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(1) Chinese Script: History, Characters, Calligraphy
Thomas O. Höllmann. Translated by Maximiliane Donicht
ISBN: 9780231181730
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(2) Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology
Edited and translated by R. Parthasarathy
ISBN: 9780231184397
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(3) Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview
Linor Goralik. Edited by Ainsley Morse, Maria Vassileva, and Maya Vinokour
ISBN: 9780231183512
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(4) Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left
Gareth Dale
ISBN: 9780231176095
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(5) Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet
Holly Gayley
ISBN: 9780231180535
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(6) Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan
Dana Burde
ISBN: 9780231169295
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(7) Under Swiss Protection: Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest
Edited by Agnes Hirschi and Charlotte Schallié. Foreword by Timothy Snyder
ISBN: 9783838211091
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(8) Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry
Konstantin Batyushkov. Presented and translated by Peter France
ISBN: 9780231185417
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(9) Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews
Jay Geller
ISBN: 9780823275595
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(10) Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction
Mark C. Jerng
ISBN: 9780823277766
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(11) The Forgiveness to Come: The Holocaust and the Hyper-Ethical
Peter Jason Banki
ISBN: 9780823278657
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(12) The Global South Atlantic
Edited by Kerry Bystrom and Joseph R. Slaughter; Contributor(s): Luis Felipe Alencastro, Jaime Hanneken, Jason Frydman, Isabel Hofmeyr, Anne-Garland Mahler
ISBN: 9780823277889
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(13) The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism
Edited by Erin Graff Zivin; Afterword by Geoffrey Bennington; Contributor(s): Patrick Dove, Jaime Hanneken, Erin Graff Zivin, David Kelman, Brett Levinson,
ISBN: 9780823277681
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(14) Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy: How American Presidents Succeed in Foreign Policy
Ionut Popescu
ISBN: 9781421423777
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(15) Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq: Sierra Leonean Labor Migrants at US Military Bases
Kevin J.A. Thomas
ISBN: 9780773551237
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(16) Reading Conrad
J. Hillis MillerEdited by John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe
ISBN: 9780814213483
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(17) A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki
Stephen Prince
ISBN: 9780813592350
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(18) Exploiting the Wilderness: An Analysis of Wildlife Crime
Greg L. Warchol
ISBN: 9781439913673
View at publisher (Temple University Press)


(19) Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System
by Lee Grieveson (Author)
ISBN: 9780520291690
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(20) On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition
by Patrick Vinton Kirch (Author)
ISBN: 9780520292819
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(21) Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok
by Claudio Sopranzetti (Author)
ISBN: 9780520288508
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(22) Robo sapiens japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation
by Jennifer Robertson (Author)
ISBN: 9780520283206
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(23) Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio
Derek W. Vaillant
ISBN: 978-0-252-04141-9
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(24) The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War
Lindsay Tuggle
ISBN: 9781609385392
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(25) United Tastes: The Making of the First American Cookbook
Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781625343222
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(26) The Chosen Game: A Jewish Basketball History
Charley Rosen
ISBN: 9780803255432
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(27) Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America
Rachel Kranson
ISBN: 9781469635439
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(28) The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy
Hans Mommsen
ISBN: 9780807876077
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(29) The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860
Martin Brückner
ISBN: 9781469632605
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(30) Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960
Nicholas Grant
ISBN: 9781469635286
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(31) Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination
Farrell O'Gorman
ISBN: 9780268102173
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(32) Deborah and Her Sisters: How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage
Jonathan M. Hess
ISBN: 9780812249583
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(33) Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World:
edited by John Corrigan
ISBN: 978-1-61117-796-1
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(34) Chinook Resilience: Heritage and Cultural Revitalization on the Lower Columbia River
Jon D. Daehnke. Foreword by Tony A. Johnson
ISBN: 9780295742267
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(35) Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25
heather ahtone, Rebecca J. Dobkins, and Prudence F. Roberts
ISBN: 9781930957787
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(36) Mobilizing Krishna's World: The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh
Heidi R. M. Pauwels
ISBN: 9780295742236
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(37) The Art of Resistance: Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China
Shelley Drake Hawks
ISBN: 9780295741956
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(38) The Rebirth of Bodh Gaya: Buddhism and the Making of a World Heritage Site
David Geary
ISBN: 9780295742373
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(39) A Final Story: Science, Myth, and Beginnings
Zakariya, Nasser
ISBN: 9780226476124
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(40) A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World
Tong, Scott
ISBN: 9780226338866
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(41) American Academic Cultures: A History of Higher Education
Mattingly, Paul H.
