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Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali (born 1943)

journalist, historian, peace activist, politician, film director, producer

  • University of Oxford, University of the Punjab

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Shadows of the pomegranate tree
The stone woman
Night Of The Golden Butterfly
A Sultan in Palermo (Islam Quintet 4)
Das Buch Saladin. Historischer Roman
The Islam Quintet Islam Quintet
The Clash of Fundamentalisms
The new revolutionaries
An Indian dynasty
1968--marching in the streets
The Stalinist Legacy
Trotsky for beginners
Masters of the Universe
Who's afraid of Margaret Thatcher
Rough music
The coming British revolution
Redemption
The Leopard and the Fox
Ugly rumours
Introducing Trotsky and Marxism
The assassination
The dictatorship of capital
Snogging Ken, an after-dinner entertainment
Speaking of Empire and Resistance
The Idea of Communism
Pakistan in the flight path of American power
Im Schatten des Granatapfelbaums. Ein Roman aus dem maurischen Spanien
Nehrus and the Gandhis an Indian Dynasty
Revolution from Above
Chile
Moscow gold
Fear of mirrors
Protocols of the elders of Sodom
Consequences
Collateral damage
The duel
Pakistan
Pirates of the Caribbean
Fundamentalismus im Kampf um die Weltordnung
The Obama syndrome
The illustrious corpse
A la sombra del Granado / Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
1968 and after
Can Pakistan Survive?
El Choque De Los Fundamentalismos
On history
Bush in Babylon ; The Recolonisation of Iraq
Midnight's children
LA Mujer De Piedra/the Stone Woman
Necklaces
La peur des miroir
Pakistan: military rule or people's power?
Street Fighting Years ; An Autobiography of the Sixties
Iranian Nights (Royal Court Theatre Series)
Political and cultural diversity in India
El Libro de Saladino
Die steinerne Frau
A banker for all seasons
El libro de Saladino II
The American Effect
Die Lehren von Chile
A la sombra del granado
A la sombra del granado (COLECCION 13/20) (13/20)
Time to Bury Lenin (Hutchinson General)
El libro de Saladino I
Le Choc des intégrismes
Robert Sobel
Robert Sobel (1931-1999)

chess player, historian, economist

  • City College of New York, New York University

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The entrepreneurs
Car wars
ITT
Panic on Wall Street
When Giants Stumble
Trammell Crow, master builder
IBM vs. Japan
Inside Wall Street
The Pursuit of Wealth
Coolidge
Mister X
The new game on Wall Street
Dangerous dreamers
The rise and fall of the conglomerate kings
The Big Board
The age of giant corporations
Herbert Hoover at the onset of the Great Depression, 1929-1930
The fallen colossus
The great bull market
For Want of a Nail
RCA
The Great Bull Market Wall Street In The 1920s
The last bull market
They satisfy
Niccolo Machiavelli's The prince, also
Inside Wall Street
The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides.
The United States Executive Branch
ITT
The curbstone brokers
Biographical Directory of the Governors
AMEX
Biographical directory of the United States executive branch, 1774-1989
Salomon Brothers, 1910-1985
Panic on Wall Street
The money manias
Inside Wall Street
The worldly economists
American Revolution
Biographical directory of the United States executive branch, 1774-1977
The great boom, 1950-2000
Coolidge
The pursuit of wealth
The Life and Times of Dillon Read: 2
The manipulators
The Challenge of freedom
Dangerous dreamers
Trammell Crow, Master Builder
The French Revolution
Biographical directory of the United States executive branch, 1774-1971
The manipulators
N.Y.S.E.
Biographical directory of the governors of the United States, 1789-1978
French Revolution
The origins of interventionism
Amex
Conquest and conscience
ITT
Niccolo Machiavelli's The prince and the discourses
Curbstone brokers
The automobile makers
Great Boom 1950-2000
Amex: a history of the American Stock Exchange, 1921-1971
The Collier quick and easy guide to American history
The rise and fall of the conglomerate kings
The Putnam collegiate guide to American history
The VISIT [visual simulation in time] system
Thomas Watson, Sr
IBM
I.B.M., colossus in transition
Panic on Wall Street
For Want of a Nail
The French Revolution
The worldly economists
I.B.M.
The Big Board
Monarch Notes on Voltaire's Candide and Philosophies
Panic on Wall Street
I.B.M., colossus in transition
Machines and morality
American history
The Challenge of freedom
Biographical directory of the governors of the United States, 1789-1978
The money manias
Biographical directory of the governors of the United States, 1789-1978
The Challenge of Freedom
Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams (1921-1988)

philosopher, professor, sociologist, literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar

