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(1) »Truth« and Fiction: Conspiracy Theories in Eastern European Culture and Literature
Edited by Peter Deutschmann, Jens Herlth, and Alois Woldan
ISBN: 9783837646504
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(2) Midcentury Suspension: Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II
Claire Seiler
ISBN: 9780231194693
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(3) Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond
Edited by Katherine Pratt Ewing and Rosemary R. Corbett
ISBN: 9780231195751
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(4) Nation Building in Contested States: Comparative Insights from Kosovo, Transnistria, and Northern Cyprus
Viktoria Potapkina
ISBN: 9783838213811
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(5) Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath
Translated and edited by Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock. Foreword by Bao Ninh
ISBN: 9780231196093
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(6) Sachiko: A Novel
Endō Shūsaku. Translated by Van C. Gessel
ISBN: 9780231197311
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(7) The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea
Na Man'gap. Translated and with an introduction by George Kallander
ISBN: 9780231197571
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(8) The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing
Si Nae Park
ISBN: 9780231195423
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(9) The Nose and Other Stories
Nikolai Gogol. Translated by Susanne Fusso
ISBN: 9780231190695
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(10) U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century: Empowering Allies and Partners
Abraham M. Denmark
ISBN: 9780231197656
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(11) Various Dimensions of the Other in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction
Edited with an introduction by Wiesław Krajka
ISBN: 9788322793138
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(12) A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move / A de asilo: palabras para personas en movimiento
Rachel Ida Buff; Translated by Alejandra Oliva
ISBN: 9780823289158
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(13) Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History
Susanna Lee
ISBN: 9781421437095
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(14) Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World
Louis Galambos
ISBN: 9781421439266
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(15) Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century
edited by Robert J. Mayhew and Charles W. J. Withers
ISBN: 9781421438542
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(16) The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America:
Greta LaFleur
ISBN: 9781421438849
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(17) Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek
ISBN: 9780814214459
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(18) Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore: Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico
Rafael Ocasio
ISBN: 9781978810204
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(19) Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy
by Li Zhang (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344198
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(20) Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network
by Roberto J. González (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344211
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(21) In Stravinsky's Orbit: Responses to Modernism in Russian Paris
by Klara Moricz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344426
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(22) In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
by Gema Kloppe-Santamaría (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344037
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(23) The Black Art Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism across Continents
by Joshua I. Cohen (Author)
ISBN: 9780520309685
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(24) The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand
by Scott Stonington (Author)
ISBN: 9780520343900
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(25) Ray Bradbury Unbound:
Jonathan R. Eller
ISBN: 978-0-252-08562-8
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(26) Museum Diplomacy: Transnational Public History and the U.S. Department of State
Richard J. W. Harker
ISBN: 9781625344939
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(27) Rescued from Oblivion: Historical Cultures in the Early United States
Alea Henle
ISBN: 9781625344991
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(28) Shaker Fever: America's Twentieth-Century Fascination with a Communitarian Sect
William D. Moore
ISBN: 9781625345097
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(29) The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts
Emily C.K. Romeo
ISBN: 9781625345134
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(30) Bodies and Ruins: Imagining the Bombing of Germany, 1945 to the Present
David F. Crew
ISBN: 9780472038466
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(31) Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia
Edited by Joyce Flueckiger & Laurie Sears
ISBN: 9780472901715
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(32) Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia
Edited by Karl Hutterer, A. Terry Rambo, A. Terry Rambo, and George Lovelace
ISBN: 9780472902293
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(33) Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia: Perspectives from Prehistory, History, and Ethnography
Edited by Karl Hutterer
ISBN: 9780472901722
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(34) Ethnic Diversity and the Control of Natural Resources in Southeast Asia
Edited by A. Terry Rambo, A. Terry Rambo, Kathleen Gillogly, and Karl Hutterer
ISBN: 9780472902309
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(35) Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History: The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft
Edited by Kenneth Hall, John K. Whitmore, and John K. Whitmore
ISBN: 9780472901951
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(36) Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 1
Edited by Judith Becker, Alan H. Feinstein, and Alan H. Feinstein
ISBN: 9780472901647
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(37) Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 2
Edited by Judith Becker, Alan H. Feinstein, and Alan H. Feinstein
ISBN: 9780472901654
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(38) Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 3
Edited by Judith Becker, Alan H. Feinstein, and Alan H. Feinstein
ISBN: 9780472901661
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(39) Law and Kingship in Thailand During the Reign of King Chulalongkorn
David Engel & David Engel
ISBN: 9780472901944
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(40) The Journey: Stories by K. C. Das
K.C. Das & K.C. DasTranslated by Phyllis Granoff
ISBN: 9780472902316
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(41) The War in Their Minds: German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany
Svenja GoltermannTranslated by Philip Schmitz
ISBN: 9780472038459
