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(1) Ballet and Taiji in Practice: A Comparative Autoethnography of Movement Systems
Edited by Robert Mitchell
ISBN: 9783837656312

Columbia University Press
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(2) Chinese Cultural Icons: Past Stories That Resonate Today
Eva Hung
ISBN: 9789882374393

Columbia University Press
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(3) Collectives of Evolution: American Culture, Science, and the Fight for Social Justice, 1880-1917
Heinrich-David Baumgart
ISBN: 9783837684544

Columbia University Press
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(4) Defining China: From Dynastic State to People’s Republic
Mara Yue Du
ISBN: 9780231218429

Columbia University Press
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(5) Faith in Revolution: Islamist Internationalism in a Decolonizing World
Timothy Nunan
ISBN: 9780231223416

Columbia University Press
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(6) Humanrightization: Contributions to a Theory of Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies
Edited by Research Group MeDiMi
ISBN: 9783837683660

Columbia University Press
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(7) Making Money in a Hostile State: Entrepreneurship, Property Rights, and the Rise of Markets in North Korea
Andrei Lankov and Peter Ward
ISBN: 9780231224949

Columbia University Press
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(8) The Cinema of Elia Suleiman: A Palestinian Stranger
Kamran Rastegar
ISBN: 9780231204637

Columbia University Press
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(9) The Theater of Renunciation: Emotion and the Self in Medieval Jainism
Aleksandra Restifo
ISBN: 9780231226110

Columbia University Press
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(10) They Told Us We Were Arab
Safwan M. Masri
ISBN: 9780231225342

Columbia University Press
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(11) Cultivating Power: Botany and Empire in the Dutch East Indies, 1745–1942
Luthfi Adam
ISBN: 9781501791345

Cornell University Press
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(12) The Aesthetic of Restraint in Tumultuous Times: Performing Arts in Burma and Indonesia
Ward Keeler
ISBN: 9781501791888

Cornell University Press
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(13) The United States and the Palestinian Nakba: A Transnational History, 1947–1950
Josh Ruebner
ISBN: 9781501792311

Cornell University Press
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(14) Bordering Blackness: Migration and Dispossession in the Afro-Mediterranean
Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen
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Duke University Press
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(15) Dance Cadaverous: Antiblackness of the Social World and Social Theory
Moon-Kie Jung, João H. Costa Vargas
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Duke University Press
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(16) Enacting Decolonization: Political Subjectivity in Contemporary Arab Thought
Yasmeen Daifallah
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Duke University Press
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(17) Freedom as Form: Gavin Jantjes, Anti-Apartheid, and the Transnational Avant-Garde
Allison K. Young
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Duke University Press
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(18) Smut and Sandwiches: A History of Stag Film
Russell Sheaffer
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Duke University Press
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(19) Success Won′t Save Us: How Asian Americans Experience White Supremacy and Can Fight It
Pawan Dhingra
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Duke University Press
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(20) The Du Boisian Challenge: Rethinking Sociological Methodology
Ricarda Hammer, José Itzigsohn, Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz
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Duke University Press
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(21) Theory from the Trenches: Decolonization and the Horizons of Subaltern Marxism
Shozab Raza
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Duke University Press
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(22) Thinking in English, Speaking in Hindi: Translation, Creativity, and Value in Bollywood and Beyond
Tejaswini Ganti
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Duke University Press
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(23) Comic Belief: How Religion Became a Laughing Matter in Modern America
Joshua Wright
ISBN: 9781479846498

New York University Press
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(24) Facing Death Together: Liberal American Jewish Mourning
C. Lynn Carr
ISBN: 9781479843114

New York University Press
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(25) Power in the Pews: Contesting the Pulpit in the Early Twentieth-Century Black Church
Kim Gallon
ISBN: 9781479848645

New York University Press
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(26) The Counterconforming Body: Defining Disability and Challenging Ableism
Scott D. Landes
ISBN: 9781479841868

New York University Press
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(27) The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism
Marjorie N. Feld
ISBN: 9781479829323

New York University Press
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(28) Hindus, Muslims, and Group Identities: Insights for Global Peacebuilding
Neil Krishan Aggarwal
ISBN: 9780197816998

Oxford University Press
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(29) The Politics of Exit: Emigration, Collective Action, and Agrarian Reform in Mexico
Emily A. Sellars
ISBN: 9780197815922

Oxford University Press
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(30) Chapultepec Girls: Mexican Americans and Radical Politics in the Great Depression

