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Aaron David Miller is a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC; his latest book, America and the Much Too Promised Land, will be published March 25, 2008 (Bantam/Dell). Between 2003 and 2006 Miller served as president of Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering ... (more)young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance coexistence and reconciliation. For the previous two decades, he served at the Department of State as an adviser to six Secretaries of State, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process. In 1984 he served a temporary tour at the American Embassy in Amman, Jordan. Between 1998 and 2000, Mr. Miller served on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. His articles have appeared in newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The International Herald Tribune. His recent appearances include CNN, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, FOX News, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, National Public Radio, BBC, Canadian Broadcast Network, Al Arabiya, Al-Jazeera and Israeli Radio. 4:00 reception, 4:30 lecture (free for FPRI members, $20 for non members) Foreign Policy Research Institute Events

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will speak at the Free Library of Philadelphia on Friday, May 9th, as part of the Free Library of Philadelphia's Author Event series. This will be in conjunction with the publication by Putnam of The Good Fight: Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

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Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

Lecture and booksigningSubject to change without notice. Check monitors for up-to-the-minute changes.All lectures and demonstrations are held in rooms 201B & C on the Bridge between the Main Show and the grand Ballroom.

March 1st marks the 15th anniversary of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy banning open gays from the military. New attention has focused on this explosive culture war issue, as Democrats renew promises to lift the ban, perhaps as soon as this year.
 
With UNFRIENDLY FIRE: How the Gay Ban Undermines ... (more)the Military and Weakens America, Dr. Nathaniel Frank, the mostly widely-recognized expert on gays in the military and the writer who broke the story of the firing of gay Arabic linguists, has written the definitive story of “don’t ask, don’t tell” at a pivotal moment in the debate on gay service.  Dr. Frank, an historian and Senior Research Fellow at the Palm Center, has spent ten years explaining the ins and outs of this policy on television, radio, blogs and in print, and now more than ever, his expertise is in demand to help the nation understand this complex, fast-moving issue.
 
Based on hundreds of exclusive interviews, this much-anticipated book reveals behind-the-scenes discussions by the top players responsible for the current policy, and shows how a campaign of misinformation by military officials and the religious right conspired to steamroll the gay ban into place. UNFRIENDLY FIRE also answers pressing questions people are now asking about what lies ahead: How is the current policy really working? How do gay and straight troops currently get along? What happened when other nations lifted their gay bans? What will happen if the U.S. follows suit?  And more.
The new book shows that:
·         Military officials admit they misrepresented the threat posed by gays to unit cohesion, while minimizing the true source of resistance to gay service: religious and cultural opposition to homosexuality.
·         Evidence was repeatedly concealed or suppressed by the military when research concluded there was no rationale for the gay ban.
·         The team of military generals that created “don’t ask, don’t tell” did not even understand what “sexual orientation” meant when they were tasked with formulating the policy. The general who headed that team now opposes the policy and admits in the book that the group “didn’t have any empirical data” about gay service and its position was based on fear, politics and prejudice.
·         The former Navy Judge Advocate General reversed his support for a gay ban and now calls the policy a “moral passing of the buck.”
·         Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff circulated an inflammatory anti-gay video produced by the religious right, and used it to argue that openly gay service would undermine the military.
 
Clearly and lucidly argued, UNFRIENDLY FIRE is a lively and compelling narrative that is sure to play an important role in the debate over this policy.  As a new presidential administration takes office, and our country’s military commitments around the globe continue to expand, the issue of gays serving in the military is certain to be a key topic of debate. Join Dr. Frank at Lambda Rising in DC as he answers your questions and discusses his insightful work on this vital issue. NATHANIEL FRANK is a senior research fellow at the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and teaches history on the adjunct faculty at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.  His publications on gays in the military and other topics have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Slate, the Los Angles Times, The Huffington Post, and other publications.  His research and opinions have been cited on the Congressional floor and in syndicated columns, the blogosphere, the New York Post, The National Review Online, the AP, and other venues.

Talk and Book SigningAdmission FreeA million-copy bestseller upon its publication in China, Yu Hua’s Brothers encapsulates the story of modern China, offering a satirical and compassionate portrait of life after Mao. The story of two stepbrothers, Baldy Li (talkative, outgoing and sex-obsessed) and ... (more)Song Gang (quiet and bookish), Brothers depicts the acceleration of slow-paced village life into high-tech modernity as everyone scrambles to get rich and famous in the decades following the Cultural Revolution. The Boston Globe calls Brothers a book full of “mind-bending moments…Both ribald and elegiac…a satire, but also a rebuke of how China, in its breathless pursuit of success, has compromised its soul.” Yu Hua is the author of thirteen books including To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, named two of the last decade’s ten most influential books in China. In 2002 he became the first Chinese writer to win the prestigious James Joyce Foundation Award.

