Best Books of 2023
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Fictional Worlds and the Moral ImaginationThis edited collection investigates the kinds of moral reflection we can undertake within the imaginative worlds of literature. In philosophical contexts of ethical inquiry we can too easily forget that literary experience can play an important role in the cultivation of our ethical sensibilities....
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Palestine: A Socialist IntroductionPalestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be won.Through an internationalist, anti-imperialist lens, this book explores the...
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Black Lives Matter at SchoolBlack Lives Matter at Schoolis an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system.--Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Black Lives Matter at School succinctly generalizes lessons from successful challenges to institutional racism...
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Apocalypse in American Literature and CultureThe idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The 'American Dream' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagined the end of the world. 'Final forecasts' constitute one of America's oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology...
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The Saving Line: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Caesuras of HopeWalter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno both turned to canonical literary narratives to determine why the Enlightenment project was derailed and how this failure might be remedied. The resultant works, Benjamin's major essay on Goethe's Elective Affinities and Adorno's meditation on the Odyssey in Dialectic...
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Basic Korean: A Grammar and WorkbookThe revised second edition of Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook is an accessible reference grammar and workbook in one volume. The text can be used in conjunction with any primary textbook, both as a practice book to reinforce learning and as a reference...
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Pattern Language for Game DesignChris Barney's Pattern Language for Game Design builds on the revolutionary work of architect Christopher Alexander to show students, teachers, and game development professionals how to derive best practices in all aspects of game design. Using a series of practical, rigorous exercises, designers can...
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Religions of Old KoreaThis book, first published in 1932, was written by a Western expert on Korea, and was the first to thoroughly investigate and document the old religious practices of Korea. No book like this could be written again from original sources, for all of the...
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Notes for Violists: A Guide to the RepertoireNotes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces for the instrument, making it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student violists alike. With engaging prose supported by fact-filled analytical charts, the book...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional EthnographyA comprehensive guide to the alternative sociology originating in the work of Dorothy E. Smith, this Handbook not only explores the basic, founding principles of institutional ethnography (IE), but also captures current developments, approaches, and debates. Now widely known as a "sociology for people,"...
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Scada Security: Machine Learning Concepts for Intrusion Detection and Prevention"This book provides insights into issues of SCADA security. Chapter 1 discusses how potential attacks against traditional IT can also be possible against SCADA systems. Chapter 2 gives background information on SCADA systems, their architectures, and main components. In Chapter 3, the authors describe...
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Number Theory: Step by StepNumber theory is one of the oldest branches of mathematics that is primarily concerned with positive integers. While it has long been studied for its beauty and elegance as a branch of pure mathematics, it has seen a resurgence in recent years with the...
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Those Delicious LettersSOON TO BE A MAJOR WEB SERIES From the bestselling author of Bong Mom's Cookbook, comes a novel about food, family and love Soon after her fortieth birthday, Shubha starts receiving letters with traditional Bengali recipes from a mysterious lady in Calcutta claiming to...
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Angel Investing: Insider Secrets to Wealth CreationThere's a good chance that you have heard of Sachin Bansal (of Flipkart), Navin Tiwari (of InMobi), Bhavish Agarwal (of Ola) and Ritesh Agarwal (of Oyo). They are Indian start-up founders who have achieved celebrity status with their business success. But, have you heard...
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Bilingualism for All?: Raciolinguistic Perspectives on Dual Language Education in the United StatesIt is common for scholarly and mainstream discourses on dual language education in the US to frame these programs as inherently socially transformative and to see their proliferation in recent years as a natural means of developing more anti-racist spaces in public schools. In...
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Working with Relational Trauma in Schools: An Educator's Guide to Using Dyadic Developmental PracticeWritten by experienced clinicians, this book provides an exploration of how educators can easily use Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) to help vulnerable pupils to thrive. DDP is an intervention model for children and young people who have experienced trauma in past relationships. Safety and...
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Wandering Jews: Global Jewish MigrationDespite the importance of historical and contemporary migration to the American Jewish community, popular awareness of the diversity and complexity of the American Jewish migration legacy is limited and largely focused upon Yiddish-speaking Jews who left the Pale of Settlement in Eastern Europe between...
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Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship: Provocations for ChangeWhat do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers' provocations for change need to be differently designed when addressing the precarious spectator-subject of twenty- first century neoliberalism? In this important study Liz Tomlin interrogates the influential theories of Jacques...
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The Value of PoetryEric Falci's The Value of Poetry offers an evaluation and critique of the literary, cultural, and political value of poetry in the twenty-first century. Falci claims that some of the most vital, significant, and enduring human notions have been voiced and held in poems....
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Key Concepts in the Study of AntisemitismThis volume is designed to assist university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism, and other forms of prejudice. In contrast with similar volumes, it is organized around specific concepts instead of chronology or geography. It promotes conversation about antisemitism across disciplinary,...
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