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Harvard Book Store's Signed First Edition Club is now accepting new members! 
Our exclusive Signed First Edition Club offers an impressive selection of great books, all collectible first editions. Sign up by May 15th to be eligible receive the May selection: Caleb's Crossing by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks. View our previous selections--and SIGN UP--here. Keep in mind that a six- or twelve-month Signed First Edition Club membership is the perfect gift for the new grad in your life!
Jaunt out to Salem later this week for the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, featuring an amazing spread of programs all day Saturday. Here's just a small sampling of the extensive participating poet line-up: Afaa Michael Weaver, Christina Thompson, David Ferry, Gail Mazur, Jericho Brown, Kathleen Spivack, KL Pereira, Lloyd Schwartz, Patricia Smith, Patrick Sylvain, Richard Hoffman, Steve Almond, and Mark Doty. See the complete list of participants and plan your visit all at masspoetry.org! And you can pick up your Festival button early here at Harvard Book Store.
Happy reading,
Heather
|  | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books, & In Store Book Printing
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| | Pulse: Stories
by Julian Barnes
$25
Knopf, hardcover
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| | "You don't always think of Barnes as an autobiographical writer, but it is hard to avoid that impulse here. This perfectly weighted collection feels like a companion volume to his erudite and profound meditation on death, Nothing to be Frightened Of.... The book is divided into two halves. The first nine stories, if they are love stories at all, seem to be all about disconnection. The five that make up the second half are delicately concerned with each of the senses, the curious apparatus of touch and sight and smell and hearing and taste that represent all we have to get close to another person." --The Observer (UK)
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| | A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
by William Deresiewicz
$25.95
Penguin, hardcover
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| | "William Deresiewicz, a practiced critic and author of a scholarly book on Austen, has written the warmest of tributes about the difference--all the difference--her books made to him.... Deresiewicz makes excellent use of Austen's letters and is never less than vigorous and challenging in his opinions.... The boldness...of A Jane Austen Education lies in its treating that author not in terms of literary history or the criticism of her books that has grown up over the last 200 years, but wholly from the perspective of one reader's moral and social life." --The Boston Globe
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edited by Frank J. Williams, Thomas A. Horrocks, and Harold Holzer
$24.95
Southern Illinois University Press, hardcover
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| | The Living Lincoln gives new voice to several aspects of Abraham Lincoln's career as seen through the lens of recent scholarship, in essays that show how the sixteenth president's appeal continues to endure and expand. Featuring eleven essays from major historians, the book offers examinations of Lincoln's role as commander-in-chief, his use of the press to shape public opinion, his position as a politician and party leader, and the changing interpretations of his legacy as a result of cultural and social changes over the century and a half since his death.
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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. | |
| | Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography
by Judith Jamison
$16
Print on Demand, softcover
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| | Judith Jamison is, in every sense, a towering figure. Her commanding physical presence and extraordinary technique have made her a superstar of American dance and an innovator in her field, as well as an inspiration to many. Dancing Spirit traces the steps of her career: her early years in Philadelphia, where she began studying dance at the age of six; her discovery by Agnes de Mille; years of frustration and struggle in a field that favored petite, fair, white women; her legendary collaboration with Alvin Ailey; her work on Broadway in the musical Sophisticated Ladies; the formation of her own company, the Jamison Project; and her retum to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as artistic director after its founder's death in 1989.
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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. To see more of our Bargain Books section, visit our Bargain Books page.
| | The Decline and Fall of the British Empire
by Piers Brendon
$9.99, hardcover (originally $37.50) | A comprehensive, scholarly, and fascinating study of the end of the British Empire, this work--full of vivid particulars, brief lives, telling anecdotes, comic episodes, symbolic moments, and illustrative vignettes--evokes remote places and distant times.
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| | Birdsong by the Season: A Year of Listening to Birds
by Donald Kroodsma
$7.99, hardcover (originally $28.00) | | A celebration by retired UMass biology professor, Donald Kroodsma's work on bird song is legendary. The stories begin with a pileated woodpecker on New Year's Day and end with a chorus of singing birds in Massachusetts just before Christmas. |
| Gerhard Richter: Red-Yellow-Blue
edited by Helmut Friedel
$24.99, hardcover (originally $49.95) | This out-of-print book explores the paintings Richter created in 1973 for the lobby of the BMW headquarters in Munich. Includes 55 color plates, 52 color and B&W illustrations, and several fold-outs.
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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.
| | The Upanishads
by Swami Nikhilananda
Originally published by The Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center in 1979
$100.00 (hardcover) for four volume set in Very Good condition | This translation of the eleven major Upanishads contains notes, detailed introductions, and explanations based on interpretations of eighth century philosopher and mystic, Sankaracharya.
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| | The Anatomy of Melancholy
by Robert Burton
Originally published by The Folio Society in 2005
$150.00 (hardcover) for three volume set with slipcase in Very Good condition | Unclassifiable, inimitable, clever, and wonderfully idiosyncratic, Robert Burton's vast compendium of wit and learning, The Anatomy of Melancholy is one of the great works of European literature.
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| | Le Robert & Collins Super Senior: Anglais-Français
edited by Alain Duval and Vivian Marr
Originally published by Harper Collins in 1995
$125.00 (hardcover) for two volumes in Very Good condition | These two volumes, one for each direction of translation, contain 750,000 translations, 500,000 words and expressions, two thesauri, and a bilingual color atlas. This edition of Le Robert & Collins Super Senior is top of the line among Le Robert bilingual dictionaries.
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Author Events
Tickets for our events with Gary Shteyngart (5/18), China Mieville (5/24), and Romeo Dallaire (5/25) are on sale now!! Print this month's event flyer here. Or subscribe to the Harvard Book Store Google Event Calendar here.
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Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Tues, May 10, 7PM
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| | MIT professors of economics Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo discuss their recent treatise, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. | At Harvard Book Store
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Francine Prose
Wed, May 11, 7PM
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| | Bestselling author and president of the PEN American Center Francine Prose reads from her most recent novel, My New American Life. | At Harvard Book Store .gif)
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Adam Hochschild
Thurs, May 12, 7PM
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| Journalist and National Book Award-finalist Adam Hochschild explores the legacy of WWI in To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918.
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Martha C. Nussbaum
Fri, May 13, 7PM
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| University of Chicago professor of law and philosophy Martha C. Nussbaum discusses the individual side of development and her new book, Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach.
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Chris Adrian
Mon, May 16, 7PM
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| | Novelist and short story writer, and one of The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 fiction writers, Chris Adrian reads from his newest novel, The Great Night. | At Harvard Book Store
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Clea Simon
Tues, May 17, 7PM
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| Cambridge mystery maven Clea Simon reads from her newest book, Dogs Don't Lie, the first in a new "pet noir" series.
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Gary Shteyngart
Wed, May 18, 6PM
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| | Award-winning novelist, and one of The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 fiction writers, Gary Shteyngart reads from his most recent book, Super Sad True Love Story, just out in paperback. | At the Brattle Theatre
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Philosophy Café
Wed, May 18, 7:30PM
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| The Philosophy Café at Harvard Book Store is a monthly gathering meant for the informal, relaxed, philosophical discussion of topics of mutual interest to participants.
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Michael Spence
Thurs, May 19, 7PM
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| Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence discusses his new book, The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World.
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