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Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute (1899-1960)

flight engineer, engineer, racing automobile driver, aircraft pilot

  • University of Oxford, Dragon School

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Landfall, a channel story
Far Country
Pied Piper
The breaking wave
The rainbow and the rose
In the wet
An Old Captivity
Ruined city
What Happened to the Corbetts
Great World War II Stories
On The Beach
So Disdained
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 1 - 1976
A town like Alice ; (and), Pied piper ; (and), The far country ; (and), The chequer board ; (and), No highway
Vinland the good
Lonely Road
Stephen Morris
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Marazan
A town like Alice
Slide Rule
Most Secret
Round the Bend
The Mysterious Aviator
Supreme Storyteller
Pastoral
A Nevil Shute omnibus
No Highway
The Wine-Press - a tale of war
The Wheezers And Dodgers The Inside Story Of Clandestine Weapon Development In World War Ii
Trustee from the Toolroom
Le dernier rivage
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two
Three of a kind
Under a Sheltering Sky
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two
GENERAL (A) HISTORY OF MUSIC;
世界就是這樣結束的
Chequer Board - Canada
Beyond Black Stump-Can
The Rainbow and the Rose
Town Like Alice and on the Beach
Lonely Road
Rainbow and Rose
Mysterious Aviator
Pastoral
Rainbow & Rose - Canada
Lonely Road
PIED PIPER.
Rainbow and the Rose
The Chequer Board
Requiem for a Wren. Heron Complete Works of Nevil Shute
Lonely Road. Heron Complete Works of Nevil Shute
Round the Bend
The Rainbow and the Rose
Peguin Readers 4
Le testament ; roman
Lonely Road
So Disdained
Ordeal (a.k.a. What Happened to the Corbetts)
Three of a Kind
Pastoral
Pied Piper
Beyond the Black Stump
Lonely Road
Nevil Shute set (6)...chequer board 1965,far country 1952, most secret 1965, on beach 1960,ordeal 1965,stephen morris 1965
Beyond the Black Stump
Lonely Road
Kumsalda
THE LEGACY.
The Legacy
Lonely Road
Le testament
Three Novels
Lonely Road
Lonely Road
The rainbow and the rose
So Disdained
Round The Bend
What happened to the Corbetts
Legacy [a Town Like Alice]
Lonely Road (Great Pan Books. No. G554.)
BEYOND THE BLACCK STUMP
Patoral Copyright
Lonely Road
What Happened to the Corbetts
The Far Country
Lonely Road - Canada
Lonely Road
The rainbow and the rose [by] Nevil Shute
A Town Like Alice / The Far Country / On the Beach
Pied Piper
Omnibus
Pied Pier
Lonely Road
Lonely Road
Ordeal
The chequer board
What Happened to the Corbetts and Pastoral
What Happened to the Corbetts
Pastoral
Rainbow and the Rose
Landfall
Lonely Road
Three of a Kind
What Happened to the Corbetts
Maraazan - Canada
Around the Bend
Ṭayase ha-etmol
The Seafarers
ha-Zaḳen ha-mufla
In the wet
Stades de légende
Finale als voorspel
Lonely road
העזבון
Lonely road
Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters (1952-2023)

engineer

  • University of Colorado Denver

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Keeping You a Secret
Pretend you love me
Between Mom and Jo
Luna
Far from Xanadu
Romance of the Snob Squad
Revenge of the Snob Squad
Rage
grl2grl
A snitch in the Snob Squad
Define Normal
How do you spell g*e*e*k?
It's our prom (so deal with it)
Love Me, Love My Broccoli
Lies My Girlfriend Told Me A Novel
B.J.'s billion dollar bet
The stinky sneakers contest
Revenge of the Snob Squad
She loves you, she loves you not--
Revenge of the Snob Squad
By the time you read this, I'll be dead
By the time you read this, I'll be dead
B.J.'s Billion-Dollar Bet
How Do You Spell Geek?
Le Gang des pestes, numéro 1
How do you spell g*e*e*k?
Keeping You a Secret
Le Gang des pestes, numéro 2
Amours & Brocolis
Le Gang des pestes, coffret numéro 1
Love Me, Love My Broccoli
Keeping You a Secret
Gang des pestes, tome 3
Sen Bunu Okudugunda Ben Olmus Olacagim
By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Pretend You Love Me
Lies My Girlfriend Told Me
Grl2grl
How Do You Spell G-E-e-K?
Luna
It's Our Prom (So Deal with It)
Rage
Romance of the Snob Squad
Keeping You a Secret
She Loves You, She Loves You Not...
Define Normal
Snitch in the Snob Squad
Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born 1961)

jurist, political activist, lawyer, computer scientist, politician, professor, teacher

