There was this creepy iceland story. Think about the scandinavian authors. They know how to kill people. Erik larson you know how to write a narrative. Dead weight the most recent. You know what his other books are. If they are not on the shelves you should not be at lit fest. Thank you for coming. He will be signing outside. Thank you. On behalf of the printers row lit fest we would like to thank the panel, thank you for
The Political Movement of the 1960s through the College Graduating Class of 1964. Its followed by the twotime pulitzer prizewinning winners examination of the birth of flight in the right brothers. A look at the best non fiction selling books continues with president carters recounting of his life and career in a full life. Erik larson is next. Next on booktv from los angeles social welfare professor reports on the efforts of a group of men in the neighborhood to improve their personal lives and community. Welcome everybody. Im very honored to be at this wonderful bookstore and im thrilled that they are featuring the book here and im going to make some very brief remarks because i think the people that should share their stories are the fathers that are the focus of this book and i became part of this Extraordinary Group five years ago but actually predated my presence. This was an Informal Group that was organized by a group of men including Andre Christian who is going to be speaking
So welcome everyone to trim and weight Barry Estabrook. I am helen labun jordan an address book with how key thing to go over before we get started. Throughout the year come to bear upon branson speakers and host special events that we are kicking off a new series of events now. Over by the refreshments as the cup book event series and we will be having events throughout the summer kicking out for dinner at sol cafe june 11th tickets include a copy of honey and company and a tasting menu prepared for the cook book. July 20th will have a cookbook potluck featuring the csa code book at august 25th we have a Book Launch Party with discovering flavor. I totally recommend you all read it. You can go to our website. You can follow us on twitter and bike us on facebook and you can sign up for ponderings. Our twice a month newsletter. I will be passing around a signup sheet. If you want are announcements of events and book recommendations i will pass this around. I think tonight will last unti
Much stronger position on tackles. There are strict rules about tackles that prevent a lot of injuries, particularly at the international level. Also, the absence of helmets , ironically, might be a cause cause for fewer concussions. Could you please talk about the difference between rugby union and American Union and american football, whether or not you have looked at that . And if you have not looked at that, take a look at the new Zealand Rugby union seem and maybe open up a dialogue with the National Rugby team to see whether or not you could learn something from new zealand and maybe they could play more games of the year. Thank you very much. Its interesting. I have heard from a number of folks. This issue is raised repeatedly. The biggest. Is the one you hit on about helmets, the absence certainly changes the way players tackle in the game. We we address this in the book. In many ways, the helmet has made the concussion issue worse. It is overpriced piece of plastic that has em
Which is incredibly long for an earthquake with the human tragedy and physical damage are dramatically and vividly captured in this book and by henry but on structures and though landscape is only part of the story that henry tells. His book is also a story of how a major Natural Disaster ginsberg scientific inquiries a map are centers around one individual in particular was a geologist he was not an earthquake expert better ride to the day after the earthquake to investigate what happened in the study that he produced help to confirm that now widely accepted idea of plate tectonics although at the time was controversial and much debated notion i will not even begin to get into that because you will get more of that from henry in a minute. This is his first book but he is skilled at combining the Human Interest story with the scientific advancement as a journalist and has been at the New York Times over two decades as a reporter or editor writing about science for much of that time and