Rolf Dobelli
Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss author and businessman. He began his writing career as a novelist in 2002, but he is best known internationally for his bestselling non-fiction The Art of Thinking Clearly (2011, English 2013), for which The Times has called him "the self-help guru the Germans love".
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Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator. He also created the revision control system Git.
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Vijay Tendulkar
Vijay Tendulkar (Marathi: विजय तेंडुलकर) (7 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi. He is best known for his plays, Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe (1967), Ghāshirām Kotwāl (1972), and Sakhārām Binder (1972).Many of Tendulkar’s plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals, which provides clear light on harsh realities. He provided his guidance to students studying “Playwright writing” in US universities. For over five decades, Tendulkar had been a highly influential dramatist and theater personality in Mahārāshtra.
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Michael Shermer
Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954 in Glendale, California) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating and debunking pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55,000 members.
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Woo-Kyoung Ahn
WOO-KYOUNG AHN is the John Hay Whitney Professor of Psychology at Yale University. After receiving her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she was assistant professor at Yale University and associate professor at Vanderbilt University. In 2022, she received Yale’s Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excellence in the social sciences. Her research on thinking biases has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, and she is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science.
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Gill Hasson
Gill Hasson is the author of Mindfulness: Be mindful. Live in the moment works with people from diverse backgrounds and situations. Her key motivation is her belief in the ability of people to positively change their way of thinking - about life, other people, and themselves.
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She is a freelance journalist and writes articles on personal development and relationships for a variety of magazines, including Psychologies and Take A Break, and for a number of websites.
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Hitoko SASAKI (佐々木 仁子), author of various books on Japanese language.
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Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe grew up bilingual in Japan and studied in the United States at Yale and Harvard Business School. He was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company for six years. He is now the founder and CEO of his own education, entertainment, and media company, Delta Studio.
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Scott Meyers
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Kim Manjung
Gim Manjung (1637–1692) was a Korean novelist and politician of the mid-Joseon period. He was eminent Neo-Confucian scholars of the Joseon period.
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A member of the yangban class, Kim passed the state civil service examination and rose through the official ranks to become a royal academic counselor and minister during the reign of King Sukjong. He was exiled twice for involvement in the political factionalism of the time. As a man of letters his most renowned works were the novels Sassi Namjeonggi ("Record of Lady Sa's Trip to the South" 謝氏南征記) and The Nine Cloud Dream Kuunmong ("The Cloud Dream of the Nine" 九雲夢). The former is a novel about family affairs set in China, but it is also a satirical depiction of the political reality of his day, -
Russ Harris
Dr Russ Harris is a medically-qualified doctor, stress consultant, executive coach, trainer, author, and a leading authority in the powerful new paradigm of Psychological Flexibility. (This is a revolutionary new development in human psychology that enhances performance, reduces stress, and improves health and wellbeing.) Dr Russ regularly presents workshops on Psychological Flexibility at both national and international psychology conferences, and has a thriving business traveling around Australia running training seminars for psychologists, coaches and a variety of health professionals.
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Dr Russ's first book, 'The Happiness Trap', was published in Australia in March 2007, and is already well on the way to becoming a bestseller. (The title -
Steve Kamb
Many people believe that Steve Kamb was created in a laboratory in the 1940s as part of a top-secret government program to fight the Nazis. Those people are wrong; that was Steve Rogers, and he became Captain America. But close enough. Steve Kamb was born on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, raised by two loving parents and a Nintendo Entertainment System. When he wasn't getting lost in video games, he spent his childhood playing tennis baseball in the streets, building tree forts in the backyard, having Nerf wars in the basement, and participating in neighborhood-wide games of capture the flag.
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Stephen C. Lundin
Stephen Lundin is a writer, entrepreneur and filmmaker with a rich history as a graduate level business school professor and dean. Steve has written a number of books including the multimillion copy best selling FISH! and the simply bestselling FISH! Tales, FISH! Sticks and FISH! for Life.
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Debbie Ford
Debbie Ford was an American author of self-help books. Her first book, "The Dark Side Of The Light Chasers", spawned eight more books in the genre and dealt with confronting one's "dark side" rather than ignoring it. Ford also hosted television and radio shows related to her books.
