Focus Booklist
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Books and Authors on Focus
Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brain with Machines--and How It Will Change Our Lives, by Miguel Nicolelis (Times Books)
interview date: Monday, June 25, 2012
The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes, by Scott Wallace (Crown Publishers)
interview date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent, by E. J. Dionne Jr. (Bloomsbury)
interview date: Thursday, June 07, 2012
Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution, by Lindsey Hilsum (The Penguin Press)
interview date: Monday, June 04, 2012
Hear Your LIfe: Inspiring Stories and Honest Advice for Overcoming Hearing Loss, by Melissa Kay Rodriguez (Greenleaf Book Group Press)
interview date: Friday, June 01, 2012
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, by Steve Coll (The Penguin Press)
interview date: Thursday, May 31, 2012
The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Study, by Edward Berenson (Yale University Press)
interview date: Tuesday, May 29, 2012
The New Geography of Jobs, by Enrico Moretti (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
interview date: Thursday, May 24, 2012
Flagrant Conduct: the Story of Lawrence v. Texas: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans, by Dale Carpenter (W. W,. Norton & Company)
interview date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, by Howard Rheingold (The MIT Press)
interview date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Mitigative Counterstriking: Self-Defense and Deterence in Cyberspace, by Jay P. Kesan and Carol M. Hayes (Harvard Journal of Law and Technology Spring 2012)
interview date: Thursday, May 17, 2012
That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, by Rachel Herz (W. W. Norton and Company)
interview date: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Good Thinking: Seven Powerful Ideas That Influence the Way We Think, by Denise D. Cummins (Cambridge University Press)
interview date: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relatiionships, by Dario Maestripieri (Basic Books)
interview date: Monday, May 14, 2012
Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick, by Paul Dickson (Walker & Company)
interview date: Friday, May 11, 2012
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (Crown Business)
interview date: Thursday, May 10, 2012
To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure, by Henry Petroski (The Belknap Press of Harvard University)
interview date: Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story, by Dame Daphne Sheldrick (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
interview date: Monday, May 07, 2012
A Family Farm Life on an Illinois Dairy Farm, by Robert L. Switzer (Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago)
interview date: Monday, May 07, 2012
The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors of Terrorism, Immigration, and Trade Matter, by Gary Alan Fine and Bill Ellis (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Friday, May 04, 2012
The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors of Terrorism, Immigration, and Trade Matter, by Gary Alan Fine (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Friday, May 04, 2012
Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism, by Belva Davis (PoliPointPress)
interview date: Wednesday, May 02, 2012
The Illinois Report 2012, by Institute of Government & Public Affairs (University of Ilinois)
interview date: Wednesday, May 02, 2012
White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You, by Simon Jonson and James Kwak (Pantheon Books, New York)
interview date: Wednesday, May 02, 2012
The Undertaker's Daughter, by Toi Derricotte (The University of Pittsburgh Press)
interview date: Tuesday, May 01, 2012
The Black Notebooks an Interior Journey, by Toi Derricotte (W. W. Norton & Company)
interview date: Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter, by David Vann (The University of Georgia Press)
interview date: Monday, April 30, 2012
The Social Conquest of Earth, by Edward O. Wilson (Liveright Publishing Corporation)
interview date: Monday, April 30, 2012
The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con, by Mary Reading (Alfred A. Knopf)
interview date: Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Indvidual and Collective Memory Consolidation: Analogous Processes on Different Levels, by Thomas J. Anastasio, Kristen Ann Ehrenberger, Patrick Watson, Wenyi Zhang (The MIT Press)
interview date: Wednesday, April 25, 2012
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf, by Aaron Bobrow-Strain (Beacon Press)
interview date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart, by Stefan Kanfer (Vintage Books)
interview date: Monday, April 23, 2012
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, by Amy Stewart (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
interview date: Monday, April 23, 2012
Threats: A Novel, by Amelia Gray (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
interview date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office, by Lynn Peril (W. W. Norton & Company)
interview date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The Irish Way Becoming American in the Multiethnic City, by James R. Barrett (The Penguin Press)
interview date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Eating Bitterness: Stories from the Front Lines of China's Great Urban Migration, by Michelle Dammon Loyalka (University of California Press)
interview date: Friday, April 06, 2012
The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 12 Top Meds for 2012 Volumen 1 #10 First Edition, by James Joseph Rybacki (The Medicine Information Institute)
interview date: Tuesday, April 03, 2012
The Self-Made Myth and the Truth About How Government Helps Individuals and Businesses Succeed, by Brian Miller and Mike Lapham (Berrett-Koehler Publishers,Inc.)
interview date: Tuesday, April 03, 2012
The Afghan Solution: The Inside Story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and How Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan, by Lucy Morgan Edwards (Bactria Press)
interview date: Monday, April 02, 2012
Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan, by Pei-Chia Lan (Duke University Press)
interview date: Monday, April 02, 2012
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg (Random House)
interview date: Friday, March 30, 2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain (Crown Publishers)
interview date: Monday, March 12, 2012
Don' Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, by Sandra Beasley (Crown)
interview date: Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Inside Apple: How American's Most Admired--and Secretive--Company Really Works, by Adam Lashinsky (Business Plus)
interview date: Monday, March 05, 2012
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler (Free Press)
interview date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Illinois iin the War of 1812, by Gillum Gerguson (University of Illinois Press)
interview date: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis (Alfred A. Knopf)
interview date: Friday, February 24, 2012
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life, by Robert Trivers (Basic Books)
interview date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The Dark Defile: Britain's Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842, by Diana Preston (Walker & Company)
interview date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolution, by Marwan Bishara (Nation Books)
interview date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo (Random House)
interview date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem, by Daniel Schneider (The MIT Press)
interview date: Friday, February 17, 2012
The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructur in America from Colonial Times to the Present, by Martin V. Melosi (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
interview date: Monday, February 13, 2012
Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America's Cities, by Martin V. Melosi (Univeristy of Pittsburg Press)
interview date: Monday, February 13, 2012
The Ice Balloon: S.A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration, by Alec Wilkinson (Alfred A. Knopf)
interview date: Thursday, February 09, 2012
The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart, by Stephen Amidon and Thomas Amidon (Rodale)
interview date: Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone, by Eric Klinenberg (The Penguin Press)
interview date: Wednesday, February 08, 2012
The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts, by Peter T. Coleman (Public Affairs)
interview date: Thursday, February 02, 2012
Money Well Spent? The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History, by MichaelGrabell (Public Affairs)
interview date: Wednesday, February 01, 2012
