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2017
After a whirlwind holiday season of recommending
gift ideas and filling shopping bags, it's back to normal here at
Harvard Book Store. The decorations are down, new arrivals are hitting
the shelves, event tickets are back on sale, and the third room here in
the store is back to its familiar dance -- every weeknight the
shelves move aside and chairs get set up for an author presenting his or
her latest work.
Join us!
Community Events
On Wednesday, January 11th, Cambridge Forum will
host "Normalizing Denial," a discussion on the climate science debate.
The event will take place at First Parish Church in Cambridge. Learn
more at
cambridgeforum.org.
On Sunday, January 15th, hundreds of Greater
Boston residents will gather to re-inaugurate their shared commitment
to the rights and values that are essential to American democracy.
Greater Boston Writers Resist
will feature readings and performances by authors, artists, young
writers, and special guests -- and will take place at the Boston Public
Library. Furthermore, Writers Resist demonstrations will take place on
January 15th in more than fifty cities across three continents. Learn
more
here.
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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Difficult Women
by Roxane Gay
$25.00
Grove Press, hardcover
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Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay returns with Difficult Women,
a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble
lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection.
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The Lost City of the Monkey God:
A True Story
by Douglas Preston
$28.00
Grand Central Publishing, hardcover
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"For
anyone who dreams of lost times and places -- and who doesn't? -- this
is the book. Revelatory, chilling, creepy, and alive with deadly snakes
and insects bearing incurable disease, it's high adventure at its best,
and all true." --Erik Larson
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The Muses on Their Lunch Hour
by Marjorie Garber
$22.95
Fordham University Press, paperback
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As a break from their ordained labors, what
might the Muses today do on their lunch hour? This collection of witty,
shrewd, and imaginative essays addresses interdisciplinary topics that
range widely from Shakespeare, to psychoanalysis, to the practice of
higher education today.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Life in a Fishbowl
by Len Vlahos
$17.99
Bloomsbury USA, hardcover
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When Jackie discovers that her father has
been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, her whole world starts to
crumble. She can't imagine how she'll live without him. Then, in a
desperate act to secure his family's future, Jackie's father does the
unthinkable -- he puts his life up for auction on eBay.
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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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Classic Hits of Lee Kidd:
Volume One
by Lee Kidd
$12.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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Poems
by Lee Kidd (1945-2016), Coffeehouse Activist, written between 1987 and
2015, during travels to Paris, Berlin, Athens, and stateside, in Wetzel
County, West Virginia and Somerville, Massachusetts.
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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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Let Me Be Frank With You:
A Frank Bascombe Book
by Richard Ford
$5.99, hardcover (originally $27.99)
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In Let Me Be Frank with You,
Richard Ford reinvents his celebrated narrator Frank Bascombe in the
aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives,
Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret, and console a world undone by
calamity.
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The Math Myth:
And Other STEM Delusions
by Andrew Hacker
$7.99, hardcover (originally $26.95)
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In The Math Myth, Andrew
Hacker outlines provocative arguments against the requirement for all
students to master advanced algebra regardless of aptitude, challenging
assumptions about advanced math training and proposing educational
alternatives.
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Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond:
Rethinking Cities for the Future
by Tigran Haas
$29.99, hardcover (originally $75.00)
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With
more than sixty essays, this volume is a unique perspective on
architecture, urban planning, and urban design, exploring ways for
raising quality of life and the standard of living in a new modern era
by creating better and more viable places to live.
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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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Mallarmé on Fashion:
A Translation of the Fashion Magazine La Dernière Mode, with Commentary
by P.N. Furbank and A.M. Cain
Originally published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2004
$10.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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Complete
with original artwork and contextualizing introduction and commentary,
this is the definitive translation of one of French literature's
greatest puzzles -- the poet Stephane Mallarmé's fashion magazine that
he single-handedly wrote and edited.
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Hidden Wisdom:
Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism
by Guy G. Stroumsa
Originally published by Brill Academic in 2005
$65.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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This
volume investigates esoteric traditions in early Christianity, their
origin and their transformation in Patristic hermeneutics. It argues
that these traditions eventually formed the basis of nascent Christian
mysticism in Late Antiquity.
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Good Form:
The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel
by Jesse Rosenthal
Originally published by Princeton University Press in 2016
$23.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Bringing together philosophy, literary
history, and narrative theory, Jesse Rosenthal demonstrates that we
cannot understand the formal principles of the novel that we have
inherited from the nineteenth century without also understanding the
moral principles that have come with them.
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
»
Ian Rankin (Feb 9)
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale now
Tickets on Sale Soon:
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Alexandra Chasin
Fri, Jan 6, 7PM
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Alexandra Chasin of the New School discusses Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger's War on Drugs.
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Keramet Reiter
Mon, Jan 9, 7PM
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Criminology and law professor Keramet Reiter discusses 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement.
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Michael Holley
Tue, Jan 10, 7PM
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WEEI's Michael Holley, author of previous books on the Red Sox and Patriots, discusses Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football.
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Gary Taubes
Wed, Jan 11, 7PM
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Science journalist Gary Taubes, author of Why We Get Fat, discusses his latest book, The Case Against Sugar.
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André Aciman
Thu, Jan 12, 7PM
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André Aciman -- author of Out of Egypt, Call Me By Your Name, and Harvard Square -- discusses his latest novel, Enigma Variations. It's the story of a man whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout adulthood as they were in adolescence.
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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, Jan 30, 7PM
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This month the Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, will discuss books 1-4 of Middlemarch.
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