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Bipartisan inhofemikulski amendment to the National Defense authorization act. What does our amendment do . It stops the privatization of commissaries which are an earned, earned benefit for our military and their families. Every year when the Senate Debates this bill, we talk about how we love our troops and how we always want to support our military families, but if we really love our troops, we need to make sure that our troops have the support that they need. One of the earned benefits that ...

So i want to preface this by saying you are looking fabulous for 79. [applause]. Thank you. Shes looking fabulous for any age. Thank you. But my personal experience with aging, and never really knew anyone, coincidently i live to someone over the summer who was 79 degrees and she was like you, vibrant and going at it, living, living her life. My experience with aging is my younger my grandmother died much younger than you and my grandfather is younger than you has to mention so i do not see a lo...

Yeah, you know, the thing thats sort of fun when im on book tour, theyll take me to some of the larger stores, the chain stores, and theyll say this is Mark Kurlansky to sign books you have in place, and theyll be running all over the place because theyre in so many sections of the store. It is a read that gets unraffled its not paper. Its actually a lot older than paper, and the nile seems to have been the only place where papyrus grew thick enough to make paper. So the egyptians had an absolut...

Topic and its usually the easiest ways, what are you reading now, we keep one up about a month and sometimes maybe i will have two or three books that im reading and ill say here take the picture this month, next month, one of her. To ever post reviews . No ive never done too much of that. I just dont dont have a lot of time to write reviews. If i put the book up there means i think it was a pretty good book. What are you reading right now . I thought i take a little break and this is one of tho...

Book tv. Thank you. [inaudible] heres a look at authors recently featured on book tvs afterwards. Our weekly Author Interview program. Natalia holt profiled the women instruments on the development of americas Space Program in the 1940s and 50s. Historian pamela haig looked at the history of gun ownership in america. And we reported on the history and rise of isis. In the coming weeks on afterwards, republican congressman will talk about his time as chairman of his committee on oversight and gov...

Report on the leadership of russian president boris yelton and Vladimir Putin and nashville authored local authors to take in the city at literary sites. That is just some of what you will see this weekend on booktv. For complete Television Schedule go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. We kick off the weekend with a panel on the history of race in chicago. It is from last weeks printers row lit fest. [inaudible conversations] welcom...

Nathalia holt who is here today talk about the research of your new book called rise of the rocket girls. Guest thanks for having me. Host i would like to begin hall you discover this group of women and how you managed to write about this group of women . It is a strange coincidence. My husband and i were expecting our first baby in 2010 having a difficult time coming up with names. One suggested Eleanor Francis and i wasnt sure and tell i googled name Eleanor Francis helene and i was just done ...

Author after author after author and you get to learn about the work of fascinating people. I love tv and im a cspan fan. What are some of the books that are coming out this fall question and. Im very excited about one called the word detective by john simpson which is a memoir by the former editor in chief of the Oxford English dictionary who has been there for about 40 years until his retirement in 2013. In that time he oversaw what really is a complete transformation of dictionaries or the co...

Job and lots of other science riders do a great job of translating that really difficult science talk into understandable media. I was just wondering if you ever get the opportunity to talk to policymakers . you should understand what that means what does that human genome mean . What are the implications down the road then we can never real conversation so thank you for reminding us that we need to have the vocabulary. Last question i am from the czech republic. [laughter] seven record july and...

That was just a joy. Every single day was fantastic. As much as you see is as much fun as we had every day on the set. We joked, we laughed, we never had an argument or a fight and on a film that is rare. We had to meet before she chose us and she met with each person and saw how our chemistry was with others and we all had amazing chemistry. I am so proud to be a part of it. It was so much fun. So much fun. [laughter] i missed brittany. That was the sad thing. But that is the thing about hollyw...