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(1) Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization
Rosalind Galt
ISBN: 9780231201339
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(2) At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture
Celia Marshik
ISBN: 9780231175050
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(3) Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America
Yong Chen
ISBN: 9780231168939
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(4) Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance, twenty-fifth anniversary edition
Joseph Roach
ISBN: 9780231203876
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(5) Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Elena Fratto
ISBN: 9780231202336
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(6) Minjian: The Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals
Sebastian Veg
ISBN: 9780231191418
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(7) Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan: Youth, Narrative, Nationalism
A-chin Hsiau
ISBN: 9780231200530
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(8) The Putin Predicament: Problems of Legitimacy and Succession in Russia
Bo Petersson. Foreword by J. Paul Goode
ISBN: 9783838210506
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(9) The Symphonies
Andrei Bely. Translated by Jonathan Stone.
ISBN: 9780231199094
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(10) Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice
Marion Holmes Katz
ISBN: 9780231162678
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(11) Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor
Allan Punzalan Isaac
ISBN: 9780823298532
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(12) Eastward of Good Hope: Early America in a Dangerous World
Dane A. Morrison
ISBN: 9781421442365
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(13) Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures
Nigel Rothfels
ISBN: 9781421442594
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(14) Making Liberalism New: American Intellectuals, Modern Literature, and the Rewriting of a Political Tradition
Ian Afflerbach
ISBN: 9781421440910
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(15) The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature
Philip Tsang
ISBN: 9781421441368
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(16) A landscape of words: Ireland, Britain and the poetics of space, 700-1250
Amy C. Mulligan
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6075-1
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(17) Free Women in the Pampas: A Novel about Victoria Ocampo
Maria Rosa Lojo; Norman Cheadle
ISBN: 9780228008613
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(18) Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens
Lily Cho
ISBN: 9780228008163
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(19) Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative
Torsa Ghosal
ISBN: 9780814214824
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(20) Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader
Edited by Daniel Greene and Edward Phillips; Foreword by Sara J. Bloomfield
ISBN: 9781978821682
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(21) Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History
Eike Exner
ISBN: 9781978827226
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(22) Two Women: A Novel
Translated by Barbara F. Ichiishi; Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814-1873); Introduction by Brígida M. Pastor
ISBN: 9781684483150
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(23) Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh
Nayma Qayum
ISBN: 9781978816442
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(24) White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco
Ronald J. Friis
ISBN: 9781684483457
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(25) Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands
Tami Navarro
ISBN: 9781438486031
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(26) Laura Cornelius Kellogg: Our Democracy and the American Indian and Other Works
Edited by Kristina Ackley, Cristina Stanciu
ISBN: 9780815637561
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(27) American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Robert Yeates
ISBN: 9781800080980
View at publisher (UCL Press)


(28) Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery
by Christine M. E. Guth (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379817
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(29) Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America
by Rebecca J. Lester (Author)
ISBN: 9780520385740
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(30) Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s
by Natalie Lira (Author)
ISBN: 9780520355682
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(31) Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales
by Ibrahim Muhawi (Author), Sharif Kanaana (Author)
ISBN: 9780520385849
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(32) The Ottoman World: A Cultural History Reader, 1450–1700
by Hakan T. Karateke (Editor), Helga Anetshofer (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520303454
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(33) Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France
by Robert R. Desjarlais (Author), Khalil Habrih (Author)
ISBN: 9780520382466
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(34) What Makes a Church Sacred?: Legal and Ritual Perspectives from Late Antiquity
by Mary K. Farag (Author)
ISBN: 9780520382008
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(35) A Respectable Spell: Transformations of Samba in Rio de Janeiro
Carlos Sandroni
ISBN: 978-0-252-04402-1
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(36) Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
ISBN: 978-0-252-04401-4
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(37) For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938
Sonia Hernández
ISBN: 978-0-252-04404-5
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(38) We Heard It When We Were Young
Chuy Renteria
ISBN: 9781609388058
View at publisher (University of Iowa Press)


(39) "Chaotic Freedom" in Civil War Louisiana: The Origins of an Iconic Image
Bruce Laurie
ISBN: 9781625346322
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(40) The Honor Dress of the Movement: A Cultural History of Hitler’s Brown Shirt Uniform, 1920–1933
Torsten Homberger
ISBN: 9781625346056
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(41) The New Praetorians: American Veterans, Society, and Service from Vietnam to the Forever War
Michael D. Gambone
ISBN: 9781625346117
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(42) A History of Ann Arbor
Jonathan Marwil
ISBN: 9780472124954
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(43) Being Human during COVID
