The seares in full swing with very exciting upcoming events. You can head to harvard. Com and sign up for the weekly email newsletter to learn more including with Jennifer Block on october 12th for a discussion of her new book, everything below the waist, why Health Care Needs a feminist revolution. We also have upcoming ticketed events we and we would love to see you there tonights program will conclude with time for questions after which i well have a book signing right here at this table women also have copies of gender in our brains available for sale at the registers in the next room. And we are pleased to have cspans booktv here taping tonights evented. When asking questions during the q a, please know your questions will be recorded and please wait a moment for the microphone to be passed to you before asking you question. And always i want to take a moment to say thank you for buying books from harvard book store, your purchases support the author series and they do ensure the
Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum. And this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976, almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary space flight. And it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during this heroic age of Space Exploration when humans first ventured off the planet into space and all the way to the moon, when the United States and the soviet union began sending craft out to explore the nearby planets. All of this was exciting, thrilling, and people just flocked in to the museum to see it. In the 40 years since this building opened, we have continued to acquire treasures of space history. We have now about 17,000 artifacts related to space history. We have just over a thousand of them on display in our two locations
About scientific technological endeavors. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Were going to get started. My name is candace. I work with the events here at politics and prose. We have a lot of events coming up. I encourage you grab a calendar on the way out tonight. Sign up for the email list as well as look automobile for events in online for events in september. Tonight, first thing you check again to make sure your cell phones are on silent or off so that doesnt distract our time here. What well do is have about an hourlong event, half the time presentation from our speaker and then half the time for questions. We have a microphone over here. If you wouldnt mind directing your question to that mic, we are recording. Cspan is here, and it helps us to catch your question on the recording. So, makes for a more full recording. And then afterwards well have a signing withll form a line going down this aisle and signing will happen right up front here. The books are for purc
September. As for tonights first thing is check again to make sure your cell phones are on silent or off so that doesnt disrupt or time here. Well have an hourlong event, half the time presentation from our speaker, and then half the time for questions. We have a microphone over here. If you wouldnt mind directing your question to that mic. We are recording, cspan is here, and it helps us catch your question on the recording. And then afterwards well have a signing. Well form a line going down the aisle. And signing will happen right up fr ont here. The books are for purchase behind the register if you havent gotten one already. Then once were all finished, before we form the signing line, if you would fold your chairs and set them against the elves, that would be helpleful. Now mates pressure to sew Michael Hiltzik, and hisook, big science. This is a story of man who ushered in a new era in science, moving away from the quoteunquote small science of individuals in labs through Million
For indie stores, if you get to somewhere in that, 1520 of your inventory makes to be nonbook, youve got a profitable plan. A store that is selling 1520 nonbooks is still a bookstore. Its important for it to still be a bookstore because thats what your customers are expecting, but you need to get somewhere within that, that 1520 range. I know there are stores that are a little bit about that, that do well and clearly still continue to look and feel like a bookstore. I think the over all things go about the independent bookstores is that you are all different. The mix of product is different. What may work in joyces star is not necessarily going to work in the store on the west side of manhattan. So i think its really hard sometimes to generalize about what if it works in one place, wilderness is early work somewhere else . I think more often than not the opposite is true. Just because it does work in one place means it may less likely work somewhere else. Thats of course the charm of s