Sunday, November 16, 2008

This Week's Acquisitions

A few things from a Harvard Square trip last Sunday, plus some copies which arrived this week:

- Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society by Richard Wendorf (Harvard University Press, 1998). Raven.

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Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System by Michelle Burnham (Dartmouth College Press, 2007). Raven.

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The Odyssey by Homer (Everyman's Library, 1992). Raven.

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Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story by John Bossy (Yale University Press, 2001). Raven.

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The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles 1727-1795 by Edmund S. Morgan (W.W. Norton, 1983). Raven.

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Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian (W.W. Norton, 1990). Harvard Bookstore.

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Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain and How It Changed the World by Carl Zimmer (Heineman, 2004). Harvard Bookstore.

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Declaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America's Founding Document; edited by Christian Y. Dupont and Peter S. Onuf (University of Virginia Press, 2008). UVa Press.

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Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political And Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior; edited by Daniel R. Coquillette and Neil Longley York (Colonial Society of MA, 2005). Book cart.

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Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First Spy by M. William Phelps (St. Martin's Press, 2008). St. Martin's Press.

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Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement by Alan Houston (Yale University Press, 2008). Yale University Press.

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Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York by Thomas M. Truxes (Yale University Press, 2008). Yale University Press.