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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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.

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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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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.

Dr Robin Baker was born in Wiltshire, England in 1944, and grew up in the small village of Manningford Bruce in the Vale of Pewsey. The tiny 2-room school he attended had fewer than 30 pupils, with all the under 7s taught in one room and all the 7-11 year olds in the other. Between the ages of 11 and 18 he attended the nearby Marlborough Grammar School where coincidentally, 30 years earlier, the author William Golding had also been educated; all later pupils were expected to be very familiar with Golding's classic book Lord of the Flies.
After obtaining a First Class Honours degree in Zoology, then a PhD, at the University of Bristol, Robin Baker lectured in Zoology at the Universities of first Newcastle-upon-Tyne and then Manchester where, in 1981, he became Reader in Zoology in the School of Biological Sciences. In 1996 he left academic life to concentrate on his career in writing and broadcasting.
He has published over one hundred scientific papers and many books. These include the international bestseller Sperm Wars which was based on his own lab's original research on human sexuality and which has so far been translated into 23 languages. His work and ideas on the evolution of human behaviour have been featured in many television programmes around the world.
His first novel Primal - described by many as an adult Lord of the Flies - was published in the UK and USA in 2009. In 2010-11 it will also be published in translation in Holland, Israel, France, Brazil and the Czech Republic. Since 2002 he has lived in the foothills of the Spanish Sierras with his partner, the writer Elizabeth Oram, and their family. He has six children.

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A survivor of sexual assault turned advocate and educator- As a freshman in college, Kimberly started her work with sexual abuse prevention as a women’s health Peer Counselor and Human Sexuality teaching assistant to the renowned Dr. Sandra Caron. But after more than a decade of teaching kindergarten and proactive momming, her son had a body safety scare with a friend, triggering a shift. She realized she wanted to take the scare out of sexual abuse prevention.
I Said No! A kid-to-kid guide to keeping private parts private was created to solve problems and protect children. Now, Kimberly helps parents, and all who care for kids, learn to talk about body safety easily to prevent abuse and protect their kids.&nbsp;
Her work has been featured in various magazines, podcasts, and blogs, including; ABC, NBC, NBC, Capeless Hero, Ticker News, The Chicago Tribune, Women’s Fitness, Child Mind Institute, Social Work Now, US News and World Report, The Health Journal, Modern Mom, PopSugar, Child Life Mom, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Thrive Global, Medium, Yahoo News, Hollywood Entertainment, NY Post, and Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine.
Podcasts: The Mom Room, Dad's Divorce, MomTalks, Split, Consent Parenting, Pretty Wellness Podcast, Shock Your Potential, I Heart Radio, Hearts Happiness Podcast, and it is highly recommended as a resource by national prevention organizations.

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Maxwell W Nurnberg is the author of books such as Fun With Words.

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Steven Strogatz is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. After graduating summa cum laude in mathematics from Princeton in 1980, Strogatz studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He did his doctoral work in applied mathematics at Harvard, followed by a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard and Boston University. From 1989 to 1994, Strogatz taught in the Department of Mathematics at MIT. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1994.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Strogatz has broad research interests. Early in his career, he worked on a variety of problems in mathematical biology, including the geometry of supercoiled DNA, the dynamics of the human sleep-wake cycle, the topology of three-dimensional chemical waves, and the collective behavior of biological oscillators, such as swarms of synchronously flashing fireflies. In the 1990s, his work focused on nonlinear dynamics and chaos applied to physics, engineering, and biology. Several of these projects dealt with coupled oscillators, such as lasers, superconducting Josephson junctions, and crickets that chirp in unison.&nbsp;
In each case, the research involved close collaborations with experimentalists. He also likes branching out into new areas, often with students taking the lead. Over the years, this has led him to such topics as the role of crowd synchronization in the wobbling of London’s Millennium Bridge on its opening day and the dynamics of structural balance in social systems.&nbsp;
Perhaps his best-known research contribution is his 1998 Nature paper on "small-world" networks, co-authored with his former student Duncan Watts. It has now been cited more than 50,000 times, according to Google Scholar. As of 17 October 2014, it was the 63rd most highly cited research article of all time.&nbsp;
Strogatz has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and public communication, including: a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation (1990); MIT's highest teaching prize, the E. M. Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1991); the J.P. and Mary Barger '50 Teaching Award (1997), the Robert '55 and Vanne '57 Cowie Teaching Award (2001), the Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award (2006), and the Swanson Teaching Award (2009), all from Cornell's College of Engineering; the Communications Award from the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (2007), a lifetime achievement award for the communication of mathematics to the general public; the AAAS Public Engagement with Science Award (2013), whose previous winners include Carl Sagan, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and E.O. Wilson; the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2015), which honors "the scientist as poet" and whose previous awardees include Freeman Dyson, Oliver Sacks, and Atul Gawande; Cornell's highest teaching prize, the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship (2016); and the SIAM George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition (2019).&nbsp;
Strogatz is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012), the American Physical Society (2014), and the American Mathematical Society (2016).
He has spoken at TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and the World Government Summit, and he is a frequent guest on Radiolab and Science Friday. In the spring of 2010, he wrote a weekly blog about mathematics for the New York Times; the Harvard Business Review described these columns as “a model for how mathematics needs to be popularized." His second New York Times series, Me, Myself and Math, appeared in the fall of 2012.&nbsp;
Strogatz also filmed a series of 24 lectures on Chaos for the Teaching Company’s Great Courses series. In 2020 and 2021, he hosted a podcast for Quanta Magazine called The Joy of x, in which he interviewed some of the world’s leading scientists and mathematicians. In 2022 he began hosting a new podcast for Quanta called The Joy of Why, which explores some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today.
Strogatz is the author of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (1994), Sync (2003), The Calculus of Friendship (2009), and The Joy of x (2012). His most recent book, Infinite Powers (2019), was a New York Times Best Seller and was shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize.&nbsp;

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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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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.

Héctor

Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, 1923 – March 3, 2001) was a United States Marine, university professor, and author. His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa chronicled his combat experiences during World War II and was subsequently used as source material for Ken Burns's PBS documentary, The War, as well as the HBO miniseries The Pacific, in which he is portrayed by Joseph Mazzello.

Eugene

Dominic Ottaviano was a Republican candidate in the November 8, 2011, special election for the Georgia House of Representatives, District 25. The special election was called to fill the vacancy created when James Mills (R) resigned to accept an appointment to the State Pardons and Paroles board.

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Labor law scholar Richard Michael Fischl spent four years with the Division of Enforcement Litigation at the National Labor Relations Board and a year with the Litigation Unit of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board before joining the University of Miami faculty in 1983, where he taught for 23 years and was the 2005-2006 recipient of Miami’s Golden Apple Award for outstanding teaching and service.&nbsp;
While with the NLRB, Professor Fischl, a graduate of Harvard Law School, was the principal author of the agency’s successful Supreme Court briefs in NLRB v. Hendricks County REMC and NLRB v. Transportation Management Inc., as well as the recipient of several commendations for outstanding appellate work.
A Law School faculty member since 2006, Professor Fischl’s research interests include union organizing and collective bargaining, the individual contract of employment, legal theory, and legal education. He has offered American work law courses as a visiting professor at Yale and Cardozo Law Schools; has taught comparative labor law at University College London and Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen, Germany; and has lectured widely on labor law topics. From 2008-2010, he served as research and faculty development associate dean.

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.

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

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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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