economics, china, fire fighting, u.s. military bases around the world and much more. for a complete television schedule, booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. television for serious readers. now, we kick off the weekend with wikileaks editor-in-chief julian assange. he has a new book titled the wikileaks files: the world according to u.s. empire. [inaudible conversations] to invite all of you here. this is the launch of the wikileaks files. i m jacob stevens, i m the director of verso books, and we ve been working on this project with julian assange and with wikileaks for about four years now. and so this is the culmination of a lot of collaborative editorial and political work that we re very proud of, and we re thrilled to be able to publish this in close cooperation with julian assange and with wikileaks and with his fantastic introduction. you should all get a copy. if you haven t got one on your way in, get one on the way out, it s part of