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Christine Adamec is a free-lance medical and self-help writer whose articles have appeared in various newspapers and magazines. She is the author of more than a dozen health reference books, including The Encyclopedia of Adoption and There Are Babies to Adopt. She lives with her husband in Palm Bay, Florida.
Encyclopedia of Kidney Diseases, Facts On File 2011
Encyclopedia of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, Facts On File 2010
Fibromyalgia For Dummies, John Wiley 2007
Encyclopedia of Endocrine Diseases and Disorders, Facts On File 2005
Parenting Your Adopted Child : A Positive Approach to Building a Strong Family, McGraw-Hill 2004
The Encyclopedia of the Digestive System and Digestive Disorders, Facts On File 2004
Prostate Cancer for Dummies, John Wiley 2003
The Encyclopedia of Senior Health and Well-Being Facts On File 2003 & 2008
The Encyclopedia of Diabetes Facts On File 2002 & 2010
Moms with ADD: A Self-Help Manual 2000 Taylor
The Adoption Option Manual 2000 Prima
The Unofficial Guide To Elder Care 1999 Macmillan/Alpha
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Adoption 1998 Macmillan/Alpha
Is Adoption For You 1997 John Wiley
How to Live with a Mentally Ill Person 1996 John Wiley
Dr. John Arden, Ph.D. is the Training Director for Psychology and Social Work for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers in Northern California. In this capacity he oversees 20 different training programs in as many medical centers throughout Northern California. He is also the Director of Training at Kaiser Permanente in Vallejo, where he served for several years as the Chief Psychologist. He has taught in colleges, professional schools and universities.
Almost twenty years ago Dr. Arden developed a nationally known vocational rehabilitation program serving people suffering from major mental illnesses. Since the early 1990s, Dr. Arden has operated a job stress program within the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center System. Patients suffering from various types of job stress – including harassment, assault, overwork, downsizing, promotion, toxic exposure, and injury at work – are treated in the program.
His first book, Consciousness, Dreams, and Self, was awarded the 1997 Outstanding Academic Book Award by Choice. An international panel of jurists nominated his second book, Science, Theology, and Consciousness, for the CTS award funded by the Templeton Foundation.
REWIRE YOUR BRAIN, John Wiley, 2010
HEAL-YOUR-OCD WORKBOOK (with Daniel Dal Corso, Ph.D.) Fair Winds, 2009
HEAL-YOUR-ANXIETY WORKBOOK Fair Winds, 2009
CONQUERING POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (with Victoria Beckner, Ph.D.) Fair Winds, 2008
SURVIVING JOB STRESS Career Press, 2002
IMPROVING YOUR MEMORY FOR DUMMIES John Wiley, 2002
Michael A Babcock is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. He has a Ph.D. in Germanic Philology from the University of Minnesota and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina. He is a recognized authority on the historical and legendary material surrounding the life and death of Attila the Hun and is the author of The Stories of Attila the Hun’s Death: Narrative, Myth, and Meaning (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001). As an associate professor of humanities, he speaks each year at several national and international conferences on topics as diverse as Shakespeare and cognitive science.
The Night Attila Died Berkley, 2005
Julie Barlow: Jean-Benoit Nadeau & Julie Barlow, see Nadeau, below
Deborah Bennett, Ph. D. is currently an associate professor at New Jersey City University and has been teaching mathematics for 20+ years,. Her first solo full-length book was Randomness, published by Harvard University Press in 1998, to rave reviews in both hard and paper, and translated into four languages so far. Booklist said: “Bennett is brilliantly bilingual, well able to put mathematical concepts into clear, expressive English..… compulsively readable.” New Scientist: “Bennett's text...is like a café conversation between likable cognoscenti...nothing could more provoke and excite the reader.” Kirkus: “Clear and detailed…. with fascinating historical asides.”
Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You 2004 W. W. Norton
Stephen Bertman, Ph.D. is Professor of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Civilizations at Canada's University of Windsor and is the author of several books.