Kristin Ann Hass
ISBN: 9780472038787
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(44) Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature
Jeremy Colangelo
ISBN: 9780472132799
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(45) Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance during the Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900
Edmund Jefferson Danziger
ISBN: 9780472125456
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(46) Michigan's Capitol: Construction and Restoration
William Seale
ISBN: 9780472125388
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(47) Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries
Grant Brown
ISBN: 9780472124862
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(48) The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke
Allan Seager
ISBN: 9780472125142
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(49) The Indians of the Western Great Lakes, 1615-1760
W. Vernon Kinietz
ISBN: 9780472125982
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(50) Traveling Through Time: A Guide to Michigan's Historical Markers
Edited by Laura Rose Ashlee
ISBN: 9780472125104
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(51) World War II Front Line Nurse
Mildred A. MacGregor
ISBN: 9780472124718
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(52) Black Cowboys of Rodeo: Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West
Keith Ryan Cartwright Foreword by Danny L. Glover
ISBN: 9781496226105
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(53) Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak
Arnold Krupat
ISBN: 9781496228017
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(54) Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska: Company L, Twenty-Fourth Infantry
Brian G. Shellum
ISBN: 9781496228444
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(55) Common Enemies: Georgetown Basketball, Miami Football, and the Racial Transformation of College Sports
Thomas F. Schaller
ISBN: 9781496215710
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(56) Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist
David Barak-Gorodetsky Translated by Merav Datan
ISBN: 9780827615168
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(57) Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family
Henrietta Tongkeamha and Raymond Tongkeamha Edited by Benjamin R. Kracht With Lisa LaBrada
ISBN: 9781496228116
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(58) Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra
Anima Adjepong
ISBN: 9781469665191
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(59) Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country
Fay A. Yarbrough
ISBN: 9781469665115
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(60) Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina
Leonard Rogoff
ISBN: 9781469668796
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(61) Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World
Jennifer Thigpen
ISBN: 9781469668833
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(62) Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century
Neel Ahuja
ISBN: 9781469664477
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(63) Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States
Kevin Bruyneel
ISBN: 9781469665238
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(64) Tears, Fire, and Blood: The United States and the Decolonization of Africa
James H. Meriwether
ISBN: 9781469664224
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(65) The Place of Stone: Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past
Douglas Hunter
ISBN: 9781469668734
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(66) Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
Hannah Farber
ISBN: 9781469663630
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(67) White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order
Maribel Morey
ISBN: 9781469664743
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(68) Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War
Gregg A. Brazinsky
ISBN: 9781469668642
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(69) Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast
Gina M. Martino
ISBN: 9781469668772
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(70) Listen to the Mourners: The Essential Poems of Nāzik Al-Malā’ika
Nāzik Al-Malā’ika
ISBN: 9780268200947
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(71) Fictions of Whiteness: Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel
Maeve McCusker
ISBN: 9780813946771
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(72) Barbara Earl Thomas: The Geography of Innocence
Catharina Manchanda, Halima Taha, and Barbara Earl Thomas
ISBN: 9780932216786
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(73) Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan: Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea
Maya K. H. Stiller
ISBN: 9780295749259
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(74) Frisson: The Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis Collection
Catharina Manchanda
ISBN: 9780932216793
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(75) Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist’s Journey
Barbara Johns. Foreword by Gail M. Nomura. Contribution by David F. Martin
ISBN: 9780998911236
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(76) Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice
Hilda Lloréns
ISBN: 9780295749402
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(77) Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China
Nicholas K. Menzies. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
ISBN: 9780295749464
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(78) Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective
Edited by Nwando Achebe and Claire Robertson
ISBN: 9780299321109
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(79) Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light
Laila Amine
ISBN: 9780299315801
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(80) Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
Joanna Allan
ISBN: 9780299318406
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(81) A Horizon of (Im)possibilities: A Chronicle of Brazil’s Conservative Turn
Hatzikidi, Katerina
ISBN: 9781908857897
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(82) Aesop’s Fables
Parker, Agnes Miller
ISBN: 9781851245376
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(83) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Carroll, Lewis
ISBN: 9781988963372
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(84) Behind Closed Doors: The Law and Politics of Cabinet Secrecy
Campagnolo, Yan
ISBN: 9780774867092
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(85) Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life
Nesbitt, George B.
