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(1) A None's Story: Searching for Meaning Inside Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam
Corinna Nicolaou
ISBN: 9780231173957
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(2) Islam: An American Religion
Nadia Marzouki
ISBN: 9780231176804
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(3) Remains of Life: A Novel
Wu He. Translated by Michael Berry
ISBN: 9780231166010
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(4) Subjective Writing in Contemporary Chinese Literature
Jin Siyan. Translated by Isabelle Wen
ISBN: 9789629967871
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(5) Bilingual Brokers: Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital
Jeehyun Lim
ISBN: 9780823275311
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(6) Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
Melissa Adler
ISBN: 9780823276363
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(7) Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture:
edited by Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler
ISBN: 9781421422145
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(8) The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade
Kendall A. Johnson
ISBN: 9781421422510
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(9) Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980
Michael J. Molloy; Peter Duschinsky; Kurt F. Jensen; Robert Shalka
ISBN: 9780773548817
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(10) The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967
Jeffrey S. Gurock
ISBN: 9780813572383
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(11) Thoreau and the Language of Trees
by Richard Higgins (Author)
ISBN: 9780520294042
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(12) Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March
Deborah Gray White
ISBN: 978-0-252-04090-0
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(13) Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art:
Robert W. Cherny
ISBN: 978-0-252-04078-8
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(14) From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920–1965
Jon K. Lauck
ISBN: 9781609384968
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(15) Harvest of Hazards: Family Farming, Accidents, and Expertise in the Corn Belt, 1940–1975
Derek S. Oden
ISBN: 9781609384982
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(16) London in a Box: Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America
Odai Johnson
ISBN: 9781609384944
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(17) The Portrait and the Book: Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America
Megan Walsh
ISBN: 9781609385026
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(18) All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
Jason Sokol
ISBN: 9781625342867
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(19) Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Yusef KomunyakaaEdited by Radiclani Clytus
ISBN: 9780472053445
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(20) Medieval Jerusalem: Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews
Jacob Lassner
ISBN: 9780472130368
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(21) The Critics and the Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale
Hannah Johnson & Heather Blurton
ISBN: 9780472130344
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(22) The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany
Jonathan O. Wipplinger
ISBN: 9780472053407
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(23) The Most Noble of People: Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain
Jessica Coope
ISBN: 9780472130283
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(24) Saving One's Own: Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust
Mordecai Paldiel
ISBN: 9780827612617
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(25) Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740
Mark G. Hanna
ISBN: 9781469636047
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(26) Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830
Jonathan Eacott
ISBN: 9781469636177
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(27) The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
Pablo F. Gómez
ISBN: 9781469630878
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(28) Michael Psellos on Literature and Art: A Byzantine Perspective on Aesthetics
Michael Psellos
ISBN: 9780268100490
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(29) Eutaw Springs: The Final Battle of the American Revolution's Southern Campaign
Robert M. Dunkerly and Irene B. Boland
ISBN: 978-1-61117-758
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(30) Understanding Gary Shteyngart:
Geoff Hamilton
ISBN: 978-1-61117-764-0
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(31) Ethnic and Religious Identities and Integration in Southeast Asia
Ooi Keat Gin, Volker Grabowsky
ISBN: 9786162151262
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(32) No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art
Thomas Crow
ISBN: 9780909952990
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(33) Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World
Pál Nyíri
ISBN: 9780295741314
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(34) Yuan Phai, the Defeat of Lanna: A Fifteenth-Century Thai Epic Poem
Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit
ISBN: 9786162151255
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(35) "Labor Is Not a Commodity!": The Movement to Shorten the Workday in Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and New York
Reick, Philipp
ISBN: 9783593506272
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(36) A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education
Labaree, David F.
ISBN: 9780226637006
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(37) A Tiger Remembers: The Way We Were in Singapore
Wee, Ann
ISBN: 9789814722377
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(38) American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream
Mickenberg, Julia L.
