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(1) A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine
C. Pierce Salguero
ISBN: 9780231185271
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(2) A Strategic Myth: 'Underdevelopment' in Jammu and Kashmir
Sehar Iqbal. Foreword by Andrew Whitehead
ISBN: 9788194717560
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(3) Comparative Practices: Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by Nadine Böhm-Schnitker and Marcus Hartner
ISBN: 9783837657999
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(4) Countries That Don’t Exist: Selected Nonfiction
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. Edited by Jacob Emery and Alexander Spektor
ISBN: 9780231202374
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(5) Exhuming Violent Histories: Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past
Nicole Iturriaga
ISBN: 9780231201131
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(6) Experiencing Europeanization in the Black Sea and South Caucasus: Inter-Regionalism, Norm Diffusion, Legal Approximation, and Contestation
Edited by Oliver Reisner, Selin Türkeş-Kılıç, and Gaga Gabrichidze. Foreword by Thomas Kruessmann
ISBN: 9783838214580
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(7) Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961
Cheehyung Harrison Kim
ISBN: 9780231185318
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(8) How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology
Edited by Zong-qi Cai
ISBN: 9780231203654
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(9) Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: Volume 7, No. 1, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2021)
Edited by Julie Fedor, Andreas Umland, and Yulia Yurchuk
ISBN: 9783838216065
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(10) Learning to Rule: Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861–1912
Daniel Barish
ISBN: 9780231203296
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(11) The Hunger of the Republic: Our Present in Retrospect, No. 1
Edited by Ashish Rajadhyaksha
ISBN: 9788194534815
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(12) The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China
Guangtian Ha
ISBN: 9780231198073
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(13) The Wuhan Lockdown
Guobin Yang
ISBN: 9780231200479
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(14) Transdisciplinary Beckett: Visual Arts, Music, and the Creative Process
Lucy Jeffery
ISBN: 9783838215846
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(15) The Draining of the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England
Eric H. Ash
ISBN: 9781421443300
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(16) Rebels in government: Is Sinn Féin ready for power?
Agnès Maillot
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5456-9
View at publisher (Manchester University Press)


(17) Beyond the Divide: A Century of Canadian Mosque Design
Tammy Gaber
ISBN: 9780228008262
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(18) Commodity Politics: Contesting Responsibility in Cameroon
Adam Sneyd; Steffi Hamann; Charis Enns; Lauren Sneyd
ISBN: 9780228008897
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(19) Peronism as a Big Tent: The Political Inclusion of Arab Immigrants in Argentina
Raanan Rein; Ariel Noyjovich; Isis Sadek
ISBN: 9780228008828
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(20) Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran
Abdolmohammad Kazemipur
ISBN: 9780228008477
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(21) The Russian Military Intervention in Syria
Ohannes Geukjian
ISBN: 9780228008309
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(22) Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance
Alison Rose Reed
ISBN: 9780814215067
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(23) Virginia Woolf’s Mythic Method
Amy C. Smith
ISBN: 9780814215135
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(24) Resonant Violence: Affect, Memory, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies
Kerry Whigham
ISBN: 9781978825550
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(25) Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration: Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights
Edited by Anne-Marie D'Aoust; Contributions by Anne-Marie D'Aoust, Betty de Hart, Saskia Bonjour, Massilia Ourabah, Ji-Yeon Yuh, Helena Wray, Grace Tran, K
ISBN: 9781978816701
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(26) Good Maya Women: Migration and Revitalization of Clothing and Language in Highland Guatemala
Joyce N. Bennett
ISBN: 9780817321161
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(27) Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land
Leslie McCartney and Gwich'in Tribal Council; Foreword by Jordan Peterson
ISBN: 9781772126297
View at publisher (University of Alberta Press)


(28) Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China
by Joseph W. Esherick (Author)
ISBN: 9780520385320
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(29) Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume IV: Marshland Herbs, Poisonous Herbs
by Li Shizhen (Author)
ISBN: 9780520385030
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(30) Beverly McIver: Full Circle
by Kim Boganey (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520385191
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(31) California Indian Languages
by Victor Golla (Author)
ISBN: 9780520389670
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(32) Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria
by Noah Tsika (Author)
ISBN: 9780520386099
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(33) Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil
by Adele Nelson (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379848
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(34) Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology
by Michael Philip Penn (Editor), Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Editor), Christine Shepardson (Editor), Charles M. Stang (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520299207
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(35) Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller
by Renée Ater (Author)