ISBN: 9780226783123
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(86) Botticelli: Artist and Designer
Debenedetti, Ana
ISBN: 9781789144383
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(87) Can a Liberal be a Chief? Can a Chief be a Liberal?: Some Thoughts on an Unfinished Business of Colonialism
Táíwò, Olúfémi
ISBN: 9781734643527
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(88) Capital Development: Mandate Era Amman and the Construction of the Hashemite State (1921–1946)
Guthorn, Harrison B.
ISBN: 9781909942509
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(89) Contested Lands: A History of the Middle East since the First World War
Fraser, T. G.
ISBN: 9781913368241
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(90) Dorothy Macardle
Lane, Leeann
ISBN: 9781910820414
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(91) Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution
Ward, Margaret
ISBN: 9781910820407
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(92) Foxconned: Imaginary Jobs, Bulldozed Homes, and the Sacking of Local Government
Tabak, Lawrence
ISBN: 9780226824055
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(93) Governing Canada: A Guide to the Tradecraft of Politics
Wernick, Michael
ISBN: 9780774890533
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(94) Hans Purrmann
Wagner, Christoph
ISBN: 9783777436791
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(95) Hermann Stenner: A Pioneer of German Expressionism
Wagner, Christoph
ISBN: 9783777438238
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(96) In Spanish Trenches: The Mind and Deeds of the Irish Who Fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War
McLoughlin, Barry
ISBN: 9781910820582
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(97) Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings
Shippey, Tom
ISBN: 9781780239095
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(98) Lehmbruck—Kolbe—Mies van der Rohe: Artificial Biotopes
Martin, Sylvia
ISBN: 9783777437682
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(99) Lost Horizons: Udo Rein
Jacobs, Christian
ISBN: 9783777437972
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(100) Mack: Sculptures 2003–2020
Wyss, Beat
ISBN: 9783777436593
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(101) Making Belfield: Space and Place at UCD
Rowley, Ellen
ISBN: 9781910820568
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(102) Making Constituencies: Representation as Mobilization in Mass Democracy
Disch, Lisa
ISBN: 9780226804507
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(103) Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition
Butterfield-Rosen, Emmelyn
ISBN: 9780226745046
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(104) On American Fiction
Sartre, Jean-Paul
ISBN: 9780857429155
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(105) Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia
Davidson, Vanessa K.
ISBN: 9783777435589
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(106) Philip Grözinger: IF
Gnesa, Nicole
ISBN: 9783777437644
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(107) Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette
Wailoo, Keith
ISBN: 9780226794136
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(108) Regimes of Contention: Resistance and the Governmentality of Resources in Indigenous Philippines
Lacbawan, Macario
ISBN: 9783593513768
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(109) Rivall Friendship, by Bridget Manningham
Brink, Jean R.
ISBN: 9780866986335
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(110) Shadows from the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918–1923)
Destenay, Emmanuel
ISBN: 9781910820735
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(111) So Much More Than Art: Indigenous Miniatures of the Pacific Northwest
Davy, Jack
ISBN: 9780774866569
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(112) Studiolo
Agamben, Giorgio
ISBN: 9781803093680
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(113) Survey: Architecture Iconographies
Wells, Matthew
ISBN: 9783038602507
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(114) Tales of the Earth: Native North American Creation Mythology
Leeming, David
ISBN: 9781789144994
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(115) Tammam Azzam: Untitled Pictures
Galerie Kornfeld,
ISBN: 9783777438023
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(116) The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World
Hage, Ghassan
ISBN: 9780226547060
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(117) The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces
Schweizerische Institut Für Kunstwissenschaft (Sik-Isea),
ISBN: 9783777437040
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(118) The Tale of a Great Sham
Hearne, Dana
ISBN: 9781910820599
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(119) Titian, the Della Rovere Dynasty & His Portrait of Guidobaldo II and his Son
Eze, Anne-Marie
ISBN: 9781913645090
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(120) Transmitting Jewish History: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi in Conversation with Sylvie Anne Goldberg
Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim
ISBN: 9781684580613
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(121) Vindicatio Aristotelis: Two Works of George of Trebizond in the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth Century
Monfasani, John
ISBN: 9780866986311
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(122) Walls of Containment
Quinlan, Patrick
ISBN: 9781910820742
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(123) We Will Win The Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality
Louis Moore
ISBN: 9780813153803
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(124) Natural Consequences: A Novel
Elia Barceló; Translated by Yolanda Molina-Gavilán and Andrea Bell
ISBN: 9780826502339
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)


(125) When a Robot Decides to Die and Other Stories: Also of Interest
Francisco García González; Translated by Bradley J. Nelson
ISBN: 9780826502223
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