All Things Considered: Kids Enjoy White House Harvest
In April 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden on the White House’s South Lawn. Now, in her first-ever book, American Grown, Mrs. Obama invites you inside the White House Kitchen Garden and shares its inspiring story, from the first planting to the latest harvest.
Hear about her worries as a novice gardener — would the new plants even grow? Learn about her struggles and her joys as lettuce, corn, tomatoes, collards and kale, sweet potatoes and rhubarb flourished in the freshly tilled soil. Get an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at every season of the garden’s growth, with striking original photographs that bring its story to life.
Try the unique recipes created by top White House chefs and made with ingredients freshly-picked from the White House garden. And learn from the White House Garden team about how you can help plant your own backyard, school or community garden
What Money Can’t Buy by Michael Sandel
Patt Morrison: In Our Market-Driven Society, is There Anything that Money Can’t Buy?
The Daily Circuit: Michael Sandel on ‘What Money Can’t Buy’
Should we allow companies to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades?
These are just a few of the ethical questions Michael J. Sandel attempts to answer in his new book called “What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets.”
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The Madeleine Brand Show: Author of ‘God’s Hotel’ explains the practice of ‘slow medicine’
Until recently, Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco operated much like an almshouse during the Middle Ages. It served several purposes, providing a place for people who had fallen on hard times, while also offering extended, low-tech care.
The patients at Laguna Honda could stay for weeks, months, and sometimes even years. Dr. Victoria Sweet describes the practice as “slow medicine.” She spent 20 years there after only intending to stay for two months.
Now she has written a book about her experience called “God’s Hotel.”
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
By Florence Williams
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Fresh Air: Just What’s Inside those Breasts?
Marketplace Breasts: An environmental history
Author Florence Williams talks about her new book, “Breasts,” and how environmental pollution affects them.
Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America
By Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Buy Book | Kindle
Featured on public radio:
Fresh Air from WHYY Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America
May 9, 2012
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf was once the lead cleric associated with the proposed Islamic community center some critics called the “ground zero mosque.” In his new book, Moving the Mountain, Rauf calls for moderate Muslims to step up and marginalize the voices of extremists.
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