MONDAY:
Those of you interested in questions of population growth and its relationship to female sexual autonomy will want to catch Robert Engelman, vice president for programs at the Worldwatch Institute, as he discusses his new book, More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, at Busboys and Poets. 6:30 p.m.

Sorry folks, Salman Rushdie’s discussion and signing of The Enchantress of Florence at Politics & Prose is, sadly, sold out.

TUESDAY:
Bestselling author Lauren Weisberger pulled back the curtains on the fashion industry to reveal that the Devil not only wore Prada, but could have also won international accessorizing contests. Weisberger reads from and signs her new book, Chasing Harry Winston, at Borders Books-Baileys Crossroads. 7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
What does it take to survive a plane crash? A hotel fire? A hostage situation? Journalist Amanda Ripley’s series of interviews with survivors of these and other shattering experiences has resulted in what appears to be a quite useful book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why. She discusses and signs copies of it at Politics and Prose, guaranteed to be the safest place in the city should disaster strike this evening. 7 p.m.

THURSDAY:
According to Thomas Greanias’ latest novel, The Atlantis Prophecy, some sort of bad prophecy will be fulfilled when the stars align along a number of D.C. monuments on July 4, 2008. Fortunately he’ll be reading from it the day before, giving us a whole 24 hours to prevent it. Barnes & Noble-Georgetown. 7:30 p.m.