By Brian Gillikin | Program Manager
Dear friends of Radarami,
Spring has arrived in Tbilisi, bringing with it beautiful weather, fresh fruits and vegetables, and some exciting things here at Radarami, including our eleventh book launch and three upcoming publications.
Because of your support, Radarami recently published and launched our eleventh book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough. The book is a fascinating look at how failure and exploration build character inside and outside the classroom. On April 27th, we journeyed out to Café Marleta in Telavi for the book launch. The launch featured short introductions by Tinatin Khomeriki, the book’s editor; Tamar Gakhokidze, the manager of the Newton School in Tbilisi; and Nino Kiknavelidze, a child psychologist who led a very active discussion between the event’s seventy attendees, each of whom received copies of the book.
Radarami has a busy summer ahead with three publication going to the press. The two publications funded in part by the Open Society Foundation and by your generosity—The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah, and The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movementby David Graeber—are both nearly edited, and we hope to have them both printed by early July.
We’re also happy to say that Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalinis likewise just about ready for publication. We’re very grateful for your support throughout the length of this project as well as for partial funding through the Heinrich Böll Foundation. We’re excited that this publication is finally coming to fruition because it will add a much needed voice to the political divisiveness of in Georgia over Stalin, who is still admired by many as a national hero. We hope this publication will be instrumental in a public reappraisal of his role.
In April, Radarami took part in the Wandering Books Initiative. Radarami books were placed in public places with a note saying, "I'm a wandering book, you can take me and leave me somewhere after you read me". Please follow the link for the short video we made about this project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKGMATdR9A
Naturally, Radarami isn’t stopping here. As we look to the rest 2014, we will be working to fund publication of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier, which examines the fifty failed states which are home to the poorest one billion people on Earth, and what needs to be done as they fall further and further behind the rest of the world. We’re also continuing to expand our distribution network, recently adding more libraries and looking to distribute through Georgia’s nearly ninety Peace Corps Volunteers living in the regions.
If you have any other questions or comments, please email brian@radarami.org.
Thank you again for your generous support.
Best wishes,
The Radarami Team
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