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(1) Mazaltob: A Novel
Written by Blanche Bendahan. Edited by Yaëlle Azagury & Frances Malino
ISBN: 9781684582051
View at publisher (Brandeis University Press)


(2) Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field
Edited by Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold
ISBN: 9781684581177
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(3) andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies: Vol. 11/12, 2022/23
Edited by William Collins Donahue, Georg Mein, and Rolf Parr
ISBN: 9783837669817
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture
Edited by Matthias Schwartz and Nina Weller
ISBN: 9783837660777
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(5) Eight Years After the Revolution of Dignity: What Has Changed in Ukraine During 2013–2021?
Vladimir Dubrovskiy, Kálmán Mizsei, and Kateryna Ivashchenko-Stadnik in collaboration with Mychailo Wynnyckyj. Foreword by Yaroslav Hrytsak
ISBN: 9783838215600
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(6) Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949
Wei Wu
ISBN: 9780231200691
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(7) Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film
Christopher P. Hanscom
ISBN: 9780231208499
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(8) Jhumpa Lahiri's Works in Transition: Towards a new Space
Auritra Munshi. Foreword by Debjani Sengupta
ISBN: 9783838217581
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(9) Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: A Debate on “Ustashism,” Generic Fascism, and the OUN III Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023), Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023): Special Section:
Edited by Julie Fedor, Andreas Umland, and Yuliya Yurchuk
ISBN: 9783838217901
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(10) Justice in Palestine
Mahatma Gandhi
ISBN: 9781916809888
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(11) Music for Bamboo Strings: Música para cuerdas de bambú
Carlos Pintado. Translated by Lawrence Schimel
ISBN: 9798987926451
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(12) Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany
Larry Heinzerling and Randy Herschaft, with Ann Cooper
ISBN: 9780231217170
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(13) Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China
Ying Qian
ISBN: 9780231204477
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(14) Russia’s War in Ukraine 2022: Personal Experiences of Ukrainian Scholars
Edited by Tamara Martsenyuk and Tetiana Kostiuchenko. Foreword by Tetiana Kostiuchenko and Tamara Martsenyuk
ISBN: 9783838217574
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(15) Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policies II: East-West Relations in Europe and the Political Economy of the Communist Bloc, 1971–1991
Robert M. Cutler
ISBN: 9783838217277
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(16) Storytelling as an Act of Remembering: Episodic Memory in Post-Millennial Irish Narrative
Karam Nayebpour and Naghmeh Varghaiyan
ISBN: 9783838218564
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(17) The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society
Thomas M. Larkin
ISBN: 9780231210676
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(18) The EU and the South Caucasus: European Neighborhood Policies between Eclecticism and Pragmatism, 1991-2021
Daviti Mtchedlishvili
ISBN: 9783838217352
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(19) The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
Matthew H. Sommer
ISBN: 9780231214131
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(20) The Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance: 2nd, revised and updated edition.
Chris Webb. Foreword by Jerry Steinberg
ISBN: 9783838218663
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(21) A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present
Ezequiel Adamovsky
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2543-6
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(22) Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918)
Anette Hoffmann
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3002-7
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(23) Shooting for Change: Korean Photography after the War
Jung Joon Lee
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2599-3
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(24) Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times
Erin McElroy
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3021-8
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(25) The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran
Beeta Baghoolizadeh
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3024-9
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(26) The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion
Iván Chaar López
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3003-4
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(27) The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil
Jacob Blanc
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3008-9
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(28) Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide
Marlé Hammond
ISBN: 9781474435789
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(29) Electoral Integrity in Turkey: A Reader and Guide
Emre Toros
ISBN: 9781474492348
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(30) Italy and the Islamic World: From Caesar to Mussolini
Ali Humayun Akhtar
ISBN: 9781399519625
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(31) Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture: From Caesar to Mussolini
Isabelle Hesse
ISBN: 9781399523677
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(32) The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures: The Power of Practices
C. Ceyhun Arslan
ISBN: 9781399525824
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(33) The Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran, 1639–1682: Diplomacy and Borderlands in the Early Modern Middle East
Selim Güngörürler
ISBN: 9781399510103
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(34) An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries
Steven Salaita
ISBN: 9781531506353
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(35) A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America
Richard Slotkin
ISBN: 9780674292383
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(36) Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade
Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson
ISBN: 9780674251830
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(37) The Contest over National Security: FDR, Conservatives, and the Struggle to Claim the Most Powerful Phrase in American Politics
Peter Roady
ISBN: 9780674291256
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(38) Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy
Maxwell L. Stearns
ISBN: 9781421448336
View at publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press)


(39) Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America
Dean G. Lampros
ISBN: 9781421448404
View at publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press)


