Category: Video

June 15, 2010

Ken Posner: What will be the next black swan?

Yesterday, Ken Posner, author of Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility, was a featured guest on CNBC to discuss his book and how the government, financial institutions, and investors can best prepare...

June 11, 2010

John V. Lindsay and television

In addition to America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York, a museum exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, there have also been a series of symposiums exploring the Lindsay’s mayoralty and its...

April 2, 2010

Edward Hess talks about Smart Growth on Business Insider, Part 2

In the first part of his interview with Business Insider , Edward Hess the author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing Risks, questioned the conventional view that growth is necessarily good for business. In the second half...

March 30, 2010

Sylvia Beach Interview

Greta Schiller’s 1995 documentary Paris was a Woman , explores the vital role that women played in the artistic and intellectual life in inter-war Paris. The film includes archival footage and interviews with many of the leading figures, including none...

March 26, 2010

Edward Hess talks to Business Insider about Smart Growth

In an interview with Business Insider (see below), Edward Hess, author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing Risks, challenges Wall Street’s accepted wisdom about growth. Hess argues that growth is not always good; bigger is not always...

March 23, 2010

Paul Offit: Autism's False Prophets now available in paperback

Paul Offit’s best-selling Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure is now available in paperback with a new preface. While the hardcover was first published in 2008 events have kept the book in the...

March 15, 2010

Edward Hess on Smart Growth

Edward Hess discusses his new book Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth. For more on the book, you can also read an interview in which Hess challenges conventional thinking regarding growth and business. From...

March 12, 2010

My Life with the Taliban video and NYT interview

The New York Times blog At War recently interviewed Felix Kuehn and Alex Strick van Linschoten, editors of My Life with the Taliban, the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a former senior member of Afghanistan’s Taliban and a principal actor...

December 10, 2009

Experimenting with Herve This

Below is a video of a lecture Herve This recently gave at Imperial College entitled “Molecular Cooking is Cooking: Molecular Gastronomy is a Scientific Activity.” However, don’t let the word “lecture” scare you off, This’s talks, which include several experiments...

November 23, 2009

David Allen Sibley: How to draw an osprey

Earlier this month Amazon’s blog Omnivoracious wrote a post about a recent visit by David Allen Sibley to their offices. Since we recently published Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds, which is edited by Billy Collins and...

November 17, 2009

Video: Toby Talbot talks about the New Yorker Theater

The following is a video of Toby Talbot discussing her new book The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life in the Movies. The book chronicles Talbot’s legendary movie theater, which during the 60s and 70s brought cutting-edge...

September 8, 2009

R. Glenn Hubbard on The Aid Trap

Here is our book trailer with R. Glenn Hubbard, co-author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty: