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(1) Animal Care in Japanese Tradition: A Short History
W. Puck Brecher
ISBN: 9781952636271
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(2) Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar’s Opening—and Closing
Erin Murphy
ISBN: 9781952636257
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(3) Constructing the Limits of Europe: Identity and Foreign Policy in Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia since 1989
Rumena Filipova. Foreword by Harald Wydra and Gergana Yankova-Dimova
ISBN: 9783838216492
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) Exploring the Chinese Social Model: Beyond Market and State
Weidong Liu, Michael Dunford, Zhigao Liu, and Zhenshan Yang
ISBN: 9781788214742
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(5) Inventing Majorities: Ideological Creativity in Post-Soviet Societies
Edited by Mykhail Minakov
ISBN: 9783838216416
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(6) Paradoxes of Pakistan: A Glimpse
Belkacem Belmekki and Michel Naumann
ISBN: 9783838216034
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(7) Sasha Sokolov: The Life and Work of the Russian “Proet”
Martina Napolitano
ISBN: 9783838216195
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(8) The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge
Nathan Vedal
ISBN: 9780231200752
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(9) The Holodomor and the Origins of the Soviet Man: Reading the Testimony of Anastasia Lysyvets
Vitalii Ogiienko and Anastasia Lysyvets. Translated by Alexander John Motyl and Alla Parkhomenko. Foreword by Serhy Yekelchyk and Nataliia Bilotserkviets
ISBN: 9783838216164
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(10) If Babel Had a Form: Translating Equivalence in the Twentieth-Century Transpacific
Tze-Yin Teo
ISBN: 9781531500191
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(11) On Modern Poetry
Guido Mazzoni, Zakiya Hanafi
ISBN: 9780674249035
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(12) Inspectors for Peace: A History of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Elisabeth Roehrlich
ISBN: 9781421443331
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(13) Sustaining Empire: Venezuela's Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828
Edward P. Pompeian
ISBN: 9781421443393
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(14) Don't Cry: The Enlhet History of the Chaco War
Hannes Kalisch; Ernesto Unruh; Nicholas Regan
ISBN: 9780228011682
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(15) Religion in Global Health and Development: The Case of Twentieth-Century Ghana
Benjamin Bronnert Walker
ISBN: 9780228011699
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(16) Under Siege: Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation
Jasmin Zine
ISBN: 9780228011194
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(17) Narrative in the Anthropocene
Erin James
ISBN: 9780814215074
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(18) Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain
Katherine Judith Anderson
ISBN: 9780814215128
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(19) The Beats in Mexico
David Stephen Calonne
ISBN: 9781978828728
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(20) The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye
Barry Trachtenberg
ISBN: 9781978825451
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(21) Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America:
Estelle Tarica; SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
ISBN: 9781438487953
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(22) Tell Mother I'm in Paradise: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador
Edited by Judy Blankenship and Andrew Wilson; Ana Margarita Gasteazoro; Introduction by Erik Ching
ISBN: 9780817321215
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(23) Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine
by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379657
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(24) The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West
by Hamid Dabashi (Author)
ISBN: 9780520376922
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(25) Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
by Saree Makdisi (Author)
ISBN: 9780520346253
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(26) Julia de Burgos: La creacion de un ícono puertorriqueño
Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
ISBN: 978-0-252-04415-1
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(27) Mongolian Sound Worlds:
Edited by Jennifer C. Post, Sunmin Yoon, and Charlotte D'Evelyn
ISBN: 978-0-252-04437-3
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(28) Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media
Reighan Gillam
ISBN: 978-0-252-04441-0
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(29) Clock and Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address
Mark Monmonier
ISBN: 9781609388218
View at publisher (University of Iowa Press)


(30) New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century
Pablo Baisotti
ISBN: 9780472075232
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(31) Sounding Dissent: Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism
Stephen Millar
ISBN: 9780472038879
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(32) The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time
Miriamne Ara Krummel
ISBN: 9780472128594
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(33) Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought
Geoffrey D. Claussen Foreword by Louis E. Newman
ISBN: 9780827613508
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(34) Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War
Chris Lamb
ISBN: 9781496219459
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(35) Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement
Irvin J. Hunt
ISBN: 9781469667935
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(36) Hear Me with Your Eyes: Women, Visions, and Voices in Argentine Cinema
Ana Forcinito
ISBN: 9781469670942
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(37) The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder
Rod Andrew Jr.