The Genesis of Science: The Story of Greek Imagination, Prometheus Books, 2010
Funny Mummy, Sterling 2010
Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome 2005 NAL
Handbook of Life in Ancient Mesopotamia 2002 Facts On FIle
Climbing Olympus 2002 Sourcebooks
Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of Memory 1999 Greenwood
Hyperculture: The Cost of Human Speed 1998 Greenwood
Shira Block MA Psychology and Counseling, is a popular lecturer, author, personal and family coach, counselor, and gifted communicator. Since 1991, she has had a thriving family coaching practice and conducts parenting workshops for high-risk teens and families. Block has taught thousands how to improve family dynamics, effectively communicate, and create healthy compromise. Her client list includes corporate giants such as Merrill Lynch, Travelers, Spalding Sports Worldwide, AAA, Con Edison, and The Hartford Insurance Company, as well as actors, musicians, doctors, flight attendants, socialites, therapists, students, artists, and prison inmates.
When Your Parent Moves In: Every Adult Child's Guide to Living with an Aging Parent (with David Horgan) 2010 Adams Media
John S. Bowman is an historian and free-lance writer. He has edited reference, biographical and sports books. In 1994 he served as an editor of a major CD-ROM: "American Journey: Westward Expansion" that encompassed the editorial coordination of 500 illustrations, 200 original documents and several hundred thousand words.
Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture 1999 Columbia University Press
Facts About the American Wars 1998 H.W. Wilson
Diamonds in the Rough: The Untold History of Baseball (with Joel Zoss) 1996 Contemporary (pb) 1989 Macmillan (hc)
American Journey: Westward Expansion (CD-ROM) 1994
America at War Series (10 vol.) 1992 Facts On File (hc)
Richard Buel, Ph.D. was educated at Amherst College and Harvard University. He has taught history at Wesleyan University for the past forty years. His major publications include Securing the Revolution (Cornell, 1972); Dear Liberty (Wesleyan, 1980); with Joy D. Buel, The Way of Duty (Norton, 1984); and In Irons (Yale, 1998). The Way of Duty (45,000 copies, 1984) was selected as a Book of the Month Club dividend and was the book from which the television film "Mary Silliman's War," aired on national cable in May 1994, was taken
JOEL BARLOW: Citizen of a Revolutionary World 2011 Johns Hopkins University Press
America On The Brink: How The Political Struggle Over The War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic 2005 Palgrave In Irons: Britain’s Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy 1998 Yale University Press
JOEL BARLOW: A Biography 2010 Johns Hopkins University Press
Douglas Burgess holds a J.D. with a Concentration in International Public Law from Cornell University. He holds a Masters degree in International Law and currently is studying for an advanced degree the correlation between ancient piracy and modern organized terrorism.
To Seize the Triton: The Race of the Superliners 1889-1919 2005 International Marine
A Pirate Pact McGraw-Hill
Daniel Burt, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of English at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was also an Associate Dean. He is the author of several books.
Chronology of American Literature 2004 Houton Mifflin
The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time 2003 Facts On File
The Biography Book: A Reader's Guide To Nonfiction, Fictional, and Film Biographies of More Than 500 of the Most Fascinating Individuals of all Time 2001 Oryx
What Do I Read Next? Historical Novels 1997 Gale Research
Mary Christensen is an accomplished writer. She was the beauty editor of a national women’s magazine and has written international training manuals, countless product brochures, articles, columns and speeches. Prior to her current position as Director of Sales for Nutrimetics in Canada, she was General Manager for the company in New Zealand, and President of the Direct Selling Association of New Zealand.
Be a Party Plan Superstar: Build a $100,000-a-Year Direct Selling Business from Home, 2010 AMACOM Books
Be a Recruiting Superstar: The Fast Track to Network Marketing Millions, 2008 AMACOM Books
Be a Network Marketing Superstar: The One Book You Need to Make More Money Than You Ever Thought Possible, 2007 AMACOM Books
Make Your First Million in Network Marketing 2001 Adams Media
Kathryn Cullen-DuPont is a permanent consultant on women's issues for Grolier's New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia. Her poetry has appeared in the New York Quarterly.
Women's Rights on Trial: 101 Historic Trials From Anne Hutchinson to the Virginia Military Institute Cadets (with Elizabeth Frost-Knappman) 1997 Gale Research (hc)
Encyclopedia of Women's History 1996 Facts On File (hc)
History of Woman's Suffrage in America (with Elizabeth Frost-Knappman) 1992 Facts On File
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Liberty 1992 Facts On File
Barry Day has a M. A. from Balliol College, Oxford. After a 40-year high profile career in international advertising he retired to write full time in 1994 and has published over 20 books in the UK. He is currently an advisor to the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and a member of the prestigious Players Club, where many of his shows have premiered. His other interests include political communications and was a past political advisor and principal speechwriter for British Prime Ministers Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher.
Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words, 2003 Cooper Square Press
Sherlock Holmes: (in His Own Words and in the Words of Those Who Knew Him) 2003 Cooper Square
Beyond Sherlock Holmes: The Early Years, Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1883-1906) 2003 Cooper Square Press
The Letters of Noel Coward 2008 Knopf
Gary Ecelbarger is nationally recognized as a Civil War expert. He has written four books and a dozen articles about the Civil War, co-authored two other books, crafted numerous Virginia historical markers planted in fields and at roadsides, and was a charter member of an organization that raised $4 million dollars to purchase a Virginia battlefield and convert it into an interpretive park. His bona fides in American history—with a focus on the 1840-1890 period – have been confirmed by the near-unanimous acclaim given his books, the frequent acknowledgment citations by other historical writers who he has aided in their works, and accolades for his performances in symposia, historical meetings and radio interviews..
The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta 2010 St. Martin’s Press/Tom Dunne
The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination, 2008 St. Martin’s Press/Tom Dunne
Gillette Edmunds authored a monthly tax newsletter for high-income investors for several years. Working for the editor B. Ray Anderson, he ghosted How to Use Inflation to Beat the IRS (Harper & Row, 1981), which was on the New York Times best-seller list for many weeks.
Retire On The House 2005 John Wiley
Comfort Zone Investing 2002 Career Press
How to Retire Early and Live Well 1999 Bob Adams, Inc.
Colin Evans is a free-lance journalist specializing in crime, forensics, and justice issues. Colin was also a major contributor to other titles including Great American Trials (Gale Research: 1994 and 2001) Courtroom Drama (1998), Great World Trials (1997) and Sex, Sin & Mayhem: Notorious Trials of the 90s (Visible Ink: 1995). Colin lived in the United States for 15 years before returning to his native Britain in 1998. He currently resides in the United Kingdom.
Slaughter on a Snowy Morn, 2010 Icon (UK)
Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI, 2006 Berkley
Blood on the Table: The Greatest Cases of NYC's Office of Chief Medical Examiner, 2008 Berkley
Murder Two: The Second Casebook of Forensic Detection 2004 John Wiley & Sons
A Question of Evidence: The Casebook of Great Forensic Controversies 2002 John Wiley & Sons
Great Feuds in History 2001 John Wiley & Sons
The Superlawyers 1998 Visible Ink
The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes 1996 John Wiley
(More than 35,000 copies sold and translated into six languages)
Killer Doctors 1993 Michael O'Mara (Translated into five languages) and 2007 Berkley
Humberto Fontova is an avid sportsman. He contributes articles on hunting and fishing to Sierra, Scuba Times, Bowhunter, and numerous other publications. Fontova’s writing style is fast-paced and edgy – equal parts Hunter Thompson and Jon Krakauer.
Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him, 2008 Penguin Sentinel
Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant 2005 Regnery
The Hellpig Hunt: A Hunting Adventure in the Wild Wetlands at the Mouth of the Mississippi River by Middle-Aged Lunatics Who Refuse to Grow Up 2003 M. Evans & Co.
The Helldivers’ Rodeo 2001 M. Evans & Co.
Nancy Frazier, Ph.D., began her career in journalism as a researcher and reporter at Newsweek magazine. After that, she spent ten years as the founding editor of Hampshire Life, a weekly feature magazine and supplement to Western Massachusetts's Daily Hampshire Gazette. She is currently a candidate for the Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Massachusetts. Her articles have been published in scholarly books and journals and in the popular press.
I, Lobster: A Crustacean Odyssey Through Myth, Art and Mind, 2011 University Press of New England
The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Art History 1999 Penguin
Jewish Museums of North America 1992 John Wiley
Carmine Gallo is a communications coach for the world’s most admired brands. His client list includes Intel, Chase, The Home Depot, SanDisk, Barclays, Clorox, Gymboree, Cranium, L’Oreal, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Bank of America, Nokia and many others. Carmine is a former Emmy Award-winning anchor, host and business correspondent for CNN, Fox, CNET, and CBS. He is a Vice President and the principal communications coach for clients of Ketchum, a global top-five public relations firm. Carmine also writes a bi-weekly column on the topic of business communications for BusinessWeek Online and hosts a weekly Podcast for the Web site titled Leadership Communications. Gallo gives more than 100 lectures, workshops and seminars a year worldwide. Visit his website at www.carminegallo.com for more information.
Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success, 2010 McGraw-Hill
Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience 2009 McGraw-Hill
Fire Them Up!: 7 Simple Secrets to Inspire Colleagues, Customers, and Clients; Sell Yourself, Your Vision, and Your Values; Communicate with Charisma and Confidence, 2007 John Wiley
10 Simple Secrets of the World's Greatest Business Communicators, 2006 Sourcebooks
Stewart Gordon is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan and is the author of three books on Asia. He speaks frequently on the Asian world at seminars, academic conferences, and public lectures. He has been an advisor for two History Channel documentaries, one on the Mughal Empire and one on Marco Polo and Kubla Khan.
Routes: How the Pathways of Ideas and Goods Shaped Our World, 2011 University Of California Press
When Asia Was the World, 2008 Da Capo Press
Catherine A. Gorini, Ph. D. is a recognized expert in geometry and an award-winning teacher. She is the editor of Geometry at Work a collection of papers in applied geometry published by the Mathematical Association of America. She is currently Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Maharishi University of Management.
Master Math: Probability, 2010 Cengage Learning
The Facts on File Geometry Handbook 2003 & 2009 Facts On File
Roland Huntford, a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, spent several years as the Nordic correspondent for the Observer (UK). He is the author of several books about polar exploration including the enormously successful Scott And Amundsen, which was revised and updated in 1999 as The Last Place on Earth.
The Last Place on Earth 1999 Random House Modern Libarary; Revised and Updated Edition
Brita Immergut, Ed. D., taught mathematics for 30 years in high schools and at LaGuardia Community College, the City University of New York. She is a co-author of two textbooks for adults: Arithmetic and Algebra and An Introduction to Algebra: A workbook for Reading, Writing and Thinking about Mathematics.
Master Math: Solving Word Problems 2009 Course Technology PTR
Arithmetic and Algebra Again: Leaving Math Anxiety Behind Forever, 2005 McGraw-Hill
A-Z Family Math Survival Guide, 2001 Career Press
Bob Ingle is the Trenton Bureau Chief for Gannett Newspapers and has a weekly column read by 1.4 million people. He also co-hosts a radio show that has 1 million listeners. Because of his many years in the news business and work in several states, Ingle has media contacts across the country. A marketing major in college, he also has won awards for marketing, advertising and public relations campaigns when he was based in California where the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals investigated credentials and certified him as an expert witness in marketing for purposes of federal court testimony. His work has been included in college-level marketing textbooks.
The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption (with Sandy McClure), 2008 St. Martin’s Press (NYT Bestseller)
Pete Klimley, Ph.D. is an internationally known marine biologist regarded as the foremost authority in the world on the hammerhead and white shark, is currently, a Senior Fisheries Ecologist at H.T. Harvey & Associates: Ecological Consultants, a Research Associate of the Bodega Marine Laboratory, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis. He received his M.S. at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and his Ph.D. at the University of California’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has published several articles on sharks in Natural History and similar magazines, more than fifty scientific articles, and has appeared in numerous film documentaries worldwide on the subject of sharks.
The Secret Life of Sharks 2003 Simon & Schuster
Richard Lyles, Ph.D., has more than twenty-three years of management consulting experience in ten countries and lectures frequently at institutions and universities. He is the author of Practical Management Solving and Decision Making (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982).
WINNING HABITS: How to Turn A Few Moments A Day Into A Lifetime of Fulfillment 2004 Prentice Hall
Responsible Managers Get Results (with Gerald Faust and Will Phillips) 1997 AMACOM Books
Sandy McClure has received many awards for excellence in journalism. While working as a statehouse reporter for the Trentonian, in Trenton, New Jersey, McClure exclusively covered every New Jersey governor since Christie Whitman..