(40) Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas
Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman
ISBN: 9780814215647
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(41) The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir: A Memoir
Grace Loh Prasad
ISBN: 9780814258972
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(42) Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen in American Life, 3rd edition, Revised and Expanded
Jim Cullen
ISBN: 9781978838062
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(43) Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War
H. Bruce Franklin
ISBN: 9781978801202
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(44) Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography
Jessica Max Stein
ISBN: 9781978836716
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(45) Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film
Kim Nelson
ISBN: 9781978829770
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(46) Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary
Rachel Z. Feldman
ISBN: 9781978828179
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(47) Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature
Brian T. Chandler
ISBN: 9781684485192
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(48) Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society
John Alekna
ISBN: 9781503636675
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(49) The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism
Srirupa Roy
ISBN: 9781503636460
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(50) Awakening a Living World on a Kūṭiyāṭṭam Stage:
Einat Bar-On Cohen; SUNY series in Hindu Studies
ISBN: 9781438496924
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(51) Li Dazhao: China's First Communist
Patrick Fuliang Shan; SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
ISBN: 9781438496818
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(52) Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero's Political Thought
Paula Landerreche Cardillo; Rachel Silverbloom; SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
ISBN: 9781438497082
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(53) The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics: A Study of the Shijing and the Mao School of Confucian Exegesis
Martin Svensson Ekström; SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
ISBN: 9781438495392
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(54) Tracking Capital: World-Systems, World-Ecology, World-Culture
Sharae Deckard; Michael Niblett; Stephen Shapiro; SUNY series, Literature . . . in Theory
ISBN: 9781438496832
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(55) The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy: A Novel
Frances Khirallah Noble
ISBN: 9780815611684
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(56) The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822–1895
John R. Lundberg
ISBN: 9781648431753
View at publisher (Texas A&M University Press)


(57) Unloose My Heart: A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree
Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens
ISBN: 9780817361662
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(58) Unsettling Brazil: Urban Indigenous and Black Peoples' Resistances to Dependent Settler Capitalism
Desirée Poets
ISBN: 9780817361327
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(59) For the Public Good: Reimagining Arts Graduate Programs in Canadian Universities
Loleen Berdahl, Jonathan Malloy, and Lisa Young
ISBN: 9781772127423
View at publisher (University of Alberta Press)


(60) Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
by Matthew D. Morrison (Author)
ISBN: 9780520390591
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(61) Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield
by Yolanda Ariadne Collins (Author)
ISBN: 9780520396074
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(62) Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth
by Asaf Elia-Shalev (Author)
ISBN: 9780520294318
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(63) Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks
by Simon Morrison (Author)
ISBN: 9780520401266
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(64) Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism
by Elora Shehabuddin (Author)
ISBN: 9780520402300
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(65) Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France
by Charles Keith (Author)
ISBN: 9780520396852
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(66) That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them
by Matt Sienkiewicz (Author), Nick Marx (Author)
ISBN: 9780520402966
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(67) Sins of Christendom: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Evangelicalism
Nathaniel Wiewora
ISBN: 978-0-252-04567-7
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(68) Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin
Sergio M. González
ISBN: 978-0-252-04584-4
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(69) Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright
Bruce Allen Dick
ISBN: 978-0-252-04568-4
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(70) Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America
Eli Sperling
ISBN: 9780472904310
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(71) State Institutions, Civic Associations, and Identity Demands: Regional Movements in Greater Southeast Asia
Edited by Amy H. Liu & Joel Selway
ISBN: 9780472903412
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(72) Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada
Karrmen Crey
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1450-9
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(73) Solar Adobe: Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture
Albert Narath
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1407-3
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(74) Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education
Ujju Aggarwal
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1567-4
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(75) Ethics at the Center: Jewish Theory and Practice for Living a Moral Life
Elliot N. Dorff Foreword by Louis E. Newman
ISBN: 9780827615656
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(76) My Grandfather's Altar: Five Generations of Lakota Holy Men
Richard Moves Camp Edited by Simon J. Joseph
ISBN: 9781496236913
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(77) Bacon's Rebellion, 1676-1677: Race, Class, and Frontier Conflict in Colonial Virginia
Verdis LeVar Robinson; Paul Otto
ISBN: 9781469678924
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(78) Starstruck in the Promised Land: How the Arts Shaped American Passions about Israel
Shalom Goldman
ISBN: 9781469683577
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(79) The Rich Earth between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840
Shelby Johnson
ISBN: 9781469677910
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(80) The War That Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher
Caroline E. Janney; Peter S. Carmichael; Aaron Sheehan-Dean
ISBN: 9781469678894
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(81) Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology
Jonathan A. Seitz
ISBN: 9780268208042
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(82) Youth, Education, and Islamic Radicalism: Religious Intolerance in Contemporary Indonesia
Mun'im Sirry
ISBN: 9780268207649
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(83) Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe
Iris Idelson-Shein
ISBN: 9781512824940
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(84) Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond
Edited by Nora Nachumi and Stephanie Oppenheim
ISBN: 9781648250873
View at publisher (University of Rochester Press)


(85) Opposing Apartheid on Stage: King Kong the Musical
Tyler Fleming
ISBN: 9781648250798
View at publisher (University of Rochester Press)