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William G. Baker
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Eckart von Hirschhausen
Eckart von Hirschhausen is a German physician and comedian.
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Thomas A. Harris
Thomas Anthony Harris (April 18, 1910 – May 4, 1995) was an American psychiatrist and author who became famous for his self-help manual I'm OK, You're OK (1967). The book was a bestseller and its name became a cliché during the 1970s.
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Héctor García
I'm the author of several Japanese culture books: The Magic of Japan, Ikigai the Japanese Secret for a Long and Happy Life, The Book of Ichigo Ichie, Shinrinyoku, The Ikigai Journey and A Geek in Japan.
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I LOVE reading and writing.
Autor de los libros sobre cultura japonesa: La Magia de Japón, Ikigai, Ichigo Ichie, Shinrinyoku, Un Geek en Japón.
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Daniele Ganser
Daniele Ganser (born August 29, 1972 in Lugano) is a Swiss historian, author, 9/11 truther and Peak Oil lecturer. He is best known for his 2005 book NATO's Secret Armies, an adaption of his 2001 dissertation.
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Daniele Ganser was Senior Researcher at the ETH Zurich, Center for Security Studies (CSS). He was president (2006-2012) of the Swiss branch of the "Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas" (ASPO), and taught a course (2012-2017) titled History and Future of Energy Systems at the University of St. Gallen.
Ganser has written books about the presumed NATO stay-behind network Gladio, the Swiss policy of refusing to integrate with the EU, the Cuban missile crisis and the Peak Oil theory.
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Kavery Nambisan
Kavery Nambisan is a novelist from India. She is also a surgeon who practices in rural India. Her career in medicine has been a strong influence in her fiction.
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She spent her early years in Madikeri. She studied medicine in St. John's Medical College, Bangalore from 1965 and then studied surgery at the University of Liverpool, England, where she obtained the FRCS qualification. She worked as a surgeon in various parts of rural India before moving to Lonavala to start a free medical centre for migrant labourers.
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Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn, sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American actor and playwright. Regularly seen on film and television, where he is usually cast as a comic character actor, he has pursued a parallel career as a playwright whose work is often dark, politically charged and controversial. He is widely known for his high-pitched nasal voice and slight lisp.
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Byron Tully
Grandson of a newspaper publisher and son of an oil industry executive, Byron Tully is the author of "The Old Money Book".
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His second nonfiction book, "The Hindu Way To Wealth" was also published that same year.
"The Old Money Guide To Marriage" was published in January of 2016.
"Old Money, New Woman: How To Manage Your Money & Your Life" was published in 2019.
"Old Money Style - The Gentleman's Edition" was published in 2020.
"How To Be A Rich Man...or Woman!" was published in 2022.
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Artenie Alexandru
Meet Alex Artenie - a highly successful retail investor who has built several reliable income streams through a variety of portfolios, utilizing strategies such as Smart Beta, Dividend Growth, and Crowdfunding of Real Estate.
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With years of experience in the world of investing and personal finance, Alex has identified vital metrics and methods for selecting stocks and setting up an investment portfolio that he now wants to share with beginners and experienced investors.
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What sets Alex apart is his practical and straightforward approach to investing.
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921 – 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist.
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Dürrenmatt was born in the Emmental (canton of Bern), the son of a Protestant pastor. His grandfather Ulrich Dürrenmatt was a conservative politician. The family moved to Bern in 1935. Dürrenmatt began to study philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Zurich in 1941, but moved to the University of Bern after one semester. In 1943 he decided to become an author and dramatist and dropped his academic career. In 1945-46, he wrote his first play, "It is written". On October 11 1946 he married actress Lotti Geissler. She died in 1983 and Dürrenmatt was married again to another actress, Charlotte Kerr, the following year.
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Wolf Haas
Wolf Haas is the author of nine books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, three volumes of which have been made into popular German-language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner books have been awarded the German thriller prize and the 2004 Literature Prize from the City of Vienna.
