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Festival. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] first up steve vogel the author of through the perilous fight talking about his book at the 2014 gaithersburg book festival. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] please direct your attention up there and for those in the back if you would like to move forward you are also welcome to do so if you would like. Welcome to the fifth annual gaithersburg book festival. My name is garrett peck and i am a lover of local history and beer and trains. Actually we will wait for just a second. One of the wonderful things about bein...

It is for people my age disorienting. For people, my children and grandchildrens age is the only america they have known and the most natural thing in the world. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. The wonderful thing about the gulf coast, is so underappreciate it and that is good because it gives us a lot to write about. If we were in new York San Francisco or chicago those cities and places are all so well known and new york is the literary capital but on the gulf coast we tend to think about from texas to the Florida Panhandle there really is instability, we have a ...

Lawyer, vice chair of the u. S. Commission on International Religion freedom and cofounder of the human rights project. One of the most prominent people who have been speaking out about the uighur situation and genocide in china for years. Tas book learn more about his his life story his his hard work the challenges that he has faced and what he sees Going Forward for the uighur people. So, thank you so much for joining us today nouri. Thank you very much for coming to have this conversation with me, bethany. I would first like to ask you about the book project itself. How did it get started ....

Report is a damning indictment of chinas treatment of the week population. It found that we goes and other mostly muslim groups held in detention camps have been subjected to torture, including forced medical treatment and sexual and gender based violence. Bachelors report with commission more than 3 years ago and was due to be published last year. It was finally released 30 minutes before her term, as you and human rights chief ended. Obviously there, there is pressure fall, Chinese Government on the un system, but its the you, the High Commission as job to investigate human rights crimes aro...

Life. Mikhail gorbachev left office in 1991 recent survivor of an attempted hard line, communist qu, but victim nonetheless, of unstoppable change. The vast soviet empire had suddenly ceased to exist. Gorbachev left behind a moscow reduced in stature. The capital now of a newly independent russia. Of course, he was very, very disciplined in man because he was at his house. He had not only by the russian state of soviet state, but by the russians. I mean, he used to not for a popular hell be remembered more warmly abroad than at home. Go b as he came to be known, one the confidence of World Lea...