>> e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> booktv sat down with linda gordon to talk about her by biography, on dorthea lange. it is about one half hour. >> host: linda gordon, who was dorthea lange? >> guest: many people don't know her name, but i can very tell you that everyone in the country knows her photographs. one of her photographs, which is often called my grandmother, has been called the most in this photograph in america, sort of the michael jordan of photographs. it's been in every textbook. what is a visual image that you have of the great depression, they will describe this photograph. >> host: or was the photograph taken? >> guest: it was taken in california. it's interesting because she was the main person in the center of the u.s. during the great depression. and these were migrant workers who moved along from field to field from one agriculture operation to another. this particular woman had been in her family had been working on seasonally. but it was work herriot crop was destroyed and they were putting their best in when there was no work, hoping that they would find wo

e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> coming up next, william easterly, co-director of the new york university development research institute, sat down with booktv to discuss his latest book, "the tyranny of experts." this interview is part of booktv's college series. it's about 20 minutes. >> host: nyu professor william easterly, in your book "the tyranny of experts: economists, dictators and the forgotten rights of the poor," what's your message? >> guest: my message is the tragedy of the fight against global poverty is that we have forgotten about the rights of the poor. and that often can make the poor worse off rather than better off, unfortunately. >> host: how are we conducting this fight against poverty? >> guest: well, a lot of it is through official aid agencies like usaid, the american aid agency or the world bank, and some of it is through private philanthropy like the most famous is the gates foundation from bill gates, bill and melinda gates. they're giving money to technical solutions to help the world's poor, and they think they're being politically neutral or indifferent to th

booktv? send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. tweet us @booktv or post on our wall, facebook.com/booktv. >> here's a look at some upcoming book fairsand festivals happening around the country: >> let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area, and we'll add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> coming up next, william easterly, co-director of the new york university development research institute, sat down with booktv to discuss his latest book, "the tyranny of experts." this interview is part of booktv's college series. it's about 20 minutes. >> host: nyu professor william easterly, in your book "the tyranny of experts: economists, dictators and the forgotten rights of the poor," what's your message? >> guest: my message is the tragedy of the fight against global poverty is that we have forgotten about the rights of the poor. and that often can make the poor worse off rather than better off, unfortunately. >> host: how are

at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals that are happening around the nation. >> be sure to let us know about book fairs and festivals happening in your area. e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> roberto trotta is the author of "the edge of the sky." he explains the unito verse and -- universe using only the 1,000 most commonly-used words in the english language. he spoke for about an hour. >> and now it is my pleasure to introduce our distinguished speaker. dr. roberto trotta is a theoretical cosmologist in the astrophysics of -- [inaudible] um peerl college, london. he's one of the world's leading figures in astrostatistics, a new discipline focusing on the use of statistical methods to solve problems in cosmology and astrophysics. roberto has held research positions at university of geneva, the university of oxford as well as visiting positions at the african institute for mathematical sciences in capetown -- [speaking in native tongue] and university of california at santa barbara. he also has published more than 50 scientific papers, contributed to two books and received numerous awards for his research, including michaelson prize of case western reserve university, t

. >> e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> booktv sat down with linda gordon to talk about her by biography on dorthea lange. it is about one half hour. >> host: linda gordon, who was dorthea lange? >> guest: many people don't know her name, but i can very tell you that everyone in the country knows her photographs. one of her photographs, which is often called my grandmother, has been called the most in this

and we add them to our list, e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org.barbara explained this is a book about scary new emerging diseases and where they emerge from. and where they emerge from generally is wildlife, other species, and at the than domesticated animals. if you have certain stories in the news in the last few months, the daily newspaper itself, you have probably heard about the hunt of virus killing three people who visited yosemite in the summer. people have been dying in north texas of west nile fever. in the dallas area alone 15 people died of west nile fever since july. there has been an ebola outbreak again in central africa, the democratic republic of the condo as an ebola outbreak that has killed 3 dozen people by now and still going on. there was another ebola outbreak across the border in uganda and related to the spillover that had caused the outbreak in the democratic republic of the condo. that one was ended so these things are happening. it is like a drumbeat of disease outbreaks and small crises. another on the arabian peninsul

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 overworked in a good way, that's the context we mean it in. if the believe that wor

e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> up next, clarence page talks about his collection of chicago tribune on race, policy and social changes he has written over the past 30 years. this event was hosted by the whole center at the old naval hospital in washington d.c.. it is an hour and 15 minutes. >> what a pleasure to welcome clarence page. and his new book, "culture warrior: reflections on race, politics and social change" from 1984 to 2014. for questions on race, politics and social change. he is that 1989 pulitzer prize winner and has been a columnist and reporter and member of the editorial board of chicago tribune since 1984. he has won every honor you may imagine but awards from the national association of newspapers columnists and chicago all of fame. he would like to talk about his book and we will open it to questions and this is being tipped. please come to the microphone to ask a question and in that period, available for sale in the gallery to the left. welcome to hills center and i will turn it over to clarence page. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you. are we ok? ok

at new york university. >> is they are a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see? 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 tha

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!, herself the 20th em

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