visit us at booktv.org. >> here's a look at some of the best selling nonfiction books according to nationalpublic radio: >> a look at some of the current best selling nonfiction books according to national public radio. >> i do recognize that islam phobia exists. i mean, if it's explained a rational poor of islam and, therefore, negative attitude towards a community, i am absolutely against it. it is part of xenophobia. islamphobia is nothing but xenophobia versus one group. it's part of it. but what happened is that the islamists lobby, the brotherhood lobby and the iranian lobby have hijacked that a notion and made it into a weapon. anybody who's criticizing a policy issue that has nothing to do with a religion, having to do with the five pillars, okay? they have been accused of islamphobia, and i think this is very close to what the national socialists in germany would have accused anybody who's criticizing their policies of being against the germans. and even at the international level, this has become very dangerous. >> walid phares on u.s. policy in the middle east on booktv's "after

>> if there's another institution whose reading list you would like to hear, e-mail us at booktv.org. >> the 2013 guggenheim-lehrman prize in military history worth $50,000 was awarded on march 17, 2014, in new york city. finalist for the price read selections from the books prior to the award winner being announced. you can watch this event next on booktv. >> good afternoon. my name is josiah bunting. i am awfully happy to welcome the -- of plot back thank you. all of you to this gathering and this event. stephen ambrose once said that he'd been struck by how many army veterans of the campaign in europe, 1944-1945, had become teachers. he made the obvious link, which partly needs explication before audience like this but consider the chronology. if you were a 20 year old rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924. you are now 90, and if you have become a professor or teacher, you probably have left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years. your education was underwritten by the g.i. bill, and yours was a generation hospitable, at the ver

. >> if there's another institution whose reading lists you would like to hear, e-mail us at booktv.org>> next from the 2014 conservative political action conference, a tv talk to richard miniter about his new book "eyes on the target." he chronicles the history of the navy seals and discusses operations on back to the vietnam war. he reports on the actions of two and five have perished during the attack on american diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya, on september 11, 2012. >> joining us in booktv is author richard miniter. what do you write about? >> i write about things that interest me. i hope the interest of the people. the latest book is called "eyes on the target," but the navy seals but it's a different. it's about the culture of the navy seals, what makes them different and unique people. the united states navy has spent millions of dollars trying to discover how a navy s.e.a.l. is made. what makes some people go through basic training and what makes 70% of people fail. they looked for demographics ethnicity, family background religion and be done none of that matters. some o

for the full schedule of authors and books this weekend visit us at booktv.org. >> catherine neal is next on booktv. she talked-about the rise and fall of tyco's dennis kozlowski. catherine neal had access to kozlowski and the district attorney who prosecuted him. yard use all the people directly involved in the case and the media that reported on it acted unethically at some point. this is about an hour and ten minutes. [applause] >> one of the greatest adventures in my life began three years ago when i did something outside my comfort zone. at the time it seemed like a very small and insignificant act but it turned into something really, really important and significant. my adventure has taken me to places i have never been like a hard core new york state prison and a swanky wall street law firm where president franklin delano roosevelt once practiced law. i have been to a corner cafe in new york city where i met and interviewed a stranger i tracked down on facebook. i have learned more than i ever thought i was capable of learning. i have met people i never would have matched and i

if there is another institution whose reading list you would like to hear, e-mail us at booktv.org. >> booktv live coverage of the 2014 virginia festival of the book continues, she talks about her book had -- laura gottesdiener talks about "a dream foreclosed," on african-american communities around the country. >> human beings are born free and equal dignity and human rights. they are in doubt and checked toward one another in the spirit of brotherhood. everyone has the right to own property as well as in association with others. no one shall be deprived of property. i would like to talk to dr. bill anderson who is well known in the community. the chair of piece of justice and he is the voice of peace in the first time. if you ever want to know anything about peace, i am very clear to do that. [applause] >> thank you. can everyone he me from here? i am so honored to be here and i want to thank especially ishan who has done so much to bring our speaker here. i welcome you here and on behalf of amnesty international and most of all the virginia foundation for the humanities, it is an e

booktv.org anytime. if there is another institution whose reading list you would like to here, send us an e-mail at td.org. >> up next on booktv, "after words" what guest host jonathan last and author of what to expect when no one is expecting. this week paul taylor in his latest book the next america.

