Below is the current presenting authors for the Science/Health genre at the 2012 Tucson Festival of Books. When applicable a link to the author's book(s) in the Tucson Pima County Library Catalog is included, so you can easily see the availability and place a hold if you want.
Jane Baxter - Psychotherapist and physical trainer specializing in mood disorders, binge eating, and other addictions
Deborah Blum - Author of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Patricia Churchland - Author of Braintrust
Kimi Eisele - Author of Eat Mesquite!: A Cookbook
Dyana Furmansky - Author of Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists
Michael J. Gelb - Author of How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day, Brain of the Year, and Wine Drinking for Inspired Thinking
Michael Gilbert - Author of The Disposable Male: Sex, Love, and Money — Your World Through Darwin's Eyes
Allan Hamilton - Author of Zen Mind, Zen Horse: The Science and Spirituality of Working with Horses
Michele Hebert - Author of The Tenth Door: An Adventure Through the Jungles of Enlightenment
Greg Hodgins - He works for the NSF Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory and helped date the Codex Tchacos, which is thought to be the oldest written version of the Gospel of Judas.
Lori Hope - Author of Help Me Live
Marco Janssen - Author of Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice
Sam Kean - Author of The Disappearing Spoon
Anita Kobuszewski - Author of Food, Field to Fork: How to Grow Sustainably, Shop Wisely, Cook Nutritiously, and Eat Deliciously
Cyndie Koopsen - Nurse with experience in caring for patients in acute care settings, community clinics and homes
J. Stephen Lansing - Author of Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali and Priests & Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali
Simon LeVay - Author of Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation
Dario Maestripieri - Author of Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships and Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World
Ivy Manning - Author of The Farm to Table Cookbook and The Adaptable Feast
Stephanie Marohn - Author of What the Animals Taught Me: Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary
Paul Mirocha - Illustrator and current artisti-in-residence at University of Arizona's Tumamoc Hill research station
Chris Mooney - Author of The Republican War on Science and co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future
Charles Moore - Author of Plastic Ocean
Gary Nabhan - Author of 20 books
Paul Nussbaum - Author of Save Your Brain: The 5 Things You Must Do to Keep Your Mind Young and Sharp
Joe Palca - Author of Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us
Jo Paoletti - Author of Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America
Richard Polsky - Author of Boneheads, I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon), I Bought Andy Warhol, and The Art Market Guide (1995–1998)
Steven Richheimer - Author of The Unity Principle, The Link Between Science and Spirituality
Rafe Sagarin - Author of Learning From the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease
Gary Schwartz - Author of The Sacred Promise: How Science Is Discovering Spirit's Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives
John Smith - Author of Plunging Into Green
Douglas Starr - Author of The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
Holly Tucker - Author of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
Andrew Weil - Author of 12 books
Amy Weintraub - Author of Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists
Brook Wilensky-Lanford - Author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden
Carl Zimmer - Author of A Planet of Viruses
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