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  Scott Harrison

  Scott Harrison is the founder and CEO of charity: water, a non-profit that has mobilized over one million donors around the world to fund over 28,000 water projects in 26 countries that will serve more than 8.2 million people. Harrison has been recognized on Fortune's 40 under 40 list, Forbes' Impact 30 list, and was ranked #10 in Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business. He is currently a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

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  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24, but resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister

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  David I. Kertzer

  David Israel Kertzer is an American anthropologist, historian, and academic, specializing in the political, demographic, and religious history of Italy. He is the Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University.

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  Lawrence Freedman

  Sir Lawrence David Freedman, KCMG, CBE, PC, FBA is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London.

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  Timothy Snyder

  Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. He has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard.
  
  His most recent book is Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, published in September 2015 by Crown Books. He is author also of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), a history of Nazi and Soviet mass killing on the lands between Berlin and Moscow. A New York Times bestseller and a book of the year according to The Atlantic, The Independent, The Financial Times, the Telegraph, and the New Statesma

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  Olga Tokarczuk

  Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life".
  
  For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times.
  
  Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers. The

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  Kyoko Mizuki

  Kyoko Mizuki (水木 杏子) is one of the pen names of Keiko Nagita (名木田 恵子, Nagita Keiko). She is a Japanese writer who is best-known for being the author of the manga and anime series Candy Candy.
  
  Kyoko Mizuki won Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shōjo Manga for Candy Candy in 1977 with Yumiko Igarashi.
  
  Keiko Nagita won Japan Juvenile Writers Association Prize for Rainette, Kin Iro no Ringo (Rainette - The Golden Apples) in 2007.
  
  Her short story Akai Mi Haziketa is printed in Japanese Primary School Textbook for 6th grade (Mitsumura Tosho Publishing Co.,Ltd.).
  
  Her picture books Shampoo Ōji series (art by Makoto Kubota) was adapted into anime television series in October 2007.
  
  When she was 12 years old, her father died. Then she created "imaginary family

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  Vladislav M. Zubok

  Vladislav M. Zubok (see also: Владислав Зубок) is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of A Failed Empire, Zhivago’s Children, and The Idea of Russia.

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  Emily Witt

  Emily Witt is a writer in New York City. She has written for n+1, The New York Times, New York Magazine, GQ, the London Review of Books, and many other places. She has degrees from Brown, Columbia, and Cambridge, and was a Fulbright scholar in Mozambique. Her first book, Future Sex, about the intersection of sex and technology, was published in 2016 by Faber & Faber.

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  Shamus Rahman Khan

  I teach in the sociology department at Columbia University. My work is on inequality. But instead of looking at the poor -- as most scholars do -- I study the rich. This is because over the last 40 years the rich have largely driven the increases in inequality.
  
  My first book, Privilege, is a study of St. Paul's School, one of the most elite boarding schools in United States. I studied St. Paul's to better understand how social advantages are produced. The question I'm most interested in is how social institutions have opened their doors to those they previously excluded (nonwhites, women, etc.), and yet as they have become more inclusive, our nation has become much more unequal. "

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  Vincenzo Latronico

  Nasce a Roma e si laurea in Filosofia all'Università degli studi di Milano con Paolo Valore (con una tesi riguardo agli argomenti ontologici a sostegno dell'esistenza di Dio). Lavora come traduttore a opere di P. G. Wodehouse, Hanif Kureishi (con Ivan Cotroneo), Daniel Spoerri, A.R. Ammons, Max Beerbohm, Francis Scott Fitzgerald e Rudolf Carnap (con Renato Pettoello).
  
  Nel 2008 pubblica il romanzo d'esordio Ginnastica e Rivoluzione (Bompiani), cui segue La cospirazione delle colombe (Bompiani 2011).
  
  Sempre per Bompiani ha pubblicato, nel giugno 2009, un testo teatrale: Linee guida sulla ferocia, con Rosella Postorino e Chiara Valerio. In inglese ha pubblicato i libri Remedies to the absence of Reiner Ruthenbeck (Archive Books, 2011) (tradotto

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  Mieko Kawakami

  Mieko Kawakami (川上未映子, born in August 29, 1976) is a Japanese singer and writer from Osaka.
  
  She was awarded the 138th Akutagawa Prize for promising new writers of serious fiction (2007) for her novel Chichi to Ran (乳と卵) (Breasts and Eggs).
  
  Kawakami has released three albums and three singles as a singer.

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  Jessa Crispin

  Jessa Crispin is the editor and founder of Bookslut.com. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian and The Toronto Globe and Mail, among other publications.

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  Evan Osnos

  Evan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. He is a correspondent in Washington, D.C. who writes about politics and foreign affairs. He is the author of "Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, May 2014). Based on eight years of living in Beijing, the book traces the rise of the individual in China, and the clash between aspiration and authoritarianism. He was the China Correspondent at The New Yorker magazine from 2008 to 2013. He is a contributor to This American Life on public radio, and Frontline, the PBS series. Prior to The New Yorker, he worked as the Beijing bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, where he contributed to a series that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for

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  Adam Becker

  Adam Becker is a science writer with a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Michigan and a BA in philosophy and physics from Cornell. He has written for the New York Times, the BBC, NPR, Scientific American, New Scientist, and others. He has also recorded a video series with the BBC and several podcasts with the Story Collider. Adam is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Office for History of Science and Technology and lives in California.