ISBN: 9780226505268
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(42) Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution
Chamberlain, Lesley
ISBN: 9781780238524
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(43) Building Nature’s Market: The Business and Politics of Natural Foods
Miller, Laura J.
ISBN: 9780226501376
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(44) Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy
Irwin, Douglas A.
ISBN: 9780226678443
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(45) Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality
Palmer, David A.
ISBN: 9780226484846
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(46) Egon Schiele
Leopold, Diethard
ISBN: 9783777428529
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(47) Finance in America: An Unfinished Story
Brine, Kevin R.
ISBN: 9780226502182
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(48) God’s Businessmen: Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War
Hammond, Sarah Ruth
ISBN: 9780226509778
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(49) Goody Two-Shoes and other 18th-century British stories
Wallace, Henry M
ISBN: 9781988963013
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(50) Henri Matisse
Müller, Markus
ISBN: 9783777428482
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(51) In) Formation: On the Philosophy and Art of Alice Teichert
Täube, Dagmar Regina
ISBN: 9783777428826
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(52) Instability in the Middle East: Structural Causes and Uneven Modernisation 1950–2015
Cerný, Karel
ISBN: 9788024634272
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(53) Is that Biedermeier?: Amerling, Waldmüller and More
Grabner, Sabine
ISBN: 9783777427799
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(54) Jane Austen: Illustrated Quotations
Bodleian Library,
ISBN: 9781851244645
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(55) Jane Austen: The Chawton Letters
Sutherland, Kathryn
ISBN: 9781851244744
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(56) Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s
Harcourt, Felix
ISBN: 9780226376158
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(57) Minorities and Law in Czechoslovakia
Kuklík, Jan
ISBN: 9788024635835
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(58) Nature’s Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape
Howe, Jeffery W.
ISBN: 9781892850294
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(59) Oduduwa’s Chain: Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic
Apter, Andrew
ISBN: 9780226506418
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(60) Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America
Emre, Merve
ISBN: 9780226473970
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(61) Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
McKay, Richard A.
ISBN: 9780226063959
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(62) Revolution!: Sayings of Vladimir Lenin
Bodleian Library,
ISBN: 9781851244706
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(63) Sovereign of the Market: The Money Question in Early America
Sklansky, Jeffrey
ISBN: 9780226480336
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(64) Standing Up for Civil Rights in St. Louis
Doyle, Amanda E.
ISBN: 9781883982911
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(65) The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
Arendt, Hannah
ISBN: 9780226924519
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(66) The Fullness of Time: Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries
Champion, Matthew S.
ISBN: 9780226514796
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(67) The Money Museum of the Deutsche Bundesbank
Deutsche Bundesbank,
ISBN: 9783777428079
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(68) The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community
Rothman, Aviva
ISBN: 9780226496979
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(69) The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace
Mathews, Gordon
ISBN: 9780226506104
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(70) They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
Mayer, Milton
ISBN: 9780226525839
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(71) To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job: Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria
Smith, Daniel Jordan
ISBN: 9780226491653
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(72) Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism, and the Cold War
Jennifer Frost
ISBN: 9780700624966
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(73) Power versus Law in Modern China: Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party
Qiang Fang and Xiaobing Li
ISBN: 9780813173931
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