e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. spent booktv is on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore, maryland where we are talking with professors are also office. now joining us is a professor of the history of medicine here at johns hopkins, daniel todes. or faster togas, when you teach the history of medicine, to whom do you teach that and why is it important? >> guest: i'm fortunate this year at hopkins to be able to teach it personal to undergraduates. secondly to our wonderful group, graduate students. and thirdly, to medical students. why is it important? i think it's important because science and medicine are so important in a culture today and science and medicine are the products of human beings and human activities and so if we understand science and medicine and now it's really produced by real human beings, not textbook definitions of scientific medicine, then we understand as the product and we understand the things they it can do for us and its frailties. so it's an opportunity to reflect on the natur

e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> more now from booktv television for serious readers. timothy shriver talks about what he's learned throughout his life from people with intellectual disabilities including his aunt rosemary kennedy. this is about an hour and five minutes. >> hey thanks for coming. we're really happy that you've joined us to celebrate the great work that tim shriver has done for his entire career his entire life and help him launch his book. so this is a special event for us. i have a few words just so for those of you who don't know much about mr. shriver, just give you an idea of, you know, who this gentleman is. just let me just say that tim will first, speak and then we'll have an opportunity to do question and answer, and we'll have a microphone down there and people can come up and ask him questions. and after which there'll be a book signing in the rectory right next door. you're all welcome to participate in that. for those of you who didn't get a chance to have your book signed at the reception you'll be right in the

at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. let us know about book fairs and vessels in your area and we will add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. spent booktv is on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore, maryland where we are talking with professors are also office. now joining us is a professor of the history of medicine here at johns hopkins, daniel todes. or faster togas, when you teach the history of medicine, to whom

at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. let us know about book fairs and vessels in your area and we will add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> now on booktv alex epstein says that the public only hears one side of the argument and the debate over fossil fuels. he argues that fossil fuels have done far more good than damage to the world and are a safe and reliable source of energy. this is a little under one hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the heritage foundation and to our douglas and sarah allison auditorium. we welcome those to join us on all of these occasions on our heritage.org website and those will be joining us on a future booktv program. we would ask everyone to check that cell phones have been turned off as a courtesy to our speaker. we will post the program on the heritage home page following today's presentation for everybody's future reference, and has always our internet and other outside viewers are welcome to send questions or comments, simply e-mailing speaker@heritage.org. hosting our guest today is derrick morgan, our vice president for domestic and economic policy. he leads the institute for econo

e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> so i didn't know that there was such a thing as segregated buses, you know 20 years ago mostly because there weren't really. there wasn't really such a thing as segregated buses so i tell a story in the book about how in 1994 when my daughter who's now an officer in the army, but when she was a toddler, we accidentally found ourselves on a segregated bus. i didn't know it was segregated until i got onto the bus and she's sleeping on my shoulder, and, you know the guy in the front seat, this young guy, 20-something guy with a black hat and a beard and a white shirt, it was saturday night, you know he gets up for me, and he says, oh, sit down because there i was, a young mother with a baby on my shoulder. and as soon as he gets up the guy next to him, this older guy must have been like in his 60s, he had a white beard he looks at him, and he goes -- [laughter] like that. like no. so this poor kid, you know he's like 23 years old. he looks at me with the baby on my shoulder, and he looks at the guy next to him and he looks at me, the guy, and he's in t

e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> you're watching booktv.ext, author and journalist richard parker reports on the transformation of texas into a population center and argues the state will have as big an impact on the country in the 21st century as california did in the 20th century. this event is from bookpeople bookstore in austin texas. it's about 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] ..

booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv at c-span.org, send us a tweet or post on our wall at facebook.com/booktv. >> what we witnessed in the first couple of months of the uprising was something that i found inspiring as a student of history and of politics and identity all over the world. i have come to believe is a child of triangulation and moderate reform that radical change is impossible individuals can work hard, they can maybe nudge government policy one way or another. and i believe that government and state systems were hard things to turn that was naÏve idealistic, foolish to think otherwise. and so the moment that lasted about a year after the first uprising began showed that in fact it is not impossible. in this case that this had happened and millions of people who were terrified and refuse to utter even the smallest political speech or suddenly from one to the next willing to rush towards police that were shooting them dead in the interest of the slogan that was taken and social justice and the fall of dictatorship. to me that was mindbending and very humbling and as an individual,

booktv. let us know about book fairs and festivals in new area and we will be happy to add them to our list e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> booktv is on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore, maryland where we will be talking with professors who are authors. joining us is a professor of the history of medicine at johns hopkins and daniel to notice --tois --tois. to deity to and why is it important? >> here at hopkins to be able to teach it to an undergraduate two wonderful groups of graduate students and and medical students why is it important? i think it is important because science and medicine are so important in our culture today and science and medicine and other products of human beings and human activities so if we understand science and medicine and how it has really produced real human beings, not textbook definition of scientific medicine we ended stand the product and may understand the things it can do for us and has been frailties' so it is an opportunity to reflect on the nature of this important part of our culture. >> area from the history background or medical background? >> come from a h

booktv. let us know about book fairs and festivals in new area and we will be happy to add them to our list e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> booktv is on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore, maryland where we will be talking with professors who are authors. joining us is a professor of the history of medicine at johns hopkins and daniel to notice --tois --tois. to deity to and why is it important? >> here at hopkins to be able to teach it to an undergraduate two wonderful groups of graduate students and and medical students why is it important? i think it is important because science and medicine are so important in our culture today and science and medicine and other products of human beings and human activities so if we understand science and medicine and how it has really produced real human beings, not textbook definition of scientific medicine we ended stand the product and may understand the things it can do for us and has been frailties' so it is an opportunity to reflect on the nature of this important part of our culture. >> area from the history background or medical background? >> come from a h

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booktv? send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org, tweet us at booktv or post on our wall facebook.com/booktv. >> really it was what convinced regulars that an electric car was a viable consumer option and it caused them to develop a set of rules that would come to a much larger package of air pollution related rules that essentially set out a timeline for innovation and said in 1998 2% of the cars that are sold in california have to be electric. and by 2003 10% have to be electric. >> but that failed. >> i would say it didn't feel. it was postponed, and one of the good things about this policy was there was a built-in mechanism. every couple of years didn't come back and say this is working, is it not working, what isn't working, is technology ready? and then they would also fight a lot with automakers about it. >> how did the automakers feel about the cost? >> i don't think you like dimensional, probably tasseled likes them but it's been an evolving relationship to address times the relationship has been more or less saw but in general relationship has been characterized by a series of very ca