Thomas Bass
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'''Thomas Bass''' is an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[professor]]
==Notable Acts==
* Bass has a A. B. (Honors) from the [[University of Chicago]] and a [[Ph.D.]] in the History of Consciousness from the [[University of California Santa Cruz]].
* He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, the Regents of the University of California, and the [[Ford Foundation]].
* He has taught literature and history at [[Hamilton College]] and the [[University of California]] and is former director of the Hamilton in New York City Program on "Media in the Digital Age."
* He is the Professor of English at University at Albany, State University of New York
* Bass has appeared on [[Good Morning America]], [[CNN]], [[NPR]], [[BBC]], and other venues to promote his books. He is the author of numerous articles for [[Wired magazine|Wired]], The [[New York Times]], The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Discover, and other magazines.
* The publication of his book ''[[The Eudaemonic Pie]]'' is believed to have motivated the passage of Nevada's law banning the use of devices to gain an advantage at casino games. <ref> Anderson, Ian : "Burning the Tables in Las Vegas", page 145. Huntington Press, 2003. </ref>
* In his preface to Camping with the Prince, Bass states that he accompanied seven scientific expeditions into Africa from 1985 to 1987. This book focuses on African viewpoints to the African situation. It underlines the intricacy of Africa, more complex and more resilient than generally assumed by those looking at the continent from the outside. Among the African scientists presented to readers of this book are: [[Oyewale Tomori]] and [[Thomas Odhiambo]]. Thomas Bass also mentions in that preface that when he was a teenager he travelled along Africa's east coast, down the Congo and up West Africa.
* Mr. Bass lives in [[New York]] and [[Paris]] with his wife and three children.
==Bibliography==
*''[[The Predictors]]'' (Holt / Viking-Penguin, [[1999]])
*''[[Vietnamerica]]: The War Comes Home'' (Soho, [[1996]], [[1997]])
*''[[Reinventing the Future]]'' (Addison-Wesley, [[1994]], [[1995]])
*''[[Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa]]'' (Houghton Mifflin, [[1990]]; Penguin [[1991]]; Moyer Bell, [[1997]])
*''[[The Eudaemonic Pie]]'' (Houghton Mifflin, [[1985]]; Vintage, [[1986]]; Penguin [[1991]]).
== Notes ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.thomasbass.com Official homepage]
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