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Michael Farquhar talked about his book, Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year, about the most disastrous or outrageous e…

Steven Johnson talked about his book, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, about the impact of six innovations - refrigeration, clocks, lenses, water purification, …

Sociologist and author Jane Jacobs discussed her book Dark Age Ahead, published by Random House. The book examined five key aspects of modern life that the author saw as the pillars of a suc…