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We are back live at the National Book festival. Were pleased to have join us now on our book tv set professor Thomas Malone of mit. Heres his most recent book. It is called super minds, the surprising power of people and computers, thinking together. Before we get into the topic of the book, professor, what is it that you do at mit . Im a professor in the sloan school of management and director of the mit center for collective intelligence. Pleasure to be a here. What kind of Management Training do you give at mit . I teach two main courses, one is an mba course on strategic organizational des...

We hear about local tribes commercial interactions with Spanish Missions and fur traders and the items these groups exchanged, including livestock fabric and fur. This is an hour and 15 minutes. All right, todays lecture is going to pull together some of the topics that weve been exploring throughout the semester. The spanish colonization of north america, contributions of native american societies to development of the various colonies, manifest destiny and the american conquest of northern mexico. And the american wests role in the sectional crisis over slavery. Were going to examine them fr...

Around the time of the inauguration of 2001, whether or not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she had started in texas. The texas book is full. He said there isnt yet there will be. So we came up with the idea of how to put together a National Book festival, the idea was to put it into a normal, intense. It turned out that getting sponsorships was more difficult than they had thought it would be. So he asked me if i would get involved. I told him i would do so. I began to be a sponsor and a cochair of the event. I did that now for maybe ten years or so. Its very importan...

Refugee but my parents were refugees. Theres a fracturing of the share experience. Me life was different in the United States, the life was different in canada, my sisters life is different in england. Did all right relatively speaking but that vastly overlambingers and yep oliving together in the same language and the same cultural context, the same as it were social abilities, we share that experience, unity of time and place and experience that we shared, and then gets fractured and get bren up. Even if we had moved to the same place, there would have been a fracture because i spoke english...

Year scholars, it is honor for me to serve as the mc for this program tonight. Our guest this evening is dr. James nolan, 1859 professor at williams college. He is author of several books, one what they saw in america, alexis detotfil, chester ton. I especially look forward to this discussion as dr. Nolans insights will help us wrap up the year long study on American Political Culture inspired by totevilles america, uc california days and degrees from university of virginia. His Research Fall in the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change and historical comparei...