Hey everyone--good news! This weekend looks filled with even MORE snow and ice and rain! Why in the world should we be excited about more slush in this seemingly endless winter? I have three sensational reasons to enjoy being indoors:
1. This month, in celebration of our new website, we're offering automatic FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ONLINE ORDERS. So you don't even have to venture outside--the greatest and latest books will come right to your door. And remember, most local orders are delivered SAME OR NEXT-DAY.
2. With just your wits and a bit of sleuthing--and from the comfort of your computer screen--you also have the opportunity to win a $200 Harvard Book Store Gift Card! Check out our awesome e-Scavenger Hunt, launching today.
3. Harvard Book Store doesn't just provide a near-endless supply of great books and reading suggestions--we now also provide video entertainment...and educational entertainment at that. Take two minutes and watch this:
And yes, it's February already. As you probably know, February is Black History Month, and Beacon Press is helping us celebrate with a display of great books in our Publisher Focus Window. Titles include Mary Frances Berry's Power in Words, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Why We Can't Wait, and Sonia Sanchez's Morning Haiku.
February also means Presidents' Day is just around the corner. Start your lists now for our annual Presidents' Day Sale, when the entire store is 20% off! All necessary caveats may be found here.
Happy reading,
Heather
| | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books, & In Store Book Printing
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Swamplandia!
by Karen Russell
$24.95 Knopf, hardcover
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"The beguiling alternative reality--part picaresque, part fairy tale--which Russell conjures in Swamplandia! is dazzlingly original.... Swamplandia! is a welcome addition to Florida's literary canon. Like the state itself, Swamplandia! is a crossroads where the wild and the tame, the spectacular and the mundane meet; underneath the hubbub of the fantastic lies a family of misfits at sea in their grief.... Theirs is a story that is as ordinary as it is heartbreaking." --The Boston Globe
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Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence
by Elizabeth Bishop
$35 FSG, hardcover
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Bishop published the vast majority of her poems in The New Yorker's pages, and her relationship with the magazine went back to 1933 and continued until her death in 1979. During forty years of correspondence, hundreds of letters passed between Bishop and her editors, Charles Pearce, Katharine White, and Howard Moss. In these letters Bishop discussed the ideas and inspiration for her poems while sharing news about her travels and life in Brazil, while her editors offered generous support, commentary, and friendship.
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Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
by Robert Kurzban
$27.95
Princeton University Press, hardcover
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Professor of psychology Robert Kurzban shows that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. The human mind consists of many specialized units designed by the process of evolution by natural selection. While these modules sometimes work together seamlessly, they don't always, resulting in impossibly contradictory beliefs, vacillations between patience and impulsiveness, violations of our supposed moral principles, and overinflated views of ourselves.
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| | Printed on Paige Each week, we'll feature a book printed in Harvard Book Store on Paige, our book-making machine. Featured books will range from fresh works from local authors to near-forgotten titles discovered in our extensive print-on-demand database. | |
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The Celestial and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy of Dionysius the Aeropagite by Rev. John Parker
$8 Print on Demand, paperback Originally printed in London, 1894
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| | From the Google Book collection, and scanned from the Harvard Divinity School's Andover-Harvard Theological Library, this text explores the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 500 CE), the Christian mystical theologian also known as Pseudo-Dionysius.
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| | Bargain Books | Bargain Books are new books at used book prices. Limited copies are available of these titles, so if you see something that you're interested in, come in and check it out soon.
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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington by Jennet Conant
$4.99, paperback (originally $16.00)
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Richly detailed and meticulously researched, Conant's compelling narrative draws on rare wartime letters, diaries, and interviews and provides a remarkably candid, insider's view of the counterintelligence game during the tumultuous days of World War II.
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The Trouble with Physics
by Lee Smolin
$4.99, hardcover (originally $15.95)
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With clarity, passion, and authority, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin charts the rise and fall of string theory and takes a fascinating look at what will replace it.
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Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace: Vols. 1-5
by Hank Ketcham
$6.99, hardcover (originally $24.95)
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"Ketcham's grace and economy of both art and punch line are superb, telling a complete story with a single line of dialogue. This beautifully produced series will delight for years to come." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Harvard University (Campus Guides)
by Douglass Shand-Tucci $13.99, paperback (originally $24.95)
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This beautifully illustrated book on the design and history of the ivy-clad Harvard campus provides an insider's tour in full color photographs. Hand-colored maps, archival images, and drawings vibrantly showcase the unique American Colonial campus.
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| | Finds Downstairs in the Used Book Department |
Featured used books go fast, so if any titles interest you, stop in to check them out soon. We will hold the book if you are the first caller to reserve it. To reserve a book, call (617) 661-1515 and ask for our Used Department. We're also always looking for books to buy. Learn about selling your used books, including textbooks, here.
| | American Saint by John Wigger
Originally published by Oxford University Press in 2009 $21.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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"[An] informative, comprehensive biography of Francis Asbury.... [A] well-crafted biography that brings Asbury into sharper focus and elevates his status within the pantheon of major religious leaders in the U.S. Recommended." --Choice.
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| | An Introduction to Japanese Society by Yoshio Sugimoto Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 $16.00 (softcover) in Very Good condition |
Essential reading for students of Japanese society, Yoshio Sugimoto writes a sophisticated, yet highly readable and lucid text, using both English and Japanese sources to update and expand upon his original narrative.
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Japan's Defense Policy and Bureaucratic Politics, 1976-2007
by Takao Sebata Originally published by University Press of America in 2010 $35.00 (softcover) in Very Good condition
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This book explores how the bureaucratic politics model applies to the case of Japan's defense policy and demonstrates some similarities and differences between Japanese and United States decision-making styles.
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Author Events
Tickets for our event with Andre Dubus III with Richard Russo (3/1) are on sale now! Tickets may be purchased at Harvard Book Store, online at harvard.com, or over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.
Tickets for upcoming events with James Gleick (3/22) and Sarah Vowell (3/25) go on sale March 1.
Subscribe to the Harvard Book Store Google Event Calendar here.
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Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Mon, Feb 7, 7PM
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| Novelist Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya joins us for an interactive reading from his U.S.-debut novel, The Storyteller of Marrakesh. | At Harvard Book Store |
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Anne Germanacos Tues, Feb 8, 7PM
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| The award-winning short story writer Anne Germanacos reads from her first story collection, In the Time of the Girls.
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James L. Kugel Tues, Feb 8, 7PM
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| Harvard professor of Hebrew Literature James L. Kugel discusses his new book, In the Valley of the Shadow: On the Foundations of Religious Belief. | At Harvard Hillel |
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Peter Hessler Wed, Feb 9, 7PM
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| The New Yorker's longtime Beijing correspondent discusses his latest exploration of everyday life in China, Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip, newly out in paperback .
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Daniel Rasmussen Thurs, Feb 10, 7PM
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| Recent Harvard graduate and emerging historian Dan Rasmussen presents his first book, American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt.
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| | | | | | Did you know: All our $5 tickets are also $5 coupons that you can use at the event or in the store? | |
We appreciate the feedback we get from readers of this newsletter. Please send your comments and suggestions to Heather at hgain@harvard.com. Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you in the store!
Heather Gain Marketing Manager hgain@harvard.com
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