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Angus Wilson
Angus Wilson (1913-1991)

librarian

  • University of Oxford, Westminster School

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A. D. 2500
Anglo-Saxon attitudes
Hemlock and After
The middle age of Mrs. Eliot
The old men at the zoo
Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960
Twice-Told Tales
As if by magic
The world of Charles Dickens
No laughing matter
Reflections in a writer's eye
Setting the world on fire
The wrong set
The strange ride of Rudyard Kipling
Late call
Such darling dodos, and other stories
For whom the cloche tolls
The strange ride of Rudyard Kipling
Emile Zola
The collected stories of Angus Wilson
Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
Diversity and depth in fiction
Death dance
A bit off the map, and other stories
The wrong set, and other stories
ANGLO-SAXON ATTITUDES
The mulberry bush
As if by magic
Brüchiges Eis. Roman
Collected Stories
A bit off the map
Such darling dodos, andother stories
The wild garden; or Speaking of Writing
East Anglia in verse and prose
Such Darling Dodos
Seven Deadly Sins
Essays by Divers Hands
The small stage and its equipment
No laughing matter
The small stage and its equipment
The naughty nineties
Scenic equipment for the small stage
The wild garden, or, Speaking of writing
The world of Charles Dickens
EĢmile Zola
Emile Zola
No Laughing Matter
The wild garden
The wrong set
For whom the cloche tolls
The Mulberry Bush
Tempo
Émile Zola
Writers of East Anglia
Le monde de Charles Dickens
The wild garden, or, Speaking of writing
The mulberry bush
A bit off the map
The Seven deadly sins
Such darling dodos
Angus Wilson talks about his life and work to Malcom Bradbury
For Whom the Clock
Death dance
The wild garden
Stage lighting for the amateur producer
A bit off the map and other stories
The wrong set, and other stories
East Anglia in verse and prose
Home-made lighting apparatus for the amateur stage
THe impact of television on the arts
Angus Wilson in conversation with Malcolm Bradbury
Stage lighting for the amateur producer
Acting material for dramatic classes
Anglo-Saxon attitudes
Émile Zola, an introductory study of his novels
The middle age of Mrs. Eliot
Scenic equipment for the small stage
Emile Zola
Anglo-Saxon attitudes, a novel
As if by magic
Late call
Home-made lighting apparatus for the amateur stage
All about photographing shows with your camera
Dickens
The Wild garden
La Madurez De La Señora Eliot
Attitudes anglo-Saxonnes
Spectrum
The seven deadly sins
No laughing matter
England
The complete whale-watching handbook
For Whom the Cloche Tolls
The seven deadly sins
Late call
Anglo-Saxon attitudes
A bit off the map, and other stories
Paul Johnsgard
Paul Johnsgard (1931-2021)

zoologist, ornithologist

  • North Dakota State University, Washington State University

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Dragons and unicorns
Prairie Birds
The hummingbirds of North America
Great Wildlife of the Great Plains
North American game birds of upland and shoreline
Hawks, eagles & falcons of North America
Birds of the Rocky Mountains
The grouse of the world
Arena birds
Bustards, hemipodes, and sandgrouse
Earth, water, and sky
Ducks in the wild
The plovers, sandpipers, and snipes of the world
Cormorants, darters, and pelicans of the world
Cranes of the world
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains
Ducks, geese, and swans of the world
North American owls
The Niobrara
Song of the north wind
A guide to North American waterfowl
Crane music
Ruddy ducks & other stifftails
Teton wildlife
Grouse and quails of North America
The Platte
The Nature of Nebraska
This fragile land
Birds of the Great Plains
Diving birds of North America
The avian brood parasites
The pheasants of the world
Prairie Dog Empire
Sandhill and whooping cranes
Trogons And Quetzals Of The World
The Bird decoy
Waterfowl
Those of the gray wind, the sandhill cranes
The quails, partridges, and francolins of the world
Migrations of the imagination: Photographs by Michael Forsberg, drawings, sculptures and quotations by Paul A. Johnsgard, and additional works of art
Yellowstone wildlife
The Bird Decoy
Ruddy Ducks Other Stifftails Their Behavior And Biology
Prairie children, mountain dreams
Handbook of waterfowl behavior
Baby Bird Portraits / Watercolors in the Field Museum
Waterfowl of North America
Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie
A Naturalist's Guide to the Great Plains
Waterfowl, their biology and natural history
The relation of water level and vegetational change to avian populations, particularly waterfowl
Faces of the Great Plains
Hawks, Eagles, and Falcons of North America
Animal behavior
Prairie Dog Empire
A chorus of cranes
Guide to North American Waterfowl
Animal behavior
Waterfowl, their biology and natural history
Avian Brood Parasites
Baby Bird Portraits
Sandhill and Whooping Cranes
Birds of the Rocky Mountains
Earth, Water, and Sky
Wildlife of Nebraska
Ruddy Ducks and Other Stifftails
Handbook of waterfowl behavior
Wind through the buffalo grass
Those of the gray wind
Handbook of waterfowl behavior
Natural Treasures of the Great Plains
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains
Animal behavior
Ducks in the Wild
Hummingbirds of North America, Second Edition
Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose (born 1931)

