Said it was a lightness of that man, this was a persontoperson familiar connections to shakespeare. We would say this has real authority. So if annie correct. How many worldwide . 233. If somebody would buy them, what would it cost them . There are very few in private hands and complete can go for somewhere 5 and 6 million. So its a very valuable book. And currently you have going around the country in. We do. One of the things that realizes that it matters when you come facetoface. Its whats happening now and the response has been just remendous. Someone proposed marriage successfully on the occasion of the first visit in oklahoma. Someone jazz funeral for new orleans. A great indy rock band thats doing a concert. So the way people react are very different and weve been inspired by the fact that people want to see this book face to face. What else do you have . A smaller version of a shakespeare play. Folio means that a single sheet of paper has been printed on one side and then the o
Really i wanted to take the story of beyond desegregation which occurred in 1963. The idea cover that in the first chapter. I wanted to take you to the rest of the 60s because while we desegregated in 1963 did not integrate. That took a long time even going beyond 1970. Its a ne in the spirit of the University Went in a new direction. Once segregation was out of the way, once all the energy that had gone to trying to maintain and actually illegal and certainly immoral way of doing things, after all that energy could be sent in another direction, the university of alabama begin to turn itself away from being a regional Football Party school and turn itself towards becoming a Major National academic institution. Thats what it has become but it was a long journey in the 1960s sent us in that direction. There were a lot of changes going on at the beginning of the 60s but really it stems from 1956. The first effort of desegregation which failed horribly. Accompanied by riots. Lucy was a stu
Watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. Michael witmore, what is the Folger Shakespeare library . It was greater in 1932 by Henry Clay Folger and his wife. They had a big idea which is the original sources for shakespeare and his world would be of value to everyone in perpetuity. So they collected those materials and they put them. Two blocks away from this capital as akin to the nation. Y. Washington, d. C. . They felt it was an international city. Its our capital and that this was really a truly national and international asset. In addition to putting this marvelous collection here, they created this remarkable building which housed the First North American tudor theater, beautiful great although were in which is on hampton corporate another medieval reading the. Mr. Folger was president of standard oil, and he made his fortune as an oilman. Hed been while he was running standard oil very quietly acquired the greatest shakespeare collection in the world, bar none. Includi
Heidi rosen is a venture capitalist in silicon valley. And a few years back a colleague of time that a case study. The kind of case study across the world to help our students understand what good business, good leadership and management looks like. But you did as a notch burner, as a venture capitalist in silicon valley. The other colleagues have creative idea to replace your first name by howard. But they then did was to give half of their students the case of the protagonists being called howard and the other half of the student the same case absolutely identical with the protagonists being called haiti. They prepared for class and then have to fill out a questionnaire and how they feel about heidi and howard. You might not be surprised knowing what the topic of our discussion tonight is that students thought that both heidi and howard did a good job. They were both calm content, but they did not like heidi. They wouldnt want to hire heidi and i didnt want to work with heidi. Why is
Millennials are optimistic about the future. You are the author of the new book, america ascendant. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Author, Arianna Huffington is our guest. Her most recent book, here it is. The revolution, transforming your life one life at a time. Are we a sleep deprived nation . Guest we are. It is affecting every aspect of our life. It is affecting our health first of all. At incredible costs. In terms of our healthcare provision but also in terms of how we feel about our life. We now know through this amazing new finding that literally sleep deprivation is affecting every aspect of our health, from obesity and diabetes to cancer and heart disease. Now we find out, alzheimers. What we have learned in the recent years is that contrary to what we believe sleep is it time for frenetic activity for the brain. Thats when all of the toxins that accumulate during the day get washed away and cleaned up. If they dont happen this book is to help shape the culture