Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among …
Vaclav Smil is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst whose work spans energy, environment, food, population, economics, history, and public policy. Educated at Charles University in Prague and…
Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of 'Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: …
Timothy Garton Ash CMG FRSA is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Much of his work has been concerned with the late modern and conte…
Cal Newport is Provost’s Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author of seven books. His ideas and writing are frequently featured in major publications and on…
Barbara Demick is an American journalist. She is the author of Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Andrews & McMeel, 1996). Her next book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in No…
Martin M. Šimečka (1957) do roku 1989 patril do okruhu českého a slovenského disentu, pracoval ako kurič alebo ošetrovateľ v nemocnici a podieľal sa aj na vydávaní slovenského samizdatového časopisu F…
Ľudovít Ódor je viceguvernérom Národnej banky Slovenska, vyštudoval špecializáciu matematika-management na Matematicko-fyzikálnej fakulte Univerzity Komenského. Pracoval ako analytik finančných trhov,…
Nina Špitálníková je česká koreanistka, odbornice na Korejskou lidově demokratickou republiku, aktivistka za ženská práva a také spisovatelka. Své knihy zatím směřuje právě k této ostře sledované část…
Arpád Soltész (1969) sa narodil v komunistickom Československu ako syn emigranta a vnuk veľkostatkára. Po skončení strednej školy emigroval do Nemecka, kde si vyskúšal aj povestné umývanie tanierov v …
Tomas Forro is a Slovak reporter covering crises and conflicts mostly in the regions of Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Asia. He is publishing mostly long-form reportages with investi…
