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(1) First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing
Joseph A. Skloot
ISBN: 9781684581498
View at publisher (Brandeis University Press)


(2) Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom
Alexandra Kaloyanides
ISBN: 9780231199858
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) Campus Medius: Digital Mapping in Cultural and Media Studies
Simon Ganahl
ISBN: 9783837656015
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo
Perry Link and Wu Dazhi
ISBN: 9780231206341
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(5) Reading the Past, Understanding the Present
Edited by Agnieszka Orszulak and Agnieszka Romanowska
ISBN: 9788323350019
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(6) Short Dorjé Chang Mahāmudrā Invocation by Bängar Jampäl Zangpo: with commentaries by 8th Karmapa Mikyö Dorjé, Karma Chagmé, 15th Karmapa Khakhyab Dorjé, Rinchen Dargyä, Gänpo Tshepäl and life-story of the author by 8th
Edition, translation and introduction by Artur Przybysławski
ISBN: 9788323350491
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(7) Studies on the Iranian World: Medieval and Modern
Edited by Anna Krasnowolska and Renata Rusek-Kowalska
ISBN: 9788323339557
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(8) The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan
Translated by Adam Kabat
ISBN: 9780231209731
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(9) The Russian Economy
Yuval Weber
ISBN: 9781788210287
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(10) The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media
Nathan Shockey
ISBN: 9780231194297
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(11) Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework
Bernard O'Kane; A. C. S. Peacock|Mark Muehlhaeusler
ISBN: 9781474489447
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(12) Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades: The Political World of Bilad al-Sham 1050-1128
James Wilson
ISBN: 9781399503174
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(13) State Atrophy in Syria: War, Society and Institutional Change
Harout Akdedian
ISBN: 9781399510264
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(14) Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework
Cihan Dizdaroğlu
ISBN: 9781474492102
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(15) A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Elizabeth Spragins
ISBN: 9781531501570
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(16) Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea
Cynthia Franklin
ISBN: 9781531503734
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(17) The Work of Repair: Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
Thomas Cousins
ISBN: 9781531503543
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(18) The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain
Brian K. Goodman
ISBN: 9780674983373
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(19) Fictions of Gender: Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination
Orian Zakai
ISBN: 9780228017066
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(20) Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age
Vanessa Gerrie
ISBN: 9781978834361
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(21) Children of the Rainforest: Shaping the Future in Amazonia
Camilla Morelli; Foreword by Roldán Dunú Tumi Dësi; Afterword by Roldán Dunú Tumi Dësi
ISBN: 9781978825215
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(22) Coastal Landscapes: South Jersey from the Air
Kenneth W. Able; Photographer Kenneth W. Able
ISBN: 9781978833722
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(23) Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China
Casey James Miller
ISBN: 9781978835368
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(24) Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women Fans
Lorraine Mangione and Donna Luff
ISBN: 9781978827189
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(25) Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama
Rena M. Heinrich
ISBN: 9781978835535
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(26) Rockin' in the Ivory Tower: Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties
James M. Carter
ISBN: 9781978829381
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(27) Zionism: An Emotional State
Derek J. Penslar
ISBN: 9780813576091
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(28) Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia
Angela Jill Lederach
ISBN: 9781503634640
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(29) The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela
Mariya P. Ivancheva
ISBN: 9781503634749
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(30) The Irish Revival: A Complex Vision
Edited by Joseph Valente, Marjorie Howes
ISBN: 9780815637943
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(31) Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The life and works of Leonora Bernardi
Virginia Cox and Lisa Sampson and translated by Anna Wainwright
ISBN: 9781800084308
View at publisher (UCL Press)


(32) Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Zachary Tavlin
ISBN: 9780817360894
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(33) Oktoberfest in Brazil: Domestic Tourism, Sensescapes, and German Brazilian Identity
Audrey Ricke
ISBN: 9780817360900
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(34) The Archaeology of Protestant Landscapes: Revealing the Formation of Community Identity in the US South
Kimberly Pyszka
ISBN: 9780817321628
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(35) Come My Children
Hekmat Al-Taweel; Edited by Ghada Ageel and Barbara Bill; Foreword by Ilan Pappe
ISBN: 9781772126761
View at publisher (University of Alberta Press)


