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(1) Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America
D. E. Osto
ISBN: 9780231177313
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(2) Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges
Corey Byrnes
ISBN: 9780231188067
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(3) Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet
Geoffrey Barstow
ISBN: 9780231179973
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(4) Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa's Deluge: Two Novellas of Japan's 3/11 Disaster
Kimura Yūsuke. Translated by Doug Slaymaker.
ISBN: 9780231189439
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(5) Taming the Wild Horse: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures
Louis Komjathy
ISBN: 9780231181273
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(6) The Handsome Monk and Other Stories
Tsering Döndrup. Translated by Christopher Peacock.
ISBN: 9780231190237
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(7) The Man Who Couldn't Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being
Olga Slavnikova. Translated by Marian Schwartz.
ISBN: 9780231185950
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(8) The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature
Hamid Dabashi
ISBN: 9780231183444
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(9) "Pretends to Be Free": Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey
Edited by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and Alan Edward Brown
ISBN: 9780823282159
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(10) Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism
Andrew Feffer
ISBN: 9780823281152
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(11) Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization
Walt Hunter
ISBN: 9780823282210
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(12) Revelation 1-3 in Christian Arabic Commentary: John's First Vision and the Letters to the Seven Churches
Būlus al-Būshī and Ibn Kātib Qayṣar; Edited by Stephen J. Davis, T.C. Schmidt and Shawqi Talia
ISBN: 9780823281831
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(13) Timelines of American Literature:
edited by Cody Marrs and Christopher Hager
ISBN: 9781421427133
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(14) Strategic Friends: Canada-Ukraine Relations from Independence to the Euromaidan
Bohdan S. Kordan
ISBN: 9780773555211
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(15) Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England: Plague, Poetry, England
David K. Coley
ISBN: 9780814213902
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(16) Milking in the Shadows: Migrants and Mobility in America’s Dairyland
Julie C. Keller
ISBN: 9780813596419
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(17) Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan
Amy Brainer
ISBN: 9780813597607
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(18) The Bartonellas and Peruvian Medicine: The Work of Alberto Leonardo Barton
Graciela S Alarcón and Renato D Alarcón; Contributions by Rolly Barton Gonzales, Uriel García Cáceres, Ciro Maguiña and César Ugarte-Gil
ISBN: 9780813596136
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(19) The Power of Dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians: Stories of Change from the School for Peace
Nava Sonnenschein; Introduction by Tamar Saguy; Translated by Deb Reich; Edited by Deb Reich
ISBN: 9780813599212
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(20) Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement
Ming-sho Ho
ISBN: 9781439917077
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(21) The Saints of Progress: A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity
Carmen Kordick
ISBN: 9780817320027
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(22) John Rae, Arctic Explorer: The Unfinished Autobiography
John Rae; Edited by William Barr
ISBN: 9781772123326
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(23) Polish War Veterans in Alberta: The Last Four Stories
Aldona Jaworska
ISBN: 9781772123739
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(24) Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters
by Constance M. Lewallen (Author), Dore Bowen (Author)
ISBN: 9780520296053
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(25) Gan's Constructivism: Aesthetic Theory for an Embedded Modernism
by Kristin Romberg (Author)
ISBN: 9780520298538
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(26) Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe
by Masayuki Tanimoto (Editor), R. Bin Wong (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520303652
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(27) Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015
by Celeste-Marie Bernier (Author)
ISBN: 9780520286535
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(28) The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America
by Giorgio Bertellini (Author)
ISBN: 9780520301368
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(29) Soldiers of the Pen: The Writers' War Board in World War II
Thomas Howell
ISBN: 9781625343871
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(30) Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan
Gill Steel
ISBN: 9780472131143
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(31) Investing in the Homeland: Migration, Social Ties, and Foreign Firms
Benjamin A.T. Graham
ISBN: 9780472131150
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(32) Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability
Elizabeth Bearden
ISBN: 9780472131129
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(33) The Burden of the Past: Problems of Historical Perception in Japan-Korea Relations
Kan Kimura
ISBN: 9780472074105
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(34) Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine
Edited by Dinty W. Moore, Erin Murphy, and Renée K. Nicholson Foreword by Jacek L. Mostwin
ISBN: 9781496203601
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(35) Allegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
Andrew Newman
ISBN: 9781469647647
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(36) Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945–1991
Edward M. Geist
ISBN: 9781469645254
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(37) On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay
Cheryl A. Wall
ISBN: 9781469646909
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(38) The Consequences of Loyalism: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Calhoon
edited by Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore
ISBN: 978-1-61117-950-7
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(39) Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism
Eric Huntington
ISBN: 9780295744063
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(40) The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir
Ernestine Hayes
ISBN: 9780295745725
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(41) Bearing Witness: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature
Martin, Augustine
ISBN: 9781900621014
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(42) Changing Shades of Orange and Green: Redefining the Union and Nation inContemporary Ireland: Redefining the Union and Nation inContemporary Ireland
Coakley, John
ISBN: 9781900621830
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(43) Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600–1874
MacGregor, Arthur
ISBN: 9781789140033
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(44) European Encounters: Essays in Memory of Albert Lovett: Essays in Memory of Albert Lovett
Devlin, judith
ISBN: 9781900621878
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(45) From Author to Audience: John Capgrave and Medieval Publication: John Capgrave and Medieval Publication
Lucas, peter
ISBN: 9781900621052
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(46) Hollywood in Havana: US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959
Feeney, Megan
ISBN: 9780226593692
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(47) Ireland: The Union and its Aftermath: The Union and its Aftermath
MacDonagh, Oliver
ISBN: 9781900621816
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(48) Logic in a Popular Form: Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal
Banerjee, Sumanta
ISBN: 9781906497552
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(49) Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity and Museums in Exile
Khouri, Kristine
ISBN: 9788364177446
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(50) Recoveries: Neglected Episodes in Irish Cultural History 1860-1912
Wilson Foster, John
ISBN: 9781900621823
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(51) Republicanism in Modern Ireland
McGarry, Fearghal
ISBN: 9781900621953
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(52) Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics
Milkis, Sidney M.
ISBN: 9780226569390
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(53) Savu: History and Oral Tradition on an Island of Indonesia
Duggan, Geneviève
ISBN: 9789814722759
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(54) Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground
Nishikawa, Kinohi
ISBN: 9780226586915
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(55) The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement’s Congo Report and 1903 Diary: Roger Casement’s Congo Report and 1903 Diary
Ó Síocháin, Séamas
ISBN: 9781900621984
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(56) The Repealer Repulsed
McComb, William
ISBN: 9781900621977
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(57) The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland: A Parallel for Ireland
Griffith, Arthur
ISBN: 9781900621960
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(58) The Royal Irish Constabulary: A History and Personal Memoir: A History and Personal Memoir
Fennell, Thomas
ISBN: 9781904558002
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(59) The University of Oxford: A Brief History
Brockliss, Laurence
ISBN: 9781851245000
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(60) Thrifty Science: Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment
Werrett, Simon
ISBN: 9780226610252
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(61) To the Leaders of Our Working People
Hagan, Edward
ISBN: 9781900621410
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(62) Tolkien: Treasures
McIlwaine, Catherine
ISBN: 9781851244966
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(63) Truth, Power and Lies: Irish Society and the Case of the Kerry Babies: Irish Society and the Case of the Kerry Babies
Inglis, Tom
ISBN: 9781904558026
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(64) Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of Republican Motherhood and the Spouses of Presidential Nominees, 1992-2016
Tammy R. Vigil
ISBN: 9780700627486
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