mathematician, physicist, philosopher, astronomer, astrophysicist

  • University College London, University of Cambridge

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White Mars; or, the Mind Set Free
The Road to Reality
Shadows of the mind
The large, the small and the human mind
The Emperor's New Mind
Cycles of Time
Nature and the Greeks
Collected works
Cycles of Time
The nature of space and time
Spinors and space-time
Stephen Hawking
What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013
Three Princeton Lectures on the Mathematics and Physics
Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity
Les ombres de l'esprit
Droga do rzeczywistości
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
Computerdenken
Les ombres de l'esprit
Hermann Weyl
Les deux infinis et l'esprit humain
White Mars
On space and time
Spinors and Space-Time
On Space And Time
Cosmology of Consciousness
Analytical and numerical approaches to mathematical relativity
Hermann Weyl
Einstein's Miraculous Year
Spinors and Space-Time, Volume 1
Ciclos del tiempo
Ciclos del tiempo
El camino a la realidad
Der Weg zur Wirklichkeit
Conversations with Einstein
Lo grande, lo pequeño y la mente humana
Zyklen der Zeit
Zihnin Gölgeleri
Fizigin Gizemi Kralin Yeni Usu 2. Cilt
Techniques of differential topology in relativity
Eschermatics
Artificial Intelligence Versus Natural Intelligence
Science, spirituality, and the nature of reality
Zaman Döngüleri
Gercegin Yollari
A la découverte des lois de l'univers
Consciousness and the Universe
Quantum gravity 2
Kralin Yeni Akli
Twistor Symmetries and Particle Physics
Us Nerede? Kralin Yeni Usu 3. Cilt
Eschermatics
Emperor's New Mind
Mr Tompkins in Paperback
Consciousness and the universe
Kralin Yeni Akli
La Mente Nueva del Emperador
Evrenin Yeni Fiziğinde Moda, Ä°nanç ve Fantezi
Emperor's Guide to the Physical Universe
The Emperor's New Mind - Concerning Computers , Minds , and the Law of Physics
Lo grande, lo pequeño y la mente humana
L'esprit, l'ordinateur et les lois de la physique
Lo grande, lo pequeno y la mente humana
Lo grande, lo pequeño y la mente humana
Altair Design
Bilgisayar ve Zeka Kralin Yeni Usu 1. Cilt
Moda, fe y fantasía en la nueva física del universo
How Consciousness Became the Universe
Quantum gravity
Schatten des Geistes: Wege zu einer neuen Physik des Bewußtseins (German Edition)
Mary Daly
Mary Daly (1928-2010)

