Contributors to the this Issue
Damlanur Abaan is a Turkish born Canadian who spends time in both countries. She is an internationally celebrated cook, a former restaurateur, and a follower of the Buddhist way. Her website is located at www.damlacooksturkish.com. She has contributed a review of Joe Sinclair's Uncultured Pearls in the book review section. |
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Amy Bells is a regular contributor to the Poetry Website Hello Poetry (http://hellopoetry.com/) on which she describes herself as "an extremely sensitive bipolar bundle of joy. Plant-based, baby faced black metal raver. Married into the Military to my Middle School Sweetheart. Some days, I don't get out of bed, but when I do, I work with flowers and plants and, occasionally, people. Picked up the pen with newfound vigour last summer, and am striving to be better." Amy lives in California. She has contributed the poem Attachment. |
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Ruth Carneson lives in Muizenberg on the False Bay side of Cape Town, South Africa. During the apartheid regime, for 24 years from the age of 14, she lived in exile in Britain where she obtained a BA Honours in Visual Arts. She exhibited extensively in Britain as well as producing cards, calendars and posters of her work, and also worked as a visiting artist in schools where she used art as means of exploring human rights issues. Her South African exhibition Back on Track, described in our Winter issue last year, marked her return to a career in art, a career that she now pursues enthusiastically, as witness her most recent initiative Artonline described in this issue. Ruth is at present completing her written autobiography. |
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Professor Sarah Dixon has a career so extensive that it defies description in the space available to it in this section. Following 23 years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group, which included service in Vienna and Moscow, she became Dean of Bradford University's School of Management. Then in January 2013 she took on the challenge offered as Dean of the unique collaboration between Xi’an Jiaotong University in the World Heritage city of Suzhou on China's east coast and the UK's Liverpool University. More information may be found at http://www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/about-us/introducing-xjtlu.html. In this issue she has contributed the article on Women for Boards.
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Mark Edwards lives in Exeter and works as a Primary Mental Health Worker in South Devon. He has a developing interest in working systemically and the focus of his work is with children and families. He runs a successful course for parents on Managing Challenging Behaviour. He has contributed the reviews of Life Coaching For Kids and Banish Your Self-Esteem Thief. |
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Artist and writer David Lance Goines went from the University of California at Berkeley to apprenticeship with a Berkeley printer. He is the author of five books, collaborated on three, and his work has been the subject of six others. In 1968 he founded Saint Hieronymus Press in the same Berkeley printshop where he had learned his trade.. His writing and artwork have been the recipients of many awards, most notably the 1983 American Book Award for his book, A Constructed Roman Alphabet. His artwork is represented in both public and private collections and has been reproduced in numerous professional publications, including American Illustration, Communication Arts, Graphis, How, Print, and Step-By-Step Graphics. We have reproduced an article from his website in our Beliefs section
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Terry Goodwin, was a senior marketing executive at Finexport Ltd in London and Bangkok until his retirement in 1992, since when he has been in private practice as a marketing consultant. Terry has been the persona of our business editor since the inception of Nurturing Potential. Terry has contributed the article on Relationships. He has also written a brief book review Social Sciences the Big Issues. |
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Tara Jennet
is a
17-year old student at
Bromley High School, where Nurturing Potential's Editor for the
Arts, Caroline Jenner, teaches English and Drama. Following the
successful review by one of her students in our last issue, Caroline had
no hesitation in offering the graphic biography
Vincent when Tara
expressed interest in reviewing this title. Tara studies Art, Drama,
English and Biology at A-Level and earlier this year completed an
Outlook Expedition in Mongolia. |
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Michael Mallows, an Honorary Fellow within the Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, has contributed the book review Keeping Foster Children Safe On-line. Michael developed the Crafty Listening approach to developing public and private sectors. He is the author of The Power to Use NLP and co-author of Peace of Mind is a Piece of Cake . . His website can be found at www.craftylistening.co.uk |
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Sep Meyer is a graduate of the London School of Economics and, since his retirement from a commercial life, has been devoting his time to writing poetry, magazine articles, book reviews and drama. His contributions to these pages is usually in the area of politics and current affairs. He has contributed two book reviews in this issue: Celebrity Culture and Comedy and Distinction. |
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Curie Sofia Pereira was born and educated in Goa and now lives in London, England. Curie has contributed the review of Joe Sinclair's book Uncultured Pearls. |
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Bruce Deitrick Price is an author, artist, poet and education activist. He founded Improve-Education.org in 2005. This site now has 60 articles. Some are academic/intellectual; others deal with theories and methods used in public schools. His article in this issue will be found in the Language section, an amusing (while erudite) commentary on the bawdiness in Shakespeare entitled You Don't Know Shakespeare - Seven Sexy Scenes. |
Joe Sinclair is Managing Editor of Nurturing Potential and was involved in its creation. He has just published his 12th book, a collection of verse entitled Uncultured Pearls. His personal website is www.conts.com In this issue he has contributed several book reviews in the Review Section. |
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Stephen L. Talbott is a senior researcher at the Nature Institute and the editor of NetFuture, an online newsletter about technology and human responsibility which the New York Times has called an “undiscovered national treasure.” He is the author of The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst In this issue he has contributed the article in our Education section The Fundamental Deceit of Technology. |
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