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Dr. Barbara Ann Kipfer is a linguist and lexicographer. She has written more than 30 books, including the bestselling 14,000 Things to be Happy About (Workman) and Page-a-Day calendars based on it. She has also authored Instant Karma, 8,789 Words of Wisdom, The Wish List, 1,400 Things for Kids to be Happy About, and the forthcoming "Self-Meditation" for Workman Publishing. Her other books are Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, 21st Century Spelling Dictionary, 21st Century Manual of Style (Dell/Laurel); The Order of Things, How It Happens, 4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone, and the forthcoming "Life of Language" and “Trivia Lovers’ Book of Lists” (Random House); Roget's International Thesaurus Sixth Edition and Dictionary of American Slang (HarperCollins); Sisson's Word and Expression Locater (Prentice Hall); 201 Little Buddhist Reminders (Ulysses Press), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology (Kluwer Plenum); The Flip Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus of Phrases, and Roget's Descriptive Word Finder (Writer's Digest). Also forthcoming is the "Archaeologist's Fieldwork Companion" and “Dictionary of Artifacts” (Blackwell). Barbara holds a PhD and MPhil in Linguistics (University of Exeter), a PhD in Archaeology (Greenwich University), an MA in Buddhist Studies (Greenwich University), and a BS in physical education (Valparaiso University). Dr. Kipfer is Managing Editor/Chief Lexicographer for Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com (Lexico Publishing). She has also worked for such companies as Answers.com, Ask Jeeves, idealab, Mindmaker, General Electric Research, IBM Research, Wang, Bellcore (Telcordia), Cymfony, Textwise, and Knowledge Adventure.