Well-known authors from A-Z
Explore the vast array of literary pieces written by authors from A through Z. This collection spans centuries of literary brilliance, from the ancient epics of Aeschylus to the realist novels of Émile Zola. Delve into works that have shaped cultural and intellectual landscapes, featuring iconic authors whose words have stood the test of time. Whether you’re interested in the philosophical musings of Aristotle, the timeless plays of Shakespeare, or the groundbreaking fiction of contemporary writers, this category offers a rich tapestry of stories and ideas. Embark on a historical journey through the ages, discovering the diverse voices that have contributed to the ever-evolving narrative of human experience.
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Collected Papers V. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences Alfred Schutz Author
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Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book shows how phenomenology of the social sciences differs from positivistic approaches, and presents Schutz's theory of relevances--a key feature of his own pheno ...
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Peter Bialobrzeski: Heimat
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Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005. A touch of age toning to the page borders, else near fine in an almost fine jacket.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Illustrated with 34 full-page color photographs, lovely large-scale images of the German c ...
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The Complete History of Middle-earth Box Set: Three Volumes Comprising All Twelve Books of The History of Middle-earth Christopher Tolkien Author
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This very special collector's edition brings together all twelve books into three hardcover volumes?more than 5,000 pages of fascinating Tolkien material?and places them in one matching box. The History Of Middle-Earth Boxed Set is a treasured boxed ...
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East 100th Street
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For two years in the 1960s, Bruce Davidson photographed one block in East Harlem. He went back day after day, standing on sidewalks, knocking on doors, asking permission to photograph a face, a child, a room, a family. Through his skill, his extraord ...
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William Eggleston's Guide
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New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002. Second Edition. Hardcover. Condition is Very Good, bound in textured boards with color photograph mounted to front panel. Slight lean to spine, small bump to spine base. Interior is clean and unmarked. Szarkowsk ...
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Teil 3: Briefe - Bd. 5: Briefe 1801 - 1806: Gesamtausgabe der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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frommann-holzboog Verlag e.K., German. German Idealism, German Idealism. Hardcover. New. VIII, 444 p., 22,3 x 27,1 cm. Fichte lived in Berlin during the years covered by this volume, with the exception of a brief period when he taught in Erlangen ( ...
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Sandman Box Set
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gewerbliches Angebot, Neuware, [PU: DC Comics], 3000, [GW: 5441g], [ED: Taschenbuch], DE, The iconic series THE SANDMAN from New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman collected in a beautiful slipcased box set!Weaving together ancient mythology, ...
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The Age of Innocence
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Aurum Press, 1995. 1995. Hardcover. 25 x 26,3 cm. Accompanied by lyrical poetry, this collection showcases the nude portrait photography David Hamilton is known for. This collection of Hamilton's erotic photographic portraits of young girls is accom ...
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Nostradamus 2014: Prediction Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems
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*Nostradamus 2014: Prediction Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems * / pdf eBook für 149.99€ / Aus dem Bereich: eBooks-Sachthemen & Ratgeber-Computer & Internet pdf eBook eBook pdf no Medien > Bücher > E-Books eBooks > Sachthemen & Ratgeber > ...
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Bernard Bolzano Gesamtausgabe / Reihe I: Schriften. Band 13,3: Wissenschaftslehre §§ 349-391
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frommann-holzboog Verlag e.K., German. Hardcover. New. 211 p., 18,1 x 25,4 cm. This critical edition of Bolzano’s main philosophical work incorporates his own corrections, among other things. It originated as Bolzano’s attempt to refute s ...
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Exiles. Essay by Czeslaw Milosz.
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[SC: 30.04], [PU: Aperture, NY], PHOTOGRAPHY, Jacket, Oblong 4to., (v) pp., 61 full-page b&w plates. Fine in the slightly rubbed photo-illustratred dust jacket. As wrenching a look at the juxtaposition of the "outsider" to the common world as Fukase' ...
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Images of women (Schirmer art books on film, showbusiness & performing arts)
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Schirmer / Mosel 1997. Hardcover with dusjacket 300 PAGES Illustrated. 40x28 cm, Fine. ISBN 9783888148668. Previously, Schirmer/ Mosel published Peter Lindbergh's bestseller ?Ten Women. 'Images of Women' now brings a complete overview ...
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The Standard, 8 March 1947 - Weekly Montreal Pictorial Newspaper
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Northfield, VT: William E. Osgood. [This was printed by the Northfield News & Printery], 1997. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Very good. Rebecca Merrilees (Drawings and Maps). The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.25 inches. [ ...
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Auto Union Album 1934 1939
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Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 23.12], [PU: Published by Transport Bookman Publications 8 South Street, Isleworth First Edition . 1998.], MOTORING, SPORTS CARS, Jacket, First edition hard back binding in publisher's original silver grey paper covered ...
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Die Beduinen
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[SC: 19.76], Unter mitbearbeitung von Erich Braunlich und Werner Caskel. First and only edition. 3 vols in 4. 6 folding maps, 32 plates and folding genealogical tables. Original printed wrappers, spine lightly sunned with small tear to spine on vol 1 ...
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Farewell to Bosnia
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[EAN: 9781881616221], [SC: 45.03], [PU: Scalo Publishers, Zurich, Switzerland], PHOTOGRAPHY, First edition. Large hardcover. Text in English. One of the most powerful photographic examination of the horrors of war. A collection of black and white pho ...
