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The Harvard Book Store's bestseller list*
for the week of February 24 - March 3, 2003.

These bestseller titles were discounted 20% from our regular prices thru March 3rd.



Bestselling Hardcover Titles


  1. On This Day
    by Nathaniel Bellows
    price: $24.95
    "On This Day" is a moving account of two young people's struggle to make a place for themselves in the world while redefining, in their orphaned state, what family means. In facing their family's dark history, two siblings explore and test their own deep connection, and seek a way out of the trap that misfortune has set for them.


  2. 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.


  3. Atonement
    by Ian McEwan
    price: $26.00
    In this rich novel by the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel "Amsterdam," a young girl unwittingly tells a tale that turns her family upside down. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, "Atonement" is at its center a profound--and profoundly moving--exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and the difficulty of absolution.


  4. 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.


  5. Coming Of Age As A Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath
    by Helen Hennessy Vendler
    price: $22.95
    With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps readers to appreciate the conception and practice of poetry as she explores four poets and their first "perfect" works. 4 halftones.


  6. Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy
    by Kwame Anthony Appiah
    price: $30.00
    With a background in scholarly and journalistic writing, Appiah covers the central topics of philosophy--mind, knowledge, language, science, morality politics, law, and metaphysics. a thorough, vividly written introduction to contemporary philosophy and some of the most crucial questions of human existence: the nature of mind and knowledge, the status of moral claims, the existence of God, the role of science, and the mysteries of language, among them.


  7. 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.


  8. Freedom Evolves
    by Daniel Dennett
    price: $24.95
    As in his previous books, Dennett weaves a richly detailed narrative enlivened by analogies as entertaining as they are challenging. Here is the story of how mankind came to be different from all other creatures, how early ancestors mindlessly created human culture, and then, how culture gave humans their minds, their visions, moral problems--in a nutshell, their freedom.


  9. Songbook
    by Nick Hornby
    price: $26.00
    This holiday season, McSweeney's is excited to release Songbook — a brand-new collection of essays by Nick Hornby on 31 of his favorite songs and songwriters. This hardcover book has 4-color illustrations throughout and comes complete with a compilation CD filled with 11 songs discussed in the book. If you like Nick Hornby, and you like music, and you like artwork by Marcel Dzama, then this is just the thing for you and your loved ones.


  10. Gathering Power: The Future of Progressive Politics in America
    by Paul Osterman
    price: $28.50
    Democrats are looking for the right national message that will attract the most voters, leaving progressive politics to operate from the margins. Paul Osterman argues that political change lies not in crafting a better message to beam from Washington but rather in effective local action. Gathering Power explores the most successful and promising organization to enable local activism and strengthen our democracy: the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). Gathering Power shows how the IAF teaches people to become activists, and argues that religious values have an important place in progressive politics.


Bestselling Paperback Titles

  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. 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.


  4. 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.


  5. Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress
    by Dai Sijie
    price: $10.00
    The surprise literary bestseller of the year, this is a beguiling fable that shines with the wonder of imagination, the beauty of romance, and the power of storytelling. Set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the novel tells the story of two hapless city boys sent to a remote mountain village for reeducation.


  6. 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. 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.


  7. Formations Of The Secular
    by Talal Asad
    price: $19.95
    Opening with the provocative query "What might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East. Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the terrain it allegedly covers. He argues that while anthropologists have oriented themselves to the study of the "strangeness of the non-European world" and to what are seen as non-rational dimensions of social life (things like myth, taboo, and religion), the modern and the secular have not been adequately examined.


  8. Guns Germs and Steel
    by Jared Diamond
    price: $16.95
    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.


  9. Water Marked
    by Helen Elaine Lee
    price: $13.00
    From the talented author of "The Serpent's Gift" comes a richly textured novel about two estranged African-American sisters who reunite in a effort to understand their father.


  10. Gracefully Insane
    by Alex Beam
    price: $15.00
    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.



* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week February 17 - 23.

February 17 - 23, 2003 Bestseller List

    

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