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New books from university presses

(1) andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies: Vol. 7/8, 2018/19
Edited by William Collins Donahue, Georg Mein, and Rolf Parr
ISBN: 9783837649529
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(2) Dragon’s Teeth: Tales from North Kosovo
Ian Bancroft
ISBN: 9783838213644
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(3) Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost
Satoko Shimazaki
ISBN: 9780231172271
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China's West
Edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle
ISBN: 9780231169998
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(5) Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: Special Issue: Remembering Historical Diversity in East–Central European Cityscapes, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2019), Vol. 5, No. 2 (2019): Special Edition
Edited by Eleonora Narvselius
ISBN: 9783838213569
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(6) South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers
Scott A. Snyder
ISBN: 9780231185493
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(7) The Clash of Values: Islamic Fundamentalism Versus Liberal Nationalism
Mansoor Moaddel
ISBN: 9780231193832
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(8) The Closed Circle: Joining and Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood in the West
Lorenzo Vidino
ISBN: 9780231193672
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(9) The Vesels: The Fate of a Czechoslovak Family in Twentieth-Century Central Europe (1918–1989)
Josette Baer
ISBN: 9783838213163
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(10) There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun
Ch'oe Yun. Translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton
ISBN: 9780231142977
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(11) Transmutations of Desire: Literature and Religion in Late Imperial China
Qiancheng Li
ISBN: 9789882371224
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(12) Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature
Sonya Posmentier
ISBN: 9781421437934
View at publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press)


(13) Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling about the Civil War
Cody Marrs
ISBN: 9781421436654
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(14) Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture:
edited by Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler
ISBN: 9781421428666
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(15) Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver
Graham Russell Gao Hodges
ISBN: 9781421437798
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(16) From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds
Rossen Djagalov
ISBN: 9780228001102
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(17) Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel
Mazen Naous
ISBN: 9780814214299
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(18) Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory, and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold
Sara Smith
ISBN: 9780813598567
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(19) Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel
Walker Robins
ISBN: 9780817320485
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(20) Fictions of Certitude: Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920
John S. Haller
ISBN: 9780817320539
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(21) Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi
by Peter Limbrick (Author)
ISBN: 9780520330573
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(22) Becoming Human Again: An Oral History of the Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi
by Donald E. Miller (Author)
ISBN: 9780520343788
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(23) Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d'Etat, and Memory in Turkey
by Christopher Houston (Author)
ISBN: 9780520343207
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(24) Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise
by Lina Britto (Author)
ISBN: 9780520325470
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(25) Migrant Conversions: Transforming Connections Between Peru and South Korea
by Erica Vogel (Author)
ISBN: 9780520341173
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(26) Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization
by On Barak (Author)
ISBN: 9780520310728
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(27) Sharia Transformations: Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary
by Michael G. Peletz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520339927
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(28) The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley
by Robert Creeley (Author), Rod Smith (Editor), Peter Baker (Editor), Kaplan Harris (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520324831
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(29) Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science
Ralph M. Leck
ISBN: 978-0-252-04000-9
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(30) Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers
Anthony Grafton
ISBN: 9780472034383
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(31) Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One
Sidney Thompson
ISBN: 9781496218759
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(32) The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility
Elliott Rabin
ISBN: 9780827613249
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(33) A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall
Paul M. Farber
ISBN: 9781469655086
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(34) Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance
James Bernauer, S.J.
ISBN: 9780268107017
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(35) Making Market Women: Gender, Religion, and Work in Ecuador
Jill DeTemple
ISBN: 9780268107451
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(36) The Spirit of Hispanism: Commerce, Culture, and Identity across the Atlantic, 1875–1936
Diana Arbaiza
ISBN: 9780268106935
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(37) Levinas's Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality
Annabel Herzog
ISBN: 9780812251975
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(38) Dressed with Distinction: Garments from Ottoman Syria
Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood. Introduction by Joanna Barrkman
ISBN: 9780990762690
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(39) Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind
Nico Slate
ISBN: 9780295744964
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(40) Meleko Mokgosi: Bread, Butter, and Power
Erica P. Jones
ISBN: 9780990762676
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(41) At the Corner of a Dream: A Journey of Resistance and Revolution: The Street Art of Bahia Shehab
Shehab, Bahia
ISBN: 9781909942394
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(42) Common Sense in the Second Amendment: Eighteenth-Century English and the U.S. Bill of Rights
Burns, Margie
ISBN: 9781988963273
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(43) Congo as Fiction: Art Worlds between Past and Present
Guyer, Nanina
ISBN: 9783858818355
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(44) Eleanor
Jacobik, Gray
ISBN: 9781933880754
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(45) Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network
Harren, Natilee
ISBN: 9780226354927
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(46) Hans Purrmann: The Vitality of Colour
Vogel, Annette
ISBN: 9783777433660
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(47) Helmut Schober: Vortex
Ronte, Dieter
ISBN: 9783777434360
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(48) Manon
Kunsthaus Zofingen,
ISBN: 9783858816399
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(49) New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History
Miskell, Louise
ISBN: 9781786835000
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(50) Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective
Ginzburg, Carlo
ISBN: 9780226674414
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(51) Petrograd, 1917: Witnesses to the Russian Revolution
Pinfold, John
ISBN: 9781851244607
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(52) Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems
Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh
ISBN: 9781938769504
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(53) Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France
Weil, Kari
ISBN: 9780226686370
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(54) Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities
Dawson, Gowan
ISBN: 9780226676517
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(55) The American Robot: A Cultural History
Abnet, Dustin A.
ISBN: 9780226692715
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(56) The Daily Thomas Paine: A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age
Paine, Thomas
ISBN: 9780226653518
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(57) The Elegance of Hosokawa: Tradition of a Samurai Family
Zorn, Bettina
ISBN: 9783777433523
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(58) The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life, and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Kelleher, Margaret
ISBN: 9781910820421
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(59) The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency
Drezner, Daniel W.
ISBN: 9780226714257
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(60) Truth Has a Different Shape
O'Driscoll, Kari
ISBN: 9781933880761
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(61) Vincent’s Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him
Guzzoni, Mariella
ISBN: 9780226706467
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(62) Wilhelm Leibl: The Art of Seeing
von Waldkirch, Bernhard
ISBN: 9783777433875
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(63) Writing Appalachia: An Anthology
Edited by Katherine Ledford, Theresa Lloyd and Rebecca Stephens
ISBN: 9780813178790
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(64) Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910)
Ashley Elizabeth Kerr
ISBN: 9780826522726
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