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New books from university presses

(1) Shintō in the History and Culture of Japan
Ronald S. Green
ISBN: 9780924304910
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(2) The Great Smog of China: A Short Event History of Air Pollution
Anna L. Ahlers, Mette Halskov Hansen, and Rune Svarverud
ISBN: 9780924304927
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) The Huayan University Network: The Teaching and Practice of Avataṃsaka Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China
Erik J. Hammerstrom
ISBN: 9780231194303
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore beyond John Waters and The Wire
Mary Rizzo
ISBN: 9781421437910
View at publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press)


(5) COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation
edited by Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin
ISBN: 9781421440736
View at publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press)


(6) Social Movements in Latin America: Mapping the Mosaic
Ronaldo Munck
ISBN: 9780228004172
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(7) Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan
Edited by Yetta Howard
ISBN: 9780814214480
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(8) The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions
Colleen G. Eils
ISBN: 9780814214220
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(9) Before Bemberg: Women Filmmakers in Argentina
Matt Losada
ISBN: 9781978814547
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(10) Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences
Edited by Hyesu Park; Contributions by Maya Dodd, Hyesu Park, Rea Amit, Shubhda Arora, Juhi Jotwani, Dorothy Wai Sim Lau, W. Michelle Wang, John Gagnon, Hi
ISBN: 9781978804128
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(11) The Films of Bong Joon Ho
Nam Lee
ISBN: 9781978818903
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(12) Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
by Maxine Gordon (Author)
ISBN: 9780520350793
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(13) The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution
by Niklas Frykman (Author)
ISBN: 9780520355477
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(14) Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema
by Deborah A. Starr (Author)
ISBN: 9780520366206
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(15) We Have Always Been Minimalist: The Construction and Triumph of a Musical Style
by Christophe Levaux (Author)
ISBN: 9780520295278
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(16) American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination:
Elizabeth A. Clendinning
ISBN: 978-0-252-04338-3
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(17) Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921
Kirwin R. Shaffer
ISBN: 978-0-252-03764-1
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(18) Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans
Marc Zimmerman
ISBN: 978-0-252-03646-0
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(19) West of Jim Crow: The Fight against California's Color Line
Lynn M. Hudson
ISBN: 978-0-252-04334-5
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(20) Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape
Ofer Ashkenazi
ISBN: 9780472132010
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(21) Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953
Christoph Kreutzmüller & Jonathan R. Zatlin
ISBN: 9780472132034
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(22) The Black Widows of the Eternal City: The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous Poisoners
Craig A. Monson
ISBN: 9780472126972
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(23) The Era of Great Disasters: Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes
Makoto Iokibe
ISBN: 9780472054671
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(24) The Train That Had Wings: Selected Stories of M. Mukundan
Translated by Donald Davis, Donald DavisBy M. Mukundan, and M. Mukundan
ISBN: 9780472901678
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(25) Knowing Native Arts
Nancy Marie Mithlo
ISBN: 9781496202123
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(26) Modernity through Letter Writing: Cherokee and Seneca Political Representations in Response to Removal, 1830–1857
Claudia B. Haake
ISBN: 9781496215673
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(27) Thinking about the Prophets: A Philosopher Reads the Bible
Kenneth Seeskin
ISBN: 9780827615052
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(28) Too Strong to Be Broken: The Life of Edward J. Driving Hawk
Edward J. Driving Hawk and Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
ISBN: 9781496222886
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(29) Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom: Mulattoes and Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America
A. B. Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781469658995
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(30) Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage
Michael Muhammad Knight
ISBN: 9781469658919
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(31) Head of the Mossad: In Pursuit of a Safe and Secure Israel
Shabtai Shavit
ISBN: 9780268108335
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(32) Crossings and Encounters: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Atlantic World
edited by Laura R. Prieto and Stephen R. Berry
ISBN: 978-1-64336-084-3
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(33) Colonial Williamsburg: The Story: From the Colonial Era to the Restoration
Edward G. Lengel
ISBN: 9780879352981
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(34) Humus: Fabienne Kanor. Translated by Lynn E. Palermo
QuickLinks
ISBN: 9780813944685
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(35) Kings in Love: Lilit Phra Lo and Twelve Months: Two classic Thai poems
Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit
ISBN: 9786162151613
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(36) A Short History of Tokyo
Clements, Jonathan
ISBN: 9781912208975
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(37) Barry Island: The Making of a Seaside Playground, c. 1790–c. 1965
Croll, Andy
ISBN: 9781786835864
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(38) Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross
Hamburger, Jeffrey F.
ISBN: 9780226642819
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(39) Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy
Marcus, Hannah
ISBN: 9780226829470
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(40) Fragonard: Painting out of Time
Padiyar, Satish
ISBN: 9781789142099
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(41) Hong Seung-Hye: Organic Geometry
Jee-Sook, Beck
ISBN: 9783858818669
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(42) Jan Hendrix: Paradise Lost
Hendrix, Jan
ISBN: 9781842467169
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(43) King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV
Mansel, Philip
ISBN: 9780226690896
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(44) Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner
van der Velde, Paul
ISBN: 9789813250826
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(45) Maine’s Lithographic Landscapes: Town and City Views, 1830-1870
Shettleworth, Earle G.
ISBN: 9781684580255
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(46) Merton College Library
Walworth, Julia C.
ISBN: 9781851245390
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(47) Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane
ISBN: 9781988963280
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(48) Otter
Allen, Daniel
ISBN: 9781789142242
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(49) Persuasion
Austen, Jane
ISBN: 9781988963297
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(50) Skull Cathedral: A Vestigial Anatomy
Wiley, Melissa
ISBN: 9781938769566
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(51) Taking Leave, Taking Liberties: American Troops on the World War II Home Front
Hiltner, Aaron
ISBN: 9780226687049
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(52) The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America
Wayland-Smith, Ellen
ISBN: 9780226486321
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(53) The Botanical Adventures of Joseph Banks
Harrison, Christina
ISBN: 9781842467152
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(54) The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season
Thoreau, Henry David
ISBN: 9780226624969
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(55) The Making of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and the Invention of Wonderland
Hunt, Peter
ISBN: 9781851245321
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(56) The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368
McCausland, Shane
ISBN: 9781780233666
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(57) The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities
Ladd, Brian
ISBN: 9780226677941
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(58) The Welsh Methodist Society: The Early Societies in South-west Wales 1737–1750
White, Eryn M.
ISBN: 9781786835796
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(59) Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning
Moga, Steven T.
ISBN: 9780226710532
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(60) The Whigs' America: Middle-Class Political Thought in the Age of Jackson and Clay
Joseph W. Pearson
ISBN: 9780813179728
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(61) In Search of Providence: Transnational Mayan Identities, Updated Edition
Patricia Foxen
ISBN: 9780826501257
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)