FEBRUARY 2009: News from HooksBookEvents
Friday February 13, 2009
Hello! Thank you in advance for taking a look at the inaugural issue of Hooks Book Events e-newsletter. We’ll be sending these out monthly, and hope you enjoy reading through our list of upcoming event.
For this issue, we also want to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Muhammad Yunus and our friends at Public Affairs as well as all of the many who supported us in producing our first public event. If you missed it live, please be sure to catch the C-span Book Presentation Sunday, February 15, 2009 3pm and 10pm EST (as well as Saturday at midnight EST). Watch it here
Also, take a look at our upcoming events for
Only the best,
Perry Pidgeon Hooks, president and co-founder
Loretta Yenson, CFO and co-founder
Thank you Dr. Muhammad Yunus!
Dr. Yunus’ Bookcover Our thanks go out to the 1500 people who packed the Lisner Auditorium on Feb. 4 when the wonderful 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus spoke at the Lisner Auditorium on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
He inspired everyone with his impressive thoughts on the importance of microfinance and ideas about socially responsible businesses. We were impressed with his immense energy as earlier that same day he met with Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke and then on to an HBE produced event for 600 at the IMF. There are so many who worked with us to make this happen and we appreciate all the efforts made. We hope to produce more public events in the future and will keep you posted.
We will be posting a page about the event soon, and in the meantime we invite anyone who attended to send us their thoughts on Dr. Yunus’ talk by email. We hope to keep the dialog going on how to incorporate Yunus’ ideas into our busy lives here in America.
A portion of the proceeds from this event benefited the nonprofit organization, The Grameen Foundation – an organization that combines the power of microfinance, technology and innovative solutions to defeat global poverty. For more information visit: www.grameenfoundation.org.
Upcoming Events: February
Although these events aren’t public, we wanted to share some of the authors we’ll be bringing to DC this month. If you’d like to book them for your company or organization, send an email to perry@hooksbookevents.com.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009: The Venturesome Economy
by Amir Bhide (Princeton University Press, 2008)
Many warn that the next stage of globalization-the offshoring of research and development to China and India-threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. But in The Venturesome Economy, acclaimed business and economics scholar Amar Bhidé shows how wrong the doomsayers are.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009: High Altitude Leadership
by Chris Warner and Don Schmincke (Wiley, John & Sons)
This book takes a new approach to leadership development. Based on ground-breaking scientific research, and field-tested under the most brutal conditions on the most difficult summits, the methods are successfully applied in the training of executives, management teams, and entrepreneurs throughout the world.
Thursday, February 19, 2009: The Third Chapter
by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (FSG, 2009)
In the 21st century, a developmental phase of life is emerging as significant and distinct, capturing our interest, engaging our curiosity, and expanding our understanding of human potential and development. Demographers talk about this new chapter in life as characterized by people-between fifty and seventy-five-who are considered “neither young nor old.” In our “third chapters” we are beginning to redefine our views about the casualties and opportunities of aging; we are challenging cultural definitions of strength, maturity, power, and sexiness.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009: Nudge
by Richard Thaler (Yale University Press, 2008)
Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009: Pauline Bonaparte
by Flora Fraser (Knopf Publishing Group, 2009)
From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon’s favorite sister. Celebrated for her looks, notorious for her passions, immortalized by Antonio Canova’s statue, and always deeply loyal to her brother, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese is a fascinating figure in her own right.
Thursday, February 26, 2009: To Tell the Truth Freely
by Mia Bay (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women’s rights advocate, journalist, and public speaker. Before she died in Chicago in 1931, Wells helped define the role of civil rights activist for every generation that followed. Mia Bay vividly captures Wells’s childhood in Mississippi, early career in late-nineteenth-century Memphis, and later life in progressive-era Chicago.
Upcoming Events: March
Sunday, March 1, 2009: Angels and Ages
by Adam Gopnik (Knopf Publishing Group, 2009)
On a memorable day in human history, February 12, 1809, two babies were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. It was a time of backward-seeming notions, when almost everyone still accepted the biblical account of creation as the literal truth and authoritarianism as the most natural and viable social order. But by the time both men died, the world had changed: ordinary people understood that life on earth was a story of continuous evolution, and the Civil War had proved that a democracy could fight for principles and endure. And with these signal insights much else had changed besides. Together, Darwin and Lincoln had become midwives to the spirit of a new world, a new kind of hope and faith.
Monday, March 02, 2009: Animal Spirits
by Robert Shiller and George Akerlof (Princeton University Press, 2009)
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, “animal spirits” are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and put forward a bold new vision that will transform economics and restore prosperity.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009: The Leaders We Need & What Makes Us Follow
by Michael Maccoby (Harvard Press, 2007)
A leader is: someone people follow. But why do people follow? Books abound on leaders, but much less is known about followers. In The Leaders We Need, Maccoby steps into this yawning gap in the literature. This insightful book shows that followers have their own powerful motivations to follow.
Thursday, March 05, 2009: Disunion
by Elizabeth Varon (UNC Press, 2008)
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten or discredit their opponents. According to Elizabeth Varon, “disunion” was a startling and provocative keyword in Americans’ political vocabulary: it connoted the failure of the founders’ singular effort to establish a lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, the image of a cataclysm that would reduce them to misery and fratricidal war. For many others, however, threats, accusations, and intimations of disunion were instruments they could wield to achieve their partisan and sectional goals.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009: The Trophy Kids Grow Up
by Ron Alsop (Wiley)
The first wave of the Millennial Generation-born between 1980 and 2001-is entering the work force, and employers are facing some of the biggest management challenges they’ve ever encountered. They are trying to integrate the most demanding and most coddled generation in history into a workplace shaped by the driven baby-boom generation. Like them or not, the millennials are America future work force.
Thursday, March 12, 2009: Gender and The Sectional Conflict
by Nina Silber (University of North Carolina Press)
In an exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among northerners and southerners. She argues that attitudes about gender shaped the experiences of the Civil War’s participants, including how soldiers and their female kin thought about their “causes” and obligations in wartime.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009: Living with History
by Gerda Lerner (UNC Press, 2009)
This collection of essays in an autobiographical framework spans the period from 1963 to the present. It encompasses Gerda Lerner’s theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women’s History as a mainstream field.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009: The Collaborate Public Manager
by Rosemary O’Leary (Georgetown University Press, 2009)
Today’s public managers not only have to function as leaders within their agencies, they must also establish and coordinate multi-organizational networks of other public agencies, private contractors, and the public. This important transformation has been the subject of an explosion of research in recent years.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009: Governance in Dark Times
by Camilla Stivers (Georgetown University Press, 2008)
With the rush of calamitous events in recent years-the September 11 terror attacks, the Iraq imbroglio, and hurricanes Katrina and Rita-Americans feel themselves to be living in dark times. Trust in one another and in the government is at low ebb. People in public service face profound challenges to the meaning and efficacy of their work. Where can a public servant turn for a public philosophy to sustain practice?
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