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(1) Creative Lives: Interviews with Contemporary South Asian Diaspora Writers
Edited by Chandani Lokuge and Chris Ringrose
ISBN: 9783838215440
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(2) Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960
Elizabeth LaCouture
ISBN: 9780231181792
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(3) Englishness Revisited: Contemporary Literary Representations of English National and Cultural Identity
Karolina Kolenda
ISBN: 9788323346043
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(4) Islands of Memory: The Landscape of the (Non)Memory of the Holocaust in Polish Education between 1989–2015
Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs
ISBN: 9788323349303
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(5) Isolating the Enemy: Diplomatic Strategy in China and the United States, 1953–1956
Tao Wang
ISBN: 9780231198172
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(6) Kingdoms of Memory, Empires of Ink: The Veda and the Regional Print Cultures of Colonial India
Cezary Galewicz
ISBN: 9788323343912
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(7) Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context: A Bibliographical History
Zofia A. Brzozowska, Mirosław J.Leszka and Teresa Wolińska. Translated by Katarzyna Gucio and Katarzyna Szuster-Tardi
ISBN: 9788323349433
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(8) New Perspectives in English and American Studies: Volume One: Literature
Edited by Michał Choiński and Małgorzata Cierpisz
ISBN: 9788323346852
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(9) Oriental Languages and Civilisations
Edited by Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, Tomasz Majtczak, and Marek Piela
ISBN: 9788323348665
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(10) Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism
Sonam Kachru
ISBN: 9780231200011
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(11) Romantic Dialogues and Afterlives
Edited by Monika Coghen and Anna Paluchowska-Messing
ISBN: 9788323349204
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(12) Samak the Ayyar: A Tale of Ancient Persia
Translated by Freydoon Rassouli. Adapted by Jordan Mechner
ISBN: 9780231198790
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(13) Taiwan’s Exceptionalism
Edited by Anna Rudakowska, Ewa Trojnar, and Agata W. Ziętek
ISBN: 9788323347996
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(14) The Temple Road Towards a Great India: Birla Mandirs as a Strategy for Reconstructing Nation and Tradition
Marta Kudelska, Dorota Kamińska-Jones, Agnieszka Staszczyk, and Agata Świerzowska,
ISBN: 9788323346463
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(15) The Transcendental and the Mundane: Chinese Cultural Values in Everyday Life
Cho-yun Hsu. Translated by David Ownby
ISBN: 9789882372122
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(16) Tribe and State in Asia through Twenty-Five Centuries
Sumit Guha
ISBN: 9780924304958
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(17) Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization
Jini Kim Watson
ISBN: 9780823294831
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(18) American Defense Policy:
edited by Miriam Krieger, Lynne Chandler Garcia, John Riley, and Will Atkinsforeword by David Kilcullenpreface by Brigadier General Cheryl Kearney (Ret.)in
ISBN: 9781421441481
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(19) Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex
Timothy Wientzen
ISBN: 9781421440880
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(20) Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature
Katarzyna Bartoszyńska
ISBN: 9781421440651
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(21) New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship:
edited by Ann Blair and Nicholas Popper
ISBN: 9781421440934
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(22) Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
William D. Lopezforeword by Ruth Behar, author of The Vulnerable Observernew foreword by Former US Secretary of HUD Julián Castro
ISBN: 9781421441788
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(23) Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture:
edited by David A. Brewer and Crystal B. Lake
ISBN: 9781421440101
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(24) Canada as Statebuilder?: Development and Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan
Benjamin Zyla; Laura Grant
ISBN: 9780228006114
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(25) Chekhov's Children: Context and Text in Late Imperial Russia
Nadya L. Peterson
ISBN: 9780228006251
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(26) God, Science, and Self: Muhammad Iqbal's Reconstruction of Religious Thought
Nauman Faizi
ISBN: 9780228006596
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(27) Memories before the State: Postwar Peru and the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion
Joseph P. Feldman
ISBN: 9781978809512
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(28) Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema
Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient
ISBN: 9781978809642
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(29) Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time
Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
ISBN: 9781978822429
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(30) The Frontier Centennial: Fort Worth and the New West
Jacob W. Olmstead
ISBN: 9781682830833
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(31) All I Eat Is Medicine: Going Hungry in Mozambique's AIDS Economy
by Ippolytos Kalofonos (Author)
ISBN: 9780520289406
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(32) Global East Asia: Into the Twenty-First Century
by Frank N. Pieke (Editor), Koichi Iwabuchi (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520299870
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(33) Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition
by Brianne Donaldson (Author), Ana Bajželj (Author)
ISBN: 9780520380561
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(34) The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions: An Everyday Perspective from Nahr el-Bared Camp
by Perla Issa (Author)
ISBN: 9780520380592
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(35) Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo
Rachel Afi Quinn
ISBN: 978-0-252-04381-9
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(36) Through Words and Deeds: Polish and Polish American Women in History
Edited by John J. Bukowczyk
ISBN: 978-0-252-08623-6
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(37) "Destined to Fail": Carl Seashore’s World of Eugenics, Psychology, Education, and Music
Julia Eklund Koza
ISBN: 9780472132607
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(38) Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism: Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945
Jeremy F. Lane
ISBN: 9780472004447
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(39) Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age: The Yellow Shirts in Thailand
Aim Sinpeng
ISBN: 9780472902675
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(40) Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies: Notes on the Social Production of Cities
