john carter from star trek and the other science fiction. i love history. i know that back in high school and back even in college some of my classmates didn't like history but it was important to me. if you look at it, the whole has been reinvented. it is all a matter of rearranging things. if you look at discoveries and a lot of things it is all a matter of rearranging things. if you look at history, there is a lot of ideas you can look now and create a new niche, come up with a new idea, and therefore you sparked a new innovation or creativity or whatever the area might be. >> and just finally congressman, what are some tools you are using so that you can add reading into your schedule? what are innovations you are using? >> i love the ipad and in the ipad there is different apps. i look at what is out there and one is called blank list which is map that gives you summaries of books and you can take the option of reading or do it by audio. if you are interested in looking at the whole book, you buy the book itself. but it will give you a snap shot and th

and also i read a lot of speculative and science fiction and imaginative fiction.rrated writer called m john harrison, who thinks very carefully about form. so, m john harrison once said in an interview that always think of what it is that a genre cannot do, and then push it in that direction. i think it's current in my heart, that's a great lesson. and science—fiction writers can imagine things, or they want to imagine things, that others don't. on a cosmic scale, it goes without saying. and that appeals to you, because you seem to believe that the planet would do a lot better without any of us around. yes, this is a central theme of a lot of speculative and science—fiction writers now. saying actually, you know, if you take out the humans as a species, maybe very peacefully and quickly so that there is no pain, i think that the planet would be doing a lot better. it can recover, ifeel. so, when you finished the book, does that mean there was no sense of elation, that you still felt trapped in this veil of tears? well, i don't normally feel elation when i finished

my first reaction was, can people really seriously be using this kind of science fiction turn to be talking about a real person. and that i kept wondering into work that story and that kind of metaphor describing the decision to be against american this moment as unthinkable, as something a thinking person couldn't fathom we do. in the years after that story we kept versions of a brainwashing story in america, the manchurian candidate got to be made, then invasion of the body snatchers get remade. homeland, the showtime show that has a lot of strong resemblance so my book what i'm trying to do is think about that story and why we want to tell it. . . >> >> and the kinds of ways that day talk about coercive persuasion of brainwashing and propaganda. >> are they accurate or inaccurate to?. >> they are pretty inaccurate it is a fantasy story in also a way of telling a story of something that really happens at some point john walker changed his point of what he wanted to do a and patty hearst changed her mind but when we tell stories about the process to value what other ordinary americans valu

my first reaction was can people be using this science fiction term to be talking about a real person. and then i kept wondering about what sort of work that story was doing or that kind of metaphor of brainwashing and describing the decision to be against america in this moment as unthinkable, as literally something a thinking person could unfathomably do. the manchurian candidate got made and the vision of the body snatchers got made, galactica, the homeland show that having a strong resemblance to the john walker lindh stories. so, in my book what i am trying to do is think about that story and why we want to tell it as a literary historian i am trained to think about why we need certain stories at certain moments and why they are popular in certain areas of history so what i decided to do is start from this war on terror brainwashing moment and think about what sort of story that was and what it does for us and what kind of ideas it activates for us, so that took me back to world war ii after the term brainwashing gets invented and then through the kind of spread of the idea and t

it is familiar as a science—fiction movie but jake gilland as a science—fiction movie but jake gill ande than run—of—the—mill. gill and hall makes it something more than run-of-the-mill. thank you very much. i do like him. see you next week, james, thank you very much indeed, that is it for this week. enjoy your cinema going whatever you are seeing. quite a variety this week. you next week. goodbye. hello. we will keep showers overnight towards the north—west of the uk, but quite a miserable afternoon across southern england and south wales, and this rain is moving north right now so wet weather for matches of england and wales for a time, strong wind in the south—east as well. most rain heading east overnight to allow things to turn dry in the south—west away from —— and away from showers in north—west scotland. it clears away from northern england clearly on sunday morning —— quickly, and sunshine for a while but showers in the west blowing east through the day, some heavy and boundary once again. sunshine in between the downpours and maybe the extreme south—east of them missing most

and wrapping up our look at the best nonce fiction books. it recounts a battle that changed the american approach to the war in vietnam. many of these authors have or will be appearing on book tv you can watch them on our website. good afternoon everyone. thanks for coming out on tuesday afternoon. we will just jump right in. and during vietnam and excellent book. without further ado mr. right.