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Martin Suter
Martin Suter is a Swiss author. He became known for his weekly column Business Class in the Weltwoche newspaper (1992–2004), now appearing in the Tages-Anzeiger, and another column appearing in "NZZ Folio". Suter has published seven novels, for which he received various awards. He is married and lives in Spain and Guatemala.
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John P. Strelecky
John Strelecky is the #1 Bestselling inspirational author of many books including; The Cafe on the Edge of the World, Return to the Why Cafe, What I've Learned, The Big Five for Life, The Big Five for Life - Continued, Life Safari, and Ahas!- Moments of Inspired Thought. He co-authored the book, How to be Rich and Happy.
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His works have been translated into forty-five languages and sold more than 11 million copies worldwide.
Following a life changing event when he was thirty-three years old, John was inspired to sit down and tell the story of The Cafe on the Edge of the World, his first book.
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Daniel Glattauer
Daniel Glattauer, geboren 1960 in Wien, studierte Pädagogik (Diplomarbeit “Das Böse in der Erziehung”). Zunächst Hobby-Literat, -Liedermacher und Kellner, später Journalist, zuerst Redakteur bei der Presse, dann zwanzig Jahre Autor bei der österreichischen Tageszeitung „Der Standard“. Zwischendurch und jetzt erst recht: Schriftsteller. Verheiratet, ein großes Kind, leider keinen Hund mehr, dafür fünf indische Laufenten im Landhaus im niederösterreichischen Waldviertel.
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Bücher (u.a.): „Die Ameisenzählung“ (2001), „Darum“ (2003), „Die Vögel brüllen“ (2004), „Der Weihnachtshund“ (Neuausgabe 2004), „Schauma mal” (2009), „Theo. Antworten aus dem Kinderzimmer (2010)”, „Ewig Dein” (2012) und „Die Wunderübung” (2014).
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Charles Lewinsky
Lewinsky studierte Germanistik und Theaterwissenschaft in Zürich und Berlin (ohne Abschluss). Danach arbeitete er als Regieassistent bei Fritz Kortner und anschliessend als Dramaturg und Regisseur an verschiedenen Bühnen sowie als Redakteur und Ressortleiter der Sendung Wort-Unterhaltung des Schweizer Fernsehens. 1984 veröffentlichte er zusammen mit Doris Morf sein erstes Buch Hitler auf dem Rütli. Es folgten weitere Bücher und Produktionen beim Schweizer Fernsehen, ARD und ZDF. In der Schweizer Öffentlichkeit wurde Lewinsky Mitte der 90er Jahre als Autor der Sitcom Fascht e Familie bekannt; später folgte Fertig Lustig. 2001 erhielt er den Schillerpreis der Zürcher Kantonalbank für seinen Roman Johannistag. Weitere Anerkennung als Schriftst
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Alina Bronsky
Alina Bronsky was born in Yekaterinburg, an industrial town at the foot of the Ural Mountains in central Russia. She moved to Germany when she was thirteen. Her first novel, Broken Glass Park, was nominated for one of Europe’s most prestigious literary awards, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
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Stefanie Stahl
Stefanie Stahl ist es gelungen, sich im Dschungel der psychologischen Ratgeber Literatur einen Namen zu machen. Sie begeistert durch ihren unterhaltsamen und verständlichen Stil und die vielen Aha-Erlebnisse, die sie ihren Lesern und Leserinnen vermittelt. Ihr Buch "Jein! Bindungsängste erkennen und bewältigen" wird nicht nur von Laien mit Begeisterung aufgenommen, sondern gilt auch in Fachkreisen als Standardwerk.
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Stefanie Stahl, Jahrgang 63, ist in Hamburg geboren und aufgewachsen und hat an der Universität Trier Psychologie studiert. Sie arbeitet als Psychotherapeutin, psychologische Sachverständige und Buchautorin in freier Praxis in Trier. Zudem hält sie im deutschsprachigen Raum Seminare zum Thema Bindungsangst. Weitere Informationen f -
Daniela Krien
Daniela Krien, geboren 1975 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, studierte Kulturwissenschaften, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften und arbeitete unter anderem als Drehbuchautorin und Cutterin. Sie lebt mit ihrem Mann und zwei Töchtern in Leipzig.
