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(1) Abul A‘la Maududi: Al Jihad fil Islam and Other Writings
Humeira Iqtidar; Abul A‘la Maududi
ISBN: 9781009230438

Cambridge University Press
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(2) Alejo Carpentier in Context
Anke Birkenmaier
ISBN: 9781009554824

Cambridge University Press
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(3) Allen Ginsberg in Context
Erik Mortenson
ISBN: 9781009525572

Cambridge University Press
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(4) Boundaries of Belonging: Sectarianism and Statecraft in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer
ISBN: 9781009640756

Cambridge University Press
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(5) Concubines in Public: The Rise of the Social Wife in Republican China
Xia Shi
ISBN: 9781009724319

Cambridge University Press
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(6) Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States
Miranda Yaver
ISBN: 9781009649803

Cambridge University Press
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(7) Enslaved New World: Slavery, Freedom, and the Making of Race in Santo Domingo
Richard Lee Turits
ISBN: 9781009721479

Cambridge University Press
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(8) Life, Death, and Migration in the Early Modern City: The Urban Historical Demography of Würzburg
Jan de Vries
ISBN: 9781009641470

Cambridge University Press
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(9) Making and Remaking the State: Women and Counterinsurgency in Eastern India
Lipika Kamra
ISBN: 9781009670975

Cambridge University Press
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(10) Piratical States: British Imperialism in the Indian Ocean World, c.1780–1850
Simon Layton
ISBN: 9781108695343

Cambridge University Press
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(11) The Cambridge Companion to the Byzantine Church
Andrew Mellas; Bronwen Neil
ISBN: 9781009119177

Cambridge University Press
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(12) The Cambridge History of American Popular Culture
Lauren Rabinovitz
ISBN: 9781009522427

Cambridge University Press
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(13) The Inner Life of Politics: Grassroots Activism in West Germany, 1962–1983
Belinda J. Davis
ISBN: 9781108604239

Cambridge University Press
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(14) The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Michael Jonik
ISBN: 9781009347747

Cambridge University Press
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(15) A Message to You: A Cartography of Mobilities - Sexual Border Violence, Solidarities and Global Cities
Natalia Ribas-Mateos
ISBN: 9783838219387

Columbia University Press
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(16) An Alaṅkāra Reader: Classical Indian Poetics
Translated and Annotated by Yigal Bronner
ISBN: 9780231224260

Columbia University Press
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(17) Black British Music Video: Grime Culture, the Ends, and the Neoliberal City
Julian Wacker
ISBN: 9783837679359

Columbia University Press
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(18) Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions
Billy Fleming
ISBN: 9781558444560

Columbia University Press
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(19) Crafting Power: The Situatedness of Artistic Handicraft and Civic Engagement in Contemporary Uganda
Anna-Lisa Klages
ISBN: 9783837678789

Columbia University Press
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(20) Crime, Space and Place: New Geographical Perspectives
Tim Hall, Richard Yarwood
ISBN: 9781788218856

Columbia University Press
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(21) Critical Explorations in Social Sciences: Essays presented to Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik
Edited by Praveen Jha and Sudhanshu Bhushan
ISBN: 9788197938344

Columbia University Press
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(22) Digital Culture & Society (DCS): Vol. 11, Issue 2/2025 – Towards Popular Techno-Futures: A Global Culture Perspective, Vol. 21, Issue 2/2025
Edited by Jascha Bareis, Anya Heise-von der Lippe, and Felix Spremberg
ISBN: 9783837673210

Columbia University Press
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(23) Doughnut Economics for Regenerative Business Design: Case Studies and Critical Reflections
Annekatrin Meißner, Suleika Bort, and Erinch Sahan
ISBN: 9783837676525

Columbia University Press
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(24) Figurations of Childhood: Middle-Class Topologies in Nairobi and Berlin
Claudia Mock
ISBN: 9783837679649

Columbia University Press
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(25) From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: C. G. Hine's 1905 Photographic Survey of Broadway
Nick Yablon
ISBN: 9780231203531

Columbia University Press
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(26) Hungary’s System of National Cooperation: Strategies of Framing in Pro-Governmental Media and Public Discourse, 2010—18
Zsófia Mária Schmidt. Foreword by Andreas Schmidt-Schweizer
ISBN: 9783838219837

Columbia University Press
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(27) Looking Through Theatre: Phenomenologies and Intermedial Performance
Kati Röttger
ISBN: 9783837680065

Columbia University Press
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(28) Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons
Johanna Winant
ISBN: 9780231217477

Columbia University Press
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(29) Methods of Exhibition Analysis
Edited by Luise Reitstätter and Carla-Marinka Schorr
ISBN: 9783837678567