ISBN: 9780226256122
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(39) An Armchair Traveller’s History of Beijing
Clements, Jonathan
ISBN: 9781909961272
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(40) Andrea Bischof: Color Truth
Koja, Stephan
ISBN: 9783777426471
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(41) Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean
Hudson, Peter James
ISBN: 9780226459110
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(42) Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital
Hannig, Anita
ISBN: 9780226457291
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(43) Blackface Nation: Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925
Roberts, Brian
ISBN: 9780226451640
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(44) Boundaries and Beyond: China’s Maritime Southeast in Late Imperial Times
Chin-keong, Ng
ISBN: 9789814722018
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(45) Chinese Epigraphy in Singapore, 1819-1911
Dean, Kenneth
ISBN: 9789971698713
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(46) Combative Politics: The Media and Public Perceptions of Lawmaking
Atkinson, Mary Layton
ISBN: 9780226441924
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(47) Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection
Richards, Evelleen
ISBN: 9780226436906
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(48) Design by the Book: Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu
Louis, François
ISBN: 9781941792100
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(49) Dislocating the Orient: British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921
Foliard, Daniel
ISBN: 9780226755724
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(50) Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece
Stewart, Charles
ISBN: 9780226425245
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(51) Fragments of Metropolis - Rhein & Ruhr: Expressionist Heritage of the Rhein-Ruhr Region
Rauhut, Christoph
ISBN: 9783777427720
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(52) Freaks of History: Two Performance Texts
MacDonald, James
ISBN: 9781783207350
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(53) From the Land of the Snowlion: Tibetan Treasures from the 15th to 20th Century
Buddeberg, Michael
ISBN: 9783777426266
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(54) Hans Hofmann: Creation in Form and Color
Meschede, Friedrich
ISBN: 9783777426990
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(55) Henry Moore: A European Impulse
Arnhold, Hermann
ISBN: 9783777426822
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(56) Jerusalem 1900: The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities
Lemire, Vincent
ISBN: 9780226188232
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(57) Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan
Dalin, David G.
ISBN: 9781611682380
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(58) Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea
Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio
ISBN: 9780226705200
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(59) Love of Country: A Journey through the Hebrides
Bunting, Madeleine
ISBN: 9780226471563
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(60) María Zambrano: A Life of Poetic Reason and Political Commitment
Rodríguez, Beatriz
ISBN: 9781783169757
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(61) More Than a Feeling: Personality, Polarization, and the Transformation of the US Congress
Ramey, Adam J.
ISBN: 9780226455983
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(62) Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
O'Connell, Aaron B.
ISBN: 9780226265650
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(63) Pablo Picasso
Müller, Markus
ISBN: 9783777427577
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(64) Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure
Veyne, Paul
ISBN: 9780226427829
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(65) Prague: A City and Its River
Becková, Katerina
ISBN: 9788024632926
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(66) Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
Hyra, Derek S.
ISBN: 9780226449531
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(67) Romanesque - Picasso
Lahuerta, Juan José
ISBN: 9788480432870
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(68) Spectacle and Leisure in Paris: Degas to Mucha
Childs, Elizabeth C.
ISBN: 9780936316437
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(69) The Bond of the Furthest Apart: Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka
Cameron, Sharon
ISBN: 9780226414065
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(70) The British and the Vietnam War: Their Way with LBJ
Tarling, Nicholas
ISBN: 9789814722230
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(71) The Medieval Invention of Travel
Legassie, Shayne Aaron
ISBN: 9780226446622
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(72) The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture
Fullilove, Courtney
ISBN: 9780226454863
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(73) Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Schwartz, Marie Jenkins
ISBN: 9780226147550
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(74) Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
Nelson, Deborah
ISBN: 9780226457802
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(75) The Generalship of Muhammad: Battles and Campaigns of the Prophet of Allah
Russ Rodgers
ISBN: 9780813054599
View at publisher (University Press of Florida)