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Peter Carey
Peter Carey (born 1943)

  • Monash University

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The chemistry of tears
The Chemistry Of Tears A Novel
The chemistry of tears
The unusual life of Tristan Smith
Theft
True history of the Kelly gang
Jack Maggs
Illywhacker
Bliss
My life as a fake
Oscar and Lucinda
30 days in Sydney
Amnesia
The Big Bazoohley
The tax inspector
His Illegal Self
Wrong About Japan
Parrot and Olivier in America
The fat man in history, and other stories
The unusual life of Tristan Smith
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar & Lucinda
Collected stories
The fat man in history
Illywhacker (Faber Library)
30 unter 40
The Big Bazoohley
A long way from home
Parrot & Olivier in America
A letter to our son
WRONG ABOUT JAPAN: A FATHER'S JOURNEY WITH HIS SON
Le jackpot
Collected stories / Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda
Threebies
War crimes
Exotic pleasures
L' inspectrice
His Illegal Self
30 Days in Sydney (The Writer & the City)
Gebrauchsanweisung für Sydney
Parrot and Olivier in America
Bliss - the Screenplay
La Véritable Histoire du gang Kelly
Error Humano/ Human Mistake
Bookclub in a Box Discusses the Novel True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey (Bookclub-In-A-Box)
Die wahre Geschichte von Ned Kelly und seiner Gang
Le chemin du paradis
True History of of the Kelly Gang
Die geheimen Machenschaften des Jack Maggs
30 days in Sydney
El Supergordo
THEFT: A LOVE STORY
Illywhacker (Secrets and Lies)
Oscar and Lucinda Movie Tie-In Promotion Kit
Big Bazoohley, The
La Verdadera Historia de La Banda de Kelly
Prawdziwa historia Neda Kelly`ego
Parrot and Olivier in America
His illegal self
Bliss, the film
Supergordo, El
Is Britain's industrial decline inevitable?
Parrot and Olivier in America
Swallowing film
oscar and luscinda
My life as a fake
Illywhacker
A Long Way from Home
Parrot und Olivier in Amerika
Illywhacker
Amnesia
Towards industrial innovation
Illywhacker (Vintage International)
Theft
Jack Maggs Canadian Edition
Oscar and Lucinda
Amnesie
L'inspectrice
True history of the Kelly gang
Historia pewnej mistyfikacji
Amnesie
Zijn verborgen bestaan
The chemistry of tears
La chimie des larmes
גנבה
Wrong about Japan
Is Britain's industrial decline inevitable?
La vie singulière de Tristan Smith
La naturaleza de las lágrimas
Diefstal
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce (born 1959)

playwright, literary critic, actor

  • University of Oxford, University of Oxford

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Cosmic
The astounding broccoli boy
Cosmic
Framed
Millions
Everywhere
Millions
Millions CD
Over The Moon
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang And The Race Against Time
Framed CD
The Unforgotten Coat
The unforgotten coat
Cosmic
Welcome to Sarajevo
Radioactive Rory
Millions CD Low Price
Millions
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies again
Framed
Rollercoasters
Sputnik's guide to life on Earth
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang And The Race Against Time
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang over the moon
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
Millions
El mundo del Valle de los Mumin
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
Cosmic
The Astounding broccoli boy
Runaway Robot
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again!. by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Claim
Litmus
Desirable
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon
The Unforgotten Coat. Frank Cottrell Boyce
New Longman Literature New Titles Pack
Ten Years on the Parish
Noah's Gold
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 3
Ted Rules the World
Galánta
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time
Millions
Der unvergessene Mantel
Kozmik
Triple Word Score
Fframio
Forgiveness
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth Lib/E
Ucan Araba Pirpir Havalaniyor
The Great Rocket Robbery
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
Wonder Brothers
Le crime parfait
Süper Brokoli Cocuk
Ucan Araba Pirpir Yarista
Robot a la fuga
Framed
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang et la course contre le temps
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
Manual de la vida terrícola
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
Watership Down
Manual de la vida terrícola
Desirable
Quadri e ladri. Un colpo da ragazzi
Doctor Who
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang over the Moon
Meisterwerk
A cuadros
Cosmic
Millones
Idealʹnoe prestuplenie
Broccoli-Boy rettet die Welt
The Astounding Broccoli Boy
Christopher Tolkien
Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020)

