Chose to have a different subtitle, the book the book at war. Its called how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading. And that, in a nutshell, describes what im trying do in this book. If we think about books at war at all, its probably in this context. But books as victims. Victims of bombing victims, of theft, looting and that is part of the story. And its the story we told in our history of libraries when we had a chapter in that book called surviving the 20th century about how books were not about but i to point want to make to you today is that books were not just victims of war but active agents of war books were essential for waging of war as macleish that in the director of the of congress made the point modern war. He said cannot be fought without most complete Library Resources of books played an part in scientific and essential war making. It played an important part in intelligence operations and of course, to topography is the essence of war fighting over borde
Chose to have a different subtitle, the book the book at war. Its called how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading. And that, in a nutshell, describes what im trying do in this book. If we think about books at war at all, its probably in this context. But books as victims. Victims of bombing victims, of theft, looting and that is part of the story. And its the story we told in our history of libraries when we had a chapter in that book called surviving the 20th century about how books were not about but i to point want to make to you today is that books were not just victims of war but active agents of war books were essential for waging of war as macleish that in the director of the of congress made the point modern war. He said cannot be fought without most complete Library Resources of books played an part in scientific and essential war making. It played an important part in intelligence operations and of course, to topography is the essence of war fighting over borde
Journalist in rome, italy. I worked for a daily newspaper and i was coming out of an african platform shoes and i asked my editor, was the uniform. What was the code of dress to be a fashion journalist . He introduced me to a woman and she said, dont judge a book by its cover because the cover is what sets the tone for its how people will determine whether or not you already to be sent into this world. She gave me some fast and safe ideas. She said if you dont have expensive jewelry, invest in a nice set of pearls. Put on some sensible shoes because they will believe youre saving the high heeled shoes for later in the evening. And always wear black big because when you wear black, you dont know how expensive or how cheap the article of clothing is. And as you can see, if you watch television you see fashion, you see these women running around, they are all in black. But to date the women here on this panel have, going to tackle the topic, fashioning the self the image is black. They co
Shares his Family History of ranching in texas lock and wrapping up our book at the bestselling nonfiction books according to book people bookstore in austin is vacationland a memoirist from humorist john hodgman. Some of these authors will be appearing on book tv, watch them on our website, booktv. Org. [inaudible conversation] hi everyone. I think were going to get started. How are you doing . Everybody doing good . [applause] thank you. My name is Lily Philpott and im the Public Events coordinator. Where so glad you joined us at the strand bookstore this evening both to celebrate banned books week and to help us launch our new series. This year banned books week run september 21 through the 30th and we are pleased to be celebrating the freedom to read and the three and countable authors, david levithan, coe booth and ariel schrag. Band out loud as a series presented in collaboration with the strand, the series provides us with a platform to amplify Diverse Voices and convene vital c
Killer. A. M. Center city block is closed as crews work to repair a cave in in the roadway. Its in a bad spot thats going to cause traffic headaches. Good news. You can wear those short sleeves and shorts again today. Accuweather is tracking record tying warm temperatures. Were definitely going to talk about that. Karen, we got a lot going on on the roads. Youre going to tell us about that but david were going start with these wonderful temperatures. Yesterday really was gorgeous and we have another one for you today. You can see high clouds out to the west that may try to streak through at times. Once again were expecting lovers sunshine and the temperatures right now arent too bad. 57 degrees in millville, 56 in trenton, 53 in wilmington, again pretty nice numbers for this time of morning and this time of year. Speaking of nice, how about this afternoon . 56 degrees by 7 oclock. 73 by noon. 82 degrees by 3 oclock. And were going for a high of 84. Well probably hit that around 4 ocloc