1. Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
   by Nikki Giovanni
   $13.56
   A collection of 50 new poems, sketches, and meditations charts new territory, including popular culture and life in America, the poet's own battle with illness, relationships between mothers and their children, legendary historical figures, the South, the recent terrorist attacks, and Giovanni's own childhood.
   
   
   
2. A Consumer's Republic
   by Lizabeth Cohen, (author event on February 7)
   $28.00
   The three decades after World War II are often heralded as a "Golden Era" of American affluence. But as Lizabeth Cohen makes clear, the pursuit of prosperity defined much more than the nation’s economy; it also became a basic component of American citizenship. Consumers were encouraged to buy not just for themselves, but for the good of the nation.
   
   
   
3. Pinstripes and Pearls: The Women of the Harvard Law Class of '64, Who Forged an Old Girl Network and Paved the Way for Future Generations
   by Judith Richards Hope
   $20.76
   To illustrate the challenges facing women of the previous generation, the author recounts the lives and careers of several barrier-breaking women, including herself, from Harvard's pivotal 1964 law class. 18 photos.
   
   
   
4. Mr. Potter
   by Jamaica Kincaid
   $16.00
   Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur. In her most ambitious work to date, Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging out of an unexamined life.
   
   
   
5. Imagining Numbers: (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen)
   by Barry Mazur
   $16.00
   "Imagining Numbers" is Mazur's invitation to those who take delight in the imaginative work of reading poetry, but may have no background in math, to make a leap of the imagination in mathematics. Then he shows, step by step, how to begin imagining imaginary numbers.
   
   
   
6. Interesting Women
   by Andrea Lee
   $18.36
   In luminous prose shot through with mordant irony, Lee takes readers into the hearts and minds of a number of extraordinary women who, with wit and style, must grapple with questions of identity.
   
   
   
7. One World: The Ethics of Globalization
   by Peter Singer
   $17.56
   Known for his original and courageous thinking on matters such as the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Singer turns his attention to the ethical issues surrounding globalization. In this provocative book, he challenges readers to think beyond the boundaries of nation-states and consider what a global ethic could mean in today's world.
   
   
   
8. World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Violence and Global Instability
   by Amy Chua
   $20.76
   Apostles of globalization, such as Thomas Friedman, believe that exporting free markets and democracy to other countries will increase peace and prosperity throughout the world; Chua is the anti-Friedman. Her book will be a dash of cold water in the face of globalists, techno-utopians, and liberal triumphalists as she shows that just the opposite has happened.
   
   
   
9. Looking for Spinoza
   by Antonio Damasio
   $22.40
   Completing the trilogy that began with "DescartesU Error" and continued with "The Feeling of What Happens," noted neuroscientist Damasio now focuses the full force of his research on emotions as he shows how joy and sorrow are cornerstones of humankind's survival. "One of the best brain stories of the decade." --"New York Times Book Review." 30 illustrations throughout.
   
   
   
10. Pigs at the Trough
    by Arianna Huffington
    $20.80
    The nationally syndicated columnist skewers corporate and government leaders who created an appalling system of book-cooking and fraud, lavishing in grossly inflated salaries and bonuses while they cheat the shareholders and citizens they claim to serve.
    
    
    

1. Mrs. Dalloway
   by Virginia Woolf
   $9.60
   Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings that loom behind those daily events--the social alliances, the shopkeeper's exchange, the fact of death--that give Mrs. Dalloway texture and richness.
   
   
   
2. The Hours
   by Michael Cunningham
   $10.40
   The author of "Flesh and Blood" draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman.
   
   
   
3. Guns Germs and Steel
   by Jared Diamond
   $13.56
   In this "artful, informative, and delightful (book)" ("New York Review of Books"), Diamond offers a convincing explanation of the way the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Photos.
   
   
   
4. The Quiet American
   by Graham Greene
   $10.40
   The relentless struggle of the Vietminh guerrillas for independence and the futility of the French gestures of resistance become inseparably meshed with the personal and moral dilemmas of two men and the Vietnamese woman they both love.
   
   
   
5. The Secret Life of Bees
   by Sue Monk Kidd
   $11.20
   Now in paperback comes the intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discover of . . . the strange and wondrous places we find love" ("TheWashington Post"). A bestseller in hardcover, Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing work is set in South Carolina in 1964. A movie version is forthcoming from Fox Searchlight.
   
   
   
6. What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
   by Bernard Lewis
   $10.36
   In this landmark volume, an authority on the Middle East examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tries to understand why things have changed, how they have been overtaken, overshadowed, and to an increasing extent dominated by the West. 15 illustrations. Map.
   
   
   
7. Bel Canto
   by Ann Patchett
   $11.16
   A novel that is as lyrical and profound as it is unforgettable, "Bel Canto" engenders in the reader the very passion for art and the language of music that its characters discover. A virtuoso performance by an important writer.
   
   
   
8. Gracefully Insane
   by Alex Beam
   $11.20
   An entertaining and poignant social history of McLean Hospital--a temporary home to many of the troubled geniuses of our age--this book explores the evolution of the treatment of mental illness from the early 19th century to today. Photos.
   
   
   
9. Understanding Power
   by Noam Chomsky
   $15.96
   Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during the Vietnam War to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America’s imperialistic foreign policy and social inequalities at home, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
   
   
   
10. Nickel and Dimed
    by Barbara Ehrenreich
    $10.40
    A bestseller in hardcover, "Nickel and Dimed" reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way the nation perceives its working poor.
    
    
    

* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week January 27 - February 2.

January 20 - 26, 2003 Bestseller List

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