the book examines the role of science fiction because science fiction played an important part in the exploration of space. the science fiction writers like hg wells and excited the imagination of young people around the world and caught them interested in looking at what the problems are in getting people into space. and so a lot of the early inventors they all read these science-fiction authors and were motivated by them. and of course many of these early inventors formed rocket societies or became members of that in the late 20s and 30s. that was a place to be. that is where you spend your friday nights and saturdays was getting together and talking about and experimenting with rockets. these led to engineering advances. and of course the primary advances of that era actually came out of world war ii because one of the early inventors and members of a rocket society was the person who was responsible for most of the innovation that came in world war ii and as one of them. he was working for the nazis on the v2 a terror weapon of that. i will say a little bit more about that later.

at the iowa writers workshop did his collections of poetry include brass knuckles and his works of fiction including the short story collections and a the coast of chicago and those that have prompted the critics to be such american a literary giants as hemingway and anderson. both his stories samples unfold in the working-class neighborhood in those areas in the city of big shoulders they feature a shifting realism one of which dreams and in the imagination reveal the details of urban life. he moves easily between the reality of urban decay and the magical realism of transgendered to music and art and religion. please welcome stuart dybek. [applause] >> the last time i was here many years ago i worked here with an advertising agency one of the first jobs i had after college as a junior copywriter we really did have three dirty lynch's. [laughter] there was a plaque from sophie's choice that was behind by a decision so with that narrator to get a job working for that editorial house. so then he tried to write a novel which did not work out too well with a three martini lunch. we hatchings

i've always thought that historical fiction and fantasy are the closest genres. elements — the thrill of a battle, for example, can be very similar. of course. and it depends how you do it. i don't have any dragons in mind, although george rr martin has done very well with them. well, there's a bit of magic in this book. it's not harry potter magic in the sense that lives aren't governed by it, but it's very much there. there's a kind of superstition that becomes real. yes. the point about it really is i wanted to have as few constraints as possible. an awful lot of stories, at their heart, are about characters making some discovery about themselves and i wanted to use magic to bring those discoveries about. i wanted characters to be able to move on and through various devices and then bring them all together at the end. we are talking about a city whose great era is passed. i mean, it's a bit like venice with the empire gone. yes, they're worn out. it's all worn out. tired. and there is an unhappy figure on the throne. this is a very familiar setting, in a way,

expeditionlark's specifically caught the attention of a lot of fiction authors and nonfiction writers. sacagawea's role. by a woman from oregon. another important figure who came along in the expedition's is york. he is not accounted for in any of the original accounts, but we're working now to obtain a better understanding of him. unlike sacagawea, he is only now beginning to capture the imagination of scholars and fiction writers. recently, a lot more has been done to think about york's role. unusual one.was an he had a lot of freedom as he came with expedition west. rights to vote on and to carry a gun. east,e got back to the when all the other members were awarded 300 acres of land, york was not given any reward. askedhey made it back, he for his freedom but was not granted his freedom. century, he was acknowledged for his unusual status in the american west as an african american. he was made into a clownish character who might have softened relations with the native americans. him --th grew around this myth grew around him. the college, this is one of our many collections that h

we are only beginning to capture the imagination of modern scholars and fiction writers. done, toe has been think about his role. his position on the expedition was a unusual one. he has a lot of freedom as he ase with the expedition west mentioned earlier he had the right to vote on with they would camp. eastthey got back to the ofn all the other members the company were awarded 300 acres of land he was not given any award. at that time he asked for his freedom but it was not granted. he remained in slavery. likee 19th century sacagawea he was mythologized by some point for his unusual status in the american west is a african american. was turnedgawea he into a foolish character that may not have interacted with anyone outside his race before. this myth grew around him. it is only really beginning to emerge again with sort of enthusiasm from the academic community. for the college this is one of areas that help us explore how history is received. do we have how this thoughts about the beginning of intellectual grounding it also let us see how historians have related with

he really, unlike sacagawea, begin to capture the imagination of modern scholars and fiction writers. more recently, a lot more has been done. his position on the expedition was an unusual one. he had a lot of freedom as he came with the expedition west, including, as that mentioned earlier, the right to vote on where the camp made winter accommodations and to carry a gun. when they got back to the eastm= went -- when they got back to the east, when other members of the party were awarded land to think them for their efforts, it york, as a slave was not given a reward. at that time, once the media back he asked for freedom but was not granted his freedom. he continued his slavery. in the 19th century, like sacagawea he is -- for his unusual status and the west for his african-american status. he was made into a clownish character. this myth grew around him but in thelost traction story and is really only beginning to emerge again with enthusiasm from the academic community. for the college, this is one of our many sections that help us explore how history is .eceived not only do we ha

