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John Elder Robison visits Google's Boulder, CO office to discuss his book "Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's." This event took place on September 23, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Robison's thoughtful and thoroughly memorable account of living with Asperger's syndrome is assured of media attention (and sales) due in part to his brother Augusten Burroughs's brief but fascinating description of Robison in Running with Scissors. But Robison's story is much more fully detailed in this moving memoir, beginning with his painful childhood, his abusive alcoholic father and his mentally disturbed mother. Robison describes how from nursery school on he could not communicate effectively with others, something his brain is not wired to do, since kids with Asperger's don't recognize common social cues and body language or facial expressions. Failing in junior high, Robison was encouraged by some audiovisual teachers to fix their broken equipment, and he discovered a more comfortable world of machines and circuits, of muted colors, soft light, and mechanical perfection. This led to jobs (and many hilarious events) in worlds where strange behavior is seen as normal: developing intricate rocket-shooting guitars for the rock band Kiss and computerized toys for the Milton Bradley company. Finally, at age 40, while Robison was running a successful business repairing high-end cars, a therapist correctly diagnosed him as having Asperger's. In the end, Robison succeeds in his goal of helping those who are struggling to grow up or live with Asperger's to see how it is not a disease but a way of being that needs no cure except understanding and encouragement from others. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: John Elder Robison Look Me in the Eye My Life with Asperger's Authors@Google atgoogle Added: October 9, 2008 ]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:53:15 -0400 Authors@Google: John Elder Robison 11844772 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-mathew-honan/11844772/
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Mathew Honan visits Google's San Francisco, CA office to discuss his book "Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle." This event took place on September 25, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. America has fallen in love with Barack Obama for his impassioned rhetoric, his commitment to change, and his hope for a brighter future. But what about the time he tuned up your guitar? Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle is the first book to chronicle all the lesser-known accomplishments of the freshman senator from Illinois, from finding your car keys to batting in the winning run for your softball team. A must-have compendium of the sweet things he has done for you, Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle is the only book that can do justice to the nicest man who ever lived. Mathew Honan made barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com in February 2008. A contributing editor at Wired magazine, his writing can also be found in Salon.com, Mother Jones, The New York Sun, and Popular Science. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Mathew Honan Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle Authors@Google atgoogle Wired Added: October 7, 2008 ]]> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:19:21 -0400 Authors@Google: Mathew Honan 11844773 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-kenya-hara/11844773/
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Designer Kenya Hara visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Designing Design." This event took place on September 29, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In Designing Design, he impresses upon the reader the importance of "emptiness" in both the visual and philosophical traditions of Japan, and its application to design, made visible by means of numerous examples from his own work: Hara for instance designed the opening and closing ceremony programs for the Nagano Winter Olympic Games 1998. In 2001, he enrolled as a board member for the Japanese label MUJI and has considerably molded the identity of this successful corporation as communication and design advisor ever since. Kenya Hara, alongside Naoto Fukasawa one of the leading design personalities in Japan, has also called attention to himself with exhibitions such as "Re-Design: The Daily Products of the 21st Century" of 2000. Kenya Hara (born 1958) is a graphic designer, Professor at the Art University Musashino and communication advisor for MUJI. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Kenya Hara Designing Design MUJI Japan graphic emptiness Nagano Winter Olympics Authors@Google atgoogle Added: October 7, 2008 ]]> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:00:24 -0400 Authors@Google: Kenya Hara 11844774 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-brian-herbert-kevin-j-anderson/11844774/
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Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson visit Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss their book "Paul of Dune." This event took place on September 22, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Frank Herbert's Dune ended with Paul Muad'Dib in control of the planet Dune. Herbert's next Dune book, Dune Messiah, picked up the story several years later after Pauls armies had conquered the galaxy. But what happened between Dune and Dune Messiah? How did Paul create his empire and become the Messiah? Following in the footsteps of Frank Herbert, New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are answering these questions in Paul of Dune. Brian Herbert has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards. In 2003, he published Dreamer of Dune, a Hugo Award-nominated biography of his father. Kevin J. Anderson has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Reader's Choice Award. He set the Guinness-certified world record for the largest single-author book signing. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Brian Herbert Kevin J. Anderson Paul of Dune Authors@Google atgoogle Hugo Nebula Award scifi science fiction Added: October 7, 2008 ]]> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:19:58 -0400 Authors@Google: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson 11844775 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-susan-faludi/11844775/