Columbia University Press
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(30) Performing Public Confessions: Avowal and Disavowal of State Violence in Turkey
Yeşim Yaprak Yıldız
ISBN: 9780231222310

Columbia University Press
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(31) Platform Jazz: Algorithmic Music Culture on TikTok
Benjamin Burkhart
ISBN: 9783837679137

Columbia University Press
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(32) Property Tax in Europe: Revenue and Reform
Edited by William McCluske, Roy Bahl, and Riël Franzsen
ISBN: 9781558444638

Columbia University Press
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(33) Putting Age in Its Place: Long-Term Residential Care in Contemporary Film and Fiction
Ulla Kriebernegg
ISBN: 9783837664126

Columbia University Press
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(34) Remembering Future Disasters: Temporal Ecologies in the Peruvian Andes
Tomás Usón
ISBN: 9783837678895

Columbia University Press
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(35) Spaces of Appearance: Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy
Edited by Martin Renz, and Julius Schwarzwälder
ISBN: 9783837677614

Columbia University Press
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(36) Subordination and Development: Emerging Market Economies of Asia and Latin America
Sunanda Sen
ISBN: 9788196580308

Columbia University Press
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(37) The Archival Exhibition: A Decade of Research at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, 2006–2016
Mark Wasiuta
ISBN: 9781941332849

Columbia University Press
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(38) The Bylaw State: Encampment Evictions and the Struggle for Public Space
Alexandra Flynn and Joe Hermer. Foreword Terry Teegee
ISBN: 9781773638027

Columbia University Press
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(39) The Epistemic Violence of Mathematics: Decolonial-Feminist Re-Writings of the »Rational« and the »Human«
Cara-Julie Kather
ISBN: 9783837679823

Columbia University Press
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(40) The Last Invasion: The War in Ukraine – A Sociological Account, Based on Kant's Theory of Peace
Max Haller
ISBN: 9783837679366

Columbia University Press
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(41) The Letters: Institutional Lives and EDI
Nisha Nath, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Anita Girvan, and Davina Bhandar
ISBN: 9781773638102

Columbia University Press
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(42) The Lowest Freedom: Racial Capitalism and Black Thought in the Nineteenth Century
Justin Leroy
ISBN: 9780231223560

Columbia University Press
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(43) The Race for Universal Monarchy: Apocalypticism and the Ottoman–Habsburg Rivalry in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean
Ebru Turan
ISBN: 9780231219266

Columbia University Press
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(44) TransCultural Practices: Perspectives and Possibilities: Essays in Honour of Anil Bhatti (1944–2023)
Edited by Madhu Sahni, Babu Thaliath and Shambhavi Prakash
ISBN: 9788197938368

Columbia University Press
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(45) Untrusting: In Pursuit of Democratic Policing in Brazil
Marta-Laura Haynes
ISBN: 9780231219440

Columbia University Press
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(46) Visual Representations – Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America VI
Edited by Gerardo Cham, Juan Arturo Camacho Becerra, Olaf Kaltmeier, and Elissa Rashkin
ISBN: 9783837670165

Columbia University Press
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(47) Woman, African, Other: Black Feminism and Intersectionality in the Contemporary Works of African Diasporic Women
Oluwadunni O. Talabi
ISBN: 9783837678154

Columbia University Press
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(48) Women and Partisan Art: Aesthetics and Practices of Resistance in Yugoslavia and Carinthia
Edited by Elena Messner, Cristina Beretta, Goran Lazičić, and Markus Gönitzer
ISBN: 9783837677287

Columbia University Press
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(49) Women in Science: Experiences of Academics in Switzerland
Edited by Annalisa De Cia, Sara Hellmüller, and Elizabeth Mesok
ISBN: 9783837677508

Columbia University Press
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(50) Working For Each Other: A Philosophical Account of the Need for Work
Deryn Thomas
ISBN: 9781788218818

Columbia University Press
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(51) Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia
Mitra Sharafi
ISBN: 9781501785986

Cornell University Press
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(52) Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun: An Elegy
Crystal Mun-hye Baik
ISBN: 9781478038641

Duke University Press
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(53) Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince
Daphne A. Brooks
ISBN: 9781478033301

Duke University Press
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(54) Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations
Gökçe Günel
ISBN: 9781478038511

Duke University Press
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(55) Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies: NA
Santiago Ortiz, Aurora, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo
ISBN: 9781478033349

Duke University Press
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(56) Postcolonial Imperialism: Critique of the Society of Dazzlements
Joseph Tonda
ISBN: 9781478038580

Duke University Press
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(57) Raising the Bottom: Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Alix Chapman
ISBN: 9781478038610

