Simon Ball is professor of international history and politics at the University of Leeds. He is the author of six acclaimed books, including Secret History, The Bitter Sea, and The Guardsmen.

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Carlos A. Ball is a Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. He is an expert in the fields of constitutional law and LGBTQ rights. He has written or edited nine books, including The Queering of Corporate America, the First Amendment and LGBT Equality, and Same-Sex Marriage and Children.

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Laurence M. Ball is professor of economics at The Johns Hopkins University. He has previously worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, foreign central banks including the Bank of England and Bank of Japan, and at the International Monetary Fund.

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A native of Boston, Deborah Ball has been a business journalist in Europe for more than fifteen years. For twelve years, she has been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Milan, London, and Zurich, covering a wide variety of business, finance, and political topics.

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Philip Ball is a writer, author, and broadcaster, and was formerly an editor at Nature. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Invisible, Curiosity, and The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China. He lives in London.

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USA Today bestselling author Sarah Ballance and her husband of what he calls "many long, long years" live on the mid-Atlantic coast with their six young children. While she entertains a love of all genres, you're most likely to find her immersed in the utter deliciousness that is sexy contemporary romance.

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New Zealand–born fantasy writer and podcaster Pip Ballantine is the author of the Books of the Order and the Shifted World series. She is the recipient of many honors, including an Airship, a Parsec, and a Sir Julius Vogel Award.

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New Zealand born fantasy writer and podcaster Philippa (Pip) Ballantine is the author of the Books of the Order and the Shifted World series. She is also the co-author, with her husband Tee Morris, of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences novels. In addition to his work as a fantasist, Morris is also a social media pioneer and the author of Podcasting for Dummies and All a Twitter.

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Jane C. Ballantyne is board certified anesthesiologist at UW Medical Center and a UW professor (retired) of anesthesiology and pain medicine and director of the UW pain fellowship.

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Katherine J. Ballantyne is a senior lecturer in American history at Liverpool John Moores University.

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Chris Ballard, the author of The Art of a Beautiful Game, The Butterfly Hunter, and Hoops Nation, is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated.

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H. Byron Ballard is a western North Carolina native, teacher, folklorist, and writer. She serves as senior priestess and cofounder of Mother Grove Goddess Temple and the Coalition of Earth Religions/CERES. She writes a regular column for SageWoman magazine. Find her at www.myvillagewitch.com.

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