ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library show

ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

Summary: ALOUD is the Library Foundation of Los Angeles' award-winning literary series of live conversations, readings and performances at the historic Central Library and locations throughout Los Angeles.

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 Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life BY Dacher Keltner | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:04:49

Why have we evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe and compassion? Keltner, professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, offers a profound study of how emotion is the key to living the good life.

 Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Why have we evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe and compassion? Keltner, professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, offers a profound study of how emotion is the key to living the good life.

 The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet BY Neil deGrasse Tyson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:21:49

The bestselling author and director of the world-famous Hayden Planetarium chronicles America's irrational love affair with Pluto, man's best celestial friend

 The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The bestselling author and director of the world-famous Hayden Planetarium chronicles America's irrational love affair with Pluto, man's best celestial friend

 The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk and Adventure in the Twenty-Five Years After 50 BY Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:09:53

A renowned sociologist challenges the still-prevailing and anachronistic images of aging, tracing the ways in which wisdom, experience, and new learning inspire individual growth and cultural transformation.

 The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk and Adventure in the Twenty-Five Years After 50 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

A renowned sociologist challenges the still-prevailing and anachronistic images of aging, tracing the ways in which wisdom, experience, and new learning inspire individual growth and cultural transformation.

 The Element: A New View of Human Capacity BY Sir Ken Robinson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative overcame polio to become one of the world's leaders in the development of creativity in business, education and human resources. Hear him hold forth on the potential and capacity of truly "human" resources.

 The Element: A New View of Human Capacity | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative overcame polio to become one of the world's leaders in the development of creativity in business, education and human resources. Hear him hold forth on the potential and capacity of truly \"human\" resources.

 Wallace Stegner & the Shaping of Environmental Consciousness in the West BY Tom Curwen, William Deverell, Jenny Price, Page Stegner | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:23:43

A distinguished panel explores the legacy of one of the West's most influential writers, who fought for protection of the region's delicate environment as well as recognition of a Western regional base and influenced generations of environmental writers.

 Wallace Stegner & the Shaping of Environmental Consciousness in the West | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

A distinguished panel explores the legacy of one of the West's most influential writers, who fought for protection of the region's delicate environment as well as recognition of a Western regional base and influenced generations of environmental writers.

 How to Live: A Search for Wisdom From Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth) BY Henry Alford | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:18:55

In his newest book, the Thurber-prize winning author interviews elder celebrities (among them Norman Mailer and LSD pioneer Ram Dass), reads deathbed confessions, Lao Tzu, William Burroughs' diaries, and considers the latest medical research on the brain as part of his quest to glean wisdom from the old (and wise) among us.

 How to Live: A Search for Wisdom From Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

In his newest book, the Thurber-prize winning author interviews elder celebrities (among them Norman Mailer and LSD pioneer Ram Dass), reads deathbed confessions, Lao Tzu, William Burroughs' diaries, and considers the latest medical research on the brain as part of his quest to glean wisdom from the old (and wise) among us.

 Thinking About Earthquakes: A Panel Discussion BY Mariana Amatullo, Lucy Jones, Michael Dear, David Ulin, Dennis Mileti | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:28:32

It's been 15 years since the 1994 quake. Is L.A. more prepared for the next one? Are WE? A panel of experts air their views: Mariana Amatullo, director, The L.A. Earthquake: Get Ready project at Art Center College of Design; Michael Dear, Professor of Geography and Urban Planning at USC; Lucy Jones, Caltech and USGS seismologist; Dennis Mileti, Director of the University of Colorado Natural Hazards Center; David Ulin, author, The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith.

 Thinking About Earthquakes: A Panel Discussion | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

It's been 15 years since the 1994 quake. Is L.A. more prepared for the next one? Are WE? A panel of experts air their views: Mariana Amatullo, director, The L.A. Earthquake: Get Ready project at Art Center College of Design; Michael Dear, Professor of Geography and Urban Planning at USC; Lucy Jones, Caltech and USGS seismologist; Dennis Mileti, Director of the University of Colorado Natural Hazards Center; David Ulin, author, The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith.

 EMBERS: A Jazz Opera in Poems | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

A female boxer, a madwoman stuck in Purgatory, and an irreverent angel meet across space and time to explore redemption and forgiveness in this concert reading of a work-in-progress adapted from Wolverton's novel-in-poems. Cherry plays keyboards and conducts a jazz quartet to accompany the actors who will bring to life the poetry and song. Performed by: D'Lo, Marisol de Jesus, O-Lan Jones, Phil Meyer, Cesili Williams and David Ornette Cherry with Organic Roots: Justo Almario, reeds; Ollie Elder Jr., bass; Don Littleton, drums, percussion.

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