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1 Lby Scott TurowISBN 0399119329 (0-399-11932-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Angels & Demonsby Dan BrownISBN 1416524797 (1-4165-2479-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels & Demons'Book summary:It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville's The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (but more accessible).
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society's ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra's daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.
Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It's tasty. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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The Bluebook: A Sixty-Five Year Retrospectiveby Robert C. BerringISBN 1575883767 (1-57588-376-7)
Hardcover, W.S. Hein
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Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law Schoolby Richard D. Kahlenberg, Robert ColesISBN 1558492348 (1-55849-234-8)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School'Book summary:The Harvard Law School class of '89 came there determined to change the world, but, upon graduating, scrambled to enter the ranks of the nation's top corporate law firms--those least interested in changing anything. In a no-holds-barred depiction of how law schools can turn idealism into greed, Kahlenberg tells where things went wrong--and how it nearly happened to him. [via]
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- Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School: ISBN 0571198074 (0-571-19807-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School: ISBN 0809031655 (0-8090-3165-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School: ISBN 1558492348 (1-55849-234-8)
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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princetonby Jerome KarabelISBN 061877355X (0-618-77355-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission And Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, And Princeton'Book summary:A landmark, revelatory history of admissions from 1900 to todayand how it shaped a nation[via]
The competition for a spot in the Ivy Leaguewidely considered the ticket to successis fierce and getting fiercer. But the admissions policies of elite universities have long been both tightly controlled and shrouded in secrecy. In The Chosen, the Berkeley sociologist Jerome Karabel lifts the veil on a century of admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. How did the policies of our elite schools evolve? Whom have they let in and why? And what do those policies say about America?
A grand narrative brimming with insights, The Chosen provides a lens through which to examine some of the main events and movements of America in the twentieth centuryfrom immigration restriction and the Great Depression to the dropping of the atomic bomb and the launching of Sputnik, from the Cold War to the triumph of the market ethos.
Many of Karabels findings are astonishing: the admission of blacks into the Ivy League wasnt an idealistic response to the civil rights movement but a fearful reaction to inner-city riots; Yale and Princeton decided to accept women only after realizing that they were losing men to colleges (such as Harvard and Stanford) that had begun accepting the second sex ; Harvard had a systematic quota on intellectuals until quite recently; and discrimination against Asian Americans in the 1980s mirrored the treatment of Jews earlier in the century.
Drawing on decades of meticulous research, Karabel shines a light on the ever-changing definition of merit in college admissions, showing how it shapedand was shaped bythe country at large. Full of colorful characters, from FDR and Woodrow Wilson to Kingman Brewster and Archibald Cox, The Chosen charts the century-long battle over opportunityand offers a new and deeply original perspective on American history.
Jerome Karabel is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow of the Longview Institute. An award-winning author, he has written for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the Nation, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.
In vivid and electrifying prose, Karabel exposes the intimate and occasionally scandalous social and political relationships that marked college admissions at the Big Three throughout the twentieth century. The Chosen is a refreshingly candid account of the admissions madness at elite colleges, where merit often functioned simply as a handmaiden to power. -- Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor at Harvard Law School and coauthor of The Miners Canary
Millions of Americans think of the Ivy League as a training ground for the best and brightest. But for most of the twentieth century Harvard, Yale, and Princeton were more interested in sustaining the aristocracy than in shaping the nations intellectual elite. Jerome Karabels marvelous study traces the titanic struggles that defined--and redefined--the Ivy ideal. An utterly absorbing account of politics and privilege on Americas most revered campuses. -- Kevin Boyle, National Book Award-winning author of Arc of Justice
This is a remarkable book. Until you read it, you can have no real idea how crudely these elite universities discriminated in admissions -- against women, Jews, blacks, and others. It is a staggering hidden history. --Anthony Lewis, former New York Times columnist and author of Gideons Trumpet
A magisterial and even-handed account of a vexed and important issue. -- Justin Kaplan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain and Walt Whitman
As someone who was chosen for Princeton a long time ago (but surely couldnt get in now), I was fascinated by Jerome Karabels full and rich account of how my alma mater, and Harvard and Yale, picked us so often for all the wrong reasons. I learned much more about my species from reading The Chosen than everr I did when I was there myself, in flower. -- Frank Deford, NPR commentator and author of The Old Ball Game
"The Chosen is a tour de force of investigative sociology. Burrowing into the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton archives, Karabel has found out where a lot of minds as well as bodies were buried, then exhumed them and dragged them into the light. Anyone who wishes to understand the shifting grounds of the American establishment should read The Chosen, get shocked by the raw bigotries of the past, and accept Karabels challenge to rethink the meritocratic ideal. -- Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology, Columbia University, and author of The Sixties
This dispassionate book deals with the reluctant, often painful, always controversial, processes by which the Big Three -- Harvard, Yale, Princeton -- have democratized themselves. The Chosen is a fascinating study in American cultural history." -- Arthur Schlesingerr, Jr., historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author ooooof A Thousand DaysMore editions of The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton:
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The Classby Erich SegalISBN 0553270907 (0-553-27090-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Class'Book summary:From world-renowed author Erich Segal comes a powerful and moving saga of five extraordinary members of the Harvard class of 1958 and the women with whom their lives are intertwined. Their explosive story begins in a time of innocence and spans a turbulent quarter century, culminating in their dramatic twenty-five reunion at which they confront their classmates--and the balance sheet of their own lives. Always at the center; amid the passion, laughter, and glory, stands Harvard--the symbol of who they are and who they will be. They were a generation who made the rules--then broke them--whose glittering successes, heartfelt tragedies, and unbridled ambitons would stun the world.
