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6:00 pm
Author Talk: Richard Wrangham
The Harvard University Division of Science, Cabot Science Library, and Harvard Book Store welcome distinguished primatologist RICHARD WRANGHAM—Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University—for a discussion of his latest book, The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution. About The Goodness Paradox What during human evolution accounts for this […]
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Author Talk: Anthony Tommasini
Harvard Book Store welcomes New York Times chief classical music critic ANTHONY TOMMASINI for a discussion of his new book, The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide. About The Indispensable Composers When he began to listen to the great works of classical music as a child, Anthony Tommasini had many questions. Why did a particular piece move him? How did the […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.