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(1) Womb Work
Belinda Monique Waller-Peterson
ISBN: 978-1-63804-064-4
View at publisher (Clemson University Press)


(2) Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire: The Global Evolution of the Japanese Red Cross Movement, 1877–1945
Michiko Suzuki
ISBN: 9780231211659
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia
Rajbir Singh Judge
ISBN: 9780231214490
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran
Jonathan Chaves and Matthew Fraleigh
ISBN: 9780231213714
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(5) The Terrible Children of Modernity
Peter Sloterdijk. Translated by Oliver Berghof. Introduction by Efraín Kristal.
ISBN: 9780231175333
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(6) Gezi: The Making of a New Political Community in Turkey
Kaan Ağartan
ISBN: 9781399525909
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(7) Iranian Art from the Sasanians to the Islamic Republic: Essays in Honour of Linda Komaroff
Sheila S. Blair; Jonathan M. Bloom|Sandra Williams
ISBN: 9781399506021
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(8) Mecca in Morocco: Articulations of Muslim Pilgrimage in Moroccan Everyday Life
Kholoud Al-Ajarma
ISBN: 9781399520713
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(9) Mina’i Ware: A Reassessment and Comprehensive Study of Iranian Polychrome Overglaze Wares through Sherds
Richard Piran McClary
ISBN: 9781399507165
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(10) One Hundred Years of Greek-Turkish Relations: The Human Dimension of an Ongoing Conflict
Samim Akgönül
ISBN: 9781399533843
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(11) Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age
Francesco Piraino
ISBN: 9781399536097
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(12) The Integrity of the Qur’an: Sunni and Shi‘i Historical Narratives
Seyfeddin Kara
ISBN: 9781474462235
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(13) Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in US Literature
Matthew Scully
ISBN: 9781531507077
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(14) The Prison before the Panopticon: Incarceration in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy
Jacob Abolafia
ISBN: 9780674290631
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(15) Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation
Patrick McKelvey
ISBN: 9781479824878
View at publisher (New York University Press)


(16) Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America
Camille Owens
ISBN: 9781479812929
View at publisher (New York University Press)


(17) Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad
Christina A. León
ISBN: 9781479816781
View at publisher (New York University Press)


(18) Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire
Leah Perry
ISBN: 9780814215203
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(19) Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State
Roberta Wolfson
ISBN: 9780814215692
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(20) An Ordinary Landscape of Violence: Women Loving Women in Guyana
Preity R. Kumar
ISBN: 9781978819047
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(21) Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction
Karolina Krasuska
ISBN: 9781978832763
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(22) Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China
Amy Zhang
ISBN: 9781503637962
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(23) Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets: Israel in the American Orbit, 1967-1973
Oz Frankel
ISBN: 9781503636262
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(24) Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915–1960
Kate Imy
ISBN: 9781503634626
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(25) Monuments Decolonized: Algeria's French Colonial Heritage
Susan Slyomovics
ISBN: 9781503632899
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(26) Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991
Radoslav Yordanov
ISBN: 9781503636422
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(27) The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Nir Shafir
ISBN: 9781503638952
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(28) A Lover of God: The Ecstatic Sufi Nūrī
Dora Zsom; SUNY series in Islam
ISBN: 9781438498430
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(29) Education among Indigenous Palestinians in Israel: Inequality, Cultural Hegemony, and Social Change
Majid Al-Haj
ISBN: 9781438498546
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(30) From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary
Philip Kaisary; SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
ISBN: 9781438498492
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(31) Leo Strauss and the Recovery of "Natural Philosophizing":
Alberto Ghibellini; SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
ISBN: 9781438498614
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(32) Music's Making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry
Michael Cherlin
ISBN: 9781438498454
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(33) Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿAṭṭār
Cyrus Ali Zargar; SUNY series in Islam
ISBN: 9781438498676
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(34) The Sāṃkhya System: Accounting for the Real
Christopher Key Chapple; SUNY series in Hindu Studies
ISBN: 9781438498362
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(35) Those Who Act Ruin It: A Daoist Account of Moral Attunement
Jacob Bender; SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
ISBN: 9781438498584
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(36) Imagining Progress: Science, Faith, and Child Mortality in America
Kristin Johnson
ISBN: 9780817361495
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(37) Silver “Thieves," Tin Barons, and Conquistadors: Small-Scale Mineral Production in Southern Bolivia
Mary Van Buren
ISBN: 9780816553341
View at publisher (University of Arizona Press)