Duke University Press
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(58) The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics
Léopold Sédar Senghor
ISBN: 9781478038603

Duke University Press
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(59) The Gloria Wekker Reader: NA
Gloria Wekker
ISBN: 9781478033189

Duke University Press
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(60) The Minjung Art Movement: Decolonization and Democracy in South Korea
Sohl C. Lee
ISBN: 9781478033233

Duke University Press
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(61) Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico
Andrea Mendoza
ISBN: 9781478038627

Duke University Press
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(62) When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World
Leigh Raiford
ISBN: 9781478033318

Duke University Press
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(63) American Fanatics: Religion, Rebellion, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
Jeffrey Wheatley
ISBN: 9781479825455

New York University Press
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(64) Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Islamic Education, Pan-Africanism, and Collective Care
Samiha Rahman
ISBN: 9781479838219

New York University Press
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(65) First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian
Grace Kessler Overbeke
ISBN: 9781479847488

New York University Press
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(66) Racial Virtuality: Information Capitalism and the Suggestive Materiality of Asianness
Danielle Wong
ISBN: 9781479838110

New York University Press
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(67) The Gospel According to Frank Wood: Memory and the Making of White American Evangelicalism
Christopher D. Cantwell
ISBN: 9781479835676

New York University Press
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(68) Ending and Changing Contracts
Mindy Chen-Wishart; Dora Neo; Stefan Vogenauer
ISBN: 9780198995814

Oxford University Press
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(69) A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938
Aya Elyada
ISBN: 9781503645

Stanford University Press
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(70) Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran
Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani
ISBN: 9781503643

Stanford University Press
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(71) Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf
Alex Boodrookas
ISBN: 9781503645

Stanford University Press
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(72) Delivering Knowledge: Jewish Midwives and Hidden Healing in Early Modern Europe
Jordan R. Katz
ISBN: 9781503644

Stanford University Press
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(73) Needs That Bind: Materializing Nationality in Post-Ottoman Regimes
Orçun Can Okan
ISBN: 9781503645

Stanford University Press
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(74) The US–India Nuclear Accord: History, Analysis, and Reflections
Šumit Ganguly and Dinsha Mistree, with a preface by Condoleezza Rice
ISBN: 9781503645

Stanford University Press
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(75) Walmart: Made in China
Eileen M. Otis
ISBN: 9781503641

Stanford University Press
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(76) American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism

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University of California Press
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(77) Anti-Eviction: The Fight against Tech-Led Gentrification in San Francisco

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University of California Press
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(78) Borderless Painting as Borderless Art: Antonio Dias between Brazil and Europe

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University of California Press
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(79) Egypt's Mediterranean: Muslim Merchants and the Business of Empire in the Eighteenth Century

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University of California Press
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(80) Fermenting for the Future: Japanese Pickles and Microbial Foodways

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University of California Press
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(81) Great Kingdoms of Africa
John Parker
ISBN: 9780520430235

University of California Press
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(82) Justice at the Boundaries: Mediating Reconciliation and Legal Recognition in Taiwan's Indigenous Courts

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University of California Press
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(83) Teaching Solidarity: Critical Race Reading

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University of California Press
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(84) The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora

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University of California Press
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(85) The Monster in Your Path: The Private Life of Caste in India

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University of California Press
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(86) Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

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University of California Press
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(87) Addiction, Inc.: Medication-Assisted Treatment and America’s Forgotten War on Drugs
Dufton, Emily
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University of Chicago Press
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(88) Arata Isozaki: In Formation
Li, Xiangning
ISBN: 9783038603702

University of Chicago Press
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(89) Architecture by Peter Celsing Photographed by John Håkansson
Håkansson, John
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University of Chicago Press
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(90) Architecture of Memory: Exploring (Post-) Jewish Spaces in Eastern Europe
Romik, Natalia
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University of Chicago Press
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(91) Atrocities of the Mind: Essays on Violence and Politics in the American Century
Macdonald, Dwight
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University of Chicago Press
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(92) Co-production of Knowledge in Action: Emancipatory Strategies for Urban Equality
Johnson, Cassidy
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University of Chicago Press
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(93) Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon
Tamarkin, Elisa
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University of Chicago Press
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(94) Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago
Quam, Will
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University of Chicago Press
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(95) Homeboys Forever: The Lifetime Consequences of Gang Membership
Valdez, Avelardo
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University of Chicago Press
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(96) Impressions of Japan
Deltour, Anne
ISBN: 9783039422937

University of Chicago Press
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(97) Intelligence Is the Art of Remaining Faithful under Shifting Circumstances
Kluge, Alexander
ISBN: 9781803096001