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Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969by Roger RosenblattISBN 0316757268 (0-316-75726-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969'Book summary:One spring day in 1969, Roger Rosenblatt was puzzling over Wallace Stevens's "Anecdote of a Jar" with his Harvard students. But discourse about ordering poetic universes seemed to end when that class did: "During the hour I was teaching, about three hundred students and others seized University Hall." Coming Apart is a record of his own nervous responses to cultural cataclysm, along with those of students including James Atlas, Al Gore, Martin Peretz, and James Fallows.
With his trademark mix of quizzicality and reason, Rosenblatt strives to understand "the folklore of the moment," the politics that led to the student takeover and the rift it left behind. He is strong on the individual response though less secure when it comes to the general: "I do not know why, but there was an impulse running under the events of that spring to let things go to hell, and it was acted upon by young and old alike." Sterner commentators have before now critiqued Rosenblatt's supercivilized examinations of the American psyche, and Coming Apart can only provide more ammunition. The wars of his subtitle may seem too tame for some, but Roger Rosenblatt convinces that the wounds (particularly his own) are permanent. [via]
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 1400079179 (1-4000-7917-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Dante Clubby Matthew PearlISBN 034549038X (0-345-49038-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dantes Inferno. Only an elite group of Americas first Dante scholarsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fieldscan solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dantes literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer. [via] -
Dead Certaintiesby Simon SchamaISBN 0679736131 (0-679-73613-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Certainties'Book summary:Like his The Embarrassment of Riches and the bestselling Citizens, Simon Schama's latest book is both history and literature of immense stylishness and ambition. But Dead Certainties goes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past. In order to do so, Schama reconstructs -- and at times reinvents -- two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second, in 1849, that of George Parkman, an eccentric Boston brahmin whose murder by an impecunious Harvard professor in 1849 was a grisly reproach to the moral sanctity of his society. Out of these stories -- with all of their bizarre coincidences and contradictions -- Schama creates a dazzling and supremely vital work of historical imagination. [via]
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Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculationsby Simon SchamaISBN 0679402136 (0-679-40213-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Death in a Tenured Positionby Amanda CrossISBN 0896213218 (0-89621-321-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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The Education of Henry Adamsby Henry AdamsISBN 1406802786 (1-4068-0278-6)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Education of Henry Adams'Book summary:Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James. But young Henry, born in Boston in 1838, was destined for a walk-on role in his nation's history--and seemed alarmingly aware of the fact from the time he was an adolescent.
It gets worse. For the author could neither match his exalted ancestors nor dismiss them as dusty relics--he was an Adams, after all, formed from the same 18th-century clay. "The atmosphere of education in which he lived was colonial," we are told,
revolutionary, almost Cromwellian, as though he were steeped, from his greatest grandmother's birth, in the odor of political crime. Resistance to something was the law of New England nature; the boy looked out on the world with the instinct of resistance; for numberless generations his predecessors had viewed the world chiefly as a thing to be reformed, filled with evil forces to be abolished, and they saw no reason to suppose that they had wholly succeeded in the abolition; the duty was unchanged.
Here, as always, Adams tells his story in a third-person voice that can seem almost extraplanetary in its detachment. Yet there's also an undercurrent of melancholy and amusement--and wonder at the specific details of what was already a lost world.Continuing his uphill conquest of the learning curve, Adams attended Harvard, which didn't do much for him. ("The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.") Then, after a beer-and-sausage-scented spell as a graduate student in Berlin, he followed his father to Washington, D.C., in 1860. There he might have remained--bogged down in "the same rude colony ... camped in the same forest, with the same unfinished Greek temples for workrooms, and sloughs for roads"--had not the Civil War sent Adams père et fils to London. Henry sat on the sidelines throughout the conflict, serving as his father's private secretary and anxiously negotiating the minefields of English society. He then returned home and commenced a long career as a journalist, historian, novelist, and peripheral participant in the political process--a kind of mouthpiece for what remained of the New England conscience.