theologian, philosopher, women's rights activist

  • The Catholic University of America, University of Fribourg

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Quintessence-- realizing the archaic future
Outercourse
GENDER AND THE WELFARE STATE: CARE, WORK AND WELFARE IN EUROPE AND THE USA
Gyn/ecology
Beyond God the Father
Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation
Pure Lust
Beyond God the Father
The church and the second sex
Aging in America
The Gender Division of Welfare
Amazon grace
QUINTESSENCE
The church and the second sex
Quintessence
Against all odds
Gyn Ecology - The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
Gyn Ecology the Metaethics of Radical Fe
The problem of speculative theology
Le Deuxième sexe conteste
Natural knowledge of God in the philosophy of Jacques Maritain
Anywhere But Here
Gravestone inscriptions from Mount Auburn Catholic Cemetery, Watertown, Massachusetts
Abandoned: profile of Europe's homeless people
Dublin, the Deposed Capital
The Mary Daly reader
Natural knowledge of God in the philosophy of Jacques Maritain
Beyond God the Father Toward a Philosoph
Kyohoe wa che-2 ŭi sŏng
Hananim Abŏji rŭl nŏmŏsŏ
Hananim apachiruru nomoso
Gender and the Welfare State
Junot Díaz
Junot DĆ­az (born 1968)

faculty member

  • Cornell University, Rutgers University

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Global Dystopias
Drown
The Best American Short Stories 1997
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
This is how you lose her
The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
Islandborn
The Best American Short Stories 2016
Beacon Best of 2001 (Beacon Anthology)
The New Yorker Out Loud
Los boys
Schiffe Aus Feuer. 36 Geschichten aus Lateinamerika
Rutgers
Glimmer Train Stories, #91
Guide du loser amoureux (Feux croisés) (French Edition)
Cheater's Guide to Love
Dismantle
Nilda. El sol, la luna, las estrellas. Otravida, otravez
Asi Es Como La Pierdes (Spanish Edition)
Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beck (1944-2015)

sociologist, economist

  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Science + fiction
Risikogesellschaft
Reflexive modernization
Der kosmopolitische Blick oder: Krieg ist Frieden
Power in the Global Age
Individualization
Was zur Wahl steht: zur Bundestagswahl
Das kosmopolitische Europa: Gesellschaft und Politik in der zweiten Moderne
Power in the Global Age
The risk society and beyond
The risk society and beyond
Die Erfindung des Politischen
Gegengifte
The normal chaos of love
Weltrisikogesellschaft
World at Risk
Cosmopolitan Europe
Ecological enlightenment
Das kosmopolitische Europa
Was ist Globalisierung?
A God of One's Own: Religion's Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence
Das deutsche Europa
Democracy without enemies
Kinder der Freiheit
COSMOPOLITAN VISION; TRANS. BY CIARAN CRONIN
Die Metamorphose der Welt
Reflexive modernization
Was zur Wahl steht
Twenty Observations On A World In Turmoil
Distant Love
Macht und Gegenmacht im globalen Zeitalter. Neue weltpolitische Ökonomie
GERMAN EUROPE
Entgrenzung und Entscheidung
Schöne neue Arbeitswelt
Individualisierung und Integration
SchoĢˆne neue Arbeitswelt
After Zero
Die Welt voll Teufel
Zeitenwende-Aufbruch in das 21. Jahrhundert
Perspektiven der Weltgesellschaft
Die Neuvermessung der Ungleichheit unter den Menschen
Berufswahl und Berufszuweisung
German Europe
Das ganz normale Chaos der Liebe
Fernliebe
Freiheit oder Kapitalismus
Schöne neue Arbeitswelt
Ulrich Beck
Das ganz normale Chaos der Liebe
Das Schweigen der Wörter. Über Terror und Krieg
Eigenes Leben
Global America?
ObjektivitaĢˆt und NormativitaĢˆt
Ecological enlightenment
Sobre El Terrorismo Y La Guerra
Die Erfindung des Politischen
Cosmopolitan Vision
Abschied vom Ego-Kult
CONVERSATIONS WITH ULRICH BECK; TRANS. BY MICHAEL POLLAK
Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil
Riskante Freiheiten
Pausenpoesie
Poder y contrapoder en la era Global / Power Against Power In The Global Era
Normal Chaos of Love
Ethik des Denkens
Un Nuevo Mundo Feliz
Libertad O Capitalismo
Objektivität und Normativität
Cosmopolitan Vision
Soziologie der Arbeit und der Berufe
Weltrisikogesellschaft, WeltoĢˆffentlichkeit und globale Subpolitik
Vergangenheit und Zukunft der Moderne
Una Europa alemana
L'ultima crociata?
Conversations with Ulrich Beck
Global America?
Brave New World of Work
GespraĢˆche zur Zeit (Wiener Vorlesungen) (German Edition)
Die Soziale Konstitution der Berufe
POWER IN THE GLOBAL AGE: A NEW GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY; TRANS. BY KATHLEEN CROSS
Die feindlose Demokratie. Ausgewählte Aufsätze
Pouvoir et contre-pouvoir à l'ère de la mondialisation
God of One's Own
Generación global
Ecological Enlightenment
Un nuevo mundo felíz
Politik in der Risikogesellschaft. Essays und Analysen
Der eigene Gott
Berufliche Arbeitsteilung und soziale Ungleichheit
Risikogesellschaft. Sonderausgabe. Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne
LA Invencion De Lo Politico
La Mirada Cosmopolita O La Guerra Es La Paz / The Cosmopolitan Look or The War is Peace (Estado Y Sociedad / State and Society)
Der kosmopolitische Blick, oder, Krieg ist Frieden
Cosmopolitan Europe
Sind die Grünen noch zu retten?
Spurwechsel
Hijos de la Libertad
Die Modernisierung der Moderne
Kosmopoliticheskoe mirovozzrenie
Nachrichten aus der Weltinnenpolitik
The silence of words
Vlast £ i ee opponenty v e pochu globalizma
ćƒŖć‚¹ć‚ÆåŒ–ć™ć‚‹ę—„ęœ¬ē¤¾ä¼š
Soziologie und Praxis
Vlada i kontrvlada u dobu hlobalizaciiĶĢˆ
Ź»Olam įø„adash yafeh
Philosophie heute
Neue europäische Architektur und kosmopolitische Nation
La Democracia Y Sus Enemigos
El normal caos del amor
Presente y Futuro del Estado de Bienestar
Macht und Gegenmacht im globalen Zeitalter
Die Zukunft von Arbeit und Demokratie
Abschied vom Ego-Kult
Ortsbestimmungen der Soziologie
Weltrisikogesellschaft
įø²osmopoliį¹­iyut
Subjektorientierte Soziologie
Conversations with Ulrich Beck
Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

