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March 11, 2011

Over on the Harvard Book Store Channel, you'll find a fresh batch of new event videos, including the fun and charming talk Amy Chua recently gave to a wildly enthusiastic crowd:  

Tiger Mom! Grrr!

Vericon, Harvard University's annual sci-fi & fantasy convention, gets under way next week. Here at the store, we'll be hosting some of their most honored guests for book signings, so you can meet writers including Brandon Sanderson, Austin Grossman, Holly Black, Catherine Asaro, and Sarah Smith. Learn more about Vericon's entire event schedule here and view the bookstore signing schedule here!   

 

March is Small Press Month, and Harvard Book Store is a HUGE admirer of the amazing and eclectic work produced by small publishing houses. Check out seven featured books (all 20% off!) from presses including Graywolf, Soft Skull, Akashic Books, and Archipelago Books in this month's Select Seventy.  

 

Happy reading,
Heather

 

The Weekly Bestsellers already Discounted 20%  

New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books, & In Store Book Printing
Fiction
Fiction
 

The Complaints     

by Ian Rankin   

 

 

 

$24.95
Reagan Arthur, hardcover
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"Rankin is a master at what, for me, is one of the important aspects of a crime novel: the integration of setting, plot, characters, and a theme which, for Rankin, is the moral dimension never far from his writing. Here it is unambiguously stated on the cover of The Complaints: who decides right from wrong? Fox is so fully realised and interesting a character, his job in 'the complaints' so fraught with fascinating possibilities, that we can surely hope to meet him again." --P.D. James for The Guardian
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Nonfiction
Non-Fiction
 

The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive      

by Brian Christian 


 

$27.95
Doubleday, hardcover
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"The Most Human Human is billed as an account of the author's participation in a Turing Test, but it's best enjoyed if you don't expect to read much about the test itself. A Turing Test--named for Alan Turing, the 20th-century mathematician who proposed it--asks a judge to converse with two unseen entities, a computer and a human being, then attempt to determine which is which.... I constantly found my mind pinging off of whatever Christian was discussing and into flights of exploratory speculation about the amount of information encoded in the seemingly routine exchanges of small talk or the reasons why it's much harder to tell a false story in reverse chronological order. It's an unusual book whose primary gift lies in distracting you from itself." --Salon.com

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Scholarly
Scholarly
 

Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight    

by James Attlee  

   

$26

University of Chicago, hardcover

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In Rome, as in every other modern city, moonlight has been banished, replaced by the twenty-four-hour glow of streetlights in a world that never sleeps. Moonlight, for most of us, is no more. So James Attlee set out to find it. Nocturne is the record of that journey, a traveler's tale that takes readers on a dazzling nighttime trek that ranges across continents, from prehistory to the present, and through both the physical world and the realms of art and literature.  

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Printed on Paige
Each week, we'll feature a book printed in Harvard Book Store 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.   
Printed on Paige
 

Gale Force:  

Gale Cincotta | The Battles for Disclosure and Community Reinvestment
by Michael Westgate and Ann Vick-Westgate     

 


$20
Print on Demand, paperback
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Gale Cincotta was one of this country's greatest organizers and activists. Called the mother of community reinvestment, she led the attack on redlining, community disinvestment, and predatory lending, resulting in two groundbreaking measures, the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which broke the back of housing discrimination throughout the nation.
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Bargain Books
Bargain Books are new books at used book prices. Limited copies are available of these titles, so if you see something that you're interested in, come in and check it out soon.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist 
by Mohsin Hamid       

$6.99, paperback (originally $14)

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a riveting, brilliantly unsettling exploration of the shadowy, unexpected connections between the political and the personal. The New York Times Book Review calls it "elegant and chilling."

The Midnight Disease:  

The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain  by Alice W Flaherty  

$4.99, paperback (originally $15)

Dissecting the role of emotion and the ways in which neurological and mood disorders can lead to meager--or prodigious--creative output, Flaherty draws on examples from case studies and from the lives of writers, from Franz Kafka to Anne Lamott, Sylvia Plath to Stephen King.

