Pam Baker is an award-winning freelance journalist, analyst, and author. Her previous book, ChatGPT For Dummies, was one of the first how-to guides for effective use of the ChatGPT platform. She writes for several media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, Ars Technica, InformationWeek, and CSO.

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David Baker is a history and science writer who holds the world's first PhD in Big History (the field that considers the entire history of the universe). He is an award-winning lecturer who wrote the YouTube series Crash Course Big History, hosted by John Green and his brother Hank Green. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

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Tory Baker is a mom of two teenagers and a dog mom to one wild and active Weimaraner, Remi. She lives in a small coastal town on the east coast of sunny Florida.

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Nancy Mujo Baker is the founding teacher of the No Traces Sangha in the lineage of Maezumi Roshi's White Plum Asanga. A Dharma successor to Bernie Glassman, she is among the first fully empowered lay Soto Zen teachers. She is professor emerita of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College, where she taught for over forty years.

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J. I. Baker is the executive editor of Conde Nast Traveler and the author of the novel The Empty Glass.

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Nicholson Baker is the author of ten novels and five works of nonfiction, including The Anthologist, The Mezzanine, and Human Smoke. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hermann Hesse Prize, and a Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Maine with his wife.

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Amy J. L. Baker, PhD, has a doctorate in developmental psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and is a professional writer and researcher. She is the author of Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome among other books and articles on parental alienation and parent-child relationships.

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Tim Bakken is the first civilian promoted to professor of law at West Point, the United States Military Academy. He practiced law in New York City, including as a prosecutor in Brooklyn. His most recent book is The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military.

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Twice decorated—with the Member of the Legion of Merit and the Military Forces' Commendation—Andrew Balaam was a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and later the Selous Scouts, for a period spanning twelve years. He is the author of Bush War Operator.

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Vijay Balan is a rocket-scientist turned storyteller; his career includes work on the Space Shuttle engines. He also worked globally in the marketing of technology. Vijay holds degrees in engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from The Wharton School.

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Nicholson Baker has published seven novels and three works of nonfiction, including Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper.

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Rebecca Balcárcel is the author of The Other Half of Happy, winner of the Pura Belpré Author Honor. Her poems and essays have appeared in Third Coast and North American Review, and her book of poems is titled Palabras In Each Fist. She currently serves as associate professor of English at Tarrant County College.

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