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Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker (born 1946)

mathematician, computer scientist

  • Swarthmore College, Rutgers University

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Nested scrolls
Year's Best SF 14
Infinity and the mind
The Fourth Dimension
Freeware
Seek!
Software (Ware Tetralogy #1)
Frek and the elixir
Geometry, relativity, and the fourth dimension
The hacker and the ants
Surfing the Gnarl (Outspoken Authors #7)
Mathenauts
Mad Professor
Realware
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
Gnarl!
Mind Tools
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul
Postsingular
Artificial life lab
Wastelands 2
Mathematicians in Love
White light
Wetware
Mondo 2000
As Above, So Below
Jim and the Flims
The Sex Sphere
Spaceland
Semiotext(e) SF
Master of space and time
All the visions ; Space baltic
Saucer wisdom
The secret of life
The ware tetralogy
Software engineering and computer games
The hollow earth
Spacetime Donuts
Hylozoic
Transreal!
Million Mile Road Trip
Transreal Cyberpunk
The Big Aha
57th Franz Kafka
Totem Poles
Rudy Rucker's cellular automata laboratory
Hollow Earth & Return to The Hollow Earth
Return to the Hollow Earth
Loco: A Tor.Com Original
Live robots
Superlative Light
The UFO Show
Good Night, Moon: A Tor.Com Original
Notes for Return to the Hollow Earth
Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel
Where the Lost Things Are
Notes for Juicy Ghosts
Complete Stories (Volume 1)
Complete Stories (Volume 2)
Wikiworld and Other Stories
Notes for The Big Aha
Transreal Trilogy: Secret of Life, White Light, Saucer Wisdom
Heath Math Level 1 Student Text
Billy's Picture Book
Heath Math Level 3 Student Txt
Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory: A Tor.Com Original
Moldies & meatbops: Three *ware novels
Juicy Ghosts
Heath Math Level K Student Text
Heinrich Brinkmann
Heinrich Brinkmann (born 1942)

political scientist

  • University of Münster, University of Giessen

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Und dennoch--
Methode und Geschichte
Moral und Geld
Zur Kritik der Widerspiegelungstheorie
Sinnlichkeit und Abstraktion
Stalin – Theoretiker der Bürokratie
Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft
Wissenschaftstheorie und gesellschaftliche Praxis
Stalin, Theoretiker der Bürokratie
Geschichte und Kritik: Beitr age zu Gesellschaft, Politik und Ideologie in Deutschland. Heinrich Brinkmann zum 60. Geburtstag
Die Ware
Die Ware
Methode und Geschichte
Wanderungsbewegungen und wirtschaftliche Struktur in einigen Gemeinden des Kantons Bern im Jahre 1965
Wissenschaftstheorie + gesellschaftliche Praxis
Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986)

anthropologist, politician, egyptologist, nuclear physicist, historian, linguist, chemist, philosopher, biologist, theorist, astronomer, sociologist, engineer

  • Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris IV

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Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop et la signification de son oeuvre
The cultural unity of Negro Africa
L' antiquité africaine par l'image =
Towards the African Renaissance
L' Afrique noire pré-coloniale
Nouvelles recherches sur l'égyptien ancien et les langues négro-africaines modernes
African origin of civilisation
Nations négres et culture
Les Fondements économiques et culturels d'un état fédéral d'Afrique noire
Civilisation ou barbarie
Alerte sous les tropiques
Le Laboratoire de radiocarbone de l'IFAN
Black Africa - the economic and cultural basis for a federated state
Cheikh Anta Diop
Physique nucléaire et chronoglogie absolue
Les fondements culturels techniques et industriels d'un futur état fédéral d'Afrique noire
Parenté génétique de l'égyptien pharaonique et des langues négro-africaines
The Peopling of Ancient Egypt & the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script
Le Bogolan
Parenté génétique de l'égyptien pharaonique et des langues négro-africaines
L'épopée du Kajoor
Philosophie, science, religion
Antériorité des civilisations nègres
Egypte ancienne et Afrique noire
Mitin̳
Sciences et philosophie
Articles
Lexique scientifique bilingue
Civilization or barbarism An Authentic Anthropolgy
Nations nègres et culture
Philosophie, science, religion
Walter Reese-Schäfer
Walter Reese-Schäfer (born 1951)