He was not, by any measure but his own, a failure. And the proof of the pudding is The Education of Henry Adams itself, which remains among the oddest and most enlightening books in American literature. It contains thousands of memorable one-liners about politics, morality, culture, and transatlantic relations: "The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest." There are astonishing glimpses of the high and mighty: "He saw a long, awkward figure; a plain, ploughed face; a mind, absent in part, and in part evidently worried by white kid gloves; features that expressed neither self-satisfaction nor any other familiar Americanism..." (That would be Abraham Lincoln; the "melancholy function" his Inaugural Ball.) But most of all, Adams's book is a brilliant account of how his own sensibility came to be. A literary landmark from the moment it first appeared, the Autobiography confers upon its author precisely that prize he felt had always eluded him: success. --James Marcus [via]
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El Club Dante/The Dante Clubby Matthew PearlISBN 8432296325 (84-322-9632-5)
Softcover, Seix Barral
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Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Educationby Harry R. LewisISBN 1586483935 (1-58648-393-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Experience of Insight: A Natural Unfoldingby Joseph GoldsteinISBN 0913300055 (0-913300-05-5)
Hardcover, Unity Press
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Fields of Fireby James H. WebbISBN 1557509638 (1-55750-963-8)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fields of Fire'Book summary:Hailed as the most important novel to emerge from the Vietnam War, Fields of Fire launched a spectacular writing career for James Webb in 1978. A much-decorated former marine who fought and was wounded in Vietnam, Webb tells the story of a platoon of tough, young marines enduring the tropical hell of Southeast Asian jungles while facing an invisible enemy--in a war no one understands. It is a powerful work that brilliantly expresses the basic ambiguity of war: the repulsion of war's destruction contrasted with the grisly attraction of war as the ultimate test of survival. [via]
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The Glass Flowers at Harvardby William A. Davis, Richard Evans SchultesISBN 0963440500 (0-9634405-0-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Glassflowers
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Halfway Heaven : Diary of a Harvard Murderby Melanie ThernstromISBN 0452280079 (0-452-28007-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Handbook of Emotionsby Michael Lewis, Jeannette M. Haviland-JonesISBN 1593850298 (1-59385-029-8)
Softcover, Guilford Pubn
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Harvard: A Living Portraitby Steve Dunwell, David Thompson Watson McCordISBN 0964301512 (0-9643015-1-2)
Hardcover, Back Bay Pr
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Harvard: An Architectural Historyby Bainbridge Bunting, Margaret Henderson FloydISBN 0674372913 (0-674-37291-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Harvard Business Review on Brand Managementby David A. Aaker, David Kenny, Erich Joachimsthaler, John Quelch, Vijay Vishwanath, Mark JonathanISBN 1578511445 (1-57851-144-5)
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The Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nationby Richard Norton SmithISBN 0674372956 (0-674-37295-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nation'Book summary:This text tells the story of how Harvard, America's oldest and foremost institution of higher learning has become synonomous with the nation, their goals and standards reflecting each other, each setting the other's agenda. It is a narrative of the individual achievements of its leaders and of the intense power struggles that have shaped Harvard as it pioneered in setting the priorities that have served as exemplars for the nation's educational establishment. [via]
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Harvard Med: The Story Behind America's Premier Medical School and the Making of America's Doctorsby John Langone, John LagoneISBN 1558506101 (1-55850-610-1)
Softcover, Adams Media Corp
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Harvard University: An Architectural Tourby Douglass Shand-Tucci, Richard Cheek, Neil L. RudenstineISBN 1568982801 (1-56898-280-1)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Harvard Works Because We Doby Greg Halpern, Studs TerkelISBN 0971454892 (0-9714548-9-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Harvard Yardby William MartinISBN 0446614505 (0-446-61450-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexualsby William WrightISBN 0312322720 (0-312-32272-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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How Harvard Rulesby Jack Trumpbour, John TrumpbourISBN 0896082830 (0-89608-283-0)
Softcover, South End Pr
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How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, And Got a Life: A Novelby Kaavya ViswanathanISBN 0316059889 (0-316-05988-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Insight Meditation: A Step-By-Step Course on How to Meditateby Joseph Goldstein, Sharon SalzbergISBN 1564559068 (1-56455-906-8)
Softcover, Sounds True
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Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedomby Joseph GoldsteinISBN 1590300165 (1-59030-016-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Lawby Marshall L. Derosa, R. PoundISBN 1560009403 (1-56000-940-3)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Lawby R. PoundISBN 1584773278 (1-58477-327-8)
