An utterly absorbing narrative of people, politics, and ideas, Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club is "something very like a history of the American mind at work" (Alan Ryan, The New York Review of Books).
The story of a rich Harvard jock and a wisecracking Radcliffe music major who have nothing in common but love . . . and everything to share but time. Over 21 million copies of Love Story have been sold in 33 languages.
He was like a librarian who could lay his hand on the book he wanted without having to look for it in the catalogue, -and this upon a scale which seems almost incredible.
" For the Harvard addict this volume is indispensable. For the general reader it is the sort of book that goes with a good living-room fire or the blissful moments of early to bed.
The Irish-Catholic Flanagans of Chicago think themselves religious, until the arrival of Odessa, a Russian Orthodox woman brought home by son Jack for Christmas. They discover a real believer.
Here is an incisive and fully illustrated history of Harvard's architecture--from the purchase of William Peyntree's house in 1638 to the construction of the Sackler Museum, opening in 1985.
Chairing a subcommittee aimed at banning new cloning technology, Senator Ashley Butler clashes with scientist Daniel Lowell, until Butler develops Parkinson's disease and joins with Lowell to prematurely harness the new technology.
The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.