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Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007)

philosopher, essayist, playwright, psychologist, poet

  • New York University Tandon School of Engineering

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The Earth Will Shake - Historical Illuminatus Chronicles Volume 1
The Illuminatus! Trilogy The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy
Masks of the Illuminati
Nature's God - Historical Illuminatus Chronicles - Volume III
The illuminatus! trilogy
Semiotext(e) SF
Great Tales of Madness and the Macabre
The Dream Illuminati A Global Revolution Takes Wing
Right where you are sitting now
The Illuminati Papers
The new inquisition
The New Inquisition
RAW Memes
The Starseed Signals
Email to the Universe
TSOG
Natural Law
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Cosmic Trigger
The Widow's Son
Cosmic Trigger
Illuminatus!
Prometheus Rising
Everything is under control
Illuminatus!
Portable Darkness
Schrodinger’s Cat
Illuminatus!
Cosmic Trigger
Schrodinger’s Cat 3
TSOG
Rebels and Devils
Schrodinger’s Cat 2
Masken der Illuminaten
Reality is what you can get away with
Principia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her
Quantum psychology
Sex and Drugs
The Sex Magicians
Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything
Coincidance
The Widow's Son Volume 2 (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles)
Die Illuminati- Papiere
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Chaos and Beyond
Earth Will Shake
Wilhelm Reich in Hell
Coincidance
Email to the Universe
Schrödingers Katze. Das Universum nebenan / Der Zauberhut / Die Brieftauben
Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups
Literary Voices #1
The book of the breast
Nature's God (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles)
Playboy's book of forbidden words
El ciego de Sevilla
Religion for the Hell of It
Robert Anton Wilson
Reality is What You Can Get Away With
Undoing Yourself
Acceleration of Knowledge
Enciclopedia mit de ciencias cognitivas
Enciclopedia mit de ciencias cognitivas
Lion of Light
Natural law, or, Don't put a rubber on your willy
Enciclopedia mit de ciencias cognitivas
Sexo y cohetes
TIERRA TREMA CRONICAS HCAS.ILLUMINATI
Schrödingers Katze
Wilhelm Reich In Hell
Das Lexikon der Verschwörungstheorien
Trilogía ¡illuminatus!
Prometheus Rising
Enciclopedia mit de ciencias cognitivas
Trilogía ¡illuminatus!
El Martillo Cosmico II
Illuminatus!
Tale of the Tribe
To Lie Is Human
Iluminaį¹­us
Das Lexikon der Verschwörungstheorien. Verschwörungen, Intrigen, Geheimbünde
B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)

psychologist, philosopher, inventor, ethologist, autobiographer

  • Harvard University, Hamilton College

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B. F. Skinner papers
Cumulative record
Reflections on behaviorism and society
The technology of teaching
Science And Human Behavior
Verbal behavior
A matter of consequences
Pa.delà la liberté et la dignité
About behaviourism
Skinner for the classroom
Particulars of My Life (B.F. Skinner's Autobiography, Pt 1)
How to enjoy your old age
Contingencies of reinforcement
Notebooks
The behavior of organisms, an experimental analysis
B.F. Skinner's Walden 2
Are theories of learning necessary?
The Shaping of a Behaviorist (B.F. Skinner's Autobiography, Pt 2)
Schedules of reinforcement
El Analisis De La Conducta
Recent issues in the analysis of behavior
Upon further reflection
Disfrutar la vejez
Handwriting with Write and see
Sobre el conductismo
A digest of decisions of the Anthracite board of conciliation
Science and human behaviour
Reflections on behaviorism and society
Control of Human Behavior
La Révolution scientifique de l'enseignement
Development of methods of preparing materials for teaching machines. --
Notebooks
Cumulative record
Undervisningsteknologi
B F. Skinner
Har vi raad til frihed?
Verbal Behavior
Jenseits von Freiheit und Würde
Compassion and ethics in the care of the retardate (chap.19)
A matter of consequence
About behaviorism
Biheviyorizem
Ke xue yu ren lei xing wei
Il comportamento verbale
Beyond freedom and dignity
How to Teach Animals
Iain Banks
Iain Banks (1954-2013)

