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Temple Grandin |
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When Temple Grandin was born in 1947 with autism, it had only just been named. Today, one in 88 children are diagnosed on the spectrum. In Grandin’s lifetime, our understanding of autism has transformed, thanks to groundbreaking new research into causes, symptoms, and treatments.
In The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, the best-selling author offers a cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism.
Grandin is a professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University. TIME magazine named Grandin one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2010. The HBO movie based on her life, starring Claire Danes, received seven Emmy Awards. |
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Bruce Feiler
In Conversation with David Gregory, Host of NBC’s "Meet the Press" |
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
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Best-selling author and New York Times family columnist Bruce Feiler found himself squeezed between aging parents and rising children. He set out on a three-year journey to find the smartest ideas, cutting-edge research, and novel solutions to make his family happier.
The result is The Secrets of Happy Families, an original look at how families can draw closer together, complete with 200 best practices.
In conversation with David Gregory, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” and fellow dad of twins
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General Stanley McChrystal |
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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General Stanley McChrystal, commanding officer of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, a West Point graduate and a four-star general, witnessed and participated in some of our military’s most challenging struggles. In his work leading the Joint Special Operations Command he steered the collection of staggering amounts of intelligence in order to find and remove the most influential and notorious terrorists, including the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
In My Share of the Task, General McChrystal frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his eventful career. His memoir is about much more than war and peace, terrorism and counterinsurgency.
As McChrystal writes, "More by luck than design, I'd been a part of some events, organizations, and efforts that will loom large in history, and more that will not. I saw selfless commitment, petty politics, unspeakable cruelty, and quiet courage in places and quantities that I'd never have imagined. But what I will remember most are the leaders." |
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Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy |
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame—edited by Foer and Tracy—is a collection of biographical musings, sociological riffs about assimilation, and reflections on influential and unexpected pioneers in the world of sports. Essays by preeminent writers explore significant Jewish athletes, coaches, broadcasters, trainers, and even team owners (in the finite universe of Jewish Jocks, they count!).
Foer and Tracy discuss the impact the people of the book have had on sports, along with Jane Leavy, an award-winning former sportswriter for The Washington Post, Josh Levin, Deputy Editor of Slate, and Mark Leibovich, a Washington correspondent for the New York Times.
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Junot Díaz |
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Monday, October 22, 2012
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’s first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, establishing itself as a modern classic.
In This Is How You Lose Her, Díaz focuses on the haunting, impossible power of love – obsessive, illicit, fading, and maternal. The stories lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that “the half-life of love is forever.”
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Hanna Rosin
In Conversation with (Her Husband and Boss) David Plotz |
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
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Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But as Hanna Rosin revealed in her groundbreaking The Atlantic cover story “The End of Men,” this long-held truth is no longer true. By almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men: they have pulled decisively ahead.
The End of Men: And the Rise of Women investigates the rapidly shifting power dynamics between men and women at every level of society, and the implications for marriage, sex, children, work, and more.
Rosin is a senior editor at The Atlantic and a founder of DoubleX, Slate’s women’s section. She is interviewed by David Plotz, the editor of Slate. |
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Buddy Elias, Anne Frank’s First Cousin
And His Wife, Gerti Elias |
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
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Anne Frank’s Family: The Extraordinary Story of Where She Came From tells the fascinating history of Anne Frank and the family that shaped her, based on thousands of letters, poems, drawings, postcards, and photos recently discovered by her last surviving close relative, her first cousin Buddy Elias, and his wife, Gerti.
Buddy serves as Chairman of the Board of the ANNE FRANK-Fonds in Switzerland. |
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The Hon. Madeleine Korbel Albright
In Conversation with Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor of The New Republic |
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
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In Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948, the former secretary of state and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations looks back to the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, then traces her family’s responses to war and the Holocaust, examining the options available at the time and reflecting on difficult decisions made.
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Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander |
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Monday, March 19, 2012
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Read each year around the seder table, the Haggadah recounts through prayer, song, and ritual the story of Exodus, when Moses led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to wander the desert for forty years before reaching the Promised Land.
Now, Foer has orchestrated a new way of experiencing and understanding one of our oldest and sacred stories, with a new translation of the traditional text by Englander and commentary by major Jewish writers and thinkers Jeffrey Goldberg, Lemony Snicket, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and Nathaniel Deutsch.
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My So-Called Jewish Life |
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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Sixth & I and SpeakeasyDC present the third annual night of funny, poignant, powerful, and peculiar autobiographical stories about all things Jewish, not-so-Jewish, and wanna-be Jewish on the second night of Chanukah. Storytellers include:
- Adam Ruben, a stand-up comedian and rabbi impersonator.
- Ophira Eisenberg, one of New York Magazine’s “ten new comedians that funny people find funny.”
