Gary Brozek is a freelance writer and the author of more than 20 books, including 6 New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Colorado.

Gary

Frank Stewart has been editor of Mānoa: a Pacific Journal of International Writing since 1989. He is also an essayist, translator, and author of four books of poetry. For his poetry, he was awarded the prestigious Whiting Writers’ Award in New York in 1986 and other awards, including the Hawai'i Governor's Award for Literature.&nbsp;
He has also edited eight anthologies on the contemporary literature and environment of Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific. These include Wao Akua: The Sacred Source, 2003, and The Poem Behind the Poem: Translating Asian Poetry into English, 2004.&nbsp;
He represented American writers at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Indigenous and Contemporary Poetry in Manila; was a U.S. representative to the Taipei International Poetry Festival in Taiwan; the American representative to the Commonwealth Games/Literature in New Delhi, and he's been invited to other conferences in Seoul, New Delhi, and several cities in Japan.

Frank

Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused sanctuary repeatedly. He stayed with his orphans when the entire institution population was sent from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942.
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit[ (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused sanctuary repeatedly.&nbsp;
He stayed with his orphans when the entire institution population was sent from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942. Korczak's best-known writing is his fiction and pedagogy; his most popular works have been widely translated. His main pedagogical texts have been translated into English, but of his fiction, as of 2012, only two of his novels have been translated into English: King Matt the First and Kaytek the Wizard.

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Thomas Berry Brazelton (May 10, 1918 – March 13, 2018) was an American pediatrician, author, and developer of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). Brazelton hosted the cable television program What Every Baby Knows and wrote a syndicated newspaper column. He wrote more than two hundred scholarly papers and twenty-four books.&nbsp;
Brazelton was born in Waco, Texas. He graduated in 1940 from Princeton and in 1943 from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where he accepted a medical internship at Roosevelt Hospital. In 1945, after war service in the U.S. Navy, he completed his medical residency at Boston Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) before undertaking pediatric training at Children's Hospital of Boston.
He entered private practice in 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His interest in child development led to training in child psychiatry at MGH and the James Jackson Putnam Children's Center. He subsequently served as a Fellow with Professor Jerome Bruner at the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard University, then combined his interests in primary care pediatrics and child psychiatry. In 1972 established, the Child Development Unit, a pediatric training and research center at Children's Hospital in Boston. From 1988, he was a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School.
Brazelton was president of the Society for Research in Child Development (1987–1989) and of the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs (1988–1991). He appeared many times before Congressional committees in support of parental and medical leave bills. He continued to work with the Alliance for Better Child Care for a more comprehensive daycare bill. He was a co-founder of Parent Action and served on the National Commission on Children.
Brazelton is widely known for developing a "child-oriented" approach suggesting to start toilet training not earlier than 24 months of child's age while looking for "readiness signs" for mature toilet behavior. In his work, he shared his opinion that "...there is little innate in the child that leads him to want to be clean and dry; it must be understood as a kind of compliance to external pressure" and that parents should withstand "external pressure" of grandparents to start toilet education around 9 months of age and postpone it until a child is demonstrating sure "readiness signs".&nbsp;
Later Brazelton served as Chairman of Pampers Parenting Institute, funded by P&amp;G Corporation, a global disposable diaper market leader. He also participated in Pampers advertising for Toddler diapers N6. Brazelton appeared several times on The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Héctor García was born in Spain and worked at CERN in Switzerland before moving to Japan, his home for 18 years and counting. While in Tokyo when he is not writing his next book, he makes a living in the IT industry.
His popular blog led to his international bestseller A Geek in Japan and later on The Magic of Japan. He is the co-author of the bestselling Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life; translated into 70 languages.
Ikigai has the strange honor of being the most translated book ever originally written in Spanish. To this day he has published ten books, the latest one translated into English is The Book of Ichigo Ichie, and recently he has published his first fiction work in Spanish.