The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption (with Bob Ingle), 2008 St. Martin’s Press (NYT Bestseller)
Christie Whitman: A Political Biography for the People 1996 Prometheus
Buckner F. Melton, Jr. is a historian and law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is one of a relatively few scholars to hold both a doctorate in history (Duke University) as well as a law degree (UNC). Melton is a specialist in constitutional history, but also has an extensive background in military, naval and diplomatic history. He has been published widely in the nation’s most prestigious law journals. His last book – The First Impeachment: The Constitution’s Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount – was frequently cited during President Clinton’s impeachment and resulted in numerous appearances by Melton on countless television and radio shows, including Jim Lehrer’s "NewsHour", "Morning Edition", "All Things Considered", NBC, CBS and C-SPAN.
SEA COBRA: Admiral Halsey's Task Force and the Great Pacific Typhoon, 2007 Lyons Press
The Quotable Founding Fathers: A Treasury of 2,500 Wise and Witty Quotations from the Men and Women Who Created America 2004 Potomac Books
A Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers 2003 Free Press
Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason 2001 Wiley
Anil Minocha, M.D. is a gastroenterologist of international renown. Dr. Minocha is board-certified in internal medicine, gastroenterology, and geriatrics. He is also a practicing physician who is active in treating patients.
Handbook of Digestive Diseases 2003 Slack Inc
The Encyclopedia of the Digestive System and Digestive Diseases (with Christine Adamec) 2004 Facts On File
Natural Stomach Care (with David Carroll) 2003 Avery
How to Stop Heartburn: Simple Ways to Heal Heartburn and Acid Reflux (with Christine Adamec) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, 2003 Jarir Bookstore (Arabic)
Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow. Nadeau is a French-Canadian journalist and author, who has been explaining French language and Quebec culture to English-speaking readers for the last 12 years. Julie Barlow is an English speaker who grew up in Ontario, moved to Quebec, learned French and now writes in English and French for Canadian and American magazines. Their bylines have appeared in Canada's most influential news and business magazines including Saturday Night, L'actualité and Report on Business Magazine. Jean Benoît has won numerous journalism awards. Julie has written feature articles on topics ranging from business and public affairs to literature, culture, technology and agriculture. Julie is also a recipient of a Fulbright Grant to study the history of the Spanish language in North America. For more information see their website: www.nadeaubarlow.com.
The Story of Spanish, 2011 St. Martin’s Press
The Story of French, 2006 St. Martin’s Press and Knopf Canada
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong 2003 Sourcebooks, Inc.
James Nardi, Ph.D. is a renown research entomologist at the University of Illinois (Urbana) as well as an acclaimed natural history illustrator whose drawings have appeared in a many books. He earned his B.S. at Purdue (1970) and his Ph.D. at Harvard (1975). Jim has published scores of articles on entomology in professional journals and two previous books: Close Encounters with Insects and Spiders (1988) and Once Upon a Tree: Life from Treetop to Root Tips (1993).
Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners, 2007 University of Chicago Press
Benton Patterson is a former magazine writer and editor (The Saturday Evening Post and The New York Times Magazine) and the author of two journalism textbooks.
With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth & Philip of Spain, 2007 St. Martin’s Press
Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, And The Road To The Battle Of New Orleans 2005 New York University Press
Washington and Cornwallis 2004 Cooper Square Press
Harold and William 2001 Cooper Square Press
Arthur Plotnik has written several books including Elements of Editing (Macmillan, 1982), which has now sold approximately 225,000 copies after 16 printings and is viewed by the cognoscenti as a classic. He has worked as a reporter, novelist, journalism instructor and, at the American Library Association, as magazine editor and book publisher.
Better Than Great! 5,000 Alternatives To Great, 2011 Viva Editions/Cleis Press
Spunk & Bite: A writer's guide to punchier, more engaging language & style 2005 Random House
The Urban Tree Book: An Uncommon Field Guide for City and Town 2000 Three Rivers Press/Crown (For a complete description of this book, go to: hometown.aol.com/baronplot/urban.html)
Elements of Expression 1996 Henry Holt; 2000 iUniverse
The Elements of Authorship, 1992 Fireside; 2000 iUniverse
Ronald E. Powaski, Ph.D. is a professor of history at Cleveland State University. He has published eight books: March to Armageddon, The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939-1987 (Oxford University Press, 1987), Thomas Merton on Nuclear Weapons (Loyola University Press, 1988), Toward an Entangling Alliance: American Isolationism, Internationalism, and Europe, 1901-1950 (Greenwood Press, 1991), The United States and European Security (Greenwood Press, 1994), The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 (Oxford University Press), and Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999 (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Lightning War: Blitzkrieg in the West, 1940 2003 John Wiley & Sons
Simon Read is a former award-winning newspaper reporter who has published four works of history and true crime with major publishers in the United States and Great Britain. Read has written articles for the San Francisco Chronicle Review of Books and Publisher’s Weekly, been featured on Court TV’s “The Investigators,” and has been interviewed on radio shows in major U.S. markets. Read graduated from California State University, Northridge, in May 1997 with a B.A. in journalism. Read is a contributor to In Cold Blog, a daily blog maintained by a number of bestselling authors in the true-crime genre.