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  Alizée Delpierre

  Alizée Delpierre es una socióloga francesa, investigadora en el CNRS y especializada en estudios sobre domesticidad, explotación laboral y grandes fortunas. Es autora de Servir los ricos y de Les domesticités, además de co-dirigir Les femmes de ménage dans l'intimité du domicile. También coordina el seminario DomesticitéS que reflexiona sobre cuestiones relacionadas con el trabajo doméstico. ...

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  Emily Mester

  Emily Mester is a writer from the suburban Midwest, where her family went to Costco every Sunday. She holds an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa, where she was the winner of the Prairie Lights Nonfiction Prize. She lives in New York.

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  Hannah Selinger

  Hannah Selinger is a James Beard Award-nominated lifestyle writer and mother of two based in Boxford, MA. Her print and digital work has appeared in the New YorkTimes Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Eater, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and elsewhere. Her 2021 Bon Appétit essay, "In My Childhood Kitchen, I Learned Both Fear and Love," is anthologized in the 2022 Best American Food Writing collection, published by HarperCollins and edited by Sohla El-Waylly.

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  Lawrence Freedman

  Sir Lawrence David Freedman, KCMG, CBE, PC, FBA is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London.

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  Shamus Rahman Khan

  I teach in the sociology department at Columbia University. My work is on inequality. But instead of looking at the poor -- as most scholars do -- I study the rich. This is because over the last 40 years the rich have largely driven the increases in inequality.
  
  My first book, Privilege, is a study of St. Paul's School, one of the most elite boarding schools in United States. I studied St. Paul's to better understand how social advantages are produced. The question I'm most interested in is how social institutions have opened their doors to those they previously excluded (nonwhites, women, etc.), and yet as they have become more inclusive, our nation has become much more unequal. "

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  Craig Nelson

  CRAIG NELSON is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Rocket Men, as well as several previous books, including V is for Victory, Pearl Harbor, The Age of Radiance (a finalist for the PEN Award), The First Heroes, Thomas Paine (winner of the Henry Adams Prize), and Let’s Get Lost (short-listed for W.H. Smith’s Book of the Year).
  His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Soldier of Fortune, Salon, National Geographic, The New England Review, Popular Science, California Quarterly, Blender, Semiotext(e), Reader’s Digest, and a host of other publications; he has been profiled in Variety, Interview, Publishers Weekly, and Time Out.
  Before turning to writing, Nelson was vice president and executive editor of Harper & R

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  Kyoko Mizuki

  Kyoko Mizuki (水木 杏子) is one of the pen names of Keiko Nagita (名木田 恵子, Nagita Keiko). She is a Japanese writer who is best-known for being the author of the manga and anime series Candy Candy.
  
  Kyoko Mizuki won Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shōjo Manga for Candy Candy in 1977 with Yumiko Igarashi.
  
  Keiko Nagita won Japan Juvenile Writers Association Prize for Rainette, Kin Iro no Ringo (Rainette - The Golden Apples) in 2007.
  
  Her short story Akai Mi Haziketa is printed in Japanese Primary School Textbook for 6th grade (Mitsumura Tosho Publishing Co.,Ltd.).
  
  Her picture books Shampoo Ōji series (art by Makoto Kubota) was adapted into anime television series in October 2007.
  
  When she was 12 years old, her father died. Then she created "imaginary family

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  Rashers Tierney

  Get your FREE preview sampler on the "F*ck You I'm Irish" Goodreads page...
  
  Rashers Tierney is an itinerant lecturer and anthropologist of note, presenting seminars across North America on all things Irish.
  
  His earth-shattering PhD thesis on "Flatulence in Finnegan's Wake" has been hailed as the work that "blew apart" the clique-ish inner circle of Joycean scholarship.
  
  He is currently at work on a study entitled "Brogue mo thóin," a controversial volume on the connections between the ancient Irish craft of shoemaking and renowned Gaelic curses.
  
  Find him online at www.effyouimirish.com, on twitter (@effyouimirish) or on facebook (Eff You I'm Irish)
  
  --Follow the Rashers Tierney Goodreads blog
  
  
  --How much do you know about the Irish? Take the q

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  Evan Puschak

  Evan Puschak is an American video essayist, journalist and creator of the YouTube channel The NerdWriter. Previously he was a multimedia editor at MSNBC and hosted the Discovery Channel show Seeker Daily.
  
  
  Photo Credit: Gray Hamner

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  Tarō Nogizaka

  NOGIZAKA Tarou
  Name (in native language): 乃木坂太郎
  Associated Name:
  NOGIZAKA Taro
  
  Close friends with MATSUENA Syun.
  
  Was the assistant of KITAZAKI Taku.

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  Alexa Albert

  Alexa Albert, M.D., is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Medical School. She has written and lectured widely on issue of public health and prostitution and was named on of Mirabella's 1,000 Women for the Nineties for her work with Nevada's legal prostitutes. She currently lives in Seattle.

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