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(1) Classless Politics: Islamist Movements, the Left, and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt
Hesham Sallam
ISBN: 9780231203258
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(2) Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895–1962
Gal Gvili
ISBN: 9780231205719
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(3) Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra
Rae Erin Dachille
ISBN: 9780231206099
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(4) The Gathering of Intentions: A History of a Tibetan Tantra
Jacob P. Dalton
ISBN: 9780231176019
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(5) Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity
Marion Holmes Katz
ISBN: 9780231206891
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(6) A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries
Susan J. Wolfson
ISBN: 9780674980891
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(7) Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American Modernism
Joshua Logan Wall
ISBN: 9781421443799
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(8) Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism
Guillemette Crouzet
ISBN: 9780228014065
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(9) Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives: Asian American Graphic Narratives
Edited by Eleanor Ty
ISBN: 9780814214947
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(10) Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces
Edited by Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen
ISBN: 9780814215272
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(11) 1980: America's Pivotal Year
Jim Cullen
ISBN: 9781978831179
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(12) Every Wrong Direction: An Emigré’s Memoir
Dan Burt
ISBN: 9781978830141
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(13) First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service
Edited by Tracy Lachica Buenavista, Dimpal Jain and María C. Ledesma; Foreword by Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner; Contributions by María C. Ledesma, Dimpa
ISBN: 9781978823440
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(14) In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador
A.J. Faas
ISBN: 9781978831568
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(15) Port Newark and the Origins of Container Shipping
Angus Kress Gillespie; Foreword by Michael Aaron Rockland
ISBN: 9781978818712
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(16) Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare
Abimbola Adunni Adelakun
ISBN: 9781978831513
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(17) The American Historical Imaginary: Contested Narratives of the Past
Caroline Guthrie
ISBN: 9781978818804
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(18) The Internet Is for Cats: How Animal Images Shape Our Digital Lives
Jessica Maddox
ISBN: 9781978827912
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(19) Myth and Authority: Giambattista Vico's Early Modern Critique of Aristocratic Sovereignty
Alexander U. Bertland; SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
ISBN: 9781438490199
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(20) New York's Great Lost Ballparks:
Bob Carlin; Excelsior Editions
ISBN: 9781438490229
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(21) Stories, Streets, and Saints: Photographs and Oral Histories from Boston's North End
Anthony V. Riccio; Excelsior Editions
ISBN: 9781438490083
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(22) Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema: Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First Century
Jack A. Draper III; Cacilda M. Rêgo; SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
ISBN: 9781438490250
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(23) An Unimaginable Partnership: The Art of Samuel Bak and The Writings of Lawrence L. Langer
Lawrence L. Langer
ISBN: 9781879985445
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(24) The Less Said, the Truer: New and Selected Poems, 2016-2022
Samuel Hazo
ISBN: 9780815611523
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(25) Land of Water, City of the Dead: Religion and Cahokia's Emergence
Sarah E. Baires
ISBN: 9780817360733
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(26) No One to Meet: Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan
Raphael Falco
ISBN: 9780817321413
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(27) Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho
by Basho (Author)
ISBN: 9780520385580
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(28) Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality, and Health in South India
by Cecilia Coale Van Hollen (Author)
ISBN: 9780520386532
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(29) Delinquent: Inside America's Debt Machine
by Elena Botella (Author)
ISBN: 9780520380356
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(30) Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies
by Yen Le Espiritu (Author), Lan Duong (Author), Ma Vang (Author), Victor Bascara (Author)
ISBN: 9780520386389
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(31) Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook
by Gordon Matta-Clark (Author), Gwendolyn Owens (Editor), Philip Ursprung (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520280267
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(32) Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol's Queer Ecologies
by Anthony E. Grudin (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383579
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(33) Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam
by Said Amir Arjomand (Author)
ISBN: 9780520387584
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(34) Phoenix Kingdoms: The Last Splendor of China's Bronze Age
by Fan Jeremy Zhang (Editor), Jay Xu (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520341654
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(35) Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World
by Gautam Mukunda (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379992
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(36) Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire
by Nomi Stone (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344372
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(37) Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post–Civil Rights America
by Danielle R. Olden (Author)
ISBN: 9780520343351
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(38) Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.