philosopher

  • University of Stirling

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The player of games
Look to windward
Surface Detail
The State of the Art
Canal dreams
Inversions
Matter
Feersum endjinn
Walking on glass
The Algebraist
The Hydrogen Sonata
Against a Dark Background
Excession
Consider Phlebas
Use of Weapons
Transition
Iain M. Banks Culture - 25th anniversary box set: Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games and Use of Weapons
Espedair Street
The wasp factory
The Crow Road
The Steep Approach to Garbadale
The Bridge
A song of stone
Dead Air
Complicity
The Business
Stonemouth
Raw Spirit
Whit
Paniques
The quarry
Personal Effects
Poems
Efroyabl ange1
Burning Brightly
Pasos sobre cristal
Song of Stone Hb D/Bx12
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Surface Detail
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Use of Weapons
Juegos de Familia
Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway (born 1944)

philosopher, sociologist, historian, biologist

  • Yale University, Colorado College

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Simians, cyborgs, and women
Modestā‚‹Witness@Secondā‚‹Millennium.FemaleManā‚‹Meetsā‚‹OncoMouse
The Haraway reader
How like a leaf
Primate visions
Crystals, fabrics, and fields
MonstroĢˆse Versprechen
Ciencia Cyborgs y Mujeres
When species meet
A Cyborg Manifesto
Concrete Jungle
Saibōgu feminizumu
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

architect, inventor, diarist, scientist, poet, artist, visual artist, engineer, philosopher, designer, mathematician

  • Harvard University, Bates College

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Nine chains to the moon
Intuition
Approaching the benign environment
Fuller's earth
Comprehensive thinking
Approaching the benign environment [by] R. Buckminster Fuller, Eric A. Walker [and] James R. Killian, Jr. Pref. by Taylor Littleton
Pound, synergy, and the great design
50 years of the design science revolution and the World Game
Science fact/fiction
Critical path
Operating manual for spaceship earth
Synergetics
Earth, Inc.
Your private sky
Inventions
Humans in universe
Education automation
R. Buckminster Fuller on education
Buckminster Fuller
Synergetics 2
American Earth
The Complete Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller
Guinea Pig B
Grunch of giants
Ideas and integrities
Tetrascroll
And it came to pass--not to stay
Untitled poem on the history of industrialization
The Buckminster Fuller reader
I seem to be a verb
Naga
Utopia Or Oblivion
Utopia or oblivion: the prospects for humanity
Fuller R. Buckminster - Now and Tomorrow
Synergetics dictionary
Cosmography
Buckminster Fuller
World design science decade, 1965-1975
What I am trying to do
Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller-A Comprehensive Collection of His Designs and Drawings
No more seconhand God, and other writings
The world game
The dymaxion world of Buckminster Fuller
Ideas and integrities
Buckminster Fuller to children of earth
The artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller
World design science decade 1965-1975
Utopia or oblivian
The design initiative
Integrity Day
Designing Environments
4D time lock
Fuller projection Dymaxion air-ocean world
The Buckminster Fuller reader
The Critical Path (2 tapes)
A Twentieth Century Renaissance
Éducation, automation
Three structures by Buckminster Fuller in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Only Integrity Is Going to Count
Approaching the Benign Environment (The Franklin lectures in the sciences and humanities)
Fifty years of the design science revolution and the world game
Synergetics / The Parajo Dunes Tapes
Buckminster Fuller at Camberwell
And it came to pass--not to stay
Windfall Poems, 1977
Education for Human Development
Universal architecture
Grunch Giants
Fifty Year Experiment
Better homes for lower incomes
World game report
4 D
Is There Enough to Go Around
Buckminster Fuller
In the Tuileries Garden
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-1673)

