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(1) A Lost Mediterranean Culture: The Giant Statues of Sardinia's Mont'e Prama
Edited by Barbara Faedda and Paolo Carta
ISBN: 9780231212106
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(2) Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India
Nicholas Hoover Wilson
ISBN: 9780231192194
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(3) Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition
Souleymane Bachir Diagne. Translated by Jonathan Adjemian.
ISBN: 9780231185479
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(4) The Caucasus in Europe-Asia Connectivity: The Promise of Infrastructure and Trade
Edited by Thomas Kruessmann
ISBN: 9783838215747
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(5) The Kokinshū: Selected Poems
Translated and introduced by Torquil Duthie
ISBN: 9780231207638
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(6) The Poets and Poetry of Munster: One Hundred Years of Poetry from South Western Ireland
Edited by Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Stephanie Schwerter. Foreword by Declan Kiberd
ISBN: 9783838217642
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(7) Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese Media
S. E. Kile
ISBN: 9780231210058
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(8) After the Arab Revolutions: Decentring Democratic Transition Theory
Abdelwahab El-Affendi; Khalil Al Anani
ISBN: 9781474483223
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(9) Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements
Omar Ashour
ISBN: 9781474467124
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(10) Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire: From the 15th to the 20th Century
Gülay Yilmaz; Fruma Zachs
ISBN: 9781474455398
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(11) Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam: A Comparative History
Mirjam Kuenkler; Devin J. Stewart
ISBN: 9781474426619
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(12) Hadith Commentary: Continuity and Change
Joel Blecher; Stefanie Brinkmann
ISBN: 9781474461047
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(13) Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East: Turkish-Syrian-Iraqi Borderlands, 1921-46
Jordi Tejel
ISBN: 9781399503655
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(14) Salafi Social and Political Movements: National and Transnational Contexts
Masooda Bano
ISBN: 9781474479134
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(15) The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary
Hamid Keshmirshekan
ISBN: 9781474488648
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(16) The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements
Jonas Otterbeck
ISBN: 9781474490436
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(17) The Court of the Caliphate of al-Andalus: Four Years in Umayyad Córdoba
Eduardo Manzano Moreno
ISBN: 9781399516129
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(18) The Politics of Islam: The Muslim Brothers and the State in the Arab Gulf
Birol Başkan
ISBN: 9781474490252
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(19) The Spiritual Vernacular of the Early Ottoman Frontier: The Yazıcıoğlu Family
Carlos Grenier
ISBN: 9781474462280
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(20) Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora: Four Years in Umayyad Córdoba
Claudia Yaghoobi
ISBN: 9781399512374
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(21) On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus
Eric Calderwood
ISBN: 9780674980365
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(22) Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis
Sara Marcus
ISBN: 9780674248656
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(23) Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
Gary Saul Morson
ISBN: 9780674971806
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(24) Eighteenth-Century Ukraine: New Perspectives on Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History
Zenon E. Kohut; Volodymyr Sklokin; Frank E. Sysyn; Larysa Bilous
ISBN: 9780228016991
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(25) Intercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking: The Dynamics of Urban Violence in Central Asia
Joldon Kutmanaliev
ISBN: 9780228016830
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(26) The Transformation of Civil Society: An Oral History of Ukrainian Peasant Culture, 1920s to 1930s
William Noll
ISBN: 9780228016915
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(27) Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
Edited by Qiana Whitted; Qiana Whitted; Contributions by Ian Gordon, Nicholas Sammond, Andrew J. Kunka, Rebecca Wanzo, Chris Gavaler, Monalesia Earle, Blai
ISBN: 9781978825017
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(28) From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders: Migrating Women, Class, and Color
Norma Fuentes-Mayorga
ISBN: 9781978822122
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(29) George's Run: A Writer's Journey through the Twilight Zone
Henry Chamberlain
ISBN: 9781978834200
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(30) Global White Supremacy: Anti-Blackness and the University as Colonizer
Christopher S. Collins, Christopher B. Newman and Alexander Jun
ISBN: 9781978831841
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(31) Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, Essays and Recipes
Edited by Philip Gleissner and Harry Eli Kashdan; Contributions by Reem Kassis, Stephanie Jolly, Krishnendu Ray, Tien Nguyen, Bonnie Frumkin Morales, Mayuk
ISBN: 9781978832510
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(32) The Counterfeit Coin: Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment
Christopher Goetz
ISBN: 9781978825505
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(33) Unguarded Border: American Émigrés in Canada during the Vietnam War
Donald W. Maxwell
ISBN: 9781978834026
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(34) Women and New Hollywood: Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema
Edited by Aaron Hunter and Martha Shearer; Contributions by Alicia Kozma, Nicholas Forster, Oliver Gruner, Nicholas Godfrey, Maya Montañez Smukler, Karen P
ISBN: 9781978821798
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(35) Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood
Susan Rubin Suleiman
ISBN: 9781503634817
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(36) A Latin American Existentialist Ethos: Modern Mexican Literature and Philosophy
Stephanie Merrim; SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
ISBN: 9781438493190
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(37) Black in Print: Plotting the Coordinates of Blackness in Central America
Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar; SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
ISBN: 9781438492810
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(38) Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O: American Food and the Cold War, 1947–1959
Elizabeth Aldrich
ISBN: 9781438493060
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(39) Ch’ayemal nich’nabiletik / Los hijos errantes / The Errant Children: A Trilingual Edition