mathematician, theoretical physicist, nuclear physicist, professor, statistician, physicist

  • University of Cambridge, Winchester College

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Imagined worlds
What Are You Optimistic About?
From Eros to Gaia
Disturbing the universe
The sun, the genome & the Internet
Infinite in all directions
The Scientist as Rebel
A Many-Colored Glass
Origins of Life (CANTO)
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2010
Disturbing the Universe
Maker of patterns
Heretical thoughts about science and society
Dreams of earth and sky
Yu zhou po lan =
Weapons and hope
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
Values at war
Origins of life
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Imagined Worlds (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
From Eros to Gaia
Dear Professor Dyson
Imagined worlds
Los origenes de la vida
Birds and Frogs; selected papers, 1990-2014
Die Sonne, das Genom und das Internet. Wissenschaftliche Innovation und die Technologien der Zukunft
Advanced quantum mechanics
Symmetry groups in nuclear and particle physics
Imagined Worlds
Le soleil, le génome et Internet
Field theory
Die Sonne, das Genom und das Internet
Selected papers of Freeman Dyson with commentary
Disturbing the Universe
Les dérangeurs de l'univers
Dyson Quantenfeldtheorie
El Infinito En Todas Direcciones
Technology and social justice (Louis Nizer lecture on public policy)
De Eros A Gaia
Neutron stars and pulsars
The world, the flesh and the devil..
Zeit ohne Ende: Physik und Biologie eines offenen Universums
Daison hakushi no taiyō genomu intānetto
SOL, (0) O GENOMA E A INTERNET - Ferramentas de Revoluções Científicas -(EURO 9.73)
Advanced quantum mechanics
Douglas Hofstadtesr
Douglas Hofstadtesr (born 1945)

philosopher, computer scientist, physicist

  • Stanford University, University of Oregon

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Mathenauts
The Mind's I
Metamagical Themas
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Le Ton beau de Marot
I Am a Strange Loop
Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics
A Bouquet for the Gardener
Piano Music
Shakespeare's plays weren't written by him, but by someone else of the same name
Butterfly in the Quantum World
Rhapsody on a theme by Clément Marot
To Light the Flame of Reason
Ambigrammi
The Tumult of Inner Voices or What Is the Meaning of the Word 'I'? (Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values, 1982)