(36) Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico
by Jaime M. Pensado (Author)
ISBN: 9780520392960
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(37) New Export China: Translations across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art
by Alex Burchmore (Author)
ISBN: 9780520390010
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(38) Practicing Asylum: A Handbook for Expert Witnesses in Latin American Gender- and Sexuality-Based Asylum Cases
by Kimberly Gauderman (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520391352
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(39) Totality: Abstraction and Meaning in the Art of Barnett Newman
by Michael Schreyach (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379510
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(40) World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War
by Masha Salazkina (Author)
ISBN: 9780520393752
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(41) Irish Mormons: Reconciling Identity in Global Mormonism
Hazel O'Brien
ISBN: 978-0-252-04507-3
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(42) The Digital NBA: How the World's Savviest League Brings the Court to Our Couch
Steven Secular
ISBN: 978-0-252-04520-2
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(43) The Horrible Peace: British Veterans and the End of the Napoleonic Wars
Evan Wilson
ISBN: 9781625347336
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(44) Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa
Sakiru Adebayo
ISBN: 9780472056231
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(45) Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany
Katrin Sieg
ISBN: 9780472904068
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(46) Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author
Leigh Ross Chambers
ISBN: 9780472904075
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(47) Strangers to the Law: Gay People on Trial
Lisa Melinda Keen & Suzanne Beth Goldberg
ISBN: 9780472904174
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(48) Changing Woman: A Novel of the Camp Grant Massacre
Venetia Hobson Lewis
ISBN: 9781496235138
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(49) Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas
Edited by Benjamin Hebblethwaite and Silke Jansen
ISBN: 9781496235732
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(50) Salish and Kootenai Indian Chiefs Speak for Their People and Land, 1865–1909
Edited by Robert Bigart and Joseph McDonald
ISBN: 9781934594346
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(51) The Forgotten Diaspora: Mesoamerican Migrations and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Travis Jeffres
ISBN: 9781496226846
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(52) The Incarceration of Native American Women: Creating Pathways to Wellness and Recovery through Gentle Action Theory
Carma Corcoran
ISBN: 9781496224187
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(53) Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha
ISBN: 9781469674018
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(54) A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity: Related Books
A. J. Berkovitz
ISBN: 9781512824186
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(55) A Marsh Island: Related Books
Sarah Orne Jewett; Edited by Don James McLaughlin
ISBN: 9781512824261
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(56) Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Debbie Sharnak
ISBN: 9781512824247
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(57) The King Is in the Field: Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought
Edited by Julie E. Cooper and Samuel Hayim Brody
ISBN: 9781512824094
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(58) A Thorough Exploration in Historiography / Shitong
Liu Zhiji. Translated and Introduced by Victor Cunrui Xiong
ISBN: 9780295751061
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(59) Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis
Susan Nance, Jennifer Marks
ISBN: 9780295751429
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(60) Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts
Ruth Yun-Ju Chen
ISBN: 9780295751399
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(61) Insect Histories of East Asia
David A. Bello, Daniel Burton-Rose
ISBN: 9780295751801
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(62) Renegade Edo and Paris: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec
Xiaojin Wu. With Contributions by Mary Weaver Chapin
ISBN: 9780932216076
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(63) Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California
Kaitlin Reed
ISBN: 9780295751566
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(64) Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt
Lisa Gail Collins
ISBN: 9780295751603
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(65) Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination
Edited by Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney
ISBN: 9780299342401
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(66) Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands
Seb Rumsby
ISBN: 9780299342302
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(67) The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930
David L. Schoenbrun
ISBN: 9780299332549
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(68) ‘Race Is Everything’: Art and Human Difference
Bindman, David
ISBN: 9781789146967
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(69) A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination
Lee, Haiyan
ISBN: 9780226825250
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(70) A Dark Conspiracy and Other Nineteenth-Century Canadian Short Stories in English
Wallace, Henry M.
ISBN: 9781988963419
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(71) A Sinister Assassin: Last Writings, Ivry-Sur-Seine, September 1947 to March 1948
Artaud, Antonin
ISBN: 9783035803563
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(72) A. A. Fischer’s St. Louis Streetscapes
Hamilton, Nancy Moore
ISBN: 9798985571622
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(73) Arc of Feeling: The History of the Swing
Moscoso, Javier
ISBN: 9781789146936
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(74) Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project
Smith, W. Eugene
ISBN: 9780226824833
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(75) Henning Christiansen, Bjørn Nørgaard – MANRESA HAUPTBANHOF: An Homage to Joseph Beuys
Pilar, Parcerisas
ISBN: 9788494423499
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(76) Hidden Harmonies: Manuscript and Print on the North Atlantic Fringe, 1500–1900
Driscoll, Matthew James
ISBN: 9788763546881
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(77) Pinocchio: The Adventures of a Puppet, Doubly Commented Upon and Triply Illustrated
Agamben, Giorgio
ISBN: 9781803091389
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(78) Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World
Ndiaye, Noémie
ISBN: 9780866988421
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(79) Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas
Moreno, Jairo
ISBN: 9780226825687
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter: From Sacred Scrolls to Graffiti
Pludwinski, Izzy
ISBN: 9781684581467
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(81) The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965
Smith, W. Eugene
ISBN: 9780226824840
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(82) The Moulids of Egypt: Egyptian Saint’s Day Festivals
McPherson, J.W.
ISBN: 9781914983108
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(83) The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship
Simon, Rebecca
ISBN: 9781789147117
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(84) The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790
Peace, Thomas
ISBN: 9780774868341
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(85) Theatre Censorship in Spain, 1931–1985
Thompson, Michael
ISBN: 9781786839824
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(86) Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships: Nehiyawak Narratives
Jobin, Shalene Wuttunee
ISBN: 9780774865203
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(87) Why So Easily . . . Some Family Reasons for the Velvet Revolution: A Sociological Essay
Možný, Ivo
ISBN: 9788024653150
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(88) Octopus's Garden: How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California
Benjamin T. Jenkins
ISBN: 9780700634712
View at publisher (University Press of Kansas)


(89) Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón
ISBN: 9780826505538
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)