Human Game: The True Story of the ‘Great Escape’ Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen, 2012 Berkley and Constable (UK)
War of Words: A True Tale of Newsprint and Murder, 2009 Union Square Press/Sterling
In the Dark: The True Story of the Blackout Ripper, 2007 Berkley
The Killing Skies: RAF Bomber Command, 2009 Spellmont (UK)
On the House: The Bizarre Killing of Michael Malloy, 2005 Berkley
Tom Reichert, Ph. D. is an advertising professor at the University of Georgia He received his doctorate and master's degree in communication and marketing from the University of Arizona and his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia. Dr. Reichert has studied the prevalence of sex in advertising and its effect on persuasion. His research has been mentioned in Brill's Content and Agency magazine, and he's published commentary in USA Today magazine
The Erotic History of Advertising 2003 Prometheus
Edward R. Ricciuti has written more than 70 books and thousands of periodical articles for adults and young people. His book publishers include Doubleday, Avon, Harper & Row, Scholastic and St. Martin’s. Ricciuti’s most recent adult books are revisions of Killer Animals and Killers of the Seas, published by the Lyons Press. Among Ricciuti's writing specialties are natural history, investigative reporting on conservation and the environment, wildlife management, wildlife law enforcement, outdoor health and safety and problems facing imperiled species and environments. Periodical credits for Ricciuti include Audubon, Arts & Entertainment Magazine & Program Guide, National Wildlife, Zillions, Fly Rod & Reel, Wildlife Conservation, Field & Stream and USA Today.
Morton Satin was trained in Canada as a molecular biologist and has produced numerous publications and articles on food and agricultural technology including The Washington Post and The Montreal Gazzette.
Coffee Talk: The Stimulating Story of the World's Most Popular Brew 2010 Prometheus Books
Food Alert!: A Guide to Foodbourne Diseases and Their Prevention 1999 & 2010 Facts On File
Larry Schweikart, Ph. D. is the author of numerous articles on history, banking, defense and National Security. He has published over 15 books including American History: A Traditional Interpretation (with Michael Allen) forthcoming and The Entrepreneurial Adventure: A History of American Enterprise 1999 Harcourt Brace. Schweikart teaches at the University of Dayton.
A Patriot’s History of the Modern World, 2012 Sentinel/Penguin
What Would the Founders Say? 2011 Sentinel/Penguin
Seven Events That Shaped America, 2010 Sentinel/Penguin
A Patriot's History of the United States : From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror 2004 Sentinel
(Winner of the Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty)
Encyclopedia of the American West 2003 John Wiley & Sons
Diane Stafford is a respected health writer who has won awards for her work. She has been a key figure in a number of magazines, including Houston Home & Garden Magazine and Dallas Home & Garden (editor-in-chief), Houston Health & Fitness and Dallas Health & Fitness (founder/editor-in-chief), Latin Music Magazine (senior editor), Philanthropy in Texas (editor), and Texas Woman Magazine (founder/editor-in-chief).
50,001 Best Baby Names 2005 Sourceboks
1,001 Tips to Make Your Resume Irresistible 2004 Sourcebooks (with Moritza Day)
40,001 Best Baby Names 2003 Sourcebooks
Migraines For Dummies (with Jennifer Shoquist) 2003 Wiley Publishing
Potty Training for Dummies, (with Jennifer Shoquist) 2003 Hungry Minds
No More Panic Attacks (with Jennifer Shoquist) 2002 Career Press
Encyclopedia of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (with Jennifer Shoquist) 2003 Facts on File
Suzy Staubach has been a potter for nearly 30 years. She is a member American Craft Council, Clay Arts East, Centered, and the American Ceramic Society. She has been published in Ceramics Monthly, and has written on pottery for Garden Way and Mother Earth News as well as articles and essays on various subjects for magazines such as Fine Gardening, Old Farmer's Almanac, Bookselling This Week, and Parents.
