Authors@Google: Alex Ross
Alex Ross spoke to Googlers in Mountain View about his book Listen To This on October 15, 2010.
About Listen To This:
"Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller,The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his wr
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Workforce Strategies, Energy Efficiency, and Green Jobs - Session 2C
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Moderator: Barbara Baran, California Budget Project
Speakers:
Eleni Papadakis, Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Washington State
Larry Frank,
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