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Rick Smolan, Author Of The Good Fight: America’s Ongoing Struggle For Justice Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Rick Smolan "A powerful collection of personal journeys through words, images, music, and videos that shows how much progress still lies ahead in the quest for dignity and equality.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Steve Jobs From the creator of the bestselling Day in the Life series comes an extraordinary illustrated book showing how much progress has been made in America over the last 100 years against hatred, bigotry, racism, and injustice—and how much more work remains to be done. The Good Fight vividly depicts the human face of America's sporadically violent, often triumphant, always risky struggle to fulfill the promise of freedom and equality for [...]

By |November 9th, 2017|Current Affairs, History, Photography, Public Affairs|Comments Off on Rick Smolan, Author Of The Good Fight: America’s Ongoing Struggle For Justice Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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David Hallberg, Author Of A Body Of Work Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen David Hallberg David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as “the most exciting male dancer in the western world,” presents an intimate journey through his artistic life up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury almost cost him his career. Beginning with his real-life Billy Elliot childhood—an all-American story marred by intense bullying—and culminating in his hard-won come-back, Hallberg’s brave memoir dives deep into life as an artist as he wrestles with ego, pushes the limits of his body, and searches for ecstatic perfection and fulfillment as one of the [...]

By |November 9th, 2017|Art, Ballet, Biography, Dance|Comments Off on David Hallberg, Author Of A Body Of Work Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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Tess Gerritsen, Author Of I Know A Secret: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To ListenTess Gerriten-I Know A Secret NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the smash hit TNT series—continue their bestselling crime-solving streak, as they pursue a shadowy psychopath keeping secrets and taking lives. “Suspense doesn’t get smarter than this.”—Lee Child Two separate homicides, at different locations, with unrelated victims, have more in common than just being investigated by Boston PD detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles. In both cases, the bodies bear startling wounds—yet the actual cause of death is unknown. It’s a doubly challenging case for the cop and the coroner to be taking on, at a fraught time for both of them. As Jane [...]

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WilliamsonMarkets: The Typical Visitor To Williamson County And How To Capture Their Business By Karen Chronister

Williamson County receives accolades every year for lifestyle, entertainment, dining, family-oriented street events, and more. That’s a powerful way to attract visitors, and we do, in the tens of thousands. So, it’s a smart, savvy move for your Williamson County business to get to know the typical tourist and visitor. Seize opportunities to serve them—and don’t be shy about vying for their business. Most CVBs (Convention and Visitor’s Bureaus) have up-to-date demographics on visitors, while most Chamber of Commerce’s have information on upcoming conventions and business gatherings. Why does knowing the “typical” or “anticipated” visitor and their habits matter? They have wants and needs when they roll into our town that we can meet while [...]

By |November 9th, 2017|Williamson Markets|Comments Off on WilliamsonMarkets: The Typical Visitor To Williamson County And How To Capture Their Business By Karen Chronister
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Andrew Shtulman, Author Of Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About The World Are So Often Wrong Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Andrew Shtulman "A fascinating, empathetic book" --Wall Street Journal Humans are born to create theories about the world--unfortunately, we're usually wrong and bad theories keep us from understanding science as it really is Why do we catch colds? What causes seasons to change? And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a pinch we almost always get these questions wrong. Worse, we regularly misconstrue fundamental qualities of the world around us. In Scienceblind, cognitive and developmental psychologist Andrew Shtulman shows that the root of our misconceptions lies in the theories about the world we develop as children. [...]

By |November 9th, 2017|Science|Comments Off on Andrew Shtulman, Author Of Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About The World Are So Often Wrong Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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Lisa Wingate, Author Of Before We Were Yours: A Novel Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Lisa Wingate Inspired by firsthand accounts of the stories behind a notoriously corrupt adoption agency, the Tennessee Children?s Home Society, this riveting novel describes a woman investigating her parents? hidden secrets and discovering the family?s tragic, scandalous past.Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children?s Home Society.

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Donna Gaines, Author Of Choose Wisely, Live Fully: Lessons From Wisdom & Folly, The Two Women Of Proverbs Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Donna Gaines The Book of Proverbs is a gold mine of divine wisdom. Author and speaker Donna Gaines applies that wisdom in very practical ways to the issues women face. Choose Wisely, Live Fully examines the blessings and curses associated with the choices made by the two women in Proverbs: Wisdom and Folly. Gaines harnesses her two passions—discipleship and literacy—to challenge women of all ages to become “biblically literate.” Biblical illiteracy makes us vulnerable to influences that do not represent biblical truth. This book is a wonderful discipleship tool that will help equip you to: discern the voice of God and follow His path (the path of Wisdom instead of the [...]

By |November 8th, 2017|Gospel, Self-Help, Spirituality|Comments Off on Donna Gaines, Author Of Choose Wisely, Live Fully: Lessons From Wisdom & Folly, The Two Women Of Proverbs Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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Stephen Kotkin, Author Of Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Stephen Kotkin Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world’s largest peasant economy into “socialist modernity,” otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and what Stalin ruthlessly enacted, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Building and running a dictatorship, with life and death power over hundreds of millions, made Stalin into the uncanny figure he [...]

By |November 8th, 2017|Biography, Military, War|Comments Off on Stephen Kotkin, Author Of Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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Karen Kingsbury, Author Of In This Moment Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Karen Kingsbury-In This Moment From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a brand-new Baxter Family novel about a beloved high school principal who starts a Bible Study to improve the lives of his struggling students, only to become the national focus of a controversial lawsuit. Hamilton High Principal Wendell Quinn is tired of the violence, drug abuse, teen pregnancies, and low expectations at his Indianapolis school. A single father of four, Quinn is a Christian and a family man. He wants to see change in his community, so he starts a voluntary after-school Bible Study and prayer program. He knows he is risking his job by leading the [...]

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Meryl Gordon, Author Of Bunny Mellon: The Life Of An American Style Legend Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Meryl Gordon-Bunny Mellon A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in 2014 at age 103, was press-shy during her lifetime. With the co-operation of Bunny Mellon's family, author Meryl Gordon received access to thousands of pages of her letters, diaries and appointment calendars and has interviewed more than 175 people to capture the spirit of this talented American original.

By |November 8th, 2017|Biography, Fashion|Comments Off on Meryl Gordon, Author Of Bunny Mellon: The Life Of An American Style Legend Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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