- Rabbi Jonathan Roos, Senior Rabbi at Temple Sinai.
- Amy Saidman, SpeakeasyDC’s artistic executive director, is a two-time recipient of the artist fellowship award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Amy has survived Camp Moshava, High School in Israel, and Aish haTorah..
- Jerome Copulsky, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Director of Judaic Studies at Goucher College.
- Yevgeniy Kirpichevsky is a research scientist, storytelling virgin, and congenitally bad Jew. |
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Michael Showalter |
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
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Michael Showalter, the writer and star of The State, Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, and Michael & Michael Have Issues, combines funny anecdotes, stories, jokes, observations, and graphic elements in his first book, Mr. Funny Pants.
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My So-Called Jewish Life |
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Monday, December 20, 2010
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Sixth & I and SpeakeasyDC present the second annual night of funny, poignant, and peculiar autobiographical stories about all things Jewish, not-so-Jewish, and wanna-be-Jewish. Storytellers include:Spencer Ackerman, Danny Harris. David Litt, Amy Saidman, Karen Sommer Shalett, Alix Spiegel, and Emily Yoffe.
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Mark Bittman
The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living |
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010
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In The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living, Mark Bittman offers over 500 recipes for fresh, delicious dishes that rely largely on fruits, vegetables and whole grains. The book also discusses why food matters to our health and to that of the planet. Bittman is the author of the New York Times column, "The Minimalist" and a frequent contributor to the newspaper's In/Dining Out section. His previous books include Food Matters, Mark Bittman's Kitchen Express, The Minimalist Cooks at Home, How to Cook Everything, and Fish.
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Jerry Wolman: The World's Richest Man
with Steve Buckhantz |
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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Jerry Wolman: The World's Richest Man is the never-been-told true story of Wolman, who came from the coal mining region of Pennsylvania and became known as "The Boy Wonder" of real estate as a storybook "rags to riches" builder in the D.C. area. In 1963, he purchased the Philadelphia Eagles and became the youngest owner in the NFL. However, in attempting to build the John Hancock Center in Chicago, he ran into severe construction problems, causing his $100 million dollar empire to topple. Wolman, now 83, and author Joseph Bockol speak with Steve Buckhantz, the television voice of the Wizards on Comcast SportsNet.
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The Sabbath World
Glimpses of a Different Order of Time |
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
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A Blackberry free day, a religious observance, a day spent with family, a 40 hour work week—what exactly does the Sabbath mean today? The Sabbath is not just the holy day of rest. It’s also a utopian idea about a less pressured, more sociable, purer world. Is there value in withdrawing from the world one day per week, despite its obvious inconvenience in an age of convenience? And what will be lost if the Sabbath goes away?
In The Sabbath World, author Judith Shulevitz finds insights into the Sabbath in both cultural and contemporary sources—the Torah, the Gospels, the Talmud, and the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, as well as in the poetry of William Wordsworth, the life of Sigmund Freud, and the science of neuropsychology.
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Blossoming in Hollywood
Mayim Bialik: Jewish Actress Unplugged |
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Monday, December 07, 2009
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From Molly Picon to Natalie Portman, the experiences of Jewish women in Hollywood have often been shaped by their Jewishness. Mayim Bialik speaks about Jewish women and Hollywood stardom – from typecasting and “looking Jewish” to depictions of Jewish characters by Jewish and non-Jewish actresses.
Co-sponsored with Jewish Women International |
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Eating Animals |
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
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In his first work of non-fiction, Foer examines the stories we tell ourselves about what we eat, considering notions of comfort, tradition, and culture. He blends his memories of the roles food played in his childhood with literary representations of meals and conducts his own investigations into factory farms.
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David Plouffe
The Audacity to Win |
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Monday, November 23, 2009
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In his book, The Audacity to Win, Plouffe takes readers inside the remarkable campaign that put Barack Obama in the White House.
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Save the Deli
In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen |
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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Jewish delicatessen, a cuisine that once sat at the very center of Jewish life, had become endangered by assimilation, homogenization, and health food trends. This prompted David Sax to journey around the world in search of authentic delicatessen - how it’s made, who makes it best, and where to go for particular dishes. He speaks with Ezra Klein, a blogger for The Washington Post.
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Tom Friedman: Hot, Flat, and Crowded |
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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New York Times columnist and author Tom Friedman exposes the irrationality of U.S. policies that promote consumption of vast quantities of oil in his book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded. The program concludes with a Q&A between Friedman and Editor of The New Republic, Frank Foer.
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Daniel Libeskind |
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Monday, June 16, 2008
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In this conversation, architect Daniel Libeskind (paired with Ronald Abramson) discusses his uncommon background and global perspective while exploring both ideas about tragedy and hope, and the way in which architecture can memorialize—and reshape—human experience.
Co-sponsored with the Chelsea School
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