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(1) A People's History of India 7: Society and Culture in Post-Mauryan India, C. 200 BC–AD 300
Bhairabi Prasad Sahu. With a chapter on language and literature by Kesavan Veluthat
ISBN: 9789382381754
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(2) Deathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia
Erik W. Davis
ISBN: 9780231169189
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(3) From Resilience to Revolution: How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East
Sean L. Yom
ISBN: 9780231175647
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(4) Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn
Attributed to Dong Zhongshu. Edited and Translated by Sarah A. Queen and John S. Major
ISBN: 9780231169325
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(5) The Death Penalty in China: Policy, Practice, and Reform
Edited by Bin Liang and Hong Lu. Foreword by Roger Hood
ISBN: 9780231170079
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(6) The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an: Scriptural Sources of Islam Between History and Fervor
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi. Translated by Eric Ormsby
ISBN: 9780231173780
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(7) Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees: A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater
Edited and translated by Stanleigh H. Jones Jr.
ISBN: 9780231080538
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(8) Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States
Dana D. Nelson
ISBN: 9780823268399
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(9) American Crossings: Border Politics in the Western Hemisphere
edited by Maiah Jaskoski, Arturo C. Sotomayor, and Harold A. Trinkunas
ISBN: 9781421418308
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(10) The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Collected and Uncollected Poems
T. S. Eliotedited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue
ISBN: 9781421420172
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(11) The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Practical Cats and Further Verses
T. S. Eliotedited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue
ISBN: 9781421420189
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(12) Pillar of Fire: A Biography of Stephen S. Wise
A. James Rudin
ISBN: 9780896729100
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(13) Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion: Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction
by J.D.Y. Peel (Author)
ISBN: 9780520285859
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(14) Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature
Giorgio Mariani
ISBN: 978-0-252-03975-1
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(15) Country Comes to Town: The Music Industry and the Transformation of Nashville
Jeremy Hill
ISBN: 9781625341723
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(16) Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience
John C. Hartsock
ISBN: 9781625341747
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(17) Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow
Cheryl Knott
ISBN: 9781625341785
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(18) Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina
Tracy Beck Fenwick
ISBN: 9780268028961
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(19) Participatory Democracy in Brazil: Socioeconomic and Political Origins
J. Ricardo Tranjan
ISBN: 9780268042400
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(20) Religious Responses to Violence: Human Rights in Latin America Past and Present
Edited by Alexander Wilde
ISBN: 9780268044312
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(21) The Hunt in Arabic Poetry: From Heroic to Lyric to Metapoetic
Jaroslav Stetkevych
ISBN: 9780268041519
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(22) Understanding Louise Erdrich:
Seema Kurup
ISBN: 978-1-61117-623-0
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(23) Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon
Jeremy M. Campbell
ISBN: 9780295995298
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(24) Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition
Sergei Kan
ISBN: 9780295994895
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(25) The Art Lover's Guide to Japanese Museums
Sophie Richard
ISBN: 9780955997716
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(26) A Shakespearean Botanical
Willes, Margaret
ISBN: 9781851244379
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(27) Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
Boswell, John
ISBN: 9780226345222
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(28) Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era
Slap, Andrew L.
ISBN: 9780226300207
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(29) Cuno Amiet. Die Gemälde 1883-1919: Catalogue raisonné
Müller, Franz
ISBN: 9783858814333
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(30) Doris Stauffer: A Monograph
Koller, Simone
ISBN: 9783858817600
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(31) Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power
Cusick, Suzanne G.
ISBN: 9780226132129
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(32) High-Stakes Schooling: What We Can Learn from Japan’s Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform
Bjork, Christopher
ISBN: 9780226309415
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(33) It Ends Here: The Last Missouri Vigilante
Johnston, Joe
ISBN: 9781883982850
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(34) Literature Incorporated: The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650-1850
O'Brien, John
ISBN: 9780226291123
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(35) Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution
Fishman, Sylvia Barack
ISBN: 9781611688603
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(36) Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal
de la Cruz, Deirdre
ISBN: 9780226314914
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(37) Music and Musical Thought in Early India
Rowell, Lewis
ISBN: 9780226730332
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(38) Philip Sparrow Tells All: Lost Essays by Samuel Steward, Writer, Professor, Tattoo Artist
Steward, Samuel
ISBN: 9780226304687
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(39) Portraits of Shakespeare
Duncan-Jones, Katherine
ISBN: 9781851244058
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(40) Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance
Reeser, Todd W.
ISBN: 9780226307008
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(41) Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
Matory, J. Lorand
ISBN: 9780226297736
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(42) The Corn Wolf
Taussig, Michael
ISBN: 9780226310855
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(43) The First English Dictionary 1604: Robert Cawdrey’s A Table Alphabeticall
Simpson, John
ISBN: 9781851243853
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(44) Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil’s Sexual Economy
Mitchell, Gregory
ISBN: 9780226309101
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(45) Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew: Entangled Lives in Morocco
Rosen, Lawrence
ISBN: 9780226317489
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(46) Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia: Development and Culture in the Modern State
Daniel Chavez
ISBN: 9780826520470
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