ISBN: 9780520385375
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(36) A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of US Museums
Clarissa J. Ceglio
ISBN: 9781625346254
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(37) American Unitarian Churches: Architecture of a Democratic Religion
Ann Marie Borys
ISBN: 9781625346032
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(38) Fêting the Queen: Civic Entertainments and the Elizabethan Progress
John M Adrian
ISBN: 9781625346292
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(39) The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space that Travels
Edited by Chiara Camarda, Amanda K. Sharick and Katharine G. Trostel
ISBN: 9781625346155
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(40) (Post-)colonial Archipelagos: Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines
Hans-Jürgen Burchardt & Johanna Leinius
ISBN: 9780472038848
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(41) Human Capital versus Basic Income: Ideology and Models for Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America
Fabian A Borges
ISBN: 9780472902774
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(42) Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context
Daniel E Agbiboa
ISBN: 9780472038923
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(43) Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori
Martin Kagel & David Z. Saltz
ISBN: 9780472132843
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(44) Pride, Not Prejudice: National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia
Eunbin Chung
ISBN: 9780472132942
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(45) Selected Plays of Stan Lai: The Complete Set
Stan LaiEdited by Lissa Tyler Renaud
ISBN: 9780472155002
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(46) Selected Plays of Stan Lai: Volume 3: A Dream Like a Dream and Ago
Stan LaiEdited by Lissa Tyler Renaud
ISBN: 9780472075096
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(47) The Arts of Democratization: Styling Political Sensibilities in Postwar West Germany
Jennifer M. Kapczynski & Caroline Kita
ISBN: 9780472132911
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(48) Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects
Suzanne Oakdale Based on the accounts of Prepori and Sabino Kaiabi
ISBN: 9781496230010
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(49) As Long as the Earth Endures: Annotated Miami-Illinois Texts
David J. Costa
ISBN: 9781496228567
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(50) The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948
José F. Aranda Jr.
ISBN: 9781496224132
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(51) We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California
Martin Rizzo-Martinez Foreword by Amah Mutsun Tribal Chair Valentin Lopez
ISBN: 9781496219626
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(52) Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction
Robin Brooks
ISBN: 9781469666471
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(53) Endless Caverns: An Underground Journey into the Show Caves of Appalachia
Douglas Reichert Powell
ISBN: 9781469669434
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(54) Every Nation Has Its Dish: Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
ISBN: 9781469669465
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(55) Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
Christopher P. Iannini
ISBN: 9781469669427
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(56) Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice
Alan McPherson
ISBN: 9781469669298
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(57) Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam
Christine Taitano DeLisle
ISBN: 9781469652702
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(58) The Historian's Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present
Matthew Frye Jacobson
ISBN: 9781469669366
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(59) The Young Lords: A Radical History
Johanna Fernández
ISBN: 9781469669328
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(60) The Joys and Disappointments of a German Governess in Imperial Brazil
Ina von Binzer
ISBN: 9780268201777
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(61) Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle
Hillel J. Kieval
ISBN: 9780812253764
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(62) On Screen and Off: Cinema and the Making of Nazi Hamburg
Anne Berg
ISBN: 9780812253801
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(63) Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James
Jane F. Thrailkill
ISBN: 9780812253320
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(64) The Return of the Absent Father: A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud
Haim Weiss and Shira Stav; Translated by Batya Stein
ISBN: 9780812253634
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(65) Rum Histories: Drinking in Atlantic Literature and Culture
Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt
ISBN: 9780813946580
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(66) The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba: A Critical Edition
James J. O'Kelly. Edited by Jennifer Brittan
ISBN: 9780813946924
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(67) Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age
Alice Tilche
ISBN: 9780295749716
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(68) Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles
Eric C. Wat
ISBN: 9780295749334
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(69) Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India
Tarini Bedi
ISBN: 9780295749860
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(70) Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam
Harriet M. Phinney
ISBN: 9780295749433
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(71) Philippine Sanctuary: A Holocaust Odyssey
Bonnie M. Harris
ISBN: 9780299324605
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(72) Royal Capitalism: Wealth, Class, and Monarchy in Thailand
Puangchon Unchanam
ISBN: 9780299326005
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(73) A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism
Miller, Edward H.
