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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 18:19
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Josh Bazell visits Google's San Francisco office to present his book "Beat the Reaper". This event took place on October 21, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.
Making a hit man turned medical intern a sympathetic figure would be a tall order for most authors, but first-time novelist Bazell makes it look easy in this breezy and darkly comic suspense novel. The Locanos, a mob family, take in 14-year-old Pietro Brwna (pronounced Browna) after a couple of thugs gun down the grandparents who raised him in their New Jersey home. Bent on revenge, Pietro pursues the killers and executes them a year later. Impressed by Pietros performance, David Locano recruits Pietro as a hit man. After more traumas, Pietro tries to make a break from his past by entering the witness protection program. Now known as Peter Brown, he eventually lands a position as a doctor at a decrepit Manhattan hospital, where by chance a former Mafia associate turns up as a patient and threatens to rat him out. The hero's wry narrative voice, coupled with Bazells artful use of flashbacks to sustain tension and fill in Pietro's past, are a winning combination. |
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Date: Friday, 13 Nov 2009 22:22
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The @Google program welcomed Ngahi Bidois to Google's New York office to speak on, "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Solutions"
"Ngahihi o te ra Bidois is an Indigenous Native Maori from New Zealand. He is the author of the brand new book Ancient Wisdom Modern Solutions, his inspirational story of his quest to become a Modern Day Warrior. His book tells how a moment of insight reduced him to tears and set the one time corporate high flyer on the path to rediscovering who he really was. From a high flying career to the ranks of the unemployed to relearn his native Maori language, Ngahihi reconnected with his Maori heritage, culminating in his decision to receive the gift of Ta Moko (Traditional Maori Tatoo) from his ancestors. Along the way, his struggles to reclaim his identity and embrace the rich culture of his people taught him many valuable lessons which will resonate with us all. Drawing on his many leadership experiences and knowledge his book has inspired readers to become the best leaders possible."
"Leaders come in all shapes and sizes and Ngahihi o te ra Bidois provides leadership keys to develop their professional and personal Leadership. He has helped many Business Leaders, Educational Leaders, Sports Leaders and Community Leaders to increase their spheres of influence. His tagline of Ancient Wisdom Modern solutions ensures Ngahihi offers pieces of wisdom from his indigenous Maori culture in an informative and inspiring manner. Ngahihi o te ra says I believe the most important resource in many organizations are their people. If people feel valued and are appropriately developed their continued contribution is priceless. One of our Maori proverbs outlines this: He aha te mea nui?, He tangata, he tangata, he tangata. What is the most important thing? It is people, people, people. I help organizations to develop their people. "
This event took place on October 19, 2009. |
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| Time: 46:57 | More in Education |
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Date: Friday, 13 Nov 2009 06:27
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David Plouffe visits Google's San Francisco office to present his book "The Audacity to Win". This event took place on November 11, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. |
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Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 2009 02:02
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Disclaimer: This talk may contain adult content.
Flying hundreds, sometimes thousands, of feet above ground strapped into a motorized paraglider that is little more than a parachute with a small motor, National Geographic photographer George Steinmetz has spent more than twenty years photographing some of the most remote and spectacular environments around the world. In African Air, Steinmetz captures stunning panoramas in more than fourteen countries in Africa, giving readers captivating and intimate views of areas that have rarely, if ever before, been photographed.
From densely packed urban centers to small, remote villages, from migrating herds of wildebeests and elephants to infinite miles of desert, African Air is a compelling testament and celebration of the majesty and splendor of Africas most breathtaking landscapes. With extraordinary vision and a unique perspective, Steinmetz portrays sky, land, and water in ways that have never been expressed before.
Best known for his exploration photography, George Steinmetz has been a regular contributor to National Geographic and GEO magazines for more than twenty years. He has won numerous awards for photography including two first prizes in science and technology from World Press Photo, as well as awards and citations from Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, and the Eisenstadt Awards. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and three children.
George Steinmetz visists Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters as part of the Authors@Google series. |
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| Time: 46:53 | More in People & Blogs |
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Date: Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 18:06
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The Authors@Google program welcomed Katherine Howe to Google's New York office to discuss her book, "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane".