Mud: The Story of Clay 2005 Berkley Publishing
Dr. George Szpiro, Ph.D. is a mathematician and journalist who has published dozens of professional articles in journals of physics, mathematics and economics. He has been a journalist for over 13 years and is currently the Israel correspondent for the Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung, covering Israeli politics and all other aspects of daily life.
A Mathematical Medley, 2010 American Mathematical Society
Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy from Plato to the Present 2010 Princeton University Press
Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles, 2007 Dutton
The Secret Life of Numbers: 50 Easy Pieces on How Mathematicians Work and Think, 2006 Joseph Henry Press
Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World 2003 John Wiley & Sons
Robert Thompson, M. D. graduated from the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle in 1971an is now a cardiologist and faculty member of the University of Washington. Dr. Thompson conducted clinical research and published several articles on cardiovascular topics in peer review journals. He has continued to write and publish articles on medical topics in newspapers and magazines.
The Low-Starch Diabetes Solution: Six Steps to Optimal Control of Your Adult-Onset (Type 2) Diabetes, (with Dana Carpenter) 2009 McGraw-Hill
Glycemic Load Diet Cookbook (with Dana Carpenter) 2008 McGraw-Hill
The Glycemic-Load Diet: A powerful new program for losing weight and reversing insulin resistance, 2006 McGraw-Hill
The New Low-Carb Way of Life (with Diane Stafford) 2004 M. Evans & Co.
Michael Tougias (pronounced "Toe-gis") is the author and co-author of 14 books. These include a novel, several travelogues, nature guidebooks, a history book, and three books about river journeys. Tougias syndicates his outdoor column to a dozen newspapers such as: The Union News (Springfield MA), Taunton Gazette, Fitchburg Sentinel, Metrowest News (Boston Suburbs) Sun Chronicle (Attleboro MA), Waterbury Republican (CT), Into the Outdoors (Western New England & NY). Readership is estimated at 600,000. He is also a frequent contributor to the Boston Globe and many other newspapers. He contributes regularly to magazines such as Outdoor Life, New England Game and Fish, Fine Gardening, Yankee Travel, and many more. His book, There's A Porcupine in My Outhouse! was a finalist for the 2002 Book of the Year Award for ForeWord magazine.
Overboard: A Bluewater Odyssey of Disaster & Survival, 2010 Scribner
The Finest Hours (with Casey Sherman), 2009 Scribner
Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do, 2005 St. Martin's Press
THERE’S A PORCUPINE IN MY OUTHOUSE! Capital Books (2002)
Harlow Unger, a journalist and broadcaster, received his B.A. from Yale University and M. A. from California State University. He has worked for the New York Herald Tribune and was a foreign correspondent for The Times and Sunday Times, both in London. Unger has written six books on education. He lives in New York City.
Washington's Making of the Presidency, 2012 Da Capo Press
American Tempest: The Boston Tea Party, 2011 Da Capo Press
Passion For Liberty: The Life of Patrick Henry, 2010 Da Capo Press
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and the Completion of the American Dream, 2009 Da Capo Press
The French War Against America: How a Trusted Ally Betrayed Washington and the Founding Fathers 2005 Wiley
LAFAYETTE: America's French Knight 2002 Wiley
John Hancock 2000 Wiley
Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot 1998 Wiley
The Learning Disabilities Trap 1997 Contemporary
Henrik Vejlgaard, M.A., M.Sc., is a pioneer in lifestyle and trend sociology. With his background in both social science and communication he has been a lecturer on lifestyle and trend sociology at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Arhus School of Business, both in Denmark.Anatomy of a Trend, published by McGraw-Hill, and ranslated into six languages. The author has also written three books that have been published in his native Denmark. His website is www.henrikvejlgaard.com He is the author of
The Lifestyle Puzzle, 2010 Prometheus
The Anatomy of a Trend, 2007 McGraw-Hill
Gilbert Waldbauer, Ph.D. graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts with a B.S. in entomology and biological field studies and earned his Ph.D. in entomology at the University of Illinois. In 1958, he joined the faculty of the entomology department where he taught until he retired as a full professor in 1995. He is now a professor emeritus. He has published 118 scientific articles on various subjects as well as eight popular books on insects. His most recent books are::
How Not To Be Eaten: Camouflage, Stinging and Mimicry, 2011 University of California Press
Fireflies, Honey & Silk, 2009 University of California Press
Insights from Insects: What Bad Bugs Can Teach Us. 2005, Prometheus Press.