political scientist

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Amitai Etzioni zur Einführung
Literarische Rezeption
Richard Rorty
Lyotard zur Einführung
Jürgen Habermas
Politische Theorie heute. Neuere Tendenzen und Entwicklungen
Luhmann zur Einführung
Karl-Otto Apel zur Einführung
Jürgen Habermas
Grenzgötter der Moral
Zur Geschichte der sozialistischen Heine-Rezeption in Deutschland
Kommunitarismus
Wege zur Globalisierung
Was ist Kommunitarismus?
Diagnosen der Moderne
Aristoteles interkulturell gelesen
Identität und Interesse
Jean-François Lyotard
Politische Ethik
Universalismus, Nationalismus und die neue Einheit der Deutschen
Die Intellektuellen und der Weltlauf
Das recht am erlös aus einem pfandverkauf
Modell und Wirklichkeit
Platon interkulturell gelesen
Aristoteles interkulturell gelesen
Raymond Smullyan
Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017)

mathematician, pianist, philosopher, computer scientist, magician, chess composer

  • Princeton University, University of Chicago

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Reflections
Detective stories
Satan, cantor, and infinity
The lady or the tiger? and other logic puzzles
This book needs no title
The chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles
What is the name of this book?
Forever undecided
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
The chess mysteries of the Arabian knights
Who Knows?
The tao is silent
Logical labyrinths
Theory of Formal Systems
First-order logic
Alice in puzzle-land
The Riddle of Scheherazade
Set theory and the continuum problem
A Beginners Guide To Mathematical Logic
5000 B.C. and other philosophical fantasies
Diagonalization and self-reference
Recursion theory for metamathematics
Some Interesting Memories
Ça y est, je suis fou!!
King Arthur in search of his dog and other curious puzzles
Four Lives
A beginner's further guide to mathematical logic
The magic garden of George B
A Spiritual Journey
Mixed Bag
The Gödelian puzzle book
Juegos de Ajedrez y Los Misticos Caballos
In Their Own Words
Rambles Through My Library
The lady or the tiger?
Helmut Reinicke
Helmut Reinicke (1941-2018)

philosopher, social scientist, sociologist

  • University of Marburg, Goethe University Frankfurt

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Rudi Dutschke
Für Krahl
Materie und Revolution
Revolt im bürgerlichen Erbe
Verdammtes Mexiko!
Kryptogramme der Macht
Gaunerwirtschaft
Wilde Kälten 1492
Register
Deutschland hebt ab
Friedrich Engels
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Werke in zwanzig Bänden, Register
Ware und Dialektik
John Tyndall
John Tyndall (1820-1893)

