Alex, Justin and Max discover that a famous author is using their lives as the premise for her best-selling novels named Charmed and Dangerous. However, the wizards are shocked learning that she is actually Harper from the future. The Future Harper insists Justin that he must get Alex to give Harper permission to write the books, otherwise the future will be ruined. In the end of the episode, Selena Gomez and Rob Reiner comically talk about the importance of reading.
วันจันทร์ที่ 29 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2553
วันจันทร์ที่ 22 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2553
Life on a US base in Central Asia
Please visit www.simonreeve.co.uk for more information. Simon Reeve visits a US base in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, while making his TV series Meet the Stans. The Meet the Stans series took Simon from the far north-west of Kazakhstan, by the Russian border, east to the Chinese border, south through Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the edge of Afghanistan, and west to Uzbekistan and the legendary Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara. The Guardian said it was a thrilling postcard from the edge The Times said Simon Reeves journey through Kazakhstan is a first-class Boys Own adventure on film and illuminating too. I cant imagine anyone switching off who stays for the first five minutes.Simon Reeve is a bestselling author and broadcaster. In recent years hes travelled to scores of countries around the world for a series of BBC television documentaries. The 2008 BBC TV series Tropic of Capricorn took Simon around the line marking the southern border of the tropics. His accompanying book, also called Tropic of Capricorn, is published by BBC Books. In the BBC series Equator, Simon followed the equator through troubled areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, including Colombia and the Congo. In Places That Dont Exist, Simon travelled through a group of unrecognised nations countries so obscure they dont officially exist. And in Meet the Stans, Simon visited the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Simons book The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef ...
วันจันทร์ที่ 15 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2553
Malcolm Gladwell on the Beatles - Prodigies or Not?
Complete video at: fora.tv Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell uses The Beatles as an example to question the existence of genuine musical prodigies. He attributes a large measure of the band's success to the experience they gained while playing as the house band for a strip club in Hamburg, Germany. ------ Readers of Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker articles, reviews, and profiles know him to be an author of wide-ranging curiosity about the world and the way it works. His choice of subject matter ranges from the psychology of athletes in pressure situations to the salesman who masterminded the popularity of the George Foreman Grill. What sets Gladwell's writing apart is his use of research in fields such as epidemiology, behavioral psychology, and other social sciences. His ability to incorporate ideas from these fields in a manner that is both relevant and understandable makes Gladwell a unique, cutting-edge journalist. In his most recent work, Outliers: The Story of Success, Gladwell explores what makes the most famous and successful individuals different. Throughout the book, Gladwell's intelligence and fresh perspective synthesize divergent ideas in order to make a broader point about the way our culture works - City Arts & Lectures Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker since 1996. From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter with the Washington Post, where he covered business, science, and then served as the newspaper's New York City bureau chief. He is ...
วันจันทร์ที่ 8 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2553
JK Rowling Documentary - Stars - [BroadbandTV]
In the mid 90s Harry Potter author JK Rowling was your average secretary living from paycheck to paycheck. She was a single mother with a head full of ideas and dreams of becoming a writer. Her perseverance and unique ability to bring out the child in everyone has now not only made her rich but also made her one of the best-selling authors in the world. 48:05 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter series followed a young wizard through his schooling at Hogwarts, the elite school of wizardry, and was an instant success when released in 1997. 48:21 The success not only continued but got bigger as the author released sequels until there were seven books in total but while she writing fans were embracing the big screen versions. 48:35 Potter Mania had taken over the world but all good things must come to an end. 48:41 SOT "To an extent the pressure is off I suppose because it is the last book, so I feel quite liberated, I can just resolve the story now, and it's fun. Fun in a way that it hasn't been before, finally I am doing my resolution, I think some people will loathe it and some will love it, that's how it should be." 49:00 Since Rowling first introduced Harry and his fellow students at Hogwarts to the world over 10 years ago Harry Potter had become a global pop culture phenomenon. The popularity of the books had seen a rise in literacy levels around the world as children everywhere eagerly turned page after page and read book after ...
วันจันทร์ที่ 1 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2553
Space Hygiene and the People Who Stopped Bathing for Science
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Mary Roach's hilarious new book, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, is in stores now. Learn more at: maryroach.net Become a Fan: www.facebook.com Video Credits: Directed by Jamieson Fry Produced by Rival Pictures WW Norton & Company | Independent Publishers since 1923 books.wwnorton.com
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