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From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time Sean Carroll Last aired: March 14, 2010	Discussion: Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring" Paul Driessen; Linda Lear Last aired: March 14, 2010
Dirty Rotten Strategies: How We Trick Ourselves and Others into Solving the Wrong Problems Precisely Ian Mitroff; Abraham Silvers Last aired: March 13, 2010	Love God, Heal Earth: 21 Leading Religious Voices Speak Out on Our Sacred Duty to Protect the Environment Rev. Sally Bingham Last aired: March 8, 2010
The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives Shankar Vedantam Last aired: March 8, 2010	The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature Timothy Ferris Last aired: March 7, 2010
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease Jonathan Metzl Last aired: March 6, 2010	In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction Gabor Mate Last aired: March 1, 2010
Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z Richard Milner Last aired: February 14, 2010	The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Atul Gawande Last aired: February 13, 2010
Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients Danielle Ofri Last aired: February 13, 2010	The Fourth Part of the World Toby Lester Last aired: February 7, 2010
On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear Richard Ellis Last aired: January 18, 2010	Googled: The End of the World as We Know It Ken Auletta Last aired: December 26, 2009
The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud Lawrence Solomon Last aired: December 14, 2009	Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming Bjorn Lomborg Last aired: December 13, 2009
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Richard Dawkins Last aired: December 13, 2009	Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age Viktor Mayer-Schonberger Last aired: December 6, 2009
Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It Robert Glennon Last aired: December 5, 2009	Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells - Our Ride to the Renewable Future Amanda Little Last aired: November 29, 2009
Plan B. 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization Lester Brown Last aired: November 29, 2009	A Heart to Serve: The Passion to Bring Health, Hope, and Healing Bill Frist Last aired: November 15, 2009
Watch Online: Julia Angwin "Stealing MySpace" Julia Angwin Last aired: November 8, 2009	Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives Nicholas Christakis; James Fowler Last aired: November 8, 2009
Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly James McWilliams Last aired: November 1, 2009	Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything Gordon Bell; Jim Gemmell Last aired: November 1, 2009
Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer Howard Dean Last aired: October 25, 2009	Free: The Future of a Radical Price Chris Anderson Last aired: October 12, 2009
No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process Colin Beavan Last aired: October 11, 2009	Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future Chris Mooney Last aired: October 4, 2009
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America Steven Johnson Last aired: September 20, 2009	And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture Bill Wasik Last aired: September 20, 2009
Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters Scott Rosenberg Last aired: September 20, 2009	When Altruism Isn't Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors Sally Satel Last aired: September 14, 2009
The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being Nena Baker Last aired: September 8, 2009	Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design Stephen Meyer Last aired: September 8, 2009
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon Craig Nelson Last aired: September 8, 2009	Book TV Bus - Andrew Chaikin, "A Passion for Mars" Andrew Chaikin Last aired: August 30, 2009
William Noel, Co-author, "The Archimedes Codex" Reviel Netz; William Noel Last aired: August 23, 2009	The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning James Lovelock Last aired: August 16, 2009
How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neurocientist Andrew Newberg Last aired: August 9, 2009	Burning the Ships: Intellectual Property and the Transformation of Microsoft David Kline; Marshall Phelps Last aired: August 8, 2009
The Numerati Stephen Baker Last aired: August 3, 2009	Animal Investigators: How the World's First Wildlife Forensics Lab is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species Laurel Neme Last aired: August 3, 2009
Voices from the Moon: Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences Andrew Chaikin Last aired: July 19, 2009	Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley Stephan Faris Last aired: July 11, 2009
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet Neil deGrasse Tyson Last aired: July 5, 2009	Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America Julia Angwin Last aired: July 5, 2009
Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health David Michaels Last aired: June 28, 2009	Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Didn't Want You to Know Robert Balling; Patrick Michaels Last aired: June 28, 2009
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives John Palfrey Last aired: May 25, 2009	Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own David Bollier Last aired: May 25, 2009
The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia Andrew Lih Last aired: May 25, 2009	Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis Rowan Jacobsen Last aired: May 24, 2009
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America Lee Allen Peterson; Roger Tory Peterson Last aired: May 23, 2009	Harold Varmus, The Art and Politics of Science LIVE CALL-IN Harold Varmus Last aired: May 10, 2009
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique Michael Gazzaniga Last aired: April 27, 2009	Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World Tom Zoellner Last aired: April 26, 2009
Book TV Civics Bus - Dan Linehan, "SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History" Dan Linehan Last aired: April 19, 2009	How We Decide Jonah Lehrer Last aired: March 22, 2009

This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights

LIVE 2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - LIVE Coverage
LIVE Coverage
Next air time: Sunday, March 14th, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 4 hr.

LIVE 2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - LIVE - Lynne Olson, "Citizens of London"
Lynne Olson
Next air time: Sunday, March 14th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.

Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight
Karl Rove
Next air time: Sunday, March 14th, at 8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.

After Words: Bill & Janet Cohen, "Race & Reconciliation," interviewed by Rep. John Lewis
Next air time: Sunday, March 14th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.

2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - Panel on Writing History
James Donovan; Jeff Guinn; Hampton Sides
Next air time: Sunday, March 14th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.

Also Airing...

Sunday, March 14th

LIVE 1pm (ET)
Approx. 4 hr.
2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - LIVE Coverage
LIVE Coverage

5pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 27 min.
Panel Discussion with Book Editors on the Future of Publishing
Multiple Panelists

6:27pm (ET)
Approx. 3 min.
2010 CPAC: IPI Books
Christian Tappe

6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 28 min.
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains one of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
Molly Caldwell Crosby

LIVE 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - LIVE - Lynne Olson, "Citizens of London"
Lynne Olson

8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight
Karl Rove

9pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Bill & Janet Cohen, "Race & Reconciliation," interviewed by Rep. John Lewis

10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - Panel on Writing History
James Donovan; Jeff Guinn; Hampton Sides

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - Gen. Anthony Zinni
Anthony Zinni

Monday, March 15th

12am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Bill & Janet Cohen, "Race & Reconciliation," interviewed by Rep. John Lewis

1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 34 min.
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again
Robert McChesney; John Nichols

3am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Bill & Janet Cohen, "Race & Reconciliation," interviewed by Rep. John Lewis

4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight
Karl Rove

5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - Panel on Writing History
James Donovan; Jeff Guinn; Hampton Sides

6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - Doug Stanton
Doug Stanton

7am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - Gen. Anthony Zinni
Anthony Zinni

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Upcoming Programs

IN DEPTH

In Depth is Book TV's long form LIVE interview call-in program with one author discussing his or her body of work. It airs on the first Sunday of every month, beginning at Noon ET. You can watch previous episodes of In Depth online. In 2010 so far, Michelle Malkin, Paul Johnson, and T.R. Reid have been our guests. You can watch those online.

April--John Dean

Book Festivals

Book TV will be covering several book festivals this spring, including LIVE coverage of the Tucson Book Festival March 13-14, and the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville later in March. In April, plans for coverage include the Annapolis Book Festival as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Fair.