Bill Gates:"My new favorite book of all time- Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker

Bill Gates:"My new favorite book of all time- Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker 

Pinker uses meticulous research to argue that we are living in the most peaceful time in human history. I’d never seen such a clear explanation of progress. 

Pinker also tackles the disconnect between actual progress and the perception of progress—something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about. People all over the world are living longer, healthier, and happier lives, so why do so many think things are getting worse? Why do we gloss over positive news stories and fixate on the negative ones? He does a good job explaining why we’re drawn to pessimism and how that instinct influences our approach to the world 

The world is getting better, even if it doesn’t always feel that way. I’m glad we have brilliant thinkers like Steven Pinker to help us see the big picture. Enlightenment Now is not only the best book Pinker’s ever written. It’s my new favorite book of all time.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a 2018 historical romantic-drama film

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a 2018 historicalromantic-drama film directed by Mike Newell and written by Don Roos and Tom Bezucha. The screenplay is based on the 2008 novel of the same name, written by Mary Ann Shafferand Annie Barrows. The film stars Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Glen Powell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Katherine Parkinson, Matthew Goode, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton. Set in 1946, the plot follows a London-based writer who begins exchanging letters with residents on the island of Guernsey, which was under German occupation during World War II.
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Russian-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary

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Russian-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary of DK's bestselling series makes language learning accessible by using photographs to put the everyday vocabulary of the modern world into context.

A thematic organization of more than 10,000 fully illustrated terms labeled in both Russian and English and comprehensive two-way indexes put the perfect translation at your fingertips. Additional feature panels include abstract nouns and verbs, as well as useful phrases that you can use in conversation once you are feeling more confident.

Russian-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is a colorful and stimulating learning resource ideal for all levels, whether you are a student, teacher, tourist, or business traveler. Now fully updated with new text, images, and a bold new look.

BBC World Book Club- Mp3 Podcasts

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The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel

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 SAT 6 JAN 2018 -Sophie Hannah and James Prichard discuss 

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

SAT 1 APR 2017 Robert Harris discusses the first of his Roman trilogy, Imperium

 SAT 5 NOV 2016 Boris Akunin and Dr Sarah Young discuss Dostoyevsky’s classic novel Crime and Punishment.

 SAT 5 JAN 2013 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is 200 years old, but the story still resonates. Why?

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 CHRISTMAS DAY 2007 Italian author Umberto Eco discusses his novel The Name of the Rose

Bodyguard is a 2018 BBC British television drama series

Bodyguard is a 2018 BBC British television drama series

Bodyguard is a British television drama series, created and written by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions for the BBC. The six-part series stars Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes.[1] The series began broadcasting on BBC One on 26 August 2018,[2] achieving the highest viewing figures for a new BBC drama in the multichannel era and the highest BBC viewing figures since 2008.[3][4]

The series is set around the fictional character of Police Sergeant David Budd, a heroic British Army war-veteran suffering from PTSD, who is now working as a specialist protection officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch of London's Metropolitan Police Service. He is assigned to protect the ambitious Home Secretary Julia Montague, whose politics stand for everything he despises.

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BBC REEL- a new platform

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BBC Reel marks the broadcaster’s effort to collect all video under one new platform and give new life to evergreen content from around the BBC’s multiple brands and verticals.

Each day, BBC Reel will publish a themed playlist, chosen by one of its six-person team, containing one newly commissioned video. The other four or five videos will be taken from verticals like BBC News, BBC Culture, BBC Travel, BBC Future or from the digital video produced by its numerous radio brands.

There are about 60 videos on-site at launch. Reel has already commissioned dozens of original videos from more than 50 filmmakers located in 40 countries and has a pipeline of content to last it until December. Videos are usually between three and five minutes long.

For its launch on Monday, Oct. 1, BBC Reel commissioned a video of a Nepalese farmer who rescues abandoned cows on his motorbike. The playlist also features a BBC News video about nuns in Mexico who saved a sacred type of salamander; a BBC Earth video about a rare hand-reared bird in Spain; and a BBC World Service report on a conservationist who saved a humpback whale.

“We’re looking for interesting characters, deeper human stories; we’re a trusted source,” said Melissa Hogenboom, editor of BBC Reel. “We know our audience has an appetite for a rich media diet outside the news cycle. We want to try lots of new things, not just fast-paced digital stories.”

BBC Reel is experimenting with longer-form content too. A six-part documentary about a heat-resistant substance called Starlite will be broadcast as an eight-minute version on BBC Inside Out, an investigative show with regional strands on BBC 1. It will later be re-versioned into a 30-minute documentary for BBC World TV News.

“This shows that a digital-first commission can have much wider reach,” she said. “Historically there would have been TV clips that were put online, this shows that it works the other way round.”

Organizing videos into playlists and related content as a way to boost viewing was coined early on by YouTube, and publishers like The New York Times are picking up. The public-service arm of the BBC has explored short-form video playlists with the more U.K. focused BBC Ideasand BBC Stories, both of which can cross-promote with BBC Reel. For rights reasons Reel will not currently be showing BBC 3 content, the public service broadcaster’s now online-only content channel, which broadcasts also on its catch-up service, BBC iPlayer. BBC Reel is built on the same technology as BBC iPlayer, but iPlayer is built and targeted at the U.K.-license fee payer, not the BBC’s international audience.

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