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Recorded On: Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Recorded On: Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Since 1987 Nancy Pelosi has represented California's 8th District, which includes most of the city of San Francisco, in the House of Representatives. Elected by her colleagues in 2002 as Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives, Pelosi is the first woman to lead a major party in Congress and, as of 2007, the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters is her memoir of growing up in Baltimore immersed in politics and how she came to hold the highest office of any woman in U.S. history.
Recorded On: Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Author P. M. Forni talks about his new book, The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude.
Many of us find ourselves confronted with rudeness every day and don't know how to respond. In The Civility Solution, P.M. Forni shows us what to do when we encounter bad behavior, such as the intrusive cell-phone uuser or the hostile highway driver. This simple and practical handbook will help you break the rudeness cycle in an assertive yet civil way.
Dr. P.M. Forni is an award-winning professor of Italian Literature at Johns Hopkins University. In 2000 he founded The Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins and has continued to teach courses on the theory and history of manners. He is the author of Choosing Civility.
Recorded On: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Recorded On: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Recorded On: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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