Tuesday, September 14, 2021 @ 6pm PT
MARY ROACH presents FUZZ: WHEN NATURE BREAKS THE LAW
in conversation with ZACH WEINERSMITH
Tickets on sale now!
Please note:
> This is a ticketed, virtual event. Tickets are available now.
> Each ticket includes 1 copy of the book + domestic shipping.
> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
> Questions? Email us at events@booksmith.com.
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.
Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter’s Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. She taste-tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque.
Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. When it comes to "problem" wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem—and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.
Mary Roach is the author of six best-selling works of nonfiction, including Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, and, most recently, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War. Her writing has appeared in Outside, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications.
Zach Weinersmith is the creator of the popular webcomic SMBC, the creator of the nerd comedy show BAHFest, and the co-author of the New York Times bestselling popular science book, Soonish.
Please note:
> This is a ticketed, virtual event. Tickets are now available.
> Each ticket includes 1 copy of the book + domestic shipping
> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
> Questions? Email us at events@booksmith.com.
MARY ROACH presents FUZZ: WHEN NATURE BREAKS THE LAW
in conversation with ZACH WEINERSMITH
Tickets on sale now!
Please note:
> This is a ticketed, virtual event. Tickets are available now.
> Each ticket includes 1 copy of the book + domestic shipping.
> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
> Questions? Email us at events@booksmith.com.
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.
Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter’s Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. She taste-tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque.
Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. When it comes to "problem" wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem—and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.
Mary Roach is the author of six best-selling works of nonfiction, including Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, and, most recently, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War. Her writing has appeared in Outside, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications.
Zach Weinersmith is the creator of the popular webcomic SMBC, the creator of the nerd comedy show BAHFest, and the co-author of the New York Times bestselling popular science book, Soonish.
Please note:
> This is a ticketed, virtual event. Tickets are now available.
> Each ticket includes 1 copy of the book + domestic shipping
> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
> Questions? Email us at events@booksmith.com.
Thursday, September 16, 2021 @ 6pm PT
MARTIN FORD presents RULE OF THE ROBOTS:
HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL TRANSFORM EVERYTHING
Tickets available now!
Please note:
> This event is free and all ages, but registration is required.
> You can order copies of Rule of the Robots here; Martin's other books here.
> Questions? Email us at events@booksmith.com.
Imagine it’s 2030. You call a bank to discuss your loan application, but you don’t get to talk to a person. The bank’s AI has spoken: you are denied. At home, feeling stressed, you take pills both invented and prescribed by AI to keep your blood pressure in check. You stream a video starring “actors” generated by machine. And before you turn in, you wonder if collaboration between Big Tech and China means you should choose a new AI provider for your home.
As Martin Ford shows in Rule of the Robots, AI will soon flow through our lives like electricity does today, remaking every sphere of human activity. Yet even as Ford maps out AI’s disquieting future, he shows how we can prepare for it, advocating for policies such as universal basic income and educational reform. It’s crucial that we take his words to heart.
Martin Ford is a futurist and the author of New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, a prescient look at AI and work. It won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. His TED Talk on the impact of artificial intelligence on society has been viewed over 3 million times.
Please note:
> This event is free and all ages, but registration is required.
> You can order copies of Rule of the Robots here; Martin's other books here.
> Questions? Email us at events@booksmith.com.
MARTIN FORD presents RULE OF THE ROBOTS:
HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL TRANSFORM EVERYTHING
Tickets available now!
Please note:
> This event is free and all ages, but registration is required.
> You can order copies of Rule of the Robots here; Martin's other books here.
> Questions? Email us at events@booksmith.com.
Imagine it’s 2030. You call a bank to discuss your loan application, but you don’t get to talk to a person. The bank’s AI has spoken: you are denied. At home, feeling stressed, you take pills both invented and prescribed by AI to keep your blood pressure in check. You stream a video starring “actors” generated by machine. And before you turn in, you wonder if collaboration between Big Tech and China means you should choose a new AI provider for your home.
As Martin Ford shows in Rule of the Robots, AI will soon flow through our lives like electricity does today, remaking every sphere of human activity. Yet even as Ford maps out AI’s disquieting future, he shows how we can prepare for it, advocating for policies such as universal basic income and educational reform. It’s crucial that we take his words to heart.
Martin Ford is a futurist and the author of New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, a prescient look at AI and work. It won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. His TED Talk on the impact of artificial intelligence on society has been viewed over 3 million times.
Please note:
> This event is free and all ages, but registration is required.
> You can order copies of Rule of the Robots here; Martin's other books here.
> Questions? Email us at events@booksmith.com.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 @ 7pm PT
SAUL GRIFFITH presents ELECTRIFY:
AN OPTIMIST'S PLAYBOOK FOR OUR CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE
in conversation with LAURA FRASER
Tickets available now!
Please note:
> This event is free and all ages, but registration is required.
> You can pre-order **signed copies** of Electrify here. We are happy to ship worldwide. International postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com.
> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith's plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future.
Griffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households, businesses, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world, mobilize industry as we did in World War II, and offer low-interest “climate loans.” Griffith's plan doesn't rely on big, not-yet-invented innovations, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses—but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to 25 million, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else.
Saul Griffith, inventor, entrepreneur, and engineer, is founder of Rewiring America, a nonprofit dedicated to decarbonizing America by electrifying everything, and founder and chief scientist at Otherlab. He was a recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2007.
Laura Fraser is a journalist and author of three books of nonfiction, including the NYT-bestselling memoir, An Italian Affair. As founder and editorial director of Shebooks, she published 75 short ebooks by women before selling the company to Shewrites Press. She lives around the corner from the Booksmith and launched all three of her books here. She's also interviewed several authors for the Booksmith. Lately, she has been collaborating with Saul Griffith and Rewiring America, the organization he founded. So while she is not objective about the material in Saul's new book, she is well-acquainted with it.
Please note:
> This event is free and all ages, but registration is required.
> You can pre-order **signed copies** of Electrify here. We are happy to ship worldwide. International postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com.
SAUL GRIFFITH presents ELECTRIFY:
AN OPTIMIST'S PLAYBOOK FOR OUR CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE
in conversation with LAURA FRASER
Tickets available now!
Please note:
> This event is free and all ages, but registration is required.
> You can pre-order **signed copies** of Electrify here. We are happy to ship worldwide. International postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com.
> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith's plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future.
Griffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households, businesses, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world, mobilize industry as we did in World War II, and offer low-interest “climate loans.” Griffith's plan doesn't rely on big, not-yet-invented innovations, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses—but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to 25 million, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else.
Saul Griffith, inventor, entrepreneur, and engineer, is founder of Rewiring America, a nonprofit dedicated to decarbonizing America by electrifying everything, and founder and chief scientist at Otherlab. He was a recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2007.
Laura Fraser is a journalist and author of three books of nonfiction, including the NYT-bestselling memoir, An Italian Affair. As founder and editorial director of Shebooks, she published 75 short ebooks by women before selling the company to Shewrites Press. She lives around the corner from the Booksmith and launched all three of her books here. She's also interviewed several authors for the Booksmith. Lately, she has been collaborating with Saul Griffith and Rewiring America, the organization he founded. So while she is not objective about the material in Saul's new book, she is well-acquainted with it.
Please note:
> This event is free and all ages, but registration is required.
> You can pre-order **signed copies** of Electrify here. We are happy to ship worldwide. International postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com.