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Chris Minnick

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Chris Minnick is a prolific author, blogger, trainer, speaker, and web developer. His company, WatzThis? is dedicated to finding better ways to teach computer and programming skills to beginners.Minnick has authored and co-authored over a dozen technical books for adults and kids; including Coding with JavaScript for Dummies, JavaScript for Kids, Adventures in Coding, and Writing Computer Code.When he's not writing about technical topics, Chris is a winemaker, a novelist, a swimmer, a cook, and a musician.

Wade Davis

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Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Author of 22 books, including One River, The Wayfinders and Into the Silence, winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top nonfiction prize in the English language, he holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany,...