Hardcover, Lawbook Exchange Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law'Book summary:Pound, Roscoe. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1922. 307 pp. Reprint available 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002044351. ISBN 1-58477-327-8. Cloth. $70. Pound's Introduction outlines the philosophical foundations that support Anglo-American common law. A written version of the Storrs Lectures delivered at Yale University during the academic year 1921-1922. "Dean Pound has given us a clear, concise introduction to the philosophy of the law. It is so concise that it is impossible to summarize it so as to give any idea of its wealth of learning....An excellent, impartial and concise presentation of the subject..." William Herbert Page, Harvard Law Review 36:115-117 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 922. [via]
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James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Ageby James G. HershbergISBN 0804726191 (0-8047-2619-1)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's Universityby Morton Keller, Phyllis KellerISBN 0195144570 (0-19-514457-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Manhood at Harvard: William James and Othersby Kim TownsendISBN 0674548043 (0-674-54804-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Metaphysical Clubby Louis MenandISBN 0374528497 (0-374-52849-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America'Book summary:If past is prologue, then The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand may suggest an intellectual course for the United States in the 21st century. At least Menand, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, thinks so. This enthralling study of Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey shows how these four men developed a philosophy of pragmatism following the Civil War, a period Menand likens to post-cold-war times. Together, "they were more responsible than any other group for moving American thought into the modern world."
Despite this potentially forbidding theme, The Metaphysical Club is not a dry tome for academics. Instead, it is a quadruple biography, a wonderfully told story of ideas that advances by turning these thinkers into characters and bringing them to life. Menand links them through the Metaphysical Club, a conversational club formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872. It lasted but a few months, and references to it appear only in Peirce's writings (its real significance seems rather limited), though Holmes and James were both members. (Dewey was much younger than these three, and more an heir than a contemporary.) It is difficult to describe in a sentence or two what they accomplished, though Menand takes a stab at it: "They helped put an end to the idea that the universe is an idea, that beyond the mundane business of making our way as best we can in a world shot through with contingency, there exists some order, invisible to us, whose logic we transgress at our peril." Academic freedom and cultural pluralism are just two of their legacies, and they are linchpins of democracy in a nonideological age, says Menand.
A book like this is necessarily idiosyncratic, yet at the same time this one is sweeping. It presents an accessible survey of intellectual life from roughly the end of the Civil War to the start of the cold war. Dozens of figures receive fascinating thumbnail sketches, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Darwin to Jane Addams and Eugene Debs. The result is a grand portrait of an age that will appeal to anyone with even a modest interest in the history of philosophy and ideas. --John Miller [via]
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Naturalistby Edward O. WilsonISBN 1597260886 (1-59726-088-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naturalist'Book summary:E. O. Wilson, among the most prominent biologists working today, has made signal contributions to the field both large and small. As an entomologist, and especially as a student of several kinds of ants, he is famed among a small audience. He is better known for his work in the controversial subdiscipline of sociobiology for his formulations of island-biogeographic theory, and for his catastrophic view of modern extinctions. His lucid memoir, Naturalist, treats all these matters and more, and it celebrates the sea change in our view of nature--namely, that we now see that "we are bound to the rest of life in our ecology, our physiology, and even our spirit"--that has come about in no small measure because of Wilson's distinguished career. [via]
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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deathby Corinne May BotzISBN 1580931456 (1-58093-145-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death'Book summary:Bizarre and utterly fascinating, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death is a dark and disturbing photographic journey through criminal cases and the mind of Frances Glessner Lee--grandmother, dollhouse-maker, and master criminal investigator. Photographer Corinne May Botz stumbled across the "Nutshell Studies" while making a video about women who collect dollhouses. On the suggestion of a collector, she visited the Baltmore Medical Examiner's Office, where Lee's miniature reconstructions of crime scenes were on display. The macabre dioramas fascinated and repulsed her: "I was entranced by the details: the porcelain doll with a broken arm in the attic, the grains of sugar on the kitchen floor...I was also riveted by the miniature corpses. Shot in bed, collapsed in the bathtub, hung in the attic and stabbed in the closet; all were eternally frozen in miniature rooms that had become their tombs."
A remarkable woman, Frances Glessner Lee established the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936. At the time, innumerable murders went undetected because evidence was mishandled, or ignored. To train investigators of sudden and violent deaths to better assess visual evidence, Lee created the Nutshell Studies--dollhouses that students could study from every angle, with minute crime scenes details taken from actual cases. Lee created 18 dioramas, using only the most mysterious cases (cases that could have been ruled as accidents, murders, or suicides) to train detectives and challenge their ability to read evidence.