ISBN: 9780226448862
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(74) Anna Atkins: Blue Prints
Sachsse, Rolf
ISBN: 9783777438283
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(75) Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education
Eaton, Charlie
ISBN: 9780226720425
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(76) Beyond Rights: The Nisga’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships
Blackburn, Carole
ISBN: 9780774866460
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(77) Conrad Felixmüller
Riedel, David
ISBN: 9783777438245
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(78) Dreams of Freedom: Romanticism in Russia and Germany
Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden,
ISBN: 9783777435831
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(79) Édouard Vuillard: In the Louvre—Paintings for a Basel Villa
Schwander, Martin
ISBN: 9783777437590
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(80) Faith in the World: Post-Secular Readings of Hannah Arendt
Hagedorn, Ludger
ISBN: 9783593514888
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(81) Formula 1
Nygaard, Peter
ISBN: 9781854433206
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(82) Gianni Caravaggio: When Nature Was Young
Ventura, Holger Kube
ISBN: 9783777437828
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(83) Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality: Insights from Indonesia
Barichello, Richard
ISBN: 9780774865623
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(84) Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture
Franke, Ute
ISBN: 9783777438061
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(85) Joseph Beuys—Manresa: A Spiritual Geography
Mennekes, Friedhelm
ISBN: 9788494423468
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(86) Life as Activity: David Lamelas
Lamelas, David
ISBN: 9783777437361
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(87) Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification
Amezcua, Mike
ISBN: 9780226815824
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(88) Marcel Odenbach: So Oder So
Gaensheimer, Susanne
ISBN: 9783777438276
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(89) Nursing Shifts in Sichuan: Canadian Missions and Wartime China, 1937–1951
Grypma, Sonya
ISBN: 9780774865722
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(90) Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March: One Family’s Story
Stephenson, David
ISBN: 9781786838186
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(91) Paula Modersohn-Becker
Pfeiffer, Ingrid
ISBN: 9783777437231
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(92) Revealing the Unseen: New Perspectives on Qajar Art
Gibson, Melanie
ISBN: 9781909942646
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(93) Sesson Shukei: A Zen Monk-Painter in Medieval Japan
Feltens, Frank
ISBN: 9783777436333
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(94) Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects: From the Collection of Glen S. Miranker
Miranker, Cathy
ISBN: 9781605830971
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(95) Sound Authorities: Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Gillin, Edward J.
ISBN: 9780226787770
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(96) Tense Conditions: A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection
Nappo, Alessandra
ISBN: 9783777438078
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(97) The Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico
Carroll, Khadija
ISBN: 9780226802060
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(98) The Creighton Century, 1907–2007
Bates, David
ISBN: 9781912702756
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(99) The Divine Recluse, Sor Juana de Maldonado y Paz: A Novel of Colonial Guatemala
Soto Hall, Màximo
ISBN: 9781988963389
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(100) The Golden Horde: Revolutionary Italy, 1960–1977
Balestrini, Nanni
ISBN: 9781803091938
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(101) The Laws and the Land: The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Rück, Daniel
ISBN: 9780774867436
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(102) To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci
Frétigné, Jean-Yves
ISBN: 9780226829388
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(103) Real Americans: National Identity, Violence, and the Constitution
Jared A. Goldstein
ISBN: 9780700632848
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(104) Being Here: Stories
Manini Nayar
ISBN: 9780813182520
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(105) Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom: Latin American Authors and the Western Canon
Juan E. De Castro
ISBN: 9780826502483
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)