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Author   : Peter Bernstein
Publisher: Wiley pb
Price    : $14.95
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"Nothing like (this) will come out of the financial world this year or ever." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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Author   : Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler
Publisher: Riverhead hc
Price    : $22.95
HBS Price: $18.36
The spiritual leader teams up with a psychiatrist to share how he achieved serenity and how we can find the same inner peace.

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Author   : Alexander Nehamas
Publisher: Univ. of California Press hc
Price    : $29.95
HBS Price:$23.96
A readable study of how the idea of philosophy as an art of living has survived in the works of modern philosophers.


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Author   : Frans de Waal
Publisher: Univ. of California Press pb
Price    : $24.95
HBS Price: $19.96
"If you care about the great apes, this book, with its superb photographs and vivid text, is a must." -- Jane Goodall

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Author   : Galen Cranz
Publisher: Norton hc
Price    : $27.50
HBS Price: $22.00
A fascinating look at a common cultural artifact -- explains the history, physiology, and politics of how and why we sit the way we do.

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Author   : Terence Conran & Dan Pearson
Publisher: Crown pb
Price    : $40.00 
HBS Price: $32.00
Conran's Essential House Book transformed the way we design our homes. This will have the same impact on how we design our gardens.

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Author   : Anne Fadiman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux hc
Price    : $16.00
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A wise and funny essayist reflects on reading, language, and her life among books.

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Author   : Leon Wieseltier
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price    : $27.50
HBS Price: $22.00
The literary editor's spiritual journal of his inner life in the year following his father's death in 1996.

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Author   : Craig Lambert
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin hc
Price    : $22.00
HBS Price:$17.60
Speaking to rowers and non-rowers, the Harvard Magazine editor turns rowing into a metaphor for a vigorous and satisfying life.

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Author   : Michael Porter
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press hc
Price    : $35.95
HBS Price: $28.76
The definitive collection from the world's leading authority on strategy and competition.

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Author   : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux hc
Price    : $35.00
HBS Price:$28.00
This one volume anthology of essays allows the reader to see the immense contribution of one of the leading thinkers of our time.

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Author   : Esther Dyson	   
Publisher: Broadway Books pb
Price    : $14.00
HBS Price: $11.20
Dyson's "design for living in the digital age" upgraded and in paperback.

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Author   : Peter J. Gomes
Publisher: William Morrow hc
Price    : $23.00
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A collection of 40 sermons guides the reader through the year.

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Author   : Harold Bloom
Publisher: Riverhead hc
Price    : $35.00
HBS Price: $28.00
Bloom guides us through each of Shakespeare's plays describing how he invented human personality. Nominated for the 1998 National Book Award.

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Author   : Anne Fadiman
Publisher: Noonday pb
Price    : $13.00
HBS Price: $10.40
Tells the story of a tragic culture clash between a California medical center and a refugee family from Laos.

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Author   : Phillip Lopate
Publisher: Anchor pb
Price    : $12.95
HBS Price:$10.36
Essays and criticism from a lifelong love affair with the movies.

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Title    : 
Author   : Gary Giddins
Publisher: Oxford University Press hc
Price    : $35.00
HBS Price: $28.00
Unforgettable and controversial portraits of the most significant jazz musicians of this century.

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Author   : David Landes
Publisher: W.W. Norton hc
Price    : $30.00
HBS Price: $24.00
A towering work of history examining the world's most pressing problem -- the growing gulf between rich and poor.

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Author   : Patricia T. O'Connor
Publisher: Riverhead pb
Price    : $11.00
HBS Price:$8.80
"The best primer on English usage to come along since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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