It's time for The Boston Phoenix's annual BEST issue, so visit their website to cast your votes. We're up for Best Bookstore (New Books), but make sure you take the time to vote for all your favorite Boston/Cambridge offerings.
We're excited to announce that this week The Baffler,
 legendary journal of art and criticism,
publishes its 19th issue, the first from new editor John Summers.
Included are pieces by Thomas Frank on wrongness as a career-maker for DC pundits, Barbara Ehrenreich on animal spirits, Rick Perlstein on Ronald Reagan, David Graeber on flying cars, and James Agee on cotton tenants. All that, plus a menu of poetry, fiction, humoresque, art, documents, and interviews. Subscribe now by visiting thebaffler.com, and attend the launch party at Harvard Book Store on Monday, April 9. More details to come.
"The Bafflers have, in their writing styles, the buoyancy of Mencken, but in substance, they're in the tradition of the old-time muckrakers, those who challenged the power pillars of our society. I've a hunch that Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, and I.F. Stone would have approved." --Studs Terkel
Lastly, just a quick reminder that we take Harvard spring break off from our event series, but we'll be back later in March with a packed calendar of spring events. See you then!
'Til Next Week,
Rachel 
|  | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books & In Store Book Printing
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by Megan Mayhew Bergman
$24
Scribner, hardcover
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| | Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world, Megan Mayhew Bergman's collection captures the surprising moments when the pull of our biology becomes evident, when love or fear collide with good sense, or when our attachment to an animal or wild place can't be denied. As intelligent as they are moving, the stories in Birds of a Lesser Paradise are alive with emotion, wit, and insight into the impressive power that nature has over all of us.
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edited by Jonathan Safran Foer
$29.99
Little, Brown and Company, hardcover
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| | Read each year around the seder table, the Haggadah recounts through prayer, song, and ritual the extraordinary story of Exodus, when Moses led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to wander the desert for forty years before reaching the Promised Land. Now, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander have orchestrated a new way of experiencing and understanding one of our oldest, most sacred stories. Designed and illustrated by the Israeli artist Oded Ezer, New American Haggadah is a unique and absorbing prayer book that brings together some of the preeminent voices of our time.
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| | Printed on Paige
Each week, we feature a book printed in Harvard Book Store on Paige, our book-making machine. Featured books range from fresh works from local authors to near-forgotten titles discovered in our extensive print-on-demand database. | |
 | | A Culture of Innovation
by David Walden and Raymond Nickerson
$21.12
Print on Demand, paperback
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| | A Culture of Innovation is a collection of pieces by prior and present senior employees of Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), a Cambridge-based R&D company that has been an innovator in diverse technical fields, including acoustics, computer science, data networking, and computer speech recognition. BBN employees played important roles in the development of the Internet, and of such internet-based services as electronic mail. The book depicts the technology and business history of the company, from its founding in 1948 until the mid-2000s.
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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.
| | John Cheever: Complete Novels
and John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings
by John Cheever
$16.99 each, hardcover (originally $35) | John Cheever's prolific writings can be found in these two volumes from the Library of America. These collections of both his full-length novels and his shorter works reveal their author to be a master whose prose is at once precise and sensuous, and in which a shrewd eye for social detail is paired with a lyric sensitivity to the world at large.
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| | When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
$6.99 hardcover (originally $15.99) | Winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American children's literature, When You Reach Me tells the story of a twelve-year-old girl named Miranda who lives in New York City with her mom. She starts getting mysterious notes that predict things about her future, and the notes lead her to believe that only she can prevent a tragic death.
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| | Designin MIT: Bosworth's New Tech
by Mark Jarzombek
$6.99 hardcover (originally $29.95) | | Designing MIT details architect William Welles Bosworth's challenges in the planning and construction of MIT's unique Cambridge campus. Wrought with artistic clashes, bureaucratic tangles, and contemporary politics, the book sheds light on academic culture in the early 20th century, the role of patronage in the world of architecture, and the history of the Beaux-Arts style in the United States. |
| | | 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.
| | Works and Days
by Hesiod; edited by M.L. West
Originally published by Oxford University Press in 1978
$90 (hardcover) in Very Good Condition | This translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an introduction and explanatory notes on the Works and Days, a compendium of moral and practical advice for a life of honest husbandry and a work by one of the oldest known Greek poets.
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| | A Memorial of the American Patriots Who Fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill
by the Boston City Council
Originally published by the Boston City Council in 1889
$30 (hardcover) in Very Good Condition | A detailed account of the ceremony the city of Boston enacted in honor of the soldiers who perished in the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, this volume contains the texts of various speeches given by city leaders on the day of the dedication. Also included are detailed appendices and illustrations in remembrance of the battle.
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| | Alberto Giacometti
by Christian Klemm
Originally published by the Museum of Modern Art in 2001
$50 (hardcover) in Very Good Condition | Alberto Giacometti is recognized as one of the small group of modern masters who dominated art during much of the 20th century. This centennial volume both celebrates his achievement and reexamines his work, and thus contributes to a more focused concentration on the art itself.
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Author Events
Tickets on sale now:
Jack Goldsmith (3/19)
George Dyson (3/20)
Gregory Maguire and Kelly Link (3/29)
Joyce Carol Oates (3/30)
Subscribe to the Harvard Book Store Google Event Calendar here.
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Trita Parsi
Wed, March 14, 7PM
|  | Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, discusses A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran.
A Cambridge Forum Event
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Parlor Room
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Vericon Book Signings
Sat, March 17, 1PM
|  | | Harvard Book Store partners with the Radcliffe-Harvard Science Fiction Association to host book signings with this year's Vericon speakers: Vernor Vinge, Lev Grossman, Thomas Sniegoski, R. L. Stine, and Greer Gilman. Full signing schedule can be found here. | At Harvard Book Store
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Jack Goldsmith
Mon, March 19, 6PM
|  | Harvard professor Jack Goldsmith discusses his new book, Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency Since 9/11 in conversation with Martha Minow, Charles Fried, and Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
| At the Brattle Theatre
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George Dyson
Tues, March 20, 6PM
|  | | Science and technology historian George Dyson discusses Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. | At the Brattle Theatre
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Daron Acemoglu
and James Robinson
Wed, March 21, 7PM
|  | | MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and Harvard professor of government James Robinson discuss Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. | At Harvard Book Store
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Ezra F. Vogel
Wed, March 21, 7PM
|  | Harvard professor emeritus Ezra F. Vogel discusses Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China.
A Cambridge Forum Event | At First Parish Church,
Parlor Room
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Madeline Miller
Thurs, March 22, 7PM
|  | | Classics scholar Madeline Miller reads from her debut novel, The Song of Achilles. | At Harvard Book Store
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Mike Edwards
Fri, March 23, 3PM
|  | | Mike Edwards, political science expert and blogger, discusses Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well. | At Harvard Book Store
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Elaine Pagels
Fri, March 23, 7PM
|  | | Princeton University professor of religion Elaine Pagels discusses Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation. | At Harvard Book Store
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Things to know about our $5 tickets...
$5 tickets are also coupons good for $5 off a purchase at events or at Harvard Book Store. Coupons expire 30 days after the event, and cannot be used for online purchases, event tickets, or gift certificates. Please note that your ticket guarantees you a seat until five minutes before an event begins.
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We appreciate the feedback we get from readers of this e-newsletter.
Please send your comments and suggestions to Rachel at rcass@harvard.com. Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you in the store!
Rachel Cass
Marketing Manager
rcass@harvard.com
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