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(1) If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi
Tyler W. Williams
ISBN: 9780231211130
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(2) After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi
Marc A Hertzman
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3052-2
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(3) Blood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art
Keiko Lane
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3079-9
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(4) Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta
Gabriela Leite
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3050-8
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(5) Fitness Fiesta!: Selling Latinx Culture through Zumba
Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3081-2
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(6) Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics
Jess Whatcott
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3075-1
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(7) Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert
Barbara Andrea Sostaita
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3060-7
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(8) State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City
Joshua Barker
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3076-8
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(9) The Banality of Good: The UN’s Global Fight against Human Trafficking
Lieba Faier
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3056-0
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(10) Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation
Karabekir Akkoyunlu
ISBN: 9781399506106
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(11) Muslim Sicily: Encounters and Legacy
Nuha Alshaar
ISBN: 9781399536813
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(12) Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left, and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York
Jonathan Butler
ISBN: 9781531508159
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(13) We Charge Genocide!: American Fascism and the Rule of Law
Bill V. Mullen
ISBN: 9781531508456
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(14) Ireland and the Renaissance court: Political culture from the cúirteanna to Whitehall, 1450-1640
Edited by David Edwards and Brendan Kane
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7729-2
View at publisher (Manchester University Press)


(15) Finding Molly Johnson: Irish Famine Orphans in Canada
Mark G. McGowan
ISBN: 9780228023005
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(16) What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy
Jane Cooper
ISBN: 9780228022558
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(17) Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century
Audrey Wu Clark
ISBN: 9780814215623
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(18) On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett
Ashley Lawson
ISBN: 9780814215746
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(19) Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay
Cruz Medina
ISBN: 9780814215456
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(20) Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature
Riya Das
ISBN: 9780814215722
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(21) Blessings Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family
Edited by Nora Rubel and Brett Krutzsch; Contributions by Josh Lambert, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Martin Shuster, Jodi Eichler-Levine, Sarah Bunin Benor, Jarrod
ISBN: 9781978838796
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(22) Bruce Songs: The Music of Bruce Springsteen, Album-by-Album, Song-by-Song
Kenneth Womack and Kenneth L. Campbell
ISBN: 9781978830714
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(23) Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition
Angus Kress Gillespie and Michael Aaron Rockland
ISBN: 9781978835986
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(24) Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality
Elia Powers
ISBN: 9781978836679
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(25) Reel Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema
Brian Ogren
ISBN: 9781978840249
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(26) Singular Sensations: A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States
Michelle Ann Abate
ISBN: 9781978840683
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(27) The Bravest Pets of Gotham: Tales of Four-Legged Firefighters of Old New York
Peggy Gavan
ISBN: 9781978839892
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(28) We Take Care of Our Own: Faith, Class, and Politics in the Art of Bruce Springsteen
June Skinner Sawyers; Afterword by Andre Dubus III
ISBN: 9781978835702
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(29) Cosmopolitan Scientists: How a Global Policy of Commercialization Became Japanese
Nahoko Kameo
ISBN: 9781503639928
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(30) Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel
Rhys Machold
ISBN: 9781503639690
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(31) Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought
Susanna Ferguson
ISBN: 9781503640061
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(32) Black Feminist Writing: A Practical Guide to Publishing Academic Books
Stephanie Y. Evans
ISBN: 9781438499260
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(33) Bodies of Water: Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Geoffrey Maguire; SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
ISBN: 9781438499178
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(34) Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan
Constance A. Cook; Christopher J. Foster; Susan Blader; SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
ISBN: 9781438499000
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(35) Buffalo's Waterfront Renaissance: Citizen Activists, NGOs, and the Canalside Project
Gene Bunnell; Excelsior Editions
ISBN: 9781438499086
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(36) Heidegger's Conversations: Toward a Poetic Pedagogy
Katherine Davies; SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
ISBN: 9781438499116
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(37) Ruling Devotion: The Hindu Temple in the Imperial Imagination
Deborah Sutton; SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9781438499208
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(38) Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue: A Literary Translation of the First Chinese Novel, Wu Yue chunqiu
Olivia Milburn; SUNY series, Translating China
ISBN: 9781438499352
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(39) State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China: The Collapse of the Qin Empire, 221–207 BCE
Chun Fung Tong; SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
ISBN: 9781438499376
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(40) In Search of Walid Masoud: A Novel
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
ISBN: 9780815604587
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(41) Once There Was Warsaw: A Memoir
Ber Kutsher
ISBN: 9780815602835
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(42) We Never Swim in the Same River Twice
Hassouna Mosbahi
ISBN: 9780815602859
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(43) Lessons from Leopold: Learning from the Land
Stephan A. Nelle
ISBN: 9781648432484
View at publisher (Texas A&M University Press)


