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2023 reading list and commentary

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I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. My plan was to read LESS this year than last year and I did a good job. One hundred and fourteen books. I was busier, happier. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. average read per month: 9.5

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2023 in Libraries

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Previous years: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I got some books out. I should go by this place more often, it’s such a nice library.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Although the disaster of 6 th February 2023 produced, in fact, stronger shaking than this, it should not have caused 5,500 large buildings to collapse. Korkmaz 2021. Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1] the 'violent' level. [2]

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

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“I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine. In 2021, the program exceeded 850,000, according to the 2021 annual report.

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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

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CFP URL: [link] CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction 2023-10-16 The concept of extraction (or extractivism) has been used in myriad disciplines — geography, international relations, environment, economics — often to describe social formations around natural resource management. More information can be found at [link] Karen P.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," 2021 -- " Revisiting St. A lot more about that below.

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PUBLIC LAW:  The Continued Vitality of Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics

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120 (2017), the Court stated that recognizing implied causes of action was now a "disfavored judicial activity," noting its consistent refusal "to extend Bivens to any new context or new category of defendants." 22-1339, 2023 U.S. 29, 2023), was an African American U.S. Hicks , 2023 U.S. Green , 446 U.S. Ferreyra , No.

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