by James Zarsadiaz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520345850
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(39) Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond
by Reyhan Durmaz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520386464
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(40) The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture
by Lisa Hajjar (Author)
ISBN: 9780520378933
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(41) Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations
by Yu Tokunaga (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379794
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(42) Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present
by Guthrie P. Ramsey (Author)
ISBN: 9780520281844
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(43) William Harnett’s Curious Objects: Still-Life Painting after the American Civil War
by Nika Elder (Author)
ISBN: 9780520386419
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(44) The Life of Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid
Wanda A. Hendricks
ISBN: 978-0-252-04456-4
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(45) Organizing Women: Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America
Christine Pawley
ISBN: 9781625346902
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(46) African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975
Sara Pugach
ISBN: 9780472055562
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(47) Complex Rivalry: The Dynamics of India-Pakistan Conflict
Surinder Mohan
ISBN: 9780472055593
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(48) Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific
Edited by Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Xiaojing Zhou
ISBN: 9780472902996
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(49) Power / Knowledge / Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa
Laura German
ISBN: 9780472055333
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(50) Power of Freedom: Hu Shih's Political Writings
Edited by Chih-Ping Chou & Carlos Lin
ISBN: 9780472055265
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(51) The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg: Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander's World
Andrew L. Thomas
ISBN: 9780472220625
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(52) The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg: Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander’s World
Andrew L. Thomas
ISBN: 9780472133208
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(53) Henry James Framed: Material Representations of the Master
Michael Anesko
ISBN: 9781496231628
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(54) Paternalism to Partnership: The Administration of Indian Affairs, 1786–2021
David H. DeJong
ISBN: 9781496230584
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(55) Russian Colonization of Alaska: From Heyday to Sale, 1818–1867
Andrei Val’terovich GrinëvTranslated by Richard L. Bland
ISBN: 9781496222176
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(56) Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman, Nineteenth Century Indian Entrepreneur
Jean Barman With an afterword by Steve Lozar
ISBN: 9781934594315
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(57) Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico
James V. Mestaz
ISBN: 9781496228826
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(58) A Compact History of Latin America's Cold War
Vanni Pettinà; Quentin Pope
ISBN: 9781469669762
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(59) Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance
Kristina Shull
ISBN: 9781469669861
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(60) Global Faith, Worldly Power: Evangelical Internationalism and U.S. Empire
John Corrigan; Melani McAlister; Axel R. Schäfer
ISBN: 9781469670591
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(61) The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women's Movement
Mahnaz Afkhami
ISBN: 9781469669991
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(62) March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
ISBN: 9780268106867
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(63) The Glory and the Burden: The American Presidency from the New Deal to the Present, Expanded Edition
Robert Schmuhl
ISBN: 9780268203771
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(64) A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini
Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field and Valerio Cappozzo
ISBN: 9781512823042
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(65) Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India
Julia Kowalski
ISBN: 9781512822847
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(66) Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague
Susan L. Einbinder
ISBN: 9781512822878
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(67) Crusoe’s Footprint: Patrick Chamoiseau. Translated by Jeffrey Landon Allen and Charly Verstraet
QuickLinks
ISBN: 9780813949055
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(68) Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany: Tanya Kevorkian
QuickLinks
ISBN: 9780813947013
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(69) The Peaceful Transfer of Power: An Oral History of America’s Presidential Transitions
David Marchick. Alexander Tippett. A. J. Wilson
ISBN: 9780813947761
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(70) The Travels of Richard Traunter: Two Journeys through the Native Southeast in 1698 and 1699
Richard Traunter. Edited by Sandra L. Dahlberg
ISBN: 9780813947785
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(71) Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi
Cecilia Frosinini, Rachel Mcgarry
ISBN: 9780998587226
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(72) Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State
Leela Fernandes
ISBN: 9780295750439
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(73) Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon
Heather Anne Swanson. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
ISBN: 9780295750392
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(74) Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda
Vanessa S. Oliveira
ISBN: 9780299325848
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(75) Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil: A Work in Progess
Duque, Marília
ISBN: 9781787359987
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(76) Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media
Bruno, Giuliana
ISBN: 9780226817453
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(77) Bentham and Australia: Convicts, utility and empire
Causer, Tim
ISBN: 9781787358201
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(78) Bosnian St. Louis: Between Two Worlds
McCarthy, Patrick
ISBN: 9798985571615
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(79) Breaking the Silence: The German Who Exposed the Final Solution.
