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Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Jagdish Bhagwati, is University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been Economic Policy Adviser to Arthur Dunkel, Director General of GATT (1991-93), Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization, and External Adviser to the WTO. He ha....[more]

Ricardo A. Scott

Born and raised in Kingston Jamaica and while growing up in the ghettoes of Trench Town created and invented the word- Reggae and with my brethrens such as Junior Braithwaite, and Garth Dennis gave the name -Wailing Wailers to Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer. Bob then formed his group of singers and musicians ....[more]

Victor R. Volkman

Victor R. Volkman is President of Loving Healing Press Inc. and Senior Editor of Modern History Press. LHP is dedicated to producing books which redefine what is possible for healing mind and spirit. MHP empowers authors who have lived through significant struggle and search for identity.

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author, is most well-known for his fairy tales, which include ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Thumbelina’, and ‘The Ugly Duckling’. Andersen was born to poor parents, a washerwoman and a shoemaker, in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. Odense was the only town outside of Denmark’s capital to have a thea....[more]

Daniel Defoe

John Kenneth Galbraith

Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History, Law, Political Science, Social Science, Technology & Engineering

William Jefferson Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas. His father, an automobile parts salesman, was killed in a car accident three months before he was born. At the age of fifteen, Bill changed his name to that of his stepfather Roger's as a gesture of goodwill to both him....[more]

Barbara Ehrenreich

Business & Economics, Fiction, Health & Fitness, History, Humor, Medical, Political Science, Social Science

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, she lives near Key W....[more]

Louis Sachar

Education, Humor, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Social Science

Louis Sachar, March 20, 1954 - Louis Sachar was born March 20, 1954, in East Meadow, New York. At the age of nine, his family moved to Tustin, California. Sachar attended the University of California, at Berkeley. During his senior year there, he helped out at Hillside Elementary School. It was his experience there tha....[more]