us on the first floor. [inaudible conversations] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org, tweet us booktv our post on our wall, facebook.com/booktv. here's a look at some books being published this week. for these titles and book stores this coming week and watched for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> utah and about being overworked in a good way, happily overworked. tell us a little bit about that. i think there's always something way more work than people. you know, how do you bring that into the culture and make that a positive thing? >> we've been criticized over the sort of general term because it somehow doesn't sound right. let's explain what we mean. that kind of people who we want to working in our company in georgia working in your company or people who are going to do this because they love it. and they work more or less all the time the best they can whether or not they think they also enjoyed like being with family, raising the kids, going to the movies or what have you. in other words, they are intense people. so with the overwo

to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. >> it seems to me it's important to start talking in persuasive and critical terms about what an athletic education might be all about and how it might dovetail with the intellectual education. in the book i want to talk about the acquisition of character. i had opportunity to acquire character. i was terribly bad at football, that the most basic kind of football activity took me days and weeks and planning and reflection and vision. it took me to a half weeks simply to learn how to run in my pads. i would get out there everyday and i would feel like i am locked in a closet, chained up. i cannot move. everybody else was lying around me. winick icu can't move and you're on the scrimmage field, they think i have an idea. you are their idea. the next thing you know you have blood coming out of your nose and you're looking at the sky. the sky is beautiful but blood does not help. i have to learn to run through my pads and it worked and i work. i repeated and repeated. finally, like a bolt from the blue, a coach said, stop that. run through your pads.

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to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail to booktv at c-span.org. tweet us at the booktv or post on our wall facebook.com/booktv. >> this week booktv takes a look at national public radio's list of best selling nonfiction books. >> that's this week's bestsellers according to npr. >> you were a whopping 27 years old. you would finish middle school but you're just getting started in your hd efforts in microbiology at the institute of tropical medicine in antwerp. a mysterious test tube sample show up in terrible condition, and you figure out that there's some new disease in africa, and you have the chutzpah to turn and say i know i'm only 27, but i want to go there. i want to go to africa, let me go. i want to be in the middle of this adventure. how could you have such come where did all this call come from? >> eye gouge a timid and shy person. my mother always said speaking is the silver silence golden, but anyway i think i'm a bit different. i was for so i had an incredible urge for discovery from when i was a child and when i was a teenager i worked

to do. [applause] >> thank you very much for joining us. >> is there a nonfiction author or book you would love to see on booktv? send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. tweet us at booktv or post to our wall facebook.com/booktv. this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here is the prime-time lineup, stephen johnson looks at six innovations that made the water world. >> next google eric smith end jonathan rosenberg talk about the lessons they learned while helping to grow google and described how the company and website work today. during this event hosted by the computer history museum, the co-authors of how google works are interviewed by marissa mayer, president and ceo of yahoo!. this event is 75 minutes long. >> our subject tonight is how google works of man we will examine that question in more than just theory. google vice-president eric schmidt and jonathan rosenberg is here to discuss their new titles. most of all, it is an authentic inside look at the culture and practices behind one of the world's most successful companies. what a moderator we have to lead the discussion. marissa mayer, president and ceo of yahoo!, hersel

send an e-mail to booktv at c-span.org, send us a tweet or post on our wall at facebook.com/booktv. during the recent visit to madison, wisconsin, we spoke to erika janik about the early history and politics. >> i decided to write books that covered all of the history because i'm not from madison. i grew up in the suburb of seattle and i moved here not really knowing very much about wisconsin or the place that i was living in. and so i started learning more about it as i spent more time here and i really wanted to write a book for someone like me who may be given will appear in wasn't familiar with the history as well as people who have lived here their whole lives and had no idea what the story was. i think one of the things that was the most surprising to me about learning about the history of medicine was how hard they had to hang on to be in the capital of wisconsin. they were in constant jeopardy of losing status and i think that that has something to do with how they began. it began at on a piece of paper. it was proposed that it would become the state capital but first the ter

to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail to c-span.org, tweet us @booktv or post on our wall, facebook.com/booktv. >> just aen is a fascinating figure -- jason is a fascinating figure, he really is. he gave the speech that i talk so much about. it was actually the cotton speech when he goes on to say cotton is king and we will win if we ever have a war, but hammond is almost a cartoon character in many number of ways. he was sexually abusive not only to his slaves, but also to his nieces who were extraordinarily well connected. that was part of the wade hampton family. and that's itself a fascinating story. but he had a very different view of america than men like abraham lincoln. he believed that the way a healthy society worked -- and mind you, he was living in one of the wealthiest societies in the world at the time. southern slave owners were enormously wealthy. we were well educated. they owned beautiful paintings that they had on their walls, and i mean rembrandts. i don't mean, you know, ones their daughters did. >> my daughter did painting, i have to say, professor, it would be the most beautiful poss

to see featured on booktv? send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. tweet us on booktv and post on eyewall facebook.com/booktv.ing up in how to speak money author john manchester talks about the words many people use and what they mean by some. during this event at the commonwealth club in san francisco mr. manchester is in conversation with michael lewis whose book liar's focal was released this year in celebration of the 25anniversary of its publication. this is just over an hour. >> good evening and welcome to today's meeting of the commonwealth club of california, a place where you are in the know. find us on the internet at commonwealthclub.org or download our iphone and android apps for its programming schedule information and hot gas past programs lose time dr. ruth shapiro of the commonwealth club's board of governors and your chair for tonight's program. notice my pleasure to introduce tonight's program featuring john lanchester, new yorker contributor and author of the new book "how to speak money: what the money money people--and what it really means". john will be in conversation with michael lewis