Mahbub Rashid
ISBN: 9780472132508
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(41) Spaces of Honor: Making German Civil Society, 1700-1914
Heikki Lempa
ISBN: 9780472129171
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(42) The Spiral of Memory: Interviews
Joy HarjoEdited by Laura Coltelli
ISBN: 9780472220229
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(43) Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975
Frank P. Barajas
ISBN: 9781496207630
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(44) Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy
Noam Sachs Zion
ISBN: 9780827614666
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(45) American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700
Molly A. Warsh
ISBN: 9781469666259
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(46) Clase obrera y dictadura militar en Argentina (1976-1983): Nuevos estudios sobre conflictividad y cambios estructurales
Luciana Zorzoli; Juan Pedro Massano
ISBN: 9781469666037
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(47) Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941
Jessica M. Kim
ISBN: 9781469666242
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(48) Indians, Blacks, and Morochos: Trajectories, Intersectionalities, and Class Frictions in a Neighborhood of Buenos Aires
Menara Guizardi; Silvina Merenson
ISBN: 9781469666440
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(49) The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle
Malinda Maynor Lowery
ISBN: 9781469666105
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(50) The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America
Aram Goudsouzian
ISBN: 9781469666228
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(51) Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
Sophie White
ISBN: 9781469666266
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(52) Word Mingas: Oralitegraphies and Mirrored Visions on Oralitures and Indigenous Contemporary Literatures
Miguel Rocha Vivas; Paul M. Worley; Melissa Birkhofer
ISBN: 9781469667348
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(53) Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition 
Gonçalo Santos
ISBN: 9780295747408
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(54) Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam
David Andrew Biggs. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
ISBN: 9780295749730
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(55) Signs of Home: The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita
Barbara Johns. Foreword by Stephen H. Sumida
ISBN: 9780295749693
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(56) It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia
Fabrizio Fenghi
ISBN: 9780299324445
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(57) « Et les grands cris de l’Est »: Robert Delaunay à Berlin, 1912–1914
Goetzmann, Sophie
ISBN: 9782735127344
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(58) Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand
Curtin, Brian
ISBN: 9781789142938
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(59) Innovation and China’s Global Emergence
Baark, Erik
ISBN: 9789813251489
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(60) just sitting around here GRUESOMELY now
Mayröcker, Friedricke
ISBN: 9781803092133
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(61) Literature as Intervention: Challenging Normativity in the Writing of Elisabeth Reichert, Charlotte Roche and Elfriede Jelinek
Wech, Cornelia
ISBN: 9780854572717
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(62) London—Being in the Library
Keiser, Daniela
ISBN: 9783038602347
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(63) Louis-Alphonse Poitevin: 1819-1882
Blau, Daniel
ISBN: 9783777437477
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(64) No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920
Lears, T. J. Jackson
ISBN: 9780226794440
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(65) On Bataille and Blanchot
Sartre, Jean-Paul
ISBN: 9780857429131
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(66) On Camus
Sartre, Jean-Paul
ISBN: 9780857429117
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(67) On Novels and Novelists
Sartre, Jean-Paul
ISBN: 9780857429148
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(68) On Poetry
Sartre, Jean-Paul
ISBN: 9780857429063
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(69) Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age
Reitter, Paul
ISBN: 9780226738062
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(70) Phyllida Barlow: frontier
Haus Der Kunst,
ISBN: 9783777435473
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(71) Picasso & "Les Femmes D’Alger"
Nationalgalerie,Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin,
ISBN: 9783777435848
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(72) Political Fictions
Sartre, Jean-Paul
ISBN: 9780857429070
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(73) Pricegore & Yinka Ilori—Dulwich Pavilion
Price, Dingle
ISBN: 9783038602330
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(74) Re/imaginations of Disability in State Socialism: Visions, Promises, Frustrations
Kolárová, Katerina
ISBN: 9783593513485
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(75) Renaissance Fun: The Machines behind the Scenes
Steadman, Philip
ISBN: 9781787359178
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(76) Rus–Ukraine–Russia: Scenes from the Cultural History of Russian Religiosity
Putna, Martin C.
ISBN: 9788024635804
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(77) Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life
Long, Kieran
ISBN: 9783038602323
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(78) The Division of the World: On Archives, Empires and the Vanity of Borders
Zimmermann, Martin
ISBN: 9781913368111
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(79) The IBOIS Notebooks—Vol. 1
Weinand, Yves
ISBN: 9782889153909
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(80) The Phantom World of Digul: Policing as Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926–1941
Shiraishi, Takashi
ISBN: 9789813251410
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(81) The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity
Pilkington, Richard
ISBN: 9780774861984
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(82) Ukraine in the Crosshairs of Geopolitical Power Play
Schulze, Peter W.
ISBN: 9783593512488
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(83) Writing the Hamat’sa: Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance
Glass, Aaron
ISBN: 9780774863780
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(84) Intersections: Art and Islamic Cosmopolitanism
Edited by Melia Belli Bose
ISBN: 9781683401971
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(85) Soldier Snapshots: Masculinity, Play, and Friendship in the Everyday Photographs of Men in the American Military
Jay Mechling
ISBN: 9780700632923
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(86) Teaching American Studies: The State of the Classroom as State of the Field
Edited by Elizabeth A. Duclos-Orsello, Joseph B. Entin and Rebecca Hill
ISBN: 9780700632374
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