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Edward O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021)

entomologist, sociobiologist, ethologist, autobiographer, naturalist, evolutionary biologist, biologist, zoologist, ecologist, myrmecologist

  • Harvard University, University of Alabama

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Naturalist
Why we are here
E. O. Wilson
Naturalist
Letters to a Young Scientist
Letters to a young scientist - 1. ed.
Kingdom of Ants
The Diversity of Life
On human nature
On Human Nature
The Biophilia Hypothesis
The Meaning of Human Existence
The Creation
Sociobiology
Half-Earth
In search of nature
Consilience
The Future of Life
A primer of population biology
The insect societies
The Leafcutter Ants
Nature revealed
Biophilia
The Social Conquest of Earth
Pheidole in the new world
On human nature
Genetics Of Original Sin The Impact Of Natural Selection On The Future Of Humanity
Biophilia
Consilience
The Creation
Ecology, evolution and population biology
The high frontier
Success and dominance in ecosystems
Genesis
The social conqeust of earth
The Insect Societies
Life on earth
Naturalist
Organization of insect societies
Poetic species
Biological Diversity
Anthill
The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2001
The ants
Consilience
A window on eternity
The origins of creativity
Anthill
Tales from the Ant World
Biodiversity
Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition
Biodiversity II
The Diversity of Life, Special Edition (Questions of Science)
Letters to a young scientist
Darwin's Bridge
Primer of Population Biology
Die Einheit des Wissens
Lessons from Amazonia
Life on earth
The ants
The new atlas of planet management
Darwins Würfel
Promethean fire
Des Lebens ganze Fülle. Eine Liebeserklärung an die Wunder der Welt
Nature of Nature
Biodiversity II
<i>Pheidole</i> in the New World
Der Wert der Vielfalt
Genetics Of Original Sin The Impact Of Natural Selection On The Future Of Humanity
The Insects
El sentido de la existencia humana
Living in the anthropocene : the earth in the age of humans - 1. edicion
The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Rescuing the Planet
Meaning of Human Existence
Diversity of Life study guide
Success and dominance in ecosystems
Every Species Is a Masterpiece
Los orígenes de la creatividad humana
On human nature
San Diego Bay
Naturalist 25th Anniversary Edition
Sociobiology
Defining sustainable forestry
Southern Wonder
Contract with the Earth
Naturaliste
The Future of Life
The literary animal
Everybody's story
Consilience
Sociology
L'unicité du savoir
A primer of population biology
Origins of Creativity
A primer of population biology
Genesis
ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC
Biodiversity and Climate Change
Behavior of Daceton armigerum (Latreille)
Doganin Gizli Bahçesi
Theory of Island Biogeography. (MPB-1)
Nature of the Taxon Cycle in the Melanesian Ant Fauna
Consilience
Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects. (MPB-12), Volume 12
ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND POPULATION BIOLOGY
Auf den Spuren der Ameisen
Wild Kingdom
The Social Biology of Ants
Biophilia Hypothesis
Monographic Revision of the Ant Genus Lasius
The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Nature Story
Creation
In Search of Nature
True Army Ants of the Indo-Australian Area (Hymenoptera : Formicidae: Dorylinae)
Consilience
Ecology, evolution and population biology
Ren lei cun zai de yi yi
Conserving Earth's Biodiversity
The Ants of Polynesia
Karinca Tepesi
Theory of Island Biogeography. (MPB-1), Volume 1
Ameisen
The Social Biology of Ants
Social Biology of Ants
Medio Planeta
SOCIOBIOLOGY: FROM DARWIN TO THE PRESENT
Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Life
Consilience
Anthill
The Ants of Polynesia
Genc Bilimadamina Mektuplar
Genesis
GIS for Science, Volume 3
A monographic revision of the ant genus Lasius
Reconstructing America
Stvorenje
The tenuis and selenophora groups of the ant genus Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
The Meaning of Human Existence
Anthill
Hidden Kingdom
Sheng ming de duo yang xing
CONSILIENCE - THE NATURAL SCIENCES
The True Army Ants of the Indo-Australian Area
The Ergonomics of Caste in the Social Insects
Insan Varliginin Anlami
Saving America's Amazon
Ameisenroman
Sociobiology. The abridged edition
Genetics of Original Sin
Yarim-Dünya
Sheng wu quan de wei lai
Consilience
The Ergonomics of Caste in the Social Insects
Ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera : Formicidae)
Evolution
A primer of population biology [by] Edward O. Wilson and William H. Bossert
Doganin Gizli Bahcesi
Biophilia
THE BOTTLENECK
Sociobiology
Biodiversity II
On Human Nature
Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia
Insan Dogasi
Anthill
Yeryuzunun Sosyal Fethi
Window on Eternity
The origins of creativity
Mrowisko
Conserving Earth's Biodiversity
Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects
The theory of island biogeography
Promethean fire
L'Avenir de la vie
Génesis
Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk (1918-1994)

