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Seth Godin: - writes the most popular marketing blog in the world; - is the author of the bestselling marketing books of the last decade; - speaks to large groups on marketing, new media and what's next; - and is the founder of Squidoo.com, a fast-growing recommendation website. Godin is author of ten book....[more]
Fay will be starting a new program online at Harverd University this up coming fall.
Bjørn Lomborg was born January 6, 1965. M.A. in political science, 1991. Ph.D. at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. 1994. Assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, 1994-1996. Associate professor at the same place, 1997-2005. Director of Denmark's....[more]
Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction, House & Home, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Pets, Social Science
Dean Koontz was born July 9, 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania. He attended Shippensburg State College with a degree in Education. A former high school English teacher as well as a teacher-counselor with the Appalachian Poverty Program, Koontz began writing as a child to escape an ugly home life caused by his alcoholic fat....[more]
Laren Stover deconstructed the incandescence of Bohemians in Bohemian Manifesto, A Field Guide to Living on the Edge (Bulfinch). Her novel, Pluto, Animal Lover (HarperCollins), was a finalist for the B & N Discover Great New Writers Award, and continues to be a cult classic, recently by Carlos Dews on Smyles & Fish. L....[more]
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He was a reporter for the Washington Post from 1987 to 1996, working first as a science writer & then as New York City bureau chief. Since 1996, he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker.
Jess Maghan recently retired as professor of criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago, before which he was director of training of the New York City Police and Correctional Departments. He continues to advise governments and police departments around the world on such matters as illicit trafficking, ha....[more]
Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist who pioneered the field of media therapy. She teaches at Yale University, where she is a fellow at Calhoun College, and Princeton University, where she is a fellow at Butler College. She is also an adjunct professor at NYU and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medici....[more]
It is hard to find a more polarizing author than Austen, who was revered by her admirers and despised by her critics. Either way, her works demand a passionate response two hundred years after they were published. Born in 1775 in England to a middle-class family, Austen had her greatest success shortly before her death....[more]
Isaac Yudovich Ozimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. He also wrote mystery, fantasy, and non-fiction. Asimov wrote or edited approximately five hundred books and more than nine thousand letters and postcards. One of his short sto....[more]
Fiction, Poetry, Social Science
Walter (Wally) Lamb was born in Norwich, Conn., in 1950. He attended the University of Connecticut, receiving a B.A. in 1972 and an M.A. in 1977; he also earned an M.F.A. from Vermont College in 1984. Lamb has written numerous short stories, most notably "Astronauts", which received both the Pushcart Prize and the Univ....[more]
David Cortright is Chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum and Director of Policy Studies at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as consultant or adviser to agencies of the United Nations, international think tanks, and the foreign ministries ....[more]
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Clive Cussler, Cussler is a collector of automobiles and, like his character Dirk Pitt, lives a life of adventure discovering and collecting things of historical significance. He has a record of finding over 60 shipwrecks and has lead expeditions to gold mines. Cussler is the author of many adventure novels which title....[more]
Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Political Science, Social Science
Born November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Canada, Margaret Atwood spent her early years in the northern Quebec wilderness. Settling in Toronto in 1946, she continued to spend summers in the northern woods. This experience provided much of the thematic material for her verse. Atwood began her writing career as a poet, short st....[more]
Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Novelist Anne Rice, best known as the creator of the vampire Lestat and his literary cohorts, was born Howard Allen O'Brien on October 4, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1959 Anne began classes at Texas Woman's College in Denton. She transferred to San Francisco State University, and earned her Bachelor's Degree in ....[more]
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Michael Connelly graduated from the University of Florida in 1980 where he majored in journalism and minored in creative writing. After graduation, he worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, specializing in the crime beat. He was writing about the police and crime during the wave of violence....[more]
Clyde W. Ford is a mythologist, trained psychotherapist, and sought-after public speaker. He’s also a critically acclaimed author of nonfiction and fiction. He writes the Charlie Noble Mysteries, suspense thrillers set in the Pacific Northwest. He’s been a guest on the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” NPR, and other radio and tel....[more]
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