Thomas L. Friedman
Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (due Sep 2002)

Boston Public Library (auditorium TBA)
free and open to public

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Natasha Staller
A Sum of Destructions: Picasso's Cultures and the Creation of Cubism
Yale University Press

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event

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Sven Birkerts
My Blue Sky Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time
Viking Press (due Aug 2002)

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge
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Richard Chait
The Questions of Tenure

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Elizabeth Neuffer
The Key to My Neighbor's House: Searching for Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda

Cosponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government

Littauer Building, L280
79 JFK Street, Cambridge

James Charles Roy
The Back of Beyond: A Search for the Soul of Ireland

Rabb Hall, Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street, Boston

James D. Watson
Genes, Girls and Gamow: After the Double Helix

Cosponsored by the Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Sanders Theater
45 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Jill Lepore
A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Sara Hall
Drawn to the Rhythm: A Passionate Life Reclaimed

Harvard Information Center at the Holyoke Center
1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Samantha Power
A Problem from Hell: America's Failure to Prevent Genocide

Cosponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government

Weiner Auditorium, Taubman Center at the Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK St, Cambridge

Richard Kearney
On Stories: Thinking in Action

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Lani Guinier
The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy

co-hosted by Harvard Law School journal Civil Rights, Civil Liberties
Harvard Law School, Austin Hall East
1515 Mass Ave

Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. Terming their concept "political race," Guinier and Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy.

David Huddle
La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl

Harvard Info Center
The Holyoke Center, 1350 Mass Ave, Cambridge

David Huddle tells a provocative story involving the life of the mysterious painter Georges de La Tour and the echoes of his work across time.

Mark Kurlansky
Salt: A World History

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge

Homer called salt a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Today we take it for granted; however, as Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates in this world-encompassing book, salt--the only rock we eat -- has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind.

Elio Frattaroli, M.D.
Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious World

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge

Frattaroli writes with spirit, combining a Renaissance sensibility with an unshakable humanism that shows why tapping into the soul is the highest quest on which we can embark. His references hark back to Shakespeare, to Freud, to Descartes and Bohr; in drawing upon physics, philosophy, literature, and psychology, and by using riveting case histories from his own life and practice, Frattaroli illuminates some of the most complex intellectual discoveries of our time.

Allen Counter
Neuroscientist at Harvard University and founder of the Harvard Foundation
North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

bell hooks
Communion: The Female Search for Love

Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall
700 Boylston Street, Boston

Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman needs to have. And this conversation guides us - mothers, daughters, friends, and lovers - on one of our most life-affirming journeys. This should be a inspirational event and I hope to see lots of you there.

David Edmonds
Wittgenstein's Poker

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge

This engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography and literary detection has been winning rave reviews with its depiction of Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein, these influential, larger-than-life men and the world in which they lived.

Randall Kennedy
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall
700 Boylston Street, Boston

In this tour de force, distinguished Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy-author of the highly acclaimed Race, Crime, and the Law - "put[s] a tracer on nigger," to identify how it has been used and by whom, while analyzing the controversies to which it has given rise.

Barbara Lewalski
Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature at Harvard University
The Life of John Milton

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Donald Sassoon
Becoming Mona Lisa: The Making of a Global Icon

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge

This richly historic and lavishly illustrated book tells how a single painting became the greatest masterpiece in the history of art and an icon of popular culture.

Allen Counter
North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo

Boston Public Library, Mezzanine Conference Room
700 Boylston Street, Boston

Upon hearing rumors that the men who discovered the North Pole had fathered sons while on their expedition, Allen Counter arranged to visit the remote villages where Robert Peary, the credited discoverer, and Matthew Henson, the black man whose contributions to the expedition are widely ignored, stayed during their travels.

E. O. Wilson
The Future of Life

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge

From one of the world's most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author) comes his most timely and important book yet: an impassioned call for quick and decisive action to save Earth's biological heritage, and a plan to achieve that rescue.

Raja Shehadeh
Strangers in the House: The Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine

Cosponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights
Pound 106
1536 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

This "is not a political book," Anthony Lewis writes in his foreword. "Yet in a hundred different ways it is political.... Shehadeh shatters the stereotype many Americans have of Palestinians. Hath not a Palestinian senses, affections, passions?" This revealing memoir of a father-son relationship, the first of its kind by a Palestinian living in the occupied territories, is set against the backdrop of Middle East hostilities and more than thirty years of life under military occupation.

Strobe Talbott, et al.
The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11

Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall

Edited by former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda, The Age of Terror brings together members of the Yale University's Center for the Study of Globalization to examines the considerations and objectives of policy decisions in post-September 11 America.

Alex Beam
Gracefully Insane: the Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall

Gracefully Insane, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today.