May 2008
Beginner
280 pages
8h 23m
English
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Nellie McKesson(production editor) is a graduate of St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She currently lives in Jamaica Plain, Mass., and spends her spare time making t-shirts for her friends to wear (mattsaundersbynellie.etsy.com). Email: nellie@oreilly.com.
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Julie Hawks (indexer) has degrees in mathematics and library and information science. Much of her spare time is spent reading authors such as David Bohm, Ramana Maharshi, and Sri Nisargadatta as well as dreaming of traveling extensively through India. Email: juliehawks@gmail.com.
Esther Chung (technical reviewer) is a student of the brain at Wellesley College. She wishes to thank her good friend Shane Warden for his introduction, and Dawn Frausto for all her help during the tech review process.
Timo Hannay (technical reviewer) is a director at Nature Publishing Group, creators of Nature and other scientific journals, as well as a variety of online scientific resources. Among other things, he is the publisher of Nature.com, a co-organiser of Science Foo Camp, and a fluent Japanese speaker. ...
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