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The Authors@Google program was pleased to welcome Susan Faludi to Google's New York office to discuss her new book, "The Terror Dream". "In this, the most original examination of post-9/11 America, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her laser-sharp observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why, she asks, did an assault on American global dominance provoke an almost hysterical summons to restore "traditional" manhood, marriage, and maternity? Why did our media react as if the hijackers had targeted not a commercial and military edifice but the family home and nursery? Why did an attack fueled by hatred of Western emancipation lead to a regressive fixation on Doris Day womanhood and John Wayne masculinity, with trembling-lipped "security moms," swaggering presidential gunslingers, and the "rescue" of a female soldier compulsively recast as a "helpless little girl"? The answer, Faludi finds, lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation that in recent memory has been least vulnerable to domestic attack is also a nation haunted by a centuries-long trauma of assault on its home soil. For nearly two hundred years, our central drama was not the invincibility of our frontiersmen but their inability to repel invasions of non-Christian, nonwhite "barbarians" from the homestead door. To conceal the insecurity bred by those attacks, American culture would generate an ironclad countermyth of cowboy swagger and feminine frailty, which has been reanimated whenever the nation feels threatened. On September 11, Americans were once again returned to an experience of homeland terror and humiliation. And, once again, they fled from self-knowledge and retreated into myth. Brilliant and important, The Terror Dream is ultimately concerned not with what 9/11 did to women or men but with what it revealed about all of us—granting us the opportunity to look at ourselves anew." This event took place on September 11, 2008. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Susan Faludi 9/11 Authors@Google The Terror Dream Added: October 7, 2008 ]]> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:49:31 -0400 Authors@Google: Susan Faludi 11774350 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-eric-nakagawa-kari-unebasami/11774350/
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Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami visit Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss their book "I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun." This event took place on September 26, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Fresh from teh internets, here come LOLcats. www.icanhascheezburger.com was founded in January 2007 as a place to collect LOLcats—pictures of cats with funny captions. It has gone on to become a singular sensation, captivating millions and becoming one of the most visited blogs on the internet. For the book, the founders of the site have selected 200 of their favorite LOLcats from their archive of nearly one million, all of which are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud or wonder WTF? Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: LOLcats Eric Nakagawa Kari Unebasami lolcat can has cheezburger engrish fail blog Authors@Google atgoogle Added: October 3, 2008 ]]> Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:42:56 -0400 Authors@Google: Eric Nakagawa & Kari Unebasami 11774353 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-amy-goldman/11774353/
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Author Amy Goldman visits Google's headquarter's in Mountain View, CA, to discuss her book "The Heirloom Tomato". This event took place September 9, 2008, as part of the authors@google series. For more info, please visit http://www.rareforms.com/ Every year, renowned grower Amy Goldman produces an amazing 500 varieties of tomatoes on her farm in New Yorks Hudson Valley. Here, in 250 gorgeous photos and Goldmans erudite, charming prose, is the cream of the crop, from glorious heirloom beefsteaks that delicious tomato you had as a kid but cant seem to find anymore to exotica like the currant tomato, a pea-sized fruit with a surprisingly big flavor. Along with the photos are profiles of the tomatoes, filled with fascinating facts on their history and provenance; a section of more than 50 delicious recipes; and a master gardeners guide to growing your own. More than just a loving look at one of the world's great edibles, this is a philosophy of eating and conservation between covers — an irresistible book for anyone who loves to garden or loves to eat. Amy Goldman is a passionate gardener, seed saver, and well-known advocate for heirloom fruits and vegetables. She is the author of The Compleat Squash and Melons for the Passionate Grower, and she appears frequently on such TV programs as Martha Stewart Living and Victory Gardens. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Amy Holdman The Heirloom Tomato atgoogle authors@google Added: October 3, 2008 ]]> Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:03:23 -0400 Authors@Google: Amy Goldman 11774354 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-slajov-zizek/11774354/
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The Authors@Google program was pleased to welcome Slavoj Žižek to Google's New York office to discuss his latest book, "Violence". From Wikipidea: "Slavoj Žižek is a Post-Marxist sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic. In 1989, with the publication of his first book written in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Žižek achieved international recognition as a major social theorist. Since then, Žižek he has continued to develop his status as an intellectual outsider and confrontational maverick. Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and a professor at the European Graduate School. He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of Chicago, Columbia, London Consortium, Princeton, The New School, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London" This event took place on September 12, 2008. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Slajov Zizek Violence Authors@Google Philosophy Added: October 3, 2008 ]]> Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:01:45 -0400 Authors@Google: Slajov Zizek 11754909 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-irvine-welsh/11754909/