A Walk Around the Pond: Insects In and Over the Water. 2006, Harvard University Press.
William Weir has published numerous books on military history, and has written some two dozen articles for publications such as Military History and Military Engineer. He knows the subject first-hand, having served as a combat correspondent during the Korean War.
History's Greatest Lies, 2009 Rockport/Quayside
Written With Lead 2003 Cooper Square Press
Encyclopedia of African-American Military History 2004 Prometheus
Colin Wells is an independent scholar and freelance writer specializing in the Mediterranean world and the Middle East. He holds a B.A. in English and History from U.C.L.A. and an M.A. from Oxford University, where he studied Greek and Latin classics. For more than a decade he has written educational reference material on subjects ranging from history and literature to science. He is currently working on a book about the legacy of the Byzantine Empire, for which he has conducted extensive research into Arabic cultural and political history. He has published articles on the cultures and peoples of a number of Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq, Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.
Sailing from Byzantium 2005 Bantam Dell Publishing
The CIG to Saudi Arabia 2003 Alpha Books
Joseph Wheelan is an accomplished researcher and award-winning writer as well as longtime editor and reporter for the AP. During 15 years as news editor for AP in Denver and Raleigh, he directed numerous team and investigative reporting projects while supervising daily news coverage. He combined his love of history with his professional responsibilities to write the AP's lead stories about the Korean War and its veterans on the war's 50th anniversary. Educated at the University of Wyoming and the University of Colorado, Wheelan holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and English and completed a year's graduate work in creative writing.
The Libby Prison Breakout 2010 Public Affairs
Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress, 2008 Public Affairs
Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary 2005 Carroll & Graf
Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805 2003 Carroll & Graf
Robert E. Wright is a business, economic, financial, and monetary historian who recently became the inaugural Rudy and Marilyn Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana College He is also a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an editor of Pickering & Chatto of London’s financial history and perspectives in economic and social history series, and a guest curator for the newly revamped Museum of American Finance. Although not yet as widely known as Harvard financial and diplomatic historian Niall Ferguson, Wright is increasingly attracting the attention of mainstream media outlets due to the unusual combination of detailed scholarship and interesting prose stylings that characterize his work. The financial crisis of 2008 greatly raised Wright’s profile. Within a few months of the failure of Lehman Brothers, Wright appeared on David Asman’s Fox News special “Saving Our Economy: What’$ Next?,” On Point with Tom Ashbrook on NPR, and several other television and radio programs. He was also quoted in the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and several other major newspapers. He also published opinion editorials in the Los Angeles Times, Reason, McKinsey Quarterly, DismalScientist, and other publications and websites. Wright frequently collaborates with other leading scholars, including Richard E. Sylla of New York University’s Stern School of Business, where Wright taught from 2003 until 2009. Wright is such a fan of Alexander Hamilton that according to the Wall Street Journal he named one of his sons “Alexander Hamilton Was Wright,”
Fubarnomics 2011 Prometheus Books
One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe 2008 McGraw-Hill
Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich (with David J. Cowen), 2006 University of Chicago Press
Marc Zimmer has written more than fifty scientific papers; most of them about Green fluorescent pigment (GFP). He is the C.A. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor at Connecticut College, where he has taught chemistry for the last 17 years. Marc has given GFP talks to high school and university audiences on three continents. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, completed a post-doctoral year at Yale, and has held visiting appointments at the University of Heidelberg and Cape Town University.
Glowing Genes: A Revolution In Biotechnology 2005 Prometheus Books
Doris Zimmerman is a member of the National Association of Parliamentarians and the American Institute of Parliamentarians, and founder and president of Parliamentary Consultants, Inc.
Robert's Rules in Plain English 1997 & 2004 HarperCollins