Best Books of 2023
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The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic WorldThe Spanish conquest has long been a source of polemic, ever since the early sixteenth century when Spanish jurists began theorizing the legal merits behind native dispossession in the Americas. But in The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World,...
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Fifty Years at the Sibyl's Heels: Selected Papers on Virgil and RomeNicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and non-Virgilian. A...
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The Oxford Handbook of Industrial PolicyIndustrial policy has long been regarded as a strategy to encourage sector-, industry-, or economy-wide development by the state. It has been central to competitiveness, catching up, and structural change in both advanced and developing countries. It has also been one of the most...
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Text, Liturgy, and Music in the Hispanic Rite: The Vespertinus GenreThe Hispanic rite, a medieval non-Roman Western liturgy, was practiced across the Iberian Peninsula for over half a millennium and functioned as the most distinct marker of Christian identity in this region. As Christians typically began every liturgical day throughout the year by singing...
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Robotic Knitting: Re-Crafting Human-Robot Collaboration Through Careful CobotingAs a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards cobot technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics...
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Rough JusticeTess Grey is tasked with investigating a plane crash in the Great North Woods after rumors surface of a survivor... but she and her partner Po aren't the only ones heading there. Three field biologists are distracted from their studies when a plane crashes...
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Truly Madly PlaidUSA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight takes you into the heart of the Highlands, where these warriors are prepared to give up everything in the fight for their country.Annie MacPherson's world was torn apart when her family's castle was ravaged during the war. Determined...
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Kipps: The Story of a Simple SoulThe most successful mainstream novel of H.G. Wells, now finally back in print. KippsThe Story of a Simple SoulUntil he reached manhood, it was not clear to Kipps how he came to be under the care of an aunt and uncle, instead of having...
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Kipps: The Story of a Simple SoulThe most successful mainstream novel of H.G. Wells, now finally back in print. KippsThe Story of a Simple SoulUntil he reached manhood, it was not clear to Kipps how he came to be under the care of an aunt and uncle, instead of having...
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Voices of East TexasVoices of East Texas is a collection of plays written by Stephen F. Austin State University Professor Emeritus Dr. Bobby Johnson. Before creating the plays, Dr. Johnson accumulated five-hundred plus interviews dealing with East Texas, topics ranging from the region's agricultural roots to modern...
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Blood in the Streets: Histories of Violence in Italian Crime CinemaBlood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political contexts. Author: Austin FisherPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 12/01/2020Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.53dISBN: 9781474477727About the AuthorAustin Fisher is...
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The Mockingbird's SongBook 2 in the Amish Greenhouse Mystery series. A widow with two children, Sylvia feels her mother is being too over-protective and meddlesome when she meets Dennis Weaver while birdwatching. When the budding romance is squelched and troubling events start happening at the family-run...
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Everyday Amenti: A Guided Journal for Cultivating a Feather-Light HeartConnect to your intuition, expand your mind, and cultivate a heart "as light as a feather" with Everyday Amenti, a beautiful guided journal from the author and illustrator behind the Amenti Oracle. From author Jennifer Sodini, founder of Evolve and Ascend, and illustrator Natalee...
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The American Counterculture: A History of Hippies and Cultural DissidentsRestricted to the shorthand of "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll," the counterculture would seem to be a brief, vibrant stretch of the 1960s. But the American counterculture, as this book clearly demonstrates, was far more than a historical blip and its impact continues...
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The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the KindertransportA deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son. In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein's father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child refugee on the Kindertransport. Almost every member of his family died...
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Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs PsychoanalysisDoes critical theory still need psychoanalysis? In Critique on the Couch, Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance. Countering the overly rationalist and progressivist interpretations of psychoanalysis put forward by contemporary critical theorists such as J rgen Habermas and...
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Research Exposed: How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital AgeThe era of digital communication provides endless opportunities for the collection and analysis of social data in novel ways. It also presents new and unanticipated challenges, as researchers are often inventing elements of their methodologies on the fly or studying a phenomenon or media...
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Accounting and Finance for Managers: A Business Decision Making ApproachWritten specifically for business and management students at all levels who require a grounding in how the key concepts of accounting and finance lead to better-informed business decisions, with real-world examples included. - Uses clear, accessible language that will appeal to students from a...
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Why Animals HibernateWhen winter hits, many people in colder climates spend most of their time indoors. But what do wild animals do? Some animals spend winters hibernating. Beginning readers will learn what hibernation is, why some animals hibernate and others don't, and how hibernating animals prepare...
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Ten Principles of a Character CoachTen Principles of a Character Coach provides clear experienced-based advice on how to be a character coach. Within Ten Principles of a Character Coach, Coach Gary Waters defines a character coach as someone who lives a life with integrity, honesty and moral values. He...
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