Botz reveals as much about the nature of obsession as she does about Frances Glessener Lee--each model is painstakingly photographed from multiple vantage points, allowing the reader to witness the astounding level of realism and precision in each case, as well as giving the reader unobstructed access to each eerie setting. All 18 studies include a brief synopsis of each case, as well as a key to each grisly floor plan. Perfect for amateur sleuths, aspiring medical examiners, and fans of CSI, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death is grim and oh so bewitching. --Daphne Durham
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One Lby Scott TurowISBN 0446673781 (0-446-67378-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One L'Book summary:One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school introduces and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education; it brings alive the anxiety and competiveness--with others and, even more, with oneself--that set the tone in this crucible of character building. Turow's multidimensional delving into his protagonists' psyches and his marvelous gift for suspense prefigure the achievements of his celebrated first novel, Presumed Innocent, one of the best-selling and most talked about books of 1987.[via]
Each September, a new crop of students enter Harvard Law School to begin an intense, often grueling, sometimes harrowing year of introduction to the law. Turow's group of One Ls are fresh, bright, ambitious, and more than a little daunting. Even more impressive are the faculty: Perini, the dazzling, combative professor of contracts, who presents himself as the students' antagonist in their struggle to master his subject; Zechman, the reserved professor of torts who seems so indecisive the students fear he cannot teach; and Nicky Morris, a young, appealing man who stressed the humanistic aspects of law.
Will the One Ls survive? Will they excel? Will they make the Law Review, the outward and visible sign of success in this ultra-conservative microcosm? With remarkable insight into both his fellows and himself, Turow leads us through the ups and downs, the small triumphs and tragedies of the year, in an absorbing and throught-provoking narrative that teaches the reader not only about law school and the law but about the human beings who make them what they are.
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One L : The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law Schoolby Scott TurowISBN 0446351709 (0-446-35170-9)
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The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970by Stephan ThernstromISBN 1583484434 (1-58348-443-4)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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The Paper Chaseby John J. OsbornISBN 087875539X (0-87875-539-X)
Softcover, Whitston Pub Co Inc
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Persons and Places: Fragments of Autobiographyby George SantayanaISBN 0262691140 (0-262-69114-0)
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Privilege: Harvard And the Education of the Ruling Classby Ross DouthatISBN 1401307558 (1-4013-0755-8)
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Privilege: Harvard And The Education Of The Ruling Classby Ross Gregory DouthatISBN 1401301126 (1-4013-0112-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Privilege: Harvard And The Education Of The Ruling Class'Book summary:In the spirit of Scott Turow's One L and David Brooks's Bobos in Paradise, a penetrating critique of elite universities and the culture of privilege they perpetuate, written by a recent Harvard alumnus.
Part memoir, part social critique, Privilege is an absorbing assessment of one of the world's most celebrated universities: Harvard. In this sharp, insightful account, Douthat evaluates his social and academic education -- most notably, his frustrations with pre-established social hierarchies and the trumping of intellectual rigor by political correctness and personal ambition. The book addresses the spectacles of his time there, such as the embezzlement scandal at the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and Professor Cornel West's defection to Princeton. He also chronicles the more commonplace but equally revealing experiences, including social climbing, sexual relations, and job hunting.
While the book's narrative centers on Harvard, its main arguments have a much broader concern: the state of the American college experience. Privilege is a pointed reflection on students, parents, and even administrators and professors who perceive specific schools merely as stepping-stones to high salaries and elite social networks rather than as institutions entrusted with academic excellence.
A book full of insightful perceptions and illuminating detail, Privilege is sure to spark endless debates inside and outside the ivied walls. [via]
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Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditationby Joseph Goldstein, Jack KornfieldISBN 157062805X (1-57062-805-X)
Softcover, Shambhala Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation'Book summary:In Seeking the Heart of Wisdom Goldstein and Kornfield present the central teachings and practices of insight meditation in a clear and personal language. The path of insight meditation is a journey of understanding our bodies, our minds, and our lives, of seeing clearly the true nature of experience. The authors guide the reader in developing the openness and compassion that are at the heart of this spiritual practice. For those already treading the path, as well as those just starting out, this book will be a welcome companion along the way. Among the topics covered are:
" The hindrances to meditationranging from doubt and fear to painful kneesand skillful means of overcoming them
" How compassion can arise in response to the suffering we see in our own lives and in the world
" How to integrate a life of responsible action and service with a meditative life based on nonattachment
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The Spirit of the Common Lawby Roscoe PoundISBN 156000942X (1-56000-942-X)
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Stumbling on Happinessby Daniel GilbertISBN 1400077427 (1-4000-7742-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stumbling on Happiness'Book summary:Do you know what makes you happy? Daniel Gilbert would bet that you think you do, but you are most likely wrong. In his witty and engaging new book, Harvard professor Gilbert reveals his take on how our minds work, and how the limitations of our imaginations may be getting in the way of our ability to know what happiness is. Sound quirky and interesting? It is! But just to be sure, we asked bestselling author (and master of the quirky and interesting) Malcolm Gladwell to read Stumbling on Happiness, and give us his take. Check out his review below. --Daphne Durham
Guest Reviewer: Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell is the author of bestselling books Blink and The Tipping Point, and is a staff writer for The New Yorker.
