"White is the self-proclaimed "Financial Voice for Generation Y" and he lives up to that title in this latest self-help book. Filled with more than a hundred easy to read tips for success with money, White is sure to reach the fast-paced group of teenagers and young adults who have grown up with microwaves, text messaging and endless credit cards.
includes valuable information on putting together a useable common sense budget, paying off debt and using the debt you have to your advantage, understanding your credit report, increasing your earning potential and real estate. He even goes as far as to include tips on winning the lottery or investing an inheritance.
Unlike dry financial books for the older generation, each tip is less than a page long, and packed with conversation style useful information. Rather than encourage readers to never use a credit card White seems to accept that debt is part of American culture. Much of his book is devoted to counseling the proper ways to use debt to increase your credit score, increase your earning potential and increase your net worth.
is a must read not just for Generation "Y," but for their parents as well."
James White was born and raised in a middle class family in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He began his first business at age 12 and earned his first million by age 16. Armed with a $20 snow shovel it wasn't long before White was gathering clients, and re-investing the profits in what would become "J&W Landscaping." White has since branched out to form an international empire that includes real estate, debt consolidation, mechanical fleet services, motivational speaking and a popular Canadian radio show. Now, he is on a mission to save the American economy and the future. White plans to bring his exciting and inspiring ideas to the minds of Generation "Y."
DATE Thursday, September 11, 2008
TIME/PLACE: 7:00 p.m., Literary Duck @ Campus Duck Store
AUTHOR Lily Koppel
TITLE The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
ABOUT THE BOOK (Booklist Saturday, March 01, 2008):
In 2003, Koppel, a novice writer for the
New York Times, stumbled upon an amazing discovery: the decades-old diary of a privileged teenaged Manhattanite penned between 1929 and 1934. Fascinated by entries detailing theater expeditions, shopping sprees, love interests, and grand ambitions, she put her journalistic skills to good use, tracking down the original owner of this faded and cracked red-leather treasure. Elated to discover 90-year-old Florence Wolfson alive, alert, and eager to share her memories of a bygone time and place, Koppel began interviewing Florence, interweaving the brief diary entries with more detailed personal anecdotes infused with the type of glamour and sophistication associated with a 1930s romantic comedy. After a front-page story appeared in the
New York Times Sunday City section, interest in Florence's fascinating story prompted the author to write a full-length book that works as both a biography and a spellbinding glimpse into a vanished era.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Lily Koppel writes for the
New York Times and other publications. She lives in New York City.
DATE Sunday, September 21, 2008
TIME/PLACE: 2:00 p.m., Eugene Public Library
AUTHOR Justice Betty Roberts
TITLE With Grit and by Grace: Breaking Trials in Politics and Law, a Memoir
Justice Betty Roberts, on tour with her new memoir
With Grit and By Grace, talks at the Downtown Library, introduced by U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken.
Roberts blazed trails as a state legislator, becoming the first woman to sit on the Oregon Court of Appeals and ultimately, the first female justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.
Roberts speaks at the Library with her trademark candor and humor about accomplishments, disappointments, and the dedication required to make a difference.
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DATE Tuesday, September 23, 2008
TIME/PLACE: 7:00 p.m., Springfield Public Library
AUTHOR Laurie Notaro
TITLE The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
ABOUT THE BOOK (from the Publisher):
Laurie Notaro has an uncanny ability to attract insanity—and leave readers doubled over with laughter. Need proof? Check out
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death and try not to bust a gut.
Join Notaro as she experiences the popular phenomenon of laser hair removal (because at least one of her chins should be stubble-free); bemoans the scourge of the Open Mouth Coughers on America's airplanes and in similarly congested areas; welcomes the newest ex-con (yay, a sex offender!) to her neighborhood; and watches, against her own better judgment, every Discovery Health Channel special on parasites and tapeworms that has ever aired-resulting in an overwhelming fear that a worm the size of a python will soon come a-knocking on her back door.
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer says that Laurie Notaro is "a scream, the freak-magnet of a girlfriend you can't wait to meet for a drink to hear her latest story." With
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death, Notaro proves she's not only funny but resigned to the fact that you can't look bad ass in a Prius. Don't even try.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Laurie Notaro was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She packed her bags for Eugene, Oregon, once she realized that since she was past thirty, her mother could no longer report her as a teenage runaway. She is the author of
The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club,
Autobiography of a Fat Bride,
I Love Everybody,
We Thought You'd Be Prettier, and
An Idiot Girl's Christmas. She is currently at work on a plan B (to take effect when her book contract runs out,) which consists of options with minimum dander of office politics, including selling hot dogs at Costco, selling hot dogs from a street cart, selling hot dogs at high school football games, or being the Stop sign holder for road construction crews. She avoids raccoons both day and night and fully expects to be run out of her new hometown once this book is published. At press time, she is still married, her cat is still alive, and she has an adorably disobedient dog named Maeby, who wears sweaters and loves chicken strips. (Clearly, Notaro has no children.)
"[Notaro] may be the funniest writer in this solar system."
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The Miami Herald
DATE Sunday, September 28, 2008
TIME/PLACE: 3:30 p.m. (Doors open at 3:00 p.m.), McArthur Court, UO Campus
EVENT Convocation Lecture
AUTHOR Steven Pinker
TITLE How the Mind Works &
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
ABOUT THE BOOKS (from the Publisher):
How the Mind Works
Why do memories fade? Why do people lose their tempers? What makes children bratty? Why do fools fall in love? Pinker's "witty popular science" (
New York Times Book Review) dissects the major faculties of the mind: perception, reasoning, emotion, and social relations. He lucidly analyzes "what the mind is, where it came from, and how it lets us see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art, religion, and philosophy."
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
This
New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language. Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist
The Blank Slate have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today's most important popular science writers. In
The Stuff of Thought, Pinker presents a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. Considering scientific questions with examples from everyday life,
The Stuff of Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of everything from
The Selfish Gene and
Blink to
Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, is author of the bestselling
The Language Instinct,
How the Mind Works and
Words and Rules. Of Pinker,
The Guardian says that he takes "the guiding principle of the pioneer thinker on psychology, Noam Chomsky, that language is an inherited ability, created and refined by natural selections, and made it comprehensible for the masses." He is Peter de Florenz Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has been listed in
Newsweek as a One Hundred Americans for the Next Century.