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but unlike sacajawea he's only beginning to capture the imagination of modern scholars and modern fiction writers and more recently more has been done to think about york's role. his position on the expedition was an unusual one. he had a lot of freedom as he came with expedition wes including as a zach mentioned earlier rights to vote on where the camps made their winter accommodation and to carry a gone, but when they got back to the east when all the other members of the party were awarded 320 acres of land to thank them for their efforts, york as a slave was not given any reward. at that time once they made it back he asked for his freedom from william clark, but was not granted his freedom, so continued in slavery. in the 19th century sacajawea he was-- sort of for his unusual status in the american west of the american. unlike sacajawea he was made into a clownish character who might have softened relations with the native americans. he may not have interacted with a person of his race before, so this myth grew around him, but lost some traction in later retelling of the story and i

his fiction is often rooted in stories passed down from his own family. his latest novel days without end is set in america in the mid—19th century. applause i am delighted to be here today to talk to sebastian barry, who to be honest, does not need an introduction from me, does he? he is a prolific poet, playwright, and novelist. twice nominated for the man booker prize for fiction, and the winner of countless other prizes and plaudits for his nine novels and 1a plays. not bad for someone who couldn't read or write until he was nine. so, sebastian barry, given so much of your fiction is rooted in your own family history, it seems entirely appropriate to start in your childhood. you could not read or write until you were nine. well, let's say eight. 0k, eight! i beg your pardon. why were you such a slow starter? i think i came out of the starting blocks at great speed, but the speed was not anything to do with reading or writing. it was to do with loving my family. i was so busy, i think, for those eight years worshipping and adoring them that i didn't th

if we you know if we want to read fiction as hillary apparently likes to read fiction we can do that we don't turn on fake news and that's obvious in viewership now and then i miss the child a little political analyst and write a thank you for your time. well c.n.n. has been on the defensive quite a lot this week several undercover videos were posted online allegedly exposing attitudes about the channel towards its russia related stories they want to see them constantly in. russia that's for sure that this regime is free to reserve the right but also you. know it's just like. most of the you know we don't know. john. what would you think's going to happen this week with all russia. that's going to be really. what you just saw was a c.n.n. producer and one of their political commentators the last van jones responded to the undercover video saying his words have been taken out of context and that he did not think there was nothing to claims team trump colluded with russia and tried to cover it up both videos were released by the investigative journalism group project veritas best found

that's the absolute essence of all fiction, whether its history or heroic fantasy. iggulden with darien, thank you very much. thank you. it's been all or nothing today — some big showers and big downpours, northern ireland catching quite a few thundery downpours, and reports of minor flooding in the country. whereas towards the south—east, there has not been many showers, and a lovely end to the day. we keep the showers for a while through the evening, but overnight the heavy showers, thunderstorms, will ease off. we keep the showers going more towards northern ireland and western scotland and other western hills and coasts, but they should be lighter overnight and further east clearer skies mean temperatures drop away in towns and cities to 11 or 12. over the next two days we keep this mixture of sunshine and showers because we still have an area of low pressure sitting to the north—west of the uk, the closer you are to the low pressure, the more likely to get showers. monday morning, showers, pushing eastwards across scotland and across the eastern side of norther

my first book i got with my agent was actually historical fiction.n georgia, i was a woman, i thought i had to write the next gone with the wind. even that, it had a lot of crime in it for a southern historical fiction novel. no one wanted to publish it. i asked my agent, what should i do now, and she said i think you should write whatever you want to write. i stopped thinking i had to write a certain way and i really embraced what i loved reading which was thrillers. 50 final question, is karin slaughter your real name? it is. i got beaten up in school a lot for it so i think i have earned it. karin slaughter, great to talk to you, many thanks. thank you. hello, another one of those days where you may have seen some sunshine that they have also been against heavy, even torrential downpours in places, another view of a big threatening cloud in the distance from one of our weather watchers. still some heavy showers affecting parts of england and wales, the worst of those will fade as we go into the night but we keep outbreaks of rain affecting parts o

