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Authors@Google: Neal Stephenson
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. [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 58min10sec, Views:3419, Ratings:4.30pt, Votes:46, Comments:0, Added at:08/09/20 [ DownLoad ]
Authors@Google: Michael Gurian
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/ [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 53min53sec, Views:956, Ratings:4.60pt, Votes:9, Comments:0, Added at:08/09/16 [ DownLoad ]
Authors@Google: David Michaels
Author David Michaels visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Ca, to discuss his book "Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health". This event took place August 27, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. In Doubt is Their Product, David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Product defense consultants, he argues, have increasingly skewed the scientific literature, manufactured and magnified scientific uncertainty, and influenced policy decisions to the advantage of polluters and the manufacturers of dangerous products. To keep the public confused about the hazards posed by global warming, second-hand smoke, asbestos, lead, plastics, and many other toxic materials, industry executives have hired unscrupulous scientists and lobbyists to dispute scientific evidence about health risks. In doing so, they have not only delayed action on specific hazards, but they have constructed barriers to make it harder for lawmakers, government agencies, and courts to respond to future threats.David Michaels is a scientist and former government regulator. During the Clinton Administration, he served as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety and Health, responsible for protecting the health and safety of the workers, neighboring communities, and the environment surrounding the nation's nuclear weapons factories. He currently directs the Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 45min50sec, Views:1558, Ratings:4.90pt, Votes:18, Comments:0, Added at:08/09/06 [ DownLoad ]
Authors@Google: Sandy Blaine
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.For more information about Sandy's books, go to http://www.rodmellpress.com/index2.htmlFor more information about classes with Sandy, http://www.alamedayogastation.com/ [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 51min1sec, Views:1616, Ratings:3.20pt, Votes:12, Comments:0, Added at:08/08/30 [ DownLoad ]
Authors@Google: Ian McNeely
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. [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 54min31sec, Views:1963, Ratings:4.60pt, Votes:13, Comments:0, Added at:08/08/27 [ DownLoad ]
Authors@Google: Henry Kissinger
Former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Henry Kissinger joined CEO Eric Schmidt for a fireside chat at Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State during the Nixon and Ford administrations, Dr. Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating the ceasefire between the United States and the Vietnamese Democratic Republic. This event took place on July 17, 2008 as part of the Authors@Google program. [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 70min11sec, Views:3274, Ratings:3.70pt, Votes:29, Comments:0, Added at:08/08/20 [ DownLoad ]
Authors@Google: Michael Heller
Professor Michael Heller visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives." This event took place on July 18, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.25 new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America. Why can't we build them? 50 patent owners are blocking a major drug maker from creating a cancer cure. Why won't they get out of the way? 90% of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service lags far behind Japan's and Korea's. Why are we wasting our airwaves? 98% of African American--owned farms have been sold off over the last century. Why can't we stop the loss? All these problems are really the same problem—one whose solution would jump-start innovation, release trillions in productivity, and help revive our slumping economy.The Gridlock Economy is a startling, accessible biography of an idea. Nothing is inevitable about gridlock. It results from choices we make about how to control the resources we value most. We can unlock the grid; this book shows us where to start.Michael Heller is one of America's leading authorities on ownership. He is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School and has served as the school's Vice Dean for Intellectual Life. He lives in New York and Los Angeles. [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 63min6sec, Views:2170, Ratings:4.90pt, Votes:13, Comments:0, Added at:08/08/20 [ DownLoad ]
Authors@Google: Jane Mayer
