Focus 580 Booklist
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Books and Authors on Focus 580: April 2009
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror, by Mahmood Mamdani (Pantheon Books)
interview date: Thursday, April 30, 2009
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, by David Kilcullen (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Until it Hurts: America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How it Harms Our Kids, by Mark Hyman (Beacon Press)
interview date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Stealing My Space: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America, by Julia Angwin (Random House)
interview date: Monday, April 27, 2009
The Rise of Eurocentrism: Anatomy of Interpretation, by Vassilis Lambropoulos (Princeton University Press)
interview date: Friday, April 24, 2009
Slang: The People's Poetry, by Michael Adams (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Friday, April 24, 2009
Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa from Mandela to Zuma, by Alec Russell (Public Affairs)
interview date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties, by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World, by Tom Zoellner (Viking)
interview date: Thursday, April 16, 2009
On Deep History and the Brain, by Daniel Lord Smail (University of California Press)
interview date: Monday, April 13, 2009
Creating Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change, by Susanne C. Moser and Lisa Dilling, eds. (Cambridge University Press)
interview date: Friday, April 10, 2009
Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics, by Curtis Marez (University of Minnesota Press)
interview date: Friday, April 10, 2009
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, by Brian Fagan (Bloomsbury)
interview date: Wednesday, April 08, 2009
The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers, by Andrea Tone (Basic Books)
interview date: Tuesday, April 07, 2009
The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets, by Alan Boss (Basic Books)
interview date: Monday, April 06, 2009
Taking Aim at the President: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Shot at Gerald Ford, by Geri Spieler (Palgrave Macmillan)
interview date: Friday, April 03, 2009
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: A Novel, by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
interview date: Friday, April 03, 2009
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman, by Nancy Marie Brown (Viking)
interview date: Thursday, April 02, 2009
Obesity: Causes, Consequences and Public Policy Solutions, by Robert Kaestner (The Illinois Report 2009, Institute of Government & Public Affairs)
interview date: Thursday, April 02, 2009
Atomic American: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History, by Todd Tucker (Free Press)
interview date: Wednesday, April 01, 2009
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