political scientist, philosopher, literary critic, historian, journalist, peace activist

  • University of St Andrews, Duke University

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The Sword of Imagination
Edmund Burke
John Randolph of Roanoke
The Dark Descent
Dark Forces
The Surly Sullen Bell
Eliot and His Age
The Color of Evil
Ghosts
Academic freedom
Old House of Fear
Lord of the hollow dark
A program for conservatives
The American cause
The conservative mind, from Burke to Santayana
Ancestral shadows
The Politics of Prudence
America's British culture
The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2
The political principles of Robert A. Taft
Decadence and Renewal in the Higher Learning
The princess of all lands
The Essential Russell Kirk
Watchers at the strait gate
Redeeming the Time
Beyond the dreams of avarice
The roots of American order
The wise men know what wicked things are written on the sky
The Portable conservative reader
The conservative mind : from Burke to Eliot / Russell Kirk
Prospects for conservatives
The intemperate professor
The conservative Constitution
The Assault on religion
Rights and duties
Enemies of the Permanent Things: Observations of Abnormity in Literature and Politics
Economics
Gateway to the Stoics
St. Andrews
What Shadows We Pursue
A creature of the twilight: his memorials
Randolph of Roanoke
Confessions of a bohemian Tory
The intelligent woman's guide to conservatism
Orestes Brownson
What Is Conservatism?
Fiction # 169
Off the Sand Road
Modern age
Lord Acton on revolution
保守主义思想
Muhafazakar Anlayış
Objections to conservatism
Collected Letters of John Randolph to Dr. John Brockenbrough
Government's role in solving societal problems
Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism
Farley Mowat
Farley Mowat (1921-2014)

environmentalist, biologist

  • University of Toronto

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Woman in the mists
And No Birds Sang
Born naked
The boat who wouldn't float
My father's son
Bay of Spirits
My discovery of America
Otherwise
The Farley Mowat Reader
Eastern passage
High latitudes
Rescue the Earth!
The world of Farley Mowat
Virunga
A Whale for the Killing
High latitudes
Owls in the Family
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
Sea of slaughter
Two Against the North
The snow walker
The desperate people
The Black Joke
Canada north
The farfarers
The curse of the Viking grave
Canada north now
The Alban quest
Westviking
The Siberians
No man's river
The Serpent's Coil
Tundra
Ordeal by ice
The regiment
The farfarers
Never Cry Wolf
Sibir
Aftermath
Walking on the land
Sibir
The polar passion
Coppermine Journey
Pottersfield Nation
Grey Seas Under
This rock within the sea
Ouragan aux Bermudes
Wake of the great sealers
Lost in the Barrens - Collector's Edition
Death of a people
The New Founde Land
Two Against North
Tundra: Selections from the Great Accounts of Arctic Land Voyages
Mowat Adventure Stories
Farley Mowat speaks out on Canada's role in Vietnam
Hatchet and related readings
Ein Sommer mit Wölfen
Mes amis les loups
Sibir - Revised
Ordeal by Innocence
GREY (Gray) SEAS UNDER - Atlantic Rescue - Saga of the Salvage Tugs Book (1) One
The Call of the Wild with Connections
Farley Mowat
Der Schneewanderer
Verlorene Wege. Das Schicksal einer Inuit- Familie
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1952
Im banne der Arktis
Moeurs et coutumes des Esquimaux Caribous
Peddler of Death
Farley Mowat's Newfoundland
Dian Fossey au pays des gorilles
Megatoons
Owls in the Family (Novel Units) (Teacher Guide)
Der Untergang der Arche Noah
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger (1923-2023)

politician, political scientist, diplomat, entrepreneur, pedagogue, autobiographer, businessperson, foreign minister

