Thursday, December 1st at 7:00 p.m. *
World Affairs Book Club
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities
for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs
(Penguin Press)
This month's selection is The
End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey
Sachs. Jared Diamond writes, " Jeffrey Sachs is that rare phenomenon:
an academic economist famous for his theories about why some countries
are poor and others rich, and also famous for his successful practical
work in helping poor countries become richer. In this long-awaited,
fascinating, clearly and movingly written book, he distills his experience
to propose answers to the hard choices now facing the world."
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* Please Note Time
Thursday, December 1st at 7:30 p.m.
Gus Gregory, Dave Clark & Dan Haifley
Reflections of the Santa Cruz Harbor:
Portal to Monterey Bay
(Burford Books)
Join us for a celebration of
the Santa Cruz Harbor with local author Gus Gregory, photographer
Dave Clark, and Executive Director of O'Neill Sea Odyssey Dan Haifley.
Together with Harbor Historian Ed Larsen, Port Authority Brain Foss
and Editor Joyce Wrenn, these stalwart proponents of our harbor have
created an engaging and richly illustrated look at our favorite hot
spot for sails and students of the sea. All of the proceeds from the
sale of the book are given to the O'Neill Sea Odyssey and its efforts
to educate Central California elementary school students about our
marine ecology.
Monday, December 5th at 7:30 p.m.
Norman Solomon
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits
Keep Spinning Us to Death
(John Wiley & Sons)
"War Made
Easy exposes and explains the lies and
deceptions that have misled our nation into vile and bloody disasters
from Vietnam to El Salvador to Iraq; it reveals the frequent cowardice
and culpability of the US media that often behaves as a propaganda
arm of the Pentagon. War Made Easy is a sobering and essential
book that Americans should read, share, and discuss."-John Stauber
(Weapons of Mass Deception).
The Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and author
of Target Iraq, Solomon sets out to change the mindsets of
Americans who mistakenly support unjustified wars. Exploring the government's
tendency to choose war, and the resulting tactics they use to gain
public support, he argues we need to stop blindly accepting the basic
myths we're regularly asked to accept as the truth and challenge the
common notion that opposing war is "anti-American."
Tuesday, December 6th at 7:30 p.m.
Todd Newberry
The Ardent Birder
(Ten Speed Press)
For the novice and serious observers
of birds, The Ardent Birder is the first in the vast field
of popular birding literature to focus on the birder and not just
the bird. In fifty eloquent short essays, Todd Newberry, UCSC biology
professor and lifelong devotee of fine feathered friends, shares everything
from delightful meditations on birdwatchers' daily events to philosophies
of why birders are so fervently dedicated to the sport.
Wednesday, December 7th at 7:30 p.m.
David Littschwager & Susan Middleton
Archipelago: Portraits of Life in the
World's Most Remote Island Sanctuary
(National Geographic)
Fine art photographers, award-winning
environmentalists and documentary film-makers Liittschwager and Middleton
join forces to showcase breathtaking photographs of the native flora
and fauna of the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Home to nearly
70% of our nation's coral reefs, and known as the "rainforests
of the sea," these islands are host to wildlife that exist nowhere
else on the planet. For this book, the authors gained unprecedented
access to photograph on and around these islands that are filled with
spectacular diversity but are completely off-limits to people. Join
them for a gorgeous slide show and lecture on our sister marine sanctuary
across the Pacific.
Thursday,
December 8th at 7:30 p.m.
Paul Krassner
One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative
Satirist
(Seven Stories Press)
Krassner has won awards from
both Playboy (for satire) and the Feminist Party Media Workship
(for journalism), been inducted into the Counterculture Hall of Fame
at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, has received an ACLU Uppie (Upton
Sinclair) Award for dedication to freedom of expression, and has been
described by the FBI as "a raving, unconfined nut." Now
this satirist and counterculture legend gazes on the fires of pop
culture, politics and celebrity and returns unscathed to help us make
sense of our senseless world. From cults to pornography, from Charles
Manson to Homer Simpson, from the war on drugs to the invasion of
Iraq, from circumcision to propaganda, this collection epitomizes
Krassner's credo, "Irreverence is our only sacred cow."
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Sunday, December 11th at 2:30 p.m. *
Linda Dalal Sawaya & Alice Ganamey Sawaya
Alice's Kitchen: Traditional Lebanese
Cooking
(Linda Sawaya)
Authentic Lebanese cuisine is
one of the healthiest on the planet. This new edition of a sensational
immigrant family cookbook includes 125 recipes, from how to pick and
cure olives to how to prepare pocket bread, baba gannouj, traditional
lamb dishes and even the heavenly pastry baklawe. Generations of recipes
and family tales were passed down from mother to daughter in the mountain
village of Douma, overlooking the Mediterranean, then brought to America
by Grandmother Dalal and Mother Alice, and later passed on to Linda.
Enjoy a fun afternoon of food and culture with a local culinary talent!
*Please Note Time.
Tuesday, December 13th at 7:30 p.m.
Ed Larson
Pebbles from a Favored Shore
(Fly by Night)
Head Docent for the Santa Cruz
Harbor and author of Spring Tides and Gaff Rigged Remembrance,
Ed Larson is a passionate educator and historian who is dedicated
to the legacy of our harbor and the whole of the Monterey Bay. This
new book is a delightful anthology of essays and illustrations reflecting
on his experiences as a youth and later as a fisherman in Alaska,
as well as his 25 year relationship with the marine life, boats, and
people of our sea-side town.
Wednesday, December 14th at 7:30 p.m.
Carolyn Burke
Lee Miller: A Life
(Knopf)
Biographer, art critic, and former
UCSC professor, Carolyn Burke has now penned a mesmerizing portrait
of Lee Miller, one of the most visible yet enigmatic cultural figures
of the recent past. A sleek bombshell of a model, Miller led a glamorous
life in New York and Paris in the '20s and '30s socializing with Chaplin
and Picasso, and then became a war correspondent and photographer,
entering Dachau with the troops, even posing in Hitler's bathtub.
This impressive work about a multifaceted woman also is a lushly illustrated
story of art and beauty, sex and power, Modernism and Surrealism,
independence and collaboration.
Friday, December 16th at 7:30 p.m.
Chris Elliott
The Shroud of the Thwacker
(Miramax)
Chris Elliott is an Emmy Award-winning
writer, producer and comedian who has performed on SNL,
Everybody Loves Raymond and in the cult film There's Something
About Mary. Now he turns his devilish genius and maniacal wit
onto the historical crime genre, taking hilarious swipes at Patricia
Cornwell, Da Vinci Code and Caleb Carr's mysteries. Jack the Jolly
Thwacker terrorizes the streets of 1882 New York while Police Chief
Caleb Spencer, "Evening Post" reporter Liz Smith and Mayor
Teddy Roosevelt try to unravel the mystery of the world's first serial
killer. A grand spoof by a mad genius! (This event was rescheduled
from its original October date.)
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