John Bicknell is the author of America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation. He has written and edited for watchdog.org, Congressional Quarterly, and Roll Call, and was senior editor of the 2016 Almanac of American Politics. He lives in Virginia.

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Michael Biddiss is Emeritus Professor of history and former dean of letters and social sciences at the University of Reading.

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Stephen Biddle is professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University and adjunct senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle.

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Flora Miller Biddle was president of the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1977 to 1995. She has four children. Her daughter, Fiona, following her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, has been elected to serve on the Whitney board of trustees.

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Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in World War II between 1941 and 1945 and wrote In Deadly Combat on that experience.

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Erik Scott de Bie is a thirty-something speculative fiction author and game designer. His novels include tales in the storied Forgotten Realms and his World of Ruin epic fantasy setting. His short work has appeared in numerous anthologies, and he is the author of the multimedia superhero project Justice/Vengeance.

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Elaine Biech is a bestselling author and president of ebb associates inc, a strategic implementation, leadership development, and experiential learning consulting firm that helps organizations work through large-scale change.

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David Biello is an award-winning journalist who has been reporting on the environment and energy since 1999. He is currently an editor at Scientific American, where he has been a contributor since 2005, and he also contributes frequently to the Los Angeles Review of Books, Yale e360, Nautilus, and Aeon.

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USA Today bestselling author Robin Bielman lives in Southern California with her awesome family and her very cute dog, Harry. She writes both sweet and sexy contemporary romances with one goal in mind: to leave you with a smile on your face.

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David Bienenstock is the author of the bestselling The Official High Times Pot Smoker's Handbook. He is the former West Coast editor of High Times magazine and has grown a following as a journalist and video host/producer at VICE, where he writes the Weed Eater column.

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Angela Bier is a former pediatrician, mother, community activist, and accomplished amateur genealogist. Her writing career was launched when she won the Little House, Big Story prize for her Laura Ingalls Wilder inspired essay, "The Reason Why." She is the author of the young adult novel Voices.

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Alec Bierbauer has spent a lifetime conducting counterterrorism and counterintelligence operations in venues ranging from Bosnia to Yemen and Afghanistan. With an emphasis on integrating emerging technologies into high-risk special programs, he was the CIA's point man in the development of the Predator program.

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