physicist, glaciologist, mountaineer, inventor, philosopher

  • University of Marburg

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Faraday as a discoverer
A record of the scientific work of John Tyndall
Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection
The forms of water in clouds & rivers, ice & glaciers
Lectures on light
Sound
Hours of exercise in the Alps
Fragments of science
New fragments
Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat: A Series of Memoirs Published ..
Heat considered as a mode of motion
Light and Electricity: Notes of Two Courses of Lectures Before the Royal Institution of Great ..
Six Lectures on Light: Delivered in America in 1872-1873
Heat, a mode of motion
Essays on the floating-matter of the air
Light and Electricity: Notes of Two Courses of Lectures Before the Royal ..
The glaciers of the Alps, & Mountaineering in 1861
Sound: A Course of Eight Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews
Researches on diamagnetism and magne-crystallic action
The glaciers of the Alps
Lectures on Light: Delivered in America in 1872-1873
Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat: A Series ..
Scientific use of the imagination and other essays
New Fragments: By John Tyndall, F. R. S
Heat
Address delivered before the British Association assembled at Belfast
Lessons in electricity at the Royal institution, 1875-6
Essays on the Floating Matter of the Air: In Relation to Putrefaction and Infection
On radiation
The Forms of Water in Clouds & Rivers, Ice & Glaciers
The Fee for Exaltation
Fragments of science for unscientific people
Notes of a Course of Seven Lectures on Electrical Phenomena and Theories ..
A Library of Universal Literature
Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion: Being a Course of Twelve Lectures Delivered at the Royal ..
The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers: with thirty-five illus. drawn and ..
Scientific addresses
Select works
The Glaciers of the Alps: Being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents, an ..
Advancement of science
Sound
Mountaineering in 1861
Fragaments of science
The science of sound
Sound: A Course of Eight Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of ..
Heat a mode of motion
Light and electricity
Notes of a course of six lectures (adapted to a juvenile auditory ) on ice, water, vapour, and air
Notes of a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories
Fragments of science for unscientific people: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews
Lectures and essays
Early Mathematics and Physics, books on CD
Fragments of science: a series of detached essays, addresses and reviews
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light delivered at the Royal institution of Great Britain April 8-June 3, 1869
Professor Tyndall on party politics
Faraday As a Discoverer
Fragments Of Science - Vol II
Contributions to molecular physics in the domain of radiant heat
Hours of Exercise in the Alps
Lighthouse illuminants
The forms of water in clouds and rivers
Faraday und seine Entdeckungen
Essays On The Floating Matter Of The Air
Lessons in electricity at the Royal institution
Fragments Of Science - Vol I
John Tyndall, natural philosopher, 1820-1893
Lectures addressed to teachers on preparation for obtaining science certificates and the method of teaching a science class
Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion
Heat. A Mode of Motion
Essays On The Use And Limit Of The Imagination In Science
Six Lectures on Light
Address of John Tyndall
The Forms of Water in Clouds And Rivers, Ice And Glaciers
Fragments of Science a Series of Detached Essays, Addresses and Reviews
On the importance of the study of physics as a branch of education for all classes
Sound
The authoritarian state
On science and man
Count Rumford
Count Rumford, originator of the Royal Institution
New Fragments
Essays on the use and limit of the imagination in science
The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 2
The Glaciers Of The Alps
Sound
On The Study Of Physics
Notes on a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories
Notes on a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena andtheories
Fragments of Science
Lessons in electricity
Lessons In Electricity
The case for economic nationalism
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light
Remarks on an article entitled "Energy" in "Good words"
Further researches on the polarity of diamagnetic force
Remarks on the dynamical theory of heat
Antidote to Morisonianism, or, The Way of life, by the Rev. John Kirk, shewn to be the way of death
On the influence of magnetic force on the electric discharge
Experiments on the vibrations of strings
Eleventh Hour
On the physical basis of solar chemistry
Les glaciers et les transformations de l'eau
On some of the eruptive phenomena of Iceland
Comparative view of the cleavage of crystals and slate rocks
On a new series of chemical reactions produced by light
Programme d'un cours en sept leçons sur les phénomènes et les théories électriques
Hours of exercise in the Alps
Fragments of science for unscientific people
Notes on a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories... Royal Institution... April 28-June 9 1870
Notes of a Course of Nine Lectures on Light Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain April 8-June 3, 1869
Faraday As A Discoverer
Death in the Jordan
The electric light
The Prayer-gauge debate
Contributions to molecular physics in the domain of radiant heat
On the scientific use of the imagination
Der Schall
On radiation
Lectures on light, delivered in the United States in 1872-73
Notes of a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories Tyndall ..
Les microbes
Lessons in elecricity at the Royal Institution, 1875-6
Das Wasser in seinen Formen als Wolken und Flüsse, Eis und Gletscher
On a magnetic experiment
Researches on diamagnetism and magne-crystallic action, including the question of diamagnetic polarity
Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefacation and infection
On some physical properties of ice
Essays on the Floating-Matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and Infection
On the blue colour of the sky, the polarization of skylight, and on the polarization of light by cloudy matter generally
Sound
On radiation through the earth's atmosphere
Miracles and special providences
Death in the Lebanon
The forms of water
Notes on scientific history
A vacation tour in Switerland
Atoms, molecules, and ether waves
Antología de la poesía latinoamericana, 1950-1970
Notes of a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories, delivered at the Royal Institutionof Great Britain, April 28- June 9, 1867
On the structure and motion of glaciers
Scientific addresses
Sound
The forms of water in clouds & rivers, ice & glaciers
The forms of water in clouds [and] rivers, ice [and] glaciers
The beginnings of things, or, Science versus theology
On radiation
Essays on the use and limit of the imagination in science
On the scientific use of the imagination
New fragments
Sound
Lessons in electricity
Sound
The glaciers of the Alps
Le son
Heat considered as a mode of motion
Contributions to molecular physics in the domain of radiant heat
Fragments of science
Essays on the use and limit of the imagination in science
Tyndall, Huxley and Owen
Notes of a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories
Elektrische erscheinungen und theorien
A'erbi de bing he
Address delivered before the British Association assembled at Belfast
Lessons in electricity at the Royal institution, 1875-6
Le son
The culture demanded by modern life
Fermentation and its bearings on the phenomena of disease
La lumière
Hours of exercise in the Alps
Notes of a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories
Six lectures on light delivered in America in 1872-1873
The Prayer-gauge debate
Fragments of science
Heat
Fragments of science : a series of detached essays, addresses, and reviews
Further researches on the deportment and vital persistence of putrefactive and infective organisms from a physical point of view
Heat considered as a mode of motion
Six lectures on light : delivered in America in 1872-1873
Light and electricity
Arupusu no tabi yori
Fragments of science for unscientific people
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light delivered at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, April 8-June 3, 1869
On radiation
Selected works of John Tyndall
Das Licht
Researches on diamagnetism and magne-crystallic action
Lessons in electricity at the Royal Institution, 1875-6
Six lectures on light
Address of John Tyndall, F.R.S.,..., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution, President
Fragments of science for unscientific people
Arupusu kikō
Hours of exercise in the Alps
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light delivered at the Royal institution of Great Britain April 8-June 3, 1869
Heat a mode of motion
Lectures and essays
Fragmente aus den Naturwissenschaften
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light delivered at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, April 8-June 3, 1869
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light delivered at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, April 8-June 3, 1869
On the atmosphere as a vehicle of sound
Essays on the floating matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection
Scientific memoirs, selected from the transactions of foreign academies of science, and from foreign journals
On the scientific use of the imagination
Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss (born 1954)