editor

  • Dragon School, University of Oxford

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The Shaping of Middle-Earth
The book of lost tales
The peoples of Middle-Earth
Morgoth's Ring
The war of the jewels
The War of the Ring
The Treason of Isengard
Sauron Defeated
The Complete History of Middle-Earth
The History of Middle-earth
La Caida de Numenor
Pictures
The History of Middle-Earth: Index
La realtà in trasparenza. Lettere
History of Middle-Earth Part Two
The Complete History of Middle-Earth
Lost Road
History of Middle-Earth
History of Middle-Earth Part One
History of Middle-Earth Box Set #3
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Beowulf
The Great Tales of Middle-earth
History of Middle-Earth Box Set #2
History of Middle-Earth Box Set #1
The History of Middle-earth Boxed Set
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
The J.R.R. Tolkien Audio Collection
Complete History of Middle-Earth
Great Tales of Middle-Earth Boxed Set
History of Middle-Earth Part Three
History of Middle-Earth Box Set #4
The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise / Saga Heidreks Konungs ins Vitra
Morgoth's Ring : The Later Silmarillion, Part One
The saga of King Heidrek the Wise
Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks
Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
Saga of King Heidrek the Wise
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks
History of the Lord of the Rings
Willem Frederik Hermans
Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995)

translator, photographer, geographer

  • University of Amsterdam, Barlaeus Gymnasium

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Nooit meer slapen
Een ontmoeting met de tovenaar
Relikwieën en documenten
Donkere kamer van Damocles
Beyond sleep
Machines en emoties
Moedwil en misverstand
Een landingspoging op Newfoundland en andere verhalen
De donkere kamer van Damokles
Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur
Ruisend gruis
Scheppend nihilisme
Herinneringen van een engelbewaarder
Van Wittgenstein tot Weinreb
Vincent literator
Ik draag geen helm met vederbos
Hermans is hier geweest
Je vriendschap is werkelijk onbetaalbaar
Slechte kritieken gaan nooit verloren, goede ook niet, sinds kort
De tranen der acacia's
De schrijfmachine mijmert gekkepraat
Een wonderkind of een total loss
Verscheur deze brief! Ik vertel veel te veel
De god Denkbaar, Denkbaar de god
Filip's sonatine
Fotobiografie
De laatste resten tropisch Nederland
Ik heb altijd gelijk
Au pair
Mondelinge mededelingen
Madelon in de mist van het schimmenrijk
De liefde tussen mens en kat
Waarom schrijven?
De raadselachtige Multatuli
Houten leeuwen en leeuwen van goud
Naar Magnitogorsk
Overgebleven gedichten
Periander
Klaas kwam niet
In de mist van het schimmenrijk
Nooit meer slapen
Onder professoren
Het boek der boeken, bij uitstek
Nooit meer slapen
Door gevaarlijke gekken omringd
Unter Professoren
De donkere kamer van Damokles
Drie melodrama's
Boze brieven van Bijkaart
Het evangelie van O. Dapper Dapper
Volledige werken
Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur
Wittgenstein
De laatste roker
Malle Hugo
De zegelring
En toch ... was de machine goed
Homme's hoest
Een heilige van de horlogerie
De aardappel van de dood
Au pair
Een onmiskenbare verwantschap
Koningin Eenoog
De woeste wandeling
King Kong
Paranoia
No dormir nunca más
Dinky toys
Conserve
Pang!
Het sadistische universum
Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur
Het Behouden Huis
Geyerstein's dynamiek
Uit talloos veel miljoenen
Gitaarvissen en banjoklokken
Een heilige van de horlogerie
Paranoia
Ik draag geen helm met vederbos
Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur
Hollywood
De woeste wandeling
Fons Rademakers
Nooit meer slapen
Ik draag geen helm met vederbos
Filip's sonatine
De weerspannige slaper
Van Wittgenstein tot Weinreb
Hellebaarden
Vijf verhalen
Fotobiografie
De donkere kamer van Damocles
In de mist van het schimmenrijk
לא לישון לעולם
Kussen door een rag van woorden
Niet uit kwaadaardigheid
Description et genese des depots meubles de surface et du relief de l'Oesling
Drie melodrama's
Een landingspoging op NewFoundland, en andere verhalen
Paranoia
Ik draag geen helm met vederbos
Een landingspoging op Newfoundland en andere verhalen
Het sadistische universum
Vier novellen
MACHINES IN BIKINI
De tranen der acacia's
Erosie
Filip's sonatine
De geur van een pasgestoomde deken
Filip's sonatine
Het hoedenparadijs
Het grote medelijden
De donkere kamer van Damokles
Ik draag geen helm met vederbos
Drie drama's
Au pair
Lebensraum
Na de dood van Willem Frederik Hermans
Moedwil en misverstand
W.F. Hermans
De raadselachtige Multatuli
Het sadistische universum
Raymond Federman
Raymond Federman (1928-2009)

