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(1) A Cosmopolitan Model for Peacebuilding: The Ukrainian Cases of Crimea and the Donbas
Marc Dietrich
ISBN: 9783838216874
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(2) A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities
Jean Yen-chun Lin
ISBN: 9780231194518
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(3) An Unsettled Nation: Moldova in the Geopolitics of Russia, Romania, and Ukraine
Eduard Baidaus
ISBN: 9783838215822
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(4) Atmosfears: The Uncanny Climate of Contemporary Ecofiction
Natalie Dederichs
ISBN: 9783837665871
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(5) Censorship of Literature in Post-War Poland: In Light of the Confidential Bulletins for Censors from 1945 to 1956
Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk; Translated: Katarzyna Szuster-Tardi
ISBN: 9788323351917
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(6) Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion
Robert B. Rakove
ISBN: 9780231210454
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(7) Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought
Hayrettin Yücesoy
ISBN: 9780231209410
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(8) East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World, second edition
Warren I. Cohen
ISBN: 9780231208338
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(9) From Black Gold to Frozen Gas: How Qatar Became an Energy Superpower
Michael D. Tusiani with Anne-Marie Johnson
ISBN: 9780231210867
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(10) Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2022): Russian Disinformation and Western Scholarship
Edited by Julie Fedor. Guest editor: Taras Kuzio
ISBN: 9783838217468
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(11) Syria Divided: Patterns of Violence in a Complex Civil War
Ora Szekely
ISBN: 9780231205399
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(12) The Maidan Museum: Preserving the Spirit of Maidan: Art, Identity, and the Revolution of Dignity
Giovanni Ercolani. Foreword by Chris Farrands
ISBN: 9783838217635
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(13) The Press: How Russia Destroyed Media Freedom in Crimea
Yuriy Lukanov
ISBN: 9783838217840
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(14) The Space of Religion: Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China
Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank
ISBN: 9780231197359
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(15) Iran’s Soft Power in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Supporting the Struggle in Syria
Zahid Shahab Ahmed; Ali Akbar
ISBN: 9781399517454
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(16) Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World
Nouri Gana
ISBN: 9781531503505
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(17) I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
D. Scott Hartwig
ISBN: 9781421446592
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(18) City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures
Edited by Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma
ISBN: 9780814215524
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(19) Asian American History
Huping Ling
ISBN: 9781978826236
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(20) Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives
Edited by Melanie A. Medeiros and Keisha-Khan Y. Perry; Foreword by Christen A. Smith; Contributions by Julia S. Abdalla, Angela Crumdy, Bruna Cristina Jaq
ISBN: 9781978836303
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(21) City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport
Romit Chowdhury
ISBN: 9781978829503
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(22) Islam and Me: Narrating a Diaspora
Shirin Ramzanali Fazel; Edited by Simone Brioni; Foreword by Charles Burdett
ISBN: 9781978835825
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(23) Maid for Television: Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy
L. S. Kim
ISBN: 9781978826991
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(24) The Cyborg Caribbean: Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction
Samuel Ginsburg
ISBN: 9781978836228
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(25) The Prism of Human Rights: Seeking Justice amid Gender Violence in Rural Ecuador
Karin Friederic
ISBN: 9781978835320
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(26) Bay Lodyans: Haitian Popular Film Culture
Cécile Accilien; SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
ISBN: 9781438493855
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(27) Colombian Peasants in the Neoliberal Age: Between War Rentierism and Subsistence
Nazih F. Richani
ISBN: 9781438494128
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(28) Jewish Virtue Ethics:
Geoffrey D. Claussen; Alexander Green; Alan L. Mittleman; SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
ISBN: 9781438493916
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(29) The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue: Volume 3B: The Sabbath Day Services
Sholom Kalib
ISBN: 9780815637769
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(30) A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety
by Allen L Tran (Author)
ISBN: 9780520392168
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(31) America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
by Treva B. Lindsey (Author)
ISBN: 9780520397446
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(32) Andean Meltdown: A Climate Ethnography of Water, Power, and Culture in Peru
by Karsten Paerregaard (Author)
ISBN: 9780520393929
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(33) Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation
by Abigail Leslie Andrews (Author)
ISBN: 9780520395978
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(34) In Her Hands: Women's Fight against AIDS in the United States
by Emma Day (Author)
ISBN: 9780520389069
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(35) Microbial Machines: Experiments with Decentralized Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in India
by Kelly D. Alley (Author)
ISBN: 9780520394315
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(36) Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High
by C. J. Pascoe (Author)
ISBN: 9780520276437
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(37) Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela
by Sean Nesselrode Moncada (Author)
ISBN: 9780520392465
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(38) Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906
by Lucia Carminati (Author)
ISBN: 9780520385504
