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Authors@Google: Alan Dershowitz The Authors@Google program welcomed Alan Dershowitz to Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book, "Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, A Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in an age of Terrorism". This event took place on Semptember 23. 2008. Tags: Alan Dershowitz First Amendment Finding Jefferson

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Authors@Google: Amanda Lotz The Authors@Google program welcomed Amanda Lotz to Google's Ann Arbor office to discuss her book, "The Television Will be Revolutionized" manda D. Lotz is associate professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of *The Television Will Be Revolutionized* (New York University Press, 2007), which explores changes in the U.S. television industry since the 1980s and their consequences on the medium's role in society. Her first book, *Redesigning Women: Television After the Network Era* (University of Illinois Press, 2006), examines the rise of female-centered dramas and cable networks targeted toward women in the late 1990s as they relate to changes in the U.S. television industry. She earned a Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film and certificate in women's studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000, and was named the Coltrin Professor of the Year by the International Radio and Television Society in 2004 for her case study exploring the redefinition of television. This event took place on August 12, 2008. Tags: Television will be revolutionized post-network era

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Authors@Google: Norman Fischer In Sailing Home, renowned Zen teacher Norman Fischer deftly incorporates Buddhist, Judaic, Christian, and popular thought, as well as his own unique and sympathetic understanding of life, in his reinterpretation of Odysseus's familiar wanderings as lessons that everyone can use. We see how to resist the seduction of the Sirens' song to stop sailing and give up; how to bide our time in a situation and wait for the right opportunity; and how to reassess our story and rediscover our purpose and identity if, like the Lotus-Eaters, we have forgotten the past. With meditations that yield personal revelations, illuminating anecdotes from Fischer's and his students' lives, and stories from many wisdom traditions, Sailing Home shows the way to greater purpose in your own life. Norman Fischer is a poet, author, Zen priest, and abbot. Founder and teacher of the Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org), he is one of the senior Zen teachers in America. In addition to his own retreats and events, which take place in his groups in Canada and Mexico, as well as the United States, Norman teaches at many other meditation centers around the world. This event took place on October 7, 2008 Tags: Norman Fischer Zen Sailing Home: Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls

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Authors@Google: John Elder Robison 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. Tags: John Elder Robison Look Me in the Eye My Life with Asperger's Authors@Google atgoogle

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Authors@Google: Keith Devlin The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put a numerical value on the likelihood that a particular event would occur. The issue remained intractable until Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre de Fermat in 1654, outlining a solution to the "unfinished game" problem: how do you divide the pot when players are forced to end a game of dice before someone has won? The idea turned out to be far more seminal than Pascal realized. From it, the two men developed the method known today as probability theory. In The Unfinished Game, mathematician and NPR commentator Keith Devlin tells the story of this correspondence and its remarkable impact on the modern world. Keith Devlin is a senior researcher at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information and its executive director, a consulting professor in the Department of Mathematics, and a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network and of the university's H-STAR institute. He has written twenty-five books and over seventy-five published research articles. He is the "Math Guy" on National Public Radio. He lives in Palo Alto, California. This event took place on October 2, 2008 Tags: Keith Devlin probability theory Blaise Pascal Pierre de Fermat

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Authors@Google: Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life Your every significant choice -- every important decision you make -- is determined by a force operating deep inside your mind: your perspective on time -- your internal, personal time zone. This is the most influential force in your life, yet you are virtually unaware of it. Once you become aware of your personal time zone, you can begin to see and manage your life in exciting new ways. In The Time Paradox, Drs. Zimbardo and Boyd draw on thirty years of pioneering research to reveal, for the first time, how your individual time perspective shapes your life and is shaped by the world around you. Further, they demonstrate that your and every other individual's time zones interact to create national cultures, economics, and personal destinies. Philip Zimbardo is professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University and has also taught at Yale University, New York University, and Columbia University. His informative website, www.prisonexperiment.org, is visited by millions every year. Visit the author's personal website at www.zimbardo.com. This event took place on October 3, 2008 Tags: Philip Zimbardo John Boyd Time Paradox personal time zone

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Authors@Google:Harry Lewis & Hal Abelson Wherever you go, whatever you say, write, photograph, or buy, you are generating information. That information can be captured, digitized, retrieved, and copied--anywhere on Earth, instantly. Sophisticated computers can increasingly uncover meaning in those digital tracesunderstanding, anticipating, and influencing you as never before. Is this utopia? Or the dawning of a 1984/Brave New World horror world? Whatever you call it, it's happening. What kind of world are we creating? What will it be like to live there? Blown to Bits offers powerful and controversial answers to these questions and gives you the knowledge you need to help shape your own digital future, not let others do it for you. Building on their pioneering joint MIT/Harvard course, the authors reveal how the digital revolution is changing everything, in ways that are stunning even the most informed experts. Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and an IEEE Fellow. He has helped drive innovative educational technology initiatives such MIT OpenCourseWare, cofounded Creative Commons and Public Knowledge, and was founding director of the Free Software Foundation. Harry Lewis, former Dean of Harvard College, is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard. He is author of Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future. This event took place on June 25, 2008 License: CC-BY (2.5) Tags: Hal Abelson Harry Lewis computer science digital revolution

