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By dave, on August 6th, 2010%
On the August 6th episode of Tavis Smiley on PBS, Tavis interviewed author David Shenk. His new book explores how genetics affects the individual’s intellectual and physical abilities, and how the common perception of what is inherited vs learned are largely incorrect.
Buy The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong by Shenk, David from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.
By dave, on July 29th, 2010%
On the July 29th, actress Pam Grier was a guest on Tavis Smiley. She is known primarily for her work in the seminal blaxploitation movies of the 1970′s. Her new book is a memoir of those unique times in American cinema and her personal life and relationships through them.
Buy Foxy: My Life in Three Acts by Pam Grier from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on July 23rd, 2010%
On the July 23, 2010 episode of Tavis Smiley, one of the interview guests was financial fraud investigator Harry Markopolos. He is primarily known as the person who blew the whistle on the Bernie Madoff scandal. His book is an account of the Madoff fraud affair and his role in investigating it.
Buy No One Would Listen by Markopolos, Harry from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.
By dave, on July 22nd, 2010%
On the July 21st episode of Tavis Smiley, he interviewed noted author Alice Walker. Her newest book is a collection of conversations she has held with other authors and cultural figures over the last 40 years.
Buy The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker by Alice Walker from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on July 15th, 2010%
On the July 15th episode of Tavis Smiley, he interviewed author and counter-terrorism expert David Kilcullen. His most recent books cover the background of insurgencies and terrorism with discusson of tactics that can be used to meet these threats.
Buy Counterinsurgency by David Kilcullen from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
Buy The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on July 15th, 2010%
On the July 15th episode of Tavis Smiley, he interviewed author Paul Greenberg. His newest book looks at the four major types of wild fish and looks at their future as a food source and possible threats to their long term future.
Buy Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on July 6th, 2010%
On the July 6th episode of Tavis Smiley, he interviewed author Nicholas Carr. His newest book is an examination of the internet and the long-term affects of what near ubiquitous access is doing to our culture.
Buy The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 30th, 2010%
On the June 30th episode of Tavis Smiley one of the interview guests was CEO of Zappos.com, Tony Hsieh. His new book chronicles his time in the business world successfully leading two different companies to large acquisitions and providing advice on how to build culture and provide great customer service.
Buy Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 29th, 2010%
On the June 29th episode of Tavis Smiley one of the interview guests was novelist Bret Easton Ellis. Ellis’ newest novel is a return to the characters of his iconic novel of the 1980′s, Less Than Zero. In the new book, time has not been kind to the characters and the obsessions of the young begin to wear on the now middle-aged characters.
Buy Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
Buy Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 24th, 2010%
Spencer Wells is a leading population geneticist and director of the Genographic Project from National Geographic. He was a guest on the June 24th episode of Tavis Smiley where he discussed his book on the past and future of agriculture.
Buy Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 23rd, 2010%
On June 22nd, actress Molly Ringwald was a guest on Tavis Smiley. Ringwald is well known as one of the iconic figures from the John Hughes movies of the 1980s, and she continues to act as the mother in The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Her new book is self-help by way of style, about how women can bolster their self-image and confidence through rediscovering their own beauty.
Buy Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick from Amazon for the Kindle.
By dave, on June 23rd, 2010%
On June 22nd Tavis Smiley interviewed Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast and former editor of The New Republic. Beinart is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at The City University of New York. His new book is an examination of the American attitude towards foreign policy and the underlying cultural self-image that drives our policy decisions.
Buy The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 22nd, 2010%
On the June 21st episode of Tavis Smiley, Tavis interviewed author Sebastian Mallaby. Mallaby is the director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council for Foreign Relations think tank. His new book is a history of hedge funds from the 1960s to the present.
Buy More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 18th, 2010%
The June 18th episode of the Tavis Smiley Show featured chef, television personality and author Anthony Bourdain . Bourdain was a young chef in Manhattan during the punk era of the late 70s and that attitude has colored all his work through today. His irreverent personality from the No Reservations program also comes through his prose work. His most recent book is a look at the current state of the food world, in pop culture and literature and most importantly in the taste buds.
Buy Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from the Kobo store.
By dave, on June 17th, 2010%
On June 17th book editor and novelist Brando Skyhorse was a guest on the Tavis Smiley Show. His debut novel was recently released to great critical acclaim.
Buy The Madonnas of Echo Park: A Novel from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 17th, 2010%
On June 16th Isobel Coleman, a leading American expert on Islamic feminism, was interviewed on the Tavis Smiley Show. A senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, she also directs the Council’s Women and Foreign Policy Program. Her new book is an examination of the feminists working within the tenets of Islam in the fundamentalist countries of the Middle East.
Buy Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 15th, 2010%
On June 14th, former president of Shell Oil John Hofmeister was on the Tavis Smiley Show. His most recent book is a sadly relevant one today, exploring why the general public has an antipathy towards oil companies.
Buy Why We Hate the Oil Companies from Amazon for the Kindle.
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By dave, on June 8th, 2010%
On June 8th, Michael Hiltzik from the Los Angeles Times appeared on the Tavis Smiley Show to discuss his new book about the building of Hoover Dam.
Buy Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century from Amazon for the Kindle.
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