  • University of Cambridge, Yale Law School

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Code
Remix
Free culture
Republic, lost
The Future of Ideas
Man of high fidelity
America, Compromised (Berlin Family Lectures)
El código 2.0
Cut
Republic, lost
Fidelity and Constraint
L'avenir des idées
The USA is Lesterland
El código y otras leyes del ciberespacio
Citizens Divided
They Don't Represent Us
Cut/Film As Found Object In Contemporary Video
Democracy Vouchers
Good Faith Collaboration
One Way Forward
Kayip Cumhuriyet
Creative economies
Democracy Days
Fidelity to the Constitution
Kurieitibu komonzu
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008)

actor, film director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, essayist, agricultural engineer, director

  • Lycée Saint-Louis, Institut national agronomique

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La maison de rendez-vous
Dans le labyrinthe
Le voyeur
Les gommes. English
La Jalousie
Repetition
Topology of a Phantom City
Project for a revolution in New York
Last year at Marienbad
Two novels
La belle captive
Souvenirs du triangle d'or
Djinn
Les gommes
Le Voyageur
Instantanés
Miroir qui revient
For a new novel: essays on fiction
Pour un nouveau roman
Repetition
Le Rendez Vous
La Jalousie (Twentieth Century French Texts)
Recollections of the Golden Triangle (Robbe-Grillet, Alain)
Las Gomas
A Sentimental Novel
Why I love Barthes
Djinn ; and, La maison de rendez-vous
Le miroir qui revient
Un roman sentimental
Topologie d'une cite fantome
Snapshots (European Classics)
Glissements progressifs du plaisir
L' immortelle
Immortal One
Alechinsky
Last year at Marienbad
Project for a revolution in New York
In The Labyrinth (Calderbooks)
Préface à une vie d'écrivain
Instantane s
Reanudacion
La forteresse
Projet Pour Une Revolution a New York
Angelica O El Encantamiento
Dans Le Labyrinthe
For a New Novel
Topologie d'une cité fantôme
La reprise
The immortal one
Two novels by Robbe-Grillet
Les derniers jours de Corinthe
La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn
L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad
Der Augenzeuge
Topology of a Phantom City
Les Gommes
In the labyrinth
L' année dernière à Marienbad
Corinthes letzte Tage
Le voyeur
L'immortelle
Die Wiederholung
Snapshots
Pour Un Nouveau Roman
Por una novela nueva
Projet pour une révolution à New York
Un régicide
Topologie d'une cité fantôme
The Immortal One (Calderbooks)
La Jalousie
Jealousy (Jupiter Books)
Voyeur Roman
The voyeur
Topologie d'une Cite Fantome
La\Jalousie Roman
Projet pour une révolution à New York
The house of assignation
Snapshots
Projet pour une révolution a New York
A Regicide
La\Maison de Rendez­Vous Roman
L'\Immortelle Cine Roman
Souvenirs du Triangle D'Or
Pour un Nouveau Roman Critique Litteraire
For a new novel
Die Radiergummis
Projet pour une révolution a New York
Angelique
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Projet pour une revolution a New York
Angélique, ou, L'Enchantement
The Voyeur
Projet pour une révalution à New York
The Erasers
Un re gicide
Correspondance, 1951-1990
Dans le Labyrinthe
La maison de rendez-vous
Djinn
Temple Aux Miroirs
Jealousy and the Labyrinth
C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle
Annee Derniere a Marienbad Cine Roman
Maison de Rendez-Vous
UN Regicide
Topologie d'une cite fantome
The Erasers
Scénarios en rose et noir
Generative literature and generative art
Snapshots AND Towards a New Novel
L' année dernière a Marienbad
Gommes
Snapshots, and
El Espejo Que Vuelve/the Recurring Mirror
In the Temple of Dreams
Le rendez-vous
Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad
Instantaneas
La jalousie
Les gommes
Recurring Mirror
Instantanees Roman
Djinn
La maison de rendez-vous
Projet pour une Revolution a New York
L'\Immortelle
Project for a revolution in New York
Last Year in Marienbad
Erasers, the
V labirinte
Kairaku no zenshinteki yokosuberi
Instantanés
L'annee derniere a Marienbad
Instantanés
Sogl︠i︡adatǎi
La jalousie
Last year at Marienbad
Dans le labyrinthe
La jalousie
Neuer Roman und Autobiographie
The erasers
Jealousy
La jalousie
Pour un nouveau roman
Dans le labyrinthe
Two novels by Robbe-Grillet
L'Immortelle
Réinventer le roman
Jealousy
L'Immortelle
Last year at Marienbad
Topology of a phantom city
Les gommes
In the labyrinth, a novel
Moi, Armand, né sourd et muet
Dans le labyrinthe
La maison de rendez-vous
Instantané
L'année dernière à Marienbad
La belle captive
The voyeur
Entretiens complices