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Rafael Ábalos

Esby
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Douglas Adams

Darina Allen

Copyright John Sheehan
Culinary Institute of America (CIA)

Hyde Park, New York, 2006; photo by Jiashiang Wang
Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
W. Ross Ashby

Credit: Self-portrait, 1955, Stanford
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
A.J. Ayer

Lidia Matticchio Bastianich

Christopher Hirsheimer
Mario Batali

Credit: Charles Haynes, May 13, 2005

Stephen Batchelor

Gregory Bateson

from Wikipedia
Najmieh Batmanglij

Hans de Beer

Paul Benacerraf

Office of Communications, Princeton University
Susan Bensusan

Henri Bergson

Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
Marlena De Blasi

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jean Shinoda Bolen

Godfried Bomans

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Project Gutenberg
Alton Brown

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Montague Brown

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Martin Buber

Anthony Burgess

James Burke


Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Eric Carle

Lewis Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Penelope Casas

© Kramer/Trebitz
Irena Chalmers

The Culinary Institute of America
Aidan Chambers

Photo by Chris Robertson
Pema Chodron

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Jim Crace

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Marion Cunningham

Richard E. Cytowic

Photo by Todd Franson
Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Antonio R. Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Thierry Dedieu

Esby
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Stefano Disegni

Joe Zattere
Andrew Dornenburg

Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Crescent Dragonwagon

Cornbread Gospels
Mark Dunn

Jill Dupleix

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007

Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
James Elkins

Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Victoria Finlay

Martin Palmer
John Fowles

Cornelia Caroline Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Ina Garten

Photo by user Psychobunny95 / English Wikipedia
Ina May Gaskin

Nambassa Trust and Peter Terry, http://www.nambassa.com/ (Wikipedia)
José Ortega y Gasset

Daniel Gilbert

Marilynn Oliphant
Elizabeth Gilbert

Carol Gilligan

Joyce Ravid
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Suzanne Goin

Photo © Shimon and Tammer
Joyce Goldstein

Photo by Business Association Italy America (BAIA) ~ Flickr
Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
Jane Grigson

Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Jurgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
Ernst Haeckel

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Otto Hahn

Calvin S. Hall

Courtesy of G. William Domhoff, Ph.D.,
at dreamresearch.net
Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
Thich Nhat Hanh

Tim Harford

Photo by Fran Monks
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
G. W. F. Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Max Horkheimer

From
Wikipedia,
Horkheimer (front left), in 1965 at Heidelberg.
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Zara Houshmand

John Burlinson
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Edmund Husserl

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Julian Huxley

Thomas Henry and Julian Huxley in 1895. From
WikipediaKazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
A.J. Jacobs

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
William James

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Julian Jaynes

John Burlinson
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Pamela Sheldon Johns

Andrea Wyner.
James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Miranda July

RJ Shaughnessy
Cynthia Kadohata

kira-kira.us
Immanuel Kant

Harvey Karp

navy.mil
Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Stuart Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
Jack Kerouac

David Kessler

U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Leo Kessler

Provided by user iamiam (publisher)
Wong Kiew Kit

Sifu Wong Kiew Kit
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Jerzy N. Kosinski

Leena Krohn

Anneli Salo
Milan Kundera

Emeril Lagasse

(by Spc. Leah R. Burton)
Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse signs his cookbooks and interacts with fans during a book signing at the Fort Lewis, Washington.
(www4.army.mil)

George Lakoff

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Reif Larsen

Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Halldor Laxness

David Lebovitz

malias, July 29, 2005
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
Daniel J. Levitin

Marina Lewycka

A. Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
EF Loftus

University of California, Irvine
Thomas Lynch

Photo by Alan Betson
Deborah Madison

editors of Saveur magazine

Saveur
Herbert Marcuse

Lynn Margulis

Credit: Javier Pedreira, 2005, La Coruña, Spain
Jean-Luc Marion

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
James Martin

Photo of Fr. James Martin SJ
Photo Credit: Tatyana Borodina
Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Nancie McDermott

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
MARGARET MEAD

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
Chris Mooney

Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienHarry Mulisch

Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Natsume Soseki

Marion Nestle

Photo by Peter Menzel
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Susan Orlean

Gasper Tringale
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Sara Perry

photo by Mark Wexler
Carlo Petrini

Henry Petroski

jean piaget

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Sylvia Plath


Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Karl R. Popper

William Poundstone

Hatchette Book Group USA
Lily Prior

Courtesy of the author
Dorling Kindersley

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Gordon Ramsay

Rachael Ray

The Heart Truth
Jean-François Revel

Jean Francois Revel polaroid portriat 1999 taken by Elsa Dorfman
Gary Rhodes

Matthieu Ricard

Polaroid of Matthieu Ricard taken in 1999 by Elsa Dorfman (Wikimedia)
Sogyal Rinpoche

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Tom Robbins

Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Rick Rodgers

Brian Doben
Mara Reid Rogers

MaraReidRogersCooks.com
Michael Rosen

Photo credit: JK the Unwise (Wikipedia user)
Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Stuart O'Sullivan
Michel Roux

Phil Guest, March 23, 2008
J. K. Rowling

Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gilbert Ryle


Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Habeeb Salloum

James Salter

© 2004 Lana Rys
José Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Annie M.G. Schmidt

Barry Schwartz

Photo © Esther Dyson
John R. Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
Martin Seligman

Martin E.P. Seligman
Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology
Director, Positive Psychology Center
President, American Psychological Association, 1998
Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtRupert Sheldrake

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Nancy Silverton

Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Zadie Smith

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Rudolf Steiner

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Daniel Tammet


Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Gary Taubes

Lawrence Lederman
Tais Teng

Tais teng
Twyla Tharp

2004 Medalist Twyla Tharp with NEA Chairman Dana Gioia and National Council on the Arts member Mary Costa.
Photo by Victoria Hutter.
Theo Thijssen

Dolph Kohnstamm
Hervé This

Hervé This by Nathalie Boisard-Beudin
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Jerry Traunfeld

Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Jeff Vandermeer


Francisco J. Varela

Photo courtesy Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Max Velthuijs

Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Margaret Visser

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Alice Waters

Taken by Lilithcat
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
James D. Watson

Wikipedia
David Weinberger

photo by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media
Norbert Wiener

From
Wikipedia
Photo courtesy Research Library of Electronics, MIT.
Tad Williams

Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienNaomi Wolf

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Carl Zimmer

Ben Stechshulte
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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