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University of California Press
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(31) Financing Poverty: Consumption and Debt Dynamics in Racialized Sao Paulo

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University of California Press
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(32) Only My Brothers the Patriots: Sworn Brotherhoods, Long-Distance Politics, and the Cantonese Diaspora

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University of California Press
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(33) Originalism Is Racism: Confronting, Dismantling, and Overcoming the Legacy of America’s Founding Enslavers

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University of California Press
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(34) Race, Caste, Labor: On Global Hierarchies and Accumulation

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University of California Press
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(35) Soul Wounds: The Violence of Native Child Removal and Survivance

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University of California Press
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(36) The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present

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University of California Press
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(37) Yellowness: Cinematic Regimes of Race Between Japan and Brazil

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University of California Press
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(38) A Police State: Politics and Public Safety in Minneapolis, 1945–2020
Lansing, Michael J.
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University of Chicago Press
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(39) Arnulf Rainer
Gleis, Ralph
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University of Chicago Press
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(40) Benoît: Artist in Architecture
Fonteyne, An
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University of Chicago Press
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(41) Best High Rises 2026–27: International High-Rise Award 2026
Körner, Peter
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University of Chicago Press
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(42) Best of Austria: Architecture 2024_25
Architekturzentrum, Wien
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University of Chicago Press
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(43) Building for Disassembly: Temporary Timber Sports Halls
Pool Architekten,
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University of Chicago Press
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(44) Calling State Power to Account: Reparations in Morality, Law, and Politics
Page, Jennifer
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University of Chicago Press
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(45) Cold War Toys: Building blocks, miniatures and models in the Latin American Southern Cone
Blejmar, Jordana
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University of Chicago Press
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(46) Ecuador: A Journey Through Architecture, Culture and Land
Russo, Francesco
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University of Chicago Press
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(47) Eiffel Tower Confidential: What It Meant and What It Stands For
Clayson, Hollis
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(48) Hans Demarmels: Architect 1931–2010
Rutishauser, Stephan
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University of Chicago Press
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(49) Kanal #2: Making
Bates, Stephen
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University of Chicago Press
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(50) Know-How for a New Era: City Living / City Learning, circa 1400-1550
Hahn, Cynthia J.
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University of Chicago Press
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(51) Liotard and Marie-Antoinette: Faces Under Scrutiny
Seth, Catriona
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University of Chicago Press
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(52) Liotard et Marie-Antoinette: Visages sous enquête
Seth, Catriona
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(53) Made in America: Abstract Expressionism and beyond in the Reinhard Ernst Collection
The Reinhard & Sonja Ernst Stiftung Foundation,
ISBN: 9783777438740

University of Chicago Press
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(54) MAYO: The Project
Bronfen, Elisabeth
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University of Chicago Press
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(55) Pierrette Bloch: The Act of Writing
Haensler, Carole
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University of Chicago Press
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(56) Reading Galileo’s Letters: Experiments in Friendship, Knowledge, and Community
Findlen, Paula
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University of Chicago Press
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(57) Rebellion and Reconnection for Sustainable Futures: A critical framework for practical politics
Biel, Robert
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University of Chicago Press
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(58) Representation in America: Majority Rule in a Divided Political System
Ansolabehere, Stephen
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University of Chicago Press
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(59) Shara Hughes
Gleis, Ralph
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(60) Taking Drugs in the Sun King’s Reign
Spary, E.
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University of Chicago Press
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(61) The Great Enrichment: A New History of American Growth and Inequality, 1865–1945
Geloso, Vincent
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University of Chicago Press
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(62) The New Metropolis: Power, Place, and Inequality in Twenty-First-Century America
Weir, Margaret
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University of Chicago Press
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(63) Three Humanist Compendia in Icelandic Translation
Bullitta, Dario
ISBN: 9788763547574

University of Chicago Press
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(64) Vanguardistas: 100 Years of Latin American Women Artists
van den Valentyn, Heike
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(65) Vias d’art Pontresina: An Anthology
Conrad, Benno
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(66) Writing the Land: French Imperial and Colonial Mapping of West Africa, 1854–1892
Bassett, Thomas J.
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University of Chicago Press
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(67) The Less Responsive Chamber?: Politics and Development in the Early US Senate
Joel Sievert
ISBN: 9780472906376

University of Michigan Press
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(68) Forgotten Paths to Modernity: Isaac Abravanel, New Imperial Thinking, and Critical Historiography
Cedric Cohen-Skalli
ISBN: 9781512830637

University of Pennsylvania Press
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