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There are ten days left for our FREE SHIPPING offer on all orders placed at harvard.com. There are also only ten more days to submit your answers to our e-scavenger hunt, where winners will receive $200 Harvard Book Store Gift Cards.
Presidents' Day is just hours away! On Monday, we celebrate our Commanders-In-Chief with an all-day 20% off sale. Learn more here.
This week's featured HBTV video somewhat relies on how recently you've watched Jurassic Park, but man-oh-man, is it funny. (And yes, Harvard Book Store owner Jeff Mayersohn does his own stunts.)
The book world was rocked this week by the announcement that Borders Books had filed for bankruptcy. Everyone here at Harvard Book Store was dismayed by the news. Fellow booksellers are out of jobs and many towns are losing their only bookstore. As another independent bookseller--L.A.'s Skylight Books--put it, "There ain't no joy in a bookstore closing. Ever." Look for more on this next week.
Happy reading,
Heather
|  | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books, & In Store Book Printing
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Mr. Chartwell
by Rebecca Hunt
$24
Dial Press, hardcover
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"Since the mid-19th century, 'black dog' has been used to mean depression. Winston Churchill popularized the phrase by naming his own depression the 'black dog.'... In Rebecca Hunt's enterprising and entertaining debut novel, the black dog--Churchill's dog--is an actual animal. He is enormous and scruffy, can stand on two legs and is given to chewing and licking in ways that Hunt's characters find 'sickening,' 'revolting,' and 'disgusting.'... Hunt is brightly skilled at turning a phrase, capturing a quiet moment or making her words bring noises to your ears and odors to your nose." --The San Francisco Chronicle
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
by Edward Dolnick
$27.99
Harper, hardcover
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"Bestselling author Dolnick focuses on the 17th century and the giants of early science--Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, and particularly Newton and Leibniz, whose independent invention of calculus made it possible to describe the moving, changing world and opened up a literal universe of possibilities.... He has an eye for vivid details in aid of historical recreation, and an affection for his subjects, which all translate into a light but informative read coming suitably on the heels of the Royal Society's 350th anniversary." --Publishers Weekly
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Philippines
by Hélène Cixous
$19.95
Polity, paperback
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The interpretive sharpness of Philippines, delivered with stylistic elegance and candour, will make this study typical of Cixous's art, which plies between literature and criticism, appealing not only to scholars and critics interested in psychoanalysis, autobiography, and the act of reading, but also to a broader readership captivated by the hallucinatory coincidences between life, dream, and fiction, when 'Reality is the dream. The dream is the true reality.'
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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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Two Speeches
by President Barack Obama
$3.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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| | Harvard Book Store presents two of the most iconic speeches of President Barack Obama's presidency thus far. His "Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech" and "Arizona Memorial Speech" are published in a single volume on our Espresso Book Machine.
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House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family
by Paul Fisher
$5.99, paperback (originally $22)
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This masterly biography of the James family--novelist Henry, philosopher William, feminist icon Alice, and their two older brothers, Wilkie and Bob--provides a captivating account of their struggles with jealousy, addiction, and mental illness.
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The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn
by Louisa Gilder
$6.99, hardcover (originally $27.50)
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"Gilder meticulously and enchantingly presents the story of how some of the 20th century's greatest minds grappled with this problem through the counter-intuitive, all-but-invisible quantum world.... The result is a text on a difficult scientific concept that reads like fiction." --Leah F., bookseller alumna
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Blindspot: A Novel
by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
$4.99, hardcover (originally $24.95)
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Written with wit and exuberance by longtime friends and accomplished local historians Kamensky and Lepore, Blindspot weaves together invention with actual historical documents in an affectionate send-up of the best of eighteenth-century fiction.
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The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel
by Reif Larsen
$4.99, paperback (originally $16)
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Larsen's brilliant debut novel is a wild cross-country adventure that takes its twelve-year-old genius map maker, protagonist T.S. Spivet, from his family ranch in Montana to the hallowed halls of the Smithsonian.
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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.
| | Worlds Within Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars' Rocks
by Robert D. Mowry
Originally published by Harvard University Art Museums in 1997
$125.00 (softcover) in Very Good condition
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Rosenblum, a sculptor from nearby Newton, opened his fine collection of ornamental stones in fantastic shapes to the Harvard Art Museum. This catalog represents the first "significant scholarly publication on the subject in any Western language."
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| | The City of Brooklyn, 1865-1898: A Political History
by Harold Coffin Syrett
Originally published by Columbia University Press in 1944
$125.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition in Good dust jacket | |
This smoothly written account of self-government in Brooklyn during a critical period of American municipal democracy will interest history, urban studies, and political science students alike.
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The Olympiad Poster Collection 1896-1996
by The United States Olympic Committee
Originally published by DreamWorks Television in 1996
$20.00 (portfolio) in Good condition
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These posters offer a fascinating record of our world--snapshots every four years--through which we can explore links between sport and art, politics and place, commerce and culture.
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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.
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Presidents' Day Sale
Mon, Feb 21, All Day!
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Amy Chua
Tues, Feb 22, 7PM
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| Yale law professor
Amy Chua discusses of the differences between Eastern and Western parenting techniques and her new memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
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Joseph O'Connor
Wed, Feb 23, 7PM
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| Acclaimed Irish novelist Joseph O'Connor reads from his newest work, Ghost Light, an historical novel based on the lives of Irish playwright J.M. Synge and actress Molly Allgood.
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Dani Rodrik
Thurs, Feb 24, 7PM
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| Harvard's Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik discusses his latest book, The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy.
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Siva Vaidhyanathan
Fri, Feb 25, 3PM
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| University of Virginia professor of media studies and the law SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN as he discusses, The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry).
| A Friday Forum event
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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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