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(1) Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past
William Logan
ISBN: 9780231186155
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(2) Dragons: Shorter Fiction of Leung Ping Kwan
Leung Ping Kwan. Edited by Laura Ng and John Minford. Translated by Wendy Chan, Jasmine Tong Man, and David Morgan
ISBN: 9789882371903
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(3) From Post-Yugoslavia to the Female Continent: A Feminist Reading of Post-Yugoslav Literature
Tijana Matijevic
ISBN: 9783837652093
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(4) In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty
Muḥammad Ṣadiq Kashghari. Translated by David Brophy
ISBN: 9780231198196
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(5) Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday
Ksenia Chizhova
ISBN: 9780231187817
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(6) Lotus Leaves: Selected Poems of Leung Ping Kwan
Leung Ping Kwan. Edited and translated by John Minford
ISBN: 9789882371910
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(7) Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization
Peter E. Hamilton
ISBN: 9780231184854
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(8) The Drunkard
Liu Yichang. Edited by John Minford and Nick Hordern. Translated by Charlotte Yiu
ISBN: 9789882371866
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(9) The Fifty Years That Changed Chinese Religion, 1898–1948
Paul R. Katz and Vincent Goossaert
ISBN: 9780924304965
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(10) The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule
Audrey Truschke
ISBN: 9780231197052
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(11) The Microeconomic Mode: Political Subjectivity in Contemporary Popular Aesthetics
Jane Elliott
ISBN: 9780231174756
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(12) The Teddy Bear Chronicles
Xi Xi. Edited by John Minford. Translated by Christina Sanderson
ISBN: 9789882371859
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(13) When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel
Michal Kravel-Tovi
ISBN: 9780231183253
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(14) Who Is a Muslim?: Orientalism and Literary Populisms
Maryam Wasif Khan
ISBN: 9780823290130
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(15) Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation
John Murillo III
ISBN: 9780814214596
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(16) All Politics Are God’s Politics: Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralization of Democracy
Ahmed Khanani
ISBN: 9781978818613
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(17) Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Crony Capitalism, and the Making of the Franco-Mexican Elite
José Galindo
ISBN: 9780817320805
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(18) Kurdish Women’s Stories
Edited by Houzan Mahmoud
ISBN: 9781772125368
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(19) Agrotropolis: Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala
by J.T. Way (Author)
ISBN: 9780520291867
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(20) Domesticating the Invisible: Form and Environmental Anxiety in Postwar America
by Melissa S. Ragain (Author)
ISBN: 9780520343825
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(21) Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia
by Anand A. Yang (Author)
ISBN: 9780520294561
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(22) Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy
by Christy Thornton (Author)
ISBN: 9780520297166
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(23) The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga
by Daniel Biebuyck (Editor), Kahombo C. Mateene (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520379800
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(24) Jim Crow Networks: African American Periodical Cultures
Eurie Dahn
ISBN: 9781625345264
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(25) The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine
ISBN: 9781625345240
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(26) Where Is Juliet Stuart Poyntz?: Gender, Spycraft, and Anti-Stalinism in the Early Cold War
Denise M. Lynn
ISBN: 9781625345486
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(27) Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age: A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644–1840
Helen Dunstan
ISBN: 9780472038077
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(28) Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria
Thomas Gottschang & Diana Lary
ISBN: 9780472038220
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(29) The Politics of Herding Cats: When Congressional Leaders Fail
John Lovett
ISBN: 9780472132317
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(30) Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South
John C. Inscoe
ISBN: 9781469660141
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(31) Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China
Hsiao-wen Cheng
ISBN: 9780295748320
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(32) Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species
Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss
ISBN: 9780295748290
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(33) Knowledge for Justice: An Ethnic Studies Reader
David K. Yoo, Pamela Grieman, Charlene Villaseñor Black, Danielle Dupuy, Arnold Ling-Chuang Pan
ISBN: 9780935626704
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(34) Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History
Elizabeth Ferrer
ISBN: 9780295747637
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(35) The Objectionable Li Zhi: Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China
Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, Haun Saussy
ISBN: 9780295748382
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(36) How Russia Learned to Write: Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks
Irina Reyfman
ISBN: 978-0-299-30830-8
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(37) In the Jaws of the Crocodile: A Soviet Memoir
Emil Draitser
ISBN: 9780299329006
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(38) Revival and Reconciliation: The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda
Phillip A. Cantrell II
ISBN: 9780299335106
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(39) « Belle comme Vénus »: Le portrait historié entre Grand Siècle et Lumières
Schneider, Marlen
ISBN: 9782735126590
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(40) Ann Wolff: The Early Drawings (1981–1988)
Giloy-Hirtz, Petra
ISBN: 9783777436340
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(41) Beethoven: A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times
Kinderman, William
ISBN: 9780226669052
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(42) Chak: Landscapes and Other Natural Occurrences
Chak, Chung H.
ISBN: 9789881902504
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(43) Clouds of Ink, Pools of Colour: Paintings by Hou Beiren
McLoughlin, Kevin
ISBN: 9789881902573
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(44) Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong: Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Gaol
Holdsworth, May
ISBN: 9789888528127
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(45) Helmut Sturm: Subverting the Real
Dornacher, Pia
ISBN: 9783777434964
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(46) Isabelle Dyckerhoff: On Canvas / On Paper
Zweigstelle Berlin,
ISBN: 9783777436197
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(47) John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British Revolutions
Bowen, Lloyd
ISBN: 9781786836540
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(48) Living on the Edge: An American Generation’s Journey through the Twentieth Century
Settersten Jr., Richard A.
ISBN: 9780226748122
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(49) Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace
Shawe-Taylor, Desmond
ISBN: 9781909741737
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(50) Max Uhlig: The Windows of the St. Johannis Church
Laabs, Annegret
ISBN: 9783777436579
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(51) My Generation: The Jablonka Collection
Schröder, Klaus Albrecht
ISBN: 9783777435688
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(52) Openings: h2o architectes
H2O Architectes,
ISBN: 9783038601982
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(53) Perpetuating Architecture: Martino Pedrozzi’s Interventions on the Rural Heritage in Valle di Blenio and in Val Malvaglia 1994– 2017
Pedrozzi, Martino
ISBN: 9783038601920
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(54) Possible Worlds: Jorge Luis Borges’s (Pseudo-) Translations of Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka
DeWald, Rebecca
ISBN: 9780854572748
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(55) Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China
O'Connor, Justin
ISBN: 9781789382303
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(56) The City of Flowers: Dezso Bozóky’s Canton Photographs
Bozóky, Dezso
ISBN: 9789887470700
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(57) The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Daub, Adrian
ISBN: 9780226737874
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(58) The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science
Rankin, Alisha
ISBN: 9780226744858
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(59) The Singer’s Needle: An Undisciplined History of Panamá
Vierba, Ezer
ISBN: 9780226342450
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(60) The Songyang Story: Architectural Acupuncture as Driver for Socio-Economic Progress in Rural China. Projects by Xu Tiantian, DnA_Beijing
Feireiss, Kirsten
ISBN: 9783038601869
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(61) We Haven’t Seen Each Other For So Long: Art of the Lost Generation. The Böhme Collection
Böhme, Heinz R.
ISBN: 9783777433899
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(62) Manifold Destiny: Arabs at an American Crossroads of Exceptional Rule
John Tofik Karam
ISBN: 9780826501325
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