Harvard Book Store's acclaimed Friday Forum Series invites prominent scholars into the store for a spirited discussion of their new books. Forums take place on Fridays at 3pm in the bookstore during the academic year.

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Upcoming Event: September 20 Stanley Rosen Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy and University Professor at Boston University The Elusiveness of The Ordinary: Studies in the Possibility of Philosophy Yale University Press (due Aug 2002) click here for more information about Dr. Rosen and his book
We have an exciting fall lineup: click here to see the schedule. Todd D. Rakoff, A Time for Every Purpose, Sept 27 Janice Irvine, Talk About Sex, Oct 4 Elizabeth Spelman, Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World, Oct 11 Helen Horowitz, Rereading Sex, Oct 18 Maria Tatar, The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, Oct 25

Our Spring 2002 Friday Forums brought eloquent speakers with provocative ideas into Harvard Book Store. The talk's over, but the books are still here.

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Giving Karl Popper His Propers: Scholars reflect on the controversial philosopher 100 years after his birth -- by David Cohen

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Other Recent Stories

July 19: Ignore Fast-Track Assessments of Scholarly Books at Your Peril: Mark Bauerlein reviews the mainstream publications on how they review scholarly work.

July 5: In Writing and Publishing, Think Inside the Box: William Germano looks at how publishers and booksellers must constantly rework categories and disciplines to help scholars and audiences find each other.

June 28: two stories on the future of academic publishing:

University Presses Aren't Endangered... by Niko Pfund
...but Presses Must Stress Ideas, Not Markets by Malcolm Litchfield

For a list of all past Chronicle articles, click here.

Benjamin Franklin
by Edmund Morgan

Written by one of our greatest historians, Benjamin Franklin offers a provocative portrait of America's most extraordinary patriot. more...

Yale University Press, hardcover / Aug 2002 / 24.95 /

The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove
by William Moran

This is the story of one group of pioneers in the American labor movement -- the thousands of women who left New England farm towns to work in the textiles cities that sprang up in the region in the early nineteenth century. more...

St. Martin's Press, hardcover / Aug 2002 / 25.95 /

And many more new scholarly titles here...