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New books from university presses

(1) Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel
Edited by Susan Martha Kahn
ISBN: 9781684581221
View at publisher (Brandeis University Press)


(2) Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism
Edmund Griffiths
ISBN: 9783838209630
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) Carnival of Animals: Xi Xi’s Animal Poems
Xi Xi. Edited by Fuk-yan Ho. Translated by Jennifer Feeley
ISBN: 9789882372658
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) Early Novels on Arab Spring: Prophecy, Reality and Future
Barbara Michalak-Pikulska and Yousef Sh’hadeh
ISBN: 9788323372882
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(5) Fascism and Genocide: Russia’s War Against Ukrainians
Taras Kuzio and Stefan Jajecznyk-Kelman
ISBN: 9783838217918
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(6) Forming the Modern Turkish Village: Nation Building and Modernization in Rural Turkey during the Early Republic
Özge Sezer
ISBN: 9783837661552
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(7) Homeward from Heaven
Boris Poplavsky. Translated by Bryan Karetnyk
ISBN: 9780231199315
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(8) Japanese Government and Politics
Lauren McKee
ISBN: 9781952636356
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(9) Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: Russia’s Annexation of Crimea III A Debate on Prospect Theory and Explaining Russia’s Annexation of Crimea Vol. 8, No. 1 (2022), Vol. 8, No. 1 (2022)
Edited by Gergana Dimova and Andreas Umland
ISBN: 9783838217369
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(10) Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture
Xiaomei Chen
ISBN: 9780231197762
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(11) Philosophy Unchained: Developments in Post-Soviet Philosophical Thought
Edited by Mikhail Minakov. Foreword by Christopher Donohue
ISBN: 9783838217680
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(12) Stravaging “Strange”
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. Translated by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov. Introduction by Caryl Emerson
ISBN: 9780231199476
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(13) To the Stars and Other Stories
Fyodor Sologub. Translated by Susanne Fusso
ISBN: 9780231200059
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(14) Transforming the Administrative Matryoshka: The Reform of Autonomous Okrugs in the Russian Federation, 2003–2008
Edited by Igor Okunev and Petr Oskolkov
ISBN: 9783838217215
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(15) Ukraine in Central and Eastern Europe: Kyiv's Foreign Affairs and the International Relations of the Post-Communist Region
Edited by Sebastian Schäffer, Foreword by Pavlo Klimkin.
ISBN: 9783838216157
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(16) Ukraine’s Fateful Years 2013–2019, Vol. I: The Popular Uprising in Winter 2013/2014
Winfried Schneider-Deters
ISBN: 9783838217253
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(17) Ukraine’s Fateful Years 2013–2019, Vol. II: The Annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbas
Winfried Schneider-Deters
ISBN: 9783838217260
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(18) World War II as an Identity Project: Historicism, Legitimacy Contests, and the (Re-)Construction of Political Communities in Ukraine, 1939–1946
Oleksandr Melnyk
ISBN: 9783838217048
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(19) Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism
Michael Muhammad Knight
ISBN: 9781531501815
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(20) Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement – Selections from the Secret Police Archives
Volodymyr Viatrovych; Lubomyr Luciuk; Marta Olynyk
ISBN: 9780228014669
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(21) Secession and Conflict: Iraqi Kurdistan in Comparative Perspective
Zheger Hassan
ISBN: 9780228014249
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(22) The Orangeman, Second Edition: The Life and Times of Ogle Gowan
Donald Harman Akenson
ISBN: 9780228011804
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(23) The Participation Paradox: Between Bottom-Up and Top-Down Development in South Africa
Luke Sinwell
ISBN: 9780228014614
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(24) Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V.: Genetic Narratology and V.
