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The Harvard Book Store's bestseller list*
for the week of May 5 - May 11, 2003.

These bestseller titles were discounted 20% from our regular prices thru May 11th.



Bestselling Hardcover Titles


  1. The Chinese in America
    by Iris Chang
    price: $29.95
    In theory, Americans are defined not by their ethnicity but by their adherence to the principles enshrined in the founding documents of the United States. But in practice, a "real" American is often thought to be some wholly mythological, composite descendant of Europeans, while everyone else is relegated to "foreign" status in various insidious ways. Chinese-American scholar Iris Chang exposes and explodes this view in her new, much-anticipated history The Chinese in America: A Narrative History, following upon the surprising success of her 1997 book, The Rape of Nanking.


  2. Emerson
    by Lawrence Buell
    price: $29.95
    Both an introduction and a fresh contribution to the scholarly literature, Emerson offers a fresh, timely, readable reinterpretation of Emerson's career and significance at the historic moment of his bicentennial.


  3. Regarding the Pain of Others
    by Susan Sontag
    price: $20.00
    In her first full-scale investigation of the rote of imagery in our culture since her now-classic book On Photography defined the terms of the debate twenty-five years ago, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity -- from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz, to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001.


  4. The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality and the Shaping of American Culture
    by Douglass Shand-Tucci
    price: $27.95
    What Shand-Tucci attempts here is nothing less than a re-evaluation of American culture by looking at how it was shaped by Harvard-connected gay men. From Ralph Waldo Emerson (in love with fellow student Martin Gay) and Henry James (who apparently first had sex with Oliver Wendell Holmes) to poet Frank O'Hara and artist Edward Gory, who were student roommates, Shand-Tucci weaves together history, criticism and gossip to show how many of the sons of Harvard were not only gay but major culture machers.


  5. The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox
    by Stephen Jay Gould
    price: $25.95
    For the metaphor of cunning versus persistence that runs through this title, Gould refers to the 7th century B.C., when the Greek soldier-poet Archilochus said that "the fox devises many strategies; the hedgehog knows one great and effective strategy." Before succumbing to cancer last year at 60, Gould had become perhaps the world's most famous evolutionary biologist since Charles Darwin.


  6. Appetites: Why Women Want
    by Caroline Knapp
    price: $24.00
    What do women want? Did Freud have any idea how difficult that question would become for women to answer? In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts that question and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling women and their desires? In this, her final book, completed shortly before her death last June, turns her brilliant eye toward how a woman's appetite--for food, love, work, and pleasure--is shaped and constrained by culture.


  7. The DaVinci Code
    by Dan Brown
    price: $24.95
    In an exhilarating blend of scholarly intelligence, relentless adventure, and cutting wit, Robert Langdon (first introduced in "Angels Demons") and his new adventure combines the punch of Robert Ludlum, the intriguing historical touch of Umberto Eco, and the nonstop suspense of Michael Crichton.


  8. Middlesex
    by Jeffrey Eugenides
    price: $27.00
    Spanning eight decades, Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. Eugenides was named one of America's best young novelists by both "Granta" and "The New Yorker."


  9. Hans Georg Gadamer: A Biography
    by Jean Grondin
    price: $35.00
    Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) was one of the greatest philosophers of his era. He was also at the center of some of the century's darkest, most complex historical events. In this magisterial book, Grondin appraises Gadamer's life and achievement. 30 illustrations.


  10. Parecon: Life After Capitalism
    by Michael Albert
    price: $21.00
    "What do you want?" is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: "Participatory Economics"--"Parecon" for short--a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity, and people democratically controlling their own lives.


Bestselling Paperback Titles

  1. Three Junes
    by Julia Glass
    price: $14.00
    Told in three intertwined novellas, Three Junes spans Greece, Scotland, and New York to bring the reader into the fold of one memorable Scottish family. Advertising. Author tour. National Book Award Winner.


  2. Granta 81: The Best of the Young British Novelists
    ed. Ian Jack
    price: $14.95
    Contributors to the first two volumes in the "Granta" series include six Booker Award winners and nine recipients of the Whitbread Award. This is a collection of their writings.


  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. 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. Atonement
    by Ian McEwan
    price: $14.00
    McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of "Amsterdam, " has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with the provocation readers have come to expect from this master of English prose.


  5. Poets Against the War
    by ed. Sam Hamill
    price: $12.95
    With more than 650,000 copies currently in print and atop bestseller lists nationwide, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus' biting satire of the glamorous life on Manhattan's Upper East Side offers both an insider's view and a great read to puncture the glamour of Manhattan's upper class, and reveal the truth behind the Park Avenue veneer. Struggling to graduate from New York University and afford her microscopic studio apartment, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of the wealthy X family. She rapidly learns the insane amount of juggling involved in ensuring that a Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day.


  6. Everything Is Illuminated
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
    price: $13.95
    A writer journeys to the farmlands of eastern Europe to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Passionate and marked by an indelible humanity, "Everything Is Illuminated" mines the black holes of history and is ultimately a story about searching: for people and places that no longer exist and for the tales that link past and future.


  7. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
    by Atul Gawande
    price: $13.00
    This engaging collection of essays, written by Gawande, who is a former Rhodes scholar, a surgeon and a staff writer for The New Yorker, explores the world of modern medicine, taking readers behind the scenes of one of America's biggest industries. The author's personal accounts of risky surgical procedures—including treatment of morbid obesity—the newest medical innovations and the dangers of misdiagnosis deliver the challenges of a physician's career to readers with wonderful drama and detail. In Gawande's hands, the arcane world of medicine is finally made accessible. By turns confessional, comic and frightening, this collection was a 2002 National Book Award finalist and a bestseller in hardcover.


  8. The Russian Debutante's Handbook
    by Gary Shteyngart
    price: $14.00
    This national bestseller is a wildly original, brilliantly crafted novel about a young Russian immigrant's misadventures while trying to figure out what it means to be an American.


  9. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
    by Alexandra Fuller
    price: $12.95
    Fuller, known to friends and family as Bobo, grew up on several farms in southern and central Africa. But Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is more than a survivor's story: It is the story of one woman's unbreakable bond with a continent and the people who inhabit it, a portrait lovingly realized and deeply felt. A Book Sense Selection. Photos.


  10. What Went Wrong?
    by Bernard Lewis
    price: $12.95
    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.



* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week April 28 - May 4.

April 28 - May 4, 2003 Bestseller List

    

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