1. A Human Being Died That Night
   by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
   price: $24.00
   In this acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murdered, Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township, enters Pretoria's maximum security prison to meet a man called "Dr. Death" who is serving 212 years in prison for crimes against humanity.
   
   
   
2. The Devil That Danced On The Water
   by Aminatta Forna
   price: $25.00
   Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an idyllic childhood that became the stuff of nightmare. "The Devil That Danced on the Water" is a book of pain and anger and sorrow, written with tremendous dignity and beautiful precision: a remarkable and important story of Africa.
   
   
   
3. I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company
   by Brian Hall
   price: $25.95
   Presenting the story of Lewis and Clark in an entirely new light, Hall uses the novelist's art to produce a compulsively readable book that fills the gaps and provides a new perspective on this great American story.
   
   
   
4. On The Natural History Of Destruction
   by W. G. Sebald
   price: $23.95
   A source of controversy on its first publication, Sebald's final work is a meditation on Germany's victimhood during World War II, Germany's guilt, and the universal consequences of denying the past. Photos throughout.
   
   
   
5. Pigs at the Trough
   by Arianna Huffington
   price: $22.00
   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.
   
   
   
6. Of Paradise and Power
   by Robert Kagan
   price: $18.00
   From a leading scholar of the country's foreign policy, this is a brilliant essay about America and the world that has caused a storm in international circles. European leaders, increasingly disturbed by U.S. policy and actions abroad, feel they are headed for what the New York Times (July 21, 2002) describes as a “moment of truth.” After years of mutual resentment and tension, there is a sudden recognition that the real interests of America and its allies are diverging sharply and that the trans-atlantic relationship itself has changed, possibly irreversibly. Europe sees the United States as high-handed, unilateralist, and unnecessarily belligerent; the United States sees Europe as spent, unserious, and weak. The anger and mistrust on both sides are hardening into incomprehension.
   
   
   
7. One World: The Ethics of Globalization
   by Peter Singer
   price: $21.95
   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. Respect In A World Of Inequality
   by Richard Sennett
   price: $24.95
   Distinguished sociologist Sennett explores the need for respect--and the consequences of disrespect--in a highly competitive and interdependent society. He looks at three factors that undermine mutual respect: unequal ability, adult dependency, and degrading forms of compassion.
   
   
   
9. Six Degrees: The Science Of A Connected Age
   by Duncan Watts
   price: $27.95
   Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of the connected planet. In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of the new science of networks, lays out nothing less than a new way to understand our connected planet. Between the Internet and email, cell phones and satellites, friends and family, highways and airports, we are continuously surrounded by and subjected to a world of networks-often bewilderingly so. Whether they bind computers, economies, or terrorist organizations, networks are everywhere in the real world, yet until recently the fundamental nature of the networks themselves has remained shrouded in mystery.
   
   
   
10. World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Violence and Global Instability
    by Amy Chua
    price: $25.95
    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.
    
    
    

1. Mrs. Dalloway
   by Virginia Woolf
   price: $12.00
   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
   price: $13.00
   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. White Teeth
   by Zadie Smith
   price: $14.00
   At the center of this invigorating and hilarious novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, hapless veterans of World War II. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn't quite match her name (Jamaican for "no problem"). Set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire's past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth is nothing less than a major literary event that heralds the arrival of a sensationally accomplished new writer. Set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire's past as it barrels toward the future, "White Teeth" is an international bestseller now available in paperback.
   
   
   
4. A New World Order
   by Caryl Phillips
   price: $14.00
   The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points of award-winning writer Caryl Phillips's profound inquiry into evolving notions of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly international society.
   
   
   
5. The Nature Of Blood
   by Caryl Phillips
   price: $13.00
   The story surrounds a fragile Eva Stem, a survivor of a Nazi death camp, whose story is interwoven with those of others whose lives are similarly haunted: her uncle Stephan, who abandons his family in order to join the Palestinian underground; the Moorish general Othello, who in marrying Desdemona betrays both himself and his African wife; three Jews in fifteenth-century Venice who are falsely accused of a murder; and an Ethiopian woman struggling for acceptance in contemporary Israel. Through disparate lands and centuries, Phillips creates an unforgettable group portrait of individuals overwhelmed by the force of European tribalism.
   
   
   
6. Nickel and Dimed
   by Barbara Ehrenreich
   price: $13.00
   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.
   
   
   
7. The Quiet American
   by Graham Greene
   price: $13.00
   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.
   
   
   
8. Bel Canto
   by Ann Patchett
   price: $13.95
   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.
   
   
   
9. The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton
   by Joe Klein
   price: $14.00
   Now in paperback, this "New York Times" bestseller is the first work to cut through the gossip, scandals, media hype, and emotional turbulence that former President Bill Clinton has always engendered, to step back and analyze the eight years of his administration.
   
   
   
10. The Metaphysical Club
    by Louis Menand
    price: $15.00
    Winner-2002 Pulitzer Prize for History In an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, Menand discusses the Metaphysical Club, an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce. 21 photos.
    
    
    

* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week February 10 - February 16.

February 10 - 16, 2003 Bestseller List

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