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James Kakalios

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James Kambos

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James Kaplan

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James Kaplan

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James K. A. Smith

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James Keeler

Head of the Department of Chemistry at University of Cambridge

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James Keene

William (Will) Everett Cook was born in Richmond, Indiana in 1921 or 1922 and died in 1964. He began writing for publication in 1952 for Popular Library. During his short life Cook was a soldier, commercial aviator, deep-sea diver, logger, peace officer, and writer of western and adventure novels and stories. His hobbies included sports car racing, sailing, judo, and barbershop singing. His pseudonyms include Wade Everett, James Keene and Frank Peace. (From: William (Will) Everett Cook papers, 1952-1964, Archives West Orbis Cascade Alliance)

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James Kelleher

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James Kelman

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James, Ken

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James Kerr

James Kerr is a bestselling author, speaker and business consultant specialising in defining, designing and delivering change for leaders of world-class teams and organisations. His book, Legacy, reveals 15 leadership lessons from the All Blacks, the world’s most successful sporting team, and his corporate clients include HSBC, Boeing, Raffles, UBS and Shell. In the sporting arena he has also worked with UEFA, Team Origin, the RFU, Adidas and the Australian Kangaroos. His key message is that “higher purpose leads to higher performance” and that successful change begins with a values-based, vision-led, purpose driven mindset – and ends without it.

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James Kestrel

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James Kirkpatrick Davis

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James Kisner

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James K. Loebbecke

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James Knowlson

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James Kochalka

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James K. Oliver

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James Konicek

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James K. Peckol

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James Kunetka

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James K. Van Fleet

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James Kwak

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James Kwak

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James K. Wight

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James Ladyman

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James Lamar Roberts

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James L. Antonakos

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James Laver

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James L. Barry

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James L. Cambias

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James L. Dickey

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James Lear

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James Lee

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James Lee

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James Lee Burke

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James Lees-Milne

British writer who worked for the National Trust

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James Le Fanu

James Le Fanu studied the Humanities at Ampleforth College before switching to medicine, graduating from Cambridge University and the Royal London Hospital. He subsequently worked in the Renal Transplant Unit and Cardiology Departments of the Royal Free and St Mary’s Hospital in London. For the past 20 he has combined working as a doctor in general practice with contributing a weekly column to the Sunday and Daily Telegraph. He has contributed articles and reviews to The New Statesman, Spectator, GQ, The British Medical Journal and Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. He has written several books including The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine that won the Los Angeles Prize Book Award in 2001. He has made original contributions to current controversies over the value of experiments in human embryos, environmentalism, dietary causes of disease and the misdiagnosis of Non Accidental Injury in children. He lives in south London. (Source: GoodReads).

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James Legge

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James Lent

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James Leo Herlihy

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James Leslie Mitchell

Scottish writer who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon

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James L. Gelvin

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James L. Gibson

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James L. Gormly

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James L. Haley

James L. Haley is the award-winning author of the Bliven Putnam Naval Adventure series, including A Darker Sea and The Shores of Tripoli, as well as numerous books on Native American, Texas, and Western history, and historical and contemporary fiction. His two biographies Sam Houston (2002) and Wolf: The Lives of Jack London (2010), each won the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas (2006) won the Fehrenbach Award of the Texas Historical Commission. His most recent nonfiction is Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii (2014). James L. Haley is an American writer on Texas and Western history. He has also written several novels. Haley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, attended L. D. Bell High School in Hurst, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a degree in political science. He attended the University of Texas School of Law for two years before resigning to become a full-time writer. Haley's work has garnered many awards, including two Spur Awards (2002 and 2011) from the Western Writers of America.

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James L. Halperin

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James L. Hiatt

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James Lileks

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James Lincoln Collier

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