Samuel Johnson: The Struggle    

by Jeffrey Meyers   

$7.99, hardcover (originally $35)

Drawing on a lifetime of study of Johnson and his era, as well as a wide array of new archival materials, noted biographer Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of one of the great geniuses of English letters.  

 

Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy   by Roger Collins                                                        $9.99, hardcover (originally $35)

Collins offers a masterful account of the entire arc of papal history. Keepers of the Keys of Heaven is a definitive and accessible guide to anyone interested in the role faith plays in shaping the world.

Finds Downstairs in the Used Book Department

 

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.

Group Experiment and Other Writings
by Friedrich Pollock, Theodor W. Adorno, and Colleagues

Originally published by Harvard University Press in 2011
$26 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
    

The group experiment of Pollock and his Frankfurt School colleagues was of "pivotal importance for the history of social science, and for its empirical contribution to understanding postwar Germany." --Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council

 

Nataraja in Art, Thought and Literature
by C. Sivaramamurti
Originally published by National Museum of New Delhi in 1974
$50 (hardcover) in Good condition

Dr. Sivaramamurti has devoted a lifetime to iconography and especially to the Nataraja as a representation of the divine to creators and artists. This book promises to be a definitive work on the subject and a monument to Indian scholarship.   

 

Age of Fracture
by Daniel T. Rodgers
Originally published by Harvard University Press in 2011
$16 (hardcover) in Very Good condition

"Rogers ranges deftly and expertly from Judith Butler to Jerry Falwell, exploring the fragmentation of American social thought in every conceivable area. Age of Fracture is an indispensable guide to where we have been, and where we might be going." --Raritan Review  

 




Author Events


Tickets for our events with James Gleick (3/22) and Sarah Vowell (3/25) are on sale now. Tickets may be purchased at Harvard Book Store, online at harvard.com, or over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

 

Subscribe to the Harvard Book Store Google Event Calendar here.
All Upcoming Events  

James Carroll 
Fri, March 11, 7PM

Carroll
Suffolk University religion scholar James Carroll discusses his new book, Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World. 
At Harvard Book Store  Learn More

Mark R. Warren
Wed, March 16, 7PM

Cambridge Forum
Mark R. Warren discusses Fire in the Heart:
How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice.
A Cambridge Forum event at First Parish Church Learn More

The Philosophy Caf�
Wed, March 16, 7:30PM

Phil Cafe
"What's so Great about Art?" 
At Harvard Book Store, lower level
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Vericon Book Signings!
Sat, March 19, times vary  

Vericon!
with Brandon Sanderson, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Austin Grossman, Holly Black, Catherine Asaro, and Sarah Smith 

At Harvard Book Store 

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Greg Lindsay            Mon, March 21, 7PM

Hamilton
Journalist Greg Lindsay talks about the intersection of air travel and urban planning, and his new book Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next.
At Harvard Book Store Learn More

Robert Kurzban
Mon, March 21, 7PM

Anton!
Evolutionary psychologist  Robert Kurzban discusses Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
A Cambridge Forum event  at First Parish Church Learn More

James Gleick 
Tues, March 22, 6PM

Evison
Historian of science James Gleick discusses his newest work, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood.
At Brattle Theatre Learn More

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Wed, March 23, 7PM

Lemmon
Journalist and women's entrepreneurship activist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon  discusses The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe.
At Harvard Book Store Learn More

Ron Rash                Thurs, March 24, 7PM

HSBC

Award-winning novelist and story writer Ron Rash reads from his collection of short stories, Burning Bright, just out in paperback, with an introduction from fellow Southern writer Steve Yarbrough.    

At Harvard Book Store Learn More
Did you know: All our $5 tickets are also $5 coupons that you can use at the event or in the store?

We appreciate the feedback we get from readers of this newsletter. Please send your comments and suggestions to Heather at [email protected]. Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you in the store!

  

Heather Gain
Marketing Manager
[email protected]  

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