Mikel Ruiz; SUNY series, Trans-Indigenous Decolonial Critiques
ISBN: 9781438492964
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(40) Party Switching in Israel: A Historical and Comparative Analysis
Csaba Nikolenyi; SUNY series in Comparative Politics
ISBN: 9781438491615
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(41) The Last Bohemian: Brian Desmond Hurst, Irish Film, British Cinema
Lance Pettitt
ISBN: 9780815637295
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(42) Jewish Historical Societies: Navigating the Professional-Amateur Divide
Jonathan L. Friedmann and Joel Gereboff
ISBN: 9781682831816
View at publisher (Texas Tech University Press)


(43) Sowing the Forest: A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes
William Balée
ISBN: 9780817321574
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(44) This Incurable Evil: Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598–1687
Eugene C. Berger
ISBN: 9780817361105
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(45) How to Clean a Fish: And Other Adventures in Portugal
Esmeralda Cabral
ISBN: 9781772126556
View at publisher (University of Alberta Press)


(46) Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction
Aaron Kreuter
ISBN: 9781772126570
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(47) A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar
by Lia Brozgal (Author), Lia Brozgal (Editor), Rebecca Glasberg (Editor), Leïla Sebbar (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520393394
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(48) An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia
by Jonathan Z. Brack (Author)
ISBN: 9780520392908
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(49) Even the Women Are Leaving: Migrants Making Mexican America, 1890–1965
by Larisa L. Veloz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520392700
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(50) Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture
by Aaron Lecklider (Author)
ISBN: 9780520395589
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(51) Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul
by Timur Warner Hammond (Author)
ISBN: 9780520387430
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(52) Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
by Christina Gerhardt (Author)
ISBN: 9780520304826
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(53) Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father's Quest for Justice
by Victoria Sanford (Author)
ISBN: 9780520393455
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(54) Danzon Days: Age, Race, and Romance in Mexico
Hettie Malcomson
ISBN: 978-0-252-04500-4
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(55) Flaco’s Legacy: The Globalization of Conjunto
Erin E. Bauer
ISBN: 978-0-252-04502-8
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(56) A Voice in Their Own Destiny: Reagan, Thatcher, and Public Diplomacy in the Nuclear 1980s
Anthony M Eames
ISBN: 9781625347091
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(57) Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing
Ina Linge
ISBN: 9780472039319
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(58) Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games
Ben Whaley
ISBN: 9780472056149
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(59) Where FDI Goes in Decentralized Authoritarian Countries: The Politics of Taiwanese Site Selection for Investment in Mainland China
Kelan Lu
ISBN: 9780472075928
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(60) Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa
Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri
ISBN: 9780472056200
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(61) American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota
Kasey R. Keeler
ISBN: 978-1-5179-0925-3
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(62) Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome
Fredric Brandfon
ISBN: 9780827615571
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(63) The Collected Writings of Sherman and Grace Coolidge
Sherman Coolidge and Grace Coolidge Edited by Tadeusz Lewandowski
ISBN: 9781496234056
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(64) Unpapered: Writers Consider Native American Identity and Cultural Belonging
Edited by Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez
ISBN: 9781496235008
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(65) We Who Walk the Seven Ways: A Memoir
Terra Trevor
ISBN: 9781496235183
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(66) Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia
Timothy W. Lorek
ISBN: 9781469673820
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(67) Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba
Kelly Urban
ISBN: 9781469673080
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(68) Buland Al-Ḥaidari and Modern Iraqi Poetry: Selected Poems
Buland Al-Ḥaidari
ISBN: 9780268205317
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(69) The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice
Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein
ISBN: 9780268205263
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(70) Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City: Paris’s New Parks, 1977-1995
Amanda Shoaf Vincent
ISBN: 9781512823851
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(71) Skimpy Coverage: Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female Athlete
Bonnie M. Hagerman
ISBN: 9780813949222
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(72) A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology
Michelle Yeh, Zhangbin Li, Frank Stewart
ISBN: 9780295751160
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(73) Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in South Asia
Sonal Khullar
ISBN: 9780295751115
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(74) Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023
Lara M. Evans, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, and Anya Montiel
ISBN: 9780937311882
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(75) Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York
Tina Shrestha
ISBN: 9780295751528
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(76) The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court
Yael Rice
ISBN: 9780295751092
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(77) The Ghost in the City: Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century China
Michele Matteini
ISBN: 9780295750958
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(78) A Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa
Leslie Anne Hadfield
ISBN: 9780299331245
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(79) A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia
Andrey V. Ivanov
ISBN: 9780299327941
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(80) Black Earth, White Bread
Susanne A. Wengle
ISBN: 9780299335441
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(81) Germans and Jews: The Right, the Left, and the Search for a "Third Force" in Pre-Nazi Germany
George L. Mosse
ISBN: 9780299342845
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(82) A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng
Silverberg, Ann L.
