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[7 Apr 2011]

Francine Pascal, the creator of the Sweet Valley High series, talks to Joseph Planta about her new book, which updates the series, Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later (St. Martin’s Press, 2011).

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[25 Feb 2011]

On the 25th anniversary of the People’s Power Revolution in the Philippines, the award winning foreign correspondent and executive vice president and editor-at-large of the San Francisco Chronicle Phil Bronstein discusses covering the Philippines from the assassination of Ninoy Aquino to the ouster of the Marcos regime, and the installation of Corazon Aquino, with Joseph Planta; as well, the contemporary revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are compared.

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[25 Jan 2011]

The well-known motivational speaker and bestselling author Lucinda Bassett discusses her new book The Solution: Conquer Your Fear, Control Your Future (Sterling, 2011), with Joseph Planta, sharing tips on how to combat stress and anxiety.

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[25 Nov 2010]

The Globe and Mail’s Micah Toub discusses his new book, Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks (Doubleday, 2010), with Joseph Planta.

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[9 Nov 2010]

The noted academic Dr. Dickson Despommier discusses his new book The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century (Thomas Dunne, 2010), with Joseph Planta.

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[8 Oct 2010]

Dr. Jenn Berman discusses her new book SuperBaby: 12 Way to Give Your Child a Head Start in the First 3 Years (Sterling, 2010), with Joseph Planta.

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[25 Mar 2010]

The writer and comic Kitty Martini talks to Joseph Planta about the book she and Candice Reed have written, Thank You for Firing Me! How to Catch the Next Wave of Success After You Lose Your Job (Sterling, 2010).

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[2 Mar 2010]

The Vancouver Observer’s publisher Linda Solomon talks to Joseph Planta about her new book, Why I Love Vancouver: Reflections on a City by a Pulitzer-Nominated American Journalist (2010), a collection of profiles and essays that have appeared on the Observer’s website; as well they discuss the recent Winter Olympic Games.

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[23 Feb 2010]

Jeremy Rifkin, an adviser to a number of heads of state and the European Union, discusses his new book The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (Tarcher, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[25 Nov 2009]

The Washington Post’s David Finkel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, discusses his new book, the already highly regarded and well-reviewed The Good Soldiers (Douglas & McIntyre, 2009), with Joseph Planta; a powerful book that follows United States Army soldiers between January 2007 to June 2008, who go to Iraq as part of President Bush’s surge.