"Katherine Howe's ancestors settled Essex County, Massachusetts in the 1620s, and stayed there through the twentieth century. Family members included Elizabeth Proctor, who survived the Salem witch trials, and Elizabeth Howe, who did not. Katherine Howe is completing a PhD in American and New England Studies at Boston University, which included teaching a research seminar on New England witchcraft. The idea for this novel developed while she was studying for her doctoral qualifying exams, walking her dog through the woods between Marblehead and Salem. She lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts with her husband and assorted animals."
"A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history the Salem witch trials.
Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connies grandmothers abandoned home near Salem, she cant refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest—to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.
As the pieces of Deliverances harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salems dark past then she could have ever imagined.
Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials in the 1690s and a modern womans story of mystery, intrigue and revelation." |
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Date: Tuesday, 10 Nov 2009 16:53
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Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched for and when. The digital realm remembers what is sometimes better forgotten, and this has profound implications for us all. In Delete, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger traces the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, from the ability to make sound decisions unencumbered by the past to the possibility of second chances. The written word made it possible for humans to remember across generations and time, yet now digital technology and global networks are overriding our natural ability to forget--the past is ever present, ready to be called up at the click of a mouse. Mayer-Schönberger examines the technology that's facilitating the end of forgetting--digitization, cheap storage and easy retrieval, global access, and increasingly powerful software--and describes the dangers of everlasting digital memory, whether it's outdated information taken out of context or compromising photos the Web won't let us forget. He explains why information privacy rights and other fixes can't help us, and proposes an ingeniously simple solution--expiration dates on information--that may. Delete is an eye-opening book that will help us remember how to forget in the digital age.
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters as part of the Authors@Google series. |
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Date: Tuesday, 10 Nov 2009 00:19
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Between the Folds chronicles the stories of ten fine artists and intrepid theoretical scientists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at hard-earned graduate degrees - all to forge unconventional lives as modern-day paperfolders.
As they converge on the unlikely medium of origami, these artists and scientists reinterpret the world in paper, and bring forth a bold mix of sensibilities towards art, expressiveness, creativity and meaning. And, together these offbeat and provocative minds demonstrate the innumerable ways that art and science come to bear as we struggle to understand and honor the world around us - as artists, scientists, creators, collaborators, preservers, and simply curious beings.
For more information, visit http://www.betweenthefolds.com/ |
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Date: Monday, 09 Nov 2009 16:52
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As the 21st century progresses, we are grappling with far more challenging business and social problems than ever before. Solving them will require a new approach that might be found in the most unlikely of places: design. Tim Brown shows how we can take the principles of design beyond the studio to apply them to many of the most urgent challenges facing business, society, and government today from streamlining healthcare to innovating breakthrough customer solutions, and from saving energy to ending poverty and obesity. In his talk, Brown will explain that there has never been a more important time for us all to start thinking like designers: to spot patterns in complexity, to synthesize new ideas from fragmented parts; to empathize with people different from ourselves and translate observations into breakthroughs.
Tim Brown is CEO and president of IDEO, one of the world's ten most innovative companies according to Fast Company, with clients including Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Pepsi, and Procter & Gamble. He advises senior executives and boards of Fortune 100 companies, has written for Harvard Business Review, has spoken at the World Economic Forum and the TED Conference, and his designs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Axis Gallery in Tokyo, and the Design Museum in London.
Tim Brown visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters as part of the Authors@Google series. |
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Date: Saturday, 07 Nov 2009 00:37
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Between the Folds chronicles the stories of ten fine artists and intrepid theoretical scientists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at hard-earned graduate degrees - all to forge unconventional lives as modern-day paperfolders.
As they converge on the unlikely medium of origami, these artists and scientists reinterpret the world in paper, and bring forth a bold mix of sensibilities towards art, expressiveness, creativity and meaning. And, together these offbeat and provocative minds demonstrate the innumerable ways that art and science come to bear as we struggle to understand and honor the world around us - as artists, scientists, creators, collaborators, preservers, and simply curious beings.
