Best Books of 2023
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Uncooperative Contemporaries: Art Exhibitions in Shanghai C. 2000Modern perspectives on art and politics in Shanghai in 2000Here, contributions by Jane DeBevoise, Lee Weng Choy, Mia Yu, Hou Hanru, Wu Hung and Ai Weiwei, among others, analyze art in Shanghai in 2000, when artist-led initiatives and the state-led Shanghai Biennale complicated conceptions...
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Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling. In Ungrading, fifteen educators write about their diverse experiences going gradeless. Some contributors are new to the practice and some have been engaging in it...
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The Opioid Epidemic and Us Culture: Expression, Art, and Politics in an Age of AddictionThe Opioid Epidemic and US Culture brings a new set of perspectives to one of the most pressing contemporary topics in Appalachia and the nation as a whole. A project aimed both at challenging dehumanizing attitudes toward those caught in the opioid epidemic and...
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The Red Mother Vol. 2Daisy has taken the mysterious Leland Black up on his job offer, giving her a new outlet to excise her demons -- but quickly realizes that the dangerous conspiracy goes much deeper than she ever imagined. EVIL IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER...
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Bang!A great #$% ed up blend of James Bond and Tintin.--Keanu Reeves From New York Times bestselling Mind MGMT creator MATT KINDT and Quantum Age's WILFREDO TORRES comes a brand-new pulp-inspired tale of action, mystery, and altered reality. A best-of the-best secret agent with...
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The Fabric of Empire: Material and Literary Cultures of the Global Atlantic, 1650-1850Revealing the entangled lives of texts and textiles in the early modern Atlantic world.Textiles are the books that the colony was not able to burn.--Asociación Femenina para el Desarrollo de Sacatepéquez (AFEDES)A history of the book in the Americas, across deep time, would reveal...
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Health and Safety in Emergency Management and ResponseThis book familiarizes personnel serving as Emergency Managers, Safety Officers, Assistant Safety Officers, and in other safety-relevant Incident Command System (ICS) roles with physical and psychosocial hazards and stressors that may impact the health and safety of workers and responders in an All-Hazards Response,...
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Assimilation: An Alternative History Volume 58For over a hundred years, the story of assimilation has animated the nation-building project of the United States. And still today, the dream or demand of a cultural "melting pot" circulates through academia, policy institutions, and mainstream media outlets. Noting society's many exclusions and...
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Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational MovementIn the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and cultural activities nurtured innovative traditions, ideas, and practices. These strategies facilitated new, often radical...
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Aristotle's de Motu Animalium: Symposium AristotelicumThe volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this twentieth volume, ten renowned scholars of ancient philosophy offer a running commentary on Aristotle's De motu animalium. It is in this text, one of his most...
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20 to Crochet: Tiny Toys to Crochet20 adorable, amigurumi-style toys and animals that are both easy and fun to make. In this latest book in in the highly successful 20 to Make series, best-selling author Sachiyo Ishii has ventured into the world of crochet and created 20 adorable, amigurumi-style toys...
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Finding a Way Home: Mildred and Richard Loving and the Fight for Marriage EqualityWhen Mildred and Richard Loving are arrested, jailed, and exiled from their home simply because of their mixed-race marriage, they must challenge the courts and the country in order to secure their civil rights. Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving wanted to live...
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Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the PostcolonialIn Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as...
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Building Serverless Applications with Google Cloud Run: A Real-World Guide to Building Production-Ready ServicesLearn how to build a real-world serverless application in the cloud that's reliable, secure, maintainable, and scalable. If you have experience building web applications on traditional infrastructure, this hands-on guide shows you how to get started with Cloud Run, a container-based serverless product on...
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The Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Presses 2021 EditionPushcart Prize XLV is continuing evidence that much of today's vibrant writing appears only in small journals and book presses.The series has been selected for Publishers Weekly Carey Thomas Award, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof citation, and the Poets and Writers/Barnes and...
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Beijing GraffitiA complex and contradictory graffiti culture has been brewing over the last few decades in one of the least expected settings--China's capital. Through an unparalleled collection of one local photographer's images, as well as interviews with 25 prolific artists, see how Beijing has developed...
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The Ultimate College Cookbook: Easy, Flavor-Forward Recipes for Your Campus (or Off-Campus) KitchenStudents will discover the joy and simplicity of cooking for themselves with 60 recipes for easy, delicious meals that can easily be made in any dorm room or shared apartment NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES...
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The Plague in Print: Essential Elizabethan Sources, 1558-1603In The Plague in Print, Rebecca Totaro takes the reader into the world of plague-riddled Elizabethan England, documenting the development of distinct subgenres related to the plague and providing unprecedented access to important original sources of early modern plague writing. Totaro elucidates the interdisciplinary...
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The MajestiesIn this "bold and dramatic portrayal of characters on the cusp of an impossible choice" (Publishers Weekly), two sisters from a wealthy Chinese-Indonesian family grapple with secrets and betrayal after one of them poisons their entire family. Gwendolyn and Estella have always been as...
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Practically Pagan - An Alternative Guide to Health & Well-BeingYour health and well-being is valuable, and the actions you take to care for your beautiful self are a gift and a sacred prayer of intention. You are precious. Your body is precious. Your mind is precious. Your heart is precious. With your actions,...
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