The extraordinary life of hamilton aellis cose the author of trana they both have a lot to add for people that are interested not only in our history but a lot of current events. Im going to give kimberly and alice a couple minutes to introduce themselves and then we will jump into discussion. Kimberly, do you want to go first . Hi, i am so delighted to be here. As i was saying before we get started, i used to live in austin, he went to ut for my phd so being a part of the texas book festival has been a dream of mine for a long time. Edited picture it would happen this way but i will take it. Im very grateful to participate and thank you so much for having me. Im a historian and ice study women, sex politics, and science and medicine. Now i live in cincinnati and i teach in oxford ohio. I contribute essays to publications like the washington post, i have an oped in there today actually about kamala harris. I also have my new book free thinker which tells the story of the fallen woman a
And probably even pasadena. [laughing] thank you. My pleasure. Thank you everyone for joining us for the savings event. My name is kim sutton and and a host of tonight event. Before we begin i want to encourage you all to check out our lineup of upcoming Virtual Events by visiting powells. Com. When affirming Upcoming Events were looking for to is Tiffany Cross in conversation with about her new book say it lighter, black voters, white narratives and saving our democracy. Thats next friday the 18th. As a plea for member to follow us on twitter, facebook and instagram. Tonight we honor to welcome Leonard Mlodinow and rob paulsen. Leonard received his phd in theoretical physics from university of california at berkeley come wasnt alexander fellow at the Max Planck Institute and was on the faculty of telephone institute of technology. His previous books include bestsellers the grand design, and a briefer history of time both with Stephen Hawking can subliminal which was a winner of the li
I am a astrophysicist and author of seven Popular Science books, the most recent of which is about galileo and the science denials. I lived in baltimore, and i currently am in baltimore at my home. You can see i imagine [inaudible] i have something that looks like that in every room of the house so it almost doesnt matter where i am. The book as i said is called galileo and the science deniers. This is a fresh biography of galileo, but at the same time with an eye on the science denial today which unfortunately we have quite a bit of so the idea is to study from this fascinating person who lived in the 17th century to see what lessons we can learn from that or what extent he already fought some battles that we have to find again today. So, you know when people hear i wrote a book about galileo, the natural question is how come i decided to write this book although there are already quite a few biographies on galileo. There were several reasons for this and they were all important at so
From the united states, canada, mexico, jamaica, peru, [inaudible] guatemala, argentina brazil, coaster rica [inaudible] and probably even pasadena. [laughter] thank you. My pleasure. Thank you everyone for joining us for this evenings event. My name is kim sutton and im the host of the event. Before we begin i want to encourage you all to check out the lineup of upcoming Virtual Events by visiting. One of our many Upcoming Events we are looking forward to is tiffany in conversation with ellie about the new book say it louder black voters, white anarchists seen saving our democracy. Thats next friday the 18th. Please remember to follow us on twitter, facebook and instagram. Tonight we welcome leonard and rob paulson. Leonard received his phd in the theoretical civics from the university of california berkeley, was an Alexander Von Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institute and was on the faculty of California Institute of technology. His previous books include the bestsellers the gran
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