For more information, visit http://www.betweenthefolds.com/ |
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Date: Friday, 06 Nov 2009 02:44
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David Wessel visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to present his book "In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic". This event took place on September 23, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.
For more than twenty years David Wessel has been The Wall Street Journals insider at the Federal Reserve, the ultimate protector of the financial system on which the entire economy relies. With continual access to its chairmen, governors, policy makers, and staffers, Wessel has an insiders view of the biggest ongoing story of our time. IN FED WE TRUST: Ben Bernankes War on the Great Panic is Wessels authoritative and penetrating account of what Fed chairman Bernanke and his team knew (and when), what took them by surprise, what they were thinking at critical moments as they labored to prevent economic calamity, and more. |
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Date: Tuesday, 03 Nov 2009 11:19
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Eugenie Harvey comes to the Google London office to discuss her book "Change the World for a Fiver" and her social enterprise "We Are What We Do". This talk took place on October 5th as part of the Authors@Google series.
We Are What We Do has inspired millions of people across the world to use their simple, everyday actions to change the world and their books "Change the World for a Fiver" and "Change the World 9 to 5" have sold over 900,000 copies worldwide. Eugenie has been named among the FTs Creative Business top 50, was featured in the book, "Everyday Legends" and is a highly sought after speaker. She shares the extraordinary stories behind the development of We Are What We Do, based on the philosophy that small actions by lots of people can bring about a big change. |
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Date: Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 19:57
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The Authors@Google program welcomed Serge Michel and Paolo Woods to Google's New York office to discuss their book, "China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa".
"Serge Michel and Michel Beuret, tell
the dramatic -- and largely unknown-- story of the rise of China's economic empire in Africa and how it stands to transform geopolitics.
Over the course of nearly two years, Michel and Beuret traveled thousands of miles between China and Africa to report the story of
this collaboration. Supplemented by the work of award-winning photojournalist Paolo Woods, China Safari establishes why the world is coming to realize Africa's potential and what role China is playing in the transformation."
This event took place on July 22. 2009. |
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Date: Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009 22:46
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A World Without Ice, a book by Henry Pollack who was a winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change (alongside Al Gore—who, incidentally, also wrote the foreword for the book). A World Without Ice is the first of its kind that tackles the idea of climate change from the ice standpoint how we got to the melting of the ice caps, what it means, ramifications and what we can do about it. The topic is fascinating and the evidence of a meltdown stunning.
Ice has been around for billions of years but it has taken less than three centuries for human growth and industry to bring it to the point of extinction. Without taking significant measures, agriculture and drinking water are at risk, as are millions who live on the coast and are in danger of becoming climate refugees.
And as Henry says Natures best thermometer, perhaps its most sensitive and unambiguous indicator of climate change, is ice. When ice gets sufficiently warm, it melts. Ice asks no questions, presents no arguments, reads no newspapers, and listens to no debates. It is not burdened by ideology and carries no political agendas. It just melts.
A World Without Ice has the grit to bring this subject to the forefront of American conversation. It is an honest look at what would happen if we continue on the present path and have to cope in a world sans ice.
Henry Pollack has been a professor of geophysics at the University of Michigan for more than forty years, and is one of the worlds leading experts on the temperature of the Earth. He shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with fellow members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former vice president Al Gore. He currently serves as a science advisor to Al Gores Climate Project training programs in the U.S. and abroad. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
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Date: Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009 20:31
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Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world's greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong. Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder. With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.
Christopher McDougall visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to speak as part of the Authors@Google series. |
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Date: Monday, 26 Oct 2009 21:41
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MarketingTalks@Google is excited to announce that Kate Roberts, VP of Marketing at Population Services International (PSI) will be visiting Google. Kate is the founder and director of YouthAIDS and Five & Alive, two marketing programs implemented by Population Services International (PSI). Founded in 2001, YouthAIDS is a global education and prevention initiative that uses pop culture, music, theater, movies and sports to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. The program reaches 600 million young people in more than 60 countries with life-saving products and services. In 2002, YouthAIDS partnered with MTV to produce the "Staying Alive" concert, a $3 million event broadcast worldwide and featured on all major news channels. |
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Date: Monday, 26 Oct 2009 12:25
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John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of The Economist, visits the Google London office to discuss his new book, "God is back: how the global rise of faith is changing the world". This talk took places as part of the Authors@Google series, on 16th September 2009.