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Laurence Gonzales is the author of numerous books and has won many awards, including two National Magazine Awards and the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He was also awarded the Montaigne Medal from the Eric Hoffer Society in 2018 and won the Eric Hoffer Award in both 2018 and 2019.
In 2015 he received a Journalism Fellowship from the Santa Fe Institute and, in 2016, was given an appointment as a Miller Scholar there. As reported in the official announcement, “The Miller Distinguished Scholarship is the most prestigious visiting position at SFI, awarded to highly accomplished, creative thinkers who make profound contributions to our understandings of society, science, and culture.&nbsp;
Scholars are internally nominated and may have backgrounds in the humanities, arts, or sciences. During their stays at SFI, Miller Scholars are free to devote their time to the exploration of any topic.” His appointment as an SFI Miller Scholar was renewed for 2017, 2018, and 2019.
After reading in neuroscience for several years, he wrote the best-selling book Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why and its sequel Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience, which attempt to answer related questions about how people make bad decisions and what leads some of them to survive and some to perish.
His most recent non-fiction book is Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival, a detailed reconstruction of the crash of a fully-loaded DC-10. It was adapted for the stage by The House Theater of Chicago and played to sold-out houses and rave reviews in both 2016 and 2017. It also had successful runs in both Boulder, Colorado, and Miami, Florida.
For more than a decade and a half, he has appeared as a featured speaker before groups ranging from the Los Alamos National Laboratory to Exxon-Mobil and from the Wilderness Medical Society to the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His most recent novel is Lucy (Alfred A. Knopf). His essays are collected in the books House of Pain and The Chemistry of Fire (both from the University of Arkansas Press). In the past, he has served on the adjunct faculty at Northwestern University in the Medill School of Journalism, where he taught writing. He divides his time between Evanston, Illinois, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Simon Rogers is an award-winning data journalist, writer, and speaker. Author of ‘Facts is Sacred, ‘published by Faber &amp; Faber in the UK, China, and South Korea. He has also written a range of infographics for children's books from Candlewick. Data editor on the News Lab team at Google, based in San Francisco, he is director of the Data Journalism Awards and teaches Data Journalism at Medill-Northwestern University in San Francisco and has taught at U Cal Berkeley Journalism school.
Simon edited and created guardian.co.uk/data, an online data resource that publishes hundreds of raw datasets and encourages its users to visualize and analyze them – and probably the world’s most popular data journalism website. He was also Twitter’s first-ever Data Editor, working to tell stories from billions of tweets.
He has been a news editor for the Guardian, working with the graphics team to visualize and interpret huge datasets. He was closely involved in the paper’s exercise to crowdsource 450,000 MP expenses records and the coverage of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wikileaks war logs. He was also a key part of the Reading the Riots team, which investigated the causes of the 2011 England disturbances. The launch news editor of the Guardian’s website, guardian.co.uk, has edited the paper’s science section. He has three Guardian books, including How Slow Can You Waterski? and The Hutton Inquiry and its impact.
Simon received the Royal Statistical Society’s award for statistical excellence in journalism. He has also been named Best UK Internet Journalist by the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University. He won the inaugural XCity award from City University. His Factfile UK series of supplements won a silver at the Malofiej infographics award, and the Datablog won the Newspaper Awards prize for Best Use of New Media.
Simon is the author of Facts are Sacred: the Power of Data (out on Kindle). And check out the hardback version from Faber &amp; Faber and this interactive version from iTunes. He is the author of a new range of infographics for children's books from Candlewick.