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Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman (born April 26, 1988) is a Dutch historian and author. His books Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (2017) were both Sunday Times and New York Times Best Sellers and have been translated in 46 languages.
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Haemin Sunim
Zen Buddhist teacher & bestselling author.
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Born in South Korea and educated at Berkeley, Harvard, and Princeton, he received formal monastic training from Haein monastery, in South Korea. He taught Asian religions at Hampshire College in Massachusetts for seven years.
He is one of the most influential Zen monks in the world. His first book, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down has been translated into more than 35 languages and sold over four million copies.
His second book, Love for Imperfect Things was the number one bestseller of 2016 in South Korea and became available in multiple languages in 2019. Haemin resides in Seoul when not traveling to share his teachings.
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Nina Kunz
Nina Kunz wurde 1993 geboren, studierte Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte in Zürich und arbeitet seit 2017 als Kolumnistin und Journalistin für Das Magazin des Tagesanzeigers. Ihre Texte erschienen bereits in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung, der ZEIT und dem ZEITmagazin. 2018 und 2020 wurde sie zur »Kolumnistin des Jahres« gewählt.
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Ernest Becker
Ernest Becker was an American cultural anthropologist and author of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death.
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Ali Almossawi
Ali Almossawi is the author of books on critical thinking. His books have reached 3.5 million readers, translated into 22 languages, and have sold over 370,000 copies in print. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.
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Gerald M. Weinberg
Gerald Marvin Weinberg (October 27, 1933 – August 7, 2018) was an American computer scientist, author and teacher of the psychology and anthropology of computer software development.
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Shakti Gawain
Shakti Gawain is an author and proponent of what she calls "personal development". Her books have sold over 10 million copies, according to her website. Gawain's best known book is "Creative Visualization". She has also written "Living in the Light", "Awakening", "Meditations", "The Path of Transformation", "The Four Levels of Healing", "Creating True Prosperity" and "Developing Intuition". She is the co-founder, with Marc Allen, of New World Library Publishing Company and founder of Nataraj Publishing, a division of New World Library.
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Michael Michalko
Michael Michalko is one of the most highly acclaimed creativity experts in the world. As an officer in the U.S. Army, Michael organized a team of NATO intelligence specialists and international academics in Frankfurt, Germany, to research, collect, and categorize all known inventive-thinking methods. His team applied the methods to various NATO military, political, and social problems and produced a variety of breakthrough ideas and creative solutions to new and old problems. Michael later applied these creative-thinking techniques to problems in the corporate world with outstanding successes. The companies he worked with were thrilled with the breakthrough results they achieved, and Michael has since been in the business of developing and
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in international relations, foreign policy, and nation building. He is also one of the authors of the selectorate theory.
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He has founded a company, Mesquita & Roundell, that specializes in making political and foreign-policy forecasts using a computer model based on game theory and rational choice theory. He is also the director of New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy.
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James Altucher
James Altucher is a writer, successful entrepreneur, chess master, and investor.
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He has founded over 20 companies and sold some of them for large exits. He has also run venture capital funds, hedge funds, angel funds, and currently sits on the boards of many companies.
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Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman is an American writer, physicist, and social entrepreneur. Born in 1948, he was educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a PhD in theoretical physics. He has received five honorary doctoral degrees. Lightman has served on the faculties of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was the first person at MIT to receive dual faculty appointments in science and in the humanities. He is currently professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. His scientific research in astrophysics has concerned
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black holes, relativity theory, radiative processes, and the dynamics of systems of stars. His essays and articles have appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s, the -
Robert Heath
Dr. Robert Heath has a worldwide reputation as an expert in the role of emotion and attention in the field of brand communication. In 2001 he developed the Low Attention Processing Model of advertising, after which he published the best-selling monograph The Hidden Power of Advertising. His published research has garnered him major prizes, including the dual award of the MRS David Winton and ISBA Prizes. Dr. Heath is a Senior Lecturer in Advertising at University of Bath School of Management and a Board Member of the Wharton Global Future of Advertising Project.
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Will Grant
Will Grant is a veteran product designer and UX professional with over 25 years’ experience overseeing the design, information architecture, and usability of web and mobile products that have reached over a billion users.
