MONDAY:
Author and labor expert Les Leopold will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of his new book, The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi, who was the late Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union leader. 6:30 p.m.

Nation magazine writer Jonathan Schell will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book, The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger. 7 p.m.

TUESDAY:
On the very day Sen. Barack Obama could possibly claim New Hampshire’s much-coveted delegates, Shelby Steele, a fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, will be at Politics and Prose to tell us why it’s going to be a lot harder for him to take the whole enchilada. Steele’s latest book A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited about Obama and Why He Can’t Win. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
It looks like there’s a theme emerging this week at Politics and Prose. Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins will be at the bookstore to discuss The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets. We’re close to soiling our skivvies, folks, so please stop reminding us that there are very bad weapons just floating around out there. 7 p.m.