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Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Douglas Adams

Aeschylus

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Anonymous

Jean B. Arban

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Arban.jpg
Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
St. Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Teresa of Avila

Peter Paul Rubens
Gary S. Becker

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
M. Joseph Bédier

www.academie-francaise.fr
Hy Bender

Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
W. E. B. DuBois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
Samuel Bowles

Journalist Samuel Bowles, 1826-1878: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-39653)
Ray Bradbury

Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
David Brooks

Photograph by James Hamilton
Thomas Bulfinch

Anthony Burgess

Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Ann Charters

Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Agatha Christie

Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Stephanie Coontz

James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Miles Davis

Ned Vizzini
Richard Dawkins

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jared M. Diamond

G. William Domhoff

Courtesy of G. William Domhoff, Ph.D.,
at dreamresearch.net
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Maureen Dowd

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle

from Wikipedia
Emile Durkheim

Bob Dylan

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Marian Wright Edelman

Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Ralph Ellison

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Amitai Etzioni

Photo © Esther Dyson
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Frantz Fanon

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Robyn M. Feller

Norma Field

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Gustave Flaubert

Jerry A. Fodor

Jerry Fodor at his reception dinner on November 7, 2007 during his visit to the University of Maryland. Photo by Pedro Alcocer.
Michel Foucault

John Fox

John Fox (3)
Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Neil Gaiman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Anthony Giddens

This picture was taken at the Progressive Governance Conference at Budapest, 13 October, 2004. The author of the picture is Szusi.
Daniel Gilbert

Marilynn Oliphant
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Erving Goffman

American Sociological Association
Natalie Naimark-Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Andrew Greeley

from wikipedia
Ursula K. Le Guin

Jurgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Edith Hamilton

Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Linda R. Hirshman

Dan Farrell Davis
Christopher Hitchens

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Max Horkheimer

From
Wikipedia,
Horkheimer (front left), in 1965 at Heidelberg.
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jane Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
Leroi Jones

Library of Congress
James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Yoshida Kenko

wikimedia commons - Portrait by Kikuchi Yosai(菊池容斎)
Jack Kerouac

Chuck Klosterman

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman (1953- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
MILAN KUNDERA

Robert Kuttner

Carolina Manero
Anne Lamott

Ellen J. Langer

Robert Scoble
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C. S Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lucretius

Niccolo Machiavelli

Deborah Madison

Thomas K. Malthus

Thomas Mann

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Carson McCullers

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Nancie McDermott

George Herbert Mead

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Pabldo (Ben Belitt Tr. Ed. Luis Monguio Neruda, Intro.)

F Niezsche

Gustav Schultze
Robert Nozick

Barack. Obama

Flannery O'Connor

George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas De Quincey

Steven Raichlen

Library of Congress
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
John Rawls

Mary Renault

Rick Rodgers

Brian Doben
Alex Ross

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Lillian B. Rubin

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J. D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Amartya Sen

USAID
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Georg Simmel

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
B. F. Skinner

PsychArt
Adam Smith

Sophocles

Rodney Stark

courtesy of Prof. Rodney Stark
John Steinbeck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Martha Stewart

Photo by Peter Duhon
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Robert Scoble
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
mark strand

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Booth Tarkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Dalton Trumbo

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Paco Underhill

Photograph by Wyatt Counts
Francisco J. Varela

Photo courtesy Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Various

Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
Vergil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Immanuel Wallerstein

Yale University
Max Weber

Simone Weil

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Harrison C. White

Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Thorton Wilder

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
William Julius Wilson

© Martha Stewart
Harvard University.
Tom Wolfe

Naomi Wolf

Anzia Yezierska

Lima News (Ohio), July 3rd, 1922.
Jane Yolen

Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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