booktv.org at any time. if there's another institution's reading lyes you would like to hear. e-mail us. >> now from the 2014 tucson festival of books, today's coverage beginning with alan weisman who describes the impact population growth lags had own planet. then a panel on border control. a look at "whitey" bulger, a panel on politics, and then the story of the wives of america's mercury vii astronauts. starting now on booktv. >> welcome to the sixth annual tucson festival only books. i am melly, and first we reside just like to begin by thanking the city of tucson for sponsoring the venue and the medical system for sponsoring this particular session. and of course i want to thank all of you for coming, and afterwards there will be a signing that will take alan to a signing area, which is actually right across from the union in the u of a book store tent and we'll reminds you at the en, too. so. >> we're lucky to have with is alan weisman who has wherein for "new york times," orion, mother jones, the best science writing of 2006, and besides his award-winning articles he has also won

booktv.org anytime. if there is another institution whose reading list you would like to here, send us an e-mail at td.org. >> up next on booktv, "after words" what guest host jonathan last and author of what to expect when no one is expecting. this week paul taylor in his latest book the next america. in the the pew research director examines how the demographic changes in america are likely to shake u.s. culture this program is about one hour. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> tell me about ida b. fuller. >> well, he was from vermont in the first person to receive security check after 1940. and it was a monthly check for little over $22. ida b. fuller is covered have to live for another 22 years in the course of his 35 years the tax cut coming it doesn't sound like much in today's dollars and one she retired chinle contributed for three years. and she got back a return of a concert contribution. which is that the system is that it's absolutely the best for the first first-generation and very good for the next generation as well. so it isn't the demographic trouble because way b

use in millions of numbers. and it's just hard to tell. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> here's a look at some of the the pest-selling non-- best-selling nonfiction e-books according to "the wall street journal." >> these are some of the current best-selling nonfiction e-books according to "the wall street journal." >> i would say that i'm working from 9 to 3. most writers who say that they write for seven or eight hours a day are exaggerating. you just can't. you sort of lose it after a while. you certainly lose it when you're working on a novel. because the edges of your imagination start to blur after, i would say, best case about three hours. but even went you're writing a nonfiction book, you know, you maybe put in three good hours of pounding away, and the rest of it's research, looking at e-mail, making another cup of coffee, that sort of thing. fiction usually begins with a theme for me. you know, identity, redemption, art, fame, things like that. but the whole process really picks up steam when i start to ground some of my thoughts in a character who will become the protagonist, and that charact

use to measure what is not a teacher training program is effective? >> you can watch all of the programs featured over the past hour, and numerous other programs on the federal budget at our website, booktv.org >> which is to say colleges this year in particular are starting to see by resistance. people are thinking very hard about whether they really want them to spend 50, $60,000 a year and up. every time people find out what tuition is, they can become expensive is to five years ago when i last paid attention. edge assessing that as a goodbye. it will be financed by debt. right now a lot of colleges are doing with this sort of sub prices commission. that's what financial aid is. figured how much you can possibly afford, that's the price for you because i like you. but that's really what's going on. you are seeing some credit rating downgraded by moody's can does think it's sustainable. you are seeing enrollments drop across the board in lots of schools, and within colleges you are seeing humanities, the new kind to peace on this recently, humanities departments unhappy because they're losing their prestige and losing their majors and enrollees because people entering, especially women don

at booktv.org. >> jack shaheen is the author of "a is for arab." he joined john tchen and dylan yeats to talk about the history and current use of arab and asian stereotypes in america. that's coming up next on booktv. >> thanks for that kind introduction. it's truly an honor to be here at the museum of chinese and america, an institution that has done so much to increase public understanding of not only the chinese immigrant experience in the united states, but also of asian-americans and the asian diaspora more generally. i'm particularly, i'm an editor at the new york times, and i mostly traffic in words. and do careful editing. i'm very attentive. i try to be to nuances of word selection, diction, syntax but also meaning. but i'm also very, very aware of the acute and enduring power -- thank you very much -- of images. and what was most striking to me in looking at these two books is the immense visual array of what's been amassed here which is really something quite distinctive. i don't think in any of the books that i've read that arab-americans, that asian-americans have i seen such a visually rich and, frankly, disturbing collection of images. so

. >> if there's another institution whose reading list you would like to hear, e-mail us at booktv.org. >> the 2013 guggenheim-lehrman prize in military history worth $50,000 was awarded on march 17, 2014, in new york city. finalist for the price read selections from the books prior to the award winner being announced. you can watch this event next on booktv. >> good afternoon. my name is josiah

reading -- >> if there's another institution whose reading lists you would like to hear, e-mail us at booktv.org. >> just a few numbers tell the story. chronic diseases got seven out of every 10 deaths in the united states, and 49% of americans have one or more chronic diseases which accounts for three out of every $4 we spend on health care. that's nearly $7900 a year for every american with chronic disease. by 2030, chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes will cost more than three quarters of all deaths in the world. the cost to the world economy over the next two decades is estimated at $47 trillion. injuries are the other leading cause of death and discipline both in the u.s. globally and especially for young people here global annual road traffic crash tests are projected to increase from 1.2 million in 2002, the 2.1 million in 2030, primarily due to increased motor vehicle fatalities associate with economic growth and low and middle income countries. road crashes injure up to 50 million people a year, and children are frequent victims. the second half of the 20t

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at booktv.org. >> jack shaheen is the author of "a is for arab." he joined john tchen and dylan yeats to talk about the history and current use of arab and asia