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The Authors@Google program was thrilled to welcome Irvine Welsh to Google's New York office to discuss his new book, "Crime". From The Guardian: "Welsh is a brave writer, which means he tries everything, and sometimes his editors let him get away with one metaphor too many. But this is still a great, redemptive book. It leaves you wanting more, much more. It leaves you wondering how many other writers could intertwine, in the closing chapters, a thoughtful dissection of the organic intelligence of pedophilia rings with an exposition of the thoughts of chairman Wallace Mercer in the urinals of Dundee's Dens Park on the infamous 1986 day when Hearts threw away cup victory. What am I saying, many other writers? There's only one and you should be reading him again." This event took place on September 9, 2008. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Irvine Welsh Trainspotting Crime Authors@Google Added: October 1, 2008 ]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:22:46 -0400 Authors@Google: Irvine Welsh 11732435 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-dexter-filkins/11732435/
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Dexter Filkins visits Google's San Francisco, CA office to discuss his book "The Forever War." This event took place on September 24, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as reporting of the highest quality imaginable, we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkinss narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52s; a nights sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero. Dexter Filkins, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Before that, he worked for the Los Angeles Times, where he was chief of the papers New Delhi bureau, and for The Miami Herald. He has been a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a winner of a George Polk Award and two Overseas Press Club awards. Most recently, he was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Dexter Filkins The Forever War Authors@Google atgoogle Google Afghanistan Iraq 9/11 Taliban New York Times Added: September 30, 2008 ]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:02:48 -0400 Authors@Google: Dexter Filkins 11732436 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-salman-rushdie-boston/11732436/
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Salman Rushdie visits Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book "The Enchantress of Florence." This event took place on June 15, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers--the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. Salman Rushdie is the author of nine previous novels, including Midnight's Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 and, in 1993, was judged to be the "Booker of Bookers," the best novel to have won that prize in its first twenty-five years) and The Satanic Verses (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel). He is also the author of a book of stories, East, West, and three works of nonfiction---Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and The Wizard of Oz. He is co-editor of Mirrorwork, an anthology of contemporary Indian writing. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Salman Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence Authors@Google atgoogle Booker Prize Midnight's Children Satanic Verses Added: September 30, 2008 ]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:14:25 -0400 Authors@Google: Salman Rushdie (Boston) 11732437 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-bernard-henri-levy/11732437/
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Bernard-Henri Levy visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism." This event took place on September 24, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the worlds leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have a future, and, if so, what will it look like? And how is it that progressives themselves-those who in the past defended individual rights and fought fascism-have now become the breeding ground for new kinds of dangerous attitudes. Illuminating these and other questions, Lévy also brings to life his own autobiography. Bernard-Henri Lévy is a philosopher, journalist, activist, and filmmaker. He was hailed by Vanity Fair magazine as Superman and prophet: we have no equivalent in the United States. Among his dozens of books are American Vertigo, Barbarism with a Human Face, and Who Killed Daniel Pearl? His writing has appeared in a wide range of publications throughout Europe and the United States. His films include the documentaries Bosna! and A Day in the Death of Sarajevo. Lévy is co-founder of the antiracist group SOS Racism and has served on diplomatic missions for the French government. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Bernard-Henri Levy Left in Dark Times Stand Against the New Barbarism Authors@Google atgoogle French philosopher Added: September 30, 2008 ]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:02:12 -0400 Authors@Google: Bernard-Henri Levy 11732438 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-irvine-welsh/11732438/
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Irvine Welsh visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Crime: A Novel." This event took place on September 19, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Welshs sizzling new novel, Crime, is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness. Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, his fiancée Trudi is only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding, and a bitter argument sees a deranged Lennox cast adrift in strip-mall Florida. In a seedy bar, Lennox meets two women, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge, which is interrupted by two menacing strangers. After the ensuing brawl, Lennox finds himself alone with Tianna, the terrified ten-year-old daughter of one of the women, and a sheet of instructions that make him responsible for her immediate safety. Irvine Welsh is the author of eight previous works of fiction, including Trainspotting and most recently, If You Liked School, Youll Love Work. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Irvine Welsh Crime Novel Trainspotting Authors@Google atgoogle Added: September 30, 2008 ]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:42:48 -0400 Authors@Google: Irvine Welsh 11732439 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-thomas-cathcart-daniel-klein/11732439/