ISBN: 9781469672151
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(38) The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Period
Edited by D. G. Tor and Minoru Inaba
ISBN: 9780268202095
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(39) A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador
Christopher Krupa
ISBN: 9780812225129
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(40) Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England
Kimberly Anne Coles
ISBN: 9780812253733
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(41) The Land Is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance
Andrew D. Berns
ISBN: 9780812253696
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(42) The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal": Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851
Marcy J. Dinius
ISBN: 9780812253788
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(43) Understanding Philip Roth:
Matthew A. Shipe
ISBN: 978-1-64336-310
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(44) Divided by the Word: Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities
Jochen S. Arndt
ISBN: 9780813947358
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(45) Strange Brethren: Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt, 1554–1608
Maximilian Miguel Scholz
ISBN: 9780813946757
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(46) A Ming Confucian’s World: Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden
Lu Rong. Translated and introduced by Mark Halperin
ISBN: 9780295749938
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(47) Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation
Diane C. Fujino, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
ISBN: 9780295749808
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(48) Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley
Monica De La Torre
ISBN: 9780295749662
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(49) In the Year of the Rabbit: A Novel
Terence A. Harkin
ISBN: 9786162151767
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(50) 333 Birds: Peter Vos
Vos, Peter
ISBN: 9789068688467
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(51) A History of the People’s Action Party, 1985-2021
Jayakumar, Shashi
ISBN: 9789813251281
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(52) Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present, Expanded and Updated Edition
Lee, Jonathan L.
ISBN: 9781789145892
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(53) Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950
Shinozuka, Jeannie N.
ISBN: 9780226817330
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(54) Bismarck: The Iron Chancellor
Ullrich, Volker
ISBN: 9781913368371
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(55) Bringing Down the Temple House: Engendering Tractate Yoma
Lehman, Marjorie
ISBN: 9781684580880
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(56) Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Seow, Victor
ISBN: 9780226826554
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(57) Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900
Prica, Aleksandra
ISBN: 9780226811598
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(58) Degrees of Separation: Bohumil Kubišta and the European Avant-Garde
Rakušanová, Marie
ISBN: 9788024647227
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(59) Designing Modern Japan
Teasley, Sarah
ISBN: 9781780232027
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(60) Duplex Architects: Housing
Balland, Ludovic
ISBN: 9783038602309
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(61) Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center
Ezrahi, Sidra
ISBN: 9780226787466
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(62) Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America as seen by the Early Explorers and Fur Traders during the Last Decades of the Eighteenth Century
Gunther, Erna
ISBN: 9780226310879
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(63) Jihadism, Sectarianism and Politics in a Changing Middle East
Abdulmajid, Adib
ISBN: 9789463013444
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(64) Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Wolcott, Victoria
ISBN: 9780226817255
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(65) On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays
Ogden, Emily
ISBN: 9780226751351
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(66) Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles
Wendland, Claire L.
ISBN: 9780226816883
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(67) Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma: Two Hundred Years of British–Russian Relations
Owen, David
ISBN: 9781913368678
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(68) Scream for Me, Africa!: Heavy Metal Identities in Post-Colonial Africa
Banchs, Edward
ISBN: 9781789385212
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(69) Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers
McCrary, Charles
ISBN: 9780226817958
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(70) Sonic Mobilities: Producing Worlds in Southern China
Kielman, Adam
ISBN: 9780226817804
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(71) Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation
Wilke, Tobias
ISBN: 9780226817774
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(72) Spain Is Different?: Historical memory and the ‘Two Spains’ in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions
Knickerbocker, Dale
ISBN: 9781786838124
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(73) Swissness Applied: Learning from New Glarus
McIntosh, Nicole
ISBN: 9783038602446
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(74) The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930
Womack, Autumn
ISBN: 9780226806914
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(75) Thinking Design: Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology
Lechner, Andreas
ISBN: 9783038602460
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(76) To Live Peaceably Together: The American Friends Service Committee’s Campaign for Open Housing
K'Meyer, Tracy
ISBN: 9780226817811
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(77) Treasures from the Hispanic Society Library
Codding, Mitchell A.
ISBN: 9781605830964
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(78) Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory
Santner, Eric L.
ISBN: 9780226816463
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(79) Van Gogh. Self-Portraits
Serres, Karen
ISBN: 9781913645205
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(80) Working and Living: History and Presence of Studio House Wuhrstrasse 8/10
Painters & Sculptors Building Cooperative Zurich,
ISBN: 9783039420315
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(81) Flexible Families: Nicaraguan Transnational Families in Costa Rica
Caitlin E. Fouratt
ISBN: 9780826504364
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)