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Blind Date with a Book +
Our Annual Presidents' Day Sale
Take note of a couple February traditions here at Harvard Book Store.
Our
latest "Blind Date with a Book" display will be up in the store for
just a few more days. This popular promotion has swept bookstores and
libraries across the country in recent years. Here at Harvard Book Store
we're taking the opportunity to set up "blind dates" with special finds
from our beloved used book department. Stop by, browse the compelling
handwritten descriptions from our discerning booksellers, and take the
plunge with a great book.
Next up, come by Monday, February 20th, for our annual Presidents' Day Sale
and 20% off virtually everything in the store. The sale-day discount
applies to new, used, and remaindered books, as well as on
print-on-demand titles from our database, special orders (purchased on
sale day), and clothing, cards, chocolate, canvas bags, mugs, and more.
Can't make it in person? Shop harvard.com on February 20th with coupon code PREZDAY2017.
Please
note: The sale does not compound the discount on already discounted
items. Gift cards, self publishing services, event tickets, and Kobo
devices and e-books are not included in the sale. Learn more here.
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New on Our Shelves
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The Accusation:
Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
by Bandi
$25.00
Grove Press, hardcover
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The Accusation paints
a portrait of life under the North Korean regime. Set during the period
of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, these seven stories give a voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships.
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Shrinking Violets:
The Secret Life of Shyness
by Joe Moran
$26.00
Yale University Press, hardcover
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Joe
Moran explores what it means to be a "shrinking violet." Along the way,
he provides a collective biography of shyness through portraits of
individuals such as Charles Darwin, Charles Schulz, Garrison Keillor,
and Agatha Christie, among many others.
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The New Way of the World:
On Neoliberal Society
by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval
$19.95
Verso, paperback
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Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval dispel common misconceptions about neoliberalism, analyzing the history of neoliberal ideas, philosophy, and sociology.
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American Street
by Ibi Zoboi
$17.99
Balzer + Bray, hardcover
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When her mother is detained by U.S.
immigration, a young girl must learn to navigate America on her own.
Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a
Haitian immigrant, infusing her debut novel with magical realism and vodou culture.
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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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Armenians of Nirze, Turkey:
Roots of an Armenian-American
by Harry Parsekian
$15.00
Print on Demand, paperback
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The
story of the village of Nirze, in central Turkey, is a microcosm of the
Armenian experience, past and present. Its history mirrors that of
thousands of other villages. This book attempts to provide a glimpse
into the traditional way of life that largely vanished during the
Armenian Genocide.
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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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Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era
by Joseph S. Nye
$9.99, hardcover (originally $27.95)
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Joseph
S. Nye examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who
presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world
primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and
ethics of their choices.
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Alan Turing's Systems of Logic:
The Princeton Thesis
edited by Andrew W. Appel
$5.99, paperback (originally $14.99)
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This
book presents a facsimile of the original typescript of Alan Turing's
fascinating and influential 1938 Princeton Ph.D. thesis, one of the key
documents in the history of mathematics and computer science.
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A Little Life: A Novel
by Hanya Yanagihara
$7.99, hardcover (originally $35.00)
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four classmates move from Massachusetts to New York, they must learn to
adjust while the ringleader of their group grapples with his childhood
trauma. Yanagihara's critically-acclaimed epic is a hymn to brotherly love and an examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.
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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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Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism:
A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior
by Irina Paperno
Originally published by Stanford University Press in 1988
$50.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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and works, Irina Paperno traces the transformation of personal
experience into literary structure, then, in reverse, the work's ensuing
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by Maria Morris Hambourg and Mia Fineman
Originally published by Harry N. Abrams in 2002
$45.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Richard Diebenkorn
by Sarah C. Bancroft, Steven Nash, and Edith Devaney
Originally published by Harry N. Abrams in 2015
$30.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Richard Diebenkorn is best known for paintings that evoke the California coast. This book covers Diebenkorn's three distinct periods, bringing the artist's rich, four-decade-long career into focus.
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
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Chris Hayes (Mar 22)
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale now
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James R. Valcourt
Fri, Feb 17, 3PM
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Harvard Ph.D. candidate James R. Valcourt discusses Systematic: How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern Medicine.
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George Saunders
Fri, Feb 17, 7PM
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This event is SOLD OUT. There will be a standby line at the door. View our Sold Out Event FAQ here.
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At First Parish Church
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Presidents' Day Sale
Mon, Feb 20
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20% off all day, in-store and on harvard.com! 9am to 11pm in the store, and online with coupon code PREZDAY2017.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Emily Jeanne Miller
Tue, Feb 21, 7PM
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Emily Jeanne Miller reads from her novel The News from the End of the World -- the story of a dysfunctional New England family living together in Cape Cod.
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Yuval Noah Harari
Wed, Feb 22, 6PM
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling book Sapiens, discusses Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow in conversation with Harvard's Michael Sandel.
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At the Brattle Theatre
$5 Tickets
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Joshua Bennett
Wed, Feb 22, 7PM
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Joshua Bennett reads from The Sobbing School -- his debut collection of poetry, selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Mary Graham
Thu, Feb 23, 7PM
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Mary Graham of the Harvard Kennedy School discusses her book Presidents' Secrets: The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power.
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Julie L. Rose
Fri, Feb 24, 3PM
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Dartmouth College professor of government Julie L. Rose discusses her book Free Time, arguing that all citizens should have a right to the resource of free time.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Joi Ito and Jeff Howe
Fri, Feb 24, 7PM
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Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, and Jeff Howe of Northeastern University, discuss Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future.
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independently run, and has been since 1932. Thank you for your continued
support.
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The Next Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Feb 27, 7PM
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This month the Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, will discuss books 5-8 of Middlemarch in a continuation of our January 30th meeting.
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