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New books from university presses

(1) The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines
Marat Grinberg
ISBN: 9781684581313
View at publisher (Brandeis University Press)


(2) Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic
Mike Chinoy
ISBN: 9780231207997
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) Contemporary Arab World: Literary and Linguistic Issues, Volume 2
Edited by Iwona Król
ISBN: 9788323373278
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet
Max Oidtmann
ISBN: 9780231184076
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(5) How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese: A Language Companion
Guo Yingde, Wenbo Chang, Patricia Sieber, and Xiaohui Zhang
ISBN: 9780231209571
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(6) In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions
Huaiyu Chen
ISBN: 9780231202619
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(7) Inside the Deal: How the EU Got Brexit Done
Stefaan De Rynck
ISBN: 9781788215688
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(8) Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals
Newell Ann Van Auken
ISBN: 9780231206501
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(9) The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy
Lin Zhang
ISBN: 9780231195317
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(10) The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales
Vasily Eroshenko. Translated by Adam Kuplowsky. Foreword by Jack Zipes
ISBN: 9780231207690
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(11) The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty
Sagang Sechen. Translated by Johan Elverskog
ISBN: 9780231206952
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(12) The Ukrainian Oligarchy After the Euromaidan: How Ukraine’s Political Economy Regime Survived the Crisis
David Dalton
ISBN: 9783838217406
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(13) Writing the Nation: The Ukrainian Historical Profession in Independent Ukraine and the Diaspora
Serhy Yekelchyk
ISBN: 9783838216959
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(14) Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement
Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière
ISBN: 9780674919297
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(15) Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé
Elizabeth Cobbs
ISBN: 9780674258488
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(16) The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality
Céline Bessière, Sibylle Gollac, Juliette Rogers
ISBN: 9780674271791
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(17) Black Health in the South:
edited by Steven S. Coughlin, Lovoria B. Williams, and Tabia Henry Akintobi
ISBN: 9781421445465
View at publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press)


(18) On Nixon's Madness: An Emotional History
Zachary Jonathan Jacobson
ISBN: 9781421445533
View at publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press)


(19) Beyond Intimacy: Radical Proximity and Justice in Three Mexican Poets
Christina Karageorgou-Bastea
ISBN: 9780228016434
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(20) In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS 'Galicia' Division and Its Legacy
Myroslav Shkandrij
ISBN: 9780228016533
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(21) Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission
Rebecca Margolis
ISBN: 9780228014447
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(22) Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change
Edited by Péter Berta; Contributions by Asha L. Abeyasekera, Marian Aguiar, Péter Berta, Shalini Grover, Christina Julios, Serena Petrella, Noorfarah Meral
ISBN: 9781978822825
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(23) Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh
Deirdre Boyle
ISBN: 9781978814646
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(24) Fighting Invisibility: Asian Americans in the Midwest
Monica Mong Trieu
ISBN: 9781978834286
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(25) Indigeneity in Real Time: The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia
Ingrid Kummels
ISBN: 9781978834781
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(26) Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work
David C Oh and Seong Jae Min
ISBN: 9781978831421
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(27) Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms
Seth Stern
ISBN: 9781978831612
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(28) The Glass Church: Robert H. Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Strain of Megachurch Ministry
Mark T. Mulder and Gerardo Martí
ISBN: 9780813589060
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(29) The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet
Randall Patnode
ISBN: 9781978820098
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(30) Unequal Choices: How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College
Yang Va Lor
ISBN: 9781978827042
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(31) A Revolutionary Faith: Liberation Theology Between Public Religion and Public Reason
Raúl E. Zegarra
ISBN: 9781503635371
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(32) Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond
Ranen Omer-Sherman; SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781438492490
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(33) Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction
Anjili Babbar
ISBN: 9780815611578
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(34) Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings
Wendy Makoons Geniusz
ISBN: 9780815638063
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(35) Jewish Self-Determination beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and Other Pariahs
Jonathan Graubart
ISBN: 9781439923580
View at publisher (Temple University Press)


(36) Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949
by Elisabeth B. Armstrong (Author)
ISBN: 9780520390911
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(37) Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation
by Maggie Adler (Author), Maurita Poole (Author)
ISBN: 9780520393301
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(38) Great Kingdoms of Africa
by John Parker (Author)
ISBN: 9780520395671
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(39) Musical Lives and Times Examined: Keynotes and Clippings, 2006–2019
by Richard Taruskin (Author)
ISBN: 9780520392014
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(40) Needle at the Bottom of the Sea: Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides
by Tony K. Stewart (Author)
ISBN: 9780520388932
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(41) The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America
by Andrea Giunta (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344327
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(42) Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America
by Helena Hansen (Author), Jules Netherland (Author), David Herzberg (Author)
ISBN: 9780520384057
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(43) Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico
May Summer Farnsworth
ISBN: 9781609388799
View at publisher (University of Iowa Press)


