James Meade PhdWriter James G. Meade, PhD, is a veteran of numerous skirmishes to transform human life on earth, including the rise of software as our everyday reality and, on the consciousness front, the practice of meditation and related complementary-medicine tehnologies. He championed several emerging technologies for companies like Microsoft and IBM and was one of the first authors in the ground-breaking Dummies series (which brought right-brained thinking into left-brained computer and business writing). Meade collaborated with Dr. Sharma on The Answer to Cancer, which became a word-of-mouth sensation passed hand to hand by those who have read it. "It makes all that technical material digestible, even fun," readers have said, often devouring the 220-page book in one sitting. A literary man with a technical bent, Meade has published thirty previous books and sold more than 750,000 copies around the world. His The Human Resources Software Handbook, published with leading business publisher John Wiley Publishing, helped companies ease from tracking employees on spreadsheets to doing so on the web with multipurpose software. He has published five titles in the Dummies series, one of the best known and most successful book series of all time. But resolving the human condition has been his quest, and he has taught meditation to thousands of people across the United States and in Hong Kong, Nepal, Jamaica, Hungary, and Tanzania. A sought-after speaker, he just completed a tour in Asia that took him to Hong Kong, Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Thailand. His PhD is in English, from Northwestern University "with distinguished commendation." He attended graduate school on an NDEA Fellowship. A journalist at heart, he has been a columnist for several publications, including "Information Week." Read More Read Less