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Combating this slow extinction of independent bookstores at the hands of chain stores and online book retailers is a serious concern. Chain stores like Barnes & Noble, which runs the Harvard Coop, provide a wide selection of popular titles. However, they rarely offer shelf space for academic titles, lesser known books from smaller publishers or works by unknown authors. Independent bookstores fill this gap and provide a range of titles outside the popular and publicized sphere of the chain store...
...home office is walled with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves sporting titles like Acupuncture in Practice, Life Against Death, Healing Powers and Revolution in Science. A green, beaten-up copy of the Kaptchuk-penned The Web That Has No Weaver peeks out from behind a small Chinese sculpture on the shelf. The book had a second edition released last year and is recognized as the most widely read book on Chinese medicine in a European language...
...Bogle's is one of a small, sturdy shelf of books about race films. Here are a few from my own shelves: Thomas Cripps' "Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942" (mostly about 30s Hollywood's view of race relations); John Kisch and Edward Mapp's "A Separate Cinema," replete with hundreds of color reproductions of movie posters and a good Bogle introduction; and Henry T. Sampson's invaluable "Blacks in Black & White: A Source Book on Black Films," which offers the most detailed history of the companies that produced black-cast films and the personalities...
...It’s not like I came from a family where money grew on trees. We had to work hard. I took out loans, but I recognized that those loans would pay off later in the game of life. But in terms of going out for those top-shelf players, Stanford gives out scholarships, Duke too. But that always is going to be a challenge—that Harvard will have to compete on an equal footing with those schools. Having said that, I still think that there is enough good talent out there for Harvard to be able...
...Stripburek" can be found at superior comic shops or purchased directly from Top Shelf's website...