but lewis and clark expedition specifically caught the attention of all lot of fiction authors as well as nonfiction writers. one book that particularly emphasizes that of julius rolle and put you into center is a conquest from a woman from oregon which really emphasizes or possibly indents sacajawea role at the center of the expedition. -- infants. another important figure came along in the expedition about who we don't know that much is york, a slate of lewis and clark who covered the party on the way to pacific ocean and back. he's not well accounted for in the original journals are in the other original contemporary accounts of the expedition that we are working now to gain a better understanding of him. our collection includes some modern scholarship around york, but really unlike sacajawea, only beginning to capture the imagination of modern scholars and modern fiction writers and more recently a lot more has been done to think about his role. his position on expedition was an unusual one. he had a lot of freedom as he came with the expedition west, including, as zach mentioned e

i don't see that come across in the book, in this fictional world of morning tv.a line i wanted to quote. your character at one point says "the crazy part about our show wake up is sometimes it's really fun and sometimes it's really toxic. that's quite a hybrid. it's almost like we should invent a new word for our brand of news that combines fun with tox-inning." and the word your character suggests is foxic. which again made me think of fox. i wonder if that's what it was like for you at "fox & friends," fun and toxic. >> that passage you happen to have pulled, it was a real conversation that i had, i mean not verbatim, but with a woman who is on the air but a dear friend of mine. and she met for lunch, and i was frustrated one day during these years when i wrote it because i did feel that way, that the show that i was on, there was a lot that was great about it. it was really spontaneous, live tv at its best is spontaneous and fun and unpredictable and you never know what's going to happen. but i also thought, as i said, i wrote much of this during the 2012 elec

the corporation is a legal fiction.much bang for the buck there is at all in corporate tax cutting. we do know ethically and legally it's wronnwñ?ñ?g. we have such enormous deficits that we've got to do something. something'sñ?ñ? got to happen. eric: we havecÑñ?ñ? good anecdol evidence that companies move to countries that have lower corporate tax rates than ourpñ? own. there is clearly a correlation. all i'm saying is, if you take the effective corporate tax rate which is at 27.1 and you move to a new corporate taxazñ?ñ? rate,u bring it down to 20 live from 27, is equitably enoughe÷ñ?ñ? fr companies. >> all had, sorry. >> the problem is you have companies in 1 19%, 7% and othes paying 38%. no one is going to have 27%. that's fictional. >> we don't know. if you could just pipe down because were trying to have a conversation here marjori margi. >> i know. >> you get a sense that this is enough for that it's a sign that whatever's being considered and whether you agree or disagree everything is getting scale ba back, the

it doesn't seem to be an understanding that things that matter in fiction sense of place, the rhythm of the words, the arrangement of the paragraphs, that those things really matter and nonfiction to because they are part of the story and history is the story. if you want people to understand the story you have to give them the setting. you have the show them what the room was light but i'll take one minute to give an example of what i'm talking to you about. also from the setting if you do the setting right, if you pick it right you can let the reader understand something about the character and his reaction to that setting without having to give him a lecture and stop the reader, stop the reader cold in its tracks. for example lyndon johnson comes to washington as the secretary to congressman. he is 22 years old. he is 34. he can only carry a cardboard suitcase and he doesn't have a winter overcoat. he is going to work and i had to find the woman who worked in the office with her when she was in her 20s and named ms. delcarmen. here was the scene. she told me about this scene she w

in the interim he adopted a new mentality around fiction. a new way of observing the world. that is reflected in the final draft of walden. exercise toittle pick a part that was -- he was of course successful then. deal was with his publisher for one week. that is when he came to walden to write. he ended up being the responsible for the publication in a man stuck. on additional license. out of gutted faster in just one week. >> one of the things that i am with hiso point out experiments. he talks about those. wanted hisink he dreams to have this on remarkable fact of man and nature the way so works. when you look at what they do together and what they are like.

it doesn't seem to be any understanding the things that matter in fiction, such other place, rhythm of the words, arrangement of the paragraphs, that those things really matter in nonfiction, also because they are part of a story. history is a story and if you want people to understand the story, you have to give them a setting and show them what the room was like your guy will take one minute to give you an example of what i'm talking about. also, from the center if you do the setting rights and you pick it right you enable-- you can let the reader understand something about the character. his reaction to that setting without having to give him a lecture. the reader in his tracks. for example, lyndon johnson comes to washington as a secretary to a congressman, 22 years old, very poor and can only carry a cardboard suitcase and he doesn't have a winter overcoat. he's going to work and i happen to find a woman who worked in the office with him, a woman who had worked with him when she was in her 20s. here was the scene and she told me about this scene. she would see this every morning.

