Others. What is the republic of imagination, you have people communities, publishers, this is the only time we are at peace with our publishers. Booksellers all of us gather together, the most important thing is acts of imagination and ideas that you transcend the boundaries reality put in front of you and the boundaries of nationality religion, ethnicity, language race and gender. You go to these colorful boots and one of the things about books, book fares and bookstores or libraries is how essential they are. And some times like a naughty child going to a bookstore and you feel different books. Each cover has its own story and one of the most intimate, i hate to use this word that is used by every celebrity and dont know what celebrity means, but i feel blessed by the fact that through the love of books i connect with strangers that become immediately intimate strangers, books become like your children you are so worried about them, you think oh my god what is going to happen especia
Schedule booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfunction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Host the name of book is the malaria project, the author is karen masterson. Ms. Masterson, what is malaria . Guest malaria is a series of disease really. Its not one disease its many diseases caused by several parasites all from the genus plasmodium, and you find them in different parts of the world, but they all cause some similar symptoms like intense fevers like furnace hot fevers and bonedeep chills and body pains and headaches. Some varieties will hide in your liver and relapse years later. You never know whether youve gotten rid of it. Some varieties, like the kind you find in africa can clump together and cause circulatory problems and put you in a coma so you can be playing soccer in the morning and by the evening youre dead. So malaria is the word that we use to describe the diseases that are caused by this genus of parasites. Host how many types are there, would you say .
And fellow. I and the associate director here. For those of you who have been here before this introduction will see more personal than usual because i am lucky enough to call rebecca and a close friend and to be and others in the audience she is becky. Seven years ago i was approaching twoyear 71st job here in washington d. C. With the job that i really did not like and i would call my mom crying during my lunch hour al least once a week distraught all lead the entitled millenials to be about lacking a purpose and at the point where i was feeling it could not get any worse, there were only two other people on staff at the director and she wanted to grow the team and she asked if they knew anyone who would be a good fit and one of the people she called was becky and in the biggest drug of life like she recommended meet our just a kid sister of one of her friends and here i am seven years later. There is no way to ever pay her back to usher in one of the most interesting and for selling
Standard tropes of publishing a book is it has to answer the question why did you write about this topic in the question in the first place . You are supposed to have a thoughtful answer about how you had a lifelong interest in this topic and you always dreamed about exploring it more deeply. This topic was proposed to me by my publisher. I had a lifelong interest in china or almost a lifelong interest, having studied it, studied chinese going back many years and how they lived there a few years, and travels even today i go almost every year but my publisher actually finished my previous book and asked me to pick a year and write a book about it in china. Started looking through years and ive thought about 1938, interesting year in china. 1944, the year kicked out of china by shanghai check but Barbara Tuchman that topic, forever. So i started looking at 1945 until the end of world war ii until the an end of world war ii. It was a good topic. Really truly upset seminole watershed in Am
Reception to which you are all invited but before you go downstairs take a moment in joining these two wonderful guys. [applause] [inaudible conversations] you are watching booktv television for serious readers. Rebecca frankel is the author of work war dogs tales of canine heroism. What is on the cover of your book . This is a dog in a training exercise. They might have to be in afghanistan or iraq. Host what sparked you to write about work dogs . Guest i have been writing about the iraq war. As i was looking at thes coming off the wire i found one photo that stood out. Because of a lot of things going on everyone looked really happy. The start contrast to what you see, and photos are of little more civilians. So come suggested in the friday opposed, and that is it. Host how many does the use in the military or the cost of training . In the beginning, the military program, theyre more expensive and they need a little bit, it can cost from 20,000 depending, and the energy that investor