Luc Herman and John M. Krafft
ISBN: 9780814215357
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(25) Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging
Vivian Nun Halloran
ISBN: 9780814215111
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(26) Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption
Jennifer Lin LeMesurier
ISBN: 9780814215371
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(27) The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel
Paul Dawson
ISBN: 9780814215470
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(28) A History of Horror, 2nd Edition
Wheeler Winston Dixon
ISBN: 9781978833586
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(29) Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health in South Africa
Anna Versfeld
ISBN: 9781978822474
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(30) The Activist Collector: Lida Clanton Broner’s 1938 Journey from Newark to South Africa
Christa Clarke
ISBN: 9781978836150
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(31) Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era
Edited by Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Trevor Hoppe; Contributions by Angela Jones, Alexander Cheves, Trevor Hoppe, Jane Ward, Gloria González-López, Anahi R
ISBN: 9781978825406
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(32) Identity Investments: Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile
Joel Phillip Stillerman
ISBN: 9781503634398
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(33) Political Children: Violence, Labor, and Rights in Peru
Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland
ISBN: 9781503633360
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(34) Ana M. López: Essays
Ana M. López; SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
ISBN: 9781438491097
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(35) This Side of Philosophy: Literature and Thinking in Twentieth-Century Spanish Letters
Stephen Gingerich; SUNY series, Literature . . . in Theory
ISBN: 9781438492216
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(36) Among the Garifuna: Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast
Marilyn McKillop Wells
ISBN: 9780817360771
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(37) Pulpits of the Lost Cause: The Faith and Politics of Former Confederate Chaplains during Reconstruction
Steve Longenecker
ISBN: 9780817321499
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(38) Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations
by Jay Ke-Schutte (Author)
ISBN: 9780520389816
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(39) Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era
by Matthew Frye Jacobson (Author)
ISBN: 9780520391802
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(40) In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt
by Khaled Fahmy (Author)
ISBN: 9780520395619
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(41) Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain
by Freddy Foks (Author)
ISBN: 9780520390331
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(42) Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling
by Charlotte Karem Albrecht (Author)
ISBN: 9780520391727
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(43) Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora
by Jun Uchida (Author)
ISBN: 9780520390119
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(44) Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador
by Elizabeth Barnert (Author)
ISBN: 9780520386150
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(45) Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire
by Gunja SenGupta (Author), Awam Amkpa (Author)
ISBN: 9780520389137
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(46) Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence
by Laliv Melamed (Author)
ISBN: 9780520390294
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(47) Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts: From the Welsh Chronicle of the Six Ages of the World
by Elis Gruffydd (Author)
ISBN: 9780520390256
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(48) The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White Evangelicals
by Sarah Diefendorf (Author)
ISBN: 9780520355606
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(49) Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics
Carol A. Hess
ISBN: 978-0-252-04485-4
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(50) Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspapers in New York
Jordana Cox
ISBN: 9781625346797
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(51) The History of Brazil, 1500–1627
Frei Vincente do Salvador
ISBN: 9781951470173
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(52) The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830–1860
Katie McGettigan
ISBN: 9781625346858
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(53) Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone?: How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy
Srinivas Parinandi
ISBN: 9780472055821
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(54) Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance
Emily Houlik-Ritchey
ISBN: 9780472133352
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(55) Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work
Joseph B. Entin
ISBN: 9780472055197
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(56) Moderate Modernity: The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar Democracy
Jochen Hung
ISBN: 9780472133321
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(57) Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
Jérôme Doyon
ISBN: 9780472902941
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(58) The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance
David Roman & Sean Edgecomb
ISBN: 9780472055272
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(59) Twilight of the American State
Pierre Schlag
ISBN: 9780472133383
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(60) A Concise Dictionary of Nakoda (Assiniboine)
Vincent Collette With Wilma Kennedy ​Foreword by Chief Ira McArthur
ISBN: 9781496229724
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(61) A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 2: Semantics, Syntax, Discourse
Olga Lovick
ISBN: 9781496231437
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(62) JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling
Edited by Steve Zeitlin Lead commentary by Peninnah Schram With commentaries by Robert Bernstein, Esther Cohen, Lisa Lipkin, Bob Mankoff, Flash Rosenberg,
ISBN: 9780827615526
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(63) Segregation Made Them Neighbors: An Archaeology of Racialization in Boise, Idaho
William A. White III
ISBN: 9781496217134
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(64) Interpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature
Rudyard J. Alcocer
ISBN: 9781469676661
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(65) Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States
