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Thursday Evening in Harvard Square
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Couldn't make it to a recent Harvard Book Store event? We have
signed copies
of many of our recent visiting authors on display at the front of the
store, with a few featured selections available for purchase at
harvard.com and available to ship throughout the country.
Of course one of the best ways to build a
collection of beautiful, important, signed-by-the-author first edition
books is by joining our
Signed First Edition Club.
Upcoming selections include books by Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin
Ebadi, Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Haslett, and National Book Award
winner Louise Erdrich.
Learn more here.
One more item for your calendar! Join local author Alice Hoffman on May 16th for an evening of readings, anecdotes, and personal stories
from Anita Diamant, Lisa Genova, Lily King, Ann Leary, Jodi Picoult,
and Elizabeth Strout. Harvard Book Store will be on hand providing book
sales for the signing portion of the evening.
Tickets are $300 with full proceeds to benefit the Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital. Find more information here or contact Kelly Hill at 617-499-5656 or khill7@mah.harvard.edu.
To purchase tickets visit mountauburnhospital.org/pinkpages.
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Alex W. Meriwether
Harvard Book Store
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New on Our Shelves
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Patience
by Daniel Clowes
$29.99
Fantagraphics, hardcover
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Patience
is a psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny
precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a
way that is both quintessentially "Clowesian" and utterly unique in the
author's body of work.
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Rising Ground:
A Search for the Spirit of Place
by Philip Marsden
$27.50
University of Chicago Press, hardcover
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In 2010, Philip Marsden set out to walk across Cornwall, to the evocatively named Land's End. Rising Ground is a record of that journey, but it is also much more: a beautifully written meditation on place, nature, and human life.
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Scholarly
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Redeeming the Kamasutra
by Wendy Doniger
$24.95
Oxford University Press, hardcover
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In this scholarly and readable book, one of
the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian texts seeks to
restore the
Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India's secular literature.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Uprooted
by Naomi Novik
$16.00
Del Rey, paperback
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"Moving, heartbreaking, and thoroughly satisfying,
Uprooted is the fantasy novel I
feel I've been waiting a lifetime for. Clear your schedule before
picking it up, because you won't want to put it down." --NPR
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Printed on Paige
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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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Velocipedes, Bicycles, and Tricycles:
How to Make and How to Use Them
by "Velox"
$9.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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"Whether
velocipedes are only the 'toy of the hour,' or are destined to become a
permanent adjunct to our civilization and every-day life, no one can
doubt their extending popularity, or that there exists a widespread
desire to know how to use, and the best form of construction for, the
new wheel-horse of the period." --from the Preface of Velocipedes, Bicycles, and Tricycle, originally published in 1869
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Remainders
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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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Food for Thought:
The Debate over Eating Meat
edited by Steve F. Sapontzis
$7.99, paperback (originally $20.99)
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For
anyone who has ever wondered about the ethics of killing animals for
food, this is the definitive collection of essays on the ethical debate,
written by internationally recognized scholars on both sides.
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Willing Slaves of Capital:
Spinoza and Marx on Desire
by Frederic Lordon
$9.99, paperback (originally $26.95)
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Why
do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is at
the heart of Frederic Lordon's argument. To complement Marx's partial
answers, Lordon brings to bear a "Spinozist anthropology" that reveals
the fundamental role of affects and passions in the employment
relationship.
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The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
by DuBose Heyward
$5.99, hardcover (originally $14.99)
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Originally published in 1939, The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
celebrates the timeless values of equality, hard work, and patient
ambition. This seventy-fifth anniversary heirloom edition is perfect for
sharing with a new generation of young readers.
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Recent Finds in the Used Department
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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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The Sacred in the Modern World:
A Cultural Sociological Approach
by Gordon Lynch
Originally published by Oxford University Press in 2012
$28.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Re-interpreting
Durkheim's theory of the sacred, and drawing on the 'strong program' in
cultural sociology, Gordon Lynch sets out a theory of the sacred that
can be used by researchers across a range of humanities and social
science disciplines.
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Virginia Woolf:
A Portrait
by Viviane Forrester
Originally published by Columbia University Press in 2015
$18.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Winner
of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable
portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her
family and friends and how they shaped her work.
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Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers:
Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400
by Robert D. Mowry
Originally published by Harvard University Art Museums in 1996
$35.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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This groundbreaking catalogue is the first
of its kind to examine the exquisite Chinese brown- and black-glazed
wares (including those commonly known as "Temmoku"), tracing their
evolution and development from the fifth to the fifteenth century.
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
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Dan Lyons at WorkBar (Apr 6)
Free, registration required
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Gary Gerstle
Fri, Mar 18, 3PM
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Historian Gary Gerstle discusses Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present.
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Sari Wilson
Fri, Mar 18, 7PM
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Dancer and debut novelist Sari Wilson discusses her book Girl Through Glass
-- the story of a young girl's coming of age in the world of New York
City ballet -- in conversation with local writer Joanna Rakoff, author
of My Salinger Year.
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Author Signings for Vericon XVI: Harvard's Sci-Fi & Fantasy Convention
Sat, Mar 19, 1PM-3:45PM
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Join
us for book signings with Ann Leckie, Seth Dickinson, Fran
Wilde, Greer Gilman, Pamela Dean, Jo Walton, and Wesley Chu.
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Jim Downs
Mon, Mar 21, 7PM
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Historian Jim Downs discusses Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation, a transformative look at how we think about gay life in America from the 1970s to the present day.
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Christopher Castellani
Tues, Mar 22, 7PM
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Christopher Castellani, novelist and artistic director of local writing center Grubstreet, discusses The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story, the eleventh volume of the beloved "Art of" series on the craft of writing.
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Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Wed, Mar 23, 7PM
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Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney discusses her debut novel, The Nest, in conversation with Harvard's Bret Anthony Johnston. The Nest is the story of four adult siblings and the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.
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Charles Duhigg
Thurs, Mar 24, 7PM
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Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit, presents Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business.
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Manisha Sinha
Fri, Mar 25, 7PM
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UMass Amherst professor Manisha Sinha discusses The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition -- a comprehensive new history of the abolition movement in a transnational context.
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Harvard Book Store is locally owned and
independently run, and has been since 1932. Thank you for your continued
support.
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The Next Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Mar 28, 7PM
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This month our in-store book club will discuss Albert Camus' The Stranger and Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation.
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