there doesn't seem to be any understanding that things that matter in fiction, sense of place, rhythm of the words, arrangements in the paragraphs, that those things really matter in nonfiction, too because they are part of this doorway in history the story. if you want people to understand the story, you have to give them defending. he have to show them what it's like. just to give you an example of what i'm talking to you about, from the senate, if you are picking right, you let the reader understand something about the character and his reaction to that sending without having to give the lecture and stop the reader cold in its tracks. for example, lyndon johnson comes to washington as a secretary to her congressman. he's 72 years old, very poor, can only carry a broad case and he doesn't -- in these going to work then i happened to find the woman who worked in the office with her. had worked with him and 20s. here is the theme and she told me about this scene she would see every morning. the capitol building is here. the library of congress is here. lyndon johnson was in a little h

. >> reporter: the rise in popularity of chat fiction apps like hooked led to published authors likelor parent to take the leap into the new format. >> the biggest challenge was coming up with a story that kind of fit the parameters of this style of writing. >> reporter: millions of users have already read her first hooked story, a thriller that took kayla a fraction of the time to write compared to her novels. >> honey, please ignore it until i get home. >> how am i supposed to do that? it's getting louder. >> don't go down there. >> reporter: hooked has topped apple's app store three times and more than 20 million people have it. users also have the option to subscribe for a fee and unlimited reading. >> it almost feels like you're actually going through what the characters are going through. >> reporter: mike also reads tap, one of the handful of other chat fiction apps geared to millennials. while he is hooked on the new style, he has no plans to stop reading real books. kenneth craig, cbs news, new york. >>> roberta gonzales tracking our weather forecast and a little bit of a co

i have to say to you if my life depended on it i could write anything fiction. how can i put it in the works of nonfiction. going back to shakespeare, i read a lot of fiction and i will give you my list one of my favorite books john reid is the man that wrote during the mexican revolution and john reid is an incredible writer and it gives you an image you can cling to. he's not sure whether they are going to welcome him or not and he looks at his watch and says i don't know whether to shoot him now. he came to watch him and survived. i could see that happening and also trekking through to moscow. so there is this community by the way [inaudible] i'm being asked by the magazine but i'm going to keep that to myself. thank you very much, "do i make myself clear" [applause] >> i'm so grateful because it gave me credibility i otherwise don't have. [applause] for coming out here go read this book. we have copies for sale and he's going to stick around and sign copies. thank you. [applause] and stepfather alan alda is our guest his latest book here is did if i understo

this one is about ancient rome and is a wonderful series it is a great fiction and author to return to. and the history in the tudor history in great britain he has a character but the history is superb and also hastingses a british historian the story of espionage during world war two and he comes to the conclusion that they were not very great added to but in terms of real networks successful by any country there was a wonderful history of the rise of that science and the biography of hugo black is wonderful by the supreme court who gave us a lot of modern law and also becoming with a great liberal justices to show that people can grow he was incredible on the supreme court and this writer the second of two volumes about the american civil war with extraordinary writing and there was a lot more complexity than one might suspect the trade of border states and the date -- the deep south. in even those northern parts and day documented that data. so it with the last czar of russia and incredible biography it takes at the getting used to because the names are daunting but that takes away

rule of law is a fiction, educational equality is believed to be a fiction.have to fight to rebuild that because the belief in the continued openness in our society requires a belief that everyone is part of it in equality of citizenship. i think that we are dealing with a threat to the whole liberal democratic model. this woman in her 20s was too anxious about her job to reveal her identity. she works in a west end theatre. she's getting steadily poor. it's a bit crazy that the thought of not being able to pay my rent can cause such a bad thing for me emotionally. i lost a lot of weight. i was upset a lot of the time and i was actually put on antidepressants for how bad my anxiety got. bills were going up, travel is going up, everything is going up and even food. and my wage isn't going up. so obviously where you are looking at the bigger picture, where i used to be able to save a little bit of money i can't any more. even in a period of economic recovery the working poor know the big truths of their own lives, that wealth is not trickling down to them. 0ur