  • University of Cambridge, King Henry VIII School Abergavenny

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Keywords
The country and the city
Living in the future
Modern tragedy
Writing in society
Drama from Ibsen to Brecht
George Orwell
The Politics of Modernism
Marxism and literature
All things betray thee
Communications
What I came to say
Orwell (Modern Masters)
Television
Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America
Towards 2000
The year 2000
Second generation
The volunteers
Politics and Letters
Raymond Williams On Culture And Society Essential Writings
Culture
The Raymond Williams reader
The fight for Manod
The English novel from Dickens to Lawrence
The Columbia guide to the Latin American novel since 1945
Border Country
English drama
Culture
Problems in materialism and culture
The country and the city
Resources of hope
The Volunteers
MCSE training guide
Culture and Materialism
Modern tragedy
The Long Revolution
Culture and society, 1780-1950
George Orwell
Essays
Loyalties
Politics and letters
The Country and the City
People of the Black Mountains
Tenses of imagination
What I Came to Say (Radius Books)
Country and city in the modern novel
Cobbett
Communications
Drama in performance
What I came to say
Secondgeneration
The sociology of culture
Cobbett
Country and city in the modern novel
Resources of hope
The defenders of Malta
Contact--human communication and its history
People of the blackmountains
Drama from Ibsen to Brecht
Modern tragedy
Culture and materialism
The English novel
Who speaks for Wales?
Border Country
Drama in a dramatised society
Culture & society
Second Generation
Towards 2000
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
May Day Manifesto 1968
The Welsh industrial novel
Historia de la comunicación
The Welsh industrial novel
Culture and Politics
Culture and technology
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
Kultur ve Materyalizm
Second Generation
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
English novel from Dickens to Lawrence
Britain in the sixties
May Day Manifesto 1968
English / H / Highlight
A lecture on realism
The existing alternatives in communications
The existing alternatives in communications
Preface to film
Britain in the sixties
The English novel
Economic development through cooperatives
Anahtar Sozcukler
Los medios de comunicación social
English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence
Reading and criticism
Introduction
Realism
Realism, naturalism and their alternatives
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
Drama in performance
Drama, from Ibsen to Eliot
Delmarva Poultry Cooperative Inc
Tenses of imagination
Kültür
Il popolo delle Montagne Nere
Modernizmin Siyaseti
Loyalties
Fight for Manod
Kültür ve Toplum 1780-1950
What I Came to Say
Reading and criticism
Country and the City
On high and popular culture
Modern Trajedi
People of the Black Mountains Vol. I
Drama, from Ebsen to Eliot
People of the Black Mountains Vol. Ii
Democracy and Parliament
Socialism and ecology
Border country
Communications and community
Loyalties
Politics and Letters
Communications
Innovationen
The fight for Manod
Border country
Historia de la comunicación
Problems in Materialism
Drama from Ibsen to Brecht
Centenary Edition Raymond Williams
Communications
The long road from Leros
El Campo y la Ciudad
Raymond Williams in conversation with Kenneth Churchill
The existing alternatives in communication
The Volunteers
Raymond Williams
John Clare
Aina Basso
Aina Basso (born 1979)

historian

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Kaari Utrio
Kaari Utrio (born 1942)

politician, historian, publisher

  • University of Helsinki

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Eevan tyttäret
Sturmfalke
Neidontanssi
Kun nainen hallitsi, rakasti ja vihasi
Pirkkalan pyhät pihlajat
Bronzevogel
Vehkalahden neidot
Evas Töchter
Kalevan tyttäret
Vendela
Karjalan kruunu
Vuosisatainen Viipuri
Aatelisneito, porvaristyttö
Rakas Henrietta
Sunneva Jaarlintytär
The spring of the moonstone
Ruusulaakso
Kartanonherra ja kaunis Kirstin
Vaitelias perillinen
Viipurin kaunotar
Vaskilintu
Pormestarin tytär
Venus, naiskauneuden tarina
Pappilan neidot
Katarina
Haukka, minun rakkaani
Isabella
Rautalilja
Laps' Suomen
Kiilusilmä feministi, eli, Miksi en enää matkusta junassa
Oppinut neiti
Suomen naisen vuosisadat
Suomen naisen tie
Tuulihaukka
Seuraneiti
Spizowy labedz
Daniel Vaxelaire
Daniel Vaxelaire (born 1948)

historian, journalist

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Esther Forbes
Esther Forbes (1891-1967)

biographer, historian

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, Bradford College

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Johnny Tremain
Rainbow on the road
Paul Revere
The United States in Literature
A mirror for witches
America's Paul Revere
The running of the tide
O genteel lady!
What happened in Salem?
The Boston book
Miss Marvel
The general's lady
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Paul Revere tries his hand at dentistry
Paradise
Paradise
Paul Revere & The World He Lived In
Johnny Tremain (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Johnny Tremain and related readings
Paradise
Paradise (Bantam giant)
Paradise presentation copy to her husband
O genteel lady!
Paul Revere
America's Paul Revere, Written by Esther Forbes; Pictures by Lynd Ward
Miss Marvel
Ion Idriess
Ion Idriess (1889-1979)

historian

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The desert column
Lasseter's last ride
The red chief
Our Stone Age mystery
Prospecting for gold
Fortunes in minerals including uranium
Opals and sapphires
Men of the jungle
Flynn of the Inland
Our living stone age
Forty fathoms deep
The Cattle King
Outlaws of the Leopolds
Flynn of the inland
Drums of Mer