Best Books of 2023
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Best Recipes from the Farmer's Wife Cookbook: Over 250 Blue-Ribbon RecipesThis revised, four-color edition of The Farmer's Wife Cookbook features country-kitchen recipes that appeared in Midwestern America's Farmer's Wife magazine between 1893 and 1939. Beloved by home cooks since the magazine was first published, the recipes resonate now more than ever as many of...
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The Science of Life and Death in FrankensteinThe first book to compile the historical scientific and medical thought that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley. But how did Shelley and her fellow Romantic writers incorporate this debate into their work,...
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Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New FranceWinner of the 2020 Catholic Press Association Book Award in History Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to Indigenous North Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic enterprise with integral secular...
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Nazis on the Potomac: The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation That Helped Win World War IIThe first full account of the crucial work done at Fort Hunt, Virginia during World War II, where the highest-level German prisoners were interrogated, and captured documents analyzed.Now a green open space enjoyed by residents, Fort Hunt, Virginia, about 15 miles south of Washington,...
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Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded WorkLabor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the term automation expressed the conviction that industrial progress meant the inevitable abolition of manual labor from industry....
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Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the CityA new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape architecture. For their proponents, they present an opportunity...
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Murder Under Her Skin: A Pentecost and Parker MysteryA New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice - Rex Stout meets Agatha Christie with a fresh twist in the new Pentecost and Parker Mystery, a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring women sleuths dead set on justice as they set out to...
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Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern AmericaThe first social history of disability and difference in American adoption, from the Progressive Era to the end of the twentieth century. Disability and child welfare, together and apart, are major concerns in American society. Today, about 125,000 children in foster care are eligible...
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The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War IIVider uncovers how LGBTQ people reshaped domestic life in the postwar United States. From the Stonewall riots to the protests of ACT UP, histories of queer and trans politics have almost exclusively centered on public activism. In The Queerness of Home, Stephen Vider turns...
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Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial PastOn the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, renowned choreographer and director Bill T. Jones developed three tributes: Serenade/The Proposition, 100 Migrations, and Fondly Do We Hope . . . Fervently Do We Pray. These widely acclaimed dance works incorporated video and audio text...
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Discovering the Animal Kingdom: A Guide to the Amazing World of AnimalsDiscover the wonders of the natural world and the animals that inhabit it in this stunningly visual hardcover guide. Nature writer Marianne Taylor guides readers through the development of life on earth, from the first living cells to the astonishing diversity we see in...
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Learn Aspen Plus in 24 Hours, Second EditionQuickly start using the current version of Aspen Plus(R) to solve chemical engineering problemsDiscover how to solve chemical engineering problems with Aspen Plus(R) in just 24 hours, with no prior experience. Thoroughly revised for the latest distribution, this self-learning guide features detailed mathematical models...
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City 13From Keiichi Arawi, the creator of hit series nichijou, comes a new slapstick comedy series about a penniless college student who moves to a town filled with bizarre people. This reckless girl will be the one who eventually sets the city in motion. FINAL...
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Paganism for Prisoners: Connecting to the Magic WithinFind Peace, Clarity, and the Divine on the Inside While being incarcerated for her struggles with drug addiction, Awyn Dawn began to actively look for her spiritual side--and she found it in Paganism. By developing a profound relationship with the gods, Awyn gained greater...
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Nanuq's Baby Brother: Bilingual Inuktitut and English EditionNanuq is so excited when she finds out she is going to be a big sister She thinks about all the fun things she will do with her new sibling. But when her baby brother is born, he cries all the time. Her parents...
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Alzheimer's Disease Decoded: The History, Present, and Future of Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia (Second Edition)This book aims to present, educate and inform individuals about Alzheimer's disease in a comprehensive manner. Its scope ranges from the discovery of the disease, epidemiology and basic biological principles underlying it, to advanced stem cell therapies used in the treatment of Alzheimer's. It...
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The Liminal Chrysalis: Imagining Reproduction and Parenting Futures Beyond the BinaryThe Liminal Chrysalis: Imagining Reproduction and Parenting Futures Beyond the Binary is an edited collection that works to identify and deconstruct many of the countless binaries that operate within the realms of parenting and reproduction. Weaving poetry, speculative fiction, and autobiography with interviews, critical...
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Michael Kenna: St. Josephs College, UphollandFrom one of the most acclaimed photographers working today comes his most personal work to date--an intimate portrait of the seminary boarding school he attended for seven years and which deeply informed his artistic practice. At age eleven, Michael Kenna developed his first roll...
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Gramma LessonsGramma Lessons is an endearing and subtly comical series of instructions for grandmothers from children. In Gramma Lessons, based on his current experience and observations, a young grandson educates his, and all would-be, grandmothers in the quirks and qualifications needed for this esteemed role....
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Pearl of the Desert: A History of PalmyraPalmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before its rediscovery in the seventeenth century, the ancient city gained legendary status because of its Queen Zenobia, who in the third century CE rebelled against Rome and expanded Palmyra's territory into what is...
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