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After his Computer Science degree, Will trained with Jakob Nielsen and Bruce Tognazzini at the Nielsen Norman Group—the world leaders in usable design. He has since devoted his career to working on designing usable, powerful products that solve problems and generate value for organizations.
With a deep understanding of mobile, enterprise, and consumer software products, Will is adept at identifying and addressing users’ problems with thoughtful design.
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Lou Downe
Louise Downe writes under the pen name Lou Downe.
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Director of Design and Service Standards for the UK Government, based at GDS and founder of service design in government, she was voted one of the UKs top 50 creative leaders,and one of world’s 100 most influential people in digital government. -
Frank J. Fabozzi
Frank J. Fabozzi is a Professor in the Practice of Finance and Becton Fellow in the Yale School of Management. He is well known as the author of numerous books on finance, both practitioner-focused and academic. Professor Frank J. Fabozzi will be joining Edhec Risk Institute on August 1, 2011. EDHEC-Risk Institute is part of EDHEC Business School, one of Europe’s leading business schools.
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Beverly Engel
Beverly Engel has been a psychotherapist for thirty years, specializing in the areas of abuse recovery, relationships, women’s issues and sexuality. She is also the best-selling author of 20 self-help books, many of which have been featured on national television and radio programs (Oprah, CNN, Ricki Lake, Starting Over) as well as national print media (O Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, Psychology Today, The Washington Post, The LA Times, and The Chicago Tribune to name a few).
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She is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the issue of emotional abuse, as well as a pioneer on the issue, having written one of the first recovery books on the subject (The Emotionally Abused Woman). -
Nigel Cumberland
Nigel Cumberland is the co-founder of The Silk Road Partnership, a leading global provider of executive coaching and leadership training solutions to some of the world’s leading organizations. He has lived and worked in locations as diverse as Hong Kong, Glasgow, Budapest, Santiago, Guatemala City, Kuala Lumpur, London and Shanghai. Gaining experiences and wisdom that have helped teach him what it takes to succeed in life.
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Previously, Nigel worked as a multinational finance director with Coats plc, as well as for some of the world’s leading recruitment firms including Adecco. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He co-created an award-winning recruitment firm based in Hong Kong and China, which he later s -
Andrew B. Newberg
Dr. Andrew Newberg is Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Nuclear Medicine. He is considered a pioneer in the neuroscientific study of religious and spiritual experiences, a field frequently referred to as – neurotheology. His work attempts to better understand the nature of religious and spiritual practices and experiences. This has been compiled into his latest book, Principles of Neurotheology, which reviews the important principles and foundations of neurotheology. Believing that it i
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Addy Osmani
Addy Osmani is a Senior Staff Engineering Manager working on Google Chrome. He leads up teams focused on making the web fast and low-friction to build on for developers. Addy has authored a number of books and has spoken at conferences around the world.
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Kenneth R. Miller
Kenneth R. Miller is Professor of Biology at Brown University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1974 at the University of Colorado, and spent six years teaching at Harvard University before returning to Brown. He is a cell biologist, and chairs the Education Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology. He serves as an advisor on life sciences to the NewsHour, a daily PBS television program on news and public affairs.
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His research work on cell membrane structure and function has produced more than 50 scientific papers and reviews in leading journals, including CELL and Nature, as well as leading popular sources such as Natural History and Scientific American. Miller is coauthor, with Joseph S. Levine, of four different high school and college bi -
Jessamy Hibberd
Dr Jessamy is a clinical psychologist, author and mother of three. She lives in Hove by the sea and loves spending time on the beach with her family, as well as cycling in the South Downs.
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Jessamy runs an online clinic and has over 15 years experience in clinical practice. She has written nine books including The Imposter Cure, described by the Sunday Times as “the definitive guide to tackling and understanding the psychological mind trap of imposter syndrome.”
Her latest book, How to Overcome Trauma and Find Yourself Again: 7 Steps to Grow From Pain, unriddles the effects of trauma and shows how we can use tough times to look within ourselves and to re-evaluate. They can remind us how precious life is and what is important, and give us the p -
S.J. Scott
Wall Street Journal bestselling author SJ Scott wanted to be Luke Skywalker when he grew up.