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(39) Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape
by Jim Sykes (Author), Julia Suzanne Byl (Author)
ISBN: 9780520393172
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(40) The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba
by Gustav Cederlof (Author)
ISBN: 9780520393134
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(41) We Thought It Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America
by Blair Sackett (Author), Annette Lareau (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379053
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(42) Handwriting in Early America: A Media History
Edited by Mark Alan Mattes
ISBN: 9781625347190
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(43) Indigenous Kinship, Colonial Texts, and the Contested Space of Early New England
Marie Balsley Taylor
ISBN: 9781625347251
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(44) Origins of African Nationalism: Continuity and Rupture in the Movements of Unity Emerging from the Struggle against Portuguese Colonial Domination, 1911–1961
Mário Pinto de Andrade
ISBN: 9781951470036
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(45) Administering Justice: Placing the Chief Justice in American State Politics
Richard Vining & Teena Wilhelm
ISBN: 9780472056309
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(46) Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire
David J. Mattingly
ISBN: 9780472133451
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(47) Life, Earth, Colony: Friedrich Ratzel's Necropolitical Geography
Ian Klinke
ISBN: 9780472056170
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(48) Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema
Pavitra Sundar
ISBN: 9780472039371
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(49) The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan
David Humphrey
ISBN: 9780472056187
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(50) Walking the Gendered Tightrope: Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi as Legislative Leaders
Melissa Haussman & Karen M Kedrowski
ISBN: 9780472056347
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(51) Women in German Expressionism: Gender, Sexuality, Activism
Edited by Anke Finger & Julie Shoults
ISBN: 9780472039388
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(52) Writing Imperial History: Tacitus from Agricola to Annales
Bram L.H. ten Berge
ISBN: 9780472221240
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(53) Opening Ceremony: Inviting Inclusion into University Governance
Kathryn J. Gindlesparger
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1592-6
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(54) Judaism and Its Bible: A People and Their Book
Frederick E. Greenspahn
ISBN: 9780827615106
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(55) The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration
Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld Preface by Angela Bates
ISBN: 9781496230843
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(56) The JPS Bible Commentary: Psalms 120–150
The Traditional Hebrew Text with the JPS Translation Commentary by Adele Berlin Sidebars on Ritual and Liturgical Uses of Psalms 120–150 by Avigdor Shinan
ISBN: 9780827609402
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(57) Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Bobby J. Smith II
ISBN: 9781469675077
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(58) I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America
Mbaye Lo; Carl W. Ernst
ISBN: 9781469674674
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(59) In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine
Eric D. Carter
ISBN: 9781469674452
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(60) North Carolina Literary Review: Number 32, 2023
Margaret D. Bauer
ISBN: 9781469677668
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(61) Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics
Rebecca L. Davis
ISBN: 9781469677415
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(62) Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling
Jamie L. Jones
ISBN: 9781469674827
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(63) Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
ISBN: 9781469674490
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(64) Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
Michael John Witgen
ISBN: 9781469677774
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(65) The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism
Trent Masiki
ISBN: 9781469675275
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(66) The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800
Wayne E. Lee
ISBN: 9781469673783
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(67) Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism
Sarah Mayorga
ISBN: 9781469674933
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(68) On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece
Heath Cabot
ISBN: 9781512825213
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(69) Sex Lives: Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity
Joseph Gamble
ISBN: 9781512824605
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(70) The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean
Daniel Hershenzon
ISBN: 9781512825527
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(71) Kugels and Collards: Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina
Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey
ISBN: 978-1-64336-421-6
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(72) Plain Paths and Dividing Lines: Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake 
Jessica Lauren Taylor
ISBN: 9780813949345
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(73) Regional Identities in Southeast Asia: Contemporary Challenges, Historical Fractures
Jayeel Cornelio, Volker Grabowsky
ISBN: 9786162151903
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(74) Budapest Blackout: A Holocaust Diary
Mária MádiEdited by James W. Oberly
ISBN: 9780299343101
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(75) Framing the Holocaust
Hébert, Valerie
ISBN: 9780299344108
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(76) A Map of Love: Twelve Welsh Poems of Romance, Desire and Devotion
Thomas, M. Wynn
ISBN: 9781915279439
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(77) A New World in the Making: Life and Architecture in Tropical Asia
Kheng Soon, Tay
ISBN: 9789813251694
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(78) An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi
Trinitapoli, Jenny
ISBN: 9780226825717
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(79) Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe
Garrard, Mary D.
