Additionally her essays and reviews have appeared in publications such as a near time, dissents, wired, the globe, plus one and many others but she will be joining conversation this evening by kendra alber, clinical instructor and lecturer on law at Harvard Law School where they teach students how to Practice Technology law by work with pro bono clients. Their work is on clinical facial recognition, Computer Security Online Harassment and freedom of expression. Tonight theyre going to discuss joannes new book, lurking. Its called a poetic in incisive history of the internet that will resonate deeply with anyone who goes online to listen and learn. Not shouting grandstand. Never cynical nor deductive, mcneil has the commercialization of digital word it excite enter insightful ways. What has been stolen, what utopia possibilities might still be recovered. Workers of the world unite or at least in this book. We are excited to host this event here please join me in welcoming joanne and ken
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Been canceled due to the coronavirus. Booktv was scheduled to be live in tucson, los angeles and cover festivals in new orleans and san antonio as well. All canceled. We know the effect it is having on book fairs and large gatherings, but is it having an effect also on bookstores and smaller businesses . Mitchell kaplan runs a chain of bookstores based in coral gables, florida, called books books. Has coronavirus affected your business . Guest yes, peter, unfortunately it has. We have been holding on as long as we could, but it looks like starting tomorrow were going to be closing down all six stores that we have in the miami area and trying to move our sales online, and encourage people to buy at our website. And this is happening i believe across the country with independent bookstores everywhere. And like normally happens, independent bookstores are very representative of whats happening with Small Business. So there are many, many thousands upon thousands of Small Business people w
Book tv continues now on cspan2. Television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] if i could have everybodys attention, wed like to get started. Im fine, the editor of city journal and i want to welcome you here today on behalf of the Manhattan Institute. Its with great pleasure i could to introduce don tierney, ensco author with the esteemed psychologist, roy of the fascinating and useful new book, the power of god. The negativity affects rules and how we can rule it. Its on sale outside the room here. John has long been one of the nations leading voices on the intersection of science and public policy. Make no mistake, however calmly reasonably expressed, a very contrarian voice. It was johns New York Times column, the big city which ran from the mid 90s until 2002, i think, that first made me a fan of his work. There he took on any number of myths about cities from the advocacy of rent control, root causes of homelessness to environmental policy. One remarkable column was b
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