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New books from university presses

(1) Readings of the Gateless Barrier
Edited by Jimmy Yu
ISBN: 9780231207379
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(2) Soft Burial: A Novel
Fang Fang. Translated by Michael Berry
ISBN: 9780231214995
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) The Running Flame: A Novel
Fang Fang. Translated by Michael Berry
ISBN: 9780231215015
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader
Patty Ahn; Michelle Cho; Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez; Rani Neutill; Mimi Thi Nguyen; Yutian Wong
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3062-1
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(5) Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous American Art, Ecological Crisis, and the Cold War
Jessica L. Horton
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3049-2
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(6) Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal
Tithi Bhattacharya
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3071-3
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(7) Plantation Worlds
Maan Barua
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2561-0
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(8) Shadow of My Shadow
Jennifer Doyle
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3066-9
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(9) Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico
Claudio Lomnitz
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3073-7
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(10) The Book of Politics: China in Theory
Michael Dutton
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3019-5
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(11) Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation
Gary Y. Okihiro
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3067-6
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(12) Unsettled Labors: Migrant Care Work in Palestine/Israel
Rachel H. Brown
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3059-1
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(13) Aesthetics and the Art of Living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran: The Human Dimension of an Ongoing Conflict
Erika Friedl
ISBN: 9781399536738
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(14) Arabic Exile Literature in Europe: Forced Migration and Speculative Fiction
Johanna Sellman
ISBN: 9781399500135
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(15) Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy
Dženita Karić
ISBN: 9781474494113
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(16) British Muslims, Ethnicity and Health Inequalities: Transcontinental Exchanges
Sufyan Dogra
ISBN: 9781399502665
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(17) Ethnic Cleansing in Western Anatolia, 1912–1923: Ottoman Officials and the Local Christian Population
Umit Eser
ISBN: 9781399533249
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(18) Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature: 1808-2023
Ghazouane Arslane
ISBN: 9781399504683
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(19) Islam and New Directions in World Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges
Sarah R. Bin Tyeer; Claire Gallien
ISBN: 9781474484060
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(20) Kurdish Nobility and the Ottoman State in the Long Nineteenth Century: From the Eighth to the Thirteenth Century
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan
ISBN: 9781399508629
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(21) Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges
Tahia Abdel Nasser
ISBN: 9781399507134
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(22) Ottoman Translation: Circulating Texts from Bombay to Paris
Marilyn Booth; Claire Savina
ISBN: 9781399502580
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(23) Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now
Amanda Lagji
ISBN: 9781474490214
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(24) Religion, Politics and Society in Modern Turkey: 1808-2023
Istar Gözaydin
ISBN: 9781399526661
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(25) Sufis and Sharīʿa: The Forgotten School of Mercy
Samer Dajani
ISBN: 9781399508575
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(26) The Egyptian Social Contract: A History of State-Middle Class Relations
Relli Shechter
ISBN: 9781399510318
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(27) Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History: Accommodation and Memory
Andrew D. Magnusson
ISBN: 9781474489539
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(28) Light Enters the Grove: Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park through Poetry
Charles Malone; Carrie George; Jason Harris
ISBN: 978-1-60635-485-8
View at publisher (Kent State University Press)


(29) The Promise of LeBron James: The Rise, Fall from Grace, and Redemption of Ohio’s Own
Bill Livingston
ISBN: 978-1-60635-484-1
View at publisher (Kent State University Press)


(30) Otherworldly Mothering: The Maternal Grammar of Black Women’s Writing, 1970–1990
Marika Ceschia
ISBN: 9780807182499
View at publisher (Louisiana State University Press)


(31) Created in the Image?: Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction
Or Rogovin
ISBN: 9780228022107
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(32) Bottoms Up: Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance
Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez
ISBN: 9781479829156
View at publisher (New York University Press)


(33) Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture
Mel Stanfill
ISBN: 9781479824960
View at publisher (New York University Press)


(34) Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America
Sonia C. Gomez
ISBN: 9781479803071
View at publisher (New York University Press)


(35) The Contemporary Black Church: The New Dynamics of African American Religion
Jason E. Shelton
ISBN: 9781479824748
View at publisher (New York University Press)


