Contributors

Dasha Kiper is the clinical consulting director of support groups at The CaringKind (formerly 'The Alzheimer's Association'). She was born in Russia, raised in San Francisco, and makes her home in New York. She first became a live-in caregiver as a graduate student at Columbia University where she received an MA in Clinical Psychology. For the past decade she has counseled caregivers, led support groups, and trained and supervised mental health professionals, as well as former caregivers, who now lead support groups.

Dr Tovah P. Klein is a child development expert and the Director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development. She is the author of How Toddlers Thrive, has contributed to numerous publications and consults to family programmes worldwide. She has three children and lives in New York.

Roisin Kiberd's essays have been published in the Dublin Review, the White Review, the Stinging Fly and Winter Papers. She has written features on technology and culture for publications including the Guardian, Vice and Motherboard, where she wrote a column about internet subcultures. Having spent some time in London as the online voice of a cheese brand, she now lives between Dublin and Berlin.

Christopher Kemp is an English scientist and science journalist. He works at Michigan State University, overseeing a research group that studies Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. He is the author of Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris and The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums

Martin Kemp is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, Oxford University and a world-renowned authority on Leonardo da Vinci. He is the author of Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon, Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man and The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat amongst others.
Art in History is part of the Ideas in Profile series, and is available as an animated ebook with animations by Cognitive Media.

Gavin Kennedy is Professorial Fellow at Heriot-Watt University and the author of several very successful books on negotiation, including Everything is Negotiable and Perfect Negotiation.

Helen Kensett runs Convince Consultancy (www.convinceuk.com) which trains salespeople how to sell and startups how to develop their business propositions.

Dr Kai Kermani has been a GP for 35 years and has been involved with complementary therapies for 25 years. He is a member of the British Medical Association.

Ian Kerner is a licensed psychotherapist and nationally recognized sexuality counselor who specializes in sex therapy, couples therapy and working with individuals on a range of relational issues. He holds a doctorate in Clinical Sexology from the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists and contributes regularly to CNN Health.

Rashid Khalidi is the author of the international bestseller The Hundred Years' War on Palestine and seven other books about the Middle East, including The Iron Cage, Brokers of Deceit and the award-winning Palestinian Identity. He is the Edward Said Chair Emeritus in Arab Studies at Columbia University and was the editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. He has received numerous awards for his research and is a regular commentator on Palestine in the New York Times, the Guardian and elsewhere.

Jacob Kerr is the author of The Green Man of Eshwood Hall. His writing is inspired by the North East of England, where he was born. After teaching English as a foreign language for many years, he now lives in Cumbria.

Laleh Khalili is Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. An expert on transnational politics, she has written widely on globalisation, capital and neo-colonialism, and has worked as a consultant and an engineer. Her recent books include Sinews of War and Trade and The Corporeal Life of Seafaring.