Celebrating the Dog Days of Summer! At Harvard Book Store, the dog days of summer are anything but slow. As readers enjoy the last few weeks of August, we invite everyone to bring their dog in on weekdays to browse Boston's best literary and scholarly selection. From August 15th through September 1, customers who bring their dog in on a weekday will receive 10% off any purchase up to $200. Doggie refreshments will be available free of charge. And from August 21 through September 1, all canine customers will receive a complimentary, specially designed dog tag. (While supplies last.) Make the most of the dog days! Check out some books for the Dog Days....
September 12 6pm	T.C. Boyle A Friend of the Earth Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway "America's most imaginative contemporary novelist" (Newsweek) blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species. Boyle's deep streak of social concern is effortlessly blended here with real compassion for his characters and the spirit of sheer exhilarating playfulness readers have come to expect from his work.
September 13 7-9am	COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE BREAKFAST SPEAKERS SERIES  Gary Hamel Leading the Revolution Charles Hotel, Cambridge
	Gary Hamel, world-renowned business thinker and co-author of Competing for the Future, the book that set the management agenda for the 1990s, now brings us Leading the Revolution. An action plan-indeed, an incendiary device-for any company or individual intent on becoming and staying an industry revolutionary, this book will ignite the passions of entry-level assistants, neophyte managers, seasoned VPs, CEOs, and anyone else who worries that their company may be caught flat-footed by the future. Reservations are required. Click here to register.
September 13 6pm	Jonathan Glover Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century Kennedy School of Government, room to be announced In Humanity, Jonathan Glover looks at the politics of our times and the shameful litany of events that made the twentieth century one of the most brutal in human history, and explores the possibilities for creating a social environment that prevents a re-occurrence of atrocities. Co-sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
September 20 6pm	IN BED WITH HARVARD BOOK STORE SERIES    Marjorie Garber Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway Garber draws on literature, art, film, journalism, criticism and the evidence of everyday experience to show how the house becomes the repository of our unmet needs, our unfulfilled dreams, and our nostalgic longings. Call Harvard Book Store information at 661-1515 for information on ticket price and availability.
September 21 6pm	LITERARY SALON  George Packer Blood of the Liberals The Colloquium Room at the Bunting Institute The inheritor of two sometimes conflicting strains of the great American liberal tradition, Cambridge author Packer (The Half-Man and Central Square) discusses the testing of ideals in the lives of his father and grandfather and his own struggle to understand the place of the progressive tradition in a currently polarized political climate.
September 25 6pm	David Gergen Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership--Nixon to Clinton Kennedy School of Government, room to be announced A White House adviser to four presidents, both Republican and Democrat, he offers a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of their struggles to exercise power and draws from them key lessons for leaders of the future.
September 26 6pm	IN BED WITH HARVARD BOOK STORE SERIES  Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts Harvard Information Center in the Holyoke Center, 1350 Mass. Ave.
	Why do we want (and do) so many things that are bad for us? We vow to lose those extra five pounds, put more money in the bank, and mend neglected relationships, but our attempts often end in failure. Mean Genes reveals that struggles for self-improvement are, in fact, battles against our own genes--genes that helped our cavewoman and caveman ancestors flourish but that are selfish and out of place in the modern world. Why do we like junk food more than fruit? Why is the road to romance so rocky? Why is happiness so elusive? What drives us into debt? An investigation into the biological nature of temptation and the struggle for control, Mean Genes answers these and other fundamental questions about human nature while giving us an edge to lead more satisfying lives.
September 27 6pm	Evan Thomas Robert Kennedy Kennedy School of Government, room to be announced Evan Thomas, Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek, has brought an extraordinarily complex man to live in this biography. Tickets are not required.
September 28 6pm	Mary Karr Cherry Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway In The Liars Club, Mary Karr told the prizewinning tale of her hardscrabble Texas childhood with enough literary verve to spark a renaissance in memoir writing. This long-awaited sequel is a vibrant, often hilarious coming of age tale that explores the author's stormy, ardent adolescence.

October 2 6pm	Clare Munnings Overnight Float: A Mystery Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway This sophisticated and funny novel which examines women's lives introduces a surprising new protagonist to the mystery genre: Rosemary Stubbs, a chaplain at a New England college for women. When the murder of a faculty member highlights the internal conflicts and allegiances of academic life, Rosemary brings a meticulous intelligence and compassion to the search for the campus murderer. Clare Munnings is a pseudonym for Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain, and Elizabeth Kennan, former president of Mount Holyoke College.
October 3 6pm	Thomas H. O'Connor Boston A to Z Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall In this book, the preeminent historian of Boston, Thomas H. O'Connor, takes readers on a delightful tour of the city, past and present. Drawing on lifelong acquaintance as a native son and scholar, O'Connor has assembled a personal, informal, and eclectic series of essays about Boston's people, places, and events.
October 4 6pm	Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Thunder from the East: A Portrait of a Rising Asia Kennedy School of Government, room to be announced A conversation with two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondents. Kristof and WuDunn depict a continent poised to reassume the role it ceded five hundred years ago as the "center of the world." They muster convincing evidence that China may soon overtake the United States as the world's largest economy, that India is awakening from its long hibernation, that Japan is developing future consumer technologies that will benefit millions of people.
October 5 6pm	HARVARD BOOK STORE'S "GENOME" SERIES  Paul Ehrlich Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway In a new book that is sure to stir controversy, Paul R. Ehrlich, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, shows why most of those claims of genetic destiny cannot be true, and explains how the arguments often stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of evolution itself.
October 10 6pm	The American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway Celebrating the publication of the 4th edition of Houghton Mifflin's American Heritage Dictionary, a discussion with usage panel guests Steven Pinker, Wendy Kaminer, and Robert Pinsky.
October 11 6pm	HARVARD BOOK STORE'S "GENOME" SERIES  Evelyn Fox Keller The Century of the Gene Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway One of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science provides a profound analysis of the achievements of molecular biology in the twentieth century. Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this times in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.
October 18 6pm	IN BED WITH HARVARD BOOK STORE SERIES  Wendy Doniger "The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade" The Colloquium Room at the Bunting Institute From Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger brings together stories from all over the world and shows us the variety, danger, and allure of what it means to wake up with a stranger.
October 25 6pm	Michael Paterniti Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, and part meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique road trips in modern literature -- the story of Paterniti and Dr. Thomas Harvey journey to return Albert Einstein's thought-to-be-lost brain to his granddaughter. Inspired by the man who gave a skeptical world a glimpse of its cosmic origins, this extraordinary writer weaves his own unified field theory of time, love, and the power to believe in eternity.
October 26 7pm	Alan Lightman The Diagnosis Venue to be announced Lightman is a professor of humanities and a lecturer in physics at MIT. His first novel, Einstein's Dreams, was greeted with international praise. The Diagnosis is a brilliant and disturbing examination of our modern obsession with speed, information, and money, and what this obsession has done to our minds and our spirits.
October 30 6pm	Ted Koppel Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public Kennedy School of Government, room to be announced One of America's most admired television newsmen gives us an intimate chronicle of the final year of the twentieth century. The year's personalities and events not only are themselves made vivid but also lead to wide-ranging discussions of the past and of expectations of things to come. Co-sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.

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