Seminar Industry leaders in corporate event production – Paulette Wolf and Jodi Wolf – will be sharing their event secrets in all day seminar - “An Insider’s Guide to Event Planning" based on their book Event Planning Made Easy Call 215.563.1600 for information Books will be provided for sale ... (more)by Joseph Fox Bookshop

Panel Discussion and Book Signing with Lydia Denworth author of Toxic Truth: A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle Over Lead Books provided for sale by Joseph Fox Bookshop
Ms. Denworth will speak about her book, which documents the work of two scientists, Dr. Patterson and Dr. Needleman, who advanced ... (more)our understanding of lead, its insidious nature, and its toxic effects on children. The Panelists: David Zelov, Urban Farmer, Weavers Way Farm and Jay S. Schneider, PhD, professor at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University will address renewed concerns sparked by the discovery of lead in imported products, questions regarding toxins in food production and is there a safe level of lead? Registration required Register online at www.collegeofphysicians.org

The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American CultureLecture and Book Signing.Tickets required. Please call the Geographical Society at 610.649.5220 or go to http://catalog.geographicalsociety.or...
Join us as we commemorate a dinner the Society hosted 100 years ago to honor Peary ... (more)for reaching the North Pole on April 6, 1909. It will be at the same location, the present day Park Hyatt at the Bellevue’s elegant Rose Garden. Michael Robinson, author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture, will speak on “Arctic Fever.” Join celebrity guests at this glacially “cool” event which includes selections from the 1909 dinner menu, re-created by the hotel’s executive chef.
The Geographical Society and its members were strong supporters of Robert E. Peary’s explorations, including the Auxiliary Expedition of 1894 which returned crew members, Mrs. Peary, and her infant daughter to the U.S. Peary was awarded our Elisha Kent Kane gold medal in 1902 and this specially-struck gold medal (right) for his attainment of the North Pole in 1909.
The program includes a brief reenactment of the gold medal award ceremony and a speaker on Arctic Fever, then and now. Robert McCracken Peck, Senior Fellow at The Academy of Natural Sciences, will impersonate Robert E. Peary. (He is a descendant of attendee James Mapes Dodge.) The current Geographical Society President, G. Theodore Burkett, will portray Henry Grier Bryant, the President in 1909. The Arctic Fever speaker will be Michael F. Robinson, author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture, winner of the 2008 Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America. He will be available to sign copies of his book.
The Annual Dinner and the Peary Centennial Program are available to members and the public. The cost to members and descendants of 1909 attendees is $80, nonmembers $90. A limited number of program-only seats are available to members and the public for $25. A cash bar will be available before the program, starting at 6:00 PM. The program is at 7:00 PM. Wine will be served with dinner which starts at 8:00 PM. Contact us for an invitation or sign up using the mailing form or online.
The Geographical Society is trying to reach descendants of attendees at the 1909 dinner and invite them to the 2009 dinner. Can you help us find descendants of any of these 1909 attendees?

The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, The Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened AmericaLecture and Book SigningReservations Required. 215.409.6700Easter 2009 will mark the 70th anniversary of one of the most dramatic concerts in American history: world famous African American contralto Marian ... (more)Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial. ,The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America is the story of Anderson’s journey to this moment. Award-winning historian Raymond Arsenault will tell the story of Marian Anderson, one of the most enduring and iconic figures of the Civil Rights movement. Through immense raw talent and unrelenting determination, Anderson overcame racial prejudice to inspire all Americans and to become one of the greatest singers of her time.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to welcome Kathy Ireland to the store to discuss and sign her new book Real Solutions for Busy Moms: Your Guide to Success and Sanity. This event is free and everyone is encouraged to attend!About the Book:Kathy Ireland communicates with moms every day: online, ... (more)at the grocery store, at church, at speaking engagements, and on her company website. She is grateful that her conversations don't center around beauty tips or requests for autographs or advice on how to dress. Rather, she has the honor of hearing from real women who struggle with balancing the responsibilities of marriage, raising children, managing a household or career or both, and finding any time left to take care of themselves.As the involved mom of three very active children, the supportive wife of an emergency room doctor, and a dynamic businesswoman, Kathy knows of these struggles firsthand. She credits her strong faith in God and her parents' love and support for any success she has today and dedicates her days to finding the solutions that can make life easier for busy moms in all phases of life. As she tackles the tough financial concerns families feel today and many other issues, Kathy offers empathy and encouragement. She shares stories from her own life and wisdom she has gained through her years from teenager with a paper route to successful supermodel to mom to entrepreneur with a dream for big business.About the Author:
Supermodel turned supermom and entrepreneur, Kathy Ireland lives in Santa Barbara where she is a supportive wife to her doctor husband, and mother of three children.