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Unfortunately his complete lack of physical grace and introverted mannerism's kept the earth from having their own Jedi Knight to battle the Sith menace.
Steve “SJ” Scott was born and raised in New Jersey. After finishing college with a degree in psychology he knew he needed to further his education or work on his latte making skills.
During a short stint in US Air Force, Scott was able to get his Master’s in business and then moved on to conquer the business world.
Scott then spent a couple of years working for a company not unlike the company depicted in Mike Judge’s film, “Office Space”. After doing his share of “TPS” reports, Scott swore he would -
Chade-Meng Tan
Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is Google's Jolly Good Fellow (which nobody can deny). Meng was one of Google's earliest engineers. Among many other things, he helped build Google's first mobile search service, and headed the team that kept a vigilant eye on Google's search quality. His current job description is, "Enlighten minds, open hearts, create world peace".
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Outside of Google, Meng is the Founder and (Jolly Good) President of the Tan Teo Charitable Foundation, a small foundation dedicated to promoting Peace, Liberty and Enlightenment in the world. He is a Founding Patron of Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). He is also a Founding Patron of the World Peace Festival, and adviser to a number of -
Bradley R. Staats
Brad Staats integrates work in operations management and human behavior to understand how and under what conditions individuals, teams, and organizations can perform their best. His first book, Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself and Thrive was selected by Susan Cain, Adam Grant, Malcolm Gladwell, and Dan Pink as a Summer 2018 selection for their Next Big Idea Book Club. His research uses archival data and field experiments to provide an interdisciplinary perspective that contributes to improving operations in the service, technology, and healthcare industries. He works with many companies around the world on their learning and analytics strategies.
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W. Brad Johnson
W. Brad Johnson is Professor of psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States Naval Academy, and a Faculty Associate in the Graduate School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. A clinical psychologist and former commissioned officer in the Navy’s Medical Service Corps, Dr. Johnson served at Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Medical Clinic at Pearl Harbor where he was the division head for psychology. He is a recipient of the Johns Hopkins University Teaching Excellence Award, and has received distinguished mentor awards from the National Institutes of Health and the American Psychological Association. Dr. Johnson is the author of numerous publications including 14 books, in the areas of gender in the wor
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Dan Norris
Dan is an Amazon best selling Author and serial entrepreneur.
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He was voted Australia's top small business blogger in 2013. In the same year he started WP Curve (http://wpcurve.com), A WordPress support company that he grew to 45 team members in 7 countries, thousands of customers and a million dollar AUD annual run rate in less than 2 years.
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Michael Dummett
A skilled analytic mind and an ardent voice against racism, Sir Michael A. E. Dummett is considered by many to be one of twentieth-century Britain’s most influential philosophers of language. Dummett is best known for his work in the history of analytic philosophy and in his contributions to the philosophy of language and mathematics. Much of his work has taken the form of commentary on the likes of Frege, Wittgenstein, and Quine. Dummett, who considered himself a Wittgensteinian, is widely held as the English authority on the work of German logician Gottlob Frege. Though Dummett diverges from Frege, who is a realist, most of Dummett’s achievements have been pursued in connection with his enthusiasm for Frege’s thought.
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Maura Nevel Thomas
Maura Nevel Thomas is an award-winning international speaker and trainer on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance, and the most widely-cited authority on attention management. Her proprietary Empowered Productivity™ System has been embraced by the likes of the NASA, Dyson, and Google. She's ranked in the Top 10 Time Management Professionals in the World, and was named a Top Leadership Speaker by Inc. Magazine. She's also a TEDx Speaker and the author of six best-selling books. Maura is frequently featured in major business outlets including Business Insider, Fast Company, and the Washington Post, and she’s also a regular contributor to both Forbes and the Harvard Business Review, with articles there viewed over a milli
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Niranjanananda Saraswati
Guided by his guru, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, from birth, at the age of four Niranjanananda came to live with him at the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger where he received training in yogic and spiritual sciences through yoga nidra.
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In 1971 he was initiated into Dashnami sannyasa, and thereafter for eleven years he lived overseas, mastering skills in varied areas, acquiring an understanding of different cultures and helping establish Satyananda Yoga ashrams and centres in Europe, Australia, North and South America.
At the behest of his guru, he returned to Munger, India in 1983 to guide the activities of Bihar School of Yoga. In 1990 he was initiated as a paramahamsa sannyasin and in 1995 anointed spiritual preceptor in succession to Swami Sa -
William Kennedy
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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson is a professor of English and Environmental Studies at Rice University. His research combines literary criticism, communication studies, and sociology to examine the cultural and political dimensions of climate change, with a focus on climate justice. He is the author of Peak Oil: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture, co-editor of An Ecotopian Lexicon and Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change, and editor of Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspectives on Life in Singapore.
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Guy Verhofstadt
Belgian Liberal Politician and European Federalist.
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He served as Prime Minister from 1999-2008 after defeating the Social-Democrats and Christian Democrats in the aftermath of the Agusta scandal and Dioxin Affair. He was the first liberal Prime Minister in Belgium since 1884.
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Tommy Koh
Professor Tommy Koh is currently Ambassador-At-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Special Adviser of the Institute of Policy Studies and Chairman of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. He is the Chairman of the SymAsia Foundation of Credit Suisse. He is also the Rector of Tembusu College at the University Town of the National University of Singapore.
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Prof Koh was the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Singapore from 1971 to 1974. He was Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York from 1968 to 1971 (concurrently accredited as High Commissioner to Canada) and again from 1974 to 1984 (concurrently accredited as High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico). He -
Harald Welzer
Harald Welzer ist Direktor des Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut in Essen und Forschungsprofessor für Sozialpsychologie an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.
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"Der Spiegel" stellte ihn im August 2007 in seiner Serie herausragender Wissenschaftler als "produktiven Quergeist" einem breiten Publikum vor.
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Cameron K. Murray
Dr Cameron Murray is Australia's leading expert commentator on housing. He is an economist and co-author of Rigged, and runs his own think-tank, Fresh Economic Thinking. He has been a tenant, a home owner, and a landlord, and he has worked in property development.
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Alex Budak
Alex Budak helps people spark change, find fulfillment, and make an impact wherever they go.
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An award-winning faculty member at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and School of Public Health, his impact-focused courses teach students to think, act, and lead differently -- and have even inspired student tattoos.
His book, Becoming a Changemaker, is being translated into 23 languages. CNBC named it a top 5 non-fiction book about work.
Alex began his hands-on, community-driven change work as co-founder of StartSomeGood. The platform has raised millions of dollars to help launch and scale new change efforts in over 50 countries.
A UCLA and Georgetown graduate, he has spoken on leadership, change, and meaning around the world, from Ukraine to Cam -
David DeGrazia
David DeGrazia is an American moral philosopher specializing in bioethics and animal ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, where he has taught since 1989.
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Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid November.
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Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is a dire -
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
محمدرضا پهلوی
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(Former) Shah of Iran, Shah of Persia (Persian: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی ; [mohæmˈmæd reˈzɒː ˈʃɒːhe pæhlæˈviː]), ruled Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979. He was the second and last monarch of the House of Pahlavi of the Iranian monarchy. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi held several titles: His Imperial Majesty, Shahanshah (King of Kings, Emperor), Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans) and Bozorg Arteshtārān (Head of the Warriors, Persian: بزرگ ارتشتاران).
The young prince came to power during World War II after an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced the abdication of his father Reza Shah. During his reign, the Iranian oil industry was nationalized under Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, and Ira -
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Robert Moore Williams
The prolific author Robert Moore Williams published more than 150 novels and short stories under his given name as well as a variety of pseudonyms including John S. Browning, H.H. Harmon, Robert Moore, Russell Storm and E.K. Jarvis.
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Williams was born in Farmington, Missouri and earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He had a full-time writing career from 1937 through 1972 and cut his teeth on such publications as Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Astounding, Thrilling Wonder and Startling.
In 1955 Williams cranked out The Chaos Fighters, the first of 30 novels he would write over the next 15 years. These novels include the Jongor and ,Zanthar series. His most unusual book, however, is one that is labeled as