(36) Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics: The Art and Energy of American Comics
Daniel Worden
ISBN: 9780814215708
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(37) Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature
Hasnul Insani Djohar
ISBN: 9780814215715
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(38) Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside
Melissa Ludtke
ISBN: 9781978837782
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(39) Why Presidents Fail: Political Parties and Government Survival in Latin America
Christopher A. Martínez
ISBN: 9781503632868
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(40) Affective Betrayal: Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China
Jean Tsui; SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
ISBN: 9781438498782
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(41) How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism
Yael Segalovitz
ISBN: 9781438498690
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(42) Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas:
Vanessa K. Valdés; Earl E. Fitz; SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
ISBN: 9781438498812
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(43) Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism: Rediscovering Confucianism in a Pluriversal World
Chih-yu Shih; SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics
ISBN: 9781438498874
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(44) Religion and Women in India: Gender, Faith, and Politics, 1780s–1980s
Tanika Sarkar
ISBN: 9798855800289
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(45) Snapping Beans: Voices of a Black Queer Lesbian South
Jayme N. Canty; SUNY series in Black Women's Wellness
ISBN: 9781438498904
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(46) The Whirlpool That Produced China: Stag Hunting on the Central Plain
Zhao Tingyang; SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
ISBN: 9781438498966
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(47) Uncommon Allies: American Jews and Christians Uniting against Hitler, 1933-1945
Alan M. Shore
ISBN: 9780815638438
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(48) Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840
Brooke M. Bauer
ISBN: 9780817361907
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(49) Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Haven in Chile
Eva Goldschmidt Wyman
ISBN: 9780817361945
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(50) Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Tiçitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535–1660
Edward Anthony Polanco
ISBN: 9780816552894
View at publisher (University of Arizona Press)


(51) Kidnapped to the Underworld: Memories of Xibalba
Víctor Montejo; Sean S. Sell
ISBN: 9780816552603
View at publisher (University of Arizona Press)


(52) Not Just a Man’s War: Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45
Yihong Pan
ISBN: 9780774870351
View at publisher (University of British Columbia Press)


(53) Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico's Disappeared in the War on Drugs
by Shaylih Muehlmann (Author)
ISBN: 9780520314580
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(54) Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet
by On Barak (Author)
ISBN: 9780520403925
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(55) Native Lands: Culture and Gender in Indigenous Territorial Claims
by Shari M. Huhndorf (Author)
ISBN: 9780520400184
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(56) Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India
by Darshana Sreedhar Mini (Author)
ISBN: 9780520397453
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(57) Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge
by Charlotte Biltekoff (Author)
ISBN: 9780520400979
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(58) Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways: Indigenous Traditions as a Recipe for Living Well
by Mariaelena Huambachano (Author)
ISBN: 9780520396166
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(59) Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture
by Masha Salazkina (Author)
ISBN: 9780520400757
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(60) Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States
by Stephanie L Canizales (Author)
ISBN: 9780520396197
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(61) The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth
by George Lipsitz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520404403
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(62) The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea
by Park Jeong-Mi (Author)
ISBN: 9780520396463
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(63) The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century
by Stephanie Balkwill (Author)
ISBN: 9780520401815
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(64) Bateson's Alphabet: The ABC's of Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind
Jacob Smith
ISBN: 9780472904525
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(65) The South Korean Film Industry
Edited by Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin, and Junhyung Cho
ISBN: 9780472056927
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(66) The Troubling State of India's Democracy
Edited by Dinsha Mistree, Šumit Ganguly, and Larry Diamond
ISBN: 9780472904655
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(67) Deeper Blues: The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris
Andrea Swensson
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1502
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(68) Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago
Andy Clarno, Enrique Alvear Moreno, Janaé Bonsu-Love, Lydia Dana, Michael De Anda Muñiz, Ilā Ravichandran, and Haley Volpintesta Afterword by David Omotoso
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1771-5
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(69) Movies under the Influence:
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1626-8
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(70) An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript
Sharonah Esther Fredrick
ISBN: 9781496236753
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(71) Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv
Waitman Wade Beorn
ISBN: 9781496237590
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(72) Buffalo Soldiers in California: Charles Young and the Ninth Cavalry, 1902–1904
Brian G. Shellum
ISBN: 9781496238511
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(73) The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism
Rabbi Irving Greenberg
ISBN: 9780827615212
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(74) Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century
Robert Cohen
ISBN: 9781469681405
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(75) For God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Alexander B. Haskell
ISBN: 9781469684086
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(76) India and the Cold War
Manu Bhagavan
ISBN: 9781469684048
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(77) Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation
Jack Reid
ISBN: 9781469684062
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(78) Sass: Black Women's Humor and Humanity
J Finley
ISBN: 9781469680026
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(79) Searching for Dr. Harris: The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician
Margaret Humphreys
ISBN: 9781469680064
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(80) The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England
Sarah Rivett
ISBN: 9781469684079
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(81) The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba
Jennifer L. Lambe
ISBN: 9781469681153
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(82) Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians
Jeroen Dewulf
ISBN: 9780268202811
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(83) American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History

