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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: American Invention Author: Jim Fleming Format: Original Recording Length: 52 mins Language: English Release date: 05-16-12 Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge) Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In this hour, if were going to talk about invention in the US we need to talk with Nathan Myrhvold. He was Microsofts first Chief Technology Officer. He holds 17 patents with Microsoft and 117 with his company Intellectual Ventures. But hes not just a billionaire tech-nerd. Hes also explored the worlds volcanoes. Studied penguin digestion. Found several T Rexes. Built a section of Babbages Difference Engine. Hes even the World Barbecue Grand Champion. Anne Strainchamps caught up with Myhrvold to talk about inventing and his six-volume, 2400-page, 52 pound cookbook called Modernist Cuisine. Next, why has America stopped inventing? Thats the pr

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Paul Dickson, May 15, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 05-15-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Bill Veeck was born into baseball. His sportswriter father became president of the Chicago Cubs, and Bill later worked for owner Phil Wrigley, rebuilding Wrigley Field to achieve the famed ambience that exists today. In his late twenties, he bought into his first team, the American Association Milwaukee Brewers. He later bought the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and the Chicago White Sox. In 1947, Veeck signed Larry Doby, the American Leagues first black player. A year later, he signed the legendary black pitcher Satchel Paige, who helped win the 1948 World SeriesClevelands last championship to this day. Bob talks to Paul Dickson about his book Bill Veeck: Baseballs Great

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Studio 360: Maurice Sendak & Filmmaker Mark Duplass Author: Kurt Andersen Narrator: Kurt Andersen Format: Original Recording Length: 54 mins Language: English Release date: 05-12-12 Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: American literature lost one of its giants this week. Best known for his breakthrough 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's long, colorful career involved one wild rumpus after another. Sendaks work was often powerfully dark, in the manner of the old Grimms fairy tales; Wild Things might be a nightmare, with its chaotic dreamscape and its ferocious, smothering monsters. But children loved it, critics loved it, parents loved it, and it changed the way America thought about books. Then, hackers became anathema to the music labels at the dawn of digital file sharing, but now are key players in the indu

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Charlie Rose: Gerald Fischbach, Uta Frith, Eric Kandel, Alison Singer, and Matthew Slate, May 11, 2012 Author: Charlie Rose Narrator: Charlie Rose Format: Original Recording Length: 54 mins Language: English Release date: 05-11-12 Publisher: Charlie Rose Show Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Charlie Roses Series on the Brain Series, Episode 6: Autism, with Gerald Fischbach, Uta Frith, Eric Kandel, Alison Singer, and Matthew Slate. [Broadcast Date: May 11, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Bill Bradley and Doyle McManus, May 11, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 05-11-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Doyle McManus, Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times joins Bob to discuss the latest political news. Next, Bill Bradley was a US senator for 18 years, a financial and investment adviser, and an Olympic and NBA athlete. Hes now concentrating on the state of the nation after the financial meltdown and amid the intensifying political gridlock. His new book is called We Can All Do Better. Then, in this weeks installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, we hear the essay of Lauren LeBlanc. Americans like to dream big for our country, and ourselves. Teenagers imagine a future for themselves that includes throngs of adoring fans, and photographers tra

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Airports Author: Jim Fleming Format: Original Recording Length: 52 mins Language: English Release date: 05-11-12 Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge) Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In this hour, Alain de Botton talks to Anne Strainchamps about his experience as Heathrow Airport's first writer-in-residence. de Botton is the author of A Week at the Airport. Next, Greg Lindsay talks to Steve Paulson about the city of the future -- the aerotropolis. Lindsay is the co-author, along with John Kasarda, of Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next. Then, Brian Eno biographer David Sheppard talks to Jim Fleming about Brian Eno's groundbreaking 1978 album, Ambient 1: Music for Airports. Sheppard is the author of "On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno." And finally, Christopher Schaberg talks to Anne Strainchamps about looking

