LFPL's At the Library Series

Hanna Rosin 10-04-12

October 05, 2012 13:00 - 60.3 MB

In her book "The End of Men," journalist Hanna Rosin argues that at this unprecedented moment, by almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men: they have pulled ahead. Rosin discusses how this new state of affairs is radically shifting the dynamics between men and women at every level of society, with profound implications for marriage, sex, children, work, and more.

Robert Massie 09-27-12

September 28, 2012 13:00 - 58.8 MB

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Peter the Great", "Nicholas and Alexandra," and "The Romanovs" returns with the extraordinary story of "Catherine the Great," one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history.

What's Next: Climate Change with Dr. Keith Mountain 09-06-12

September 07, 2012 13:00 - 67.5 MB

Dr. Keith Mountain is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University of Louisville. From shrinking ice to scorching summers, he has been engaged as a researcher in the science of climate change for over 30 years - his perspective shaped by his research in places as far away as Antarctica, Greenland, China, Africa and South America, and as close as Louisville's Iroquois Park. In this first installment of LFPL's new What's Next series, Dr. Mountain leads a ...

Jeneen Wiche 08-04-12

August 10, 2012 14:00 - 67.6 MB

If you think "old-fashioned" means intimidating, time-consuming pressure-cooker canning, think again: Wiche is a fan of traditional techniques like salting and drying, poaching and preserving-in-oil that save flavor, time and energy. Jeneen Wiche writes farm and garden columns for community newspapers across Kentucky and Southern Indiana and feature columns for Back Home in Kentucky and Edible Louisville.

Patricia Cohen 07-18-12

July 19, 2012 13:00 - 53.8 MB

From the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas comes a revelatory and timely social history of the concept of middle age. "In Our Prime" is a biography of the idea of middle age, from its invention in the late nineteenth century to its current place at the center of American society, where it shapes the way we view our families, our professional obligations, and our inner lives.

Gail Collins 06-28-12

July 02, 2012 13:00 - 67.3 MB

Not until she visited Texas, did Gail Collins, the bestselling author and columnist for the New York Times, realize that she had missed the one place that mattered most in America's political landscape: Texas, where Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Perry created a conservative political agenda that is shaping our political landscape. "Like it or not," she says, "as Texas goes, so goes the nation."

Thomas Mallon 06-18-12

June 19, 2012 13:00 - 65.1 MB

In "Watergate," novelist Thomas Mallon conveys the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency through the urgent perspectives of seven characters, moving readers from the private cabins of Camp David to the klieg lights of the Senate Caucus Room, and ultimately into the hive of the Watergate complex itself.

James Fallows 05-24-12

May 24, 2012 18:00 - 66.3 MB

In "China Airborne," James Fallows documents, for the first time, the extraordinary scale of China's five-year plan to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. He explains why this is a crucial test case for China's hopes for modernization and innovation, and examines what this latest demonstration of Chinese ambition means for the United States and the rest of the world.

Jonathan D. Sarna 04-26-12

April 26, 2012 12:00 - 62.9 MB

Award-winning historian Jonathan D. Sarna's newest book, "When Grant Expelled the Jews," gives a riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant's decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command. The book gives the first complete account of this little-known episode in American history - including Grant's subsequent apology, his groundbreaking appointment of Jews to prominent positions in his administration, and his unprecedented ...

Michael Duffy 04-24-12

April 24, 2012 17:00 - 65.3 MB

In "The Presidents Club," executive editor of TIME magazine Michael Duffy tells the inside story of the world's most exclusive fraternity. He tells how presidents from Hoover through Obama worked with - and sometimes, against - each other when they were in and out of power.

George Dyson 03-12-12

March 15, 2012 21:00 - 55.8 MB

Distinguished science writer George Dyson's newest book, "Turing's Cathedral," has been called "the definitive history of the computer." The book chronicles the Institute for Advanced Study in the 1940s and 1950s, when work on Turing's dream of a universal machine led to computers, digital television, modern genetics, and more.

Boom Time: My Creative Life 02-22-12

March 15, 2012 20:00 - 82.1 MB

Part of LFPL's Boom Time series, this conversation features professionals with creative lives on the side, including Susan McNeese Lynch, a marketing consultant and actress; Dr. Ron Lehocky, a pediatrician and clay artist; Marta Miranda, CEO of the Center for Women and Families and a poet; and Baptist Health Care executives Tom McGee and Don Riggs of the band, The Remedy. Brad Dillon, a lawyer and bread baker extraordinaire, serves as moderator.

Boom Time: My Life as Lifeline 02-15-12

March 15, 2012 18:00 - 82.4 MB

Part of LFPL's Boom Time series, this discussion features experts on caring for ill or aging family members, a situation in which one out of every three people will find themselves.

Boom Time: My Farm Life 02-08-12

March 13, 2012 20:00 - 80.9 MB

Part of LFPL's Boom Time series, this discussion features city folks with farm lives on the side. Participants include Tommee Clark, Debbie Galloway, Tomese Buthod, and Ramsi Kamar.