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Lenore Skenazy is president of Let Grow, a non-profit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement. She is also a speaker, blogger, syndicated columnist, author, and reality show host. A mother who lives in the Queens borough of New York City, her controversial decision to let her then-9-year-old son take the New York City Subway home alone became a national story and prompted massive media attention. She was dubbed "America's Worst Mom."&nbsp;
In response, Skenazy founded the book and blog "Free-Range Kids," with the aim of "fighting the belief that our children are in constant danger from creeps, kidnapping, germs, grades, flashers, frustration, failure, baby snatchers, bugs, bullies, men, sleepovers and/or the perils of a non-organic grape." Let Grow, co-founded in 2018 with Daniel Shuchman, Dr. Peter Gray, and Prof. Jonathan Haidt continues the quest to make it "easy, normal, and legal" to give kids back some old-fashioned independence of thought and deed.&nbsp;
Skenazy is Jewish with roots in Çanakkale, Turkey. Skenazy is a 1981 graduate of Yale University. She got her master's degree from Columbia in 1983. Skenazy spent fourteen years as a columnist for the New York Daily News but was fired in December 2006. She moved to The New York Sun and wrote there until it shut down in 2008. Skenazy also wrote and reported for NPR, as well as CNBC, and was featured in the Bravo series Tabloid Wars.
Skenazy's column in The New York Sun, "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone," described her making the controversial decision to let her son take the New York City Subway home alone, which was completed without incident. The piece resulted in a flood of reactions ranging from accusations of child abuse to fond memories of first-time subway trips and childhood freedom.&nbsp;
The story was covered on The Today Show, Fox News, NPR, and MSNBC two days after the column appeared, later becoming worldwide news and being featured on Penn &amp; Teller: Bullshit!, The View, Nightline, Good Morning America, CBS News, NBC Nightly News, Anderson Cooper, Dr. Phil, Nancy Grace, The BBC, the CBC, and ABC in Australia. In 2015, she was profiled in The New Yorker and The New York Times. The popularity of Skenazy's blog led to the creation of the book, Free-Range Kids, published in 2009 by John Wiley &amp; Sons.
On the blog, Skenazy proposed May 22, 2010, as the first "Take Our Children to the Park &amp; Leave Them There Day"—a day for children to learn how to play by themselves without constant supervision. It has been celebrated every year since. Skenazy also became the host of the reality television show World's Worst Mom on Discovery Life. The 13-episode series features Skenazy visiting extremely anxious parents, including the mother of a 10-year-old who still spoon-fed him, the mother of an 8-year-old who bought him a skateboard but only let him "ride" it on the grass, and the mother of a 13-year-old who still took him into the ladies' room.
With humor, kindness, and some firmness, Skenazy separated the parents from their children and had the children do some tasks on their own, such as running an errand, or learning, at age 10, how to ride a bicycle. In the end, 12 of the 13 couples relaxed so much that they became "Free-Range Parents" themselves. Now Skenazy lectures around the world, including speeches at Microsoft, DreamWorks, Audi, The Yale Child Study Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Wellesley, the Sydney Opera House, and schools and conferences.

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Thiele Fred Harvey, age 98, passed away on Wednesday, January 5, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas. Born on October 29, 1923, in Memphis, TX, to parents Thiele Fowler Harvey ad Jessie Lee Searcy. Fred, his seven sisters, and one brother grew up in Abilene and Odessa, Texas. He served in the US Marine Corps in WWII until he was wounded on Iwo Jima.
He went to college at Panhandle A&amp;M and earned his master's degree at West Texas State. In the 1950s, he coached baseball and football at Ysleta High School in El Paso, Texas. In the 1960’s he coached football at Eastwood High School in El Paso. In the 1970s, he coached football at Littleton High School in Littleton, Colorado.&nbsp;&nbsp;
He spent the rest of his career in education with the Department of Defense in South Korea and Turkey. In his retirement, he wrote a book, “Hell Yes I’d Do It All Again,” traveling to book signings, speaking engagements, and presentations to school groups.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Thiele and Jessie Harvey, six sisters and his brother, and his daughter Mary Lou Harvey Sauriol. T Fred is survived by his son, Charles R. Harvey “Chuck,” his sister Pattie Maddox, his granddaughters Kerry Gossman, Katie Brown, and Kendra Fortner, and four great-grandchildren.&nbsp;

