Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Now we kick off the weekend with malcolm gay. He explores the signals from the brain that dictate motor skills. And now i am very thrilled to introduce malcolm gay to left bank books. Malcolm gay is an arts reporter for the boston globe where he covers visual and performing arts. He previously worked as a contributing writer at the New York Times and the critic at large for our very own riverfront times where he reviewed of visual and performing arts. His writing has appeared in wired, the olympic, and time, among other publications. In 2004 the society of professional journalists Northern California chapter named him that youre supposed in the emerging journalist. At a 2005 he received the James Beard Award for nutrition or food related consumer issues. His work has since received other national accolades, including top honors in 2008 from the association of alternative news weeklies, and in 2009 from th
First book we are discussing here is devoted to education and competing visions of how children learn. Amandas book, the smartest kids in the world and how they got that way takes us to north and poland. Rland, she does this through the eyes of three American Kids learning in those school systems. Analysis r a unique of this. L the Washington Post says is is the most iluminating book ive seen, and the New York Times says this managed to make our culture look strangely new. Trust me, the conclusions have insights for kids of all ages as important parents. Amanda is an investigative journal with the times. Hes also the author of the unthinkable who survives when disaster strikes and why. Please join me in welcoming Amanda Ripley. Thank you. Is great to be here on many levels. One reason is this is the city in which i live. The other reason is i grow most of my articles in the library of congress. It was the only place where i could find some focus and peace. I had a new baby at the time
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Came out this year called through birds of north america. Published by princeton as well. It covers all of the species recorded in north america that are included in my book. My book covers over 800 species, that leaves out the very barest of the rare, the species that have only been recorded three or four times. So to get information on all of those, there is an excellent new book called rare birds of north america. So would you say basically, if i could cannot size you would be most helpful to have your guide about which for the bird watchers says okay, you want to see website things im not heard to identify it is such a bird, but the photographic guide also is helpful in that it looks like that. Yeah, it is helpful to have the photographs. Once you think youve identified the bird, look at the photographic guide and see what the photographs look like. To have that multiple different viewpoints. My book includes my own particular vision of the species. It is my interpretation of what