Profile Books

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    James O’Donnell

    07 March 2011

    James J. O’Donnell tells stories of ancient times with modern resonance. Trained as scholar and historian, he has won academic recognition and advancement to senior leadership positions while continuing to write authoritative and widely-read studies...


  • Redmond O’Hanlon

    Redmond O’Hanlon

    07 March 2011

    Redmond O’Hanlon is best known for his journeys into some of the most remote jungles of the world. His books include Congo Journey, Into the Heart of Borneo, In Trouble Again, and...


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    Mick O’Hare

    07 March 2011

    Mick O’Hare wears one hat as production editor for New Scientist and another as editor of The Last Word column of questions and answers at the back of the magazine. Mick joined New Scientist 14...


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    Stephen O’Shea

    08 March 2011

    Toronto-born Stephen O’Shea, stephenosheaonline.com, was for many years a journalist in Paris and New York, contributing to a wide range of American, British, Canadian and French magazines on different aspects of European culture, as well...


  • David Ogilvy

    David Ogilvy

    08 October 2012

    David Ogilvy CBE is often described as the ‘Father of Advertising’. Before founding New York agency Ogilvy & Mather in 1948, he pursued several career paths, working as a chef at the Majestic in Paris...


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    Susie Orbach

    08 March 2011

    Susie Orbach is a psychoanalyst and writer whose interests have centred around feminism & psychoanalysis, the construction of femininity and gender, globalization & body image, emotional literacy and psychoanalysis & the public sphere. She co-founded...


  • Emanuele Ottolenghi

    Emanuele Ottolenghi

    08 March 2011

    Emanuele Ottolenghi obtained his PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and taught Israel Studies at Oxford from 1999 to 2006. From 2006 to 2010 he was the director of the Brussels-based Transatlantic Institute. He...



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