Need a stylish way to express all your warm and fuzzy February-type feelings? Come by the store this week to browse our wide selection of Valentine's Day cards. We have great options for both the hopeless romantic and the corporate-holiday skeptic. Pair one with a good book and some Taza chocolate for the perfect Valentine's Day gift package.
Quick update: The deadline to sign up to be a book giver on World Book Night has been extended through Monday, February 6. Find more details, and sign up, here.
Finally, we were saddened this week to read about the death of Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska. Bookseller Margaret B. recently recommended Szymborska's collection Here, writing "These are poems which open outward even as they zero in, poems of such simplicity and depth that they'll move you on the first reading and stay with you for years to come." Read the entire recommendation here.
'Til Next Week,
Rachel 
|  | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books & In Store Book Printing
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by Ferdinand von Schirach, translated by Carol Brown Janeway
$24
Alfred A. Knopf, hardcover
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| | In these tales, von Schirach calls into question the nature of guilt and the toll it takes--or fails to take--on ordinary people. In "The Illuminati," the popular mean crowd at an all-boys' boarding school wages a vicious attack against a schoolmate, and ends up accidentally killing the boy's beloved teacher. Attempting to hurdle through a midlife crisis, a housewife steals trivial things no one will miss, an act that gives her a rush in "Desire." Seen with the same cool, controlled eye that propelled von Schirach's debut collection, Crime, onto best-seller lists, Guilt is a stunning follow-up from one of Germany's finest new writers.
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The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality
by Hanne Blank
$26.95
Beacon Press, hardcover
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| | Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly and permanently transformed Western culture. The idea of "the heterosexual" was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or acts. Yet, within half a century, "heterosexual" had become a byword for "normal." In Straight, historian Hanne Blank digs deep into the past of sexual orientation, while simultaneously exploring its contemporary psyche.
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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. | |
 | | The Distiller
by Harrison Hall
$10.25
Print on Demand, paperback
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| | "Continually liable to interruptions in our trade, with those countries from which we have drawn our supplies of liquors, it would be prudent to become less dependent on them, and more industrious in improving our own capacity to provide for ourselves. . . . Yet is the art of distilling an agreeable and wholesome liquor from the products of our own country, but very imperfectly understood. . . . It may perhaps be asserted with some confidence that a degree of success equal to [one's] most sanguine expectations may be attained by a careful attention to the directions contained in the following work." --from the preface
This text reflects the second edition, originally published in 1818.
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| | | Bargain Books | Bargain Books are new books at used-book prices. We have a limited number of copies 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.
| | When Will There Be Good News?
by Kate Atkinson
$5.99 hardcover (originally $24.99) | In this mystery novel, the lives of three individuals come to intersect in unexpected ways. A woman who witnessed a crime as a young girl, a teenager who is worried for the woman who employs her as a nanny, and an ex-detective who is drawn back into the world of investigating all collide in this suspenseful read.
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| | Vitruvius on Architecture
by Thomas Gordon Smith
$9.99 paperback (originally $40) | |
Drawn from Vitruvius's "Ten Books on Architecture," this edition presents a new translation of the five books most relevant to contemporary architecture, along with new drawings and watercolors that illustrate, for the first time since ancient days, Vitruvius's methods of proportion and composition. Architect Thomas Gordon Smith recreated these illustrations directly from the text. Also included are many photographs of historic architecture from throughout the Mediterranean region.
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| | New Vintage Type:
Classic Fonts for the Digital Age
by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson
$9.99 hardcover (originally $39.95) | | The world's foremost historian of graphic design presents this remarkable rethinking and rediscovery of old and classic typefaces for today's modern needs. Hundreds of amazing and obscure examples from around the world are gathered here, organized into five historically and stylistically grouped sections. New Vintage Type is the graphic designer's guide to choosing and using vintage type for maximum impact. |
| | | Recent 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.
| | The Chips Are Down
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Originally published by Lear Publishers, Inc. in 1948
$25 (paperback) in Good Condition | In this Paris-set screenplay by Jean-Paul Sartre, two people, Eve Charlier and Pierre Dumaine, are predestined to be soul mates. Their early deaths, however, prevent them from ever meeting during their lives, and when the mistake is discovered in the afterlife, they are both given a second chance at life in order to find each other.
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| | Rabelais and His World
by Mikhail Bakhtin
Originally published by MIT Press in 1968
$10 (paperback) in Very Good Condition | This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially the world of the carnival, as depicted in the novels of Francois Rabelais. For both Bakhtin and Rabelais, carnival signified the symbolic destruction of authority and the assertion of popular renewal.
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| | Abstract Particulars
by Keith Campbell
Originally published by Basil Blackwell in 1990
$20 (hardcover) in Good Condition | In this study, Australian philosopher Keith Campbell proposes a first philosophy which recognizes particular properties, or tropes, as the sole fundamental category. He also points to the strength of a trope analysis for the philosophy of mind and of social phenomena.
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Naomi Benaron
Mon, Feb 6, 7PM
|  | Naomi Benaron reads from her Bellwether Prize-winning novel Running the Rift.
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Sebastian Seung
Tues, Feb 7, 7PM
|  | MIT neuroscientist discusses Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are, in conversation with Harvard's Jeff Lichtman.
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Robert Kanigel
Wed, Feb 8, 7PM
|  | Award-winning author Robert Kanigel discusses On an Irish Island, his love letter to a unique and beautiful island off the coast of Ireland.
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Claire Messud
with John Freeman
Thurs, Feb 9, 7PM
|  | Celebrate the launch of Granta 118: Exit Strategies with award-winning novelist and Granta contributor Claire Messud, in conversation with the journal's editor, John Freeman.
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Gary Small
Thurs, Feb 9, 7PM
|  | UCLA Longevity Center director Gary Small discusses The Alzheimer's Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life. A Cambridge Forum program.
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Hendrik Hartog
Fri, Feb 10, 3PM
|  | Princeton history professor Hendrik Hartog discusses Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age.
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Nathan Englander
Fri, Feb 10, 7PM
|  | Bestselling short story writer Nathan Englander reads from his new collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.
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