The book argues that religion and modernity can thrive together, and that the American way of religion is becoming the norm. The global rise of faith will have a dramatic and far- reaching impact on our century. God Is Back shines a bright light on the hidden world of faith, from exorcisms in São Paulo to religious skirmishing in Nigeria, to harassed Muslims in India and vibrant house churches in China (where there are already more Christians than Communist Party members). If you want to understand the politics of this century, you cannot afford to ignore God, whether you believe in Him or not. |
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Date: Friday, 23 Oct 2009 16:50
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As CTO, Padmasree Warrior helps define Ciscos technological strategy and helps drive innovation across the company, working closely with the senior executive team and board of directors. As an evangelist for whats possible, she pushes the organization to stretch beyond its current capabilities not just in technology, but also in its strategic partnerships and new business models.
Warrior joined Cisco in 2007. Prior to that, she was the CTO at Motorola, where she led a team of 26,000 engineers and directed Motorola Labs.
In addition to her work at Cisco, Warrior serves on a broad range of government and industry advisory boards, as well as those of charitable and community organizations. Recently, Fast Company Magazine selected her among the 100 Most Creative People in Business and she was one of six women nationwide selected to receive the "Women Elevating Science and Technology" award from Working Woman magazine. In 2007, she was inducted into the Women in Information Technology International Hall of Fame.
Warriors energetic, approachable and pragmatic leadership style integrates ideas from diverse sources, which include engineers, sociologists, technologists, marketers, policy experts and others. Throughout her career, she has earned a reputation for establishing processes that tap a rich diversity of technical, business and entrepreneurial IQ to nurture disruptive and breakthrough innovations, speed development time to market, and improve the way people work, live, play and learn.
Warrior holds a M.S. degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India. In 2007 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from New York's Polytechnic University.
Padmasree Warrior visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters as part of the Women@Google series. |
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Date: Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009 17:38
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"Moonen and Finamores encyclopedic volume appears at just the right moment. Nutritional awareness has given fish cooking even more prominence within the culinary arts, and efficient transportation now brings fresh fish into the nations interior. With this book to guide both neophyte and expert, no one need any longer fear to cook any of the deeps denizens. In instructive photographs, Moonen and Finamore show how to clean, bone, and portion both finfish and shellfish. Recipes are organized by cooking method—broiling, poaching, roasting, grilling, steaming, frying—providing the creative cook some latitude in determining what to do with the fish at hand. Succeeding chapters cover such fish basics as chowders, fish cakes, and salads. A final section offers unique takes on side dishes such as coleslaw. Both the books organization and its comprehensive coverage make this a necessary addition to any cookbook collection." -- Mark Knoblauch
Rick Moonen visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Fish Without a Doubt" as part of the Authors@Google series. |
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Date: Tuesday, 20 Oct 2009 23:33
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Have you ever wondered how many calories are in the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, how many times you would have to wash your favorite t-shirt before it turns entirely to dryer lint, or how many people are simultaneously achieving an orgasm this second?
Help is here. "How Many Licks?" explains how to calculate these and other amusing tidbits quickly and easily using math that anyone can grasp. Whether youre a budding Einstein, a trivia-loving math hater, or a Sunday paper puzzle lover, "How Many Licks?" is for you!
Aaron Santos discusses his book in Google's Ann Arbor, MI campus. |
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Date: Tuesday, 20 Oct 2009 01:00
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Amanda Palmer visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters for a performance followed by Q&A. This event took place on July 17, 2009, as part of the Musicians@Google series.
Portions of the video were edited by Danna Kinsky (www.dannakinsky.com). |
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