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(1) Atheism
Alexandre Kojève. Translated by Jeff Love.
ISBN: 9780231180016
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(2) Foreign Countries of Old Age: East and Southeast European Perspectives on Aging
Edited by Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl and Oana Ursulesku
ISBN: 9783837645545
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935
Leor Halevi
ISBN: 9780231188678
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Régime
Henning Hillmann
ISBN: 9780231180399
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(5) Form and Feeling: The Making of Concretism in Brazil
Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa; Contributor(s): Michael Asbury, Antonio Sergio Bessa, Claudia Calirman, Frederico Coelho, Simone Homem de Mello, Marcos Gon
ISBN: 9780823289110
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(6) The National Frame: Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany
Banu Karaca
ISBN: 9780823290215
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(7) Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Traditions
Edited by Duncan P. McKinnon, Jeffrey S. Girard and Timothy K. Perttula
ISBN: 9780807171189
View at publisher (Louisiana State University Press)


(8) Turkey in the Global Economy: Neoliberalism, Global Shift, and the Making of a Rising Power
Bülent Gökay
ISBN: 9780228004127
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(9) Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Michelle Zerba
ISBN: 9780814214640
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(10) Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka
Edited by Jean-Philippe Marcoux
ISBN: 9780814214589
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(11) Growing Old in a New China: Transitions in Elder Care
Rose K. Keimig
ISBN: 9781978813915
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(12) Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism
Pallavi Guha
ISBN: 9781978805729
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(13) The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories: Neoliberalism since the French Antillean Uprisings of 2009
Edited by H. Adlai Murdoch; Contributions by Rose Mary Allen, Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Malcom Ferdinand, Louise Hardwick, Paget Henry, Vincent Joos, Ja
ISBN: 9781978815728
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(14) Politics, Culture, and the Irish American Press: 1784–1963
Edited by Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Mark O'Brien, Marcel Broersma
ISBN: 9780815636946
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(15) Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume II: Waters, Fires, Soils, Metals, Jades, Stones, Minerals, Salts
by Li Shizhen (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379893
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(16) Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume IX: Fowls, Domestic and Wild Animals, Human Substances
by Li Shizhen (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379923
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(17) Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VIII: Clothes, Utensils, Worms, Insects, Amphibians, Animals with Scales, Animals with Shells
by Li Shizhen (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379916
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(18) Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition
by David Arnold (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379343
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(19) Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race
by Rebecca Peabody (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383333
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(20) Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting
by Jinah Kim (Author)
ISBN: 9780520343214
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(21) Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century
by Asef Bayat (Editor), Linda Herrera (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520295353
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(22) Ithaca Forever: Penelope Speaks, A Novel
by Luigi Malerba (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383197
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(23) Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums
by Mabel O. Wilson (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383074
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(24) Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard
by Peter Linebaugh (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383036
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(25) Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
by James Campbell (Author)
ISBN: 9780520381681
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(26) "The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings:
Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 978-0-252-03634-7
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(27) Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27
Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 978-0-252-03142-7
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(28) Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-29
Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 978-0-252-04254-6
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(29) Feminist Writings:
Simone de BeauvoirEdited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann
ISBN: 978-0-252-03900-3
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(30) Philosophical Writings:
Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 978-0-252-02982-0
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(31) Political Writings:
Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 978-0-252-03694-1
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(32) Wartime Diary:
Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 978-0-252-03377-3
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(33) A Drunkard's Defense: Alcohol, Murder, and Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America
Michele Rotunda
ISBN: 9781625345547
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(34) Citizenship in the American Republic
Brian L. Fife
ISBN: 9780472054749
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(35) Informing a Nation: The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
Mel Laracey
ISBN: 9780472132348
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(36) The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900
Peverill Squire
ISBN: 9780472132331
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(37) A Grammar of Patwin
Lewis C. Lawyer
ISBN: 9781496221193
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(38) Eagle Voice Remembers: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World
John G. Neihardt Foreword by Coralie Hughes Annotated by David C. Posthumus Introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie
