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The Authors@Google program presents Elizabeth Gilbert author of "Eat, Pray Love": A New York Times bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love is the story of the author, in her early 30s, dividing a year equally among three dissimilar countries - Italy, India, and Bali, exploring her competing urges for earthly delights and divine transcendence.

For thirty-three years Ravi Zacharias has spoken all over the world and in numerous universities, notably Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford University.

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says technosociologist Zeynep Tufecki.

Written in 1784, "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" is one of philosopher Immanuel Kant's most influential and famous essays.

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice.

Rebels: A Journey Underground is an excellent Canadian documentary history of "the counterculture" produced for television in the late 1990s and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland.

Thanks to social media, teens are able to directly interact with their culture -- celebrities, movies, brands -- in ways never before possible.

In this lecture Professor William McKeen discusses the history of journalism in America and specifically journalism which took on a literary quality of storytelling.

The Proposal is a one act comic farce by Anton Chekhov. In Chekhov's Russia, marriage was a means of economic stability for most people.