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Upcoming Ticketed Events
» Sidney Blumenthal (May 13)
» Nathaniel Philbrick (May 15)
» Siddhartha Mukherjee with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (May 18)
» Cass R. Sunstein (May 23)
» Eric Ripert with Kelly Horan (May 31)
» Mary Roach with Deborah Blum (Jun 8)
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale now
» Chuck Klosterman (June 9)
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale now
» Annie Proulx (June 16)
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale now
Each month, Harvard Book Store offers the members of our
Signed First Edition Club
a signed first printing of a newly published book, selected for both
its literary merit and potential collectibility. The bookshelves of our
members boast some of the most well-respected authors writing today --
renowned novelists, essayists, historians, memoirists, and poets.
Sign up or give a gift membership!
Learn more here. You may choose to give a gift membership for six months, one year, or indefinitely.
In Case You Missed It
In March we hosted Janette Sadik-Khan for her book
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution,
an empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning
our cities, from a pioneer in the movement for safer, more livable
streets. Check out the
video, courtesy of the
Forum Network.
Thanks for Choosing Harvard Book Store
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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The Noise of Time:
A Novel
by Julian Barnes
$25.95
Knopf, hardcover
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A compact but powerful novel dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Barnes
elegantly guides us through the trajectory of Shostakovich's career, at
the same time illuminating the tumultuous evolution of the Soviet
Union.
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The Secret War:
Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
by Max Hastings
$35.00
Harper, hardcover
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From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II -- intelligence.
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Scholarly
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Toward Democracy:
The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
by James T. Kloppenberg
$34.95
Oxford University Press, hardcover
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In this encyclopedic overview, James
T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of
those who struggled to envision and achieve it. Kloppenberg offers a fresh look at how understandings of self-rule changed over time.
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Kids & Young Adult
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The Square Root of Summer
by Harriet Reuter Hapgood
$17.99
Roaring Brook Press, hardcover
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With time travel, quantum physics, and sweeping romance,
The Square Root of Summer
is an exponentially enthralling story about love, loss, and trying to figure it all out.
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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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Clarity Now:
Simple Steps to Your Perfectly Clear Answer
by Kathryn Deputat
$20.00
Print on Demand, paperback
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Whether
you feel stuck or blocked in your relationships, health and well being,
work life, finances, or your overall life direction, the methods,
worksheets and exercises presented in Clarity Now can guide you.
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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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The Art Museum
by Phaidon Press
$62.99, hardcover (originally $125.00)
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The Art Museum is a virtual art museum in a book, featuring 1,000 oversized pages of over 2,500 works of art. With in-depth text throughout, a comprehensive glossary and detailed maps, it is accessible for everyone from casual fans to experts.
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Flight Behaviour
by Barbara Kingsolver
$6.99, hardcover (originally $29.75)
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On
the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a
beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is
suddenly transformed, can the old certainties they have lived by for
centuries remain unchallenged?
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Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed:
Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century
by Howard Gardner
$5.99, hardcover (originally $25.99)
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"Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed is an engaging mixture of philosophy, personal reflection, and moral exhortation. . . . An extraordinary open-mindedness permeates his book." --The New York Review of Books
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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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Myth and Thought Among the Greeks
by Jean-Pierre Vernant
Originally published by Zone Books in 2006
$14.50 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published Myth and Thought in
1965, it transformed the field of ancient Greek scholarship. This
edition includes all eighteen essays, three of which, along with a new
preface, are translated into English for the first time.
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Sociable Knowledge:
Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain
by Elizabeth Yale
Originally published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2016
$45.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Sociable Knowledge reconstructs
the collaborations of seventeenth-century naturalists who worked to
convert the fragmented knowledge of the local into a representation of
Britain as a unified historical and geographical space.
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Transformable Race:
Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America
by Katy L. Chiles
Originally published by Oxford University Press in 2014
$40.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Examining figures such as Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Brockden Brown,
Transformable Race demonstrates how
these authors used language emphasizing or questioning the potential
malleability of physical features to explore the construction of racial
categories.
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Upcoming Events
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Sidney Blumenthal
Fri, May 13, 6PM
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Sidney Blumenthal, bestselling author of The Clinton Wars and The Permanent Campaign, discusses A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849.
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$5 Tickets
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Eileen Pollack with Celeste Ng
Fri, May 13, 7PM
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Eileen Pollack discusses her latest novel, A Perfect Life, featuring a young researcher at MIT -- in conversation with Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You.
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Nathaniel Philbrick
Sun, May 15, 7PM
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National Book Award-winning historian Nathaniel Philbrick discusses Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution.
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At First Parish Church
$5 Tickets
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An Evening with Transition Magazine
Mon, May 16, 7PM
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Transition magazine launches Issue #119, Afro-Asian Worlds, featuring panelists Gaiutra Bahadur, Vivek Bald, Roshan Galvaan, Krishna Lewis, and Ibrahim K. Sundiata.
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Joe Hill
Tue, May 17, 6PM
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Joe Hill, bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box, reads from his latest novel, The Fireman -- a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion.
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At the Brattle Theatre
$5 Tickets
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Siddhartha Mukherjee with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Wed, May 18, 6PM
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses The Gene: An Intimate History with Harvard's Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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$5 Tickets
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Tom Vanderbilt
Thu, May 19, 7PM
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Journalist and Traffic author Tom Vanderbilt discusses his latest book, You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice.
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Malcolm K. Sparrow
Fri, May 20, 3PM
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Harvard's Malcolm K. Sparrow discusses Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform.
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Joshua Rubenstein
Fri, May 20, 7PM
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Joshua Rubenstein, author of Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life discusses The Last Days of Stalin.
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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
Tue, May 31, 7PM
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This month our in-store book club will discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
The Sympathizer.
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