Before the advent of cable, i Pods, Satellite or the Internet, we got all of our home entertainment from just three television networks. And each Sunday night, for 23 years, we gathered around the cathode ray hearth to watch an awkward host name Ed Sullivan serve as our entertainment gatekeeper. Now journalist, entertainment critic, and humor columnist Gerald Nachman, in his book Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan's America, has given us a new look at The Ed Sullivan Show and exposed it to a whole new generation. My conversation with Gerald Nachman:
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she argues that our current system for fighting crime and protecting the public is simply not working. We spend $200 billion annually fighting crime and there are over two million people currently incarcerated in America. Are we getting value for our dollars? The way Harris sees it, if we are going to be really effective, we must attack small problem long before they become big problem.
he gives us his insights into the birth of a this new political epoch. 
he pulls back the curtain on the most sordid elements of Japanese society. Very few Americans have ever come close to discovering what really goes on in Japan's most closed society. Adelstein's is a dark journey through the underworld of Tokyo vice and the Yakuza, as told by the only American journalist every to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club. 
he explains why emotions are contagious, and how such networked behavior spreads. Time magazine named Nicholas Christaks one of the "100 Most Influential People" in 2009.
Chopra walks us through a discussion of how energy affects spiritual and physical health and also explains how the expression of genes can be altered by lifestyle changes. 
gives us a full spectrum view of Rand's philosophy and life.
helps to explain it all.
examines their origins. Egan chronicles the story of the devastating forest fire that made Teddy Roosevelt's vision of conservation real in the American mind and that cemented his legacy as the President who saved our wild places. 
argues that while supply-side was good for the economy in the 1980's, it has no place in shaping current economic policy. A Reagan policy official, a staffer for Jack Kemp in the 70's, he thinks the George W. Bush's tax cuts were "nuts" and that we need a return to Keynesian principals. 
gives us a very human and personal study of what happened when this culture collapsed and the personal psychological wreckage it left behind.
refers to it as the oxygen of the global economy. And yet for years we have refused to talk about it honestly. 
journalist and water expert James Workman travels to the direst place on earth to see how, against all odds and under brutal government repression, an indigenous people draws on ancient wisdom to survive on extreme scarcity of water, and what we not only might learn, but must learn.
takes us beyond the folklore of child rearing into the realm of modern science. He reveals what decades of studies teach us and gives an intriguing analysis of conventional wisdom. You will never approach your kids the same way again.