philosopher, physicist, poet, essayist, lady-in-waiting

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Margaret Cavendish
Political writings / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of New Castle ; edited by Susan James
The philosophical and physical opinions
Ground of natural philosophy
The philosphical and physical opinions
The blazing world and other writings
The description of a new world, called the blazing world and other writings
Bell in Campo
Margaret Cavendish
The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World
The Norton Anthology of English Literature -- Seventh Edition -- Volume 1B
Paper bodies
The Cavalier in Exile: Being the Lives of the First Dvke & Dvtchess of Newcastle
Observations upon experimental philosophy
The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World
The Description of New Blazing World and Other Writings (N Y U Press Women's Classics)
Assaulted and Pursued Chastity
Sociable letters
Sociable letters, 1664
The convent of pleasure and other plays
Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions (Broadview Literary Texts)
The Blazing World and Other Writings
The sociable companions, or, The female wits
The life of William Cavendish
The life of the (1st) Duke of Newcastle
Grounds of natural philosophy
The lives of William Cavendishe, Duke of Newcastle, and of his wife, Margaret Duchess of Newcastle
Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, Abridged
The life of the Duke of Newcastle
The life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle; to which is added the true relation of my birth, breeding and life
"The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays
The cavalier and his lady
The lives of William Cavendishe, Duke of Newcastle, and of his wife, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
Sociable Letters
Poems and fancies, 1653
The description of a new world
Philosophical letters
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (Broadview Editions)
Assaulted And Pursued Chastity
The life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, to which is added the true relation of my birth, breeding and life
The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
The Contract
The life of the (1st) Duke of Newcastle, & other writings
CCXI sociable letters
Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places
De vita et rebus gestis nobilissimi illustrissimique principis, Guilielmi ducis Novo-Castrensis, commentarii
Orations of divers sorts, accommodated to divers places
Blazing World Anotated
Blazing World an Illustrated
The life of William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle
The Blazing World
The lives of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, and of his wife, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
Blazing World Illustrated
Lives of William Cavendishe, Duke of Newcastle
Grounds of natural philosophy : divided into thirteen parts: with an appendix containing five parts
Blazing World an Annotated
Blazing World Annatoted Version
Philosophical letters
The life of the thrice noble, high, and puissant prince William Cavendishe, Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Newcastle ..
Poems, or, several fancies in verse
A true relation of the birth, breeding, and life, of Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle
Blazing World Llustrated
Orations of divers sorts, accommodated to divers places. VVritten by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princess, the Dutchess of Newcastle
Blazing World Be Annotated
Blazing World Annotated
The Blazing World
The cavalier and his lady
The cavalier in exile
The worlds olio
Poems, and fancies
The sociable companions
Playes
Natures pictures drawn by fancies pencil to the life
The presence
Poems and phancies
CCXI sociable letters
Poems, or, Several fancies in verse
A piece of a play
The Life of the thrice noble High and Puissant Prince, William Cavendish, Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Newcastle ...
The life of the Duke of Newcastle and other writings
The description of a new world, called the blazing world
The Life of the Duke of Newcastle
CCXI
The life of William Cavendish
Poems and fancies, 1653
The convent of pleasure
The bridals
Plays never before printed
Poems and fancies
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838-1889)

