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Bring Your Own Bag!
You may have noticed the stickers and signs around town, or the recent
Boston Globe article ("
Cambridge gears up for plastic bag ban"). The Cambridge city-wide
"Bring Your Own Bag" ordinance
goes into effect on Thursday, March 31st, and Harvard Book Store will
join the city of Cambridge in helping to reduce the use of disposable
checkout bags. We'll be updating our plastic bags to meet the new city
guidelines for "reusable" bags, and starting March 31st, we'll be
following the city ordinance by charging ten cents per bag issued at the
register. Learn more
here.
Now's a great time to stock up on hefty
reusable bags to bring along on future shopping trips. Allow us to take a
moment to note (and celebrate) the bevy of reusable totes available for
purchase at Harvard Book Store.
Thanks for Choosing Harvard Book Store
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Goodnight, sleepy softcovers.
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We appreciate the feedback we get from readers of this newsletter. Please send any comments to Alex at
newsletter@harvard.com.
Thanks for reading,
Alex W. Meriwether
Harvard Book Store
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New on Our Shelves
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Terrible Virtue:
A Novel
by Ellen Feldman
$25.99
Harper, hardcover
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"Margaret
Sanger was passionate about birth control, freedom, a surprising number
of men, and her daughter. Ellen Feldman lets us see all these sides of
one of America's most complicated heroines. . . . An irresistible and
utterly timely novel." --Margot Livesey
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The Imitation Game:
Alan Turing Decoded
by Jim Ottaviani
illustrated by Leland Purvis
$24.95
Abrams ComicArts, hardcover
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In The Imitation Game,
award-winning authors Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis present a
historically accurate graphic novel biography of English mathematician
and scientist Alan Turing.
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Scholarly
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Hamlet:
Fold on Fold
by Gabriel Josipovici
$35.00
Yale University Press, hardcover
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Hamlet: Fold on Fold is an
analysis which puts the experience of watching and reading at the heart
of the critical process -- at once a practical introduction to a great
play and a sophisticated intervention in some of the key questions of
theory in our time.
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Kids & Young Adult
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The Forest Feast for Kids:
Colorful Vegetarian Recipes That Are Simple to Make
by Erin Gleeson
$19.95
Harry N. Abrams, hardcover
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The Forest Feast for Kids includes the most kid-friendly favorites from
The Forest Feast, along with 20 new
recipes, plus ideas for kids' parties and easy-to-follow instructions
on techniques, measurements, and other helpful kitchen aids.
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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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Somerville, Past and Present
by Edward A. Samuels and Henry H. Kimball
$19.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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This
illustrated historical souvenir, originally published in 1897,
commemorates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment
of Somerville, Massachusetts' city government. (With lots of
great photographs!)
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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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Zealot:
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
by Reza Aslan
$7.99, hardcover (originally $27.00)
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Sifting
through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of
history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus
through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century
Palestine.
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The Original Atheists:
First Thoughts on Nonbelief
edited by S. T. Joshi
$7.99, paperback (originally $20.95)
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this first anthology to feature the writings of leading
eighteenth-century thinkers on the subjects of atheism, religion, and
secularism, editor S. T. Joshi has compiled notable essays by writers from Germany, France, England, and early America.
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Captain Swing
by Eric Hobsbawm and George Rudé
$8.99, paperback (originally $26.95)
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From 1830 on, a series of revolts, known as the 'Swing,' shook England to its core. Captain Swing
reveals the background to that upheaval, from its rise to its fall, and
shines a light on the people who tried to change the world and save
their livelihoods.
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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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Karin Rosenthal:
Twenty Years Of Photographs
by Karin Rosenthal
Originally published by the Danforth Museum of Art in 2000
$35.00 (paperback, signed) in Very Good condition
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is something primal and satisfying about the nude and water. In
combination, they establish an irresistible rapport between the viewer
and the art - an effect that is presented clearly in Karin Rosenthal's
work." --from the introduction by Ronald L. Crusan, Director,
Danforth Museum of Art |
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Bonnard/Matisse:
Letters Between Friends
introduction and notes by Antoine Terrasse
Originally published by Harry N. Abrams in 1992
$35.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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letters exchanged between Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse attest to a
forty-year friendship between two of the most important artists of the
twentieth century. This volume documents an extraordinary correspondence
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The Manliest Man:
Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform
by James W. Trent
Originally published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2012
$15.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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The first full-length biography of Samuel G. Howe in more than fifty years,
The Manliest Man offers an
original view of the reformer's personal life, his association with
social causes of his time, and his efforts to shape those causes.
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Upcoming Events
There's plenty going on this week at Harvard Book Store! We'll be rolling out our May
events lineup over the next week, including added details for
Independent Bookstore Day!
Tickets on Sale Now:
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Dan Lyons at WorkBar (Apr 6)
Free, registration required
Tickets on Sale Soon:
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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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At Harvard Book Store
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The 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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At Harvard Book Store
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Kurt Gray
Tue, Mar 29, 7PM
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Psychologist Kurt Gray discusses The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters in conversation with Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Amber Tamblyn
Tues, Mar 29, 7PM
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Author, actress, and director Amber Tamblyn presents her poetry collection Dark Sparkler, an exploration of the lives and deaths of child star actresses -- and is joined by poet and Harvard professor Stephen Burt.
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At the Cambridge Public Library
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Sarah Bakewell
Wed, Mar 30, 7PM
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Sarah Bakewell, the bestselling author of How to Live, presents her latest book At
the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with
Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger,
Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others.
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John Elder Robison
Thu, Mar 31, 6PM
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John Elder Robison -- bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye
and a world-recognized authority on living with autism -- discusses his
remarkable journey with a new experimental brain therapy in Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening. He is joined in conversation by the Harvard Med School professor who led the studies, Dr. Alvaro Pascual Leone.
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$5 Tickets
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Janette Sadik-Khan
Thu, Mar 31, 7PM
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Former
NYC transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan is joined by Harvard
urban planning professor Jerold Kayden for a discussion of her book Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Liav Orgad
Fri, Apr 1, 3PM
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Liav Orgad discusses his book The Cultural Defense of Nations: A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights, part of a new author series "Ethics in Your World" presented with Harvard's Safra Center for Ethics.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Adam Hochschild
Fri, Apr 1, 7PM
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Adam Hochschild, the bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost, discusses his latest book, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.
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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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