New Year, New Reads

5th January 2024

If you're unsure how to kick-start 2024, we've got you covered with a selection of new and engaging reads. Check out our selection below...
 

Desire

 

Critically acclaimed and award-winning poet Micheal O’Siadhail’s Desire is a quartet of poems which addresses the pressing global concerns of our times.

Published by Baylor University Press

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The Japanese Empire and Latin America

 

Provides an analysis of the complicated relationship between Japanese migration and capital exportation to Latin America and the rise and fall of the empire in the Asia-Pacific region. The book explains how Japan influenced the cultures of Latin American countries and explores the role of Latin America in the evolution of Japanese expansion.

Published by University of Hawai'i Press

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Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery

 

In this groundbreaking work, Cara Rogers Stevens examines the fascinating life of Thomas Jefferson’s book, Notes on the State of Virginia, from its innocuous composition in the early 1780s to its use as a political weapon by both pro- and antislavery forces in the early nineteenth century.

Published by University Press of Kansas

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Reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls


Published in 1940, Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls is widely considered a masterpiece of war literature. This volume offers a line-by-line analysis of one of Hemingway’s greatest novels.

 

Published by The Kent State University Press

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Aren't You Bojack Horseman?

 

Brings together essays about the ways BoJack Horseman handles complex and highly nuanced topics within three main themes: mental health, masculinity, and the perils of celebrity. The essays offer a variety of perspectives on these themes, how they are represented, and the ways that both characters and viewers engage with them.

Published by McFarland

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Business Analysis for Practitioners

 

Provides practical resources to tackle the project-related issues associated with requirements and business analysis—and addresses a critical need in the industry for more guidance in this area.

 

Published by Project Management Institute

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You Probably Think This Song Is About You

 

In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. The result is a memoir brimming with hard-won wisdom and generous humour.

Published by Te Herenga Waka University Press

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Reading With Purpose

 

From the authors of the popular blog and resource for teachers, The Classroom Bookshelf, this book offers a framework and teaching ideas for using recently released children’s and young adult literature to build a culture of inquiry and engagement from a text-first approach.

Published by Teachers College Press

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The Architecture of Influence

 

How do we create the new from the old? The Architecture of Influence explores this fundamental question by analysing a broad swath of twentieth-century architectural works - including some of the best-known examples of the architectural canon, modern and postmodern - through the lens of influence.

Published by University of Virginia Press

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Education and the Law

 

With extensive restructuring and new content, this updated casebook addresses legal and public policy issues affecting K-12 as well as higher education, including expanded coverage of First Amendment issues in both sectors.

West Academic Publishing

Published by West Academic

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