sonya shaw's history of pandemics over the past a 50 years was reviewed in scientific american. the monthly magazine writes that ms. shaw shows how political and practical factors such as city crowding and lack of infrastructure have paved the way for global sicknesses. and that ratherren than waging war -- rather than waging war against a pandemic after it's already full-blown, shaw argues we must focus on proactive defenses against disease to prevent the next blow. and for npr, nicole dickson -- a teacher in manhattan -- reviewed ed bo lin's new book on his experiences teaching at a new york city public high school. she comments that boland's focus on his personal struggle to maintain order takes readers away from the more important national conversation about the societal inequities that are reflected in all of our classrooms. that in the end, i came away respecting boland's honesty, admiring his writing and vehemently agreeing with his pleas to integrate america's public schools. here's ed boland on why he decided to write about his teaching experience. >> my urgent immediat

. >> you can see that entire event with sonya shaw tonight atle: 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> marine corps commanding officer colonel calvert worth talks about his recent deployment to spain where he provided crisis response to u.s. and partner interests in africa. the forum hosted by the potomac institute is 35 minutes. >> okay, ladies and gentlemen. good afternoon. on behalf of mike sweaten and general grey, welcome to the potomac institute for policy studies and welcome to the center for adaptation and innovation sponsorship of the returning commander series. today we are happy to have with us the operations officer of the special purpose crisis response africa, colonel carr. he's here because the colonel is off doing an important dealings at the pentagon but we got the operations officer who knows how this deployment went and he's going to share with us lessons learned and experiences of the deployment. colonel carr, come on up. >> good afternoon, general grey. general flynn. ladies and gentlemen, i'm lieutenant general brad carr, operations officer

and the author of the pandemics, sonya shaw on how to prevent the spread of infectious disease. >> doctor vincent and his

also this weekend, sonya shaw reports on the spread of infectious diseases over the past 50 years. a report of teaching in a new york city public high school and booktv visits anaheim, california, to tour the city's literary sites and talk to local authors. for a complete television schedule, booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, everyone. thank you for coming out tonight. my name is candace, i work with some of the events here at the store, and on behalf of the owners and the rest of the staff, thanks for coming out, and welcome to politics and prose. right now i just have a few logistics to go over. if you could turn off your cell phones or put them on vibrate so that it doesn't disrupt our time here. we are recording this event this evening, and so any interruptions will be remembered. [laughter] the way it's going to work is this will be about an hourlong presentation with half the time given to our speaker and the other half given to your questions with. we have one microphone on

and the author of the pandemics, sonya shaw on how to prevent the spread of infectious disease. >> doctor vincent and his daughter are co-authors of the death of cancer, but the history of cancer research and therapies they discuss cancer treatments and putting chemotherapy, immunotherapy and medical marijuana. this is an hour. >> good evening, i am kelly the program director at the westport library. i'm. i'm pleased to welcome you to this evening's program. just a few housekeeping items before we get started. if you could please take a moment to silence your cell phone, you have noticed a few cameras in the room and we are pleased to have c-span here to film this evening's program. tonight is an onstage conversation and there will be an opportunity for audience questions at the end, i'm going to ask that you please wait for the microphone and speak into it clearly so your question could be heard. after the discussion the authors will be pleased to sign copies of their book. the books are available here and the authors will sign the books here to my rights. if you you could please form a

sonya shaw's history of pandemics over the past 5 year 0 years was review -- 50 years was reviewed in scientific american. ms. shaw shows how political and practical factors such as city crowding and lack of infrastructure have paved the way for global sicknesses and that rather than waging war against pandemic after it's already full blown, shaw argues we must focus on proactive defenses against disease to prevent the next blow. and for npr, nicole dixon, a teacher at east side community high school in manhattan, reviewed ed boland's new book on his experiences teaching at a new york city public high school. she comments that boland's focus on his personal struggle to maintain order takes readers away from the more important national conversation about the societal inequities that are reflected in all of our classrooms, that in the end i came away respecting boland's honesty, admiring his writing and vehemently agreeing with his pleas to integrate america's public schools. here's ed boland on why he decided to write about his teaching experience. >> my urgent need to tell this story

and at nine, science journalist sonya shaw reports on the spread of infectious disease.hat's followed by "after words" with washington post columnist e.j. dionne talking to fox news' juan williams about republican politics. and we finish up our prime time programming with an 11 p.m. program, john steele gordon gives a history of the washington monument. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, everyone. my name is vicki goodman, and on behalf of the friends of the institute for neuroscience and human behavior at ucla, it is my pleasure to the welcome you to this open mind presentation. we are honored and proud to have with us this evening a preeminent scientist who really needs no introduction to this audience. our director of the institute and author of "the

and at nine, science journalist sonya shaw reports on the spread of infectious disease. that's followed by "after words" with washington post columnist e.j. dionne talking to fox news' juan williams about republican politics. and we finish up our prime time programming with an 11 p.m. e.t. program. john steel gordon gives a history of the washington monument. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> host: and now next on booktv, a discussion of "the solicitor general and the united states supreme court." there's the book cover. co-author is university of wisconsin professor ryan owens. professor owens, what is a us have to have general? -- solicitor general? >> guest: so the solicitor general is the attorney for the united states. he or she represents the united states' interests in the supreme court, occasionally in the federal circuit courts of appeals, but is really the central figure in terms of litigating the u.s.' position before supreme court. >> host: whether or not that person is an expert in the topic being discussed or not, it's more of a trial attorne