fantasy. >> it is neither science fiction nor is it a definitive capability.are working on it. we are close to being able to defend against it. against one warhead, we do have the capability. against multiple warheads, not so much. that argument we have to continue to develop this and we are sending some over to south korea which is scaring the heck out of china. we need to persist. >> here is what former secretary of defense, bill cohen, told my colleague, andrea mitchell, that he thinks it means. >> our goal is to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze until the regime says, let's make a deal. we have restrained that for fear that we might be really aggravating the situation. i think now may be a different situation. >> colonel, do you think he is right? >> we have procrass ttinated foo long and that's the principle reason we are in this difficult situation now. we have to keep in mind that the north korean regime is a continuing criminal enterprise. the only way you are going to be able to bring them to heel now is to do a deal with them. that's going to require t

. >>> new chat fiction is gaining popularity. an app that allows users to read fast paced short stories. in the form of text messages between two people. one reader says the first time he heard about the app, he was hooked. >> you're going through these texts. it's like he's running away from a killer or something. >> the app is called hook, sorry. it's topped apple's app store three times. because of the format, a lot of the chat fiction can tend to favor thrillers. >>> cook your meals at home, walk to work, and live in a smaller home. the millennia money blog points out americans spend 70% of their money on housing, transportation, and food. if you follow money saving tips it could help you, as a in millennial increase retirement that's wusa9 at 5:00. the news at 5:30 starts right now. ♪ [ music ] >>> take a look at these powerful photos of regular people all across washington, d.c. black, white, young, old. all representing different sides of the city. this work looks a lot like what a professionallal photographer would bring

some of it is science fiction, some of it magical realism. it's like a little girl who identifies with maleficent rather than sleeping beauty. she's identifying with the wicked witch rather than the he he he heroine. there's everything else that goes into it and it turns into almost a murder mystery. and her writing is beautiful. if you like the whimsical kind of normal rockwell with a tryst. >> great thing to bring along, then. "gentleman's guide to vice and virtue," this one is for teens. >> this is crazy, a road trip highest movie sent in the 18th century with highwaymen and pirates. it is a male/male love story, this guy got kicked out of school doing one last hurrah around europe taking his sister and his best friend who he secretly has had a crush on for years, but nothing's really happened, but now they're on the run. so what's going to happen? alchemy, there's some alchemy there. it's like full on, this book is hilarious. >> can we find these brooks at the free library of philadelphia? >> you can find them at the free library. >> than

the other is a suspense fiction. it's an escape for me. i try to do as often as i can. book tv want to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list yet twitter. or posted to our facebook page book tv on c-span two. television for serious readers. actor and author of this book the grouchy historian. the old-time lefty. right wing hypocrites and net jobs. have you always been grouchy and heavy already -- always been a historian. i was playing that. and people always wonder that. i cannot tell where my own individuality stops heavy always been interested in history. >> very much. it's the drama we have before we go into theater. >> heavy always been a lefty as you describe it in your subtitle? i question is why i am a lefty. i am a. and i automatically thought it automatically meant that. except that it was not a lefty. i had two sisters who are social workers for uneducated. and they have a basic instinctive fairness you write in the first chapter of this book. i cannot take any credit away from him. you can call him the framework of the book. i don't know

how do you go about, thinking of the map of love, with historical fiction integrating rather seamlesslyot without letting it dominate the story that probably is going to attract some group of leaders, because as you said you can't come to it loaded with a political message. how do you do that, what advice would you give? if you're lucky and you've got a good book on your hands your characters will come to life and when your characters come to life you kind of do what's best for them. and therefore they then move to occupy their space and the politics and the history become the scaffolding... obviously it controls what they can or can't do, but it is not their entire life and ultimately one's interest really in politics and history is because they affect the individual life, it's not some abstract interest, it's because they cause misery and they cause heartbreak and death and they can cause happiness. so in the end it is the individual life that is centre stage. yes, sir. you made two comments about writing novels. the first one was that you don't think it's right to embark on a purely

but also think they turned it into the movie john parker to star trek and some of the other science-fiction but i love history and i know back in high school and college to me it was important because you look at it the wheel has been reinvented and it's a matter of rearranging things so you look at the discovery of things it's a lot of rearranging if you look at history there's a lot of ideas you come up now and create a new niche and come up with a new idea and therefore you sparked a new innovation and creativity whatever the area might be. >> what are some of the tools you are using so you can add reading into the schedule that iwhatis the sum of the innovatiu are using? >> i love the ipad. there are different apps and so i always look at what's out there and one will give you summaries of books and you can either take the option of reading or do it by audio and then if you are interested in looking at the whole book but it will give you a snapshot and at the end it will give you the message what is the take away from this book and they had different things from humanities test plans so

