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Congratulations are due to former Harvard Book Store staffer, long-time member of the Harvard Square community, and sensational stylist Charlotte Silver. Her writing was featured in last Sunday's New York Times Modern Love column and her first book, Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood will be published by Riverhead in 2012!
And three literary happenings around town:
The New Center for Arts and Culture welcomes Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson for a conversation about his novel, The Finkler Question. This is his first visit to the U.S. since winning the Booker Prize. Learn more about the event here.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid creator Jeff Kinney and Mystic River author Dennis Lehane will join 826 Boston for an evening of intrigue and imagination at Night of 1,000 Stories on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Learn more about this fun event to support 826 Boston's free youth writing programs for Boston Public School students.
And support this Fall's third annual Boston Book Festival by heading to the MIT Media Lab on April 28th for a fundraiser entitled Science (Non) Fiction: It's A Brave New World , featuring brainiacs Steven Pinker, Hugh Herr, and Cynthia Breazeal.
Harvard Book Store is fast approaching 10,000 followers on Twitter! What should we do to celebrate? Tweet us your ideas at @HarvardBooks.
Happy reading,
Heather
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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
by Jasper Fforde
$25.95
Viking, hardcover
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| | "Fforde is a keen satirist and lover of wordplay. Each page is peppered with literary allusions, pop culture references, and inside jokes. Most readers won't get them all and that's OK.... Rest assured, if you join Fforde for his denouement down the Metaphoric River, you'll find Thursday and be left wondering what could possibly be next in this entertaining and inventive series." --The Boston Globe
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The Ragged Edge of Silence: Finding Peace in a Noisy World
by John Francis
$26
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After witnessing the devastating effects of a 1971 oil spill in San Francisco Bay, John Francis embarked upon a period of reflection that stretched into seventeen years of self-imposed silence and twenty-two years of walking. Using his own inner and outer journey of self-discovery as a narrative framework for his new book, he interweaves stories of silence throughout history and around the world--including practices by Native American, Hindu, and Buddhist cultures.
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Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams
$29.95
MIT Press, hardcover
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Some things are funny--jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed--but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature--aka natural selection--cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure.
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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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The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing: Lectures Delivered before the Hat Manufacturers' Association
by Watson Smith
$6.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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| | Originally published in 1906, this little book collects a series of lectures delivered to Britain's Hat Manufacturers' Association in the years 1887 and 1888. In his preface Watson Smith beams with pride, recounting the lectures' influence and "the remarkable progress which the British Hat Industry has made in the twenty years that have elapsed since their delivery."
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Rooseveltt
by H.W. Brands
$9.99, hardback (originally $35.00)
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Drawing on public speeches, personal correspondence, and accounts by family and close associates, acclaimed historian and biographer H. W. Brands offers a compelling and intimate portrait of Roosevelt's life and career.
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Fields, Factories and Workshops
by Peter Kropotkin
$9.99, paperback (originally $24.99)
| Originally published in 1912, this series of essays explores a more harmonious way of living based on local production and organization. Kropotkin urges readers to become more self-sufficient and rely less on central government.
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The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Diseasee
by Sebãstiao Salgado
$14.99, hardcover (originally $40.00)
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This collection of moving black-and-white photographs, documents the devastation that polio inflicts on children in the Third World. "Highly recommended" by Library Journal, this important book includes a timeline of anti-polio efforts and an excellent bibliography.
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The Anarchist Papers
by Dimitrios Roussopoulos $4.99, paperback (originally $24.99)
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Essays within this volume range from Germany's Green Party to the anarchist ideas of Paul Goodman. This anarchist study, viewed through the lens of ethics, includes contributions from: Murray Bookchin, Noam Chomsky, and George Woodcock.
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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.
| | This is Not Architecture
edited by Kester Rattenbury
Originally published by Routledge in 2002
$50.00 (softcover) in Very Good condition
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A collection of essays about different representations of architecture including architectural writing, drawing, journalism, history, and photography as well as the various cultures, ideas, and biases that each medium carries.
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| | Codes of the Underworld
by Diego Gambetta
Originally published by Princeton University Press in 2009
$18.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition | |
"Codes of the Underworld looks at the fascinating array of signals that criminals use to recognize each other, validate their claims of toughness, and induce trust or fear. This comprehensive picture of underground communication will...impact further studies of organized crime." --Marek Kaminski, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Irvine
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| | William Eggleston: Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008
by Elisabeth Sussman and Thomas Weski
Originally published by Whitney Museum of American Art in 2008
$50.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition | |
Drawing together Eggleston's famous and lesser-known work, this lavishly illustrated catalogue is the first to examine both his photography and video work. Included are 227 color and 13 black-and-white illustrations.
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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 for our events with Billy Collins (4/10) and Deval Patrick (4/15) go on sale Monday, March 21st. Tickets may be purchased at Harvard Book Store, online at harvard.com, or over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.
Subscribe to the Harvard Book Store Google Event Calendar here.
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Sat, March 19, times vary
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Greg Lindsay Mon, March 21, 7PM
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| Journalist Greg Lindsay talks about the intersection of air travel and urban planning, and his new book Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next.
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Robert Kurzban
Mon, March 21, 7PM
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| Evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban discusses Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
| A Cambridge Forum event at First Parish Church
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James Gleick
Tues, March 22, 6PM
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| Historian of science James Gleick discusses his newest work, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Wed, March 23, 7PM
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| Journalist and women's entrepreneurship activist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe.
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Ron Rash Thurs, March 24, 7PM
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Award-winning novelist and story writer Ron Rash reads from his collection of short stories, Burning Bright, just out in paperback, with an introduction from fellow Southern writer Steve Yarbrough.
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Sarah Vowell
Fri, March 25, 7PM
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| | The hilarious NPR contributor and popular historian Sarah Vowell discusses her newest book, Unfamiliar Fishes. | At First Parish Church Meetinghouse
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Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, March 28, 7PM
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| Our in-store book club will discuss Miles from Nowhere, the debut novel by Korean American writer Nami Mun..
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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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