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Charlie Rose: Jeff Bewkes and Yogi Berra, May 10, 2012 Author: Charlie Rose Narrator: Charlie Rose Format: Original Recording Length: 55 mins Language: English Release date: 05-10-12 Publisher: Charlie Rose Show Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: A conversation with Jeff Bewkes, CEO Time Warner Inc. Next, a conversation with baseball great, Yogi Berra. [Broadcast Date: May 10, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Nadine Labaki and Darrell Scott, May 10, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 05-10-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Try to imagine what would happen if Middle Eastern women were able to take control of their religious conflicts. Thats what writer, director and lead actress Nadine Labaki has done in her new film, Where Do We Go Now, and the result is poignant and witty. Labaki will discuss the film, and the new promises and perils facing the Arab world. Then, Nashville singer-songwriter Darrell Scott talks with Bob about his album The Long Ride Home. [Broadcast Date: May 10, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Charlie Rose: Bill Bradley and Eli Broad, May 8, 2012 Author: Charlie Rose Narrator: Charlie Rose Format: Original Recording Length: 55 mins Language: English Release date: 05-08-12 Publisher: Charlie Rose Show Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: A conversation with Senator Bill Bradley, Managing Director of Allen & Company LLC. Next, a conversation with Eli Broad, renowned business leader who built two Fortune 500 companies from the ground up over a five- decade career in business. [Broadcast Date: May 8, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Karl Grossman and Akash Kapur, May 8, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 05-08-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: First, a British Parliamentary report has found Rupert Murdoch not a fit person to head his international media company as a result of an incriminating phone hacking scandal. Karl Grossman is a journalist and professor at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury where his courses include Investigative Reporting. He says based on that investigation finding, the Federal Communications Commission should move to prohibit Murdoch from owning television stations in the United States. Grossman discusses why he says so with Bob. Then, India has awoken from years of relative slumber and now development is advancing at a breakneck pace. After earning degr

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Julie Otsuka and Loudon Wainwright, May 7, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 05-07-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Writer Julie Otsuka won this years PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her slim, poetic novel The Buddha in the Attic. Here, the California-native tells of a group of young Japanese women brought to San Francisco as picture brides nearly a century ago. This weekend Otsuka was honored at an awards ceremony at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. Then, for his latest album, singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright reflects on his life (as he often does) this time on the sunny topics of aging, decline and demise. He also brings in his family to help: all of his kids and most of his ex-wives perform on the album. Wainwright joins Bob in the studio to ta

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Charlie Rose: Jim Hoagland, Adam Gopnik, Hugh Carnegy Allison Smale, and Andrei Kostin, May 7, 2012 Author: Charlie Rose Narrator: Charlie Rose Format: Original Recording Length: 55 mins Language: English Release date: 05-07-12 Publisher: Charlie Rose Show Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: A conversation about the French Elections, with Jim Hoagland, Adam Gopnik, Justin Vaisse, and Hugh Carnegy. Next, a conversation with Allison Smale, executive editor of the International Herald Tribune. And finally, a conversation with Andrei Kostin, Chairman and CEO VTB Bank and serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of OJSC Rosneft, OJSC Sovkomflot and OJSC United Aircraft Building Corporation. [Broadcast Date: May 7, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Back to the Land, Again Author: Jim Fleming Format: Original Recording Length: 52 mins Language: English Release date: 05-04-12 Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge) Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In this hour, Melissa Coleman spent the formative years of her chilldhood roaming the lands of her family's farm in rural Maine. Melissa, her sister Heidi, and their parents, Eliot and Sue Coleman, lived off the grid, grwe their own organic food, and became media darlings when the Wall Street Journal ran an article about her father. Coleman writes about that time in her memoir This Life is in Your Hands. The piece begins with a reading from the book's beginning, by Sheila Shigley. Next, Jeremy Seifert fed his wife and son on pickings from the local dumpsters in Los Angeles California. The adventure awakened him to the immense waste of fo

