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(1) Comparative Literature: Literature Studies - Cultural Studies
Andrzej Hejmej. Translated by Lindsay Davidson
ISBN: 9788323344391
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(2) Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
Robert McNally
ISBN: 9780231178150
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(3) Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record
Sandra Fahy
ISBN: 9780231176347
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(4) Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey
Suzanne Berliner Weiss
ISBN: 9781773632186
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(5) Learning Chinese Language and Culture: Intermediate Chinese Textbook, Volume 1
Weijia Huang and Qun Ao
ISBN: 9789882370609
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(6) Learning Chinese Language and Culture: Intermediate Chinese Textbook, Volume 2
Weijia Huang and Qun Ao
ISBN: 9789882370616
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(7) Little Magazine, World Form
Eric Bulson
ISBN: 9780231179775
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(8) New Life for Old Ideas: Chinese Philosophy in the Contemporary World: A Festschrift in Honour of Donald J. Munro
Edited by Yanming An and Brian J. Bruya
ISBN: 9789882370524
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(9) Shakespeare: His Infinite Variety: Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of His Death
Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney and Grzegorz Zinkiewicz
ISBN: 9788323345466
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(10) Some Intertextual Chords of Joseph Conrad’s Literary Art
Edited by Wiesław Krajka
ISBN: 9788322791868
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(11) The Cultural Economy of Land: Rural Bengal, Circa 1860–1940
Suhita Sinha Roy. Edited by Mallarika Sinha Roy
ISBN: 9788193732977
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(12) The Dancing Poet: Rabindranath Tagore and Choreographies of Participation
Rimli Bhattacharya
ISBN: 9789382381983
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(13) Triadic Coercion: Israel’s Targeting of States That Host Nonstate Actors
Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili
ISBN: 9780231171854
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(14) Lady Liberty: An Illustrated History of America's Most Storied Woman

ISBN: 9780823285334
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(15) Ephemeral Bibelots: How an International Fad Buried American Modernism
Brad Evans
ISBN: 9781421432694
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(16) Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend
Roy Morris Jr.
ISBN: 9781421431536
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(17) Nightmare Factories: The Asylum in the American Imagination
Troy Rondinone
ISBN: 9781421432670
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(18) The Art of Collectivity: Social Circus and the Cultural Politics of a Post-Neoliberal Vision
Jennifer Beth Spiegel; Benjamin Ortiz Choukroun
ISBN: 9780773557352
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(19) The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities
Jessica Tsui-Yan Li
ISBN: 9780773556850
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(20) Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement
Isiah Lavender III
ISBN: 9780814214138
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(21) Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture
Amanda Nell Edgar
ISBN: 9780814214060
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(22) Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny
Edited by Michael G. Long
ISBN: 9780815611134
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(23) Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Art and Literature
Danielle Haque
ISBN: 9780815636496
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(24) Reading the Wampum: Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery
Penelope Myrtle Kelsey
ISBN: 9780815636656
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(25) The Shore of Expectations: A Cultural Study of the Shistdesiatnyky
Simone Attilio Bellezza
ISBN: 9781894865500
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(26) Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas
by Amelia Moore (Author)
ISBN: 9780520298934
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(27) Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York
by Rebecca Solnit (Author), Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (Author), Rebecca Snedeker (Author)
ISBN: 9780520314290
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(28) Made in Baja: The Lives of Farmworkers and Growers behind Mexico's Transnational Agricultural Boom
by Christian Zlolniski (Author)
ISBN: 9780520300637
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(29) Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples
by Kerry Driscoll (Author)
ISBN: 9780520310742
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(30) Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, Second Edition
by Simon Morrison (Author)
ISBN: 9780520305465
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(31) Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil
by Jessica Lynn Graham (Author)
ISBN: 9780520293762
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(32) The Celestina: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue
by Fernando de Rojas (Author)
ISBN: 9780520309593
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(33) The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life
by Becky Yang Hsu (Editor), Richard Madsen (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520306325
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(34) The Poem of the Cid

ISBN: 9780520309616
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(35) Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing
Stéphane Robolin
ISBN: 978-0-252-08482-9
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(36) 9/12: The Epic Battle of the Ground Zero Responders