  • George Washington Educational Campus, City College of New York

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On China
White House years
Years of renewal
Years of upheaval
Crisis
White House years
Years of Upheaval
Years of Renewal
Diplomacy
White House years
Years of Upheaval
The White House Years
Years of upheaval
Henry Kissinger Foreign Policy e-Book Boxed Set
שנותי בבית הלבן
Wo yan zhong de Zhou Enlai
American foreign policy
World order
The troubled partnership
Nuclear weapons and foreign policy
Diplomacy
Observations
Does America need a foreign policy?
For the Record
American foreign policy
The necessity for choice
On China
Nuclear Security
For the record
American Foreign Policy
Ending the Vietnam War
Diplomacy
On China Henry Kissinger
Leadership
Does The 21st Century Belong To China Kissinger And Zakaria Vs Ferguson And Li The Munk Debate On China
The Age of A.I.
Problems of national strategy
Meaning of History
Reflections, October 2001
Observations
World Order
Kissinger on Kissinger
Das Gleichgewicht der Grossmächte
Troubled Partnership (Atlantic Policy Study)
The export of nuclear technology
The global challenge and international cooperation
Hanʼguk ŭi wigi '87, 88
The National Security Council
Les Malentendus Transatlantiques
Global consensus and economic development
China - 1. edición
Les malentendus transalantiques
White Youse Years Special Income
World Restored Europe After Napoleon
American Foreign Policy
Zhu Rongji on the Record : The Road to Reform
Le chemin de la paix ; essai
Report of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America
Diplomatie
White House Years Reprint Income
Debate Entre El Vino Y La Cerveza Y Otros Papeles De Cocina
Mafhūm al-siyāsah al-khārijīyah al-Amrīkīyah
Die Herausforderung Amerikas. Weltpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert
Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War
Crisis : The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises
Les années de renouveau
Problems Of National Strategy
La Nouvelle Puissance Américaine
Die Vernunft der Nationen
UNCTAD IV
Kissinger Report
Issues on My Mind
The Kissinger transcripts
Major statements on Latin America
Lun Zhongguo
The troubled partnership
Diplomacy
Nuclear nonproliferation
DİPLOMASİ
New Russian Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger the Complete Memoirs e-Book Boxed Set
Does America Need a Foreign Policy?
The Transatlantic crisis
Hemispheric cooperation for development
Crisis
Beyaz Saray Yillarim
Nuclear Weapons and the Peace Movement
Weltordnung
Hermione
Problems of National Strategy
America and Asia
Global peace, the Middle East, and the United States
Years of Upheaval
A la maison blanche (1968-1973)
Kissinger Transcripts
Kernwaffen und Auswärtige Politik
Kisshinjā hakushi Nihon no 21-seiki o yogensuru
Zhu Rongji on the Record
Southern Africa and the United States, an agenda for cooperation
The United States and Japan in a changing world
Years of Renewal
Wereldorde
Human rights and the Western Hemisphere
Diplomacia, La
On China
Memoiren Bd. I. 1968-1973
Building an enduring foreign policy
The Troubled Partnership
Wo men wu pan le Zhongguo
U.S. and Soviet Policies Toward Asia and Implications for the Korean Peninsula
Zhongguo jiang cheng ba 21 shi ji ma?
Vietnam
Report of Secretary of State Kissinger on his visits to Latin America, Western Europe, and Africa
Statement, May 9, 1975, Washington, D.C
Reconsideracion Del Nuevo Orden Mundial
The troubled partnership
Henry Kissinger
Years of Renewal
Les Années orageuses, tome 2
Henry A. Kissinger speaks on Communist parties in Western Europe, challenge to the West, at the Conference on Italy and Eurocommunism, sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D. C., June 9, 1977
American Foreign Policy
Years of Upheaval
The United States and Latin America, the new opportunity
Years of Upheaval
Problems of National Strategy
Kissinger the Negotiator
American unity and the national interest
Latin America, Europe, and Africa
Diplomacy
Bureaucracy, politics, and strategy
Problems of National Strategy (A Book of Readings)
NATO, the next thirty years
Communist parties in western Europe
United States and Middle Eastern policy in a changing global arena
The United States and Africa, strengthening the relationship
The industrial democracies, the imperative of cooperation
Monetary Policy and Defense of the "Grey Areas"
White House Years
Statement, December 3, 1974, [Washington, D.C.]
White House Years
Orden mundial
Cohesion of industrial democracies, precondition for global progress
Ordinea mondiala
Lee Kuan Yew
Years of Upheaval
China
Cin
Egypt-Israel agreement
The future of America's foreign policy
American Foreign Policy
Strategic trends towards the 21st century
דיפלומטיה
Kakuheiki to gaikō seisaku
al-Bārzānī wa-Kīsinjir wa-al-dawlah al-Kurdīyah
Henry Kissinger papers
Three addresses on foreign policy
"We will never abandon Israel"
Dyplomacja
O Kitae
Da wai jiao
Poni︠a︡tʹ Putina
נשק גרעיני ומדיניות חוץ
La Diplomacia (Diplomacy)
Hanʼguk ŭi wigi 87, 88
Lezioni di politica di Henry Kissinger
À la Maison Blanche
Communist parties in western Europe
A nova América Latina
Memoiren 1973-1974 Band 2
I︠A︡dernoe oruzhie i vneshni︠a︡i︠a︡ politika
Stanet li XXI vek vekom Kita︠i︡a
The necessity for choice
The troubled partnership
American foreign policy
Dyplomacja
Nuzhna li Amerike vneshni︠a︡i︠a︡ politika?
Bārazānī wa-Kīsinjir wa-al-dawlah al-Kurdīyah
Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman (born 1943)

