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Sally satel discusses her book brainwashed the seductive appeal of mindless neuroscience at the fourteenth annual book festival at the Walter Washington center in washington d. C. Welcome to the National Book festival. I am Wendi Maloney of the Copyright Office of the library of congress. Please note we are recording this presentation from a web casting. If you ask a question during the presentations then you are giving us permission to include you in the web cast. Please turn off all electronic devices. It is my pleasure to introduce sally satel. Sally satel is a psychiatrist and president sc...

You. What is the overall picture, the threat assessment, Public Safety in the United States and around the world, there is not nearly as much terrorism as we were afraid there might be. The weeks and months after 9 11 experts are telling us to expect that new normal, that we were going to get a tax like this on a regular basis, and we have not to read in fact, even though we dont want to dismiss this threat of want to put it in perspective. The book tries to do that. How come we have not seen more and what is the scale of the threat to Public Safety from terrorism verses other sorts of threats...

He is selling and signing copies of his work. I encourage you to do that. And in addition to the bar is open after we leave. Thank you for coming and good night. [ applause ] [inaudible conversations] basic books is one of the imprint of the Perseus Group publishers. Lahar is the publisher of basic books. Lara heimert, what type of books to publish . Inequity nonfiction most by academics and experts in the range, not a broad range, history, biography, science, psychology, this is an economics. What did you get started in the Publishing Industry . I started as an Internet Yale University press ...

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