[inaudible] great question. The idea is six days. People in japan, is a perceptual change and i are again the book that the tool is language that having a word for something is what allows you to experience because you can conceptualize it and you can say i recognize that thing. I have a memory of that thing i can convey my experience to other people. One of the big debates is going on in the case world is well because we dont have a word for what that sixth taste is maybe we just missed it. Its there but we dont notice it. The pay comparison that they use and finding another color. This happens all the time with visual researchers. One of the big comparisons people say its in some languages there are separate words for blue and for grain. As a mean to people who were raised with one of those languages cant see blue and green. It means they perceive him as a singer experience in people who grew up with the language that distinguishes between them see them as two different things. Maybe
You going to retire and going to to do . I marty doing it. I can take of anything i would rather do than travel around tracking down rare books. I enjoy these books that people ask, do you read them . Absolutely. You never know if one of the earlier owners had made an inscription that could substantially increase the value of the book or added interest to the story behind the book. So i will always do this but i never get tired of it. I love sharing stories with old and young and i look forward to every day. Bookshops have been closing in record numbers. National chains are closing down 15 years ago i knew owners of about 300 bookstores. 250 of those have closed just in the past 15 years so its important for these stores to continue to survive. They add character to the local community. Its a place, a Meeting Place for people and they keep history alive. By these bookshops continuing to be in existence. After words is next on booktv. Cofounder steve case speculates on the future the in
You lead the company through the 90s, it became one of the most Iconic Companies in American History, and you as a result, one of the most iconic entrepreneurs in American History and by any measure one of the great businesspeople of our generation. Guest maybe should stop there and call it a day. Host i think i saw somewhere on its peak half of americans who connected to the internet connected to america online. It became so popular they made a movie about it, youve got mails starring tom hanks before he was really tom hanks, by the way. Then you had a big merger with time warner, biggest merger in American History and then he went on to continue to be a very successful business person and investor he started the revolution Investment Fund which is invested in the hundred Startup Companies including zipcar sweet green, and others. So i write the book now i have to imagine that back in those days there people bidding down the door and when i first saw it i had a chance to see it before
Exciting to find the figures like Adam Clayton Powell junior, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall who were not born into Mainstream Society and who by dent of their enormous talent and gift sticks themselves into the fabric of the country via entertainment, politics, sports, or in marshalls case the law, in the case of the white house butler, extra ordinary service to the country. These figures, when i look back at the figures, society, culture, race and style. Gues guest there is legislation that congress powell, and sammy davis junior integrated nightclubs in the 1940s across the country. Armstrong and linda horn and sammy davis, junior, and Sugar Ray Robinson who fought the mob in new york who controlled the fight game. He wanted to give fighters some independence, himself especially. And of course, many epic cases that he fought before the United States victory, with the 1954 School Segregation case with brown versus board of education. When you look at all of these men, you
At the end of the war, towards the end of the war as the japanese were withdrawing their forces towards the north, birch moved from south ofchina, the area here, up to this province which really was behind japanese lines. And many in this area the nationalist forces were primarily in the southwest where theyd been, they had to retreat, withdraw after fighting so long and hard with the japanese. The communists were forced up to the area after the long march, but their power increased through the course of world war ii. So when birch yets up there gets up there, he is in contact with communist forces from time to time, and the policy of the United States government is a very pragmatic policy, and that is to cooperate with the communist forces if necessary when theres a good reason to do so. He didnt have any particular sympathy for the communists or their cause, nor did he have any sympathy for the nationalists. His loyalties really were with the chinese people. There was great relief on