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New books from university presses

(1) “Optimizing” Higher Education in Russia: University Teachers and their Union Universitetskaya solidarnost’
David Mandel
ISBN: 9783838215198
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(2) A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery
Dominique Townsend
ISBN: 9780231194877
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(3) An I-Novel
Minae Mizumura, Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter in collaboration with the author
ISBN: 9780231192132
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(4) China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965
Philip Thai
ISBN: 9780231185851
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(5) Mind Beyond Brain: Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal
David E. Presti
ISBN: 9780231189576
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(6) Our Others: Stories of Ukrainian Diversity
Olesya Yaremchuk. Translated by Zenia Tompkins and Hanna Leliv
ISBN: 9783838214757
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(7) Russian Active Measures: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Edited by Olga Bertelsen. Foreword by Jan Goldman
ISBN: 9783838215297
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(8) The Antichrist in Post-Soviet Russia: Transformations of an Ideomyth
Magda Dolinska-Rydzek
ISBN: 9783838215457
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(9) The Fence of Metternich's Garden: Ukrainian Essays on Europe, Ukraine, and Europeanization
Mykola Riabchuk
ISBN: 9783838214849
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(10) The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China
Ying-shih Yü. Translated by Yim-tze Kwong. Edited by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman
ISBN: 9780231200431
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(11) The Renewal of Buddhism in China: Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis, fortieth anniversary edition
Chün-fang Yü. Foreword by Daniel B. Stevenson.
ISBN: 9780231198530
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(12) The Role of Local Political Elites in East Central Europe: A Descriptive Inquiry into Local Leadership in Six Transitional Democracies of the Region
Roxana Marin
ISBN: 9783966650311
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(13) The Treblinka Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance, second edition
Chris Webb and Michal Chocolatý. Foreword by Tom Lawson
ISBN: 9783838215464
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(14) Ukrainian Dissidents: An Anthology of Texts
Edited by Oleksii Sinchenko, Dmytro Stus, and Leonid Finberg
ISBN: 9783838215518
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(15) Zero Point Ukraine: Four Essays on World War II
Olena Stiazhkina
ISBN: 9783838215501
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(16) Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture:
edited by Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler
ISBN: 9781421439259
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(17) Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War
Douglas M. O'Reagan
ISBN: 9781421439846
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(18) The Habsburg Empire under Siege: Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian Revolt in the Age of Grand Vizier Ahmed Köprülü (1661–76)
Georg B. Michels
ISBN: 9780228005759
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(19) Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia
Lorena Cuya Gavilano
ISBN: 9780814214657
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(20) Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England
Marisa Libbon
ISBN: 9780814214701
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(21) United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel: A Graphic Novel
Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren Edited and with an introduction by Amanda M. Smith and Amy Sheeran
ISBN: 9780814257869
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(22) Exemplary Violence: Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia
Alberto Villate-Isaza
ISBN: 9781684482610
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(23) Korean "Comfort Women": Military Brothels, Brutality, and the Redress Movement
Pyong Gap Min
ISBN: 9781978814967
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(24) Learning to Love: Arranged Marriages and the British Indian Diaspora
Raksha Pande
ISBN: 9780813599632
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(25) Making the Right Choice: Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka
Asha L. Abeyasekera
ISBN: 9781978810303
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(26) Refugees in America: Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Their Own Words
Lee T Bycel; Foreword by Ishmael Beah; Photographer Dona Kopol Bonick
ISBN: 9781978825208
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(27) Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru
by María Elena García (Author)
ISBN: 9780520301900
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(28) Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles
by Joachim J. Savelsberg (Author)
ISBN: 9780520380189
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(29) Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan
by Jan Bardsley (Author)
ISBN: 9780520296442
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(30) Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World
by Kris Lane (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383357
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(31) Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film
by Juan Sebastián Ospina León (Author)
ISBN: 9780520305434
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(32) The Accidental Possibilities of the City: Claes Oldenburg's Urbanism in Postwar America
by Katherine Smith (Author)
ISBN: 9780520305489
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(33) The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses
by Jordana Moore Saggese (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520305168
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(34) Turkey: A Past Against History
by Christine M. Philliou (Author)
ISBN: 9780520276390
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(35) La Voz Latina: Contemporary Plays and Performance Pieces by Latinas
Edited by Elizabeth C. Ramírez and Catherine Casiano
ISBN: 978-0-252-03622-4
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(36) Beholding Disability in Renaissance England
Allison P. Hobgood
ISBN: 9780472132362
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(37) Filtering Histories: The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique, 1960 to Recent Times
Drew A. Thompson
ISBN: 9780472054640
