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Publication Date: 2025
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As the British fashion industry took off in the post-war period, the figure of the photographic fashion model rapidly came to represent a new mode of femininity: independent, successful, and fashionably dressed. Fashioning a Life explores the wealth of life writing surrounding these glamourous 'Model Girls', from autobiography and memoir to advice literature.
Publication Date: 2025
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Now more than ever, students need the skills to determine whether the texts they encounter are trustworthy. '5 Questions for Any Text: Critical Reading in the Age of Disinformation' provides a simple framework for improving students' critical reading skills by encouraging the development of original thoughts and responses to texts.
Publication Date: 2025
Publication Date: 2020
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A Guide to Library Research in Music introduces the process and techniques for researching and writing about music. This informative textbook provides concrete examples of different types of writing, offering a thorough introduction to music literature. This second edition addresses new matters in digital technology and the expansion in musical genres for library research--
Publication Date: 2025
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All the elements of the Regency wardrobe of both men and women-- from coats, gowns, and undergarments to shoes, accessories, beauty, hair and jewellery-- are assembled, along with their textiles and trimmings.--Publisher's website.
Publication Date: 1913
Publication Date: 2026
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Using the experiential frameworks of phenomenology and existentialism, A Phenomenology of Racism in Counselling and Psychotherapy unveils the layers of relational intersectional racism which are embedded within our culture, and its many forms. This book recognizes that race in its origins was a social system built out of white European supremacy which held within itself both class and patriarchal structures.
Publication Date: 2010
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In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn't have.
Publication Date: 2025
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The ultimate pick 'n 'mix study guide filled with strategies and templates from timetables to summaries and doodle boxes with something for EVERY neurodivergent brain to choose from and develop the best study skills skillset for their brain-- Provided by publisher.
Publication Date: 2025
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In conversation with ninety-one women over the age of eighty in California, northern Iceland, south India, and among Sisters of St. Joseph in western New York, A View from Life's Edge explores how, in the face of death, a sense of what really matters can clarify. Here we find a loosening of certitudes normally meant to keep life's unwieldiness at bay, a chipping away at the illusion that any of us are captains of our own perfectly sailing ships.
Publication Date: 2024
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Abina and the Important Men is a compelling and powerfully illustrated graphic history based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court. The book is a microhistory that does much more than simply depict an event in the past; it uses the power of illustration to convey important themes in world history and to reveal the processes by which history is made.
Publication Date: 2025
Publication Date: 2025
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In Against the Machine, furiously gifted (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original-and terrifying-account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With masterful insight into the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism, Kingsnorth reveals how the Machine, in the name of progress, has choked Western civilization, is destroying the Earth itself, and is reshaping us in its image.
Publication Date: 2025
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An honest look at how AI operates in a 9th-grade high school English classroom, including usable exercises that teachers can try in class right away. The aim of the book is not to lament the challenges generative AI brings to the educational landscape but to provide a blueprint for high school English teachers to navigate this new terrain and ensure that their students are prepared for a future powered by AI. In this book, the authors offer their experiences over the course of a school year and share their notes on which AI tools they've used.
Publication Date: 2025
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Addressing the growing need for innovation and automation in library cataloguing systems, this cutting-edge book teaches readers how to build AI-powered cataloguing apps using Microsoft Power Apps. This authoritative guide provides a step-by-step approach to how cataloguing processes can be modernised by using artificial intelligence, featuring a major retrocataloguing project as the primary case study.
Publication Date: 2025
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Over the past seventy-five years, food has gone from a fact of life to national pastime; something to be thought about -- and talked about--24/7. Our tastes have been radically refashioned, painstakingly engineered in the depths of food factories, and hacked by craveable Instagram recipes. In this startling original, deeply irreverent cultural history, Ruby Tandoh traces that transformation, exposing how cult cookbooks, bad TV, visionary restaurants, and now social media have all wildly overhauled our appetites.
Publication Date: 2025
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How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama--and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction. The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has never been contained in one consistent set of values or interests. The nation was born in the contradiction between freedom and slavery.
Publication Date: 2025
Publication Date: 2020
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The history, legacy, and boundless creativity of weavers over the centuries is the base in this helpful guide for new weavers, seasoned tapestry artists, and enthusiasts. Tapestry weaving is an art form that has been around since antiquity, and these insights from renowned artist Jean Pierre Larochette offer 30 traditional techniques built upon weavers' centuries of work. A fourth-generation French Aubusson tapestry weaver, he gives us a glimpse into the multiple combinations, variations, and applications of techniques that form the art of the weaver.
Publication Date: 19891983
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Ut, a Vietnamese girl attending school in the United States, lonely for her mother left behind in Vietnam, makes a new friend who presents her with a wonderful gift.
Publication Date: 2025
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From her iconic hippie and grunge-inspired collections to her beloved baby-doll dresses, Anna Sui's clothes defined '90s fashion. A favorite of Gen Z and nostalgic Gen Xers, the '90s remain a beloved moment in fashion and culture. It was the last analog decade -- a time when DIY aesthetics, zines, and landlines were the norm. This book goes in depth with the designer in her own words about her raucous shows and the many inspirations for her clothes that were the epicenter of the fashion world.
Publication Date: 2023
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Merril is one of Silicon Valley's leading software engineers, but her life disintegrates when her younger sister Angie vanishes on her way home from college. A year later, when the police have long abandoned their search, Merril assembles all the digital material Angie has left behind and sets about building herself a digital simulation of her sister. The resultant 'virtual Angie' offers her some solace - until, that is, it starts to reveal new details about the real Angie's disappearance...-- Publisher website.
Publication Date: 2020
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A police brigade working in the dangerous northern neighborhoods of Marseille, where the level of crime is higher than anywhere else in France.