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque. Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system, and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020. Born on October 31, 1959, in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family of engineers and scientists; his father was a professor of electrical engineering, while his paternal grandfather was a physics professor. His mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, and her father was a biochemistry professor.&nbsp;
Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in 1960 and then in 1966 to Ames, Iowa. He graduated from Ames High School in 1977. Stephenson studied at Boston University, first specializing in physics, then switching to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe. He graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in geography and a minor in physics. Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in Seattle with his family.
Stephenson's first novel, The Big U, published in 1984, is a satirical take on life at American Megaversity, a vast, bland, and alienating research university beset by chaotic riots. His next novel, Zodiac (1988), is a thriller following a radical environmentalist in his struggle against corporate polluters. Neither novel attracted much critical attention on first publication but showcased concerns that Stephenson would further develop in his later work.
Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk novel fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of extreme laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism. Mike Godwin would later describe Stephenson at this time as "a slight, unassuming grad-student type whose soft-spoken demeanor gave no obvious indication that he had written the manic apotheosis of cyberpunk science fiction." In 1994, Stephenson joined with his uncle, J. Frederick George, to publish a political thriller, Interface, under the pen name "Stephen Bury"; they followed this in 1996 with The Cobweb.
Stephenson's next solo novel, published in 1995, was The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. The plot involves a weapon implanted in a character's skull, near-limitless replicators for everything from mattresses to foods, smart paper, and air and blood-sanitizing nanobots. It is set in a world with a neo-Victorian social structure. Cryptonomicon followed this in 1999, a novel including concepts ranging from Alan Turing's research into codebreaking and cryptography during the Second World War to a modern attempt to set up a data haven. In 2013, Cryptonomicon won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.
The Baroque Cycle is a series of historical novels set in the 17th and 18th centuries and is, in some respects, a prequel to Cryptonomicon. It was originally published in three volumes of two or three books each – Quicksilver (2003), The Confusion (2004), and The System of the World (2004) – but was subsequently republished as eight separate books: Quicksilver, King of the Vagabonds, Odalisque, Bonanza, Juncto, Solomon's Gold, Currency, and System of the World. (The titles and exact breakdown vary in different markets.) The System of the World won the Prometheus Award in 2005.
Following this, Stephenson wrote Anathem (2008), a long and detailed novel of speculative fiction. It is set in an Earthlike world, deals with metaphysics, and refers heavily to Ancient Greek philosophy. Anathem won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2009. In May 2010, the Subutai Corporation, of which Stephenson was named chairman, announced the production of an experimental multimedia fiction project called The Mongoliad, which centered upon a narrative written by Stephenson and other speculative fiction authors.
Stephenson's novel REAMDE was released on September 20, 2011. The title is a play on the common filename README. This thriller, set in the present, centers around a group of MMORPG developers caught in the middle of Chinese cyber-criminals, Islamic terrorists, and the Russian mafia. On August 7, 2012, Stephenson released a collection of essays and other previously published fiction entitled Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing. This collection also includes a new essay and a short story created specifically for this volume.
In late 2013, Stephenson stated that he was working on a multi-volume work of historical novels that would "have a lot to do with scientific and technological themes and how those interact with the characters and civilization during a particular span of history." He expected the first two volumes to be released in mid-to-late 2014. However, at about the same time, he shifted his attention to a science fiction novel, Seveneves, which was completed about a year later and was published in May 2015. On June 8, 2016, plans were announced to adapt Seveneves for the screen.
In May 2016, as part of a video discussion with Bill Gates, Stephenson revealed that he had just submitted the manuscript for a new historical novel—"a time travel book"—co-written with Nicole Galland, one of his Mongoliad coauthors. This was released as The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. on June 13, 2017. In June 2019, his novel Fall, or Dodge in Hell, was published. It is a near-future novel that explores mind uploading into the cloud and contains characters from 2011's Reamde, 1999's Cryptonomicon, and other books. Termination Shock, published in November 2021, is a climate fiction novel about solar geoengineering.

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Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus's Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books include Complicit; Decision Leadership (with Don A. Moore); Better, Not Perfect; The Power of Experiments (with Michael Luca); The Power of Noticing; Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (with Don Moore); and Blind Spots (with Ann Tenbrunsel).
Max received an honorary doctorate from the University of London, the Life Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program, the Distinguished Educator Award from the Academy of Management, the Academy of Management Career Award for Scholarly Contributions to Management, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. In addition, Max was named as Ethisphere's 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics and as one of Daily Kos' Heroes for going public about how the Bush Administration corrupted the RICO Tobacco trial.
Max’s former doctoral students have accepted positions at leading business schools throughout the United States, including the Kellogg School at Northwestern, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Fuqua School at Duke, the Johnson School at Cornell, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Columbia, and the Harvard Business School.
His professional activities include projects with Abbott, Aetna, AIG, Alcar, Alcoa, Allstate, Ameritech, Amgen, Apax Partners, Asian Development Bank, AstraZeneca, AT&amp;T, Aventis, BASF, Bayer, Becton Dickenson, Biogen, Boston Scientific, BP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Business Week, Celtic Insurance, Chevron, Chicago Tribune, City of Chicago, and additional companies that start with letters between D and Z. Max's consulting, teaching, and lecturing includes work in 30 countries.