he's one of my favorite fiction authors to turn to for respite and great history. he gets his history right, which is wonderful. in the period of history in great britain cj has written a series of books, this one about the period and he also has a sort of character who solves mysteries, but the history is superb and the writing is a joy and i recommend him as an incredible writer. matt hastings is a british historian. the secret war of espionage and spies during especially world war ii. he comes to a conclusion that nobody was very great at it. there was that enigma but in terms of the networks that were successful by any country, not many, but a wonderful history of sort of the lie life of the that science. the biography of hugo black by roger newman, the supreme court that gave us a lot of the modern law. started out as the ku klux klan and capable of the liberal justices of the supreme court showing that people can grow and he was an incredible justice of the supreme court. this writer, william thrilling, this is the second about the road of the union, the civi

am living what i read and in some of the things that i want to read about and mostly they are not fiction. i think it's important and just as important to stop and think as it is to read. you can think about what you have read. about how to do your job better and how to help more people. i would say it's important not to just to read to read but to read for a purpose and i think it's important after you read it to take some time to think about what you just read or as i said life in general and maybe that will change your reading habits and maybe you will read on different subject as a result of just thinking. i would say i'm a proponent today for reading but also reading and thinking. how does taking notes while you read really display that. and relate to show how to think and read. i like to underline points that are important in a book that i am reading. if i underlined them i know them better. and underlined a passage that i particularly like. i think that is helpful to me and then who knows the intern in the office that gets it type up all my books. to get to read of the book even if

it sounds like a plot for a science-fiction movie: entire >>> it sounds like a plot for a science fiction movie. entire cities submerged under water. this could be the bay area's reality in a matter of decades. nbc michelle roberts has more on the report and the timeline. >> yeah, just worries me. >> gabrielle in east palo alto for two decades. she and her family say they noticed the water levels in their backyard changing over the years. >> it's something that residents are concerned about. >> today scientists with the union of concerned scientists have released sea level data. by 2060 experts predict that more than a dozen bay area communities would flood once every other week. scientists believe the city of san mateo and alameda are the most vulnerable to sea level flooding. >> hundreds of communities around the country could be spared this if we act quickly. >> reporter: doctor christie says the flooding could be more severe and would happen sooner. she's also hoping this report will be used as a planning tool for cities across the bay. >> it's happening. it's real, and we can see it

to shape and to try to replace some of the bad habits with better ones like reading, fiction and non-fiction. really spending time on doing homework, getting things done. maybe even have time to do some house chores. i think those are good mindset to start building. - how about extra curricular activities, are they important at that age? - i think it's important but i would not stress over it. i think it would be important to start building the habit of the importance of doing extra-curriculars. the purpose of doing extracurriculars is not really to do extra-curriculars. the purpose is, get into the habit of giving, of contributing, of growing along with your teammates. of being a good student. of really having the heart and the brain to contribute and to grow and to connect and to engage. those are essential skills to have. - there are people who say that increasing pressure on kids, especially by starting early, is counter productive. what do you think about that? - i disagree. i think one key to success in life is really to try to, in most cases, not all, is to start early with a purpose.

an angry it may be science fiction chl they couldn't run at all.st was so big its legs would have buckled under the high speeds of 45 miles per hour it was once believed to run. >> the problem with that is running that fast it actually breaks all the bones in its legs. there are lots of people who would love to believe the t-rex was stuff of nightmares. you have to bring a bit of reality in it. >> they analyzed the bone size, density, and movement to determine the t-rex was limited to walking speeds. an unflattering simulation showing that it's less predator, part jogger. the t-rex can only run 12 miles per hour. usain bolt can run 20 miles an hour. >> i think i was hoping it toa bit bigger. >> maybe they're not fast enough to be a predator at all. >> a scan jer doesn't fit hollywood's image of the ruler of the rock. predator versus scavenger at this point. scientists believe he has the strongest jaw of any animal ever to roam earth. ten times more than the alligator. >> my 5-year-old than ♪ [doorbell] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ health care works best when it's cen