Best Books of 2023
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The Podcaster's Audio GuideThe Podcaster's Audio Guide is a concise introduction to simple sound engineering techniques for podcasters. This digestible guide explains the basics of audio engineering, from equipment, to recording, editing, mixing and publishing. Suitable for beginners from all backgrounds, including students and hobbyists, as well...
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Trenchcoats, Towers, and Trolls: Cyberpunk Fairy TalesWhat do you get when you take the high tech/low life settings of cyberpunk and sprinkle them with the magic and possibilities of fairy tales? Trolls under teleportation bridges, masquerades held in virtual reality, princely avatars, giants and dwarves alongside hackers and androids. From...
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FossilsGiant dinosaur bones and rocky poop from millions of years ago can show us a lot about the animals and plants that used to live on Earth. But what do you know about fossils? Dig in to find out how fossils form, see what...
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This Way and That WayA soccer ball goes this way and that from player to player as it zips across the field. A baseball goes flying to a batter and--crack!--zooms far away after making contact with a big swing. Forces in motion are around us everywhere! They make...
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The End of Pax Americana: The Loss of Empire and Hikikomori NationalismIn The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony's long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construction of differences between East...
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A Deep Divide"With her past behind her, she has nothing--and everything--to lose. After being kidnapped as a child, heiress Emma Grace McMurray has seen firsthand the devastation that greed causes in the world, and she wants nothing to do with it. When she discovers her father...
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The Inheritance of Orquídea DivinaAuthor: Zoraida C[rdovaPublisher: Wheeler Publishing Large PrintPublished: 01/26/2022Pages: 515Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.20dISBN: 9781432893804
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Intended Consequences: How to Build Market-Leading Companies with Responsible InnovationWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERA pioneering venture capitalist provides an actionable framework for founders and executives to create innovative, enduring companies built for growth and for societal good.The Milton Friedman philosophy that companies exist only to increase shareholder value is dead and buried. The old...
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All the Men I Never MarriedAll The Men I Never Married is the highly anticipated second collection by Kim Moore. The author portrays relationships with a passionate realism that encompasses complicity and ambiguity, violence and tenderness, and an understanding of the layers of complexity and complicity that exist between...
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Trolls"A basic exploration of the appearance, behaviors, and origins of trolls, the gigantic creatures of Scandinavian legend known for their appetites. Also included is a story from folklore about a troll in disguise"--Author: Melissa GishPublisher: Creative PaperbacksPublished: 01/11/2022Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 10.80h x...
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Secretly Treasured Jokes about PiratesAuthor: Julia GarsteckiPublisher: Black Rabbit BooksPublished: 01/11/2022Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.70h x 6.10w x 0.20dISBN: 9781644665619Audience: Ages 9-12
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Collaborative Cities: Mapping Solutions to Wicked ProblemsDynamic problems require dynamic collaboration and technology. Our communities today face difficult issues--such as climate change, access to health care, and homelessness--which are tangled, complicated, and constantly evolving. Coined "wicked problems" more than 40 years ago by the University of California's professors Horst Rittel...
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Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, Second EditionSeeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, Second Edition is an interdisciplinary, supplemental textbook that challenges undergraduate students to see race as everyone's issue. The book's early chapters establish a solid understanding of privilege and power, leading to a critical exploration of...
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Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a CityThis is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history and...
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Americans in China: Encounters with the People's RepublicAmericans in China tells the dramatic stories of individual women and men who encountered the People's Republic of China as adversaries and emissaries, mediators and advocates, interpreters and reporters, soldiers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and scholars. In Americans in China, Terry Lautz provides a series of...
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a NationAn elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration. --Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and...
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Adapting to the Land: A History of Agriculture in ColoradoAdapting to the Land examines the extent to which Colorado agriculturists adapted to or stretched beyond the limits of land and water. Historian John F. Freeman and horticultural scientist Mark E. Uchanski document the state's agricultural history and provide context for the shift away...
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God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?God has a bad reputation. Many think of God as wrathful and angry, smiting people right and left for no apparent reason. The Old Testament in particular seems at times to portray God as capricious and malevolent, wiping out armies and nations, punishing enemies...
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Zines in Libraries: Selecting, Purchasing, and ProcessingFeaturing contributions from leaders in the intersection between zines and libraries, including Katrin Abel, Jeremy Brett, Ann (A'misa) Matsushima Chiu, Marta Chudolinska, Jenna Freedman, Joan Jocson-Singh, Mica Johnson, Lauren Kehoe, Joshua Lupkin, Meg Metcalf, and Ziba Perez, this book presents an in-depth look at...
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Heads Up!: A Resilience StoryPeanut has invited all of his friends to the meadow for a special day. This little chipmunk is finally big enough to fly a kite by himself. Ready, set, plop! Up, up--and right back down. What is Peanut doing wrong? With the help of...
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