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| Peter Conn is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917 (Cambridge University Press, 1983; paperback editions, 1988 and 2008), and Literature in America (Cambridge University Press, 1989), which was a main selection ....[more] |
| RICK FRISHMAN, the founder of Planned Television Arts, has been one of the leading book publicists in America for over 30 years. Working with many of the top book editors, literary agents and publishers in America, including Simon and Schuster, Random House, Wiley, Harper Collins, Pocket Books, Penguin Putnam, and Hy....[more] |
| Alma Flor Ada, Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, has devoted her life to advocacy for peace by promoting a pedagogy oriented to personal realization and social justice. A former Radcliffe Scholar at Harvard University and Fulbright Research Scholar she is an internationally r....[more] |
| James Adovasio is the founder and director of the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute. He lives in Erie, Pennsylvania. |
| Faith Brynie specializes in science and health. She is the author of 25 books currently in circulation. They include science activity books for children, science fair project books for children and their parents, and her popular 101 Questions series on anatomy and physiology. Her latest book, Brain Sense, a neuroscienc....[more] |
| In 1996, Veronica Chambers wrote Mama's Girl, a memoir about growing up. Mama's Girl was a Book of the Month Club selection and an American Library Association Best Book of 1996. In 1991, she co-wrote her first book Poetic Justice: Filmmaking South Central Style with film-maker John Singleton. She had interviewed John ....[more] |
| John Clayton (www.johnclaytonbooks.com) is an independent journalist, essayist, and business writer based in Montana. John's major book, "The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart," is a narrative biography of the Montana/Wyoming novelist, journalist, and homesteader Caroline Lockhart. It was a finalist for the 20....[more] |
| A nurse since 1976 and midwife since 1992, Ann has been hired by organizations to live and work in more than 15 countries around the world – from the mountains of Nepal and Bolivia, to the jungles of Brazil and Indonesia, to the deserts of Ethiopia and western Mexico.
She has been involved with the University of Jo....[more] |
| Charles Degelman is a writer, editor, and publisher living in Los Angeles.
Degelman has written and produced documentary and educational films for TNT, Churchill Films, Pyramid Films, Philips Interactive Media, and others. Titles include a feature-length biography of filmmaker John Huston for TNT and an award-winni....[more] |
| Farzana Doctor’s first novel, Stealing Nasreen, received critical acclaim and earned a devoted readership upon its release in 2007. Her second novel, Six Metres of Pavement, will be published by The Dundurn Group in Winter 2011. Besides novels, Doctor has written on social work and diversity-related topics, and provide....[more] |
| It all began when I fell into a hole on the tropical island of Rarotonga and found the grave of a whaling wife at the bottom. A Fulbright Award to research the life of this unfortunate young woman was followed by a John Lyman Award, a residency in New York, and the L. Byrne Waterman Award.
In the year 2000 a Stout ....[more] |
| I am an author with two different audiences. Some say I am really two authors: one a historian of late medieval and early modern European religious history, who writes books laden with footnotes, and the other a memoirist who has written about his life in Cuba and in exile.
My dual identity is a result of my life ....[more] |
| With a childhood spent traveling the globe, writer Elysabeth Eldering developed a passion for geography. Growing up in a military family, Elysabeth lived in Japan, Germany, New York, Kentucky, and Texas before her family finally settled in a small town in South Carolina. Elysabeth, who lives in Honea Path, put her glob....[more] |
| Author of 8 science fiction novels -- 2 for adults and 6 for Young Adults. Editor of nonfiction anthologies for high schools. Some YA nonfiction and YA science fiction anthologies published long ago. |
| Helen Fisher, Ph.D., one of the world's leading experts on the nature of romantic love and attachment, is the chief scientific adviser to Chemistry.com, a division of Match.com. She is the author of four previous books, two of which-"The First Sex" and "The Anatomy of Love"-were New York Times Notable Books. A research....[more] |
| My main area of research is masculinity and religion. I am founding and current editor of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, and author of Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy (London: Equinox Publishers, 2009). |
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