Richard Betts is a renowned British artist who has been working in the art world since the early 1980s. He is renowned for his vibrant, abstract pieces that often incorporate a variety of mediums, such as paint, fabric, and other mixed media. His work is often described as a combination of expressionism and minimalism, combining bold colors and shapes with intricate detailing.
Richard Betts was born in London in 1958 and began his career as an artist when he was sixteen. His early works were mainly abstract paintings, often involving intense colors and textures. He was inspired by the vibrant works of the early 20th-century abstract expressionists, and he found solace in the work of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem De Kooning.
Throughout his career, Richard Betts has explored various mediums, including painting, sculpture, and even photography. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and museums around the world, including the Tate Modern in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His work is part of the permanent collections of many prestigious institutions, such as the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the British Council.
Richard Betts has also been associated with the British Pop Art movement and often explores the relationship between art and popular culture in his works. His art is often full of vibrant, contrasting colors and shapes that evoke a sense of motion and energy. He is also known for his use of textiles and fabrics in his art, often incorporating fabrics from different cultures and places around the world.
Richard Betts has been awarded numerous honors, including the Turner and Jerwood prizes. He has also lectured and taught at various universities, including the Royal College of Art in London and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His work is highly sought after by collectors and museums around the world, and his pieces are often featured in auctions and art fairs.
Richard Betts has also been involved in many philanthropic initiatives and has supported numerous charities and organizations. He was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2015 for his services to art and culture. He is also a patron of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and a member of the Tate Gallery's International Council.
Richard Betts is an internationally acclaimed artist who has been praised for his unique and vibrant works. He continues to produce art that is both aesthetically pleasing and thought-provoking, exploring the relationship between art and popular culture through his pieces. He is an important figure in the art world, and his work will continue to inspire and delight viewers for years to come.

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Rick Strassman was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1952. He attended public schools in southern California’s San Fernando Valley and graduated from Ulysses S. Grant High School in Van Nuys in 1969. As an undergraduate, he majored in zoology at Pomona College in Claremont, California, for two years before transferring to Stanford University, where he graduated with departmental honors in biological sciences in 1973.&nbsp;
During summers in college, he worked for Redken Laboratories, developing cosmetics and a line of hair dyes. In addition, he performed laboratory research at Stanford on the development of the chicken embryo’s nervous system. He attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx, New York, where he obtained his medical degree with honors in 1977.
Dr. Strassman took his internship and general psychiatry residency at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center in Sacramento and received the Sandoz Award for an outstanding graduating resident in 1981. After graduating, he worked for a year in Fairbanks, Alaska, in community mental health and private psychiatric practice. From 1982-1983, he obtained fellowship training in clinical psychopharmacology research at the University of California, San Diego’s Veteran’s Administration Medical Center.&nbsp;
He then served on the clinical faculty in the department of psychiatry at UC Davis Medical Center before taking a full-time academic position in the department of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque in 1984. At UNM, Dr. Strassman performed clinical research investigating the function of the pineal hormone melatonin, in which his research group documented the first known role of melatonin in humans.&nbsp;
He also began the first new US government-approved clinical research with psychedelic drugs in over twenty years, focusing on DMT and, to a lesser extent, psilocybin. He received grant support from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse, as well as from the Scottish Rite Foundation for Schizophrenia Research. Before leaving the University in 1995, he attained the rank of tenured Associate Professor of Psychiatry and was awarded the UNM General Clinical Research Center’s Research Scientist Award.
In 1984, he received lay ordination in the Western Buddhist Order and co-founded, and for several years administered, a lay Buddhist meditation group associated with the same order. Dr. Strassman underwent a four-year personal psychoanalysis in New Mexico between 1986 and 1990.
From 1996 to 2000, while living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Dr. Strassman worked in community mental health centers in Washington State in Bellingham and Port Townsend. For the next four years, he had a solo private practice in Taos, New Mexico. After two years working near the Navajo Nation in Gallup, NM, he returned to northern New Mexico in 2006, where he provided psychiatric services at a mental health center in Espanola. Since mid-2008, he has been writing full-time.
Dr. Strassman’s “DMT: The Spirit Molecule,” an account of his DMT and psilocybin studies, has sold a quarter-million copies as of mid-2021 and has been translated into over a dozen languages, including Mandarin. He co-produced an independent documentary by the same name, which was the most-streamed independent drug documentary on Netflix. He also is the author of “DMT and the Soul of Prophecy,” “Joseph Levy Escapes Death,” and a co-author of “Inner Paths to Outer Space.”
He has published over 40 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has served as a reviewer for 20 psychiatric research journals. He has been a consultant to the US Food and Drug Administration, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Veteran’s Administration Hospitals, Social Security Administration, and other state and local agencies. He has provided consultation to many of the psychedelic startups that began appearing in 2020, including Atai, MindMed, and The Noetic Fund.&nbsp;
He is on the Scientific Advisory Boards for Alexander Shulgin Research Institute and Ninnion Therapeutics. He is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and lives in Gallup, New Mexico.

