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(1) Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism
Jacob P. Dalton
ISBN: 9780231205832
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(2) On Ovid's Metamorphoses
Gareth Williams
ISBN: 9780231200714
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders
Isabel Huacuja Alonso
ISBN: 9780231206617
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century
Adhira Mangalagiri
ISBN: 9780231205696
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(5) Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts
Mayur R. Suresh
ISBN: 9781531501778
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(6) The Ghetto, and Other Poems: An Annotated Edition
Lola Ridge; Edited by Lawrence Kramer
ISBN: 9781531500900
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(7) The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the American University
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews
ISBN: 9781421444949
View at publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press)


(8) Troubles of the past?: History, identity and collective memory in Northern Ireland
Edited by James McAuley, Máire Braniff and Graham Spencer
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5419-4
View at publisher (Manchester University Press)


(9) Ryszard Kapuscinski: Biography of a Writer
Beata Nowacka; Zygmunt Ziatek; Lindsay Davidson
ISBN: 9780228014485
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(10) Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Imaginaries
Paul Stubbs
ISBN: 9780228014652
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(11) The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers
Kate Reed; Marcia C. Schenck
ISBN: 9780228014553
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(12) Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921–1938
Cassio de Oliveira
ISBN: 9780228014102
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(13) Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture
Sara Petrosillo
ISBN: 9780814215487
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(14) A World of Many: Ontology and Child Development among the Maya of Southern Mexico
Norbert Ross
ISBN: 9781978830318
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(15) Gray Love: Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60
Edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Daniel E. Hood; Contributions by Nan Bauer-Maglin, Daniel E. Hood, Cynthia McVay, Susan Ostrov Weisser, Phyllis Carito, Neil
ISBN: 9781978827264
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(16) Mayaya Rising: Black Female Icons in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Culture
Dawn Duke
ISBN: 9781684484386
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(17) Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic
Shiamin Kwa
ISBN: 9781978826571
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(18) To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
Courtney Desiree Morris
ISBN: 9781978804791
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(19) Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands
Hal Langfur
ISBN: 9781503632844
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(20) Blues on Stage: The Blues Entertainment Industry in the 1920s
John L. Clark Jr.; Suny Press Jazz Styles; Excelsior Editions
ISBN: 9781438491554
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(21) Bronx Epitaph: How Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest Man" Speech Defined the Yankee Legend
Steven K. Wagner; Excelsior Editions
ISBN: 9781438491806
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(22) Cybersecurity Governance in Latin America: States, Threats, and Alliances
Carlos Solar; SUNY series in Ethics and the Challenges of Contemporary Warfare
ISBN: 9781438491417
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(23) Philosophical Archaeology: With and Beyond Agamben on Philosophy, History, and Art
Ido Govrin; SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
ISBN: 9781438491578
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(24) A Name for Himself
Catherine Dunne
ISBN: 9781851322794
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(25) Beast
Luke Morgan
ISBN: 9781851322701
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(26) Billy Boy
Rosemary Jenkinson
ISBN: 9781851322831
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(27) Call Me Madame
Martina Devlin
ISBN: 9781851322824
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(28) Sinbead Siúlach
Domhnall Ó Cearbhaill
ISBN: 9781851322381
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(29) Beauty and Brutality: Manila and Its Global Discontents
Edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Robert Diaz, and Rolando B. Tolentino
ISBN: 9781439922286
View at publisher (Temple University Press)


(30) Cultures Colliding: American Missionaries, Chinese Resistance, and the Rise of Modern Institutions in China
John R. Haddad
ISBN: 9781439911617
View at publisher (Temple University Press)


(31) Walking Together, Working Together: Engaging Wisdom for Indigenous Well-Being
Edited by Leslie Main Johnson and Janelle Marie Baker
ISBN: 9781772125375
View at publisher (University of Alberta Press)


(32) Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico
by Alberto García (Author)
ISBN: 9780520390232
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(33) Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
by Laura E. Pérez (Author), Maria Esther Fernández (Author)
ISBN: 9780520395718
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(34) Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China
by Daniel A. Bell (Editor), Amitav Acharya (Editor), Rajeev Bhargava (Editor), Yan Xuetong (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520390980
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(35) Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography
by Gail Levin (Author)
ISBN: 9780520393387
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(36) Freedom Moves: Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and Futures
by H. Samy Alim (Editor), Jeff Chang (Editor), Casey Wong (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520382800
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(37) Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads

ISBN: 9780520344723
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(38) Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965–1985
by Sampada Aranke (Editor), Dan Nadel (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520388055
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(39) MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art
by Caroline M. Riley (Author)
ISBN: 9780520386914
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(40) Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power
by Xochitl Bada (Author), Shannon Gleeson (Author)
ISBN: 9780520384453
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(41) Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600–1700
by Aslihan Gurbuzel (Author)
ISBN: 9780520388215
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(42) The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games
by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass (Author)
ISBN: 9780520384361
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(43) The Cultural Legacy of the Pre-Ashkenazic Jews in Eastern Europe
by Moshe Taube (Author)
ISBN: 9780520390782
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(44) Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship
by Bryan Pitts (Author)
ISBN: 9780520388352
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(45) Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society
by Michael K. Brown (Author), Martin Carnoy (Author), Elliott Currie (Author), Troy Duster (Author)
ISBN: 9780520385863
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(46) Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation
by Julia J.S. Sarreal (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379282
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(47) Eternity in the Ether: A Mormon Media History
Gavin Feller
ISBN: 978-0-252-04476-2
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(48) Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands
Linda J. Seligmann
ISBN: 978-0-252-04479-3
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(49) Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam
Gerald F. Goodwin
ISBN: 9781625346834
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(50) American Dove: US Foreign Policy and the Failure of Force
Zachary Shirkey
ISBN: 9780472039296
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(51) Gendered Pluralism
Katherine Tate & Belinda Robnett
ISBN: 9780472133369
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(52) How Dark Is My Flower: Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love
Leith Morton
ISBN: 9780472055753
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(53) In the Lurch: Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation
Ryan Claycomb
ISBN: 9780472055746
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(54) Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater
Carla Della Gatta
ISBN: 9780472055777
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(55) The Three Treasures: A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto no Tamenori's Sanboe
Edward Kamens & Ethan Bushelle
ISBN: 9780472055807
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(56) A Song over Miskwaa Rapids: A Novel
Linda Le Garde Grover
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1462
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(57) Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History
Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, and Jakelin Troy
ISBN: 9781496227287
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(58) Warrior Athletes: Some Salish and Kootenai Indian Sports Stars
Robert Bigart and Joseph McDonald
ISBN: 9781934594339
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(59) Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
ISBN: 9781469672113
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(60) Democracy in Crisis: Weimar Germany, 1929-1932
Robert Goodrich
ISBN: 9781469665542
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(61) The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951–1954
David S. Painter; Gregory Brew
ISBN: 9781469671666
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(62) Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America
Ana Schwartz
ISBN: 9781469671772
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(63) Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot
Jeffrey J. Matthews
ISBN: 9780268105105
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(64) William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
William C. Kashatus
ISBN: 9780268200398
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(65) For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told
Charles Warren Stoddard; Edited by Christopher Looby
ISBN: 9781512823875
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(66) I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
Alaina E. Roberts
ISBN: 9781512824728
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(67) Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
Oded Zinger
ISBN: 9781512823790
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(68) Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops into the Roman Church, 1200-1350
Joel D. Anderson
ISBN: 9781512822823
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(69) Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts
Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Cong Ellen Zhang, Ping Yao
ISBN: 9780295751238
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(70) Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in Seattle
Josephine Ensign
ISBN: 9780295751542
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(71) The First Five: A New Collection of Southeast Asian Writing
Chan Wai Han
ISBN: 9786162151422
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(72) 900 Years of St Bartholomew the Great: The History, Art and Architecture of London’s Oldest Parish Church
Gauthier, Charlotte
ISBN: 9781915401038
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(73) A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations
Halkett, Lady Anne
ISBN: 9781649590244
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(74) Annette Werndl: Color is My Music
Tesch, Jürgen B.
ISBN: 9783777439839
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(75) Best-Laid Plans: The Promises and Pitfalls of the New Deal Greenbelt Towns
Turner, Julie D.
ISBN: 9781947602458
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(76) Buchner Bründler—Buildings II
Balland, Ludovic
ISBN: 9783038602521
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(77) Cancel Wars: How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy
Ben-Porath, Sigal R.
ISBN: 9780226823805
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(78) Capturing the British Landscape: Alfred Augustus Glendening (1840–1921)
Munro-Faure, Alice
ISBN: 9781913645236
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(79) Caroline Bachmann
Enckell, Julie
ISBN: 9783858818867
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization
Kyong-McClain, Jeff
ISBN: 9789888528530