ISBN: 9781789147773
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(80) Before Grenfell: Fire, Safety and Deregulation in Twentieth-Century Britain
Ewen, Shane
ISBN: 9781914477256
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(81) Bohemia’s Jews and Their Nineteenth Century: Texts, Contexts, Reassessments
Toman, Jindrich
ISBN: 9788024652887
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(82) C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction
Chou, Wen-Shing
ISBN: 9783777441030
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(83) Cornish Gothic
Passey, Joan
ISBN: 9781786839916
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(84) Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General
de Duve, Thierry
ISBN: 9781789146981
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(85) Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution
Dolan Stover, Justin
ISBN: 9781910820834
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(86) Imi Knoebel
Löckemann, Karsten
ISBN: 9783777441580
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(87) Iznik Ceramics at the Benaki Museum
Carswell, John
ISBN: 9781914983047
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(88) Jakarta: City of a Thousand Dimensions
Kusno, Abidin
ISBN: 9789813252264
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(89) Jungle Heart of the Khmer Rouge: The memoirs of Phi Phuon, Pol Pot’s Jarai aide-de-camp, and the role of Ratanakiri and its tribal minorities in the Cambodian revolution
Locard, Henri
ISBN: 9788776943257
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(90) Latin America and Existentialism: A Pan-American Literary History (1864-1938)
Murillo, Edwin
ISBN: 9781837720002
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(91) MacArthur’s Japanese Constitution
Inoue, Kyoko
ISBN: 9780226833576
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(92) My Dark Room: Spaces of the Inner Self in Eighteenth-Century England
Park, Julie
ISBN: 9780226824765
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(93) North of America: Canadians and the American Century, 1945–60
McKercher, Asa
ISBN: 9780774868839
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(94) Presidents and Their Books: What They Read & Wrote; From the Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane
Flaxman, Natalie
ISBN: 9781605831060
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(95) Re-Connect: Art and Conflict in Brotherland
Hurttig, Marcus Andrew
ISBN: 9783777441139
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(96) Re-Orientations: Europe and Islamic Art from 1851 to Today
Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft,
ISBN: 9783777441221
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(97) Reforming the Reform: Problems of Public Schooling in the American Welfare State
Moffitt, Susan
ISBN: 9780226826943
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(98) Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought
Temin, David
ISBN: 9780226827285
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(99) Singapore’s Grand Strategy
Ang, Cheng Guan
ISBN: 9789813252233
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(100) Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England
Hindley, Katherine Storm
ISBN: 9780226825335
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(101) The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe
McCall, Taylor
ISBN: 9781789146813
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(102) The Art Public: A Short History
Bätschmann, Oskar
ISBN: 9781789146943
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(103) The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio
Smith, Emma
ISBN: 9781851245987
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(104) The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham Books IV–V: On Reflection and Images Seen by Reflection
Sabra, Abdelhamid I.
ISBN: 9781908590589
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(105) Wiener Hitze: Architecture and Storytelling in Times of Heat
Institute For Art And Architecture, Academy Of Fine Arts Vienna,
ISBN: 9783038603283
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(106) Spirited Diasporas: Personal Narratives and Global Futures of Afro-Atlantic Religions
Edited by Martin Tsang
ISBN: 9781683403722
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(107) Unwilling to Quit: The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in Vietnam
David L. Prentice
ISBN: 9780813197760
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