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(38) Minority Party Misery: Political Powerlessness and Electoral Disengagement
Jacob F.H. Smith
ISBN: 9780472054763
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(39) Clackamas Chinook Performance Art: Verse Form Interpretations
Victoria Howard Transcription by Melville JacobsEdited by Catharine Mason
ISBN: 9781496224118
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(40) Contested Utopia: Jewish Dreams and Israeli Realities
Marc J. Rosenstein
ISBN: 9780827614727
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(41) Everybody's Jonesin' for Something
Indigo Moor
ISBN: 9781496222701
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(42) Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father's German Village
Mimi Schwartz
ISBN: 9781496221209
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(43) A New Christian Identity: Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Culture
Amy B. Voorhees
ISBN: 9781469662350
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(44) Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile
Michael J. Bustamante
ISBN: 9781469662039
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(45) Haunted Objects: Spectral Testimony in the Southern Cone Post-Dictatorship
Megan Corbin
ISBN: 9781469664293
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(46) Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History
Katrina Phillips
ISBN: 9781469662312
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(47) The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity
Carolyn Eastman
ISBN: 9781469660516
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(48) Birds' Nests: Business and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Study of Business
Kasem Jandam
ISBN: 9786162151675
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(49) Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space
Padma Kaimal
ISBN: 9780295747774
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(50) Thai Cinema Uncensored
Matthew Hunt
ISBN: 9786162151699
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(51) The Wa of Myanmar and China's Quest for Global Dominance
Bertil Lintner
ISBN: 9786162151705
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(52) We Remember, We Love, We Grieve: Mortuary and Memorial Practice in Contemporary Russia
Elizabeth Warner and Svetlana Adonyeva
ISBN: 9780299330705
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(53) A Brief History of the Bodleian Library
Clapinson, Mary
ISBN: 9781851245444
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(54) A British Book Collector: Rare Books and Manuscripts in the R.E. Hart Collection, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
Johnston, Cynthia
ISBN: 9780992725792
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(55) A New Era of American Architectural Concrete: From Wright to SOM
Gargiani, Roberto
ISBN: 9782889154029
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(56) Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins
Bolotta, Guiseppe
ISBN: 9788776943011
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(57) Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900
Porter, Roy
ISBN: 9781789142792
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(58) Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland
Gibbs, Ewan
ISBN: 9781912702558
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(59) Conflict, Heritage and World-Making in the Chaco: War at the End of the Worlds?
Breithoff, Esther
ISBN: 9781787358089
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(60) Darfur Allegory
Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa
ISBN: 9780226761725
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(61) First Nations Wildfire Evacuations: A Guide for Communities and External Agencies
McGee, Tara K.
ISBN: 9780774880664
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(62) Glossolalia and the Problem of Language
Harkness, Nicholas
ISBN: 9780226749419
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(63) Kew Pocketbooks: Honzo Zufu
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,
ISBN: 9781842467213
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(64) Kew Pocketbooks: Japanese Plants
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,
ISBN: 9781842467206
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(65) Myself and My Aims: Writings on Art and Criticism
Schwitters, Kurt
ISBN: 9780226129396
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(66) Nashville: Music and Manners
Schweid, Richard
ISBN: 9781789143157
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(67) On The Ho Chi Minh Trail: The Blood Road, The Women Who Defended It, The Legacy
Buchanan, Sherry
ISBN: 9781916346307
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(68) Presence and Social Obligation: An Essay on the Share
Ferguson, James
ISBN: 9781734643510
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(69) Raphael and the Madonna
Koja, Stephan
ISBN: 9783777436180
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(70) Restaging the Past: Historical Pageants, Culture and Society in Modern Britain
Bartie, Angela
ISBN: 9781787354074
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(71) Rethinking Kirchner
Haldemann, Annick
ISBN: 9783777433738
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(72) Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration
Pearce, Adrian J.
ISBN: 9781787357471
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(73) Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy
Greenland, Fiona
ISBN: 9780226757032
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(74) Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698–1842
Schopp, Susan E.
ISBN: 9789888528509
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(75) The Art of Orientation: An Exploration of the Mosque Through Objects
Aljalhami, Mona
ISBN: 9783777435930
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(76) The Comedians of the King: "Opéra Comique" and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution
Doe, Julia
ISBN: 9780226743257
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(77) The Poetry of John Tyndall
Jackson, Roland
ISBN: 9781787359123
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(78) Three Germanies: From Partition to Unification and Beyond, Second Expanded Edition
Gehler, Michael
ISBN: 9781789143355
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(79) You Can Crush the Flowers: A Visual Memoir of the Egyptian Revolution
Shehab, Bahia
ISBN: 9781909942530
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(80) You Can Help Your Country: English Children’s Work During the Second World War
Mayall, Berry
ISBN: 9781787356849
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(81) Reality in Movement: Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual
Maarten van Delden
ISBN: 9780826501486
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