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Do You Really Need a New Book?
In Case You Missed It
Earlier this month Matthew Battles visited the store to discuss the history of the written word and his latest book, Palimpsest.
Browse the HBS Channel, our video archive of author events, for more recent author talks. Consider buying the books you discover there from Harvard Book Store. Your purchases support this award-winning author series.
Thanks for reading,
Alex
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The Automobile Club of Egypt:
A Novel
by Alaa Al Aswany
$27.95
Knopf, hardcover
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| | From the most popular Egyptian novelist of his generation comes The Automobile Club of Egypt, a rollicking, exuberant, and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-World War II Cairo.
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The Orpheus Clock:
The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
by Simon Goodman
$28.00
Scribner, hardcover
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| | Simon Goodman's dramatic story reveals a rich family history almost obliterated by the Nazis. It is not only the account of a twenty-year long detective hunt for family treasure, but an unforgettable tale of redemption and restoration.
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Are We All Postracial Yet?
by David Theo Goldberg
$12.95
Polity, paperback
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We hear much talk about the advent of a "postracial" age.
But as Ferguson, MO, and countless social statistics show, beneath such claims lurk institutional and structural racisms that persist and renew themselves beneath the polish of nonraciality.
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Kids & Young Adult
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A Lantern of Fireflies:
An Illustrated Treasury of Tales of Adventure, Discovery, and Magic
by 826Michigan
$25.00
826Michigan, hardcover
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Last September, students from Huron High School struck out on a most noble adventure -- composing the bedtime stories they wish they'd read when they were younger. The resulting stories were published as 826Michigan's special release, A Lantern of Fireflies.
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Printed on Paige
| | Each week we feature a book printed 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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Blue Willow:
Poems
by Ruth Margolin Silin
$11.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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| | Ruth Margolin Silin's work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. Her poems focus on love, death, family, and observing diversities beyond.
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Remainders are bargain books, 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 Remainders section, visit our Remainders page.
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
by Eleanor Robson
$19.99, hardcover (originally $61.00)
| This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it. It addresses questions of who creates mathematics, who uses it, and how.
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Rome:
A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
by Robert Hughes
$9.99, hardcover (originally $35.00)
| From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome -- as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization.
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The Struggle of Modernism:
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard
by Anthony Alofsin
$9.99, hardcover (originally $60.00)
| This remarkable volume tells the unique history of modernism as reflected in the teaching of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
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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.
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Literature, Theory, History
by Jonathan Hart
Originally published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011 $30.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition | In this interdisciplinary work that ranges from the ancients through the Renaissance to the present, Jonathan Hart examines systems, law, theatre, nature, stereotype, otherness, authority, new historicism, feminism, interpretation, and poetics.
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Sophia:
Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
by Anita Anand
Originally published by Bloomsbury USA in 2015
$15.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
| Meticulously researched and passionately written, this enthralling story of the rise of women and the fall of empire introduces an extraordinary individual and her part in the defining moments of recent British and Indian history.
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Trophies
by Diane Wakoski
Originally published by Black Sparrow Press in 1979
$30.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Printed in October 1979 in Santa Barbara, this edition is limited to 200 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author, each with an original watercolor by Diane Wakoski. This volume is number 161.
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
Online Pre-Sales:
On Sale September 1:
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Fiction Fridays
Fridays This Summer
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Sylvie Tissot
Tue, Sep 1, 7PM
|  | Sylvie Tissot discusses her book Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston's South End, in conversation with Jim Vrabel, author of A People's History of the New Boston.
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Ari Berman
Wed, Sep 2, 7PM
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| Ari Berman, political correspondent for The Nation, discusses his book Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.
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Leon Neyfakh
Thu, Sep 3, 7PM
|  | Leon Neyfakh, reporter for Slate, discusses The Next Next Level: A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up.
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Author Event Info
Discounts
Featured event books at Harvard Book Store author talks are 20% off on the day of the event. Thank you for supporting this author series with your purchases.
Tickets & Coupons
$5 tickets are also coupons good for $5 off a purchase at Harvard Book Store.
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The Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Sep 28, 7PM
|  | The next selection for our in-store book club discussion is How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer. Registration is not required and no commitment is necessary.
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Recommended
This Month
Browse our Recommended This Summer newsletter, with picks from our featured titles, staff recommendations, new paperbacks, and more.
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We appreciate the feedback we get from readers of this e-newsletter. Please send any comments to Alex at newsletter@harvard.com. Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you in the store!
Alex W. Meriwether
Marketing Manager
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