Tag: ” Books

  • Nation & World

    Everyone calls it a classic. But who’s everyone, and why am I so bored?

    Scholarly wisdom for readers beating their heads against a great work of literature: Stop doing that

    6 minutes
    Collage of classic book covers.
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    ‘What kind of husband could stand by idly for four years while his wife’s breast cancer grew?’

    Barrett Rollins, wife Jane Weeks were Dana-Farber stars who kept her cancer secret nearly to end

    10 minutes
    Barrett Rollins.
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    Books of their youth

    The Gazette asked a group of Harvard professors to talk about a book from their student days that has since gained in resonance or meaning.

    7 minutes
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    Books that pop

    The possibilities of pop-ups far exceed peekaboo with paper. Take a look through the gallery to see where examples pop up across Harvard’s libraries.

    2 minutes
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    Time to turn the page

    A look at notable work by Harvard authors in 2015 wouldn’t be complete without their own best reads of the year.

    3 minutes
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    Body of work

    An émigré physician at Harvard Medical School has written a book about the multitude of anatomy-based English expressions.

    2 minutes
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    Compelled to create art

    Unfulfilled as a lawyer, Robin Kelsey took a leap and began a career in photography and teaching. Today he leads Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture.

    6 minutes
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    Robert Darnton closes the book

    A historian, digital library pioneer, and champion of books, Robert Darnton will depart Harvard early this summer, giving up his post as University Librarian to resume a life of full-time scholarship.

    10 minutes
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    Saving the elephants

    Author chronicles how a system in which Myanmar’s elephants were made half-captive likely has ensured their survival.

    4 minutes
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    In 1944, Broadway subversion

    In 1944, the young and gifted creators of ‘On the Town’ quietly stirred diversity into their groundbreaking musical, Professor Carol Oja recounts in her new book.

    4 minutes
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    Where books (and more) go to wait

    The massive, complex Harvard Depository provides almost instant access to vast stores of knowledge.

    6 minutes
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    Revolutionary thinker

    In his new book, “The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding,” Professor of Government Eric Nelson focuses on abuses of the British Parliament, rather than the actions of the crown, as the central force behind the Revolution.

    4 minutes
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    Watching the watchers

    Harvard fellow Adam Tanner talks about his new book, “What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data — Lifeblood of Big Business — and the End of Privacy as We Know It.”

    5 minutes
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    Seeing what leaders miss

    Max Bazerman, a leadership and applied behavioral psychology expert at HKS and HBS, writes that successful leaders must seek out what they don’t know to overcome the human tendency to turn a blind eye to unethical behavior.

    4 minutes
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    Beneath the ‘Surface’

    Keynote speaker Professor Giuliana Bruno will launch the Harvard Film and Visual Studies Department’s inaugural graduate conference, April 10-12 at the Carpenter Center, with a discussion of her new book, “Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media.”

    4 minutes
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    Between the lines

    Three Harvard faculty members divulge an influential book in this installment of Harvard Bound.

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    A monument to saved art

    “The Monuments Men,” a based-on-a-true-story World War II action film that opens in theaters Friday, depicts an international team of middle-aged art experts in uniform who are racing to liberate priceless art from the Nazis. Many of the real-life team members were Harvard-trained.

    5 minutes
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    Explaining the Higgs

    A Q&A with science Professor Lisa Randall, author of a new book explaining the significance of the Higgs boson, and why its discovery matters.

    6 minutes
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    Close reading

    Faculty members share highlights from the reading life.

    10 minutes
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    Hard-pressed

    In a new polemic, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Thomas Patterson calls for sweeping changes to the education of journalists and the practice of journalism.

    7 minutes
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    ‘Deep pragmatism’ as a moral engine

    Professor Joshua Greene talks about his new book, “Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them.” What makes an issue like abortion or Israeli-Palestinian relations seem insurmountable, he said, can be chalked up, in part, to brain wiring.

    7 minutes
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    When depression and anxiety loom

    Two new books from Harvard Health Publications are aimed at people who have more than normal levels of anxiety and depression but fall short of clinical definitions.

    5 minutes
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    Narrative of the body, with a nasty twist

    Many modern chronic diseases result from mismatches between how our bodies evolved to be used and how we use them today, Harvard evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman writes in a new book.

    6 minutes
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    Staffer wins Hollywood Book Festival grand prize

    Jonathan Womack, a media technician at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, took home the grand prize at the Hollywood Book Festival for his sci-fi novel “A Cry for a Hero.”

    1 minute
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    Lepore to deliver Radcliffe lecture Sept. 10

    Award-winning author and Harvard Professor Jill Lepore will talk about her latest title, “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,” on Sept. 10 at the Radcliffe Institute.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Truth in fiction

    HBS Professor Joseph Badaracco trains students for the complexities of the business world by examining great works of literature.

    4 minutes
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    James Wood’s lighter side

    James Wood, Harvard professor and New Yorker critic, talked to the Gazette about his new book, “The Fun Stuff,” losing himself in music, and a looser approach to fiction.

    8 minutes
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    Staffer publishes second novel

    Harvard Kennedy School staffer Matthew Salesses has published “I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying,” a novel in flash fiction.

    1 minute
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    Back to Birmingham

    Historian Diane McWhorter, a Harvard fellow, finds a surprising nexus between the racial segregation of Birmingham, Ala., in the early 1960s and some of the attitudes of the Third Reich.

    3 minutes
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    Best practices writ large

    HBS Professor Clayton Christensen has built a storied career by, as he puts it, telling business leaders not what to think, but how to think about running their companies. In the two years since suffering a stroke, he’s tackled two other equally ambitious tasks: relearning how to speak, and teaching the rest of us how…

    8 minutes