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Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein visit Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss their book "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes." This event took place on September 16, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It's Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Philosophy of Language (how to express what it's like being stranded on a desert island with Halle Berry), Feminist Philosophy (why, in the end, a man is always a man), and much more. Finally--it all makes sense! Tom Cathcart and Daniel Klein pursued the usual careers after majoring in philosophy at Harvard. Tom worked with street gangs in Chicago, doctors at Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and dropped in and out of various divinity schools. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod. Dan has written jokes for various comedians including Flip Wilson and Lily Tomlin. He lives with his wife in the Berkshires. Together, they are authors of the politically incorrect book of daily affirmations, Macho Meditations. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Thomas Cathcart Daniel Klein Plato and Platypus Walk Into Bar Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Authors@Google Added: September 30, 2008 ]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:05:34 -0400 Authors@Google: Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein 11681272 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-jonathan-mahler/11681272/
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Jonathan Mahler visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his new book, "The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power." This event took place September 16, 2008 as part of the Authors@Google series. An inspiring legal thriller set against the backdrop of the war on terror, The Challenge tells the inside story of a historic Supreme Court showdown. At its center are a Navy JAG and a young constitutional law professor who, in the aftermath of 9/11, find themselves defending their nation in the unlikeliest of ways: by suing the president of the United States on behalf of an accused terrorist in order to prevent the American government from breaking the law and violating the Constitution. Mahler traces the journey of their client, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, from the Yemeni mosque where he was first recruited for jihad in 1998, through his years working as a driver for Osama bin Laden, to his capture in Afghanistan in November 2001 and his subsequent transfer to Guantanamo Bay. More information at http://thechallengethebook.com. Jonathan Mahler, a writer for The New York Times Magazine, is the author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: authors@google atgoogle jonathan mahler challenge presidential power hamdan rumsfeld supreme court guantanamo bay Added: September 26, 2008 ]]> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:06:58 -0400 Authors@Google: Jonathan Mahler 11681274 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-helen-epstein/11681274/
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The Authors@Google program was pleased to welcome Helen Epstein to Google's New York office to discuss her book, "The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS". From Macmillan: "Helen Epstein writes frequently on public health for various publications including The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Magazine. She is currently a visiting research scholar at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University." From Publisher's Weekly: "Epstein, a public health specialist and molecular biologist who has worked on AIDS vaccine research, overturns many of our received notions about why AIDS is rampant in Africa and what to do about it. She charges that Western governments and philanthropists, though well-meaning, have been wholly misguided, and that Africans themselves, who understand their own cultures, often know best how to address HIV in their communities." This event took place on August 29, 2008. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Helen Epstein Authors@Google The Invisible Cure: Africa the West and Fight Against AIDS Added: September 26, 2008 ]]> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:37:17 -0400 Authors@Google: Helen Epstein 11613280 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-neal-stephenson/11613280/
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Authors Neal Stephenson visits Google's Headquarters in Mountain View, Ca, to discuss his book "Anathem". This event took place September 12, 2008, as part of the Authors@google series. For more info, please visit http://www.nealstephenson.com/ Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable—yet strangely inverted—world. Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. And Erasmas has no fear of the outside—the Extramuros—for the last of the terrible times was long, long ago. Neal Stephenson is the author of seven previous novels. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Neal Stephenson Anathem bestselling author sciensce fiction authors@google Added: September 19, 2008 ]]> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:46:50 -0400 Authors@Google: Neal Stephenson 11613284 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-ethan-nichtern/11613284/
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The Authors@Google program was pleased to welcome Ethan Nichtern to Google's New York office to discuss his book, "One City: A Declaration of Interdependence". Ethan Nichtern is the acclaimed author of "One City: A Declaration of Interdependence", and the founding director of the Interdependence Project , a nonprofit created to bring meditation principles to the arts, activism, environmental concerns, and responsible consumption. A teacher of Buddhist meditation and philosophy for the past six years, he currently teaches at New School University and lectures regularly at Brown, Wesleyan, and New York universities. This event took place on September 3, 2008. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Ethan Nichtern Authors@Google One City Declaration of Interdependence Added: September 19, 2008 ]]> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:43:22 -0400 Authors@Google: Ethan Nichtern 11575384 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-michael-gurian/11575384/