ISBN: 9781512825770
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(84) Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803
Bob Frishman
ISBN: 9781606180099
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(85) Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
Yoram Meital
ISBN: 9781512825886
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(86) The New Political Islam: Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice
Emmanuel Karagiannis
ISBN: 9781512826883
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(87) University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District
Laura Wolf-Powers
ISBN: 9781512826913
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(88) Watchdogs: Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government
Glenn A. Fine
ISBN: 9780813952468
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(89) Korean Pop Culture beyond Asia: Race and Reception
David C. Oh, Benjamin Min Han
ISBN: 9780295752969
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(90) ‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate
Rayfield, Donald
ISBN: 9781789149098
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(91) Abandon All Hope: A Personal Journey Through the History of Welsh Literature
Raymond, Gary
ISBN: 9781915279262
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(92) And the Garden Is You: Essays on Fieldwork, Writingwork, and Readingwork
Taussig, Michael
ISBN: 9780226832401
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(93) Baroque Architecture in Bohemia
Macek, Petr
ISBN: 9788024655185
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(94) Bureau—Short Stories: Disclosed Architecture
Zamarbide, Daniel
ISBN: 9783038603733
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(95) C. S. Lewis’s Oxford
Horobin, Simon
ISBN: 9781851245642
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(96) Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan
Kamran, Tahir
ISBN: 9781789149135
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(97) De la verticalité
Charbonnet, François
ISBN: 9783038603696
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(98) England’s Green: Nature and Culture since the 1960s
Matless, David
ISBN: 9781789149210
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(99) Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading: Essays by Lisa Jardine and others
Grafton, Anthony
ISBN: 9781800081673
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(100) Hockey on the Moon: Imagination and Canada’s Game
Dopp, Jamie
ISBN: 9781771994132
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(101) Kafka Journal
Kafka, Franz
ISBN: 9781851246441
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(102) Maison de la Chine: A Building by Atelier FCJZ
Chang, Yung Ho
ISBN: 9783038603641
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(103) Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act
Spychal, Martin
ISBN: 9781914477393
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(104) Penzel Valier: Architecture, Construction, Design 2007–2024
Daum, Leonore
ISBN: 9783038603672
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(105) Precious beyond Measure: A History of Korean Ceramics
McKillop, Beth
ISBN: 9781789148671
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(106) Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar
Chambers, Justine
ISBN: 9789813252691
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(107) Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print
Reynolds, Melissa
ISBN: 9780226834894
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(108) Sex: Jewish Positions
Goldmann, Miriam
ISBN: 9783777443294
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(109) Shakespeare and the Senses
Dugan, Holly E.
ISBN: 9780866986960
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(110) Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola
Greenhalgh, Susan
ISBN: 9780226829159
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(111) Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity
Chudy, Jennifer
ISBN: 9780226834436
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(112) Spectral Spain: Haunted Houses, Silent Spaces and Traumatic Memories in Post-Franco Gothic Fiction
Backes, Heidi
ISBN: 9781837721269
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(113) Spiritual Criminals: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial
Nickerson, Michelle M.
ISBN: 9780226834382
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(114) Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu
Steiner, Juri
ISBN: 9783039421923
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(115) The Art of Medieval Falconry
Hadjinicolaou, Yannis
ISBN: 9781789149104
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(116) The Idea of India: A Dialogue
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
ISBN: 9781803093840
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(117) The Roots of Polarization: From the Racial Realignment to the Culture Wars
O'Brian, Neil A.
ISBN: 9780226834566
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(118) The Troubadours
Paterson, Linda M.
ISBN: 9781789149197
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(119) To Sit on the Earth: An Ethno-Memoir
Nathan, Tobie
ISBN: 9781803093918
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(120) Transversal Territory: Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approaches on Urban Research
de Perrot, Antoine
ISBN: 9783038603726
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(121) Women and Their Warlords: Domesticating Militarism in Modern China
Merkel-Hess, Kate
ISBN: 9780226834306
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(122) Writing Juárez: Violence, Resistance, and the US-Mexico Border
Jochum, Tobias A.
ISBN: 9783593515632
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(123) Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking
Hinkel, Monika
ISBN: 9781913645694
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(124) Mommy Goose's Appalachian Melodies
Mike Norris
ISBN: 9781985901155
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(125) Dream and Legacy, Volume II: Revisiting King in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Michael L. Clemons
ISBN: 9781496852236
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(126) The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora
Johanna X. K. Garvey
ISBN: 9781496850706
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)