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Leadership Lecture Series Welcomes Isabel Allende, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
Leadership Lecture Series Welcomes Isabel Allende, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
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Allende officially released her new book, Maya’s Notebook, on the day of her appearance. She is the author of 19 books that have been translated in 35 languages and sold more than 57 million copies. In that time, Allende has received 12 international honorary doctorates for her work in addition to 50 awards across more than 15 countries. Two of her books have been turned into international movies.
Dominican Welcomes Roach To Leadership Lecture Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
Dominican Welcomes Roach To Leadership Lecture Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
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The One Book One Marin Award 2013 winner appeared at the free event in conversation with KQED’s Michael Krasny
Leadership Lecture Series Welcomes Madeleine Albright, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
Leadership Lecture Series Welcomes Madeleine Albright, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
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Since Albright left office after serving as the 64th Secretary of State of the United States, she has authored three New York Times bestsellers. Her autobiography, Madam Secretary: A Memoir, was published in 2003. A second book, The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs, entered bookstores in 2006. Memo to the President: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership was published in 2008.
Dominican Welcomes Newsom To Leadership Lecture Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
Dominican Welcomes Newsom To Leadership Lecture Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
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Newsom appeared in conversation with Book Passage President Elaine Petrocelli and discussed his new book Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government. The book examines how ordinary citizens can use new digital tools to dissolve political gridlock and transform American democracy. Citizenvillesuggests that the only way Americans can secure their future is by reinventing their relationship to government, just as they have countless times before.
Leadership Lecture Series Welcomes Al Gore, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
Leadership Lecture Series Welcomes Al Gore, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
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Currently chairman of The Climate Realty Project and co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, Gore is the author of Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, andOur Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. He is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary and is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change."
Gore, Albright Headline Leadership Lecture Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
Gore, Albright Headline Leadership Lecture Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
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California Lieutenant Governor and former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and bestselling authors Isabel Allende, Mary Roach and Michael Pollan also will speak at Dominican this spring.
Big History Opens Ils 2012 Fall Lecture Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
Big History Opens Ils 2012 Fall Lecture Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
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Informed by a background in biochemistry and cultural anthropology, Dr. Spier executed a 10- year research project on religion, politics and ecology in Andean Peru, which led to the publication of two books: Religious Regimes in Peru and San Nicolás de Zurite. In his most recent publication, Big History and the Future of Humanity, he presents an original theoretical approach that makes "big history" -- the placing of the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe -- accessible to general readers while revealing insights into what the future may hold for humanity.
Nbc's Tom Brokaw Returns To Dominican Campus, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
Nbc's Tom Brokaw Returns To Dominican Campus, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
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Brokaw, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, and authors Eve Ensler, Isabel Allende, Anne Lamott, and Robert Bellah, are headlining Dominican's ILS Lecture Series this winter and spring.