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(42) Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
Joseph SiegmanForeword by Mark Spitz
ISBN: 9781496201881
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(43) Thinking about God: Jewish Views
Rabbi Kari H. Tuling
ISBN: 9780827613010
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(44) Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre
Edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon
ISBN: 9781496221162
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(45) American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era
Craig Bruce Smith
ISBN: 9781469661582
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(46) Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic
Mark Boonshoft
ISBN: 9781469661360
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(47) Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
Katherine M. Marino
ISBN: 9781469661520
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(48) Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
Karen L. Cox
ISBN: 9781469661438
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(49) Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal
Tisa Wenger
ISBN: 9781469661605
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(50) St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America's Most Popular Saint
Patricia Appelbaum
ISBN: 9781469661421
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(51) The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana
Daniel A. Rodríguez
ISBN: 9781469659732
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(52) The Transnational "Good Life": Ecuadorian Social Clubs as Spaces of Resistance
Linda Jean Hall
ISBN: 9781469662503
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(53) The Patrons and Their Poor: Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany
Debra Kaplan
ISBN: 9780812252392
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(54) A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era: The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy
David B. Ruderman
ISBN: 9780295748061
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(55) Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape
Sarah R. Hamilton. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
ISBN: 9780295748092
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(56) Rural Origins, City Lives: Class and Place in Contemporary China
Roberta Zavoretti
ISBN: 9780295748085
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(57) The Edge of Knowing: Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature
Roy Bing Chan
ISBN: 9780295748115
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(58) A History of Crete
Moorey, Chris
ISBN: 9781912208531
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(59) Astrid Lowack: The Elements of Transcendence
Bornscheuer, Marion
ISBN: 9783777435220
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(60) Birds: An Anthology
Mitchell, Jaqueline
ISBN: 9781851245291
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(61) Elvira Lantenhammer: Color Siteplan
Lantenhammer, Elvira
ISBN: 9783777435190
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(62) Franz Gertsch: Looking Back
Barcal, Alexandra
ISBN: 9783777435237
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(63) Franz Gertsch – Rüschegg: Landmarks of Swiss Art
Affentranger-Kirchrath, Angelika
ISBN: 9783858816634
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(64) Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
Virdi, Jaipreet
ISBN: 9780226824062
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(65) Immediate Spaces 16–19: 16–19
Banchini, Leopold
ISBN: 9783038601937
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(66) Juul Kraijer: Twoness
Fuchs, Ina
ISBN: 9783777435329
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(67) Modern Modern: The Rehabilitation of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris by h2o architectes
H2O Architectes,
ISBN: 9783038601777
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(68) Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne: Guide to the Collection
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne,
ISBN: 9783858818508
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(69) Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne: Guide to the Collection
Musée Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts De Lausanne, Musée Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts De Lausanne
ISBN: 9783858818515
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(70) Natela Iankoshvili: An Artist’s Life between Coercion and Freedom
Bliadze, Mamuka
ISBN: 9783777435138
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(71) Nesa Gschwend—Memories of Textiles
Scotti, Roland
ISBN: 9783858816740
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(72) Pavillon Le Corbusier Zurich: The Restoration of an Architectural Jewel
City of Zurich, Building Surveyor's Office,
ISBN: 9783858818522
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(73) Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
Howell, William G.
ISBN: 9780226728797
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(74) Quirino De Giorgio: An Architect’s Legacy
Carlana, Michel
ISBN: 9783038601760
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(75) Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays
Steinberg, Leo
ISBN: 9780226668727
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(76) Ruth’s River Dreams
Pickard, Elizabeth A.
ISBN: 9781883982966
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(77) Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Equilibre: Landmarks of Swiss Art
Krupp, Walburga
ISBN: 9783858816627
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(78) STATISTA: Towards a Statecraft of the Future
KW Institute for Contemporary Art,
ISBN: 9783038601883
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(79) The Architectural History of the Kunsthaus Zürich 1910 – 2020
Loderer, Benedikt
ISBN: 9783858818591
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(80) The Architectural History of the Kunsthaus Zürich 1910–2020
Loderer, Benedikt
ISBN: 9783858818607
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(81) The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life
Nersessian, Anahid
ISBN: 9780226701318
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(82) The East Asian Dimension of the First World War: Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914–1919
Schmidt, Jan
ISBN: 9783593507514
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(83) The Glacier’s Essence: Greenland—Glarus. Climate, Science, Art
Stützle, Martin
ISBN: 9783858816658
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(84) The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England
Mutschler, Ben
ISBN: 9780226714424
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(85) The Unfinished Arab Spring: Micro-Dynamics of Revolts between Change and Continuity
El Issawi, Fatima
ISBN: 9781909942486
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(86) The Victoria History of Herefordshire: Colwall
Bowen, James P.
ISBN: 9781912702077
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(87) Bargaining with the Machine: Technology, Surveillance, and the Social Contract
Robert M. Pallitto
ISBN: 9780700629855
View at publisher (University Press of Kansas)


(88) Higglers in Kingston: Women's Informal Work in Jamaica
Winnifred Brown-Glaude
ISBN: 9780826517661
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)