This week marks the last in our Summer 2013 author event series, but we're closing out with some good ones. Tonight is our monthly book club discussion, this month focusing on Julian Barnes's Booker Prize-winning novel, The Sense of an Ending. We also have events this week with debut novelist Ursula DeYoung, with former Boston Globe reporter Dick Lehr on Whitey Bulger, and with a philosopher and a psychoanalyst (Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster) who take on Hamlet.
Although we do take the month of August off from events, we have a packed schedule coming up for the fall. We're starting to post September events now at harvard.com/events, and make sure to read next week's newsletter for an announcement about all of September's ticketed events, including one in particular we're really excited about. Stay tuned!
Next time you're in the store, make sure to take a look at the small display case behind the register and information desk, which booksellers are constantly populating with clever, timely, and often punny displays based on books' titles, covers, and authors. Can't make it into the store? The most recent has been a collection of books with Shakespeare-inspired titles, and you can view (and purchase) the selections here.
'Til Next Week, Rachel
| | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books & In Store Book Printing
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The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today
by Razmig Kreucheyan
$29.95 Verso, paperback
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Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have produced important and innovative ideas. The endeavor to transform the world without falling into the catastrophic traps of the past has been a common element uniting these new approaches. This book--aimed at both the general reader and the specialist--offers the first global cartography of the expanding intellectual field of critical contemporary thought. A history of critical thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is also provided, helping situate current thinkers in a broader historical and sociological perspective.
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The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs
by Michael Feinstein
$9.99, hardcover (originally $45)
| From celebrated entertainer and five-time Grammy nominee Michael Feinstein comes a beautifully illustrated account of the lives and legacies of the Gershwins--told through stories of twelve of their greatest songs and accompanied by an original CD of those songs, performed by the author.
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The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
edited by David Landes, Joel Mokyr, and William Baumol $14.99, paperback (originally $78.50)
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The Invention of Enterprise gathers together leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's role in society from antiquity to the present. Addressing social and institutional influences from a historical context, each chapter examines entrepreneurship during a particular period and in an important geographic location.
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American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
by Eric Rutkow$7.99, hardcover (originally $29)
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This book tells the story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the span of our nation's history. Like many of us, historians have long been guilty of taking trees for granted. Yet the history of trees in America is no less remarkable than the history of the United States itself--trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country's rise as both an empire and a civilization.
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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.
| | Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law edited by Andrew Ashworth, Lucia Zedner, and Patrick Tomlin Originally published by Oxford University Press in 2013 $60 (hardcover) in Very Good Condition | This volume explores the principles and values that should guide and limit the state's use of preventive techniques that involve coercion against the individual. The contributions examine whether and when preventive measures are justified and whether they signal a larger change in the architecture of security.
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| | Machik's Complete Explanation: Clarifying the Meaning of Chöd translated by Sarah Harding Originally published by Snow Lion in 2013 $18 (hardcover) in Very Good Condition | Fear, anger, and negativity are states that each of us has to contend with. Machik Lapdrön, the great female saint and yogini of eleventh- to twelfth-century Tibet, developed a system, the Mahamudra Chöd, which takes the Buddha's teachings and applies them to the immediate experiences of negative mind states and malignant forces.
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| | Egon Schiele: The Complete Works
by Jane Kallir Originally published by Harry N. Abrams in 1998 $150 (hardcover) in Very Good Condition | Egon Schiele ranks with Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka among the most influential painters to emerge from the cultural ferment that characterized Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. Jane Kallir offers new insights into Schiele's brief and sometimes troubled life. The book is illustrated with 94 full-color plates and 107 duotone pictures.
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Author Events
We have no author event tickets on sale at this time, but stay tuned for upcoming announcements about our packed fall schedule! And see below for lots of great FREE upcoming events!
Subscribe to the Harvard Book Store Google Event Calendar here.
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The Harvard Square Book Circle Mon, July 29, 7PM
| | The Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, discusses Julian Barnes's Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending.
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Ursula DeYoung Tues, July 30, 7PM
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| Biographer (of 19th-century physicist John Tyndall) and Harvard alum Ursula DeYoung discusses her debut novel Shorecliff.
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Dick Lehr Wed, July 31, 7PM
| | Boston University journalism professor and former Boston Globe reporter Dick Lehr discusses Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss.
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Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster Thurs, August 1, 7PM
| | Philosophy professor Simon Critchley and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster discuss Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine. Rescheduled from Wednesday, June 26.
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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 only guarantees you a seat until 5 minutes before an event begins.
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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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