William H. Groner and Tom Teicholz
ISBN: 9781640120310
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(37) Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents
Edited and with an introduction by Lise Funderburg
ISBN: 9781496212092
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(38) The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust
Rafael Medoff
ISBN: 9780827614703
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(39) India and the Cold War
Manu Bhagavan
ISBN: 9781469651163
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(40) Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary
Alex Dika Seggerman
ISBN: 9781469653044
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(41) This We'll Defend: A Noncombat Veteran on War and Its Aftermath
Paul Crenshaw
ISBN: 9781469651071
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(42) From the Fifty Jātaka: Selections from the Thai Paññāsa Jātaka
Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit
ISBN: 9786162151279
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(43) Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection
Aina the Layman. With Ziran the Eccentric Wanderer. Robert E. Hegel
ISBN: 9780295746111
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(44) Illustrations of Myanmar: Manuscript Treasures of the Musée Guimet
William Pruitt
ISBN: 9786162151484
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(45) Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity
Rivi Handler-Spitz
ISBN: 9780295746135
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(46) Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways
Jin Feng
ISBN: 9780295745992
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(47) The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnúwit Átawish Nch'inch'imamí: Reflections on Sahaptin Ways
Virginia R. Beavert. Edited by Janne L. Underriner. Edited by Janne L. Underriner
ISBN: 9780295746128
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(48) The Khmer Rouge Trials in Context
Toshihiro Abe
ISBN: 9786162151538
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(49) The Kongs of Qufu: The Descendants of Confucius in Late Imperial China
Christopher S. Agnew
ISBN: 9780295745930
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(50) Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets: An Anthology
Wilt L. Idema
ISBN: 9780295745749
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(51) Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria
Wedeen, Lisa
ISBN: 9780226650609
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(52) Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America
Kuznick, Peter J.
ISBN: 9780226676203
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(53) Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs
Gordon, Colin
ISBN: 9780226760889
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(54) Dark Lens: Imaging Germany, 1945
Meltzer, Françoise
ISBN: 9780226816852
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(55) Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation
Pouran, Hamid
ISBN: 9781909942219
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(56) Geocultural Power: China’s Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century
Winter, Tim
ISBN: 9780226658353
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(57) Hans Döllgast, Karljosef Schattner, Josef Wiedemann: Creative Reconstruction
Stock, Wolfgang Jean
ISBN: 9783777433073
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(58) Hunted: Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala
O'Neill, Kevin Lewis
ISBN: 9780226624655
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(59) I’d Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music
La Chapelle, Peter
ISBN: 9780226923000
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(60) Inward: Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment of the Self
Pagis, Michal
ISBN: 9780226361871
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(61) Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic
Shaw, Christopher W.
ISBN: 9780226636337
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(62) Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age
Liebersohn, Harry
ISBN: 9780226649276
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(63) The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China
Hung, Wu
ISBN: 9780935573602
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(64) The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture
Meyer, James
ISBN: 9780226521558
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(65) The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang
Schipper, Kristofer
ISBN: 9780226721064
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(66) Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929): refashioning history for the twentieth century
Rosenthal, Joel T.
ISBN: 9781909646995
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(67) Viral Economies: Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam
Porter, Natalie
ISBN: 9780226648941
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(68) Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of US Expansion
Edited by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.
ISBN: 9780700628186
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(69) Building Ho's Army: Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam
Xiaobing Li
ISBN: 9780813177946
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(70) Faith in Black Power: Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois
Kerry Pimblott
ISBN: 9780813178479
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(71) Spectacular Bid: The Last Superhorse of the Twentieth Century
Peter Lee
ISBN: 9780813177809
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(72) The Dream Is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia
Julian Maxwell Hayter
ISBN: 9780813178462
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(73) Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño
Juan E. De Castro
ISBN: 9780826522597
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