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Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/12 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Real Science (2009) Subtitle: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Author: Avery Gilbert, Leonard Susskind, Carl Zimmer Narrator: K. C. Cole Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr Language: English Release date: 08-27-09 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels Publisher's Summary: K.C. Cole is the author of The Universe and the Teacup and other popular books on science. She is a faculty member in the School of Journalism at USC Annenberg and her new book, Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up was published in August. Avery Gilbert is a psychologist, smell scientist and entrepreneur. He is the author of What the Nose Knows, a 2008 finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology. Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978. His book The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is a 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist in Science and Technology. Carl Zimmer is the author of six books on science, including Microcosm: E coli and the New Science of Life, a finalist for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times. Zimmer won the 2007 National Academy of Sciences Communication Award.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/12 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Dirty Fingers, Clean Hands Subtitle: Sustainable Living (2009): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Author: David Mas Masumoto, Russ Parsons, Jenny Price, Jalopy Narrator: Rebecca Solnit Format: Unabridged Length: 56 mins Language: English Release date: 08-27-09 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels Publisher's Summary: Rebecca Solnit is the best-selling author of 10 books as well as countless articles for which she has received numerous awards. In 2003 she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for River of Shadows. Her most recent book is Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics. Jalopy is a writer and advocate of sustainable living. He has written for several publications - the majority of his writing can be found on his blog, hooptyrides.blogspot.com, and in the pages of Make: Magazine. David Mas Masumoto grows organic fruit on his family farm near Fresno. Among his many books is Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm, which won a Julia Child Cookbook Award. Heirlooms: Letters from a Peach Farmer is his most recent book. Russ Parsons is an award-winning food columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of How to Read a French Fry and How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table. Jenny Price is the author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America. A contributor to the Native Intelligence column on LA Observed and a recent NEH and Guggenheim Fellow, she was a PEN finalist in 2007 for her Believer piece, "Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A."

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/12 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Climate in Crisis (2009) Subtitle: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Author: Stephan Faris, Edward Humes, William J. Kelly, Daniel Sperling Narrator: Jon Wiener Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 1 min Language: English Release date: 08-26-09 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels Publisher's Summary: Jon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation magazine and a history professor at UC Irvine. He's also written for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the New Republic, and The New York Times Magazine. His most recent book is Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud and Politics in the Ivory Tower. Stephan Faris is a journalist who specializes in writing about the developing world. Since 2000, he has covered Africa, the Middle East and China for a variety of publications. His most recent book is Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change. Edward Humes received the Pulitzer Prize for his journalism and is a writer-at-large for Los Angeles magazine. He is the author of nine critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet. William J. Kelly has written on environmental and energy issues for 25 years. He is the Southern California correspondent for California Energy Circuit, covering the energy industry. Kelly is the coauthor of Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles. Daniel Sperling, a professor of engineering and environmental science and policy at UC Davis, is the author of 10 books and more than 200 technical papers and reports on transportation. His current title is Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/12 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: History Subtitle: Unknown Los Angeles (2009): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Author: Frances Dinkelspiel, Chip Jacobs, D. J. Waldie Narrator: William Deverell Format: Unabridged Length: 58 mins Language: English Release date: 08-26-09 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels Publisher's Summary: William Deverell is director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of numerous studies on the history of California and the American West. Frances Dinkelspiel is an award-winning journalist who spent more than 20 years in the newspaper business. Her first title, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, captures the life of her great-great grandfather Isaias Hellman. Chip Jacobs has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Daily News and LA Weekly. Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles, written with William. J. Kelly, was published this year. Jacobs lives in Pasadena. D. J. Waldie received the California Book Award for nonfiction for his book Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir. His latest work, California Romantica, was a Los Angeles Times best seller in 2007.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/12 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Rest of the West (2009) Subtitle: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Author: Mark Arax, Scott Martelle, Jim Newton, Deanne Stillman Narrator: Steven J. Ross Format: Unabridged Length: 59 mins Language: English Release date: 08-24-09 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels Publisher's Summary: Steven J. Ross is professor of history and chairman of the history department at USC. He has written several books in the areas of working-class history, social history and film history. Ross is the author of Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics. Mark Arax is an award-winning author and journalist. He is a contributing writer at Los Angeles magazine and a former senior writer at the Los Angeles Times. Arax's recent title is West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State. Arax teaches nonfiction writing at Claremont McKenna College. Scott Martelle is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer. His book Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West explores the uprising of coal miners against political and economic corruption in the early-20th century American West. Jim Newton is the editor of the Los Angeles Times' Editorial pages. He shared in the Pulitzer prizes awarded to the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He is the author of Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made. Deanne Stillman's best-selling book Twentynine Palms was called "a strange and brilliant story by an important American writer" by Hunter S. Thompson. Stillman's most recent book, Mustang, examines the wild horse in the culture, history and popular imagination of the American West. Stillman lives in Los Angeles.