ISBN: 9789888754342
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(83) A Home for Advan FC: Handbook for a Madagascan Building with Global Adaptability
Dechmann, Nele
ISBN: 9783038602699
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(84) About England
Matless, David
ISBN: 9781789146912
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(85) Alexander Brenner – A Holistic Art of Building: Villas and Houses 2015–2022
Brenner, Alexander
ISBN: 9783038602682
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(86) All Under One Roof: Revolutionising Basel’s Military Barracks
Focketyn Del Rio Studio,
ISBN: 9783038602569
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(87) An Indigo Summer
Orrell, Ellie Evelyn
ISBN: 9781915279071
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(88) Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe
Andrikopoulos, Apostolos
ISBN: 9780226822624
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(89) Best of Austria: Architecture 2020–21
Architekturzentrum Wien,
ISBN: 9783038603160
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(90) Broadcasting for Wales: The Early Years of S4C
Price, Elain
ISBN: 9781786839640
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(91) Built: by Valerio Olgiati
Olgiati, Valerio
ISBN: 9783038602835
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(92) Holy Hoaxes: A Beautiful Deception
Voelke, William M.
ISBN: 9782956702474
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(93) Hot Questions—Cold Storage: Architecture from Austria. The Permanent Exhibition at the Az W
Fitz, Angelika
ISBN: 9783038603184
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(94) Hugo van der Goes: Between Pain and Bliss
Eising, Erik
ISBN: 9783777438481
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(95) Impressions of Theophrastus Such
Eliot, George
ISBN: 9781988963396
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(96) James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The Easter Rising as Modern Event
Gibbons, Luke
ISBN: 9780226824475
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(97) Le tremblement des certitudes: Silvie Defraoui
Schmidlin, Laurence
ISBN: 9783039421275
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(98) Marguerite Saegesser: American Monotypes
Hirsch, Helen
ISBN: 9783039421336
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(99) Middle Eastern Gothics: Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past
Grumberg, Karen
ISBN: 9781786839282
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(100) Montessori Architecture: A Design Instrument for Schools
Lawrence, Steve
ISBN: 9783038603153
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(101) Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750: From the Priorate of the Guilds to the End of the Medici Grand Duchy
Cummings, Anthony
ISBN: 9780226822785
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(102) Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation
Skov, Marie Arleth
ISBN: 9781789387001
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(103) Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity
Mazzotti, Massimo
ISBN: 9780226826745
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(104) Return to My Trees: Notes from the Welsh Woodlands
Yeomans, Matthew
ISBN: 9781915279149
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(105) Rochus Lussi—Thin Skin: Works 1992–2023
Moser, Brigitte
ISBN: 9783039421435
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(106) Rock Legends at Rockfield
Collins, Jeff
ISBN: 9781915279040
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(107) Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution: Enshrining the Right to Sexual Autonomy in Japan
Matsui, Shigenori
ISBN: 9780774868150
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(108) Staging the Table in Europe: 1500-1800
Krohn, Deborah
ISBN: 9781941792360
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(109) Studies on Types: Dormitories
Borges, Tiago P.
ISBN: 9782889155064
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(110) The Anglican Episcopate 1689–1800
Aston, Nigel
ISBN: 9781786839763
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(111) The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality
Melnick, R.
ISBN: 9780226825526
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(112) The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge
Pietsch, Tamson
ISBN: 9780226825168
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(113) The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen
ISBN: 9780226824406
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(114) The History of Emily Montague
Brooke, Frances
ISBN: 9781988963402
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(115) The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
Rosenberg, Gerald N.
ISBN: 9780226312477
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(116) The Many Lives of Apartment-Studio Le Corbusier: 1931-2014
Graf, Franz
ISBN: 9782889154845
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(117) The Synagogue Project: On the Reconstruction of Synagogues in Germany
Springer, Jörg
ISBN: 9783038603009
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(118) Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things
Newman, Sarah
ISBN: 9780226826394
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(119) Reno's Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City
Alicia Barber
ISBN: 9780700636044
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(120) The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War
Anthony Burke Smith
ISBN: 9780700636150
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(121) Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage
Michael R. Veach
ISBN: 9780813197715
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(122) Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown
Jennifer S. Kelly
ISBN: 9780813197401
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(123) The Foxes of Belair: Gallant Fox, Omaha, and the Quest for the Triple Crown
Jennifer S. Kelly
ISBN: 9780813197371
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(124) Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias
David S. Dalton
ISBN: 9780826505378
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