Skyline Salon

A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in StagesBank of America Main Stage

Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil WarIndependence Foundation Poetry Corner

Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh Bank of America Main Stage

Bank of America Main Stage

Closing Time: A MemoirSkyline Salon

Independence Foundation Poetry Corner

Bank of America Main Stage

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the WorldBank of America Main Stage

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present local author, Marin resident and 2007 banjo champ John Pedersen, as he discusses and signs his first novel, Scroll and Curl. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!About the Book:
When the old time string band "Sweet Evening ... (more)Breeze" leaves Saratoga Springs, New
York on their two week tour of the east coast, fiddler Dan Munroe thinks that his only
headache will be controlling his band-mates tendencies for excess. That is until he
buys a unique fiddle at a sidewalk sale in New York and hears the story of the previous
owner’s entanglement with the underworld of the 1930's. After he gets the special fiddle
appraised by a reclusive dealer in Pennsylvania, dangerous and mysterious forces suddenly curl
and swirl through his life.About the Author:
As the grandson of a noted Heldeberg Mountain fiddler and a master luthier, John Pedersen portrays the touring string band life based on
hard-won first-hand knowledge about the shifting nature of relationships and the
dynamics of people on the road whose main connection to each other is the music.
Also, running a retail music store, doing repairs and buying and selling rare instruments
have given him insight into the eclectic and occasionally bizarre world of instrument
buyers and collectors and their motivations. The patrons of the store, run by John and his
wife, range from limos full of rock stars to the lowliest of street people and everyone in
between. As a musician John has won many fiddle contests, playing in the “old time”
style, as well as the California State Old Time Banjo championships in 2007.

Join host Joanne Denworth and co-sponsors 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, Clean Air Council, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, PennFuture, and Joseph Fox Bookshop for an evening with Lydia Denworth, author of Toxic Truth: A Scientist, A Doctor, and the Battle over Lead. Admission: free

Chuck Palahniuk is the author of nine previous novels, including bestsellers Haunted and Lullaby,as well as Choke and Fight Club, which were adapted into popular films. The New York Times writes, “Palahniuk's prose has the rat-a-tat immediacy of a bravura spoken word performance.” Palahniuk’s newest ... (more)novel, Pygmy, follows a gang of adolescent terrorists who infiltrate the U.S. disguised as foreign exchange students. The writer calls his latest work “a dark comedy about terrorism and racism,” and a starred advance review in Booklist suggests that fans “will welcome his return to the fine form of Fight Club. Palahniuk leaps over the line of good taste—and lands squarely on his feet.” The first 150 people in line will have the opportunity to have their copies of Pygmy, and two back list titles, personalized. The line will form at 5:00 p.m. in the West corridor on the first floor. Tickets will be dispensed for the signing line at that time. First-come, first-served. Pre-signed books will be available for purchase.

Book Group #3 meets to discusses Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road. This event is free and all are welcome.

The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award, and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Eva Hoffman was born in Poland and immigrated to Canada in her teens, a journey she recounted in her acclaimed memoir Lost in Translation. She is the author of Exit Into ... (more)History, Shtetl, The Secret, and After Such Knowledge. Her latest novel, Appassionata, explores the light and dark faces of romanticism and the moral choices that can lead to complete emotional destruction, or the richest work of art.

Lecture and Book Signing.Free. Reservations Required.215.409.6700Award-winning New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America. In the 1930s, with the country gripped by the Great Depression and millions of Americans struggling to get ... (more)by, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Federal Writers' Project under the New Deal as a make-work program for artists and authors. A number of writers, including Zora Neale Hurston and Eudora Welty were dispatched all across America to chronicle the eating habits, traditions, and struggles of local people. The project, called "America Eats," was abandoned in the early 1940s because of the World War and was never completed. Join the National Constitution Center for a special conversation with Mark Kurlansky about the WPA’s portrait of food in Pre-World War II America.

