Thomas Nelson Book Review Program' title='Thomas Nelson Book Review Program' />Jenny Andretich Jenny Andretich is an instructor for the Falmouth Institute who joined our team in May, 2010. Ms. Andretich comes to us with 9 years of experience in. Sign up for Harvard Ed News and get the latest from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Upcoming Events Boswell Book Company. Details for our upcoming events are below. You can find a line listing of other confirmed author appearances at the bottom of the page. If you want to hear about events in your in box, sign up for our email newsletter or the Boswell and Books blog. And, you can always pre order or reserve a signed copy of your favorite authors new title if you cant make an event  Saturday, November 1. Boswell. Bronzeville at Night 1. Vida Cross referencing her ancestry as a third generation Chicagoan and Bronzeville resident, as well as the artwork of Archibald J. Motley Jr., and the poetic research of Langston Hughes. Ian Bodkin raves Cross pulls from Archibald Motley Jr. About the Author Vida Cross was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. From 2. 00. 9 to 2. Cross was a Cave Canem Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Literary Review, The Reverie Journal, and The Journal of Film and Video. Vida splits her time between Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She teaches English Literature at Milwaukee Area Technical College. Tuesday, November 2. Boswell. The Harry Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center presents Tapestry Art and Ideas series with Steven Wallace, cosponsored by Boswell. What country makes the best chocolate Most people would answer Switzerland, or, if theyre discerning, Belgium or France. Dicom Basics Third Edition. But, how many cocoa trees grow in ZurichLyon Antwerp Shouldnt the country known for growing the best cocoa beans be the one that makes the best chocolate So, captivated by theories of international trade but with precious little knowledge of cocoa or chocolate, Steven Wallace set out to build the Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company in Ghana a country renowned for its cocoa and where Wallace spent part of his youth in a quest to produce the worlds first export ready, single origin chocolate bar. What followed would be the true story of an obroni white person from Wisconsin taking on the ultimate entrepreneurial challenge. Written with sensitivity and devastating self awareness, Obroni and the Chocolate Factory is Stevens chaotic, fascinating, and bemusing journey to create a successful international business that aspired to do a bit of good in the world. This book is at once a penetrating business memoir and a story about imagining globalism done right. Wallaces picturesque journey takes him to Ghanas residence for the head of state, to the Amsterdam offices of a secretive international cocoa conglomerate, and face to face with key figures in the sharp elbowed world of global trade and geopolitics. Along the way hell be forced to deal with bureaucratic roadblocks, a legacy of colonialism, corporate intrigue, inscrutable international politics, a Bond esque villain nemesis, and constant uncertainty about whether hell actually pull it off. This rollicking love letter to both Ghana and the world of business is a rare glimpse into the mind of an unusually literate and articulate entrepreneur. About the Author Native Wisconsinite Steven Wallace is the founder and CEO of the Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company, the first company to sustain exports of premium chocolate manufactured entirely in Africa, and credited with producing the worlds first single origin chocolate bar in 1. He currently lives in Whitefish Bay. Wenesday, November 2. Boswell. In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Departments Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Fergusons largely poor, African American population, resulted in jail sentences for thousands of people. As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today. Through money bail systems, fees and fines, strictly enforced laws and regulations against behavior including trespassing and public urination that largely affect the homeless, and the substitution of prisons and jails for the mental hospitals that have traditionally served the impoverished. Simply put, that we have effectively made it a crime to be poor in one of the richest countries on Earth. Edelman, who famously resigned from the administration of Bill Clinton over welfare reform, connects the dots between these policies and others including school discipline in poor communities, child support policies affecting the poor, public housing ordinances, addiction treatment, and the specter of public benefits fraud to paint a picture of a mean spirited, retributive system that seals whole communities into inescapable cycles of poverty. Essentialpim Pro Network Edition. About the Author Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center. Edelman was a top advisor to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and served in President Bill Clintons administration. Thursday, November 3. Jewish Community Center, 6. N Santa Monica Blvd. The Harry Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center presents Tapestry Art and Ideas series with Francine Klagsbrun, cosponsored by Boswell. Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1. America in 1. 90. Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israels founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1. A series of public service jobs brought her to the attention of David Ben Gurion, and her political career took off. Fund raising in America in 1. Amman with King Abdullah right before Israels declaration of independence, mobbed by thousands of Jews in a Moscow synagogue in 1. Israels first representative to the USSR, serving as minister of labor and foreign minister in the 1. Golda brought fiery oratory, plainspoken appeals, and shrewd deal making to the cause to which she had dedicated her life the welfare and security of the State of Israel and its inhabitants. As prime minister, Golda negotiated arms agreements with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and had dozens of clandestine meetings with Jordans King Hussein in the unsuccessful pursuit of a land for peace agreement with Israels neighbors. But her time in office ended in tragedy, when Israel was caught off guard by Egypt and Syrias surprise attack on Yom Kippur in 1. Analyzing newly available documents from Israeli government archives, Francine Klagsbrun looks into whether Golda could have prevented that war and whether in its darkest days she contemplated using nuclear force. Resigning in the wars aftermath, she spent her final years keeping a hand in national affairs and bemusedly enjoying international acclaim. Klagsbruns superbly researched and masterly recounted story of Israels founding mother gives us a Golda for the ages. About the Author Francine Klagsbrun is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Fourth Commandment Remember the Sabbath Day and Married People Staying Together in the Age of Divorce. She is a regular columnist for The Jewish Week, a contributing editor to Lilith, and on the editorial board of Hadassah magazine. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, and Ms. Magazine. More Upcoming Events. Tuesday, December 5, 6 0.