| 02/14/12 |
Connectome... How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are - Sebastian Seung, Author
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February 14, 2012
Sebastian Seung, a dynamic young professor at MIT, is at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience. He believes that our identity lies not in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells--our own particular wiring.
Seung and a dedicated group of researchers are leading the effort to map these connections, neuron by neuron, synapse by synapse. It is a monumental effort--the scientific equivalent of climbing Mount Everest--but if they succeed, they will uncover...
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| 02/19/12 |
Story Time with Jennifer Fosberry, Author
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February 19, 2012
Jennifer Fosberry takes us on a new imaginative journey featuring everyone's favorite purple-haired, little girl. Previously, Isabella discovered her favorite heroes in My Name Is Not Isabella. Now she travels around the world experiencing its greatest wonders without ever leaving her own backyard.
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| 02/23/12 |
Tales from the Zirzameen - Brian Appleton, Author
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February 23, 2012
Tales from the Zirzameen reflects on Iranian culture and society as well as the American expatriate culture there in the 1970s. The short stories relate how the author became totally assimilated there, and he shares his experiences leading up to the revolution and in its aftermath. The book is relevant and funny in addition to its serious side.
Despite the circumstances under which the he left the country--including being taken hostage for a time--the author celebrates...
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| 02/24/12 |
Sports Workshop for Girls
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February 24, 2012
Lisa Mitzel will faciliate this Sports Workshop for Girls featuring open talk and activites. Topics include: the best foods to fuel muscles and repair injury, how to set sports goals and track progress, and the issue of pressure--where it comes from and how to turn it into personal power and reduce anxiety.
Lisa was NCAA National Champion, All-American, Utah Hall of Fame inductee, and former Stanford coach. There will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions...
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| 02/26/12 |
Story Time with Alexandra Day, Author
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February 26, 2012
Alexandra Day is a legendary storyteller who has a knack for surprising juxtapositions. She is the creator of the rottweiler named Carl who gently tends to an infant in a series of books that began in 1985. Now comes The Fairy Dogfather.
Hector has trouble differentiating the letters D and G. Thus when he writes a request for a fairy godfather, the Fairy Dogfather arrives instead, wearing a fedora and smoking a cigar. He isn't what Hector had in mind at all. He uses big...
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| 02/28/12 |
Occam's Raquet... 12 Steps to Smarter Tennis - Marcus Paul Cootsona, Author
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February 28, 2012
Tennis is a complex game, but it doesn't need to be difficult. Occam's Racquet breaks down the game of tennis and shows players how to change their approach to learning and playing the game. Each of the twelve chapters focuses on one area of the physical or mental game of tennis. For the many players struggling to master the "pro game" and modern teaching methods, the techniques in the book will help craft a reliable and consistent game, even for players with limited...
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| 03/04/12 |
Fault Zone... Stepping Up to the Edge - California Writers Club, Contributors
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March 4, 2012
Join Christopher Wachlin, Tory Hartmann, and other contributors from the San Francisco and Peninsula Branch of the California Writers Club as they discuss the anthology Fault Zone.
Published novelists David Hirzel, Audrey Kalman, Elise Frances Miller, Keith deFolo, and Diane Moomey all have stories in Fault Zone: Stepping Up to the Edge. Other authors are Carole J. Bumpus, Bridget Burke, California Senior Poet Lauriate Jo Carpignano, Ann Foster, Darlene Frank,...
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| 03/06/12 |
The Spinoza Problem - Irvin D. Yalom, Author
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March 6, 2012
Join author Irvin D. Yalom as he discusses his novel, The Spinoza Problem. In the words of Sir Anthony Hopkins, "This is the most intriguing novel I've read in many a year. Irvin Yalom has created a taut, deeply informative page turner. I enthusiastically recommend The Spinoza Problem."
When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster's office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech, he is forced in...
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| 03/07/12 |
Bringing Home the Dharma - Jack Kornfield, Author
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March 7, 2012
If you want to find inner peace and wisdom, you don't need to move to an ashram or monastery. Your life, just as it is, is the perfect place to be. Jack Kornfield, one of America's most respected Buddhist teachers and author of Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are, shares this and other key lessons gleaned from more than forty years of committed study and practice.
Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and...
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| 03/09/12 |
Standing Tall... My Journey - Spencer West, Author
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March 9, 2012
Spencer West is many things: accomplished speaker, university graduate, natural prankster, former cheerleader, and a young man without legs--something that has never held him back. Spencer was born without the use of his legs. When he was five, doctors decided to amputate below his pelvis to better help him get around. It didn't bother him; he was Superman and nothing would ever get in his way, or so he thought.
Navigating through life on his hands, Spencer has always lived with...
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| 03/13/12 |
The Creative Destruction of Medicine - Dr. Eric Topol, Author
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March 13, 2012
It turns out plenty of new medicines--although tested with what seem like large trials--actually end up revealing most of their problems only once they get out in the real world. The unexpected interactions of drugs, patients, and diseases can be devastating. How can we avoid these dangerous interactions and side-effects? How can we predict which person out of a hundred will be helped by a new drug, and which fatally harmed?
Eric J. Topol, M.D., is professor of innovative...
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| 03/14/12 |
Murder at the Lanterne Rouge - Cara Black, Author
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March 14, 2012
Aimee Leduc is happy her long-time business partner Rene has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. It's not her fault if she can't suppress her doubts about the relationship. Rene is moving way too fast, and Aimee's instincts tell her Meizi, this supposed love of Rene's life, isn't trustworthy. Her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner to take a phone call and never comes back to the restaurant. Minutes later, the body of a young man, a science...
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| 03/17/12 |
Revelations... Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation - Elaine Pagel, Author
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March 17, 2012
Through the bestselling books of Elaine Pagels, thousands of readers have come to know and treasure the suppressed biblical texts known as the Gnostic Gospels. As one of the world's foremost religion scholars, she has been a pioneer in interpreting these books and illuminating their place in the early history of Christianity. Her new book, however, tackles a text that is firmly, dramatically within the New Testament canon: The Book of Revelation, the surreal apocalyptic vision of the end of...
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| 03/18/12 |
Story Time with Emily Wagner, Author
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March 18, 2012
Asleep Under the Moon is a charming bedtime story about Gavin and Buddy's adventures at the beach in Carmel-by-the-Sea. Come hear Emily Wagner introduce children to the beauties of nighttime and sleeping under the stars.
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| 03/21/12 |
Out of Sight, Out of Time - Ally Carter, Author (Youth Event)
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March 21, 2012
With more than a million Gallagher Girls books sold, a legion of fans have fallen in love with the New York Times best-selling spy-girl series, and the fifth book delivers the most nerve-wracking, high-stakes adventure yet.
The last thing Cammie Morgan remembers is leaving the Gallagher Academy to protect her friends and family, but when Cammie wakes up in an alpine convent and discovers months have passed, her memory is a black hole. The only traces left of Cammie's...
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