Laqueur, Walter
ISBN: 9780874516722
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(80) Co-Curating the City: Universities and Urban Heritage Past and Future
Melhuish, Clare
ISBN: 9781800081840
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(81) Dangerous Children: On Seven Novels and a Story
Gross, Kenneth
ISBN: 9780226819778
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(82) Dialect of Distant Harbors
Mukherjee, Dipika
ISBN: 9781933880938
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(83) Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain
Wilson, Verity
ISBN: 9781789145298
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(84) Every Goddamn Day: A Highly Selective, Definitely Opinionated, and Alternatingly Humorous and Heartbreaking Historical Tour of Chicago
Steinberg, Neil
ISBN: 9780226779843
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(85) Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine
Schneider, Susan Weidman
ISBN: 9781684581269
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(86) French Suite: A Book of Essays
Fried, Michael
ISBN: 9781789146042
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(87) From the Ruins of Enlightenment: Beethoven and Schubert in Their Solitude
Kramer, Richard
ISBN: 9780226821634
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(88) Hilma af Klint: A Biography
Voss, Julia
ISBN: 9780226689760
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(89) Hong Kong’s Link to the US Dollar: Origins and Evolution
Greenwood, John
ISBN: 9789888754083
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(90) How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, Unions, and American Education
Hartney, Michael T.
ISBN: 9780226820903
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(91) Inventing Philosophy’s Other: Phenomenology in America
Strassfeld, Jonathan
ISBN: 9780226821597
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(92) Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow: (Re)Defining the Field
Gharipour, Mohammad
ISBN: 9781789386042
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(93) Josef Albers, Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form
Saletnik, Jeffrey
ISBN: 9780226699172
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(94) Labour’s Civil Wars: How Infighting Keeps the Left from Power (and What Can Be Done about It)
Diamond, Patrick
ISBN: 9781913368593
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(95) Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life
Moland, Lydia
ISBN: 9780226833347
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(96) Manatee Lagoon: Poems
Le, Jenna
ISBN: 9781946724519
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(97) Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings
Terras, Melissa
ISBN: 9781787358652
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(98) Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution
Doyle, William
ISBN: 9781789146172
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(99) Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash Story
Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig,
ISBN: 9780774890571
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(100) Pivot or Pirouette?: The 1993 Canadian General Election
Flanagan, Tom
ISBN: 9780774866835
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(101) Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age
Topham, Jonathan R.
ISBN: 9780226815763
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(102) Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners
Colvin, Sarah
ISBN: 9781789146271
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(103) The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Davis, Bruce
ISBN: 9781684581191
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(104) The Architecture of Collage: Marshall Brown
Glisson, James
ISBN: 9783038602910
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(105) The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth
Greene, Jeremy A.
ISBN: 9780226800899
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(106) The Fruits of Opportunism: Noncompliance and the Evolution of China’s Supplemental Education Industry
Lin, Le
ISBN: 9780226821511
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(107) The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China
Hardie, Alison
ISBN: 9789888754076
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(108) The Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1668–1813: Courting the Public
Shipp, Leo
ISBN: 9781914477294
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(109) The Portraitist: Frans Hals and His World
Nadler, Steven
ISBN: 9780226698366
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(110) Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia
Wood, Patricia Burke
ISBN: 9780774866255
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(111) Where the Rivers Flow North
Mosher, Howard Frank
ISBN: 9781684581399
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(112) Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches
Corcoran, Miranda
ISBN: 9781786838926
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