Established as America's first foreign naval base following the Spanish-American War\, Guantanamo is now more often thought of as our Devil's Island\, the gulag of our times. Guantanamo\, USA by Stephen Schwab takes readers beyond the orange-jumpsuited detainees of today's headlines to provide the first comprehensive history of Guantanamo from its origins to the present. Stephen Schwab is a former senior analyst for the CIA's South America Division and now teaches history at the University of Alabama.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T105711Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100117T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100117T190000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/robert-crais-first-rule URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/robert-crais-first-rule SUMMARY:Robert Crais - First Rule DESCRIPTION:Frank and Cindy Meyer had the American dream--until the day a professional robbery crew invaded their home and murdered everyone inside. Before his family\, business\, and oh-so-normal life\, a younger Frank Meyer worked as a professional mercenary… with a man named Joe Pike. The police believe Frank was a criminal\, robbed for large stashes of cash or drugs\, but Pike does not\, and with the help of Elvis Cole\, he sets out to clear his friend… and punish the people who murdered him. They are about to learn the first rule. Don't make Pike mad. Robert Crais is the author of the best-selling Elvis Cole novels. Previously\, he wrote scripts for such major television series as "\;Hill Street Blues\,"\; "\;Cagney &\; Lacey\,"\; and "\;Miami Vice\,"\; and is most pround of his four-hour NBC miniseries\, "\;Cross of Fire."\;
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T105711Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100119T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100119T013000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/river-styx-duffs URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/river-styx-duffs SUMMARY:River Styx at Duff's DESCRIPTION:River Styx at Duff's presents contemporary writers Benjamin Percy (author of Refresh\, Refresh) and Mitchell L. H. Douglas (author of Cooling Board).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T105711Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100121T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100121T010000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/jeremy-rifkin-empathic-civilization URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/jeremy-rifkin-empathic-civilization SUMMARY:Jeremy Rifkin - The Empathic Civilization DESCRIPTION:Is empathy the key to the climate and energy crises? Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilization\: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis marks the return of "\;one of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day"\; (Utne Reader). Rifkin's first book in six years explores how interconnected empathy\, energy and the climate are--and how dependent we are on them for global survival in the 21st century. By examining empathy's role in shaping our civilization and by highlighting innovators in the field of energy use\, Rifkin--an advisor to several European heads of state and the best-selling author of The Hydrogen Economy and The European Dream--offers a provocative rethinking of human history and a concrete plan for the future.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T105711Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100121T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100121T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/reading-group-appreciation-night-featuring-jayne-anne-phillips-author-lark-termite URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/reading-group-appreciation-night-featuring-jayne-anne-phillips-author-lark-termite SUMMARY:Reading Group Appreciation Night\, Featuring Jayne Anne Phillips\, Author of \\"Lark & Termite\\" DESCRIPTION:Join us for our semi-annual Reading Group Appreciation Night! At this special event\, publishing representatives will discuss great reading group picks\; Jayne Anne Phillips will discuss and sign her acclaimed novel\, Lark &\; Termite\; Companion will provide coffee and cookies (yum)\; and we'll do give-aways of tote bags\, gift cards\, advance reading copies of books\, and more. Lark &\; Termite\, a National Book Award finalist\, is a rich\, wonderfully alive novel from admired author Jayne Anne Phillips. It is set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea. At its center\, two children\: Lark\, on the verge of adulthood\, and her brother\, Termite\, a child unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance. According to the New York Times\, "\;Jayne Anne Phillips's intricate\, deeply felt new novel reverberates with echoes of Faulkner\, Woolf\, Kerouac\, McCullers and Michael Herr's war reporting\, and yet it fuses all these wildly disparate influences into something incandescent and utterly original."\;
The event is free\, but you must register to attend. RSVP to Danielle Borsch\, danielle@left-bank.com\, 314.367.6731. LBB and library registered reading groups get first dibs. Also\, registering your reading group with Left Bank Books is easy and free--and you get 20% off your club's selection each month!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T105711Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100121T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100121T190000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/lunch-daniel-pink-author-drive URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/lunch-daniel-pink-author-drive SUMMARY:Lunch with Daniel Pink\, author of \\"Drive\\" DESCRIPTION:Join Left Bank Books and St. Louis Business Journal for a rooftop luncheon with best-selling author and workplace visionary Daniel Pink. Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work\, at school\, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm-shattering book Drive\: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us\, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives\, to learn and create new things\, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation\, Pink explores the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. Daniel Pink is the best-selling author of A Whole New Mind\, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko\, and Free Agent Nation. He provides analysis of business trends on various television networks and lectures to corporations\, associations\, and universities around the world on economic transformation and the new workplace.
Tickets to this event are $50\, available through Left Bank Books (call 314.367.6731 or stop by the store)\, and include lunch and a copy of Drive\, which Daniel Pink will sign at the event. Please purchase tickets by January 15.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T105711Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100122T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100122T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/daniel-pink-drive URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/daniel-pink-drive SUMMARY:Daniel Pink - Drive DESCRIPTION:Join Left Bank Books and Maryville University for this special "\;Maryville Talks Books"\; author event. Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work\, at school\, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm-shattering book Drive\: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us\, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives\, to learn and create new things\, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation\, Pink explores the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. Daniel Pink is the best-selling author of A Whole New Mind\, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko\, and Free Agent Nation. He provides analysis of business trends on various television networks and lectures to corporations\, associations\, and universities around the world on economic transformation and the new workplace. This event is free and open to the public. Books for signing must be purchased from Left Bank Books before or at the event.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T105711Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100129T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100129T010000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/jeff-biggers-reckoning-eagle-creek URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/jeff-biggers-reckoning-eagle-creek SUMMARY:Jeff Biggers - Reckoning at Eagle Creek DESCRIPTION:Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his family's nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of the first federall recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so\, he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods heritage\, but also chronicles a dark and missing chapter in the American experience\: the historical nightmare of coal outside Appalachia\, serving as an expose of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency. Jeff Biggers will also discuss the national implications of the coal industry in Illinois\, with a particular connection to St. Louis coal giants like Peabody and Patriot.
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