free elections. government unions use boughten tape -- the path legislation granting them unending benefits. government employee unions like to say they get to -- and i quote them, elect their own bosses. they actually put in to power people who will make all the decisions about their salaries, benefits, work rules, and they -- laws, regulations that govern themselves. and if these politicians don't perform, guess what? they throw them out and put their money behind somebody else. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. we want introduce do you first-time author randy disuk berg. new book coming out in the first. >> a double author! how exciting is that? >> host: thank you.

>> guest: my books are "dot complicated for adults" and "dot "for children. i spent the last eight years working for facebook and build my own company in silicon valley. there's a whole world people are fascinated in, entrepreneurship, technology, and someone needs to demystify it for everyone else. so "dot-complicated" take a look at the crazy-tech obsessed world we live in and how it's changing our careers, lives, and feaments. >> host: how do you go that? [laughter] >> guest: it's interesting. i talk a lot about finding tech-life balance. there's been a lot of talk on work-life balance. if you go home from work and you're still buried in your cell phone. if you're sitting on your laptop next to your husband at home. you're still working. you haven't really found the work-life balance. i talk a lot about how to find tech-life balance in your home, in your job, in your love life,

in kind of all areas of communication. >> host: are you saying turn off your devices, go off facebook? >> guest: you know what? i think there's a time and a place for everything, but i do think if you take a little bit of time to unplug to remember, you know, there's a world when you look up from your screen and you can enjoy it. it makes you all the more productive, refleshed -- refreshed. >> host: is there a danger of too much technology? too much onlineness? >> guest: i talk a lot in my book about the phenomena of being closer to friends but farther from friendships. because we live in a world where you can literally keep in touch with thousands and thousands of strangers or anyone you have ever met. if you are buried in you're guys -- your device you're ex-- ignoring the people next to you. we can do amazing things with technology. it's so powerful. facebook is an incredible tool. we have to remember that we own the device, not the devices

owning us. >> host: have we -- are people recognizing recognizing that today? >> guest: i think so. i've recently started to hear in the past few weeks and months a lot of chatter about the pendulum kind of going back from 24/7 connected all the time and people wanting that. but people wanting time unplug. there are vacations you can go on. digital detox. they collect your phone at the door. there's a noatle d.c. that lock your phone up when you check in. >> host: people are responding? >> guest: people the president! -- want it! they're recognizing we're almost tech addicted and tech obsessed and we need reclaim a little of our life back. that drew me to write a children's picture book. because it's not just the adults that are tech obsessed. my 2-year-old son will walk up to a picture frame and swipe it and ask for elmo or barney.

we have to live in the culture even our toddlers are tech obsessed. i wanted to write a children picture book on the same topic of finding sec life balance and remembering there's a beautiful world throughout too for our kids. >> host: when it comes to the children book, how do you approach it? >> guest: it has a strong female tech character named dot. she's a [speaking in foreign tongue]y little girl. she has her tablet, her phone, she's scholarship -- skyping and talking to everyone. her mom kind of forces her to go outside. and she has amazing adventure in the real world that kind of echo what she's doing on the digital devices. so it's it has that very happy lovely ending. ..

it. >>. >>host: who are your parents? >> they're both doctors. my dad is a dentist mamma's a psychiatrist.

my dad is very technological savvy i talk about that a lot with my first introduction into technology came to my dad in his office. in the impact had on our hope -- whole family obviously with facebook and changed all of us. >>host: when did you get involved? >>guest: 2005 trial was slope -- working in a local advertising agency here in new york city in the really started to hear about this amazing sight that my brother did. he needed someone with digital marking was a new space and i went out to california and i was blown away. i think way you read my book i had an amazing experience at facebook by using all the time. this book is extremely positive, a feel-good stories about how technology

can make this so much more amazing that a little reminder to find balance. >>host: you also have a web site "dot.complicated". >> because of the lead time the publishing i did not want to put caps or web sites you never know what may be outdated so i also launched a companion web site where people could get updated recommendations what is given to you with your big sisters guide. >>host: so somebody goes to the web site what can they do? >> we have a twice weekly newsletter to break down everything going on in the modern world, the latest attack how that helps your

family, life, career, also launching a web site around the same time you could get great content from our team and guest riders to join the community. >>host: and also "dot." also comes out in november? >>guest: november 5th in time for the holidays. hopefully those who consider what to get for their tech abscessed friends could have the bill will be in the children's picture book. >>host: we are talking with a new offer randi zuckerberg "dot.complicated" and "dot." both coming out in november. >>guest: thank you.

>>host: public affairs is the imprint of perseus the group and now we're jockeying to the publisher public affairs. tell us about the books you have coming up this fall starting with the unauthorized biography of rupert murdoch. >> the npr media correspondent has done a magnificent job to throw his arms around the entire organization with a very

dramatic history in the u.k. with attacking a scandal and bribery in what it means you're in america it is the enormous influence on our collective consciousness. >> how long has he been working on this? >> almost three years he has been covering him for many years before that but as the book is about three years. >>host: you also have another book? >>guest: a young woman who took upon herself to go find by the madam she found her in paris nobody knew she was there a and motivate -- monique was given her unpublished memoir she found the diary that was founded

in 1963 and was all lost to history since said this extraordinary woman who captivated the attention and was on "time" magazine and was so embroiled with south vietnam and the story was that we wanted to bring madame nhu back we remind ourselves how be on the canyon and in many ways it began with her. >>host: now there is a book has just come out from public affairs called the tower of basil? >>guest: and a big we never should have heard about the bank of international settlements based in switzerland were all the central bankers meet to discuss global monetary policy decisions made around

that table by an elected central bankers fundamental leafed affect all of our lives but we have never heard of this institution in there is a colorful history with very celebrated moments in the history of the bank where it has healed not see -- nazi gold also argentina that goes to the bank in switzerland the author has done a tremendous job to show if nothing else we should know more about these institutions that act on our behalf of that is what they do a. >>host: who is saddam? >>guest: a corresponding in budapest in hungary the central european economist now a free-lance writer with the number of publications writing about finances for many years. he has done a very good job. >>host: what other book you want to tell us about that comes out this fall?

>>guest: linda robinson has published with us before this is the third book and it is about the future of our military force abroad which sherven by the special forces the model model, and how they operate it is not a uncontroversial but she has a deep knowledge for those who get their boots and 30 on the ground with the enormous amount of information and how they do the things they do and this is extraordinary revealing portrait how we may impress the military influence on the future of particularly in afghanistan. we have had an amazing endorsement from who was kind enough to say in public from the admiral he had drawn inspiration from her

work how the forces should be deployed so i think that is a substantial piece of work. >>host: those are some of the upcoming titles from public affairs you are watching booktv aron c-span2.