Mark J. Plotkin, PhD, is president of the Amazon Conservation Team. He is the author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, Medicine Quest, and coauthor, with Michael Shnayerson, of The Killers Within.

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Miriam Plotinsky is an instructional specialist with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, and the author of Teach More, Hover Less: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Secondary Classroom. Also a National Board-Certified Teacher and certified administrator, she lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Devin G. P. Ploof co-writes with Michael James Ploof. Their books include A Dream of Fire and The Man Who Broke the Moon.

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Michael James Ploof is the USA Today bestselling author of numerous novels, including the Legends of Agora series and the Sock Gnome Chronicles. His hobbies include reading, cooking, gardening, and playing guitar, bass, and drums. Above all else, he enjoys beating the odds. Michael lives in New York.

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Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. The author of numerous books, including Chernobyl, which was awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, Plokhy lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.

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Dennis Plies, who was for many years a music professor at Warner Pacific University, has been involved with music for his entire life. Starting at the age of seven, he played marimba for audiences and on television, and he has recorded albums in genres including gospel, classical, and jazz.

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Constantine Pleshakov received his PhD from the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He is coauthor of Inside the Kremlin's Cold War and Flight of the Romanovs and has published six novels and a collection of short stories in Russia. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Allie Pleiter is an internationally bestselling author, an accomplished productivity coach, and an avid knitter and needlepointer. In addition to six nonfiction books, she has written dozens of popular fiction, mystery, and romance novels with more than 1.6 million copies sold. Visit her at alliepleiter.com.

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Gary Player has won 167 professional golf tournaments worldwide and is one of only five men to capture golf's coveted career Grand Slam. He won nine Major championships on the PGA Tour and nine Major championships on the Senior Tour, and is the only player in history to complete the career Grand Slam on both tours.

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Meara Platt is the USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of numerous novels, including the Farthingale series and the Braydens series. She lives on Long Island, New York, with her husband and two terrific children.

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Tony Platt is the author of numerous books on race, inequality, and social justice in American history, including Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States, The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency, and Grave Matters: The Controversy over Excavating California's Buried Indigenous Past.

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Andrey Platonov (1899–1951) was one of the finest Russian writers of the twentieth century, though much of his work was suppressed during his life due to his critical view of Stalin. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, he wrote his most politically controversial works—including The Foundation Pit, Soul, and Happy Moscow.

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