|
Welcome to The Lavin Agency's
Newsletter! Every month we bring you the latest news from
our roster of outstanding speakers. For more information
on the speakers below, or to discuss needs for an upcoming
event, please call us at 1-800-762-4234. Or email us at
info@thelavinagency.com.
If your email browser has
removed the photos and links from this newsletter, please
visit our website
to see a full html version. If you would like to be removed
from our electronic mailing list, please reply to this email
with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
|
|
Scientist and Author of The Weather Makers Joins
Lavin Roster
Tim Flannery Emerging as Leading
Voice on Issue of Climate Change
Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers
is emerging as one of the most important books ever written
on the topic of climate change. Jared Diamond calls it "the
book the world has been waiting for – and needing –
for decades". The Lavin Agency is pleased to announce
that we have added Tim to our roster of speakers. Director
of The South Australian Museum, Tim is an internationally
acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist.
To learn more about Tim Flannery and The Weather Makers,
please click on the links below:
The
Weather Makers Website
More
Information on Tim Flannery
|
|
Graceland Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Another Highlight for Chris Abani
We're pleased to congratulate Chris
Abani on another major literary recognition. His novel Graceland
has been shortlisted for the prestigious International IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award.
Recognized as one of the world's most talented young writers,
Chris has already received a PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award,
the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a
California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and
the PEN Hemingway Book Prize. His latest work, the novella
Becoming Abigail, is receiving rave reviews for its
deft prose style and heart-wrenching plot.
More
about Chris Abani
|
|
Jared Diamond Draws Huge Crowd in Alaska
Bestselling Author Draws Over-Capacity
Crowd
We've always said that Jared Diamond is
one of the few serious non-fiction writers who can draw
rock-star sized crowds, and he proved us right on a recent
lecture tour through the Northwest and Alaska. Professor
Diamond drew an over-capacity audience of more than 2000
people to his lecture at the University of Alaska.
Author of Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse,
Jared Diamond is universally recognized as one of the world's
most thought-provoking and innovative public intellectuals.
For more information on his work and lecture topics, click
on the link below:
More
about Jared Diamond
|
|
 Investigative
Reporter Seymour Hersh Once Again Making Headlines
His Story on America's Plans for Military
Strike Against Iran Creates Major Buzz
In his long and legendary career as an
investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh has developed a reputation
for breaking the stories that the government would prefer
be kept hidden. He's at it once again with his most recent
article in The New Yorker, in which he details planning
by the administration and military officials for a military
response to Iran's nuclear ambitions. To read the article,
click on the link below:
The
Iran Plans by Seymour Hersh
Learn
more about Seymour Hersh
|
|
Win
a Free Copy of Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism:
Ethics in a World of Strangers
 |
|
Kwame Anthony
Appiah
|
We're thrilled to announce that Kwame
Anthony Appiah has joined The Lavin Agency's roster. To
celebrate, we're offering three free copies of his new
book, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.
Just send an email to info@thelavinagency, and if you're
one of the first three entries, you win.
Professor Appiah is one of America's leading scholars
of African and African-American studies. His latest book
is a bold attempt to craft a modern cosmopolitan ethic
that both recognizes and celebrates diversity, while still
finding common values in our shared humanity.
To learn more about Kwame Anthony Appiah
click on the link below.
More
information on Kwame Anthony Appiah
Edward
O. Wilson Proposes New Alliance Between Science and Religion
to Save Earth's Bio-Diversity
The Creation: A Meeting of
Science and Religion Sure to be One of This Year's
Major Books
 |
|
Edward O. Wilson
|
Edward O. Wilson is recognized as a giant
in the environmental movement, someone whose work as a
scientist and writer has done much to educate both students
and the general public on the wonder, beauty, and fragility
of the natural world.
We've just received word on his forthcoming book, The
Creation: A Meeting of Science and Religion. This
daring, original and provocative book proposes an alliance
between science and religion to save the earth's vanishing
bio-diversity.
To learn more about Edward O. Wilson, please call your
Lavin agent or click on the link below.
More
information on Edward O. Wilson
|
|