(38) Beyond Suspicion: The Moral Clash between Rootedness and Progressive Liberalism
by Nissim Mizrachi (Author)
ISBN: 9780520382855
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(39) Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism
by Nicholas Baer (Author)
ISBN: 9780520398825
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(40) Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal
by E. Mara Green (Author)
ISBN: 9780520399235
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(41) Instrumental Lives: Musical Instruments, Material Culture, and Social Networks in East and Southeast Asia
Edited by Helen Rees
ISBN: 978-0-252-04592-9
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(42) Alchemies of Theater: Plays, Scores, Writings
Dick HigginsEdited by Bonnie Marranca
ISBN: 9780472056781
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(43) Corpse Crusaders: The Zombie in American Comics
Chera Kee
ISBN: 9780472056859
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(44) Dancing with the Modernist City: Metropolitan Dance Texts around 1900
Wesley Lim
ISBN: 9780472904563
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(45) How to Draw a Circle: On Reading and Writing
Dan Beachy-Quick
ISBN: 9780472221776
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(46) Learning to Love: Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China
Sonya E Pritzker
ISBN: 9780472056866
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(47) Making Sense of the Arab State
Edited by Steven Heydemann & Marc Lynch
ISBN: 9780472904617
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(48) Pleasure Grounds of Death: The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America
Joy M. Giguere
ISBN: 9780472221790
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(49) Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature
Christopher Smith
ISBN: 9780472056873
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(50) The Bastard Instrument: A Cultural History of the Electric Bass
Brian F. Wright
ISBN: 9780472056811
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(51) The Fundamentals of Campaign Finance in the U.S.: Why We Have the System We Have
Diana Dwyre & Robin Kolodny
ISBN: 9780472904532
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(52) Uncanny Creatures: Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture
Christophe Koné
ISBN: 9780472039739
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(53) The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood:
Shenila Khoja-Moolji
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1719-7
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(54) Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier
Maura Jane Farrelly
ISBN: 9781496237057
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(55) Land of Sunshine: Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical
Sigrid Anderson
ISBN: 9781496221988
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(56) Warriors for Social Justice: Maria Jiminez of Houston and Mexican American Activists
Linda J. Quintanilla
ISBN: 9781574419122
View at publisher (University of North Texas Press)