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Author Michael Gurian visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book "Leadership and the Sexes". This event took place September 10, 2008, as a part of the Authors@google series. For more info, please visit http://www.michaelgurian.com/ Leadership and the Sexes presents brain science tools with which readers can look into the brains of men and women to understand themselves and one another. The book also provides five Gender Tools, which can be used immediately in executive, management, design, and marketing teams. The gender science presented in this book has been used successfully by such diverse corporations as IBM, Nissan, Proctor & Gamble, Deloitte & Touche, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Brooks Sports, and many others. This gender science helps leaders increase their organization's competitive edge, profits, and bottom line. Michael Gurian is a thought-leader, corporate consultant, family therapist, and the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five books, including Leading Partners, The Wonder of Girls, Boys and Girls Learn Differently!, The Wonder of Boys, and The Minds of Boys. The co-founder of the Gurian Institute, he has spearheaded a national effort to provide communities and corporations with training in brain-based gender issues. Link to the Gurian Institute: http://www.gurianinstitute.com/ Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Michael Gurian Leadership and the Sexes authors@google brain-based brain science gender google Added: September 15, 2008 ]]> Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:43:54 -0400 Authors@Google: Michael Gurian 11329167 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-daniel-wilson-anna-long/11329167/
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Daniel Wilson and Anna Long visit Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss their book "Mad Scientist Hall of Fame: Muwahahahaha!" This event took place on September 5, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Real and fictional, famous and infamous, crazy and just crazily driven, these brilliant men and women exhibit a list of neuroses almost as impressive as their extraordinary accomplishments. At last, you can explore their early fixations, their ambitions, their successes and failures, and the particular quirks that have granted each induction into the Mad Scientist Hall of Fame, including: - Dr. Evil: Megalomaniacal doctor with antisocial personality disorder (and pathological dislike of his own son, Scotty) - Nikola Tesla: Real-life mad scientist with obsessive compulsive disorder (and he talked to aliens) - Lex Luthor: Villain and supergenius with manic mood disorder (and premature baldness) Daniel H. Wilson received his Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising, winner of the Wired 2006 Rave Award, and Where's My Jetpack? He is a contributing editor to Popular Mechanics and lives in Portland, Oregon. Anna Long, Ph.D. is a graduate of the University of Washington's Child Clinical Psychology program. She currently conducts research at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Daniel Wilson Anna Long Mad Scientist Hall of Fame Muwahahahaha! Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: September 8, 2008 ]]> Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:49:07 -0400 Authors@Google: Daniel Wilson & Anna Long 11329168 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-daniel-ellsberg/11329168/
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Daniel Ellsberg visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers." This event took place on August 22, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. Richard Nixon made attempts to prevent anymore extracts from the Pentagon Papers being published. The Supreme Court ruled against Nixon. Ellsberg's trial, on twelve felony counts posing a possible sentence of 115 years, was dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him, which led to the convictions of several White House aides and figured in the impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon. Since the end of the Vietnam War he has been a lecturer, writer and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era and unlawful interventions. In 2002 he published Secrets. Link to Ellsberg's official site: http://www.ellsberg.net This event took place on August 22, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Daniel Ellsberg Secrets Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers Richard Nixon war Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: September 8, 2008 ]]> Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:23:01 -0400 Authors@Google: Daniel Ellsberg 11295683 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-david-friedman/11295683/
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David Friedman visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World." This event took place on September 3, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. In his brand new work, Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World, the famed economist David Friedman presents a variety of technological revolutions in the next 20 years and their implications. If dead could be brought alive, genes of the unborn could be picked and matched to a perfect combination, and robotic flies are the future of surveillance cameras, then what does this all mean for the traditional values and ideals our society is based on? Our passive consumption of evolving technology could lead to more or less privacy than we have ever known, freedom or slavery, effective immortality and radical changes in life, marriage, law, medicine, work, and play. David D. Friedman is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University, California. After receiving a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Chicago, he switched fields to economics and taught at Virginia Polytechnic University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of California at Los Angeles, Tulane University, the University of Chicago, and Santa Clara University. A professional interest in the economics of law led to positions at the law schools of the University of Chicago and Cornell and thereafter to his present position, where he developed the course on legal issues of the twenty-first century, which led to his writing Future Imperfect. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: David Friedman Future Imperfect Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: September 4, 2008 ]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:22:47 -0400 Authors@Google: David Friedman 11254298 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-kathryn-shevelow/11254298/