(44) Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism
Taiyi Sun
ISBN: 9780472075638
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(45) Floundering Stability: US Foreign Policy in Egypt
Amir Magdy Kamel
ISBN: 9780472055883
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(46) Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood
Gary C. Anderson Edited by Mark C. Carnes With a new afterword by the author
ISBN: 9781496232670
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(47) Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America: Collective Action in the Digital Age
Pascal Lupien
ISBN: 9781469672625
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(48) The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country
Steven Moore
ISBN: 9781469673950
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(49) The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America
Gordon K. Mantler
ISBN: 9781469673868
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(50) Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Michelle Fishburne
ISBN: 9781469671239
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(51) England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century
John Tolan
ISBN: 9781512823899
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(52) Jewish Life in Medieval Spain: A New History
Jonathan Ray
ISBN: 9781512823837
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(53) The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican War
Edited by Michael A. Blaakman, Emily Conroy-Krutz and Noelani Arista
ISBN: 9780812252781
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(54) Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church
Christopher Alan Graham. Foreword by the Reverend Melanie Mullen
ISBN: 9780813948799
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(55) Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World
Christopher B. Teuton and Hastings Shade. With Loretta Shade and Larry Shade. Illustrated by MaryBeth Timothy
ISBN: 9780295750187
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(56) Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China
Kai Jun Chen
ISBN: 9780295750828
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(57) American Born: An Immigrant’s Story, a Daughter’s Memoir
Brownstein, Rachel M.
ISBN: 9780226823065
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(58) Byron
Ellis, David
ISBN: 9781789146820
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(59) Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia
Norén-Nilsson, Astrid
ISBN: 9788776943295
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(60) Compatriots or Competitors?: Welsh, Scottish, English and Northern Irish Writing and Brexit in Comparative Contexts
Dix, Hywel
ISBN: 9781786839343
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(61) Czech Secession: Art and Architecture 1890–1914
Wittlich, Petr
ISBN: 9788024651330
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(62) Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency
Goldberg, Dror
ISBN: 9780226825106
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(63) Everyday Modernism: Architecture and Society in Singapore
Chang, Jiat-Hwee
ISBN: 9789813251878
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(64) Extreme Beauty: 12 Contemporary Korean Artists
Ng, Elaine W.
ISBN: 9780989688574
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(65) Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women
Maddox IV, John T.
ISBN: 9781786839107
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(66) Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan
Weisenfeld, Gennifer
ISBN: 9780226816449
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(67) Henry McCracken
Smyth, James
ISBN: 9781910820506
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(68) Illustrated by Lynd Ward
Dance, Robert
ISBN: 9781605830629
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(69) Johann Gottfried Schadow: Embracing Forms
Deseyve, Yvette
ISBN: 9783777440873
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(70) Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence
Lugli, Emanuele
ISBN: 9780226822518
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(71) Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat
Wiebe, Sarah Marie
ISBN: 9780774867887
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(72) Magyar Modern: Hungarian Art in Berlin 1910–1933
Burmeister, Ralf
ISBN: 9783777439044
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(73) Olga Costa: Dialogues with Mexican Modernism
Hoffmann, Sabine
ISBN: 9783777440774
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(74) On Christopher Street: Life, Sex, and Death after Stonewall
Denneny, Michael
ISBN: 9780226824635
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(75) One Site. One Space. One Work.: 30 Years of Art Projects in the Stommeln Synagogue
Synagoge Stommeln—Stadt Pulheim,
ISBN: 9783777437873
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(76) Park, Tenement, Slaughterhouse: Elite Imaginaries of Buenos Aires, 1852–1880
Carbone, Antonio
ISBN: 9783593515021
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(77) Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life
Hamlett, Jane
ISBN: 9781789146868
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(78) R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams: The Spiritual Imagination in Modern Welsh Poetry
Thomas, M. Wynn
ISBN: 9781786839466
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(79) Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
Ortiz Díaz, Alberto
ISBN: 9780226824512
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction
Stroud, Scott
ISBN: 9780226824321
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(81) The Gregory Gift
Buku Pongo, Marie-Laure
ISBN: 9781913645434
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(82) The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
Johnson, David K.
ISBN: 9780226825724
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(83) Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing
Hadfield, Andrew
ISBN: 9781789146875
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(84) Titian: Sources and Documents
Hope, Charles
ISBN: 9781912168231
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(85) Vincent’s Arles: As It Is and as It Was
Seidel, Linda
ISBN: 9780226822198
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(86) Defining Americans: The Presidency and National Identity
Mary E. Stuckey
ISBN: 9780700635207
View at publisher (University Press of Kansas)


(87) Athens on the Frontier: Grecian-Style Architecture in the Splendid Valley of the West, 1820-1860
Patrick Lee Lucas
ISBN: 9780813197128
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(88) What Things Cost: an anthology for the people
Edited by Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones and Emily J. Jalloul
ISBN: 9780813182438
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)