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September 10
6pm |
Howard Bryant
Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
Routledge
Boston Public Library, Mezzanine Conference Room
700 Boylston Street, Boston
free and open to public
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September 12
6pm |
Deborah Meier
In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization
Beacon Press
Boston Public Library, Mezzanine Conference Room
700 Boylston Street, Boston
free and open to public
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September 17
6pm |
Gary Hart
Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st Century America
Oxford University Press
Askwith Hall, Longfellow Hall
13 Appian Way, Cambridge
free and open to public
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September 18
6pm |
Paul Auster
Book of Illusions
Henry Holt (Sep 2002)
Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
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September 19
6pm |
Alan Dershowitz
Why Terrorism Works
Yale University Press (Sep 2002)
Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall
700 Boylston Street, Boston
free and open to public
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September 20
3pm
Friday Forum |
Stanley Rosen
The Elusiveness of The Ordinary: Studies in the Possibility of Philosophy
Yale University Press (Aug 2002)
in the store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
free and open to public
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September 23
6pm |
Jeremy Rifkin
The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth
Tarcher, Penguin Putnam
Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
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September 24
6pm |
Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
Picador USA (paperback, Sep 2002)
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How To Be Alone: Essays
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Oct 2002)
Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall
700 Boylston Street, Boston
free and open to public
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September 25 |
Marc Gopin
Holy War Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
Oxford University Press
Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library
300 North Harvard St., Allston
Parking is available
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September 26
8pm |
Timothy Ferris
Seeing In The Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril
Simon and Schuster (Sep 2002)
Phillips Auditorium, Harvard College Observatory
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
free and open to public
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September 27
3pm
Friday Forum |
Todd D. Rakoff
A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life
Harvard University Press
in the store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
free and open to public
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September 30
6pm |
Martin Garbus
Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law
Times Books
Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
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| October |
October 1
6pm |
Sven Birkerts
My Blue Sky Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time
Viking Press (Aug 2002)
Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
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October 2
6pm |
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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October 3
6pm |
Thomas L. Friedman
Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sep 2002)
Boston Public Library (auditorium TBA)
free and open to public
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October 4
3pm
Friday Forum |
Janice Irvine
Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States
University of California Press (Sep 2002)
in the store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
free and open to public
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October 8
6pm |
Mark Edmundson
Teacher
Random House (Aug 2002)
Harvard Info Center in the Holyoke Center
1350 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
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October 8
8pm |
Robert Kirshner
The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos
Princeton Publishing Company (Oct 2002)
Phillips Auditorium at the Harvard University Observatory
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
free and open to public
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October 9
6pm |
Terry Golway
So Others Might Live: A History of New York's Bravest -- the FDNY from 1700 to the Present
Basic Books (Sep 2002)
Boston Public Library (auditorium TBA)
free and open to public
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October 11
3pm
Friday Forum |
Elizabeth Spelman
Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World
Beacon Press (Sep 2002)
in the store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
free and open to public
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October 15
6pm |
Umberto Eco
Baudolino
Harcourt (Oct 2002)
Askwith Hall
free and open to public
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October 16
6pm |
Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sep 2002)
Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
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October 17
6pm |
Daniel Ellsberg
Secrets: Revealing the Pentagon Papers : A Memoir
Viking Books(Oct 2002)
Boston Public Library (auditorium TBA)
free and open to public
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October 18
3pm
Friday Forum |
Helen Horowitz
Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America
Knopf (Sep 2002)
in the store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
free and open to public
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October 21
6pm |
Brenda Maddox
Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA
HarperCollins (Oct 2002)
Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
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October 22
6pm |
Jay P. Dolan
In Search of American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension
Oxford University Press (Sep 2002)
Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
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October 22
8pm |
Peter Ward
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
Copernicus Books
Phillips Auditorium at the Harvard University Observatory
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
free and open to public
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October 23
6pm |
Tim O'Brien
July, July
Houghton Mifflin (Oct 2002)
Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture Hall
free and open to public
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October 24
5pm |
Derrick Bell
Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
Free Press (Oct 2002)
Austin Hall in Austin North, Harvard Law School
1515 Broadway, Cambridge
free and open to public
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October 25
3pm
Friday Forum |
Maria Tatar
The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
W. W. Norton (Oct 2002)
in the store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
free and open to public
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October 28
6pm |
David Rieff
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis
Simon and Schuster (Oct 2002)
Weiner Auditorium at the Kennedy School
Taubman Building
79 JFK Street, Cambridge
free and open to public
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October 29
6pm |
John Lukacs
Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian
Yale University Press (Oct 2002)
Boston Public Library (auditorium TBA)
free and open to public
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October 31
6pm |
David Malouf
Remembering Babylon
Vintage Books USA (Oct 1994)
Thompson Room in the Barker Center, Harvard University
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
free and open to public
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| November |
November 1
3pm
Friday Forum |
Juliet Schor
Sustainable Planet: Roadmap for the Twenty-First Century
Beacon Press (Nov 2002)
in the store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
free and open to public
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November 4 |
Orlando Figes
Natasha's Dance: a Cultural History of Russia
Metropolitan Books (Oct 2002)
Weiner Auditorium, Taubman Building, Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street, Cambridge
free and open to public
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November 5 |
Jon Beckwith
Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science
Harvard University Press (Oct 2002)
Harvard Information Center in the Holyoke Center
1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
free and open to public
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November 6 |
Mark and Kurt Vonnegut
The Eden Express: A Classic Account of Schizophrenia (revised edition)
Seven Stories Press (Nov 2002)
Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
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November 7 |
Donna Tartt
The Little Friend
Knopf (Nov 2002)
Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
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November 8
3pm
Friday Forum |
Jason Kaufman
For the Common Good? American Civil Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity
Oxford University Press (Nov 2002)
in the store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
free and open to public
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November 11
6pm |
Michael Ondaatje
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
Knopf
in the store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
free and open to public
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November 12 |
Lucy Jago
The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Boralis
Vintage Books
Phillips Auditorium at the Harvard University Observatory
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
free and open to public
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November 15
3pm
Friday Forum |
Linda Gordon
The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America and Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence -- Boston, 1880-1960
University of Illinois (Nov 2002)
in the store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
free and open to public
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November 18
6pm |
Amir Aczel
Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics
Four Walls Eight Windows (Oct 2002)
Harvard Info Center in the Holyoke Center
1350 Mass. Ave, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
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November 19
6pm |
Michael Beschloss
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany
Simon and Schuster (Nov 2002)
Boston Public Library (auditorium TBA)
free and open to public
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November 21
6pm |
Thom Hartmann
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Dignity
Rodale (Oct 2002)
Harvard Info Center in the Holyoke Center
1350 Mass. Ave, Cambridge
tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
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November 22
3pm
Friday Forum |
Gregory Nagy
Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenic Festival in Classical Athens
Harvard University Press (Oct 2002)
in the store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
free and open to public
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| December |
December 6
3pm
Friday Forum |
Christopher Ricks
Allusion to the Poets
Oxford University Press (Sep 2002)
in the store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
free and open to public
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December 9
(tentative) |
Al and Tipper Gore
Joined at the Heart: the Transformation of the American Family
Henry Holt and Co. (Oct 2002)
and
The Spirit of the Family
Henry Holt and Co. (Oct 2002)
venue TBA
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December 13
3pm
Friday Forum |
Marjorie Garber
Quotation Marks
Routledge (Aug 2002)
venue TBA
free and open to public
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