University of Chicago Press
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(98) Making Home: Faith, Love and the Politics of Belonging in Japanese-Filipino Families
Lopez, Mario Ivan
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University of Chicago Press
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(99) Maria Ceppi: Works
Fischer, Mirjam
ISBN: 9783039422869

University of Chicago Press
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(100) Organised Crime and Migration: Criminal Groups, Corruption and the Displacement Crisis in Central America and Mexico
Knox, Victorie
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University of Chicago Press
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(101) Regulating Digital Media in Africa: Politics, Law and Governance
Obia, Vincent
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University of Chicago Press
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(102) Repair across Africa: Mending, Making, and Material Care
Kopf, Charline
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University of Chicago Press
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(103) Residential Architecture
Shinohara, Kazuo
ISBN: 9783038604587

University of Chicago Press
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(104) Segregating Cities: An Arnold R. Hirsch Reader
Hirsch, Arnold R.
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University of Chicago Press
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(105) The Goldsmith’s Debt: Conceptions of Property in Early Modern Art
Brisman, Shira
ISBN: 9780226845203

University of Chicago Press
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(106) The Lausanne Moment: Reckoning with the 1923 Treaty of Peace and Its Legacies
Ozavci, Ozan
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University of Chicago Press
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(107) The Leopard in the Garden: Animal and Human Lives in Paris at the First Public Zoo of the Modern Era
Burkhardt, Richard W.
ISBN: 9780226843971

University of Chicago Press
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(108) Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights
Eladio B. Bobadilla
ISBN: 9780252049576

University of Illinois Press
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(109) Downriver Detroit: The Working Class, the Environment, and the Bonds of Place
Lisa M. Fine
ISBN: 9780252046940

University of Illinois Press
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(110) Sweet, Tart, and Golden: Apples in the Midwestern Imagination
Lucy M. Long
ISBN: 9780252049781

University of Illinois Press
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(111) When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992
Cory Haala
ISBN: 9780252049521

University of Illinois Press
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(112) Curriculum of the Mind
Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson & The Space Program
ISBN: 9780472999095

University of Michigan Press
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(113) Just Language: Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish Exile, and the Critique of Linguistic Violence
Dennis Johannßen
ISBN: 9780472058006

University of Michigan Press
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(114) Macau and Catholic Sacred Music Across the Sino-Western Divide
Jen-yen Chen
ISBN: 9780472058013

University of Michigan Press
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(115) Prison Song: Music and Incarceration in the United States
David Metzer
ISBN: 9780472058044

University of Michigan Press
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(116) Reconsidering Parties and Partisanship
Christopher F. Karpowitz & Jeremy C Pope
ISBN: 9780472222551

University of Michigan Press
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(117) Ruling Indonesia: Jokowi's Presidency in an Age of Democratic Crisis and Great Power Competition
Marcus Mietzner
ISBN: 9780472905836

University of Michigan Press
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(118) Second in Command: Reevaluating the Role of Vice Presidents and Running Mates in Modern American Politics
Karine Prémont & Christopher J. Devine
ISBN: 9780472058099

University of Michigan Press
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(119) Transpacific Experiments: Intermedia Art and Music in 1960s Japan
Miki Kaneda
ISBN: 9780472057948

University of Michigan Press
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(120) Inner Zone: The Untold Violence of Retribution in Besieged Sarajevo
Jelena Golubović
ISBN: 9781512829013

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(121) Making Migrants: International Migration Management in Tajikistan
Malika Bahovadinova
ISBN: 9781512829044

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(122) Making Science History: A Personal Perspective from Alamagordo to AI
Arnold Thackray
ISBN: 9781606180372

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(123) People as Protection: Civilians Countering Terror in Northeast Nigeria
Daniel E. Agbiboa
ISBN: 9781512828979

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(124) Sacred Economies: Christianity, Islam, and Community Care in Uganda
Nicolette Manglos-Weber
ISBN: 9781512828856

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(125) Slave Rebellions and the Making of the Modern Prison
Sean Butorac
ISBN: 9781512829068

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(126) Capturing Labor: A History of Unfree Work in the Southwest
Edited by Jessica R. Pliley and John Mckiernan-González
ISBN: 9781477333457

University of Texas Press
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(127) Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions
José A. de la Garza Valenzuela
ISBN: 9781477333532

University of Texas Press
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(128) A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter's Return to Tule Lake
Tamiko Nimura
ISBN: 9780295754758

University of Washington Press
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(129) A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka
Vindhya Buthpitiya
ISBN: 9780295754444

University of Washington Press
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(130) Routes of Taiwan Tea: Mobility, Borders, and Territoriality
Po-Yi Hung
ISBN: 9780295754352

University of Washington Press
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