In this special Earth Day episode, we talk with sustainability expert Joanna Yarrow about her latest, How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: 365 Simple Ways to Save Energy, Resources and Money. The authors of Eco Dog tell us about their comprehensive guide to nontoxic and planet-friendly dog care, and photographer Thomas Bachand  pays us a visit to  talk about his  process capturing  the landscape in a Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty.

 

In this episode, we visit Top Chef celebrity chef Tom Colicchio in New York to talk about the release of Top Chef:The Cookbook; make a call to London to talk about the new street art movement with Francesca Gavin, author of Street Renegades; and visit Marin, California to get the dirt on Dirty Little Secrets from Otherwise Perfect Moms from authors (and moms) Amy Nobile and Trisha Ashworth.

We're back, and we've got three great author interviews for you. First, we talk with Miriam Goodman about Reinventing Retirement: 389 Ideas About Family, Friends, Health, What to Do, and Where to Live. Then we head into the kitchen to talk about Luscious Creamy Desserts with food writer Lori Longbotham, and finally we talk to dance historian Janice Ross about San Francisco Ballet at Seventy-Five, her look behind the scenes of America's oldest ballet company.

Go behind the scenes at Pixar with author Karen Paik, as we flip through the pages of To Infinity and Beyond, 300 pages of lore from the animation studio. The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook clarifies the proper procedure for dealing with a Christmas tree fire, and photographer Neil Zlozower rocks hard with his new book, Van Halen: A Visual History, 1978-1984.