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  Michael Lewis traces the...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Bestselling author Michael Lewis says the idea that civil servants are “lazy or stupid or dead weight on the society is...the most sinister idea alive in this country right now." In his new book, “The Fifth Risk,” Lewis examines how the Trump administration has been staffing the federal government, and its “ignorance of the mission.” Lewis sits down with William Brangham for a conversation.

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  The Productive Bite-Sized...

  Damon Brown

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  In the follow-up to the best-selling The Bite-Sized Entrepreneur, Inc. columnist Damon Brown dives deeper into the biggest concern that plagues most business leaders: Productivity. In The Productive Bite-Sized Entrepreneur, Brown gives direct, actionable, and often surprising methods to maximize your time without burning yourself out. The author shares techniques learned through successfully co-founding and selling his startup, Cuddlr, while taking care of his baby, as well as strong insight from personal masters as varied as time management guru Laura Vanderkam and spiritual monk Pema Chodron. Both digestible and deep, The Productive Bite-Sized Entrepreneur is the perfect action-oriented read for people looking to get things done swiftly and smartly.

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  History As They Saw It - Iconic...

  Wolfgang Wild, Jordan Lloyd

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  “Why do we think of history in black and white? Here is the past in vibrant color . . . a remarkable book that re-imagines a century.” —Aspen Daily News 
   
  The past didn’t actually happen in black and white, as we’re reminded by this collection of restored and colorized historic photos from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.  
   
  This revolutionary photography collection is as close to time travel as it gets. Featuring 120 historic black-and-white photographs thoroughly restored and rendered in color, this book illuminates some of the most iconic moments in history, from the sinking of the Titanic to the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.  
   
  Brought to life with vibrant color, these incredible images effectively blur the distinction between past and present, making history feel more real and and bringing it within arm’s reach. With a timeline spanning more than 100 years, from 1839 to 1949, this unique collection will amaze history and photography buffs alike, offering new perspectives on significant moments of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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  Theatre Royal - Half An Hour &...

  J. M. Barrie, Jules Romain

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  Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Ralph Richardson, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Robert Morley and, Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and, Laurence Olivier. They were based on works by the worlds’ leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and, Anton Chekhov.  These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first installment of theatrical history.

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  Aliens in America

  Sandra Tsing Loh

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  Contemporary satirist Sandra Tsing Loh spins a darkly comic, autobiographical tale of growing up middle class Chinese-German in Southern California. This witty monologue is for sons and daughters everywhere who feel that their parents must have been beamed to earth from another planet.An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Sandra Tsing Loh.

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  Lenin's Embalmers

  Vern Thiessen

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  After Vladimir Lenin's death, Stalin orders two Jewish scientists to preserve Lenin's body for all time. If they succeed, the rewards will be considerable. If not, it's the gulag – or worse. Based on real events, Vern Thiessen's nimble dark comedy exposes the absurdities of Soviet life under Stalin. 
   
  
  
  Lenin's Embalmers is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world. 
   
  
  
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2018. 
   
  
   
   
  
  Director: Martin Jarvis
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
  JD Cullum as Vlad
  Simon Helberg as Boris
  Gregory Harrison as Lenin
  Jon Matthews as Krasin
  Rufus Sewell as Stalin
  John Sloan as Agent 2
  Mark Jude Sullivan as Agent 1
  Jocelyn Towne as Nadia
  
  Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson.
  Sound Designer and Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. 
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin. 
  Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner. 
  Recording Engineer and Editor: Erick Cifuentes.

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