(86) Cold War Deceptions: The Asia Foundation and the CIA
David H. Price
ISBN: 9780295752242
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(87) Exiled to Motown: A Community History of Japanese Americans in Detroit
Detroit JACL History Project Committee
ISBN: 9780295749020
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(88) Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
Ian M. Miller. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
ISBN: 9780295752877
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(89) Glorious Qing: Decorative Arts in China, 1644-1911
Claudia Brown
ISBN: 9780295751917
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(90) Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
Yong-Chool Ha
ISBN: 9780295752273
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(91) Queer World Making: Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art
Andrew Gayed
ISBN: 9780295752297
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(92) Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
David Fedman. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
ISBN: 9780295752860
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(93) Skidegate House Models: From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond
Robin K. Wright
ISBN: 9780295751047
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(94) Tai Herbalism
Susan Conway
ISBN: 9786162152054
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(95) Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History
Niki J. P. Alsford
ISBN: 9780295752167
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(96) An Equal Share of Freedom: American Jews, Zionism, and World War I
Raider, Mark
ISBN: 9798885500036
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(97) Bad Mexican, Bad American: Poems
Hernandez Diaz, Jose
ISBN: 9781946724731
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(98) Bevan: Creator of the NHS
Beckett, Francis
ISBN: 9781913368838
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(99) De Gaulle
Jackson, Julian
ISBN: 9781913368784
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(100) Designing TWA: Eero Saarinen’s Airport Terminal in New York
Ringli, Kornel
ISBN: 9783906027753
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(101) Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Method and Praxis
Silva, Andie
ISBN: 9781649590602
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(102) Discovering Vietnam’s Ancient Capital: The Archaeology and History of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long-Hanoi
Hardy, Andrew
ISBN: 9789813252295
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(103) German Expressionism: Paintings at the Saint Louis Art Museum
Venator, Melissa
ISBN: 9783777442563
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(104) Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora
Quinsaat, Sharon
ISBN: 9780226831688
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(105) Insurrection: What the January 6 Assault on America Reveals about America and Democracy
Short, John Rennie
ISBN: 9781789148411
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(106) Jacques Louis David, la traite négrière et l’esclavage: Son séjour à Nantes, mars-avril 1790
Bordes, Philippe
ISBN: 9782735129683
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(107) Kandinsky: A Life in Letters 1889–1944
Hahl-Fontaine, Jelena
ISBN: 9783777440361
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(108) Katharina Grosse: Why Three Tones Do Not Form a Triangle
Schröder, Klaus Albrecht
ISBN: 9783777442464
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(109) L’Art de greffer en architecture: Utilité et désir à l’ère de la sobriété
Gang, Jeanne
ISBN: 9783038603443
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(110) L’impressionnisme à ses frontières: Le cas Meier-Graefe et la lutte pour l’art moderne en Allemagne
Claass, Victor
ISBN: 9782735129348
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(111) Land of Shame and Glory: Britain 2021–22
Hennessy, Peter
ISBN: 9781913368883
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(112) Mazaltob: A Novel
Bendahan, Blanche
ISBN: 9781684582068
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(113) Picasso Barcelona: A Cartography
Rafart, Claustre
ISBN: 9788412416237
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(114) Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy
Reichert, Elliot Josephine Leila
ISBN: 9783777442686
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(115) Surviving Istanbul: Struggles, Feasts and Calamities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Faroqhi, Suraiya
ISBN: 9786258022407
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(116) The Flowering Desert: Textiles from Sindh
Askari, Nasreen
ISBN: 9781913645571
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(117) The Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage: Essays in Honour of Nasser David Khalili
Khan, Qaisra M.
ISBN: 9781914983160
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(118) The Musician as Philosopher: New York’s Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978
Gallope, Michael
ISBN: 9780226831763
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(119) The Path of Desire: Living Tantra in Northeast India
Urban, Hugh B.
ISBN: 9780226831121
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(120) The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke
Herbert, William
ISBN: 9781649591005
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(121) The Wolf Economy Awakens: Mongolia’s Fight for Democracy, and a Green and Digital Future
Nylander, Johan
ISBN: 9789888842841
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(122) Vietnam Documented: The British Library’s Vietnamese Collection
Chonchirdsin, Sud
ISBN: 9789813251885
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(123) Was Socialist Realism Global?: Modernism, Soc-modernism, Socially Engaged Figuration
Lipska, Magda
ISBN: 9788393381838
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(124) Xican-a.o.x. Body
Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia
ISBN: 9783777441689
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(125) Yury Kharchenko: Painting 2018–2023
Kharchenko, Yury
ISBN: 9783777441887
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(126) Trash and Limits in Latin American Culture
Micah McKay
ISBN: 9781683404057
View at publisher (University Press of Florida)


(127) Feeding the Ghosts: Poems
Rahul Mehta
ISBN: 9780813198804
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(128) Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood
Colter Harper
ISBN: 9781496849854
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(129) Biocosmism: Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Jorge Quintana Navarrete
ISBN: 9780826506511
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)


(130) Eyes on Amazonia: Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom Frontier
Jessica Carey-Webb
ISBN: 9780826506474
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