Best Books of 2023
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Me, You, Us (Best Friends): A Book to Fill Out TogetherA fun and revealing journal to fill out with your best friend This new spinoff edition of the bestselling journal Me, You, Us is specially designed for BFFs to fill out together. Use the prompts to capture funny moments, favorite memories, and personal messages...
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Performing Racial Uplift: E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem EraIn Performing Racial Uplift: E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era, Juanita Karpf rediscovers the career of Black activist E. Azalia Hackley (1867-1922), a concert artist, nationally famous music teacher, and charismatic lecturer. Growing up in Black Detroit,...
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The Circus Is in Town: Sport, Celebrity, and SpectacleContributions by Lisa Doris Alexander, Matthew H. Barton, Andrew C. Billings, Carlton Brick, Ted M. Butryn, Brian Carroll, Arthur T. Challis, Roxane Coche, Curtis M. Harris, Jay Johnson, Melvin Lewis, Jack Lule, Rory Magrath, Matthew A. Masucci, Andrew McIntosh, Jorge E. Moraga, Leigh M....
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Gender, Crime, and Justice: Learning through CasesGender, Crime, and Justice is a unique core textbook that introduces key concepts through case studies. Each chapter opens with a compelling case study that illustrates key concepts, followed by a narrative chapter that builds on the case study to introduce essential elements. Each...
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When Does History Begin?Focusing on important issues in Sikh religious identity and memory, Harjot Oberoi shows how premodern techniques of narrating the past and truth-telling in South Asia were deeply transformed by colonialism. Indian historiographical praxis has long been problematic. Al-Biruni, the eleventh-century polymath, was puzzled by...
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The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&aw Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct NarrativesIn The Ultimate Goal, Vikram Sood, former chief of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), explains 'the narrative' and how a country's ability to construct, sustain and control narratives, at home and abroad, enhances its strength and position. Intelligence agencies...
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The Case Against Conversion "Therapy": Evidence, Ethics, and AlternativesMany LGBTQ youth are still forced into harmful "treatments" with devastating mental health consequences. This volume explores the history, effects, and danger of so-called conversion therapy. Because conversion "therapy" is not actually therapeutic, it is now more accurately referred to as sexual orientation change...
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Betting on You: How to Put Yourself First and (Finally) Take Control of Your Career"Indispensable reading for anyone seeking to improve their professional selves."--Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When An essential guide for how to snap out of autopilot and become your own best advocate, with candid anecdotes and easy-to-adopt steps, from veteran...
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The Annotated Hodgkin and Huxley: A Reader's GuideThe first annotated edition of the scientific papers that created the foundation of modern neuroscience and physiology The origin of everything known about how neurons and muscles generate electrical signals can be traced back to five revolutionary papers, published in the Journal of Physiology...
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LacunaWinner of the Sala Novel AwardWinner of the Humanities and Social Sciences Award for the Novel A cry for reparations for Lucy Lurie. She is the victim of an act of terrible sexual violence that devastes her life. Afterwards, she becomes obsessed with the...
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The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's FranceThis richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended...
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The Healing Names of Jesus: Find Freedom from Depression and AnxietyDiscover healing power in the person of God. Countless Christians face depression and anxiety, yet few resources address these challenges through both a spiritual and therapeutic lens. The Healing Names of Jesus explores thirty-one names of God to help you deepen your understanding of...
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Years of Endurance: Life Aboard the Battlecruiser Tiger 1914-16This memoir is perhaps one of the most immediate and vivid recollections of life in a Royal Navy battlecruiser to come out of World War I. John Muir, a surgeon, was the senior medical officer aboard HMS Tiger from her commissioning in October 1914...
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Fundamentals of NursingLearn the concepts and skills and develop the clinical judgment you need to provide excellent nursing care! Fundamentals of Nursing, 11th Edition prepares you to succeed as a nurse by providing a solid foundation in critical thinking, clinical judgment, nursing theory, evidence-based practice, and...
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The Opium PrinceJasmine Aimaq's stunning debut explores Afghanistan on the eve of a violent revolution and the far-reaching consequences of a young Kochi girl's tragic death. Afghanistan, 1970s. Born to an American mother and a late Afghan war hero, Daniel Sajadi has spent his life navigating...
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Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of MovementA groundbreaking reframing of religious pilgrimage Pious processions. Sites of miraculous healing. Journeys to far-away sacred places. These are what are usually called to mind when we think of religious pilgrimage. Yet while pilgrimage can include journeying to the heart of sacred shrines, it...
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Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing StageHow do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body, often appearing on stage in new styles of performance. Focusing on the historical period of modernity, Performance and Modernity: Enacting...
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Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt: Volume 56This volume collects studies exploring the relationship of Christians and Muslims in everyday life in Early Islamic Egypt (642-10th c.) focusing mainly, but not exclusively on administrative and social history. The contributions concentrate on the papyrological documentation preserved in Greek, Coptic, and Arabic. By...
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Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and DecolonizationNavigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). Poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez brings critical attention to a diverse and intergenerational collection of CHamoru poetry and scholarship. Throughout this book, Perez develops an Indigenous literary...
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Win from Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive AdvantageThere is significant evidence that an effective organizational culture provides a major competitive edge--higher levels of employee and customer engagement and loyalty translate into higher growth and profits. Many business leaders know this, yet few are doing much to improve their organizations' cultures. They...
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