James Gleick

JAMES GLEICK (around.com) is our leading chronicler of science and technology, the best-selling author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. His books have been translated into thirty languages.

James Joyce

Irish novelist and poet James Joyce produced some of the most influential literature of the early 20th century, experimenting with new styles of writing. Perhaps most well-known for Ulysses, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce remains one of the most celebrated authors of the

James Rollins

James Rollins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. His Sigma series has been lauded as one of the “top crowd pleasers” (New York Times) and one of the “hottest summer reads” (People magazine). In each novel,

James Silver

James Smith

James Smith is the world’s fastest-growing online personal trainer. Honest, unapologetic and outspoken, yet erudite, authentic and endlessly passionate about exposing the toxic myths within diet culture, and committed to helping people to reach their goals and make positive change for good. Not a Diet Book is his first book.

James Staples

James Staples is reader in social anthropology at Brunel University London and author of Leprosy and a Life in South India: Journeys with a Tamil Brahmin and Peculiar People, Amazing Lives: Leprosy, Social Exclusion and Community Making in South India.

James W. Tamm

James W. Tamm is a former judge and an expert on dispute resolution and building collaborative relationships. He is currently managing director of the international consulting firm Business Consultants Network, Inc. Ronald J. Luyet is a licensed psychotherapist who has advised Fortune 500 companies for more than thirty years. Ron

Jamuna Pai

Dr Jamuna Pai has spent the last twenty years being the one that A-list Bollywood stars, top industrialists and Miss Indias have turned to for their skin problems. She has also pioneered the skincare movement in this country, being the first to introduce many techniques to India including Botox, medi-facials,

Jamyang Norbu

Jamyang Norbu is director of the Amnye Machen Institute, Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies, Dharmasala. He is the author of Warriors of Tibet, the biography of a Kampa warrior; Illusion and Reality, a collection of his political essays, and the editor of The Performing Traditions of Tibet. He was also

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Jan Vermeiren

BERT VERDONCK is an inspiring, enthusiastic and humorous speaker. He is the master trainer at Networking Coach and also a creative life hacker. In the UK Bert founded Really Connect (www.reallyconnect.com), which is expanding internationally. Bert is an excellent example of the value of networking. Bert teaches people how to

Jan Yager

Dr Jan Yager is a time management, business and relationship coach, workshop leader, and author whose thirty-seven award-winning books have been translated into thirty languages.  She conducts original research on time management, delivers speeches or workshops before a variety of corporate, association and government audiences throughout the United States and

Janaki Lenin

Janaki Lenin writes about wildlife and conservation, and the intermingling of human and animal destinies. She was a columnist for The Hindu, and is the author of the two-volume My Husband and Other Animals and Every Creature Has a Story. “

Janam Mukherjee

Janam Mukherjee is Assistant Professor of History at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Jane Austen

Devoney Looser is Foundation Professor of English at Arizona State University, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, The Making of Jane Austen, and the editor of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Sense and

Jane Coverdale

Jane has worked as a mural painter, scenic artist, graphic artist, animation cell artist and art director in theatre, television drama and commercials, films and music videos. She has written several film scripts, one of which is currently in development with an Australian producer. Jane has travelled widely in Europe,

Jane De Suza

Jane De Suza is a leading humour writer and columnist. Her books, which have a habit of hitting bestseller charts, include the SuperZero series for kids, Happily Never After and The Spy who lost her Head. She is a management grad, storyteller, advertising Creative Director and now lives between India

Jane Porter

Jane Wurwand

Jane Wurwand is a Fellow of the City & Guilds of London, a global leader in skills development and apprenticeship standards, and a Commissioner for their National Training awards. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by Cosmetic Executive Women, the leading industry group in both the USA and the

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Janet Wise

Janet Wise was born and grew up in a small rural farming community in Nebraska. As a young adult, she married, is the mother of two daughters, and began her professional life as a public education teacher of fine arts in northern California. In 1993, and now divorced, she began

Janhavi Acharekar

Janhavi Acharekar is a freelance writer who has worked variously as journalist, advertising copywriter, wine-seller, art researcher and curator of literary festivals. A creative consultant by profession, she lives with her husband in Mumbai.

Janhavi Prasada

Janhavi Prasada was born in Delhi, and raised in the Kumaon hills of Nainital and the Terai plains of Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh.She works as a peace activist in the field of technology. She dabbles with a bit of outsider art and dedicates her time to the conservation and promotion of

Janice Lynn

Janice Lynn has a Masters in Nursing from Vanderbilt University, and works as a nurse practitioner in a family practice. She lives in the southern United States with her husband, their four children, their Jack Russell – appropriately named Trouble – and a lot of unnamed dust bunnies that have

Janice Maynard

Janice Maynard is a USA TODAY bestselling author who lives in beautiful east Tennessee with her husband. She holds a BA from Emory and Henry College and an MA from East Tennessee State University. In 2002 Janice left a fifteen-year career as an elementary school teacher to pursue writing full-time.

Janice Pariat

Janice Pariat is the author of Boats on Land: A Collection of Short Stories, Seahorse: A Novel, and the international bestseller The Nine-Chambered Heart. She was the recipient of the Young Writer Award from the Sahitya Akademi and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction in 2013. Janice's work has been

Janie Crouch

Janie Crouch has loved to read romance her whole life. She cut her teeth on Mills & Boon Romance novels as a preteen, then moved on to a passion for romantic suspense as an adult. Janie lives with her husband and four children overseas. Janie enjoys traveling, long-distance running, movie-watching,

Janis A. Spring

JANIS ABRAHMS SPRING, Ph.D., ABPP, Board Certified in Clinical Psychology, is a nationally acclaimed expert on issues of trust, intimacy, and forgiveness. She is the author of How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, The Freedom Not To, which presents a radically new approach to forgiving interpersonal wounds,

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Jasmine Warga

Jasmine Warga is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Other Words for Home, a Newbery Honor Book and Walter Honor Book for Younger Readers. Her teen books, Here We Are Now and My Heart and Other Black Holes, have been translated into over twenty-five languages. She lives