(44) City of Hope, City of Rage: Miami, 1968–1994
Seth A. Weitz
ISBN: 9780817361471
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(45) Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California:
Kathleen L. Hull; John G. Douglass
ISBN: 9780816538928
View at publisher (University of Arizona Press)


(46) The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out: Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community
Thomas Langford
ISBN: 9780774869287
View at publisher (University of British Columbia Press)


(47) The Thin Edge of Innovation: Metro Vancouver’s Evolving Economy
Roger Hayter; Jerry Patchell; Kevin G. Rees
ISBN: 9780774869928
View at publisher (University of British Columbia Press)


(48) Transforming the Prairies: Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada
Shannon Stunden Bower
ISBN: 9780774870399
View at publisher (University of British Columbia Press)


(49) Under the White Gaze: Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism
Christopher Cheung
ISBN: 9780774881111
View at publisher (University of British Columbia Press)


(50) Being Another Way: The Copula and Arabic Philosophy of Language, 900–1500
by Dustin Klinger (Author)
ISBN: 9780520401631
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(51) Cancer Intersections: Biomedicine, Health Insurance, and the Paradoxes of Health Care Reform in Neoliberal Colombia
by Camilo Sanz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520392885
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(52) Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another
by Samuel C. Heilman (Author), Mucahit Bilici (Author)
ISBN: 9780520340558
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(53) Golden States: How California Religion Went from Cautionary Tale to Global Brand
by Eileen Luhr (Author)
ISBN: 9780520399730
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(54) How to Love a Rat: Detecting Bombs in Postwar Cambodia
by Darcie DeAngelo (Author)
ISBN: 9780520397422
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(55) Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy
by Patricia Aufderheide (Author)
ISBN: 9780520401662
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(56) The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present
by Allen James Fromherz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520398559
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(57) The Suburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam
by Claire Mercer (Author)
ISBN: 9780520402386
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(58) Women, Faith, and Family: Reclaiming Gender Justice through Religious Activism
by Samaneh Oladi (Author)
ISBN: 9780520400450
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(59) Human Rights Counterpublics in Perú: Contesting Tiers of Citizenship
Sylvanna M. Falcon
ISBN: 978-0-252-04603-2
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(60) Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom:
Edited by Cristina Stanciu and Gary Totten
ISBN: 978-0-252-04631-5
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(61) When Friends Come From Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago’s Chinese American Service League
Susan Blumberg-Kason
ISBN: 978-0-252-04607-0
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(62) Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome
Tim Hart
ISBN: 9780472133536
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(63) Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas
Theresa Delgadillo
ISBN: 9780472076932
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(64) In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974
Yanqiu Zheng
ISBN: 9780472056804
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(65) Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child
Shana Leodar Ye
ISBN: 9780472904648
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(66) Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty
Louise Siddons
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1073-0
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(67) Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist
Sherrie Flick
ISBN: 9781496238542
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(68) Clover Garden: A Carolinian's Piedmont Memoir
Bland Simpson; Ann Cary Simpson
ISBN: 9781469682891
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(69) Tangled Journeys: One Family's Story and the Making of American History
Lori D. Ginzberg
ISBN: 9781469679969
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(70) White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition: The Politics of Morality in America
Anthea Butler
ISBN: 9781469681511
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(71) Duval County Tejanos: An Epic Narrative of Liberty and Democracy
Alfredo E. Cárdenas
ISBN: 9781574419443
View at publisher (University of North Texas Press)


(72) March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
ISBN: 9780268201715
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(73) In Plain Sight: Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Ann E. Zimo
ISBN: 9781512824896
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(74) Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish
Hannah Pollin-Galay
ISBN: 9781512825909
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(75) The Hundred Years War, Volume 5: Triumph and Illusion
Jonathan Sumption
ISBN: 9781512826760
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(76) Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Through Mapuche Chile
Magnus Course
ISBN: 9781512826562
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(77) A Doctor’s Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust: Survival in Lager Vapniarka and the Ghettos of Transnistria
Arthur Kessler
ISBN: 9781648250934
View at publisher (University of Rochester Press)