(57) León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I: Related Books
Bernard F. Reilly and Simon R. Doubleday
ISBN: 9781512824629
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(58) The House of Condulmer: The Rise and Decline of a Venetian Family in the Century of the Black Death
Alan M. Stahl
ISBN: 9781512826197
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(59) Lynching in Virginia: Racial Terror and Its Legacy
Edited by Gianluca De Fazio. Afterword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
ISBN: 9780813951157
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(60) Nordic Utopia: African Americans in the Twentieth Century
Leslie Anne Anderson, Ethelene Whitmire, Temi Odumosu, Ryan Thomas Skinner
ISBN: 9798987929346
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(61) Transpacific, Undisciplined
Lily Wong, Christopher B. Patterson, Chien-ting Lin
ISBN: 9780295752754
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(62) Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos
Ryan Wolfson-Ford
ISBN: 9780299348601
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(63) Amaravati: Art and Buddhism in Ancient India
Elsner, Jas
ISBN: 9781789148695
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(64) An Unfolding Vision: The University of Wales Trinity Saint David 1822–2022
Morgan-Guy, John
ISBN: 9781786839046
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(65) As Cruel as Anyone Else: Italians, Colonies and Empire
Del Boca, Angelo
ISBN: 9781803093482
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(66) Canova: La Riconoscenza
Mazzocca, Fernando
ISBN: 9783777443034
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(67) Edgar Degas
Dagit, Gerald
ISBN: 9783777443560
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(68) Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection
Marciari, John
ISBN: 9781913645564
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(69) Hanna Bekker vom Rath
Schmidt, Lisa Marei
ISBN: 9783777443546
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(70) Hermann Hertzberger: Structuralism
Stock, Wolfgang Jean
ISBN: 9783777436623
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(71) Hex: Through my Hands I See
Fogher, Valentina
ISBN: 9783777442846
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(72) Hochhaus und Traktor: Siedlungsentwicklung in Graubünden in den 1960er- und 1970er-Jahren
Maissen, Carmelia
ISBN: 9783858814265
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(73) Illegal: Street Art Graffiti 1960–1995
Blanché, Ulrich
ISBN: 9783777443591
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(74) Images of War: The Cultural Construction of Qing Martial Prowess
Ya-Chen, Ma
ISBN: 9789813252127
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(75) Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age
Koole, Simeon
ISBN: 9780226834344
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(76) Is a Single Teachable Indian Past Possible Today?
Nair, Janaki
ISBN: 9781803092836
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(77) Johannes Itten: Catalogue Raisonné Vol.III. Documents and Sources on the Biography. Graphic Work, Sculpture, Tapestries, Furniture. 1888–1967
Wagner, Christoph
ISBN: 9783777431697
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(78) Kew Pocketbooks Houseplants
Langley, Brie
ISBN: 9781842468067
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(79) Kew Pocketbooks: Houseplants
Langley, Brie
ISBN: 9781842468067
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) Kunstführer durch den Kanton Zürich
Society for Swiss Art History,
ISBN: 9783858812155
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(81) Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis
Peakman, Julie
ISBN: 9781789148473
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(82) Maker Space: Creative Environments in Early Modern Europe
Murray, Colin
ISBN: 9781941792384
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(83) Nash-Healey: A Grand Alliance
Nikas, John
ISBN: 9781956309140
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(84) Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic
Hartog, Hendrik
ISBN: 9780226834375
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(85) Northern Ireland and the UK Constitution
Whitten, Lisa Claire
ISBN: 9781913368951
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(86) Northern Ireland and the UK Constitution
Whitten, Lisa Claire
ISBN: 9781913368968
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(87) Oder das Tal aufgeben: Die Lawinenschutzbauten von St. Antönien
Gantenbein, Köbi
ISBN: 9783858814784
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(88) Porsche Decades: An Introduction to the Porsche Story
Gillotti, Jay
ISBN: 9781956309164
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(89) Postcolonial Spain: Coloniality, Violence and Independence
Miguélez-Carballeira, Helena
ISBN: 9781837721054
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(90) Regime Change: New Horizons in Islamic Artand Visual Culture
Gruber, Christiane
ISBN: 9781914983139
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(91) Spain: Modern Architectures in History
Cohn, David
ISBN: 9781789145816
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(92) The Allure of Rome: Maarten van Heemskerck Draws the City
Bartsch, Tatjana
ISBN: 9783777443447
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(93) The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes: Brian Anslay’s Translation of 1521 in Modernized English
Pizan, Christine de
ISBN: 9781649591166
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(94) The Long Unwinding Road: A Journey Through the Heart of Wales
Jones, Marc P.
ISBN: 9781915279583
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(95) The Noble Army: The Modern Martyrsof Westminster Abbey
Hawkey, James
ISBN: 9781914979019
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(96) The Politics of Utopia: A New History of John Law’s System, 1695–1795
Orain, Arnaud
ISBN: 9780226825359
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(97) The Splendour of Modernity: Japanese Arts of the Meiji Era
Buckland, Rosina
ISBN: 9781789148558
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(98) The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation
Pluskowski, Aleksander
ISBN: 9781789148688
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(99) The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918-1941
Wakeman, Rosemary
ISBN: 9780226834184
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(100) Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy
Carlson, Taylor N.
ISBN: 9780226834177
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(101) When the Yellow River Floods: Water, Technology, and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature
Hsu, Hui-Lin
ISBN: 9789888842773
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(102) Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean
Emily A. Maguire
ISBN: 9781683404583
View at publisher (University Press of Florida)


(103) Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence
Annette Trefzer
ISBN: 9781496851086
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(104) Seasons at Lakeside Dairy: Family Stories from a Black-Owned Dairy, Louisiana to California and Beyond
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins
ISBN: 9781496852090
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(105) Amplifications of Black Sound from Colonial Mexico: Vocality and Beyond
Sarah Finley
ISBN: 9780826506849
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)


(106) Empathy and Performance: Enactments of Power in Latinx America
Laura V. Sández
ISBN: 9780826506733
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)