Best Books of 2023
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Bad Boy HolidayReady for a holiday treat?Deliver a gift. A seemingly simple mission until Mathias runs into some complications. Namely a clumsy lady with an obsession for sweaters. A woman who knows how to heat his blood without even trying.Snowmen aren't the only ones with frozen...
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Beginning Ruby 3: From Beginner to ProLearn the principles behind object-oriented programming in Ruby and within a few chapters create a fully functional Ruby 3-based application. You'll gain a basic understanding of many ancillary technologies such as databases, XML, web frameworks, and networking - some of which will be needed...
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Francophone Belgian CinemaFrancophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws key distinctions between the local, national, small national, regional and transnational frameworks in both representational and industrial terms. Author: Jamie SteelePublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished:...
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Autoethnography in Undergraduate Writing CoursesAutoethnography in Undergraduate Writing Courses blends narrative and analysis in an engaging and applicable account of how the genre of autoethnography can be a valuable addition or alternative to traditional research assignments. Many writing teachers struggle to motivate and equip students to conduct meaningful...
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Pete Von Sholly's Lovecraft IllustratedA full color collection of over 325 images- covering ALL the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft arranged in the order in which the stories were written. The book also features notes. sketches and an intro by S. T. Joshi. Pete Von Sholly has storyboarded over...
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Complying with Genocide: The Wolf You FeedDrawing on a powerful Native American metaphor to frame this work, E.N. Anderson and Barbara Anderson examine complicity in genocide, stressing that it only through feeding the good wolf that a moral and social order of inclusion and tolerance can be built, while feeding...
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Studies of Familiar Birds: PoemsPoetry. Art. Carrie Green's STUDIES OF FAMILIAR BIRDS reflects upon the series of nest-and-egg illustrations that Virginia Jones saw to completion after her daughter, who had begun the project, died. The artist's loss in the late nineteenth century is presented in tandem with the...
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Social (In)Justice and Mental HealthSocial justice entails equal access to liberties, rights, and opportunities, as well as care for the least advantaged members of society. The paradigm-shifting new book Social (In)Justice and Mental Health addresses the ways in which society's failure to deliver on that humane ideal harms...
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Toni Morrison's Secret Drive: A Reader-Response Study of the Fiction and Its RhetoricThe late Toni Morrison was the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. A powerful writer, she wove stories depicting the largely overlooked Black experience in America and exploring the intersection of gender and race through the lives of Black...
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Luxury and Fashion Marketing: The Global PerspectiveThe globalization of the world's markets has forced luxury brands to, in turn, become global and accessible in many developing countries and emerging markets. As a result, the demand for these luxury products has increased globally, creating a need for an education in luxury...
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Harnessing Digital Disruption: How Companies Win with Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean StartupOur world has changed, probably for good. Until now, the shift from brick-and-mortar to the smartphone has been about service, cost, and convenience. Now, it's also a matter of public health. How do we win this uncertain new game? How do we prosper in...
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Coping with Chronic Illness: Theories, Issues and Lived ExperiencesThis valuable book combines psychological theories of health with the lived experience of coping with chronic health conditions, focusing on the "ill person" as an actor of their own development. It draws on perspectives from developmental and health psychology alongside the author's personal experience...
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Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of EatingFinding opportunities for innovation on the path between farmer and table.Even if we think we know a lot about good and healthy food--even if we buy organic, believe in slow food, and read Eater--we probably don't know much about how food gets to the...
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Human Perfection in Byzantine Theology: Attaining the Fullness of ChristTo what kind of existence does Christ call us? Christian theology has from its inception posited a powerful vision of humanity's ultimate and eternal fulfilment through the person and work of Jesus Christ. How precisely to understand and approach the human perfection to which...
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Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in LiteracyThe Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Literacy brings together state-of-the-art research on literacy learning among deaf and hard of hearing learners (DHH). With contributions from experts in the field, this volume covers topics such as the importance of language and cognition, phonological or...
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The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada Between East and West: (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada Between East and West illuminates multiple aspects of the last Islamic state in al-Andalus and its historical evolution within the larger changes that took place throughout the West at the end of the Middle Ages.Author: Adela FábregasPublisher: BrillPublished: 12/10/2020Pages:...
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Law and Practice of the Common Commercial Policy: The First 10 Years After the Treaty of LisbonLaw and Practice of the Common Commercial Policy provides a comprehensive analysis of the salient features of the European Union's trade law and policy since the Treaty of Lisbon: legislation, case law, treaty making and institutional practice.Author: Michael HahnPublisher: Brill NijhoffPublished: 12/17/2020Pages: 660Binding Type:...
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High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World!, Vol. 9 (Manga)Will the high school prodigies help Princess Kaguya take back her country in the name of Equality for All or hand her over to the Freyjagard Empire to preserve the tenuous alliance with their former foe? This decision may make or break the Republic...
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Sophocles: Oedipus TyrannusOedipus Tyrannus by the great tragedian Sophocles is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek literature. The play has always been admired for the tight unity of its plot; every bit of every scene counts towards the dramatic effect. The action is...
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The Asian Aspiration: Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia -- And What It Should AvoidIn 1960, the GDP per capita of Southeast Asian countries was nearly half of that of Africa. By 1986 the gap had closed and today the trend is reversed, with more than half of the world's poorest now living in sub Saharan Africa. Why...
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