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Kathryn Shevelow visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss "For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement." This event took place on August 25, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. In eighteenth-century England—where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew large crowds, and the abuse of animals was routine—the idea of animal protection was dismissed as laughably radical. But as pets became more common, human attitudes toward animals evolved steadily. An unconventional duchess defended their intellect in her writings. A gentleman scientist believed that animals should be treated with compassion. And with the concentrated efforts of an eccentric Scots barrister and a flamboyant Irishman, the lives of beasts—and, correspondingly, men and women—began to change. In For the Love of Animals, Kathryn Shevelow, a respected eighteenth-century scholar, gives us the dramatic story of the bold reformers who braved attacks because they sympathized with the plight of creatures everywhere. A specialist in eighteenth-century British literature and culture, Kathryn Shevelow is an award-winning professor at the University of California in San Diego. She is the author of Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World and Women and Print Culture. She lives in Solana Beach, California. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Kathryn Shevelow For the Love of Animals Rise Animal Protection Movement Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: September 4, 2008 ]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:16:19 -0400 Authors@Google: Kathryn Shevelow 11254299 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-nena-baker/11254299/
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Nena Baker visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her book "The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-Being." This event took place on September 3, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Nena Baker, the author of The Body Toxic, gets her blood tested and finds out she's positive for more than three dozen substances—including DDT (banned 36 years ago). This opens her investigation into our country's long history of better living through chemistry, and the price we're paying now. This is a chilling look at the questionable safety of nearly everything we store food in, drink from, wear, walk on, rest on and drive. Chemicals used to make everything from water-repellant jackets and flame retardants to unbreakable plastics used for food storage are building up in our bodies and the environment with possible far-reaching consequences. Nena Baker has been a working journalist for more than 20 years. She's a former staff writer for the Oregonian, United Press International and the Arizona Republic. She has also freelanced for a variety of publications, including SELF, Town & Country, Mademoiselle, and Seventeen. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Nena Baker The Body Toxic How Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-Being Authors@Google Added: September 4, 2008 ]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:52:35 -0400 Authors@Google: Nena Baker 11254300 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-paul-auster/11254300/
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The Authors@Google Program was pleased to welcome Paul Auster to Google's New York office to read from and discuss his new book, "Man in the Dark". About the Author: Paul Auster has been called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement), and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the bestselling author of "Travels in the Scriptorium", "The Brooklyn Follies", "Oracle Night", and "The Book of Illusions", among many other works including the three novels known as The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts", and "The Locked Room". His nonfiction works include "The Invention of Solitude", "Hand to Mouth", "The Red Notebook", and "The Art of Hunger". In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honors are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of the film "Smoke and the Prix Médicis Etranger" for the novel "Leviathan". He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. This event took place on August 20, 2008. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Paul Auster Authors@google Man in the Dark Added: September 4, 2008 ]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:58:20 -0400 Authors@Google: Paul Auster 11164483 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-sandy-blaine/11164483/
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Author Sandy Blaine visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Ca, to discuss her book "Yoga for Computer Users". This event took place August 22, 2008, as part of the Authors@google series. For more information about Sandy and the book, please visit http://www.sandyblaine.com/ More and more people depend on computers for work and entertainment, which means more and more hours spent slumped in a chair -- and more and more hand, wrist, neck, shoulder and lower back injuries. Yoga for Computer Users was written to help stem this epidemic of musculo-skeletal injuries through a yoga-based program of preventive self-care, using simple but effective exercises to teach people how to support and maintain healthy posture, relieve neck and shoulder tension and help prevent injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis. You can use this program regardless of your age or yoga experience, and many of the exercises are designed to be done right at your desk. This event will be participatory and interactive, with some instructor-led chair stretches as well as discussion and Q&A. Sandy Blaine has been practicing yoga for over 20 years, and teaching and writing about yoga since 1993. A founding member and co-director of the Alameda Yoga Station and author of Yoga for Healthy Knees and Yoga For Computer Users, she is also the long-time in-house yoga instructor for Pixar Animation Studios. Her writing has also been published in a number of magazines, including Yoga Journal, Yoga International and Ascent. Sandy believes that greater health, well-being and joy are available to everyone and strives to share the gifts of yoga with others through her work. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Yoga for Computer Users Sandy Blaine Stretching Health Authors@google atgoogle google Added: August 29, 2008 ]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:52:33 -0400 Authors@Google: Sandy Blaine 11141940 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-daniel-levitin/11141940/