poet, translator, literary critic

  • Columbia University, Columbia University School of General Studies

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The twofold vibration
Twofold Vibration
Samuel Beckett: his works and his critics
Mon corps en neuf parties
Journey to chaos
The voice in the closet
Return to Manure
Take It or Leave It
Critifiction
Take it or leave it
To whom it may concern
Smiles on Washington Square
Double or nothing
Aunt Rachel's fur
Shhh
Amer Eldorado, 2/001
Here and Elsewhere
The precipice and other catastrophes =
Surfiction
Samuel Beckett, the critical heritage
La fourrure de ma tante Rachel
Der Pelz meiner Tante Rachel. Ein improvisierter Roman..
Samuel Beckett
À la queue leu leu
The rigmarole of contrariety
La Flèche du temps
Journey into chaos
Take it or leave it
Surfiction
Cinq nouvelles nouvelles
A qui de droit
More Loose Shoes and Smelly Socks
The Supreme Indecision of the Writer
Shhh
Federman hors limites
Eine Version meines Lebens
Surfiction
Double or Nothing
Le livre de Sam, ou, Des pierres à sucer plein les poches
Double or Nothing Novel
Journey to chaos
Les carcasses
Me too
La fourrure de ma tante Rachel
Mon corps en neuf parties
Twilight of the Bums
Surfiction,fiction now...and tomorrow
Coups de pompes
My Body in Nine Parts
Samuel Beckett, his works and his critics
Chut
Pssst!
Chut
Shhh
The Sam book
Alan Levinovitz
Alan Levinovitz

academic, theologian, religious studies scholar

  • Stanford University, University of Chicago Divinity School

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Teaching Religion and Literature
Natural
The gluten lie
Limits of Religious Tolerance
Mentira Del Gluten
Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Papadimitriou (born 1949)

mathematician, computer scientist, musician

  • Princeton University, National Technical University of Athens

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Turing
Złożoność obliczeniowa
Combinatorial optimization
Turing
Logicomix - An Epic Search for Truth
Computational complexity
Theory of DB Concurr Con 27-1
Algorithms
The theory of database concurrency control
Turing (a Novel about Computation)
Kip S. Thorne
Kip S. Thorne (born 1940)

physicist, astronomer, astrophysicist

  • California Institute of Technology, Princeton University

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The science of Interstellar
The future of spacetime
Quantum measurement
Xing ji xiao ying
Black Holes
Black holes and time warps
Modern classical physics optics, fluids, plasmas, elasticity, relativity, and statistical physics
Relativistic stellar structure and dynamics
Black holes
Trous noirs et distorsions du temps
The rotation and pulsation of general relativistic stellar models
Mayres trypes kai strevlōseis tou chronou
Agujeros negros y tiempo curvo
Gravitational collapse