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Vital Subjects : Race and Biopolitics in Italy 1860-1920 / by Welch, Rhiannon Noel

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Mobilizing the Metropolis : How the Port Authority Built New York / by Plotch, Philip Mark, 1961-, Nelles, Jen, 1979-

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Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel /

Table of Contents: “…Misterios del Plata : (Dis)Figuring History to Forge a Space for a Woman's Agency -- 2. …”
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Kentucky by design : the decorative arts and American culture / by Doss, Erika, 1956-, Hirsch, Jerrold, 1948-, Burks, Jean M., 1949-

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Currency boards in retrospect and prospect

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Currency boards : history, theory, and institutions -- Currency boards in historical perspective -- Why do countries choose currency boards? …”
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Optics in Our Time

Table of Contents: “…History -- A brief history of light -- Ibn Al-Haitham – Father of modern optics -- Optical Sources -- Femtosecond light -- Laser -- LED light -- Electron optics -- Applications -- Biophotonics -- Optical communication -- Optical astronomy -- Solar cells -- Optics in Remote Sensing -- Optics in nanotechnology -- Optics in art -- Eye -- Optics in medicine -- Optical illusions -- Quantum Optics -- Optical tests of foundations of physics -- Nonlinear Optics: Historical Perspectives and New Opportunities -- Quantum communication -- Nature of photon -- Atom optics -- Coherent effects: From EIT to slow light.…”
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Judah L. Magnes an American Jewish nonconformist / by Kotzin, