Making Harvard Modern
Morton and Phyllis Keller
Oxford Univ. Press
$35.00 / $28.00
A candid portrait of the university through seven decades of change. Morton Keller is Spector Professor of History at Brandeis; Phyllis Keller was Associate Dean for Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Mapping Boston
edited by Alex Krieger, David Cobb, Amy Turner and Norman B. Leventhal
MIT Press, pb
$34.95 / $27.96
Even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of such creative attentiveness- bringing the history of the city alive through the maps that have depicted it throughout the centuries.
The Big Dig at Night
Dan McNichol
Sterling
$24.95 / $19.96
The work goes on, night and day, day after day, above ground and below. Through a gallery of nighttime photos with commentary by an expert observer, see how state-of-the-art construction techniques are transforming Boston.
"Douglas Shand-Tucci's eye is always on the alert...the successive human and social contexts in which the university's various educational purposes have been translated into equally various architectural and spatial forms. The result is a book that is in many respects a vivid, animated, selective biography of Harvard."-Neil Rudenstine