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Authors@Google: Mathew Honan 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. Tags: Mathew Honan Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle Authors@Google atgoogle Wired

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Authors@Google: Kenya Hara 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. Tags: Kenya Hara Designing Design MUJI Japan graphic emptiness Nagano Winter Olympics Authors@Google atgoogle

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Authors@Google: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson 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. Tags: Brian Herbert Kevin J. Anderson Paul of Dune Authors@Google atgoogle Hugo Nebula Award scifi science fiction

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Authors@Google: Susan Faludi 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. Tags: Susan Faludi 9/11 Authors@Google The Terror Dream

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Authors@Google: Eric Nakagawa & Kari Unebasami 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? Eric Nakagawa - http://www.ericnakagawa.com/ http://www.ftwrnd.com Eric Nakagawa is the co-founder of I Can Has Cheezburger? He is part of FTW R&D, an experimental internet company focused on building fun, collaborative websites and social communities that help participants have fun, feel good, and accomplish dreams. Kari Unebasami - http://www.lulzftw.com http://www.ftwrnd.com Kari Unebasami is an internet enthusiast and entrepreneur living and working in Honolulu. She is the co-founder of the lolcat megasite I Can Has Cheezburger? and is currently part of FTW R&D, a company trying to make The Internets a better place. She does not own a cat. Tags: LOLcats Eric Nakagawa Kari Unebasami lolcat can has cheezburger engrish fail blog Authors@Google atgoogle

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Google D.C. Talks: Cloud Computing Cloud Computing: Navigating the next frontier As part of the Google D.C. Talks series, John Horrigan of the Pew Internet Project presents a new research report, "Use of Cloud Computing Applications and Services." Panelists Daniel Burton of Salesforce.com, Mike Nelson of Georgetown University, and Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology, respond to the new report and share their own views on this new computing model. This event took place on September 12, 2008 at Google's offices in Washington, D.C. Tags: Google D.C. Cloud Computing John Horrigan Daniel Burton Mike Nelson

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Women@Google: Monique Saigal-Escudero Author Monique Saigal-Escudero visits Googler's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss her book "Héroines françaises 1940-1945: courage; force et ingéniosité" also known as "French Heroines 1940-1945: Courage, Strength and Ingenuity". For more info, please visit http://www.collegenews.org/x5376.xml Monique Saigal is a professor of French at Pomona College, in Claremont, California. She teaches courses in French literature, French films and French culture. Monique's first book entitled Lécriture, lien de mère à fille chez Jeanne Hyvrard, Chantal Chawaf et Annie Ernaux explored the mother-daughter relationship as metaphor in the works of three contemporary French writers. Her latest book, French Heroines 1940-1945: Courage, Strength and Ingenuity, shares the stories of eighteen women in the French Resistance who are little known yet who stood out because of their extraordinary courage. Professor Monique Saigal, a child Holocaust survivor, was taken in by a Catholic family in 1942 and wanted to honor the women profiled in her book as well as her grandmother, who perished at Auschwitz. Eager to discover the secrets of other women in the Resistance like Lucie Aubrac, she crisscrossed France, Switzerland and California to film and hear them tell their own stories. Reading these accounts takes us back to a time of terror when women fought back with every ounce of strength and wit at their disposal. We find out who they were, why they fought against the enemy at such a young age and what they did during the war and after. Tags: Monique Saigal-Escudero French Francaises Heroines Literature women@google atgoogle

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Authors@Google: Amy Goldman 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. Tags: Amy Holdman The Heirloom Tomato atgoogle authors@google

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Authors@Google: Slajov Zizek 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. Tags: Slajov Zizek Violence Authors@Google Philosophy

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Authors@Google: Irvine Welsh 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. Tags: Irvine Welsh Trainspotting Crime Authors@Google

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Authors@Google: Dexter Filkins 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. Tags: Dexter Filkins The Forever War Authors@Google atgoogle Google Afghanistan Iraq 9/11 Taliban New York Times

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Authors@Google: Salman Rushdie (Boston) 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. Tags: Salman Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence Authors@Google atgoogle Booker Prize Midnight's Children Satanic Verses

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Authors@Google: Bernard-Henri Levy 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. Tags: Bernard-Henri Levy Left in Dark Times Stand Against the New Barbarism Authors@Google atgoogle French philosopher

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Authors@Google: Irvine Welsh 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. Tags: Irvine Welsh Crime Novel Trainspotting Authors@Google atgoogle