Several years ago, on a flight from New York to California, I had the good fortune to sit next to a psychologist named Dan Gilbert. He had a shiny bald head, an irrepressible good humor, and we talked (or, more accurately, he talked) from at least the Hudson to the Rockies--and I was completely charmed. He had the wonderful quality many academics have--which is that he was interested in the kinds of questions that all of us care about but never have the time or opportunity to explore. He had also had a quality that is rare among academics. He had the ability to translate his work for people who were outside his world.Now Gilbert has written a book about his psychological research. It is called Stumbling on Happiness, and reading it reminded me of that plane ride long ago. It is a delight to read. Gilbert is charming and funny and has a rare gift for making very complicated ideas come alive.
Stumbling on Happiness is a book about a very simple but powerful idea. What distinguishes us as human beings from other animals is our ability to predict the future--or rather, our interest in predicting the future. We spend a great deal of our waking life imagining what it would be like to be this way or that way, or to do this or that, or taste or buy or experience some state or feeling or thing. We do that for good reasons: it is what allows us to shape our life. And it is by trying to exert some control over our futures that we attempt to be happy. But by any objective measure, we are really bad at that predictive function. We're terrible at knowing how we will feel a day or a month or year from now, and even worse at knowing what will and will not bring us that cherished happiness. Gilbert sets out to figure what that's so: why we are so terrible at something that would seem to be so extraordinarily important?
In making his case, Gilbert walks us through a series of fascinating--and in some ways troubling--facts about the way our minds work. In particular, Gilbert is interested in delineating the shortcomings of imagination. We're far too accepting of the conclusions of our imaginations. Our imaginations aren't particularly imaginative. Our imaginations are really bad at telling us how we will think when the future finally comes. And our personal experiences aren't nearly as good at correcting these errors as we might think.
I suppose that I really should go on at this point, and talk in more detail about what Gilbert means by that--and how his argument unfolds. But I feel like that might ruin the experience of reading Stumbling on Happiness. This is a psychological detective story about one of the great mysteries of our lives. If you have even the slightest curiosity about the human condition, you ought to read it. Trust me. --Malcolm Gladwell
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Three Centuries of Harvard 1636-1936by Samuel MorisonISBN 067488891X (0-674-88891-X)
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.by Ron ChernowISBN 1400077303 (1-4000-7730-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.'Book summary:John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book will indelibly alter our image of this most enigmatic capitalist.
Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world's richest man by creating America's most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America.
Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation's history. Critics charged that his empire was built on unscrupulous tactics: grand-scale collusion with the railroads, predatory pricing, industrial espionage, and wholesale bribery of political officials. The titan spent more than thirty years dodging investigations until Teddy Roosevelt and his trustbusters embarked on a marathon crusade to bring Standard Oil to bay.
While providing abundant new evidence of Rockefeller's misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably human portrait of a quirky, eccentric original. A devout Baptist and temperance advocate, Rockefeller gave money more generously--his chosen philanthropies included the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, and what is today Rockefeller University--than anyone before him. Titan presents a finely nuanced portrait of a fascinating, complex man, synthesizing his public and private lives and disclosing numerous family scandals, tragedies, and misfortunes that have never before come to light.
John D. Rockefeller's story captures a pivotal moment in American history, documenting the dramatic post-Civil War shift from small business to the rise of giant corporations that irrevocably transformed the nation. With cameos by Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Jay Gould, William Vanderbilt, Ida Tarbell, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Jung, J. Pierpont Morgan, William James, Henry Clay Frick, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers, Titan turns Rockefeller's life into a vivid tapestry of American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is Ron Chernow's signal triumph that he narrates this monumental saga with all the sweep, drama, and insight that this giant subject deserves.
