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New books from university presses

(1) A Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China
Li Yu, translated by Jing Shen and Robert E. Hegel
ISBN: 9780231193559
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(2) Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts
Roland Barthes. Translated by Jody Gladding
ISBN: 9780231179874
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(3) Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins
Susan Fraiman
ISBN: 9780231166355
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(4) Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel
Daniel Poch
ISBN: 9780231193702
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(5) Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu
Beverley Foulks McGuire
ISBN: 9780231168038
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(6) Narcissistic Mothers in Modernist Literature: New Perspectives on Motherhood in the Works of D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys
Marie Géraldine Rademacher
ISBN: 9783837649666
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(7) On My Country and the World: twentieth anniversary edition
Mikhail Gorbachev. Translated by George Shriver. Foreword by William Taubman.
ISBN: 9780231194891
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(8) The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life
Thomas S. Davis
ISBN: 9780231169431
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(9) The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature
Jennifer Wenzel
ISBN: 9780823286775
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(10) The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb
Hoda El Shakry
ISBN: 9780823286355
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(11) Britain and China:
Evan Luard
ISBN: 9781421433547
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(12) Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge
Natalia Cecire
ISBN: 9781421433776
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(13) Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory
Victoria Aarons
ISBN: 9781978802551
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(14) Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies
Dal Yong Jin
ISBN: 9781978807884
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(15) Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel’s Gate
Rhona Seidelman
ISBN: 9781978808379
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(16) Origins of the Iroquois League: Narratives, Symbols, and Archaeology
Anthony Wonderley, Martha L. Sempowski
ISBN: 9780815636670
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(17) Center Places and Cherokee Towns: Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians
Christopher B. Rodning
ISBN: 9780817359805
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(18) Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture
Mariusz Kalczewiak
ISBN: 9780817320393
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(19) Gente Rutheni, Natione Poloni: The Ruthenians of Polish Nationality in Habsburg Galicia
Adam Świątek
ISBN: 9781894865555
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(20) Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris
by Julie Kleinman (Author)
ISBN: 9780520304413
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(21) Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean
by Jatin Dua (Author)
ISBN: 9780520305205
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(22) In Search of the Lost Decade: Everyday Rights in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
by Jennifer Adair (Author)
ISBN: 9780520305182
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(23) Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions
by Ann E. Lucas (Author)
ISBN: 9780520300804
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(24) Out of Earshot: Sound, Technology, and Power in American Art, 1860–1900
by Asma Naeem (Author)
ISBN: 9780520298989
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(25) Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
by Salih Can Aciksoz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520305304
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(26) The Big Gamble: The Migration of Eritreans to Europe
by Milena Belloni (Author)
ISBN: 9780520298705
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(27) Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic
by Amy Moran-Thomas (Author)
ISBN: 9780520297548
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(28) A Guru’s Journey: Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora
Sarah Morelli
ISBN: 978-0-252-04286-7
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(29) Emotional Bodies: The Historical Performativity of Emotions
Edited by Dolores Martín-Moruno and Beatriz Pichel
ISBN: 978-0-252-04289-8
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(30) American Intelligence: Small-Town News and Political Culture in Federalist New Hampshire
Ben P. Lafferty
ISBN: 9781625344618
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(31) Contested and Dangerous Seas: North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion
Colin J. Davis
ISBN: 9781625344366
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(32) Horrible Mothers: Representations across Francophone North America
Edited by Loïc Bourdeau
ISBN: 9780803293984
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(33) Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination
David E. Lowe
ISBN: 9781640120969
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(34) A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship
Keila Grinberg; Kristin M. McGuire
ISBN: 9781469652771
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(35) No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War
Ariel Mae Lambe
ISBN: 9781469652856
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(36) Standard-Bearers of Equality: America’s First Abolition Movement
Paul J. Polgar
ISBN: 9781469653938
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(37) The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Sarah Blackwood
ISBN: 9781469652597
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(38) Sandinistas: A Moral History
Robert J. Sierakowski
ISBN: 9780268106898
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(39) Axis of Hope: Iranian Women's Rights Activism across Borders
Catherine Z. Sameh
ISBN: 9780295746326
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(40) Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives
Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Ping Yao, Cong Ellen Zhang
ISBN: 9780295746418
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(41) Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
Lei Xue
ISBN: 9780295746364
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(42) Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay
Sheetal Chhabria
ISBN: 9780295746272
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(43) School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
ISBN: 9780295746548
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(44) Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths
Allen F. Roberts, Tom Joyce, Marla C. Berns
ISBN: 9780990762669
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(45) A Jewish Woman of Distinction: The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
Freeze, ChaeRan Y.
ISBN: 9781684580026
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(46) A Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on Art
Einstein, Carl
ISBN: 9780226464138
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(47) Glikl: Memoirs 1691-1719
Glikl,
ISBN: 9781684580057
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(48) Islamic Maps
Rapoport, Yossef
ISBN: 9781851244928
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(49) London Voices, 1820–1840: Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories
Parker, Roger
ISBN: 9780226670188
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(50) Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia
Gallop, Annabel Teh
ISBN: 9789813250864
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(51) Michelangelo’s Painting: Selected Essays
Steinberg, Leo
ISBN: 9780226482262
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(52) Phantom Africa
Leiris, Michel
ISBN: 9780857427007
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(53) Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema
Christie, Ian
ISBN: 9780226105635
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(54) Southeast Asia After the Cold War: A Contemporary History
Guan, Ang Cheng
ISBN: 9789813250789
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(55) La proyección del neoliberalismo: Las transformaciones del cine mexicano (1988–2012)
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
ISBN: 9780826522658
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