Tag: ” Books

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    The line that defines

    A new book by Rachel St. John unearths the colorful history of the 2,000-mile U.S. border with Mexico.

    4 minutes
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    The Copan Sculpture Museum: Ancient Maya Artistry in Stucco and Stone

    With illustrations and archaeological context, Barbara Fash, director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at the Peabody Museum, discusses the global significance of a Honduran museum dedicated to the ancient Maya stone carvings in Copan.

    1 minute
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    The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    In this wave-making book, Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt takes into account “On the Nature of Things,” an eerily modern poem by the ancient Roman writer Lucretius, which helped shape the great thinkers of the Renaissance, even if fewer than three copies of the poem were known to exist at the time.

    1 minute
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    Harvard, then and now

    Published to commemorate Harvard’s 375th anniversary, “Explore Harvard,” a collection of contemporary and historical photographs, showcases the myriad intellectual exchanges that make the University a citadel of learning.

    6 minutes
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    Faculty contribute essays to new book

    Three Harvard faculty members have contributed essays to a new book, “Social Knowledge in the Making,” to be published Oct. 14 by the University of Chicago Press.

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    A tale of two sisters

    Radcliffe fellow Tayari Jones’ new novel, steeped in the South, shows the knotty complexity of families’ lives.

    4 minutes
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    Data may not compute

    The Dataverse Network Project, spearheaded by Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, provides archival storage for research projects whose records are on outmoded technology formats.

    6 minutes
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    While you were away

    A roundup of recent books by Harvard faculty members.

    4 minutes
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    Ten professors named Cabot Fellows

    Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows.

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    The one, indispensable book

    A handful of authors featured in Harvard Bound over the past year answer the question: What is an essential book for today’s graduates — and why? Here are their suggestions as the newest Harvard degree-holders head out into the world.

    6 minutes
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    Truth, beauty, goodness

    In his latest book, prolific Professor Howard Gardner insists that the enduring values of truth, beauty, and goodness remain humanity’s bedrock.

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    Tocqueville’s Discovery of America

    Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor on Literature Leo Damrosch retraces the nine-month journey through America by historian Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America,” who cannily predicted the growing social unrest toward slavery in America.

    1 minute
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    The Aging Intellect

    In this important book, Douglas H. Powell, a clinical instructor in psychology, discusses lifestyle habits and attitudes linked to cognitive aging, and provides evidence-based strategies to minimize mental decline.

    1 minute
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    Andrew Johnson

    Professor of Law Annette Gordon-Reed tackles one of the worst presidents in American history, claiming that his own racism was to blame for his shoddy performance during the Reconstruction era.

    1 minute
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    What books mean as objects

    Most literature professors focus on the interpretation of texts, but Professor Leah Price wants to explore other uses to which books can be put, in the evolving interplay between reading and handling.

    5 minutes
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    Understanding Global Trade

    Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade Elhanan Helpman discusses the revolutions in trade theory, showing how scholars shifted their trade flow analyses from sectoral levels to business-firm levels to clarify the growing roles of multinational corporations, offshoring, and outsourcing in the international division of labor.

    1 minute
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    Why and how

    Professor Marjorie Garber’s new book examines “why we read literature, why we study it, and why it doesn’t need to have an application someplace else in order to be definitive in its talking about human life and culture.”

    3 minutes
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    Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought

    Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Christopher Johnson defends the role of Baroque period hyperbole in Spanish and Mexican lyrics, English drama, and French philosophy.

    1 minute
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    High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg

    This biography by Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History and Professor of Business Administration, chronicles the life of Siegmund Warburg, a financial wiz, prophet of globalization, and strategic businessman.

    1 minute
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    Fleeing America

    In “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” historian Maya Jasanoff reveals the lesser-known history of loyalists after the Revolution.

    3 minutes
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    The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages

    Jeffrey Quilter, a senior lecturer on anthropology and deputy director for curatorial affairs and curator at Harvard’s Peabody Museum, introduces the Moche civilization and explores current thinking about Moche politics, history, society, and religion.

    1 minute
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    Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership

    Paul Lawrence, a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, offers an integrated explanation of both human behavior and leadership using a scientific approach — and Darwin, too! — to illustrate how good, bad, and misguided leadership are natural to the human condition.

    1 minute
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    The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea

    This selection of essays edited by Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, and Byung-Kook Kim recovers and contextualizes many of the ambiguities in South Korea’s trajectory from poverty to a sustainable high rate of economic growth.

    1 minute
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    Among the missing

    Harvard Extension School instructor Sarah Braunstein’s new novel “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children” plumbs the vulnerability of childhood.

    3 minutes
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    Notes from underground

    Historian and former Quincy House tutor John McMillian’s new book chronicles the massive ’60s “youthquake” and the rise of radical underground publications.

    3 minutes
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    Obama honors Robert Brustein

    The American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) founding director Robert Brustein was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama at a ceremony in the White House on March 2.

    3 minutes
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    Constructing the International Economy

    Rawi Abdelal, the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, and co-editors parse the ways political and economic forces are interpreted globally by agents, and seek to understand just how the economy is constructed.

    1 minute
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    Imagination and Logos: Essays on C.P. Cavafy

    Panagiotis Roilos, professor of Modern Greek studies and of comparative literature, edits this volume of essays by international scholars exploring the work of C.P. Cavafy, one of the most important 20th century European poets.

    1 minute
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    Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down

    Understanding attack strategies and how to prepare for them will help get your idea off the ground, according to this book by John P. Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership Emeritus, and co-author Lorne Whitehead.

    1 minute
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    Eccles wins book award

    Robert G. Eccles, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, has been named a winner of a 2010 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence for the book “One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy.”

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