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Two Years Before the Mastby Richard Henry DanaISBN 1404335072 (1-4043-3507-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast'Book summary:Avast there all you Patrick O'Brian fans! Here is a personal narrative of the seaman's life in the age of sail: 1815-1882, and a classic of nautical literature. Dana was a Harvard student recovering from the measles when he decided it would be more interesting to do so at sea as a common sailor. In 1834 he joined a two-year voyage rounding Cape Horn to deliver cargo to California. All the color and detail of daily life at sea as well as descriptions of various ports. Rousing! [via]
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Seaby Richard H. Dana, Anne SpencerISBN 1593082703 (1-59308-270-3)
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailing Lifeby R. H. DanaISBN 1406799556 (1-4067-9955-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailing Life'Book summary:A detailed, almost daily, record giving an accurate and authentic narrative of over two years in the life of a common sailor before the mast in the American merchant service of the early 1800s. The book is written in journal fashion in the words of an ordinary sailor on the brig "Pilgrim" on her voyage from Boston, round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVotoby Wallace Earle StegnerISBN 0879052996 (0-87905-299-6)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith
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Vegan Cupcakes Take over the World: 75 Dairy-free Recipes for Cupcakes That Ruleby Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero, Rebecca BentISBN 1569242739 (1-56924-273-9)
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Absolon, Absolon / Absalom, Absalomby William FaulknerISBN 8420657204 (84-206-5720-4)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Angeles Y Demonios / Angels and Demonsby Dan Brown, Eduardo G. MurilloISBN 8495618710 (84-95618-71-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angeles Y Demonios / Angels and Demons'Book summary:El arma más poderosa creada por el hombre, una organización secreta sedienta de venganza... y apenas unas horas para evitar el desastre.
La eterna pugna entre ciencia y religión se ha convertido en una guerra muy real.
En un laboratorio de máxima seguridad, aparece asesinado un científico con un extraño símbolo grabado a fuego en su pecho. Para el profesor Robert Langdon no hay duda: los Illuminati, los hombres enfrentados a la Iglesia desde los tiempos de Galileo, han regresado. Y esta vez disponen de la más mortífera arma que ha creado la humanidad, un artefacto con el que pueden ganar la batalla final contra su eterno enemigo. Acompañado de una joven científica y un audaz capitán de la Guardia Suiza, Langdon comienza una carrera contra reloj, en una búsqueda desesperada por los rincones más secretos de El Vaticano. Necesitará todo su conocimiento para descifrar las claves ocultas que los Illuminati han dejado a través de los siglos en manuscritos y templos, y todo su coraje para vencer al despiadado asesino que siempre parece llevarle la delantera.
El autor de El Código Da Vinci nos arrastra a una espiral de acción sin pausa, un impactante thriller donde se suceden las sorpresas y se revelan algunos de los más oscuros enigmas de la historia. Fuerzas que han permanecido ocultas durante siglos y que ahora planean destruir la Iglesia... literalmente. [via]More editions of Angeles Y Demonios / Angels and Demons:
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Angeles y Demonios / Angels and Demons: El Ilustrado / Illustratedby Dan Brown, Eduardo G. MurilloISBN 849561877X (84-95618-77-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angeles y Demonios / Angels and Demons: El Ilustrado / Illustrated'Book summary:Del mismo autor del Bestseller numero uno de El New York Times El Código Da Vinci FonoLibro les trae el audiolibro en español de la primer episodio de la trilogía del famoso escritor Dan Brown, Ángeles & Demonios en una magnifica producción que no podrá dejar de escuchar hasta que llegue al final. Robert Lagndom, el renombrado profesor de simbología de la universidad de Harvard es convocado a un laboratorio de alta seguridad en Suiza para analizar un símbolo grabado con fuego en el pecho de un científico asesinado. Langdom descubre lo inimaginable, una venganza sangrienta contra la iglesia por una organización secreta, que existe desde los tiempos de Galileo, Los Illuminati. Robert Langdom, en compañía de una atractiva científica, Victoria Vetra, entran en una carrera contra el tiempo para salvar al Vaticano de la más mortal arma creada por el hombre en manos de esta peligrosa organización. Juntos se embarcan en una casería para descifrar los códigos que los illuminatis han dejado a lo largo de los siglos en pergaminos, templos, catedrales, el vaticano, y el la catacumba más secreta de la tierra, la olvidada guarida de los illuminatis. Dan Brown nos adentra a una trama llena de acción y misterio que revela la verdad de la guerra entre la religión y la ciencia. Fuerzas que han permanecido ocultas durante siglos y que ahora planean destruir la Iglesia... literalmente. El Código Da Vinci esta disponible también audiolibro en versiones completa y resumida en una magnifica producción. [via]
