On cspan they can have a longer conversation and delve into their subjects. Booktv weekends, they bring you author after author after author that spotlight the work of fascinating people. I love booktv and im a cspan fan. Host author Arianna Huffington is our guest. Her most recent book, here it is. The sleep revolution transforming your life one night at a time. Arianna huffington, are we a sleepdeprived nation . Guest we are. Theres a real crisis of sleep deprivation, and its affecting every aspect of our lives. Ev its affecting our health, first of all, with an incredible cost in terms of our Health Care Provision but also in terms of how we feel about our life. Because we now know through this amazing new finding of sleep science that literally sleep deprivation is affecting every aspect of our health from obesity and diabetes to cancer and heart disease, and now we find out alzheimers. Because what weve learned in the recent years is that contrary to what was believed, sleep is a
The Afghan Government can stand up and be the ones that take care of things in afghanistan. I just want to add something to love this. When i saw the book, mrs. Bush, i am honored as always to be around you and im thankful to the u. S. Afghan womens councils. They have done an incredible job. When i saw the book, it reminded me, took me back 14 years ago. I want to read something to you. The honorable mrs. Bush, i would like to thank you on behalf of afghan men and women for all the work you have supported and the care you have given the afghan women and children. You even went to pyongyang. I went to those days. I gave my first speech in chicago in 2004. 400 americans is as men and women have had to convince many leaders with my speech to believe in afghan women capacity and to fund for the project. After a long speech, i ended with the following sentence with a lot of hope. This is what the afghan woman says. Still after her pain she says i feel like the thunder, the dark days and th
It comes out of your head. So i think actually he was raiding a really good point. When just to when i was writing he had so many girlfriends i could take my children anywhere because there was a girlfriend there to interview. Including the dirt road across my daughters writing camp in vermont. Thats another way to save. Give you a tip. So, i have to say, without sounding polly annish, i loved every moment. Maybe because it was my second job and i still had another fulltime job was very consuming, plus im one of five children people up here, but it was really fantastic. There were a lot of people alive, or are, who knew jonas salk so i did over 100 interview starting we people in this Grad School Class who were still alive, and although the archives gave me this enormous amount of material, and i read all of the scientific articles he wrote and everyone else wrote about polio and aids and influenza and all the other diseases he was involved in. Wasnt just involved in polio. The intervi
Like folks like us end up using things like experiments, how we use our survey data and how we go and look at Something Like rap lyrics in order to answer questions. Host professor Lester Spence at Johns Hopkins university is the author of stare in the darkness the limits of hiphop and black politics. University of Minnesota Press publisher. Host the name of the book is the malaria project. The author is Karen Masterson. Professor masterson, what is malaria . It is a series of disease. Its not one. Its caused by a parasite from the genus plasmodium and these different parasites to different dings and you find them in different parts of the world. But they all cause some similar symptoms lake intense fever. It looks furnace hot fevers and bone deep chills and body pain and headaches. Some wall hiding your liver and relapse years later. You never know whether youve gotten rid of it. Some in africa can clump together and cause circulatory problems and put you in a coma. You can play socce
Schedule booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfunction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Host the name of book is the malaria project, the author is karen masterson. Ms. Masterson, what is malaria . Guest malaria is a series of disease really. Its not one disease its many diseases caused by several parasites all from the genus plasmodium, and you find them in different parts of the world, but they all cause some similar symptoms like intense fevers like furnace hot fevers and bonedeep chills and body pains and headaches. Some varieties will hide in your liver and relapse years later. You never know whether youve gotten rid of it. Some varieties, like the kind you find in africa can clump together and cause circulatory problems and put you in a coma so you can be playing soccer in the morning and by the evening youre dead. So malaria is the word that we use to describe the diseases that are caused by this genus of parasites. Host how many types are there, would you say .