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/12 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Status Update Subtitle: Social Networking & New Media (2009): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Author: Otis Chandler, Wil Wheaton, Sara Wolf Narrator: Andrew Nystrom Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 1 min Language: English Release date: 08-24-09 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels Publisher's Summary: Andrew Nystrom, on Twitter at @latimesnystrom, is the Times' senior producer for social and emerging media. His "Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks" hiking guide won a National Outdoor Book Award for Best Adventure Guidebook. Otis Chandler is the founder of goodreads.com. He is a software engineer at heart and loves tinkering on his website to make it the best product possible. He graduated from Stanford University. Along with a passion for building websites, he's also a voracious reader. Wil Wheaton's acting career began with roles in Stand By Me and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is also an author, blogger, voice actor, and social commentator. With more than 300,000 rollovers on Twitter, Wheaton is one of the best-known users of social media. His latest book is Sunken Treasure. Sara Wolf is co-editor of Itch, an evolving art project/artist forum/journal/zine. She is also a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow in UCLA's department of World Arts and Cultures and a freelance dance critic for the Los Angeles Times.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/12 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Dr. Oliver Sacks on Music and the Mind Author: Oliver Sacks Narrator: Robert Krulwich Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 08-24-09 Publisher: 92nd Street Y Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 104 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels Publisher's Summary: Dubbed "the poet laureate of medicine" by The New York Times, Dr. Oliver Sacks is one of the great medical writers and storytellers of our time. He has transformed our understanding of the human mind and restored narrative to a central place in the practice of medicine. His best-selling books, including Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, and An Anthropologist on Mars, entertain, enlighten, and inspire his many fans around the world. Listen to Oliver Sacks' . ©2009 92nd Street Y; (P)2009 92nd Street Y Editorial Reviews: One of the great medical writers of our time, British neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks has been called the "poet laureate of medicine" by The New York Times. Speaking with Radiolab's Robert Krulwich, Dr. Sacks expands on the connection between music and the mind, the subject of his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Dr. Sacks has an elegant voice that contrasts appealingly with Krulwich's dry tones, and he demonstrates his unique ability to describe and explain medical and psychological topics in a graceful and accessible way.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/12 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Paul Krugman in Conversation with David Brancaccio Subtitle: Toward a Great Society Author: Paul Krugman Narrator: David Brancaccio Format: Abridged Length: 1 hr and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 02-27-09 Publisher: 92nd Street Y Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels Publisher's Summary: David Brancaccio is host and senior editor of NOW on PBS, public television's award-winning newsmagazine of investigative reporting and in-depth interviews. A broadcaster for 32 years, Brancaccio worked alongside the legendary journalist Bill Moyers at NOW before flying solo beginning in 2005. Editorial Reviews: Live at the 92nd Street Y has been showcasing some of the most thought-provoking lectures and entertaining productions for the past decade. This episode, featuring the Nobel Prize-winning economist and The New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman, is another fine example of their inspiring catalogue. Joining Krugman is journalist David Brancaccio, and together the two present a wildly engaging conversation covering such things as the Bernie Madoff scandal, Krugmans Nobel Prize, and various other topics concerning the current economic climate.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/12 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Ralph Rucci with Ike Ude Subtitle: Dialogues with Design Legends Author: Ralph Rucci Narrator: Ike Ude Format: Abridged Length: 1 hr and 23 mins Language: English Release date: 01-16-09 Publisher: 92nd Street Y Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels Publisher's Summary: With women's wear couture and ready-made lines, Ralph Rucci is known for a signature style that merges extraordinary craftsmanship with a sophisticated, restrained aesthetic, derived from his connoisseurship of history and art. A recipient of the 2008 National Design Award, Rucci has taken on the role of ambassador for American fashion, as the first American to show in Paris couture since the 1930s. Ike Ude is an artist and photographer, and the founder and editor in chief of the cutting-edge magazine, aRUDE. ©2008 92nd Street Y; (P)2008 92nd Street Y Editorial Reviews: Few, in the world of American fashion, have created such a stir as the designer and painter Ralph Rucci. The first American designer since Main Rousseau Bocher to be invited to show in Paris by the French Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, Rucci has been pushing the bounds of fashion for the past nearly 20 years. Joined with him for this conversation at the 92nd Street Y is the visual artist and photographer Iké Udé. As listeners have come to expect from the 92nd Street Y, this another inspiring and candid conversation from two professionals at the top of their game.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/12 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Garrison Keillor in Conversation with Roger Rosenblatt at the 92nd Street Y Author: Garrison Keillor Narrator: Roger Rosenblatt Format: Abridged Length: 1 hr and 15 mins Language: English Release date: 12-11-08 Publisher: 92nd Street Y Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 28 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels Publisher's Summary: A Grammy and Peabody winner, Garrison Keillor is the author of more than 15 books and is the creator, host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac, heard on public radio stations across the country. Keillor's new novel is Pontoon. ©2008 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association; (P)2008 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association Editorial Reviews: Garrison Keillor needs hardly any introduction. This Grammy and Peabody winner is the creator, host, and writer of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac and has also authored more than 15 books. In this conversation with Roger Rosenblatt, award-winning writer and long-time columnist for Time magazine, Keillor has the audience eating out of his hand as he discusses his novel Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon. Keillor takes the lead with his understated and folksy baritone, trading witticisms with Rosenblatt, and answering questions with self-deprecating and gentle irony.