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Reverend and Harvard Divinity School professor Peter Gomes died this week. A friend of the bookstore and one the most storied (and well-dressed) men in Cambridge, Professor Gomes was an astonishing figure who will be greatly missed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in a touching remembrance in The New Yorker, presents Rev. Gomes as "a large, warm, and mischievous soul, who contained a multitude of identities, each worn with a certain roguish sense of irony." You'll find the Boston Globe obituary here.
Our e-scavenger hunt--which asked readers to explore our new website for a chance to win a $200 gift card--just closed. We received nearly 150 entries, many of them hilarious. (We were schooled on computer monitor color variations. Yow.) Thanks to everyone who entered. Winners will be contacted this week--and will most likely be found gleefully burning through their gift cards in the store this weekend. Find all the answers to the scavenger hunt here!
Happy reading,
Heather
|  | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books, & In Store Book Printing
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Portraits of a Marriage
by Sándor Márai
$27.95
Knopf, hardcover
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| | "Hungarian writer Sándor Márai (1900-1989) has been having a rebirth of a literary career ever since his novels have been slowly released into English.... The plot [of Portraits of a Marriage] is nothing exceptional...the dread love triangle (only this time it seems to be more of a triangle of 'unlove' or at least unrequited love). But it is not only what Márai manages to do with this material, but how he does it, and it is this how that makes the novel succeed.... Sándor Márai reminds me of the closest literary equivalent to Ingmar Bergman, and that can only be a good thing." --The Seattle Post Intelligencer
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The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
by Bing West
$28
Random House, hardcover
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"Why hasn't the new faith in Afghanistan delivered the success it promises? In his remarkable book, The Wrong War, Bing West goes a long way to answering that question. The Wrong War amounts to a crushing and seemingly irrefutable critique of the American plan in Afghanistan. It should be read by anyone who wants to understand why the war there is so hard." --Dexter Filkins for The New York Times
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Where Art Belongs
by Chris Kraus
$12.95
Semiotext(e), paperback
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Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In four interlinked essays, Kraus expands the argument begun in her earlier book Video Green that "the art world is interesting only insofar as it reflects the larger world outside it." Moving from New York to Berlin to Los Angeles to the Pueblo Nuevo barrio of Mexicali, Kraus addresses the uses of boredom, poetry, privatized prisons, community art, corporate philanthropy, vertically integrated manufacturing, and discarded utopias.
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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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On The River: The Cambridge Community Poem
by The People of Cambridge
$12.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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| | Cambridge Poet Populist Peter Payack's first initiative was to create a poem by the people of Cambridge, about their city. This volume includes poems by octogenarians, third graders, college presidents, professors, city workers, Pulitzer Prize winners, elected officials, Grammy Award winners, teachers, All-Americans, All-State athletes and a five-time NFL Pro Bowler, comedians, street performers, carpenters, publishers, scientists, researchers, lawyers, actors, doctors, artists, sky artists, nurses, coaches, rock stars, mechanics, marathoners, Poet Laureates, firefighters, peace activists, pharmacists, and even poets, if you can imagine that!
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Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage
by Edith B. Gelles
$8.99, hardcover (originally $26.99)
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As much a romance as it is a lively chapter in early American history, Abigail and John is an inspirational portrait of a couple who endured the turmoil and trials of a revolution, and in so doing paved the way for the birth of a nation.
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Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry
Translated by Vladimir Nabokov
$9.99, hardcover (originally $40)
| Collected for the first time in one volume are many of Nabokov's English translations next to the Russian originals. Verses and Versions is a momentous and authoritative contribution to Nabokov's published works.
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The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition
by Dan Hofstadter
$5.99, hardcover (originally $23.95)
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With his "deep knowledge of Italy...[and] longstanding interest in Renaissance and Baroque lore" Dan Hofstadter, a finalist for the PEN Martha Albrand Award, places this historic moment in the widest cultural context, portraying Galileo as both humanist and scientist.
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Digital Barbarism
by Mark Helprin $5.99, hardcover (originally $24.99)
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"[A] passionate defense of authors' rights and the power of the individual voice...offered in elegant prose and with a rapier-sharp wit." --Publishers Weekly
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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.
| | Odysseus Polutropos
by Pietro Pucci
Originally published by Cornell University Press in 1987
$45.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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"Pucci's insights into the intertextuality of The Odyssey and The Iliad help deepen our understanding of the poetics and the hermeneutics of archaic Greek poetry." --Gregory Nagy, Department of Classics, Harvard University
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| | Ship Modeling from Scratch
by Edwin B. Leaf
Originally published by International Marine in 1994
$9.50 (softcover) in Good condition | |
Edwin B. Leaf lays out the principles--from concept to construction to display--on which scratchbuilding is based. Ship Modeling from Scratch is like a private tutor guiding builders through the troublespots.
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| | Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
by Gretchen Worden
Originally published by Blast Books in 2002
$25.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition | |
Featuring over one hundred photographs from one of the last medical museums of the nineteenth century. "The images have an almost classical quality... gorgeous and repulsive at once." --The New Yorker
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Author Events
Tickets for our events with James Gleick (3/22) and Sarah Vowell (3/25) 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.
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Maya Jasanoff
Fri, March 4, 3PM
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| Harvard professor of history Maya Jasanoff discusses her book Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World.
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Gabrielle Hamilton with Barbara Lynch Friday, March 4, 7PM
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| Accomplished chef and writer Gabrielle Hamilton discusses her memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, with local chef Barbara Lynch.
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Anton Zeilinger
Mon, March 7, 7PM
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| | Professor of quantum physics Anton Zeilinger presents Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation. | At Harvard Book Store
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Jonathan Evison
Tues, March 8, 7PM
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| Award-winning novelist Jonathan Evison reads from his latest book, West of Here.
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William Corbett
Wed, March 9, 7PM
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| | Local poet, memoirist, publisher, and teacher William Corbett reads from his new book, The Whalen Poem. | At Harvard Book Store
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Sean Dorrance Kelly
Thurs, March 10, 7PM
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Harvard professor of philosophy Sean Dorrance Kelly discusses All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age.
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James Carroll
Fri, March 11, 7PM
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| | Suffolk University religion scholar James Carroll discusses his new book, Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World. | At Harvard Book Store
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Mark R. Warren
Wed, March 16, 7PM
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| Mark R. Warren discusses Fire in the Heart:
How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice.
| A Cambridge Forum event at First Parish Church
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The Philosophy Café
Wed, March 16, 7:30PM
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| | "What's so Great about Art?" | At Harvard Book Store, lower level
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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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