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Guy Consolmagno
Guy Consolmagno (born 1952)

astronomer, school teacher, planetary scientist, brother, physicist

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Arizona

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Brother Astronomer
God's mechanics
Turn left at Orion
Worlds apart
Turn left at Orion
The heavens proclaim
The way to the dwelling of light
El Otro Cielo
L'infinitamente grande
The new physics and the old metaphysics
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet (born 1979)

Esperantist, computer scientist, poet

  • The Open University

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Embracing the Wide Sky
Born on a Blue Day
Thinking in Numbers
NACIDO EN UN DIA AZUL
Je suis né un jour bleu
Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing
Embrasser Le Ciel Immense
Mishenka (French Edition)
La conquista del cerebro
La poesía de los números
Urodziłem się pewnego błękitnego dnia
Islands of Genius
Fragments de paradis (French Edition)
How to Be 'Normal'
Nine Minds
Born on a Blue Day (Digital Download)
Je Suis Ne un Jour Bleu
Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman (born 1948)

physicist, astrophysicist

  • California Institute of Technology, Princeton University

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A Sense of the Mysterious
Origins
Screening room
Screening Room
Origins
The diagnosis
Einstein's dreams
Dance for two
Good Benito
Great ideas in physics
The Discoveries
Time for the stars
Reunion
Song of two worlds
The discoveries
Time travel and Papa Joe's pipe
Reunion
Ghost
A modern day Yankee in a Connecticut court
Problem book in relativity and gravitation
The Accidental Universe
The best American essays 2000
Ancient light
The Best American Science Writing 2005
Quantum Legacies
Beauty and the Brain
Greyhounds
Die Diagnose
Searching for stars on an island in Maine
Probable Impossibilities
Zeit für die Sterne
In praise of wasting time
Southern Writers on Writing
Mr G A Novel About The Creation
Living with the Genie
Revealing the universe
Good Benito
Searching for stars on an island in Maine
Ancient Light
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
The world is too much with me
Ghost
Mr g
Song of Two Worlds
Ada and the Galaxies
Mr. g
Yildizlarin Zamani
Good Benito
Los sueños de Einstein
Living with the Genie
Dance for Two
Senhor D.
Bay Tanri
Einstein'in Dusleri
Ghost
The accidental universe
Shuang ren wu
Những giấc mơ của Einstein
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine Lib/E
Ta oneira tou Ainstain =
Einstein's Dreams
In Praise of Wasting Time
Revealing the universe
Luz antigua
Aḥlām Aynshtāyin
Three Flames
Wangari Muta Maathai
Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011)

biologist, teacher, veterinarian, politician, environmentalist, activist

  • Benedictine College, University of Pittsburgh

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Unbowed
Celle qui plante les arbres
The Green Belt Movement
Replenishing the earth
The challenge for Africa
Little Hummingbird
The challenge for Africa
Pour l'amour des arbres
The Canopy of Hope
The bottom is heavy too
Devolver la abundancia a la tierra
The challenge for Africa
World We Once Lived In
Wangari Speaks Out
Flight of the Hummingbird
Movimiento Cinturón Verde.Compartiendo propuestas y experiencia
The challenge for Africa
Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder (born 1969)

historian, literary critic, political scientist, academic

  • Brown University, University of Oxford

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Nationalism, Marxism, and modern Central Europe
The Red Prince
Inhuman Land
Brotherlands
Bloodlands
On Tyranny
The Road to Unfreedom
Our Malady
Black earth
Thinking the Twentieth Century
The Reconstruction of Nations
Sketches from a secret war
Power of the Powerless
Understanding Ukraine
The Wall around the West
The Balkans as Europe, 1821-1914
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back
Stalin and Europe
Toward Xenopolis
On Freedom
Jett_one_of_us_is_a_conman
Getting Lead-Bottomed Administrators Excited about School Library Media Centers
Rėkanstrukt͡syi͡a nat͡syĭ
Eddie Dying
Tautų rekonstrukcija
Sobre la tirania
Under Swiss Protection
James H. Austin
James H. Austin (born 1924)

neuroscientist, neurologist

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Chase, Chance, and Creativity
Chase, chance, and creativity
Zen and the Brain
Zen-Brain reflections
Selfless insight
Meditating selflessly
Memories of a Nobody
Zen-brain reflections
Zen-brain horizons
Silvio Bergia
Silvio Bergia (born 1935)

physicist

  • University of Bologna

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Einstein e la relatività
Einstein : Le père du temps moderne
El Siglo de la física
Ed Ricketts
Ed Ricketts (1897-1948)

biologist, philosopher, marine biologist, ecologist, zoologist

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Renaissance man of Cannery Row
Between Pacific tides
Renaissance Man of Cannery Row
Breaking through
Breaking through
The Outer Shores, Part 1
Between Pacific tides
Between Pacific tides [by] Edward F. Ricketts and Jack Calvin
Outer Shores 2