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Daniel Levitin visits Google's San Francisco, CA office to discuss his book "The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature." This event took place on August 22, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. An unprecedented blend of science and art, Daniel Levitin's debut, This Is Your Brain on Music, was an extraordinary success. Now in what is being called a tour de force by his peers, he showcases his audacious theory of "six songs," illuminating how the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental forms—for friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love. Blending cutting-edge scientific findings with his own sometimes hilarious experiences as a musician and music-industry professional, Levitin's sweeping study also incorporates wisdom gleaned from interviews with icons ranging from Sting and Paul Simon to Joni Mitchell and David Byrne, along with classical musicians, poets, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists. Daniel J. Levitin runs the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill University. Before becoming a research scientist, he was a record producer and professional musician. As a producer, he has a number of gold records to his credit, and has worked on albums by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Midnight Oil, and kd lang. He has played professionally with Mel Torme, Blue Oyster Cult, and David Byrne, and has published extensively in scientific journals such as Science and Neuron and audio trade journals such as Grammy, Billboard, and Audio. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Daniel Levitin The World in Six Songs How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: August 28, 2008 ]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:07:23 -0400 Authors@Google: Daniel Levitin 11141941 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-dean-karnazes/11141941/
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Dean Karnazes visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "50/50: Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days." This event took place on August 20, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Dean Karnazes is Time Magazine's 27th Most Influential Person in the World and ESPN's Outdoor Athlete of the Year. In the Fall of 2006, Dean Karnazes, known as the "Lance Armstrong of the running world," took on the ultimate challenge: running 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days. Dean set off in a caravan packed with fellow runners, with nothing more than a roadmap and a determination that defied all physical limitations. 50/50 goes beyond the incredible story of these 50 marathons. It is a firsthand account of what happens when your body defies all limitations, and it is a fascinating story of what it's like to push the limits of strength under grueling conditions. In 2009 Dean will connect hundreds of communities across the U.S. as he runs from San Francisco to New York at at 40 miles a day for 100 days straight. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Dean Karnazes 50/50: Secrets Learned Running 50 Marathons in Days Authors@Google atgoogle Google athlete Added: August 28, 2008 ]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:39:20 -0400 Authors@Google: Dean Karnazes 11164485 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-daniel-ellsberg/11164485/
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Daniel Ellsberg visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers." This event took place on August 22, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. Richard Nixon made attempts to prevent anymore extracts from the Pentagon Papers being published. The Supreme Court ruled against Nixon. Ellsberg's trial, on twelve felony counts posing a possible sentence of 115 years, was dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him, which led to the convictions of several White House aides and figured in the impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon. Since the end of the Vietnam War he has been a lecturer, writer and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era and unlawful interventions. In 2002 he published Secrets. Link to Ellsberg's official site: http://www.ellsberg.net Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Daniel Ellsberg Secrets Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers Richard Nixon war Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: August 28, 2008 ]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:27:18 -0400 Authors@Google: Daniel Ellsberg 11141942 http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/authors-google-ian-mcneely/11141942/
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Professor Ian McNeely visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss the book written by him and Lisa Wolverton "Reinventing Knowledge". This event took place August 15, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit, this exhilarating history alights at the pivotal points of cultural transformation. The motivating question throughout: How does history help us understand the vast changes we are now experiencing in the landscape of knowledge? Beginning in Alexandria and its great center of Hellenistic learning and imperial power, we then see the monastery in the wilderness of a collapsed civilization, the rambunctious universities of the late medieval cities, and the thick social networks of the Enlightenment republic of letters. The development of science and the laboratory as a dominant knowledge institution brings us to the present, seeking patterns in the new digital networks of knowledge. Ian F. McNeely and Lisa Wolverton teach at the University of Oregon and live in Eugene. Author: AtGoogleTalks Keywords: Ian McNeely Reinventing Knowledge History Alexandria Lisa Wolverton Authors@Google atgoogle Google Added: August 26, 2008 ]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:14:18 -0400 Authors@Google: Ian McNeely