(78) Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program
Caitlin Keliiaa
ISBN: 9780295753003
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(79) A History of Violence: Photography and Writing as an Experience, Experiment and Insight
Ziegner, Kai
ISBN: 9783035806458
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) A Prodigy’s Calling: The Early Musical Biography of Cosmas Magaya, Zimbabwean Mbira Master
Berliner, Paul F.
ISBN: 9780226835174
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(81) Brancusi
Coulondre, Ariane
ISBN: 9783039422036
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(82) Brick 24: Outstanding International Brick Architecture
Wienerberger AG, Wienerberger AG
ISBN: 9783038603863
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(83) Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries
Murphy, Stephen
ISBN: 9789813252134
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(84) Careers by Design: Hendrick Goltzius & Peter Paul Rubens
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München,
ISBN: 9783777443522
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(85) Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora
Narayan, Kirin
ISBN: 9780226835297
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(86) Divine Light: The Art of Mosaic in Rome, 300–1300 AD
Stein, Wendy A.
ISBN: 9783777442594
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(87) Divine Light. The Art of Mosaic in Rome, 300 - 1300 AD
Stein, Wendy A.
ISBN: 9783777442594
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(88) Dual Justice: America’s Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime
Grasso, Anthony
ISBN: 9780226835594
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(89) Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond
Ziporyn, Brook
ISBN: 9780226835266
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(90) Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature
Gordon, Colby
ISBN: 9780226835006
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(91) Kew Pocketbooks Poisonous Plants
Dauncey, Elizabeth A.
ISBN: 9781842468142
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(92) Kew Pocketbooks: Poisonous Plants
Howes, Melanie-Jayne
ISBN: 9781842468142
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(93) La main (et) le gant: Kokoschka à portée de main
Piguet, Philippe
ISBN: 9783858818935
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(94) My Palestine: An Impossible Exile
Tarbush, Mohammad
ISBN: 9781913368999
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(95) Narrative Wisdom and African Arts
Bridges, Nichole N.
ISBN: 9783777443737
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(96) Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil
Soffer, Michael
ISBN: 9780226835549
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(97) Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body
Vout, Caroline
ISBN: 9781913645601
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(98) Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era
Pierson, Paul
ISBN: 9780226836430
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(99) Seeking Childhood: The Emergence of the Child in the Visual and Literary Culture of the French Long Nineteenth Century
Handler, Sophie
ISBN: 9781837721320
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(100) The Alpine Enlightenment: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium
Kete, Kathleen
ISBN: 9780226835488
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(101) The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History
Levine, Naomi
ISBN: 9780226834979
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(102) The Dervish Bowl: The Many Lives of Arminius Vámbéry
Loyd, Anabel
ISBN: 9781913368975
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(103) The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages
Charles, Sara J.
ISBN: 9781789149166
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(104) The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States
Farris, Emily
ISBN: 9780226834511
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(105) The Prelude
Engell, James
ISBN: 9781684582501
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(106) The University of Chicago: A History
Boyer, John W.
ISBN: 9780226835303
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(107) Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History
Emily Strasser
ISBN: 9781985901506
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(108) I Could Name God in Twelve Ways: Essays
Karen Salyer McElmurray
ISBN: 9781985900653
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(109) My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song
Emily Bingham
ISBN: 9781985901315
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(110) Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky
Edited by Melissa Helton
ISBN: 9781950564439
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(111) In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries
Wayne A. Wiegand
ISBN: 9781496853066
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(112) Through Jamaican Lenses: A Memoir
Fern June Khan
ISBN: 9781496852953
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(113) Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community
Patrick Joseph O'Connor
ISBN: 9781496853011
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(114) Eduardo Halfon and the Itinerary of Memory: Also of Interest
Marilyn G. Miller
ISBN: 9780826507044
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)


(115) The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home
Charles Strobel; Edited by Katie Seigenthaler and Amy Frogge; Foreword by Ann Patchett
ISBN: 9780826507365
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