playwright, poet, philosopher

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Eve future
AntologiĢa de la literatura fantaĢstica
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century
The Frankenstein Omnibus
Clasicos de Suspenso y de Terror - 2 Cassette
Relatos escalofriantes
La révolte
The best horror stories
La révolte
Nouveaux contes cruels et Propos d'au dela
Contes cruels
Elën
Contes Cruels
Contes cruels
Histoires souveraines
Axël
Tribulat Bonhomet
Le nouveau-monde
AxeĢˆl
Nouveaux contes cruels et propos d'au delà
The Vampire Soul And Other Sardonic Tales
Cruel tales
Nouvelles reliques
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
L'EĢ€ve future
Œuvres compleĢ€tes
Contes cruels
Claire Lenoir et autres contes insolites
L' EĢ€ve future
AxeĢˆl
Le prétendant
Chez les passants
Correspondance générale de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam et documents inédits
Contes cruels
Cuentos Crueles
De l'unité transcendante des religions
Nouveaux contes cruels
Contes cruels; Nouveaux contes cruels
Contes et reĢcits
The Scaffold And Other Cruel Tales
Correspondance générale et documents inédits
Le Pouvoir de l'amour
Cruel Tales
Isis précédé de "L'Allure mentale" par Bernard Noël
Clair Lenoir
Contes cruels
Véra et autres nouvelles fantastiques
Axel
Textes politiques ineĢdits de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Isis
Contes cruels : nouveaux contes cruels
Contes fantastiques
Contes cruels
Cruel tales
AkeĢˆdysseĢril ..
Contes cruels
Axel
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
The revolt
The revolt, and The escape
Secret de L'échafaud
Textes politiques ine dits de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Premières poésies, 1856-1858
L' Eve future
The Revolt, and the Escape. Translated from the French by Theresa Barclay
Tribulat Bonhomet
Axël
Les Fleurs Du Mal
Tribulat Bonhomet
Axel
Oeuvres Completes (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade) Vol. 1
Derniers Contes
Oeuvres Completes Vol. 2
L' évasion
Los Amantes De Toledo Y Otras Historias Insolitas (Clasicos De La Diversidad)
Axel
AxeĢˆl
The erring sister
Contes Cruels
L' Ève future
The revolt and The escape
Reliques
Tribulat Bonhomet
Axel
L' Eve future
Le prétendant ; drame en cinq actes et en prose
Sardonic Tales (English Version)
Axel
Correspondance Generale 2 vols
Claire Lenoir et autres contes insolites
Derniers contes
L' Eve future
Isis
Nouveaux contes cruels
L' amour supreĢ‚me
Contes Cruels
Eve of the future Eden
Chez les Passants, Fantaisies, Pamphlets et Souvenirs; Suivi de Pages Inédites
Oeuvres comple tes de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Axël
Contes cruels
Contes cruels
Chez les passants
Cuentos crueles
Foltering door hoop en andere griezelverhalen
Axel (New library of French classics)
Axe l
Legende vom weiszen elefanten
Cruel tales
Oeuvres Completes 11 vols
Nouveaux Contes Cruels et Propos d'au Delà
Cruel tales
The erring sister
Axel
Contes cruels
Claire Lenoir et autres contes insolites
L'Ève future
L'Ève future
Morgane
Grandes amoureuses
Un conte, une lettre
Chez les passants
Œuvres compleĢ€tes de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam ..
Le prétendant
Nouveaux contes cruels, et Propos d'au dela
Oeuvres complètes de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Les trois premiers contes
?uvres comple?tes de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam ..
Isis
Contes fantastiques
Correspondance
Nouvelles reliques [de] Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Contes cruels
Cruel tales
Cruel tales
Akëdysséril et autres contes
Nouveaux contes cruels
Tribulat Bonhomet
Le pre?tendant
Trois portraits de femmes
The revolt, and, the Escape
Contes cruels
Contes et reĢcits
Le prétendant
Le secret de l'échafaud
Izbrannoe
Correspondance genérale de Villiers de l'Isle Adam et documents inédits
Correspondance geneĢrale de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam et documents ineĢdits
Tribulat Bonhomet [par] Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
The revolt ; and, The escape
Visionen aus dem Osten
Claire Lenoir
Isis
Derniers contes
Zhestokie rasskazy
Le Convive des dernières fêtes
Contes cruels ; Nouveaux contes cruels
Histoires insolites
Axël
L'évasion
Queen Isabeau
Les trois premiers contes
Trois contes cruels
Sardonic tales
Contes cruels
12 contes cruels
L' amour suprême
L' eĢlu des reĢ‚ves
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Eine Auswahl seiner ErzaĢˆhlungen
Correspondance générale et documents inédits
Premières poésies, 1856-1858
La révolte
Axël
Mordecai Roshwald
Mordecai Roshwald (1921-2015)

philosopher

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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