About the Author: Jessie Gruman, Ph.D., is the founder and president of the Center for the Advancement of Health, and independent, nonpartisan Washington-based policy institute. The center works to help people use good scientific information when making decisions about their health and health care. Dr. Gruman has been published in the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

Area of Expertise:

The Challenges and Potential of the New Healthcare Consumer

Patient's Perspectives on Healthcare Reform

The Public's Understanding and Use of Health Technology

Public Understanding of Health Science: Promises and Pitfalls

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Jessie Gruman

AfterShock, Jessie Gruman, Ph.D. (Walker)

Democratic theory and politics, with particular emphasis on the United States, the post-communist world, and sub-Saharan Africa

Terrorism and international security, with particular emphasis on the Middle east

The politics of tax policy in the United States

The methodologies of the social sciences

Spring 2007 Tour Cities and Dates :

Washington D.C: April 12-13
L.A: May 3-4
San Francisco : May 6
Seattle: May 7
Salt Late City: May 9

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About the Author: Marlene Zuk is a professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside, where she studies the effect of parasites on the evolution and behavior of a variety of animals. She is the author of Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can’t Learn about Sex from Animals, and has written for Natural History, the Los Angeles Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She lives in Riverside, California.

Area of Expertise :

Biology

The effect of parasites on the evolution and behavior of a variety of animals

The connection between animal behavior and human behavior (including animal homosexuality).

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About the Author: Julian Houston was born in Richmond, Virginia, and educated in the public schools of that city before attending the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. He attended Boston University and was a community organizer in Harlem during the civil rights movement. He was an associate justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. Judge Houston has initiated a number of programs that build and strengthen relationships between communities, including Roxbury Youthworks, a development program for inner-city youth, and Long Road to Justice: The African American Experience in the Massachusetts Courts. He has written articles for the Boston Globe, the Boston Observer, and the Boston Bar Journal. Judge Houston lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and family.

Area of Expertise : The Civil Rights Movement and Desegregation.

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About the Author: Ronald Florence is a historian and novelist. Educated at Berkeley and Harvard, where he received a PhD in French and German history, he has written on the Gypsy holocaust, the Damascus Affair “blood libel” accusations against Jews, the building of the great Palomar telescopes, political assassinations, Marxist women, and most recently, the tangled origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Before turning to full-time writing, he taught at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College, and SUNY; was a senior researcher at the Century Foundation; and was executive director of the New York Council for the Humanities. He travels extensively in Europe and the Middle East to research his books, including recent visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, and Turkey for his new book, LAWRENCE AND AARONSOHN: T.E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, to be published in July 2007. Before moving to Providence, Rhode Island, he raised Cotswold sheep in Stonington, Connecticut.

Area of Expertise : The Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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Ronald Florence

Lawrence and Aaronsohn, Ronald Florence
(Viking Press)
ISBN: 978-0670063512