philosopher, political scientist

  • Harvard University, Yale Law School

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Vixi
Deliberation Day
We the People
The failure of the founding fathers
We the People
Clean coal/dirty air
The stakeholder society
Private property and the Constitution
Perspectives on property law
Is NAFTA constitutional?
Voting with dollars
We the People
The uncertain search for environmental quality
Before the next attack
Reconstructing American law
Case Against Lameduck Impeachment
Bush V. Gore
What Brown v. Board of Education should have said
The temporal horizons of justice
Social justice in the liberal state
El Futuro de La Revolucion Liberal
Het recht van de moraal
The decline and fall of the American republic
La Politica del Dialogo Liberal
Economic foundations of property law
The dilemma of liberal democracy, and its constitutional solution?
Xin xing min zhu de xian zheng gai zao
Fundamentos y alcances del control judicial de constitucionalidad
Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake (born 1986)

biologist

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Entangled Life
Kinship
Entangled Life : the Illustrated Edition
Verweven leven
La red oculta de la vida
A trama da vida
Richard Saage
Richard Saage (born 1941)

political scientist

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Otto Bauer
Elemente einer politischen Ideengeschichte der Demokratie
Rückkehr zum starken Staat? Studien über Konservatismus, Faschismus und Demokratie
Darwinismus-Rezeption von links
Faschismustheorien
Faschismus
Utopische Profile
Politische Utopien der Neuzeit
Vermessungen des Nirgendwo
Herrschaft, Toleranz, Widerstand
Hat die politische Utopie eine Zukunft?
Zwischen Triumph und Krise
Arbeiterbewegung, Faschismus, Neokonservatismus
Das Ende der politischen Utopie?
Utopieforschung
Vertragsdenken und Utopie
Utopisches Denken im historischen Prozess
Von der Geometrie zur Naturalisierung
Sozialdemokratie und Menschenbild
Demokratietheorien
Innenansichten Utopias
Der erste Präsident
Eigentum, Staat und Gesellschaft bei Immanuel Kant
Kultur und Politik
Solidargemeinschaft und Klassenkampf: Politische Konzeptionen der Sozialdemokratie zwischen den Weltkriegen (Edition Suhrkamp) (German Edition)
Das Scheitern diktatorischer Legitimationsmuster und die Zukunftsfähigkeit der Demokratie
Dimensionen der Politik
Die Politisierung des Utopischen im 18. Jahrhundert
Konservatismus, eine Gefahr für die Freiheit?
Zwischen Darwin und Marx
Friedensutopien
Eigentum, Staat und Gesellschaft bei Immanuel Kant
Philosophische Anthropologie und der technisch aufgerüstete Mensch
Modell und Wirklichkeit
Die moderne Utopie und ihr Verhältnis zur Antike
Politische Ideengeschichte in demokratietheoretischer Absicht
Utopische Horizonte
Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)

biologist, physician, botanist, philosopher, entomologist, poet, physiologist, naturalist

  • University of Edinburgh, University of Cambridge

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The Letters of Erasmus Darwin
The botanic garden
Zoonomia, or, The laws of organic life
Zoonomia
The Temple of Nature, Or, The Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical ..
The temple of nature
The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts; Containing The Economy of Vegetation, and The Loves of ..