Jane Mayer in conversation about her new, best-selling book, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals." This event took place at Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters on August 8, 2008 as part of the Authors@Google program.The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made terrible decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world--decisions that not only violated the Constitution to which White House officials took an oath to uphold, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In gripping detail, acclaimed New Yorker writer and bestselling author, Jane Mayer, relates the impact of these decisions—U.S.-held prisoners, some of them completely innocent, were subjected to treatment more reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition than the twenty-first century.Jane Mayer is the co-author of two bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books, Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, the latter of which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Mayer was also awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in connection with The Dark Side. She is currently a Washington-based staff writer for The New Yorker, specializing in political and investigative reporting. Before that, she was a senior writer and front-page editor for The Wall Street Journal, as well as the Journal's first female White House correspondent. [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 55min25sec, Views:23089, Ratings:4.90pt, Votes:18, Comments:0, Added at:08/08/16 [ DownLoad ]
Authors@Google: Christian Lander, "Stuff White People Like"
Christian Lander visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions." This event took place on July 14, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.You know who they are: They're white people. And they're here, and you're gonna have to deal. Fortunately, here's a book that investigates, explains, and offers advice for finding social success with the Caucasian persuasion. So kick back on your IKEA couch and lose yourself in the ultimate guide to the unbearable whiteness of being. Christian Lander is the creator of the website Stuff White People Like. He is a Ph.D. dropout who was the 2006 public speaking instructor of the year at Indiana University. He has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tucson, Indiana, and now Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Jess, a photographer who contributed many of the photos in the book. [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 48min24sec, Views:14703, Ratings:4.70pt, Votes:99, Comments:0, Added at:08/07/18 [ DownLoad ]
Authors@Google: Jonah Lehrer
Jonah Lehrer visits Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book "Proust Was a Neuroscientist." This event took place on June 11, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 47min9sec, Views:1852, Ratings:4.90pt, Votes:18, Comments:0, Added at:08/07/17 [ DownLoad ]
Authors@Google: Peter Gosselin
Author Peter Gosselin visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book "High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families". The event took place July 11, 2008, as part of the Authors@google series.The U.S. economy is wrapping up 25 years of some of the strongest growth in its history. At the same time, Americans report feeling more economically insecure than ever. Gosselin discusses this threat to working Americans' security and what to do about it. [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 62min24sec, Views:1218, Ratings:4.50pt, Votes:6, Comments:0, Added at:08/07/16 [ DownLoad ]
Authors@Google: Johan Bruyneel
We Might as Well Win takes readers behind the scenes of this amazing nine-year journey through the Alps and the Pyrenees, revealing a radical recipe for winning that readers can adapt from the bike to the boardroom to life. We witness Bruyneel's near-death crash and comeback as a rider. We are privy to the many ways he and Armstrong outsmarted their opponents. We listen in on the team's race radios to hear the secret strategies that inspire greatness from a disparate team. We learn how to make sure "not winning" isn't the same as "losing" as Bruyneel struggles to prove himself -- post-Armstrong -- with new riders, new strategies, and skeptics around every corner.Whether mounting a difficult climb, or managing a team of thirty riders and forty support staff from a miniature car hurtling along narrow European roads, or looking a future legend in the eye and willing him to believe, Bruyneel is, and has always been, the consummate winner. Readers will relish this inside tour. JOHAN BRUYNEEL is a former professional cyclist and was the team director from 1999 through 2007 of the U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team, (later the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team). In that role, he won a record eight Tour de France victories (in nine years' time), making him the winningest team director in history. Born in cycling-mad Belgium in 1964, Bruyneel is fluent in six languages and receives significant worldwide media coverage. [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 40min0sec, Views:2471, Ratings:4.70pt, Votes:12, Comments:0, Added at:08/07/12 [ DownLoad ]
Authors@Google: Dan Ariely
Professor Dan Ariely visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions." This event took place on July 1, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes every day, but we make the same types of mistakes, Ariely discovers. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictable—making us predictably irrational.Dan Ariely is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT, where he holds a joint appointment between MIT's Media Laboratory and the Sloan School of Management. He is also a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a visiting professor at Duke University. Ariely wrote this book while he was a fellow at the Institute for Advance Study at Princeton. [ More Detail ]
by AtGoogleTalks 56min2sec, Views:6613, Ratings:4.90pt, Votes:64, Comments:0, Added at:08/07/10 [ DownLoad ]