D.G.Wills Books

7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, Ca. 92037 (858)456-1800

HOURS: Monday-Saturday 10am-7pm; Sunday 11am-6pm

La Jolla's largest collection of new and used scholarly books; and home of the La Jolla Cultural Society

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Baroness Susan Greenfield

will discuss her new book

ID: The Quest for Identity
in the 21^st Century

Saturday, May 23, 7pm

Baroness Susan Greenfield is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords. She is Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford. Her specialty is the physiology of the brain, especially Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, as well as the physical basis of consciousness. She has written and broadcast widely and accessibly on these topics and in 1994 she became the first woman to be invited to give a Royal Institution Christmas Lecture and has subsequently made a wide range of TV and radio broadcasts, including a major six-part series on the brain and mind, broadcast on BBC-2 in June 2000. In 1999 she gave a consultative seminar to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, at Downing Street, and also in 1999, was invited to give the Dimbleby Lecture.

Baroness Greenfield will be introduced by V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at UCSD, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute.

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Dr. Sarita Eastman

will discuss her new book

A Trail of Light:
The Very Full Life of Dr. Anita Figueredo
Saturday, July 11, 7pm

Dr. Anita Figueredo, now ninety-two, one of the first two women trained in surgical oncology in the United States, and the first female surgeon in San Diego, will participate in this event. An extraordinary community activist as well, she was a friend of Mother Teresa of Calcutta for nearly forty years.

San Diego Reader Senior Editor
Matt Potter
and

San Diego Reader Editor and Publisher
Jim Holman

will discuss
Judith Moore's book

A BAD, BAD BOY

Saturday, July 25, 7pm

A Bad, Bad Boy is a collection of stories about Frank "Bomp" Bompensiero, the most feared mobster in Southern California for thirty years, and the basis for the character Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero in The Sopranos.

Judith Moore, former Senior Editor for the San Diego Reader, died in 2005, was an NEA and Guggenheim fellow, and wrote Fat Girl to much critical acclaim.

Previous Events at D.G.Wills Books

Christopher Hitchens

Director Oliver Stone

Historian and Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert

Vogue magazine photo of Francoise Gilot at the original store

Poet Jerome Rothenberg

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman, Director of the Neurosciences Institute, with U.C. Berkeley philosopher John Searle with Mrs. Searle

Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen

Noted editor Robert Weil, editing a Patricia Highsmith manuscript for W.W. Norton & Co.

Loeb Classical Library and Western Philosophy wall

Previous Events at D.G.Wills Books

Allen Ginsberg, May l994

New York Times Pulitzer Prize Columnist Maureen Dowd

Jill Abramson, Managing Editor, New York Times, with Maureen Dowd

Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2001-2003

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Gore Vidal, November 2005

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Gore Vidal with Professor Dennis Altman

Gore Vidal, March l998, with noted South African playwright Athol Fugard in audience

Nobel Laureate Francis Crick, February 1995

James D. Watson and Francis Crick with their model of the DNA molecule, the Double Helix, at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, l953

Nobel Laureate James D. Watson, September 2007

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott

Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis

Three & One-Half Time Pulitzer Prize Playwright Edward Albee

Pulitzer Prize poet Gary Snyder

Oscar-Winning Actress Patricia Neal with her biographer Stephen Michael Shearer

Patricia Neal holding a model of "Gort" from the science fiction film classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus of the University of California, former UCSD Chancellor and former Director of the National Science Foundation

Renowned scientist Freeman Dyson

A visit from Oscar Nominated and Emmy Award Winning Actor Paul Giamatti

A visit from Jim Belushi, 2003

Jim Belushi at the original store, l988

Claude Picasso and Francoise Gilot

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