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
Learn moreThe 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
Learn moreThomas 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
Learn moreReading 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
Learn moreAren'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
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
Learn moreYou 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
Learn moreReading 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
Learn moreThe 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
Learn moreEducation 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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