Saturday, October 10, 2009

This Week's Acquisitions

A few new things this week:

- Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature by Keith Stewart Thomson (Yale University Press, 2007). Harvard Bookstore.

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Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish by Richard Flanagan (Grove Press, 2002). Harvard Bookstore.

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Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours by Noga Arikha (Ecco, 2007). Harvard Bookstore.

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Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea by Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams (Harvard University Press, 2008). Amazon.

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Jacobin and Junto; Or, Early American Politics as Viewed in the Diary of Dr. Nathaniel Ames, 1758-1822 by Charles Warren (NY: Blom, 1968). Harvest Book Co. (via Amazon).

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The Baylors of Newmarket: The Decline and Fall of a Virginia Planter Family by Thomas Katheder (iUniverse, 2009). Amazon.

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The Curse of the Labrador Duck: My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction by Glen Chilton (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Harvard Bookstore.