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(1) "Spirits that I've cited...?" Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952): The Political Biography of a Czechoslovak Communist
Josette Baer. Foreword by Vlasta Jaksicsová
ISBN: 9783838210964
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(2) Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel Text
Translated and edited by Aili Mu with Mike Smith
ISBN: 9780231181532
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(3) Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity
Edited by Alice Kessler-Harris and Maurizio Vaudagna
ISBN: 9780231180351
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(4) Eqbal Ahmad: Critical Outsider in a Turbulent Age
Stuart Schaar
ISBN: 9780231171571
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(5) Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi
Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D'Ambrosio
ISBN: 9780231183994
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(6) The Mongol Conquests in the Novels of Vasily Yan: An Intellectual Biography
Dmitry Shlapentokh
ISBN: 9783838210872
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(7) Flashpoints for Asian American Studies
Edited by Cathy Schlund-Vials; Afterword by Viet Thanh Nguyen
ISBN: 9780823278619
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(8) The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins
Avery F. Gordon
ISBN: 9780823276325
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(9) The Transcontinental Maghreb: Francophone Literature across the Mediterranean
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
ISBN: 9780823275168
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(10) Resilience and Contagion: Invoking Human Rights in African HIV Advocacy
Kristi Heather Kenyon
ISBN: 9780773550995
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(11) Witness to Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians
Jordan Stanger-Ross; Pamela Sugiman
ISBN: 9780773551213
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(12) Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies
Edited by Robert Patrick Newcomb and Richard Gordon
ISBN: 9780814213476
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(13) Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics
Kate Polak
ISBN: 9780814213537
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(14) Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature: The Promise of Latino/a Literature
Christopher González
ISBN: 9780814213506
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(15) Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence
Jessica Hooten Wilson
ISBN: 9780814213490
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(16) Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art
by Rebecca J. DeRoo (Author)
ISBN: 9780520279414
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(17) Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai
by Anne Rademacher (Author)
ISBN: 9780520296008
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(18) California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820–1930
by Katherine Manthorne (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520296367
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(19) Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou
by Julia M White (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520294332
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(20) The Crime of Nationalism: Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of Empire
by Matthew Kraig Kelly (Author)
ISBN: 9780520291492
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(21) Why Latin American Nations Fail: Development Strategies in the Twenty-First Century
by Matías Vernengo (Editor), Esteban Pérez Caldentey (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520290303
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(22) Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
Phuong Tran Nguyen
ISBN: 978-0-252-04135-8
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(23) Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 2: The Americas and Europe
Edited by Michael J. Pfeifer
ISBN: 978-0-252-04138-9
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(24) The World of Credit in Colonial Massachusetts: James Richards and His Daybook, 1692-1711
Edited by James E. Wadsworth
ISBN: 9781625342874
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(25) Medical Imperialism in French North Africa: Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis
Richard C. Parks
ISBN: 9780803268456
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(26) Perla
Frédéric Brun Translated by Sarah Gendron and Jennifer Vanderheyden
ISBN: 9781496201027
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(27) Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter's Reckoning
Julija Šukys
ISBN: 9780803299597
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(28) Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America
Andrew C. McKevitt
ISBN: 9781469634470
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(29) Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization
Monique A. Bedasse
ISBN: 9781469633596
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(30) The New York Intellectuals, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s
Alan M. Wald
ISBN: 9781469635941
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(31) The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam
Ula Yvette Taylor
ISBN: 9781469633930
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(32) Irish Ethnologies
Edited by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin
ISBN: 9780268102371
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(33) Picturing India: People, Places, and the World of the East India Company
John McAleer
ISBN: 9780295742939
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(34) The Kings of Ayutthaya: A Creative Retelling of Siamese History
Robert Smith
ISBN: 9786162151347
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(35) Why the Sea Is Full of Salt and Other Vietnamese Folktales
Minh Tran Huy. Translated by Harry Aveling
ISBN: 9786162151361
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(36) Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order
Jelmer Vos
ISBN: 978-0-299-30624-3
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(37) Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina
Vladimir E. Alexandrov
ISBN: 978-0-299-19544-1
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(38) 50 Years of UC Blue Ash College: Inspiring Student Success - Then, Now, Always
Gioielli, Robert
ISBN: 9781947602007
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(39) Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century
Meijer, Hendrik
ISBN: 9780226682037
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(40) At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem
Fühmann, Franz
ISBN: 9781803090412
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(41) Becoming a New Self: Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism
Sluhovsky, Moshe
ISBN: 9780226472850
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(42) Bottleneck: Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City
Melly, Caroline
ISBN: 9780226488905
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(43) China’s Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy
Johnson, Kay Ann
ISBN: 9780226352510
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(44) Cities Contested: Urban Politics, Heritage, and Social Movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s
Baumeister, Martin
ISBN: 9783593506975
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(45) Cold War and Decolonisation: Australia’s Policy towards Britain’s End of Empire in Southeast Asia
Benvenuti, Andrea
ISBN: 9789814722193
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(46) Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East
Morton, Michael Quentin
ISBN: 9781780238104
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(47) Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya
Meiu, George Paul
ISBN: 9780226491172
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(48) Ferdinand Hodler. Catalogue Raisonné der Gemälde: Band 3: Die Figurenbilder
Swiss Institute for Art Research SIK-ISEA,
ISBN: 9783858812568
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(49) Fray: Art and Textile Politics
Bryan-Wilson, Julia
ISBN: 9780226077819
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(50) Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History
Lehner, Mark
ISBN: 9780226425696
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(51) Günther Wizemann: The Black Garden
Wizemann, Günther
ISBN: 9783858815507
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(52) Herman Melville
Hayes, Kevin J.
ISBN: 9781780238074
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(53) Jane Austen: Writer in the World
Sutherland, Kathryn
ISBN: 9781851244638
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(54) Living without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos
Vitebsky, Piers
ISBN: 9780226475622
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(55) Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs
Ikard, David
ISBN: 9780226492636
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(56) Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World
Greenblatt, Stephen
ISBN: 9780226525044
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(57) Revolutionizing Repertoires: The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru
Jansen, Robert S.
ISBN: 9780226487588
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(58) Royal Gifts
Goodsir, Sally
ISBN: 9781909741508
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(59) Terrestrial Lessons: The Conquest of the World as Globe
Ramaswamy, Sumathi
ISBN: 9780226476575
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(60) The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining
Shields, David S.
ISBN: 9780226406893
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(61) The Jews of Wales: A History
Parry-Jones, Cai
ISBN: 9781786830845
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(62) The Safe House: A Novel
Boltanski, Christophe
ISBN: 9780226449197
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(63) US-Singapore Relations, 1965-1975: Strategic Non-alignment in the Cold War
Wei Boon Chua, Daniel
ISBN: 9789814722322
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(64) Uselessness: A Novel
Lalo, Eduardo
ISBN: 9780226207797
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(65) We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
Van Cleve, George William
ISBN: 9780226480503
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(66) Who Reads Poetry: 50 Views from “Poetry” Magazine
Sasaki, Fred
ISBN: 9780226504766
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(67) James Still: A Life
Carol Boggess
ISBN: 9780813174181
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