Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli, was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies. He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors.
Purushottam Nagesh Oak was a historical negationist from India.
Sadık Yemni is a Turkish-Dutch science fiction author. Yemni is the author of twenty two novels published in the Turkish language, as well as a variety of short stories, essays, plays, and film scripts. He is known particularly for De roos van Amsterdam.
Rose is a novel by Martin Cruz Smith published in 1996. The story is set in 1872 Wigan, Lancashire, England, a district with extensive coal mines.
Avraham Barkai was a German-born Israeli historian and researcher of antisemitism. He died at age 99 on 29 February 2020 in Lehavot HaBashan.
Damodar N. Gujarati is a professor of economics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and author/co-author of the Basic Econometrics textbook, among others. The textbook has been published in 5 editions over the last 21 years, and translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, and Persian.
Hendrik Caspar Romberg was a Dutch bookkeeper, merchant-trader and VOC Opperhoofd in Japan.
Cally Oldershaw is a gemologist and science educator. She is the author of several very widely held books about gems. Oldershaw is Liaison Officer for the Geological Society of London and an examiner for the Gemmological Association of Great Britain.
John Joseph Ratey, M.D., is associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Paul K. Davis is a policy analyst at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California.
Daniel A. Vallero is an American environmental author and scientist. He was born in East St. Louis, Illinois and grew up in Collinsville, Illinois. He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in city and regional planning from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. He also earned a masters in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Kansas and a PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Duke University with a thesis on "“Dicarboximide Fungicide Flux to the Lower Troposphere from an Aquic Hapludult Soil”
The Business Style Handbook: An A-to-Z Guide for Effective Writing on the Job, usually called The Business Style Handbook, is a 280-page style guide tailored to people who write on the job. The authors are Helen Cunningham and Brenda Greene.
K.P Joseph Kalarickal is an Indian writer of books such as Gospel of Guru Sree Narayana, Notes on the era and other poems, Hormis: legend of a great banker with passion for development: biography of K.P. Hormis, founder of Federal Bank, Bishop Jonas Thaliath of Rajkot: a biography.
Patrick McNamara is an American neuroscientist. His work has centered on three major topics: sleep and dreams, religion, and mind/brain.
Twentieth Century Impressions was a series of travel, political and social reference books published by Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Company in London between 1901 and 1914. The full titles were typically styled as Twentieth Century Impressions of [country name] : Its history, people, commerce, industries and resources.
The International Numismata Orientalia was an important series of publications relating to numismatics of the Middle East and South Asia, with articles contributed by specialist numismatists, published by Messrs Trübner & Co., London, in the late nineteenth century.
The New Concept Writing Competition (新概念作文大赛) is a Chinese literary competition for young writers, who may submit work up to a maximum of 5000 Chinese characters. Many of the winners have gone on to have successful writing careers.
Cesare Bossi was an Italian-born composer. He is most known as a composer of ballets which he wrote for the King's Theatre in Haymarket in London.
Atlas Educational Film Company was a film production business in Chicago, Illinois. It had a production studio at 1111 South Boulevard in Oak Park, a former theater building designed by E. E. Roberts. It is still standing. Addresses for the company were also listed as 3 Wabash Avenue and 63 East Adams Street. Atlas was also a dealer of portable projectors, slides, and offered a catalog of educational slides and films.
