[Dates refer to original air dates on KKUP Radio, 91.5 FM, in San Jose, Calif. Guest information is current as of broadcast date.]
01-13-2000 "The 'Spirit' of Today"
Philip Zaleski is the editor of Harper San Francisco's annual "the best spiritual writing" series, including the book discussed in this interview, "The Best Spiritual Writing, 1999." He's the senior editor of Parabola magazine and a professor at Smith College. He's also the author of "Gifts of the Spirit" and "The Recollected Heart."
04-13-2000 "The Best Sex Ever"
Subject: "Guide To Getting It On!, The Universe's Coolest and Most Informative Book about Sex" by Paul Joannides, published in 2000 by Goofy Foot Press. Paul is a research psychoanalyst and was in private practice as a psychoanalyst in Southern California for 15 years. He's been teaching graduate students in psychoanalysis for 5 years; has supervised and taught graduate students in psychology; supervised the staff of a shelter for abused women; and has worked extensively with street kids.
06-08-2000 "Highly Sensitive Person"
Dr. Elaine Aron is a Research Psychologist at State University of New York, is in private practice as a clinical psychologist in San Francisco and Santa Cruz, California, and is the author of "The Highly Sensitive Person" and "The Highly Sensitive Person in Love," published in 1997 and 1999, respectively, by Broadway Books. She conducts workshops for HSPs around the country.
07-13-2000 "When Physics Follow Art"
Dr. Leonard Shlain is an Associate Professor of Surgery at U.C. San Francisco Medical Center, the Chief of Laparoscopic Surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, and the author of the 1991 bestseller "Art and Physics, parallel visions in space, time and light"; and the bestselling "The Alphabet versus the Goddess, the conflict between word and image," published in 1998 by Penguin/Arkana.
08-10-2000 "The Politics of Pollution"
Jack Doyle has been writing about energy and environmental issues for more than 20 years. In 1979 he wrote "Lines Across the Land," an exposé of the U.S. rural electric cooperative system. In 1985 he wrote "Altered Harvest," about the emerging agriculture/biotech industry. 1991 saw the publishing of "Hold the Applause!," a critique of DuPont's environmental record. In 1994 he wrote "Crude Awakening," a critique of the oil industry. In mid-1994 he formed Corporate Sources, a non-profit investigative venture focused on business/environmental issues. The book under discussion is "Taken for a Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the politics of pollution," published in 2000 by Four Walls Eight Windows Press.
10-12-2000 "A Gun Culture"
Michael Bellesiles is a Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta, the Director of Emory's Center for the Study of Violence, and the author of Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier (1993); and Arming America--the Origins of a National Gun Culture, published in 2000 by Alfred A. Knopf.
11-09-2000 "Brave Tibetans"
Dr Stephen Harrison has a Ph.D. in Engineering from Purdue University, a Masters degree in Psychology from Antioch University, and an M.D. from Yale University. He received his psychiatric training at UCLA. He has also conducted photographic work in Norway, Scotland, and parts of the U.S. He's the author of "Whispered Prayers--Portraits and Prose of Tibetans in Exile," published in 2000 by Talisman Press.
