- 10:00 AM The Food Network’s host of “Quick Fix Meals” Robin Miller talks about easy to prepare recipes from her new book “Robin to the Rescue: Quick & Simple Recipes for Delicious Home Cooking.”
- 10:30 AM Three-term former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin discusses her political career and has some sagacious advice to women entering politics. Her book is called “Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead.”
- 11:00 AM Will Allen recently wrote a comprehensive modern history of “The War on Bugs.” His book describes the enviromental legacy left by the uncontrolled use of pesticides and herbicides.
- 11:20 AM Steve Almond, was an adjunct professor at Boston College when he quit in protest after the school invited Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to make the 2006 commencement address. Steve talks about his act of conscience in his new book of essays “Not That You Asked.”
- 11:40 AM Journalist and investigative reporter Ben Skinner writes about modern-day slavery in his first book “A Crime So Monstrous.“ This powerful document took Skinner five years to write, as he traveled worldwide to detail the plight of human beings, including children, who sometimes toiled 19 hours a day for no pay.
- 12:00 Noon Guest Geraldo Rivera got into an on-the-air argument over US immigration policy with his Fox Network colleague Bill O’Reilly one year ago. Since then he spent time writing “His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the US.”
- 12:15 PM Dr. Hilary Blumberg, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Diagnostic Radiology and Director of the Mood Disorders Research Program at the Yale School of Medicine, is an international leader in researching the brain in bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness). She will discuss exciting new research findings from her brain-scanning research at Yale that has identified differences in the brain circuitry of emotions in teens and adults with bipolar disorder and that provides important new leads in the development of improved ways to detect and treat mood disorders.
- 12:45 PM Tudor Parfitt life’s work has been tracking down the lost tribes of Israel in Africa and Asia. He is the professor of Jewish studies at London’s prestigious School for Oriental Studies. The recounting of his most significant research is found in his book “The Lost Ark of the Covenant.”
- 1:00 PM Neale Donald Walsch, the author of the “Conversations with God” series discusses his new spiritual guide “Happier than God.”
- 1:20 PM Marla Martenson a Beverly Hills matchmaker, shares her secrets to finding the perfect mate in “Excuse Me, Your Soul Mate Is Waiting.”
- 1:40 PM The Neurosurgeon Dr Allan J. Hamilton has written the “Scalpel and the Soul” where he “shares his considerable knowledge and experience… pursuing those unique patient occurrences that defy scientific explanations.”
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Second Saturday Magazine
10:00 AM - Bob Johnson, Second Saturday Magazine
Author links can be found on the Second Saturday Magazine website.