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John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of General Nonfiction. He won that award on the fourth occasion in 1999 for Annals of the Former World (a collection of five books, including two of his previous Pulitzer finalists).&nbsp;
In 2008, he received the George Polk Career Award for his "indelible mark on American journalism during his near half-century career." Since 1974, McPhee has been the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. McPhee has lived in Princeton, New Jersey, for most of his life. He was born in Princeton, the son of the Princeton University athletic department's physician, Dr. Harry McPhee.&nbsp;
He was educated at Princeton High School, then spent a postgraduate year at Deerfield Academy before graduating from Princeton University in 1953 with a senior thesis titled "Skimmer Burns" and spending a year at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. McPhee was a member of the University Cottage Club while he was a student at Princeton.
While at Princeton, McPhee went to New York once or twice a week to appear as the juvenile panelist on the radio and television quiz program Twenty Questions. One of his roommates at Princeton was 1951 Heisman Trophy winner Dick Kazmaier.
Twice married, McPhee is the father of four daughters from his first marriage to Pryde Brown: the novelist's Jenny McPhee and Martha McPhee, photographer Laura McPhee, and architecture historian Sarah McPhee.

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Harry H Harrison Jr. is a writer with over four million books in print. He has been interviewed on over twenty-three television programs and is the subject of two documentaries. He has been featured on over 50 local and syndicated radio programs coast to coast. His books have been listed on the New York Times and Book Sense's list of best-selling non-fiction trade paperback books for ten years. They are also available in some thirty foreign countries throughout Western Europe, Norway, South America, China, and in the Far East.&nbsp;
Harry's first book for parents, Father to Son, Life Lessons on Raising a Boy, has sold more than 1,000,000 copies and continues to be one of the best-selling books on raising boys in the country. It has been entering its 33 printing since its release in April 2000. His second book, Father to Daughter, hit the New York Times Best Seller list in 2003 and has grown in sales every year. It topped the Book Sense Parenting Best Seller list for months and continues to be a Book Sense favorite to this day.&nbsp;
It has sold over 850,000 copies and is entering its 19th printing since 2003. Thomas Nelson Publishers launched Harry Harrison's seven-book 1001 Series in 2007. Two of these books, 1001 Things Every Teen Should Know Before They Leave Home (Or Else They'll Come Back) (http://www.1001thingseveryteenshouldknow.com) and 1001 Things Every College Student needs to Know (Like Buying Your Books Before Exams Start) were featured on THINK, an NPR production out of Dallas. Harry's books are available from Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon, Hallmark, Bed, Beth Beyond, and thousands of independent bookstores around the country.