Elmore Leonard has been compared to prolific writers such as Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Dickens, but his writing, in fact, is entirely and entertainingly unique. A recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America, Leonard is the author of more than three dozen critically acclaimed ... (more)bestsellers, including Killshot, Glitz, The Hot Kid, and Up in Honey’s Room. Many of his books and stories have been made into movies, including Get Shorty, Three-Ten to Yuma, and Out of Sight.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is excited to host an evening with Norm Sperling, editor of The Journal of Irreproducible Results, as he discuss and inscribes JIR's new anthology, This Book Warps Space and Time. This event is free and will be a total blast, so you should stop by!Here's the Editor in his ... (more)own words:
Hi! I'm Norm Sperling, the editor since 2004. I've subscribed to JIR since the 1970s. I was assistant editor of Sky & Telescope magazine, and Science Editor of AltaVista.com. I teach astronomy in universities around San Francisco, wrote the book What Your Astronomy Textbook Won't Tell You, and co-designed Edmund Scientific's Astroscan telescope. The Journal of Irreproducible Results is a science humor magazine and the new anthology, This Book Warps Space and Time, is a fast-paced frolic of humorous and quirky tidbits in science, math, academe, bureaucracy, and witty wordplay. More than 250 entries ponder and pun the practical and peculiar. JIR targets hypocrisy, arrogance, and ostentatious sesquipedalian circumlocution. JIR is a friendly escape from the harsh and the hassle. JIR makes you feel good

Described as a “hip-hop intellectual,” Michael Eric Dyson is an ordained Baptist minister, social analyst, and a Professor at Georgetown University. His book, Is Bill Cosby Right?, was a national bestseller and winner of a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Dyson is the author ... (more)of numerous books, including Know What I Mean? and April 4, 1968. Can You Hear Me Now? is a collection of spirited essays on topics as diverse as literature, love, music, justice, politics, religion, and the new president.

The Alliance Française of Philadelphia is pleased to welcome Sasha
Watson to discuss and sign her debut novel, Vidalia in ParisPresentation and Q&A in English followed by a book signing.The talk, geared towards both teens and adults, will explore the
author's
journey as a writer, and how her relationship ... (more)to France and French
culture
has shaped that journey over the years. Ms. Watson will share her
observations on France and the United States' different approaches to
many
aspects of culture, including education, art, and creativity.Coffee, tea, lemonade, hot chocolate with pastries Presentation and Q&A in English $15 for Alliance Française members; $ 20
For information and reservation: 215-735 52 83 Martine Chauvet,
Alliance
Française

Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Flower Net (an Edgar Award nominee), The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family. Her new novel, ... (more)Shanghai Girls, is a suspenseful, provocative, and elegantly told tale of two sisters’ journey from lush and glamorous Shanghai to Los Angeles in the 1930s, where they strive to embrace American life, fight discrimination, and brave Communist witch hunts.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present local author Susan Kuchinskas as she discusses and signs her book, The Chemistry of Connection. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend.About the Author:
Susan Kuchinskas was fascinated when she first read about oxytocin, because ... (more)it offered an explanation for her own difficult path to love and connection. As a journalist covering technology, science and culture, her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications from Art & Antiques to Time to Oakland Magazine and the East Bay Express. She writes the Mind Matters column for WebMD Magazine. She lives in Berkeley with her mate of 13 years, a rescue dog and a frog. She's an organic gardener and beekeeper, and loves getting her hands dirty. She blogs about oxytocin here.About the Book:When you make love, cuddle with a partner, or have coffee with close friends, a powerful brain chemical called oxytocin floods your body with feelings of contentment and trust. This natural "love drug," produced by the hypothalamus, is responsible for human bonding in both platonic and intimate relationships, and is the key to many of the psychological differences between men and women. In The Chemistry of Connection, you'll learn easy ways to increase your natural supply of oxytocin to establish deeper connections with family, friends, and romantic partners. You'll discover: The power of the "cuddle hormone" in relationships How sex and love are deeply entwined for both women and men The chemical differences between lust, romance, and love How to raise children who trust and love in a healthy way.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland presents Dean Kuipers as he discusses and signs his new book, Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness, an insider's look at the environmental movement's radical wing and its uneasy relationship with the mainstream.
Dean Kuipers is an editor at ... (more)the Los Angeles Times. Burning Rainbow Farm, about the 2001 FBI shooting of two libertarian pot activists on a farm in Michigan, was published in 2006. His work has also recently appeared in the 2008 titles, The Contenders, in which he wrote on Al Gore, and Red State Rebels, where the Rainbow Farm book is excerpted. He is the co-author of I Am A Bullet, a collaboration with photographer Doug Aitken on the acceleration of global culture. As a former editor at Spin and Raygun magazines, he wrote extensively on radical movements and rock’n’roll, with cover stories on Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill, the Rolling Stones and many others. As author and editor of the 1997 graphics/pop culture book, Ray Gun Out Of Control, he worked with contributors David Bowie, REM's Michael Stipe, cyberpunk writer William Gibson and the world's foremost graphic designers. His work has appeared in Playboy, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, Interview, Travel & Leisure, Outside, Spin, LA Weekly, and others.