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New books from university presses

(1) Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables
B. R. Ambedkar. Edited and annotated by Alex George and S. Anand. With an introduction by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd.
ISBN: 9780231195850
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(2) China's Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
James Miller
ISBN: 9780231175876
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(3) European Studies: Past, Present and Future
Edited by Erik Jones
ISBN: 9781788212830
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus
Marc David Baer
ISBN: 9780231196710
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(5) Making Worlds: Affect and Collectivity in Contemporary European Cinema
Claudia Breger
ISBN: 9780231194198
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(6) Never Speak to Strangers and Other Writing from Russia and the Soviet Union
David Satter
ISBN: 9783838213576
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(7) Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965
Nicolai Volland
ISBN: 9780231183116
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(8) Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama
Guojun Wang
ISBN: 9780231191906
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(9) The Buddha's Wizards: Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism
Thomas Nathan Patton
ISBN: 9780231187619
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(10) Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness
Lily Wong
ISBN: 9780231183390
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(11) Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts
Alexander Griboedov. Translated by Betsy Hulick
ISBN: 9780231189798
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(12) All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
Bernice Lerner
ISBN: 9781421437705
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(13) China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability
Rebecca Clothey; Richardson Dilworth
ISBN: 9780773559431
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(14) Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence
Jenny Rice
ISBN: 9780814214350
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(15) Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood
Allison L. Rowland
ISBN: 9780814214305
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(16) Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean
Aliyah Khan
ISBN: 9781978806641
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(17) Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism
Schneur Zalman Newfield
ISBN: 9781439918968
View at publisher (Temple University Press)


(18) On Becoming Apache
Harry Mithlo and Conger Beasley Jr.
ISBN: 9781682830598
View at publisher (Texas Tech University Press)


