T high within a t high like a wheel that goes around and around and around. I want you to figure out there is a multiplecasion problem in here and i want you to see if you can tell us when we are done what it is. Something will repeat 3 times. [applause] okay. Which one of you figured it out . Yes. 49, hum. I can see how you would say that, why do you say that . There is 49 of something. Okay. Did you notice the turns . The spins . How many were there in one piece . Yes. No. Yes. 9. How many times did we repeat that . How many times . 3. 9 times 3 is 27. We did 27 turns but we were going, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1. Thats a sophisticated math concept, you were not wrong. I bet you will grow up to be a mathematician. I will give you my address you will have to send me your first paycheck because i taught you this. At this point we would like to thank you very much for coming. If you have any questions. I dont know if we want to open it you will for questions. May be just a few . Okay. Yes. Whats
She got a diploma from the London School of hygiene in tropical medicine. And she would this is a very intense three month course given at the most Prestigious School for hygiene and tropical decide. And she would bring home her homework and sit next to me on the couch, and i, of course, would be reading the original [laughter] in the original greek. And i would make the mistake of looking over at her textbook which would be open to some color, twopage color spread on some revolting form of nemitode. [laughter] and then shed say, whats for dinner . Highly educated woman, my wife. And i do love her. [laughter] and now all the world will know. [laughter] well im wondering [inaudible] adopted son of the palmetto state [inaudible] and its whether [inaudible] yeah. But they havent been bought, okay . [laughter] and there was a snaking line of [inaudible] who wanted you to sign your books, and there were little boys who clearly wanted to part [inaudible] you saw them coming up, and theyd bee
Programs online at booktv. Org. This week booktv takes a look at National Public radios list of bestselling hardcover nonfiction books. First on the list ben mcintyre recounts the life of British Intelligence officer and soviet double agent kim still be in a spy among friends. Everything i need to know either from a little golden book followed by new yorker writer malcolm glad wells latest david and goliath. Hillary clinton is fourth with her account of her tenure as secretary of state in hard shoelaces and think like a freak by bestselling authors Stephen Leverett and Stephen Detzner and then the report on wealth and income inequality in europe and the United States in the eighteenth century. Laura hildebrand is seventh with unbroken, the story of louis m samporini who survive to drift in the Pacific Ocean followed by the mockingbird next door a look into the life of reclusive author harper lee. Ninth is cant we talk about something more pleasant . A memoir. Michael lewis wraps of the
Good evening and welcome to the San Francisco public library. Im joan jasper, im with the department of public exhibitions here at the library. Thank you so much for coming to our exhibition tonight with author craig childs. Hes been jet setting all over the country promoting his new book, the house of rain. We also want to thank the publishers for bringing craig to us and we also want to thank inaudible at the book table at the end of the program. Craig childs is a commentator for National Public radios morning edition. He has written noert new york times, the Los Angeles Times and several magazines. His work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. The book, house of rain, is craigs latest book. Please help me welcome craig childs. Hello. I come to you from out of the desert. Im coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is
Land of palm trees and skyscrapers where there is dollars enough for cell phones, sports cars and [inaudible] by the trunk full. Where a suitcase of cocaine is as easy to buy as a broken stemmed rose from his white bucket. How much for that hand full of rose buds . For fingers go up. He makes change for a 20, returns clefrjed winched with b. You tip him a couple of dollars, so what. Every love struck couple stairing into each others eyes. Every loner with a half empty beer even a waitress after a shift receives a visit from john nitto. He returns to the faces above the steaming plates before hes out into the neon lit street leaving behind a trail of rose petals bark as sacrificial hearts. Thank you. [applause]. Whenever i had Writers Block i do research so i thought i would redo a section which started as Writers Block and it took place in a library. I think all you need to know is my narrater is 19. The object of affection is 21. Maxs mother is a piannist and also polish. I saw little