Georgia author Carolyn Curry’s new book, Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1834-1907, chronicles the life of another Georgian, Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas. Thomas, an intelligent young woman with a love for learning, began a diary at the age of fourteen that she for forty-one years. These diaries of her life before, during, and after the Civil War filled...

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But today, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. At work, most people operate as takers, matchers, or givers. Using his own pioneering research as Wharton’s youngest tenured professor, Adam Grant shows that these styles have a surprising impact on success. Although some givers...

Set in South Africa at the end of Apartheid, Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying offers ”darkly humorous descriptions of the crime, poverty, violence, and ethnic unrest” mixed with ”shades of the absurd” (Publishers Weekly). This event will be held at the Centennial Hall Auditorium, 100 Auburn Avenue.

We’re pleased to welcome back Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like An Artist. If you missed out on the opportunity to see him before, be sure to catch him this time as he discusses his latest book, Show Your Work! Show Your Work! tackles how generosity trumps genius. It’s about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not self-promotion, it’s...

Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, Emory University Professor and historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongering from all sides, often at the expense of the facts. Patrick Allitt...