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(81) Convex Thoughts: 357 Digital Drawings
Netzhammer, Yves
ISBN: 9783035805109
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(82) Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing
Tobbell, Dominique
ISBN: 9780226822884
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(83) Early Modern Wales, c.1536–1689: Ambiguous Nationhood
Bowen, Lloyd
ISBN: 9781786839589
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(84) Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia
H., Helen Ting M.
ISBN: 9788776943219
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(85) Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript: An Edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2)
Edmondes, Jessica
ISBN: 9781649590206
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(86) For the Recorde: A Welsh History of Mathematical Greats
Roberts, Gareth Ffowc
ISBN: 9781786839169
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(87) Forever Jade: Chinese Jade Miniatures from Four Millennia
Von Przychowski, Alexandra
ISBN: 9783039421022
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(88) Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Defiance
Adams, Jonathan
ISBN: 9781786839138
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(89) Franz Bucher. Picture Fields
Stutzer, Beat
ISBN: 9783039420537
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(90) Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific: Difficult Heritage and the Transnational Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism
Huang, Shu-Mei
ISBN: 9789888754144
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(91) Futures of the Architectural Exhibition: Mario Ballesteros, Giovanna Borasi, Ann Lui, Ana Miljacki, Zoë Ryan, Martino Stierli, Shirley Surya in Conversation with Students
Geiser, Reto
ISBN: 9783038602224
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(92) Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India: Assessing Sustainable Development Goals
Jacobs, Lesley A.
ISBN: 9780774867702
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(93) Grounded at Kai Tak: Chinese Aircraft Impounded in Hong Kong, 1949–1952
Merry, Malcolm
ISBN: 9789888754151
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(94) Grün: Günther Grzimek: Planning, Design, Program
Keller, Regine
ISBN: 9783777440187
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(95) Institutions and the City: The Role of Architecture
Ledent, Gérald
ISBN: 9783038602934
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(96) Maillol—A Different View
Kunsthaus Zürich,
ISBN: 9783039421251
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(97) Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North
Pratt, Kenneth L.
ISBN: 9781771993159
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(98) News from the Midell Regions and Calthorpe’s Chapel
Calthorpe, Dorothy
ISBN: 9781649590695
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(99) Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism
Gabara, Esther
ISBN: 9780226822358
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(100) Nubia: Lost Civilizations
Schellinger, Sarah M.
ISBN: 9781789146592
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(101) Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature
Gifford, James
ISBN: 9781771993449
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(102) On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation
Keevak, Michael
ISBN: 9789888754281
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(103) Out of the Box: 13 Spatial Configurations
Scholl, Manuel
ISBN: 9783038602644
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(104) Ozu: A Closer Look
Geist, Kathe
ISBN: 9789888754175
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(105) Painting Architecture: "Jiehua" in Yuan China, 1271–1368
Yu, Leqi
ISBN: 9789888754236
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(106) Peasants and Proverbs: Pieter Brueghel the Younger as Moralist and Entrepreneur
Wenley, Robert
ISBN: 9781913645397
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(107) Persuasion in Parallel: How Information Changes Minds about Politics
Coppock, Alexander
ISBN: 9780226821849
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(108) Pichler & Traupmann: Tension in Space
Boeckl, Matthias
ISBN: 9783038603061
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(109) Pieter Geyl and Britain: Encounters, Controversies, Impact
van Rossem, Stijn
ISBN: 9781915249005
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(110) Portraits: Architectural Parables
Charbonnet, François
ISBN: 9783038603092
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(111) Stéphane Zaech: Nefertiti
Fischer, Mirjam
ISBN: 9783777440132
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(112) Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple
Yadin-Israel, Azzan
ISBN: 9780226833453
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(113) The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife’s Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant: A Bilingual Edition
Baudoin, Marie
ISBN: 9781649590787
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(114) The Delight Makers: Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness
Albanese, Catherine L.
ISBN: 9780226823331
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(115) The Forms of Nameless Things: Experimental Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot
Batchen, Geoffrey
ISBN: 9781851245932
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(116) The National Security Law of Hong Kong: Restoration and Transformation
Fu, Hualing
ISBN: 9789888754199
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(117) The Paradox of Agrarian Change: Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia
McCarthy, John
ISBN: 9789813251830
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(118) The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire
Norton, Matthew
ISBN: 9780226823119
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(119) The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion
Schneider, Robert
ISBN: 9780226586434
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(120) The Story of Follies: Architectures of Eccentricity
Fisher, Celia
ISBN: 9781789146356
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(121) The Swiss National Bank in Zurich: The Pfister Building 1922–2022
Swiss National Bank,
ISBN: 9783039420957
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(122) Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey
Schäfers, Marlene
ISBN: 9780226823058
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(123) Wiebke Siem: The Maximal Minimum
Kunstmuseum Bonn,
ISBN: 9783777440125
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(124) Ink: A Novel
Angela Woodward
ISBN: 9780813196534
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(125) Monstrous Politics: Geography, Rights, and the Urban Revolution in Mexico City
Ben Gerlofs
ISBN: 9780826504777
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)