Samantha Seeley
ISBN: 9781469674322
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(66) Jewish Blues: A History of a Color in Judaism
Gadi Sagiv
ISBN: 9781512823370
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(67) The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720
John J. Navin
ISBN: 978-1-64336-418
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(68) Drawing Liberalism: Herblock’s Political Cartoons in Postwar America
Simon Appleford
ISBN: 9780813948881
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(69) Myrlande Constant: The Work of Radiance
Katherine Smith, Jerry Philogene
ISBN: 9780998044514
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(70) Spatial Dunhuang: Experiencing the Mogao Caves
Wu Hung
ISBN: 9780295750200
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(71) The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia
Faizah Zakaria. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
ISBN: 9780295751184
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(72) Wide-Open Desert: A Queer History of New Mexico
Jordan Biro Walters
ISBN: 9780295751023
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(73) Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life: Workers of the Manchuria Film Association
Yuxin Ma
ISBN: 9780299340209
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(74) A Short History of Finland
Clements, Jonathan
ISBN: 9781913368654
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(75) A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur
Diamond, Debra
ISBN: 9783777439440
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(76) Absolute Beginners
Ábalos, Iñaki
ISBN: 9783038602873
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(77) African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence. Ghana, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia
Herz, Manuel
ISBN: 9783038602941
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(78) Animals, Animality and Controversy in Modern Welsh Writing and Culture
Peach, Linden
ISBN: 9781786839374
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(79) Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66
Mukharji, Projit Bihari
ISBN: 9780226823010
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) Chagall: World in Turmoil
Voermann, Ilka
ISBN: 9783777440828
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(81) China’s Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy
Huang, Yuxing
ISBN: 9780774868112
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(82) Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris
Bataille, Georges
ISBN: 9781803091914
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(83) Dublin and the Great Irish Famine
Mark-FitzGerald, Emily
ISBN: 9781910820773
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(84) Dutch Dwellings: The Architecture of Housing
van Gameren, Dick
ISBN: 9783038603047
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(85) Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession
Petrzela, Natalia Mehlman
ISBN: 9780226833361
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(86) Global Value Chains and Uneven Development: Corporate Strategies and Class Dynamics in Argentinian Agribusiness
Bernhold, Christin
ISBN: 9783593516370
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(87) Heinrich Campendonk
Geiger, Gisela
ISBN: 9783777440842
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(88) Herbs around the Mediterranean
St. Louis Herb Sociey,
ISBN: 9781935641261
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(89) Imaginable Worlds: Art, Crisis, and Global Futures
Cacchione, Orianna
ISBN: 9780935573664
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(90) Imagining Central America: Short Histories
Cosgrove, Serena
ISBN: 9781947602939
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(91) Klimt: Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse
The Belvedere, Vienna,
ISBN: 9783777435183
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(92) Kunstkammer: Early Modern Art and Curiosity Cabinets in the Holy Roman Empire
Smith, Jeffrey Chipps
ISBN: 9781789146127
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(93) Léon Bonvin (1834–1866): Drawn to the Everyday
Briggs, Jo
ISBN: 9782958323400
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(94) On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism: Proceeds of the International Conference on Architectural Criticism 2021
Wang, Wilfried
ISBN: 9783038602712
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(95) Picasso: The Women of His Life. A Tribute
Müller, Markus
ISBN: 9783777437262
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(96) Re-Use in Construction: A Compendium of Circular Architecture
Institute Of Constructive Design,
ISBN: 9783038602958
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(97) REDRESS: Ireland’s Institutions and Transitional Justice
O'Donnell, Katherine
ISBN: 9781910820896
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(98) Rotten Prod: The Unlikely Career of Dongaree Baird
O'Connor, Emmet
ISBN: 9781910820858
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(99) Santiago Calatrava in the Glyptothek: Beyond Hellas
De Albornoz, Cristina Carrillo
ISBN: 9783777440057
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(100) Street Life: The Street in Art from Kirchner to Streuli
Ihle, Astrid
ISBN: 9783777436975
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(101) Taming the Revolution
Acle-Kreysing, Andrea
ISBN: 9783593515984
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(102) The Language of Languages
wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
ISBN: 9781803090719
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(103) The Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde
Butler, Elizabeth
ISBN: 9781649590183
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(104) The Other Kabul: Remains of the Garden
Kunstmuseum Thun,
ISBN: 9783777440330
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(105) The Parsi Theatre: Its Origins and Development
Gupt, Somnath
ISBN: 9781803092003
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(106) The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War
Prasch, Allison M.
ISBN: 9780226823669
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(107) Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900
Tkaczyk, Viktoria
ISBN: 9780226823287
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(108) Wales on this Day
Rees, Huw
ISBN: 9781915279118
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(109) Watchdogs or Visionaries?: Perspectives on the History of the Education Inspectorate in Wales
Keane, Ann
ISBN: 9781786839404
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(110) When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
Hendershot, Heather
ISBN: 9780226833286
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(111) Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State: Revisiting My Old Kentucky Home
Edited by Gerald L. Smith
ISBN: 9780813197111
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)