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James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America's foremost writers. His essays, such as "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-twentieth-century America. A Harlem, New York native, he primarily made his home in the south of France.&nbsp;
His novels include Giovanni's Room (1956), about a white American expatriate who must come to terms with his homosexuality, and Another Country (1962), about racial and gay sexual tensions among New York intellectuals. His inclusion of gay themes resulted in much savage criticism from the black community. Going to Meet the Man (1965) and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968) provided powerful descriptions of American racism. As an openly gay man, he became increasingly outspoken in condemning discrimination against lesbian and gay people.

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Have you always wanted to learn Japanese but didn’t know how? Japanese seem so complicated. Giles Murray, the author of this bestseller, is here to help you.&nbsp;
&nbsp;He’s studied Japanese himself and listened to what successful non-native learners have to say. Giles presents tested shortcuts for language acquisition. Identifying two groups of people who actively and effectively study Japanese to the point of fluency --successful non-native learners and Japanese children --Giles has collected from both groups the most rewarding and universal techniques which can be put to immediate use by both beginner and advanced students of Japanese.
&nbsp;&nbsp;This book is designed for people who have tried orthodox textbooks and failed, people who know a little Japanese but don't have the necessary time or motivation to make the transition to more serious textbooks, and people seeking to increase fluency using the ability already acquired.&nbsp;
&nbsp;It introduces new strategies for thinking, speaking, and memorizing Japanese quickly, efficiently, and independently.

Tim Ferriss is an American author, entrepreneur, and public speaker. He is best known for his bestselling book, The 4-Hour Workweek, and for his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show. Ferriss has been featured in the Time 100 Most Influential People list and has been recognized as one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Business People."
Ferriss was born in East Hampton, New York, in 1977. He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and graduated from Princeton University with a degree in East Asian Studies in 2000. After college, he worked in sales and marketing for a data storage company before starting his own business, BrainQUICKEN, which he eventually sold.
In 2007, Ferriss wrote The 4-Hour Workweek, which became an international bestseller. The book proposed a new way of working that focused on efficiency and productivity and encouraged readers to pursue their dreams and passions. The book was credited with launching the "lifestyle design" movement and has been translated into 35 languages.
In 2010, Ferriss launched his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which is now one of the most popular podcasts in the world. He interviews high-profile guests from various fields, including business, sports, and entertainment. Ferriss has also written several other books, including The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans, and Tribe of Mentors.
Ferriss has been an active investor, advisor, and board member for a number of companies, including Uber, Evernote, Shopify, and Duolingo. He is a founding member of the Silicon Valley investment firm K9 Ventures and is also a venture partner at the venture capital firm Collaborative Fund.
Ferriss is active in the philanthropic community and has been involved with a number of charities, including DonorsChoose.org, The International Rescue Committee, and the Michael J. Fox Foundation. He is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.

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Giles Murray emphasizes the importance of understanding the structure of the Japanese language. He suggests that by exploring the unique sentence patterns and grammar rules, you can significantly improve your fluency.

Understanding the Japanese Language Structure

The book highlights the importance of building a strong vocabulary. Murray suggests that you should regularly research new words and phrases, and practice using them in sentences to enhance your language skills.

Importance of Vocabulary

One of the key points in 13 Secrets for Speaking Fluent Japanese is the importance of cultural context. The author explains that understanding Japanese culture and social norms can help you use the language more effectively and naturally.

Cultural Context Matters

Giles Murray stresses the importance of regular practice. He suggests that you should constantly engage in conversations, read Japanese texts, and listen to Japanese audio to improve your fluency.

Practice Makes Perfect

In the book, Murray encourages the use of various language learning tools. He suggests that you should check out language apps, flashcards, and online resources to supplement your learning and make the process more enjoyable.

Use of Language Learning Tools

13 Secrets for Speaking Fluent Japanese

Giles Murray lives in Tokyo, where he works as a writer, translator, and copywriter. He is the author of several other innovative language-study books published by Kodansha: 13 Secrets for Speaking Fluent Japanese and Exploring Japanese Literature. He's also translated a number of works of fiction including In the Pool by Hideo Okuda and Newcomer by Keigo Higashino.

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