The Temple of Nature, Or, The Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
Phytologia
The Collected Letters of Erasmus Darwin
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
The essential writings of Erasmus Darwin
A plan for the conduct of female education, in boarding schools, private families, and public seminaries
The poetical works of Erasmus Darwin
The Collected Writings of Erasmus Darwin
The Temple Of Nature Or The Origin Of Society
The Botanic Garden, Part 1
The golden age
Beauties of The botanic garden
A plan for the conduct of female education in boarding schools
The Botanic Garden.: A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II ..
The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing The Loves of the Plants
The golden age ; The temple of nature
Marc Quinn
The Botanic Garden (The Economy of Vegetation)
The poetical works
The botanic garden, a poem
A plan for the conduct of female education
Cosmologia
A plan for the conduct of female education, 1797
Zoonomie
Phytologia; or, The philosophy of agriculture and gardening
The botanic garden. Part II
The botanic garden 1791
The loves of the plants
The conduct of female education in boarding schools
The botanic garden; a poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing The economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants, with philosophical notes
The botanic garden, a poem. In two parts. Part 1. Containing The economy of vegetation. Part 11. The loves of the plants
The temple of nature or, the origin of society. A poem with philosophical notes
Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life
Zoonomia : or, the laws of organic life
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ..
A plan for the conduct of female education
The botanic garden
Zoonomia : or, The laws of organic life
Zoonomia : or, the laws of organic life
The temple of nature
The botanic garden. A poem in two parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of vegetation. Part II. the Loves of the plants. With philosophical notes
The temple of nature
The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ; Containing the Economy of ..
Phytologia
The temple of nature or, the origin of society. A poem with philosophical notes
Zoonomia : or, The laws of organic life
Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life. In three parts ... Complete in two volumes ...
Phytologia, or, The philosophy of agriculture and gardening
Zoonomia : or, The laws of organic life
The botanic garden. A poem in two parts. Pt. 1. Containing the Economy of vegetation. Pt. 2. the Loves of the plants. With philosophical notes
Zoonomia : or, The laws of organic life
Les amours des plantes
Zoonomia ; or, The laws of organic life
Sketch of the life and writings of Erasmus Darwin
The botanic garden. A poem in two parts. Pt. I. Containing the Economy of vegetation. Pt. 2. the Loves of the plants. With philosophical notes
Gli amori delle piante
A plan for the conduct of female education, in boarding schools
Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life
Zoonomia
Khram pirody
Zoonomia; or, the laws of organic life. Part second
The botanic garden. A poem in two parts. Containing the Economy of vegetation; and the loves of the plants; with philosophical notes