Valerie Davis Raskin, MD, maintains a private practice in the Chicago area. A former clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, she also cofounded the Pregnancy and Postpartum Treatment Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.

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Gary L. Rashba is the author of more than thirty-five articles on defense, aerospace, and international topics. His work has appeared in a variety of publications, including VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and the International Herald Tribune. He currently resides in Israel with his wife, three children, and black Lab.

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Ron Rash is the author of the prize-winning novels One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight, as well as several collections of poetry and short stories. Rash holds the John Parris Chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University and lives in Clemson, South Carolina.

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Michael Rapport is a professor of history at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. The author of numerous books, Rapport lives in Stirling, Scotland.

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Joshua Z. Rappoport, PhD, is Executive Director of Research Infrastructure at Boston College. Previously, he served as director of the Center for Advanced Microscopy and Nikon Imaging Center at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ema.

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Nancy Rappaport is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide.

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Helen Rappaport is the author of a number of historical works, including Joseph Stalin and No Place for Ladies, as well as the Victorian true-crime story Beautiful for Ever. She is a fluent Russian speaker and a specialist in Russian history and nineteenth-century women's history.

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A public health nurse for twenty years and the mother of three, Gill Rapley, PhD, is the pioneering champion of baby-led weaning and has studied infant feeding and child development for many years. She lives in Kent, England.

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Becky Rapinchuk is the founder of Clean Mama, the most popular cleaning website in with world. Rapinchuk is an online columnist for Better Homes & Gardens, the housekeeping expert on Answers.com, and a regular home expert for Real Simple, the New York Times, and HGTV Magazine.

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Ray Raphael is an American historian and author of numerous books. He is noted for his work on the American Revolution, the Constitution, and the regional history of Northern California. Ray’s books include The First American Revolution, Founding Myths, Founders, and Constitutional Myths. He lives in Northern California.

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Ronald M. Rapee, PhD, is a professor in the department of psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and director of its Centre for Emotional Health. He has authored or coauthored several books, including Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia.

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Vani Rao, MBBS, MD, is an associate professor and the director of the Brain Injury Clinic and the Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Program within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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