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Exercises in Style
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London:: Gaberbocchus Press,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. B0000CK6D3 . Translated from the French by Barbara Wright. First British edition. From a smoker's library - light tobacco odor, else very good in a very good (age d ...
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Then & now. Hollywood boulevard 1973 - 2004.
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"Between 1962 and 1978, Ed Ruscha produced 18 small artist's books. Usually self-published and in small print runs, these publications have become seminal works in the history of conceptual art and the photography book. THEN & NOW is the first artist ...
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Stielers Hand-Atlas. 100 Karten in Kupferstich. Mit 162 Nebenkarten. Neunte, von Grund aus neubearbeitete und neugestochene Auflage. Siebenter berichtigter Abdruck
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RARE original-colour lithograph, with descriptive separate text page from volume 36, taf.20 [plate], folds as issued. The map sheet covers the NW part of the USA: from Washington and California to Oregon, Idaho, till the Rocky Mountains. Pre-publica ...
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Gas Stations: 1982 and 1986
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New book, [SC: 35.4], [PU: Nazraeli Press, Paso Robles, California], Jacket, To subscribe to the One Picture Book Two series, and receive a copy of each future book and signed print at the subscription price of $40, please inquire (limited availabili ...
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Theologische Realenzyklopa?die (German Edition)
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[EAN: 9783110069440], Gebraucht, [SC: 65.32], [PU: W. de Gruyter], GERMAN LANGUAGE & LITERATURE, Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Ex-library books and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. All volumes rebound by library. Hardback covers. ...
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![C. Velleii Paterculi quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus duobus cum integris animadversionibus doctorum curante Davide Ruhnkenio [David Ruhnken].](https://images.euro-book.co.uk/buch/cover/MzQxMjgzNDM3NDg3NTtodHRwczovL3BpY3R1cmVzLmFiZWJvb2tzLmNvbS9pbnZlbnRvcnkvODYwODgzNzEzNS5qcGc%3D.jpg)
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C. Velleii Paterculi quae supersunt. Nicolaus Heinsius Dan. F. recensuit et castigationum libellum addidit.
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Paris (Lutetiae), Ex officina Rob. Stephani, 1616. 12mo. (XL),126,(2 blank) p. 19th century half cloth. 13.5 cm 'The most important, most widely read, most influential classical poet throughout the 17th and 18th centuries' (Ref: Schweiger 2 ...
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Cooper, Anthony Ashley, Third Earl of Shaftesbury: Standard Edition (SE). II. Moral and Political Philosophy: Bd 2.: An Inquiry concerning Virtue, or Merit; An Inquiry concerning Virtue
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frommann-holzboog Verlag e.K., English. Hardcover. New. 316 p., 17,2 x 24,4 cm. Content: An Inquiry concerning Virtue, or Merit An Inquiry concerning Virtue The earliest published versions of both ›The Moralists‹ and ›Inquiry‹ u ...
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Institutio Cyri (Bk. 4) (Oxford Classical Texts)
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hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book., 2.5 ...
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Matter / Burn Out
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Condition: New (sealed, still in publisher's shrinkwrap). First edition. Softcover. 304 pages. 11.2 x 8.2 x 1 inches. ISBN: 9784902080582. "Daisuke Yokota has presented to the public an immense installation using 100,000[?] photographic prints coated ...
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The Art of Indian Asia: Pt. 1 & 2: Its Mythology and Transformations (The Art of Indian Asia: Its Mythology and Transformations)
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The Present work is intended not as a handbook bus as an introduction to its subject, to be read from beginning to end. Each section is preparation for the next. Chapter I, presenting as it does a brief historical outline of the transformation of Ind ...
About: Well-known authors from A-Z
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Here is a list of the most well-known international authors from A through Z:
- Chinua Achebe
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Albert Camus
- Charles Dickens
- Umberto Eco
- William Faulkner
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Hermann Hesse
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- James Joyce
- Franz Kafka
- Harper Lee
- Herman Melville
- Vladimir Nabokov
- George Orwell
- Marcel Proust
- Qian Zhongshu
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- William Shakespeare
- Leo Tolstoy
- Wole Soyinka
- Voltaire
- Virginia Woolf
- Xue Xinran
- Marguerite Yourcenar
- Emile Zola
Famous German authors from A through Z:
- Hannah Arendt
- Ewald Arenz
- Wolfgang Borchert
- Heinrich Böll
- Bertolt Brecht
- Paul Celan
- Lena Christ
- Hedwig Dohm
- Alfred Döblin
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Michael Ende
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Hans Fallada
- Theodor Fontane
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Günter Grass
- Jakob Grimm (der eine der Brüder Grimm)
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- Hermann Hesse
- Heinrich Heine
- E.T.A. Hoffmann
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Carl Leberecht Immermann
- Ernst Jünger
- Franz Kafka
- Immanuel Kant
- Erich Kästner
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Siegfried Lenz
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Charlotte Link
- Thomas Mann
- Karl May
- Thomas Murner
- Herta Müller
- Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
- Nele Neuhaus
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ferdinand Oppenberg
- Jean Paul
- Franz von Pocci
- William Quindt
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Luise Rinser
- Nelly Sachs
- Anna Seghers
- Johann Friedrich Schiller
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Theodor Storm
- Ludwig Thoma
- Georg Trakl
- Kurt Tucholsky
- Ludwig Uhland
- Thomas Valentin
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Martin Walser
- Christoph Martin Wieland
- Franz Werfel
- Christa Wolf
- Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg
- Carl Zuckmayer
- Stefan Zweig