-73
Lenin and the Bolsheviks
The unfinished revolution
The rivals
Leopold Infeld
Leopold Infeld (1898-1968)

physicist, journalist

  • Jagiellonian University, Frederick William University Berlin

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Whom the gods love
Albert Einstein, his work and its influence on our world
Quest
Szkice z przeszłości
Why I left Canada
L' évolution des idées en physique.
The evolution of physics
The Evolution of Physics From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
The Evolution Of Physics, The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
The Evolution of Physics from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
Ewolucja fizyki
The fourth dimension and relativity ..
Evolution of Physics
Fizigin Evrimi
The Evolution of Physics
Moje wspomnienia o Einsteinie
Atomic energy and world government
The world in modern science
On the theory of Brownian motion
Albert Einstein
Motion and relativity
The equations of motion in electrodynamics
Wybrańcy bogow
Quest
A evolução de um cientista
The world in modern science, matter and quanta
Whom the gods love