astronomer, physicist, astrophysicist, theoretical physicist

  • Carleton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Quantum Man
Quantum Man Richard Feynmans Life In Science
1000 Lashes
Quantum Man
A Universe from Nothing
The physics of Star trek
What Are You Optimistic About?
Atom
Beyond Star Trek
Fear of Physics
The Greatest Story Ever Told - So Far
Hiding in the Mirror
Fear of physics
ريتشارد فاينمان
Fear of physics
Quintessence
The greatest story ever told--so far
Baryon number violation at the electroweak scale
Hiding in the mirror
Quintessence
Beyond Star Trek
The fifth essence
Miedo a la Fisica
The fifth essence
The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far
Historia de Un Atomo
La physique de Star trek, ou, Comment visiter l'univers en pyjama
FEAR OF PHYSICS
Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far, The
Atheism
CMB Anisotropies Two Years after Cobe
De wereld van Star Trek
Quantum Man : Richard Feynman's Life in Science
Fear of Physics
Richie Doodles
Known Unknowns
Study Guide
Beyond Star Trek
Ein Universum aus Nichts
Edge of Knowledge
The Physics of Climate Change
War on Science
Şimdiye Kadar Anlatılmış En İyi Hikaye
Kuantum Adam
"Nehmen wir an, die Kuh ist eine Kugel .̤"
Quintessence