(19) A Final Reckoning: A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah
Ruth Gutmann; Foreword by Kenneth Waltzer
ISBN: 9780817359935
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(20) Goodbye, My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus
Vic Sizemore
ISBN: 9780817320577
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(21) Home without Walls: Southern Baptist Women and Social Reform in the Progressive Era
Carol Crawford Holcomb
ISBN: 9780817320546
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(22) A Brief History of Fascist Lies
by Federico Finchelstein (Author)
ISBN: 9780520346710
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(23) Cursed Questions: On Music and Its Social Practices
by Richard Taruskin (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344297
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(24) Fires of Gold: Law, Spirit, and Sacrificial Labor in Ghana
by Lauren Coyle Rosen (Author)
ISBN: 9780520343337
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(25) French Wine: A History
by Rod Phillips (Author)
ISBN: 9780520355439
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(26) Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America
by Katherine Jentleson (Author)
ISBN: 9780520303423
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(27) Leaving: A Narrative of Assisted Suicide
by Anthony Stavrianakis (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344471
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(28) Ending Gender-Based Violence: Justice and Community in South Africa
Hannah E. Britton
ISBN: 978-0-252-04309-3
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(29) Musical Ethics and Islam: The Art of Playing the Ney
Banu Senay
ISBN: 978-0-252-04302-4
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(30) Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930
Edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed
ISBN: 978-0-252-04305-5
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(31) Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond
Chinua Thelwell
ISBN: 9781625345172
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(32) Kafka's Zoopoetics: Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier
Naama Harel
ISBN: 9780472131792
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(33) Social Singing among the Mapuche
Mischa Titiev
ISBN: 9781951519650
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(34) States at War: A Reference Guide for Michigan in the Civil War
Richard F Miller
ISBN: 9780472131457
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(35) Cain v. Abel: A Jewish Courtroom Drama
Rabbi Dan Ornstein
ISBN: 9780827614673
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(36) In the Mean Time: Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition
Erin Murrah-Mandril
ISBN: 9781496211828
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(37) Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman: Black History and Poetics in Performance
Gale P. Jackson
ISBN: 9781496217684
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(38) Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877
Ryan Hall
ISBN: 9781469655154
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(39) Entre fuegos, memoria y violencia de Estado: Los textos literarios y testimoniales del movimiento armado en México
Aurelia Gómez Unamuno
ISBN: 9781945234699
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(40) Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
ISBN: 9781469656106
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(41) Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America
Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr.
ISBN: 9781469655048
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(42) Globalization and Liberalism: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Manent
Trevor Shelley
ISBN: 9780268107291
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(43) Bastards and Believers: Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present
Edited by Theodor Dunkelgrün and Paweł Maciejko
ISBN: 9780812251883
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(44) The Belle Créole: Maryse Condé. Translated by Nicole Simek. Afterword by Dawn Fulton
QuickLinks
ISBN: 9780813944210
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(45) A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Jeffrey A. Redding
ISBN: 9780295747088
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(46) Alaska: An American Colony
Stephen W. Haycox
ISBN: 9780295746852
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(47) Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China
Ting Zhang
ISBN: 9780295747156
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(48) Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands
Jonathan Padwe. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
ISBN: 9780295746906
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(49) Eat a Bowl of Tea
Louis Chu. Foreword by Fae Myenne Ng. Introduction by Jeffery Paul Chan
ISBN: 9780295747057
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(50) Haboo: Native American Stories from Puget Sound
Vi Hilbert, Jill La Pointe, Thom Hess
ISBN: 9780295746968
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(51) New Deal Art in the Northwest: The WPA and Beyond
Margaret E. Bullock
ISBN: 9780924335488
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(52) The Rise of West Lake: A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty
Xiaolin Duan
ISBN: 9780295747101
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(53) Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan
Nozomi Naoi
ISBN: 9780295746838
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(54) A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land: A Novel of Sihanouk’s Cambodia
Sorin, Suon
ISBN: 9789813250772
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(55) Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720
Wragge-Morley, Alexander
ISBN: 9780226680866
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(56) Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England
Smith, D. Vance
ISBN: 9780226640990
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(57) Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. And Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society
Proser, Adriana
ISBN: 9783777434339
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(58) Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State
Clemens, Elisabeth S.
ISBN: 9780226670836
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(59) Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America
Newson, Linda
ISBN: 9781908857620
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(60) Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It
Page, Benjamin I.
ISBN: 9780226724935
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(61) Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens’s Birds
Wolfe, Cary
ISBN: 9780226687971
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(62) Hans Scharoun and the Development of Small Apartment Floor Plans: The Residential High-Rises Romeo and Julia 1954–1959
Peter, Markus
ISBN: 9783038601579
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(63) Making Social Welfare Policy in America: Three Case Studies since 1950
Berkowitz, Edward D.
ISBN: 9780226692234
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(64) Michael Kvium: A Retrospective
Ørskou, Gitte
ISBN: 9783858818492
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(65) Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France
van Orden, Kate
ISBN: 9780226767994
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(66) New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas: “A writer of words, and nothing else”
Smith, Kieron
ISBN: 9781786835208
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(67) Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination
Gradert, Kenyon
ISBN: 9780226694023
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(68) Religious Intolerance, America, and the World: A History of Forgetting and Remembering
Corrigan, John
ISBN: 9780226313931
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(69) René Burri: Explosions of Sight
Bétrisey, Mélanie
ISBN: 9783858818454
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(70) Revelation and the Apocalypse in Late Medieval Literature: the Writings of Julian of Norwich and William Langland
Byron-Davies, Justin M.
ISBN: 9781786835161
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(71) Sherabad Oasis: Tracing Historical Landscape in Southern Uzbekistan
Stanco, Ladislav
ISBN: 9788024639024
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(72) Spartakiads: The Politics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia
Roubal, Petr
ISBN: 9788024638515
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(73) The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces: by Interiors
Karaoghlanian, Armen
ISBN: 9781789382051
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(74) The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North
Pawley, Emily
ISBN: 9780226820026
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(75) The Subject of Crusade: Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500
Galvez, Marisa
ISBN: 9780226693354
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(76) Trial by Theatre: Reports on Czech Drama
Day, Barbara
ISBN: 9788024639536
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(77) Union by Law: Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism
McCann, Michael W.
ISBN: 9780226679877
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(78) Writing Underground: Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia
Machovec, Martin
ISBN: 9788024641256
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(79) Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain: Also of Interest
Edited by Rafael Climent-Espino and Ana M. Gomez-Bravo
ISBN: 9780826522825
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)