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New books from university presses

(1) Birds of Prey: Hitler’s Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland
Philip W. Blood
ISBN: 9783838215679
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(2) Faraway: A Novel
Lo Yi-Chin. Translated by Jeremy Tiang
ISBN: 9780231193955
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(3) Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost
Alisa Freedman
ISBN: 9781952636219
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China
Calvin Hui
ISBN: 9780231192491
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(5) Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: OUN and UPA’s Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941–1944
John-Paul Himka
ISBN: 9783838215488
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(6) Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture
Simon Orpana; Afterword by Mark Simpson
ISBN: 9780823297726
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(7) The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey
Feyzi Baban; Suzan Ilcan; Kim Rygiel
ISBN: 9780228008040
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(8) Building Confianza: Empowering Latinos/as Through Transcultural Health Care Communication: Empowering Latinos/as Through Transcultural Health Care Communication
Dalia Magaña
ISBN: 9780814214817
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(9) Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project
J. J. Butts
ISBN: 9780814214770
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(10) Las aventuras de Chupacabra Charlie
Frederick Luis Aldama Ilustrado por Chris Escobar
ISBN: 9780814258019
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(11) Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology: A Latinx Anthology
Edited by Alex Hernandez Matthew David Goodwin and Sarah Rafael García Preface by
ISBN: 9780814257982
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(12) The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought
Roger A. Sneed
ISBN: 9780814214794
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(13) Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust
Joanna Sliwa
ISBN: 9781978822931
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(14) Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition
Helene Meyers
ISBN: 9781978821880
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(15) Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
Edited by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, Alvaro Jarrin and Lucia Cantero; Contributions by Lila Moritz Schwarcz, Benjamin Junge, Jessica Jerome, Isabela
ISBN: 9781978825659
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(16) Beards and Texts: Images of masculinity in medieval German literature
Sebastian Coxon
ISBN: 9781787352216
View at publisher (UCL Press)


(17) Eastern Christians in the Habsburg Monarchy
Edited by John Paul Himka and Franz A.J. Szabo
ISBN: 9781894865647
View at publisher (University of Alberta Press)


(18) Eternal Memory: Monuments and Memorials of the Holodomor
Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek; Translated by Guy Russell Torr
ISBN: 9781894865616
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(19) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Authoritative Text with Original Illustrations
by Mark Twain (Author), Victor Fischer (Editor), Lin Salamo (Editor), Harriet E. Smith (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520343641
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(20) Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
by Ussama Makdisi (Author)
ISBN: 9780520385764
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(21) La Guera Rodriguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine
by Silvia Marina Arrom (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383425
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(22) Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe
by Osman of Timisoara (Author), Giancarlo Casale (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520383395
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(23) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Authoritative Text with Original Illustrations
by Mark Twain (Author), Paul Baender (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520343634
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(24) The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination
by Ross Cole (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383746
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(25) The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America
by Andrea Flores (Author)
ISBN: 9780520376854
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(26) The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State
by David Vine (Author)
ISBN: 9780520385689
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(27) American Sage: The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Barry M. Andrews
ISBN: 9781625346070
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(28) Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa
Joshua D. Rubin
ISBN: 9780472055005
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(29) Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights: Dispelling the Myth of Mass Opinion Backlash
Benjamin George Bishin, Thomas Joseph Hayes, Matthew Benjamin Incantalupo, and Charles Anthony Smith
ISBN: 9780472038640
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(30) The Committee: A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama’s Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill
Bryan William Marshall & Bruce C. Wolpe
ISBN: 9780472038824
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(31) The Silent Guns of Two Octobers: Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game
Theodore Voorhees
ISBN: 9780472038718
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(32) "Us Indians Don't Want Our Reservation Opened": Documents of Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai Indian History, 1907–1911
Edited by Robert Bigart and Joseph McDonald
ISBN: 9781934594292
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(33) "We Want Freedom and Citizenship": Documents of Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai Indian History, 1912–1920
Edited by Robert Bigart and Joseph McDonald
ISBN: 9781934594308
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(34) Coming to Terms with America: Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture
Jonathan D. Sarna
ISBN: 9780827615113
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(35) Diabetes in Native Chicago: An Ethnography of Identity, Community, and Care
Margaret Pollak
ISBN: 9781496212061
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(36) JPS: The Americanization of Jewish Culture, 1888–1988
Jonathan D. Sarna
ISBN: 9780827615502
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(37) Moshkeleh the Thief: A Rediscovered Novel
Sholom Aleichem Translated from the Yiddish with an introduction by Curt Leviant
ISBN: 9780827615151
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(38) Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves: Labor, Culture, and Politics in Southeast Alaska Canneries
Diane J. Purvis
ISBN: 9781496225887
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(39) The Indians Were Prosperous: Documents of Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai Indian History, 1900–1906
Edited by Robert Bigart and Joseph McDonald
ISBN: 9781934594285
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(40) Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling
Brian Oliu
ISBN: 9781469663418
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(41) Grotesque Touch: Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives
Amy King
ISBN: 9781469664644
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(42) Nixon's War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism
Daniel S. Chard
ISBN: 9781469664507
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(43) Defiance in Exile: Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan
Waed Athamneh and Muhammad Masud
ISBN: 9780268201173
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(44) The Jewish Confederates:
Robert N. Rosen
ISBN: 978-1-64336-247
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(45) A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts
Bagley, Joseph M.
ISBN: 9781684580781
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(46) Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud
Gall, Sandy
ISBN: 9781913368227
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(47) Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University
Levine, Emily J.
ISBN: 9780226341811
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(48) Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern
Dellheim, Charles
ISBN: 9781684580569
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(49) Christian Felix Weiße the Translator: Cultural Transfer and Literary Entrepreneurship in the Enlightenment
Zille, Tom
ISBN: 9780854572731
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(50) Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation–US Engagements
Richland, Justin B.
ISBN: 9780226608761
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(51) Deconstruction: An American Institution
Jones-Katz, Gregory
ISBN: 9780226536057
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(52) Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton
Kadue, Katie
ISBN: 9780226797496
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(53) I Like My Choyse: Posy Rings from the Griffin Collection
Scarisbrick, Diana
ISBN: 9781912168217
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(54) Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics
Perloff, Marjorie
ISBN: 9780226798509
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(55) Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern US History
Canaday, Margot
ISBN: 9780226794754
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(56) Jacobus Vrel: Looking for Clues of an Enigmatic Painter
Buvelot, Quentin
ISBN: 9783777435879
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(57) Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism
Moore, Brenna
ISBN: 9780226787015
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(58) New World Objects of Knowledge: A Cabinet of Curiosities
Thurner, Mark
ISBN: 9781908857828
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(59) Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity
Cartwright, Ryan Lee
ISBN: 9780226696881
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(60) Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation
Dearborn, John A.
ISBN: 9780226797830
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(61) Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia: From the Past to the Present
Bellina, Bérénice
ISBN: 9789813251250
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(62) The Piazza Tales
Melville, Herman
ISBN: 9781988963341
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(63) The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain
Padrón, Ricardo
ISBN: 9780226821191
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(64) Heartwood
Nikky Finney
ISBN: 9780813151076
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(65) The Reinvention of Mexico in Contemporary Spanish Travel Writing: Also of Interest
Jane Hanley
ISBN: 9780826502117
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)