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El Club Dante/ The Dante Clubby Matthew Pearl, VICENTE VILLACAMPAISBN 8432217204 (84-322-1720-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club Dante/ The Dante Club'Book summary:Una magistral obra de suspense mundialmente aclamada. Boston, 1865. Importantes personalidades est´n siendo brutalmente asesinadas por un criminal inspirado en los tormentos del Infierno de Dante. Sólo los miembros del club Dante --poetas y profesores de Harvard dirigidos por Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-- pueden anticiparse al asesino e identificarle. Mientras preparan la primera traducción americana de La divina comedia enfrentándose a la oposición de la puritana vieja guardia de Harvard, los intelectuales deberán convertirse en detectives y pasar a la acción. Nicholas Ray, el primer policía negro del departamento de Boston, dirigirá la investigación oficial mientras los miembros del club llevan a cabo sus insólitas pesquisas. Un dantesco infierno medieval se cierne sobre las calles de la ciudad, en una época que toca a su fin, convulsa por la recién terminada guerra civil, el asesinato del presidente Lincoln y los disturbios raciales. Comparada insistentemente con El nombre de la rosa, de Umberto Eco, aclamada por la crítica con una unanimidad asombrosa y refrendada por el público con su presencia en las listas de los libros más vendidos de New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, entre otros, El club Dante (http://www.seix-barral.es/club-dante) está a punto de ser publicada en veintiún países antes de ser llevada al cine. Matthew Pearl ha logrado un equilibrio perfecto entre realidad y ficción, una novela histórica de suspense que sorprende de principio a fin. [via]
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El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Codeby Dan Brown, Juanjo EstrellaISBN 8495618605 (84-95618-60-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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¿ Qué misterio se oculta tras la sonrisa de Mona Lisa? Durante siglos, la Iglesia ha conseguido mantener oculta la verdad& hasta ahora.
Antes de morir asesinado, Jacques Saunière, el último Gran Maestre de una sociedad secreta que se remonta a la fundación de los Templarios, transmite a su nieta Sofía una misteriosa clave. Saunière y sus predecesores, entre los que se encontraban hombres como Isaac Newton o Leonardo Da Vinci, han conservado durante siglos un conocimiento que puede cambiar completamente la historia de la humanidad. Ahora Sofía, con la ayuda del experto en simbología Robert Langdon, comienza la búsqueda de ese secreto, en una trepidante carrera que les lleva de una clave a otra, descifrando mensajes ocultos en los más famosos cuadros del genial pintor y en las paredes de antiguas catedrales. Un rompecabezas que deberán resolver pronto, ya que no están solos en el juego: una poderosa e influyente organización católica está dispuesta a emplear todos los medios para evitar que el secreto salga a la luz.
Un apasionante juego de claves escondidas, sorprendentes revelaciones, acertijos ingeniosos, verdades, mentiras, realidades históricas, mitos, símbolos, ritos, misterios y suposiciones en una trama llena de giros inesperados narrada con un ritmo imparable que conduce al lector hasta el secreto más celosamente guardado del inicio de nuestra era.
" Intriga y amenaza se mezclan en una de las mejores novelas de suspense que he leído jamás. Un sorprendente relato donde los enigmas se suceden a los secretos y éstos a las adivinanzas."
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" Un inteligente thriller lleno de enigmas y códigos que, sin duda, puede recomendarse con rotundo entusiasmo."
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El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Code: El Illustrado / Illustradedby Dan Brown, Juanjo EstrellaISBN 8495618818 (84-95618-81-8)
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Uno de los libros con mas tiempo en el tope de la lista de los Best Sellers del New York Times!.... El Código Da Vinci, ahora en un audiolibro narrado en español del bestseller internacional de Dan Brown, producido exclusivamente por FONOLIBRO, el cual no podrá dejar de escuchar hasta que llegue al inesperado final.
Mientras se encontraba en un viaje de negocios en Paris, Robert Langdon, experto en simbologia de la universidad de Harvard, recibe una llamada urgente a media noche. Jacques Saunière, el último Gran Maestre de una sociedad secreta que se remonta a la fundación de los Templarios, ha sido asesinado en el museo del Louvre. Saunière antes de morir transmite a su nieta Sofía una misteriosa clave. Saunière y sus predecesores, entre los que se encontraban hombres como Isaac Newton o Leonardo Da Vinci, han conservado durante siglos un conocimiento que puede cambiar completamente la historia de la humanidad. Ahora Sofía, con la ayuda Robert Langdon, comienza la búsqueda de ese secreto, en una trepidante carrera que les lleva de una clave a otra, descifrando mensajes ocultos en los más famosos cuadros del genial pintor y en las paredes de antiguas catedrales. Un rompecabezas que deberán resolver pronto, ya que no están solos en el juego: una poderosa e influyente organización católica está dispuesta a emplear todos los medios para evitar que el secreto salga a la luz.
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