The '37 Flood - Remarkable Stories Remembered 02-07-12

March 13, 2012 19:00 - 83.3 MB

Led by historian Rick Bell, author of "The Great Flood of 1937," this panel discussion also features Keith Runyon, Courier-Journal editor, discussing the role of the local media; Kelley Dearing-Smith of Louisville Water and Jay Ferguson, historian, sharing the story of how a group of men fired up the old steam engines to provide the city with drinking water; and LFPL's Kentucky History Librarian Joe Hardesty, talking about how to research information on the Great Flood at the Louisville Free ...

Mayor Greg Fischer at TedX Manhattan 01-11-12

March 09, 2012 19:00 - 23.1 MB

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer talks to the audience at LFPL's livestream of the TedX Manhattan conference.

Gabrielle Hamilton 1-28-12

January 30, 2012 16:00 - 46.1 MB

World-class chef Gabrielle Hamilton's New York Times bestselling memoir, "Blood, Bones & Butter," tells her unconventional story through the many kitchens she has inhabited over the years.

Kim Edwards 11-29-11

November 30, 2011 17:00 - 48.6 MB

Kim Edwards' latest novel, "The Lake of Dreams," is a powerful family narrative and a story of love lost and found. It tells the story of a woman's homecoming to the lake of her childhood, and the discovery of a secret past that will alter her understanding of her heritage, and herself, forever.

Ingrid Betancourt 9-26-11

November 17, 2011 17:00 - 60.6 MB

Ingrid Betancourt was a Colombian politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat widespread corruption. In 2002 she was kidnapped by the FARC - a terrorist guerrilla organization - and held hostage in the Colombian jungle for more than six years. She was finally rescued on July 2, 2008. "Even Silence Has an End" tells her story, in her own words.

Stacy Schiff 10-19-11

October 19, 2011 17:00 - 59.7 MB

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff brings to life one of the most intriguing women in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. In her book "Cleopatra: A Life," Schiff returns to classical sources to create a deeply original portrait of the queen, whose death ushered in a new world order.

Lee Child 9-30-11

October 03, 2011 17:00 - 51.1 MB

Lee Child is the #1 internationally bestselling author of thirteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including The New York Times bestsellers "The Enemy, One Shot, and The Hard Way." His latest in the series, "The Affair," is actually a prequel, taking readers back to the start of it all.

Marc Freedman 9-13-11

September 14, 2011 17:00 - 62.3 MB

Marc Freedman's "The Big Shift" makes an impassioned call to the nation's 78 million baby boomers to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are - an entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years.

Laura Carstensen 9-12-11

September 13, 2011 17:00 - 62.3 MB

Dr. Laura L. Carstensen, who founded Stanford University's Longevity Center, will discuss her book "A Long Bright Future: Happiness, Health and Financial Security in an Age of Increased Longevity."

Amanda Little 7-14-11

July 20, 2011 17:00 - 70.3 MB

Amanda Little's book "Power Trip: The Story of America's Love Affair with Energy" brings a journalist's reporting experience and a story-teller's flair to exploring our energy history, its role in our contemporary lives - and possible solutions.

Bobbie Ann Mason 6-30-11

July 01, 2011 17:00 - 54.8 MB

Inspired by the wartime experiences of her late father-in-law, award-winning author and Kentucky native Bobbie Ann Mason's latest novel follows an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe. Intimate and haunting, The Girl in the Blue Beret is an affecting story of love and courage, war and redemption, and the startling promise of second chances.

Janny Scott 6-21-11

June 22, 2011 17:00 - 56.3 MB

Award-winning reporter Janny Scott's latest book explores the life of the woman who most shaped Barack Obama - his mother. A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother follows the life of Stanley Ann Dunham, from Kansas and Washington state to Hawaii and Indonesia. Compiled from nearly two hundred interviews with Dunham's friends, colleagues, and relatives (including both her children), personal and professional papers, letters to friends, and photo albums, the book uncovers t...

Kenneth Slawenski 5-19-11

May 20, 2011 17:00 - 53.2 MB

J. D. Salinger: A Life tells the inside story of one of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history. From his dramatic encounters with luminaries like Ernest Hemingway and Laurence Olivier, to the stunning triumph of The Catcher in the Rye, Kenneth Slawenski's new biography is filled with new information and revelations garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records spanning nearly the entire twentieth century.

Steven Levy 4-26-11

April 27, 2011 16:00 - 60.2 MB

Steven Levy is a senior writer at Wired, and was formerly senior editor and chief technology correspondent for Newsweek. He is the author of seven books, including Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which was voted the best sci-tech nonfiction book of the last twenty years by readers of PC Magazine. His latest book, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives - written with full cooperation from top management at Google - tells the story behind the most successful and ...

Parag Khanna 2-10-11

February 11, 2011 15:00 - 58.9 MB

Geo-strategist and author Parag Khanna has explored more than 100 countries over the course of his career, which has included stints at the Brookings Institution, the World Economic Forum in Geneva, and the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book, How to Run the World, is a bold account of our current global crisis and a road-map for creating a truly stable world.

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