ISBN: 9780803283985
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(39) Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds
Sara Humphreys
ISBN: 9780803268470
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(40) The Albert Memmi Reader
Edited by Jonathan Judaken and Michael Lejman
ISBN: 9781496203236
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(41) The Twenty-First Mental Measurements Yearbook
Buros Center for Testing Edited by Janet F. Carlson, Kurt F. Geisinger, and Jessica L. Jonson
ISBN: 9780910674683
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(42) Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution
Caroline Cox; Robert L. Middlekauff
ISBN: 9781469663951
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(43) Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South
Regina Bradley
ISBN: 9781469661964
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(44) City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300
Jason Berry
ISBN: 9781469664026
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(45) Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
Grace Elizabeth Hale
ISBN: 9781469664057
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(46) Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life
Tamara Plakins Thornton
ISBN: 9781469663937
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(47) Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
Chris Miller
ISBN: 9781469663913
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(48) The Colonial Records of North Carolina, Volume 12: The Church of England in North Carolina: Documents, 1764-1789
Jan-Michael Poff
ISBN: 9780865264823
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(49) Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
ISBN: 9780268108052
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(50) Taking the Fight South: Chronicle of a Jew's Battle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Howard Ball
ISBN: 9780268109165
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(51) A Guidebook to South Carolina Historical Markers:
compiled by Edwin Breeden
ISBN: 978-1-64336-156
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(52) Architecture from the Indonesian Past: Life and Work of Fermont-Cuypers, 1927-1957
Obbe H. Norbruis
ISBN: 9789460220159
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(53) Christian Krohg's Naturalism
Øystein Sjåstad
ISBN: 9780295749198
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(54) Landmarks from a Bygone Era: Life and Work of Ed. Cuypers and Hulswit-Fermont, 1897-1927
Obbe H. Norbruis
ISBN: 9789460220128
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(55) Pure Land in the Making: Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South
Allison J. Truitt
ISBN: 9780295748474
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(56) Shifting Grounds: Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art
Kate Morris
ISBN: 9780295749167
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(57) Summoning the Ancestors: Southern Nigerian Bronzes
Nancy Neaher Maas and Philip M. Peek
ISBN: 9780990762683
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(58) The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons: A Seventeenth-Century Novel
Kristin Ingrid Fryklund, Mark Edward Lewis, Brigitte Baptandier
ISBN: 9780295748351
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(59) The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China
Dorothy Ko
ISBN: 9780295749174
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(60) I Give You Half the Road
Carol Spindel
ISBN: 9780299330507
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(61) Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form
Jankowsky, Richard C.
ISBN: 9780226723471
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(62) Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform
LaPira, Timothy M.
ISBN: 9780226702575
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(63) Daemons Are Forever: Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium
White, David Gordon
ISBN: 9780226714905
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(64) Decadence and Dark Dreams: Belgian Symbolism
Gleis, Ralph
ISBN: 9783777435244
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(65) Discourses of Weakness in Modern China: Historical Diagnoses of the "Sick Man of East Asia"
Amelung, Iwo
ISBN: 9783593509020
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(66) Janaina Tschäpe: Flatland
Tschäpe, Janaina
ISBN: 9783777426334
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(67) Jun Kaneko: A Retrospective
Brown, Glen R.
ISBN: 9783858818652
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(68) Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse
Nersessian, Anahid
ISBN: 9780226762678
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(69) Love from Kew: A postcard scrapbook
Shillito, Sophie
ISBN: 9781842467329
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(70) Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo
Fried, Michael
ISBN: 9781789143195
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(71) Perspective on EPFL: Science, Architecture, People
Leutenegeer, Catherine
ISBN: 9782889153053
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(72) Realtime: Making Digital China
Renaud, Clément
ISBN: 9782889153459
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(73) Rem Koolhaas/OMA: The Construction of Merveilles
Gargiani, Roberto
ISBN: 9782889153121
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(74) Surveying in Early America: The Point of Beginning, An Illustrated History
Patterson, Dan
ISBN: 9781947603028
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(75) Tazmamart: 18 Years in Morocco’s Secret Prison
BineBine, Aziz
ISBN: 9781912208883
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(76) The Cultural Meaning of Aleppo: A Landscape Recovery for the Ancient City
Neglia, Giulia Annalinda
ISBN: 9781789381771
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(77) The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking
Grootenboer, Hanneke
ISBN: 9780226829449
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(78) Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty
Nelson Davis, Julie
ISBN: 9781789142358
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(79) Voices of Dissent: An Essay
Thapar, Romila
ISBN: 9780857428622
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) Deviant and Useful Citizens: The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru
Mariselle Melendez
ISBN: 9780826501394
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)


(81) Jaguars' Tomb: Also of Interest
Angélica Gorodischer; Translated by Amalia Gladhart
ISBN: 9780826501400
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)


(82) Resisting Extractivism: Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention
Michael Wilson Becerril
ISBN: 9780826501578
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