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Charlie Rose: Ian Bremmer and Steve Coll, May 4, 2012 Author: Charlie Rose Narrator: Charlie Rose Format: Original Recording Length: 55 mins Language: English Release date: 05-04-12 Publisher: Charlie Rose Show Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: A conversation with Ian Bremmer, a political scientist specializing on U.S. foreign policy. Next, the second half of Charlies conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and writer, Steve Coll. [Broadcast Date: May 4, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Dick Teresi, May 3, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Narrator: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 05-03-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Theres an old adage that only two things in life are certain: taxes and death. But modern medicine has made the latter less certain. These days, dead people can live for a long time on life support. For instance, stroke victims are regularly kept alive long enough to donate their organs, and brain-dead pregnant women are sometimes kept alive long enough to deliver their babies. Dick Teresi details the long, complicated history of the changing definition of death in his new book, The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death. [Broadcast Date: May 3, 2012] Listen to by Dick T

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Charlie Rose: Seth Jones, Steve Coll, Kathy Freston, May 2, 2012 Author: Charlie Rose Narrator: Charlie Rose Format: Original Recording Length: 55 mins Language: English Release date: 05-02-12 Publisher: Charlie Rose Show Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: A conversation with Seth Jones, political scientist at the RAND Corporation and adjunct professor at Georgetown Universitys Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. Next, a conversation with Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and writer. Finally, a conversation with Kathy Freston, self-help author and health and wellness expert, best known as the author of the Quantum Wellness series. [Broadcast Date: May 2, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Marc Aronson and Eric Hutchinson, May 2, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Narrator: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 05-02-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: J. Edgar Hoovers 37 year tenure as the nations first Director of the FBI was filled with controversy and secrets, and is not a likely topic for a young persons history book. But historian and writer Marc Aronson wrote his new book Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies with teenagers in mind. Combining old photographs, cartoons, movie posters and FBI transcripts, Aronsons book presents a dark aspect of Americas history in an engaging and thoughtful way. Then, Eric Hutchinson was a signed artist preparing his debut album for Maverick Records. He was living his dream; and then, the label collapsed. With no more c

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Charlie Rose: Tom Coburn, May 1, 2012 Author: Charlie Rose Narrator: Charlie Rose Format: Original Recording Length: 55 mins Language: English Release date: 05-01-12 Publisher: Charlie Rose Show Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: A conversation with Senator Tom Coburn, an American Senator from Oklahoma. He is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Indian Affairs Committee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. [Broadcast Date: May 1, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Laurens Grant, Marlene Owens Rankin, and John Carlos, May 1, 2012 Author: Bob Edwards Narrator: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 05-01-12 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: On the brink of the Second World War, the eyes of the world turned to Berlin for the 1936 Summer Games. Infuriating Hitler and the Nazis, track and field star Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals, toppling Hitlers plan for the Games to show-case the Aryan race. Director and producer Laurens Grants documentary Jesse Owens airs today on the PBS series American Experience, and Owens daughter Marlene Owens Rankin joins Bob and Grants to discuss the life and legacy of her father. Then, we relive another great moment in Olympic history with John Carlos, who along with Tommie Smith, raised an iconic black-gloved fist for human rig

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Charlie Rose: Sheila Canby, Navina Haidar, Rene Fleming, Michael Kaiser, Daniel Libeskind, and Victoria Newhouse, April 27, 2012 Author: Charlie Rose Narrator: Charlie Rose Format: Original Recording Length: 55 mins Language: English Release date: 04-27-12 Publisher: Charlie Rose Show Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: A conversation about Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with Sheila Canby, Navina Haidar. Next, a look at "Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls, with Rene Fleming, Michael Kaiser, Daniel Libeskind, and Victoria Newhouse. [Broadcast Date: April 27, 2012] Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com