Lawrence Lessig, rock star of the information age
LAW professors rarely boast an army of "fans", but Lawrence Lessig is no run-of-the-mill academic. Now at Stanford University, formerly at Harvard, Mr Lessig has become a rock star of the information age, mixing scholarly inquiry with ... [... more]
The Economist |
Thomas Kohnstamm
THOMAS KOHNSTAMM was born in 1975 and graduated from Stanford University with an M.A. in Latin American studies. He lives in Seattle. A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism For those who think that ... [... more]
Random House |
Marilyn Yalom
Marilyn Yalom is a senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is the author of A History of the Wife; A History of the Breast; Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory; and Maternity, Mortality, ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Jennifer Sey
Jennifer Sey began competing in gymnastics at the age of six and went on to become 1986 National Gymnastics Champion and seven-time national team member. A graduate of Stanford University, Sey was named one of the "Top 40 Marketers under 40" by [... more]
Harper Collins |
Julie Orringer
Julie Orringer is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Cornell University, and was a Stegner Fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Ploughshares, The ... [... more]
Random House |
William C. Dement
William C. Dement, M.D., Ph.D., is the world's leading authority on sleep, sleep deprivation, and the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. In 1970 he founded the world's first sleep disorders center at Stanford University. In 1975 he ... [... more]
Random House |
Charles Schwab
CHARLES R. SCHWAB is the founder, chairman, and co-CEO of The Charles Schwab Corporation, one of the nation's largest financial services firms (www.schwab.com). He is a member of the board of trustees of Stanford University, where he earned his ... [... more]
Random House |
Mark S. Weiner
Mark S. Weiner was born and raised in Los Angeles. After graduating from Stanford University, he received a Ph.D. in American studies and a law degree from Yale. He now teaches constitutional law, legal history, and legal ethics at Rutgers School ... [... more]
Random House |
Sam Harris
Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times best seller, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, which won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. He is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and has studied both ... [... more]
Random House |
Brian Wansink, Ph.D.
Brian Wansink, Ph.D., is an Iowa native and earned his doctorate at Stanford University. He is the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and of Nutritional Science at Cornell University, where he is Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. The ... [... more]
Random House |
Rusel Demaria
Rusel DeMaria played his first video game in about 1967 at Stanford University. The game was Space War, and it started a lifetime of game playing that has only experienced the brief gap between that time and when Nolan Bushnell finally got Pong ... [... more]
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M.R. Montgomery
M.R. Montgomery has been a journalist for thirty years and is the author of five previous books. He graduated from Stanford University and the University of Oregon with degrees in American history. A native of Montana, he has returned there often ... [... more]
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