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Authors@Google: Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein 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. Tags: Thomas Cathcart Daniel Klein Plato and Platypus Walk Into Bar Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Authors@Google

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Authors@Google: Joseph Stiglitz Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes casts a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, including not only big-ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans—for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global focus, the authors investigate the cost in lives and economic damage within Iraq and the region. Finally, with the chilling precision of an actuary, the authors measure what the U.S. taxpayer's money would have produced if instead it had been invested in the further growth of the U.S. economy. Written in language as simple as the details are disturbing, this book will forever change the way we think about the war. Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz of Columbia University is the author of Making Globalization Work and Globalization and Its Discontents. This talk took place in Mt View on September 19, 2008 Tags: Josehp Stiglitz Linda Bilmes Iraq war debt

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Authors@Google: Jonathan Mahler 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. Tags: authors@google atgoogle jonathan mahler challenge presidential power hamdan rumsfeld supreme court guantanamo bay

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Authors@Google: Helen Epstein 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. Tags: Helen Epstein Authors@Google The Invisible Cure: Africa the West and Fight Against AIDS

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Authors@Google: Judy Estrin "Deeply thought-provoking." --Vint Cerf. A technology pioneer and business leader, Estrin describes in Closing the Innovation Gap what will be required to reignite the spark of innovation in business, education, and government--ensuring our long-term success in the global economy. Innovation does not occur in a vacuum. It grows from the interplay of three drivers of creative change--research, development, and application. Estrin calls this dynamic the Innovation Ecosystem, explaining how these communities work together to create sustainable innovation. Judy Estrin is CEO of JLABS, LLC. She cofounded seven technology companies and was chief technology officer at Cisco Systems. Serving on the board of directors of The Walt Disney Corporation and FedEx Corporation, Estrin is also a member of the technology advisory boards of Stanfords School of Engineering and Bio-X campus-wide interdisciplinary initiative. She has been named three times to Fortune magazines list of the 50 most powerful women in American business. This event took place in Mt View on September 18, 2008 Tags: Judy Estrin innovation communities JLABS. LLC

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Policy Talks@Google: Stephen Balkam & Rachel Dretzin Stephen Balkam, CEO of Family Online Safety Institute, and producer Rachel Dretzin visit Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss their PBS Frontline documentary "Growing Up Online." This event took place on September 17, 2008, as part of the Policy Talks@Google series. Tags: Stephen Balkam Rachel Dretzin PBS Frontline documentary Growing Up Online Policy Talks@Google atgoogle

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Authors@Google: Neal Stephenson 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. Tags: Neal Stephenson Anathem bestselling author sciensce fiction authors@google

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Policy Talks@Google: Guerriero, Kendell, & Smith Patrick Guerriero, Kate Kendell, and Steve Smith visit Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss gay marriage in California. This event took place on September 10, 2008, as part of the Policy Talks@Google series. The talk was hosted by the Public Policy team at Google, and moderated by Ross LaJeunesse, Google's Head of State Policy, Western US. This November, California voters will decide if the California state constitution will be amended to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry. Many states have debated whether to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples, but in California, the question before voters is whether to repeal that right. Polling shows the margin between passage and failure is razor-thin, and this is sure to be among the most intense and vitriolic campaigns in California history. Same-sex marriage has been a key issue in election after election during the past decade. Now that California has joined Massachusetts in legalizing same-sex marriage, both progressive and socially conservative groups nationally are focused on this critical California vote. What voters in California decide this fall will shape the landscape for same-sex marriage rights nationally for years to come. Join three experts fighting the proposed same-sex marriage ban for a lively, frank and open conversation! * Patrick Guerriero, Executive Director, Gill Action. A former elected official from Massachusetts, Patrick Guerriero now leads one of the most influential advocacy organizations in the nation as it works toward equal rights for all people regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression. Patrick provides a perspective on the national political ramifications of the California vote. * Kate Kendell, Executive Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR). Kate Kendell leads one of the nation's most effective advocacy organizations for LGBT Americans. NCLR has been a leader in bringing same-sex marriage equality to California. Kate provides context and history for how California has ended up at such a critical crossroads. * Steve Smith, Chief Strategist, No on Prop 8. Steve Smith is a principal at Dewey Square Group and specializes in California Ballot Initiatives. He will provide information on strategy, and what it will take for the "No on 8" side to win in November. Tags: Patrick Guerriero Kate Kendell Steve Smith Repeal Gay Marriage in California You Decide Policy Talks@Google atgoogle

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Authors@Google: Jeanne Kelley Author Jeanne Kelley visits Googles Santa Monica, CA office to discuss her book Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes: Recipes from a Modern Kitchen Garden. This event took place on September 15, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series. Tags: jeanne kelley atgoogle @google google blue eggs yellow tomatoes recipes modern kitchen

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