Tom Jokinen is a radio producer and video-journalist who has worked on Morningside, Counterspin with Avi Lewis and Definitely Not the Opera as well as many other CBC shows. In 2006 he took a job...

Ronald Kessler is the New York Times bestselling author of nineteen non-fiction books about the Secret Service, FBI, and CIA. He began his career as a journalist in 1964 on the Worcester Telegram,...

After majoring in philosophy at Harvard, Daniel Klein pursued the usual philosophical career. He wrote jokes for various comedians, including Flip Wilson and Lily Tomlin, designed stunts for...

Curtiss C. Kull has been in law enforcement for over 27 years. First, in the early '80s with the Los Angeles Police Department and then for 20 years he worked for the Reno, Nevada Police...

Andy Lightbody is a military and technology analyst. He was the founding editor for International Combat Arms Magazine, field editor for Armed Forces Journal, and a military correspondent for CBS,...

Marla Martenson discovered that she could use her personal dating experiences to help others and subsequently turned her talent into a career as a matchmaker in Los Angeles, where, since 2001, her...

A rare Nevada native, Wendy Mazaros spent her early years “playing out in the desert with my brothers, chasing lizards, catching snakes, and digging caves”. At fifteen, she fell into the arms...

Kenneth McKenzie first became interested in the death-care industry at the age of twelve. He has been a funeral director for 22 years. Kenneth completed Mortuary College in 1988, worked for a...

Frank Meeink became a SkinHead at 13. by 18 he was roaming the country as a SkinHead leader and Neo-Nazi recruiter, with gangs that would beat people indiscriminately. In Illinois he had his own...

Bob Miller is Nevada’s longest serving governor, holding office from 1989 to 1999. His son, Ross, who is named after his grandfather, is presently in his second term as Nevada’s secretary of...

Chef Rick Moonen graduated first in his class from the Culinary Institute of America in 1978. He apprenticed and worked at some of the finest restaurants in New York. In February 2005, Chef Moonen...

Gary Noesner retired from the FBI in 2003 following a 30 year career as an investigator, instructor, and negotiator. A significant focus of his career was directed toward investigating Middle East...

Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United States. Pacelle took office June 1, 2004 after serving for nearly 10 years as the organization's...

Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer working out of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent projects involve close...

Stewart Pearce was the Master of Voice at Shakespeare's Globe for ten years. Stewart has also coached such household names as Vanessa Redgrave and Diana, Princess of Wales to name a few. Stewart...

Robert Young Pelton has become the inspiration and role model for a new generation of intellectual adventurers. He is an author, journalist, film-maker, photographer, adventurer, explorer, expert,...

Paul David Pope was born in New York and raised in Florida's Palm Beach County, where he attended Pope John Paul Catholic High School. He then attended the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts in...

Jim Rawles has been an enthusiastic survivalist since his teenage years. He is now a survivalist author and lecturer and the editor of www.SurvivalBlog.com. He is a former U.S. Army intelligence...

Mike Ritland joined the Navy in 1996 and graduated with BUD/S class 215. After years as a member of SEAL Team 3 he became a BUD/S instructor and then started his own company to train dogs for the...

New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Robbins, 27, is a journalist who was formerly on the Washington, DC staff of The New Yorker magazine. She has written for a variety of publications,...

Dr. Roger Roots is a nationally recognized criminologist, legal scholar and civil liberties activist. He is active in libertarian politics, and in the promotion of a freer, fairer and more just...

Retired teacher, Dr. Robert Rose, challenges the education system. Robert is an eclectic reader and has borrowed from great minds in many disciplines the ideas he modified to change educational...

Julia Scheeres is the author of the New York Times bestseller Jesus Land, a memoir about her relationship with her adopted black brother David. The brother and sister grew up in a small Indiana...

Raised in a geologically idyllic rural community along the Wisconsin River, Joe Schoenmann moved to Las Vegas in 1997 to get a taste of city reporting after covering the mostly incorruptible...

Ellen E. Schultz is an investigative reporter who has covered the so-called retirement crisis for more than a decade. Her reporting has led to Congressional hearings, proposed legislation, and...

A onetime actor/comedian and the youngest writer to work for comedy legend Bob Hope, Tom Shadyac’s writing/directing career was launched in 1994 with the Jim Carrey smash hit Ace Ventura: Pet...

Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer is a Bronze Star Medal recipient who is a CIA-trained senior intelligence operations officer and reserve Army lieutenant colonel with more than twenty-two years of experience...

Norm Stamper was a police officer for 34 years. He served as chief of the Seattle Police Department from 1994 to 2000. In his 28 years with SDPD Norm rose quickly through the ranks and as a deputy...

Ted Sumner is a former undercover police officer with the San Jose Police Department, who worked under deep cover infiltrating various drug trafficking organizations in the 70’s. He left the...

Stephen Templin completed Hell Week, qualified as a pistol and rifle expert, and blew up things during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training. His kids complain that he eats their...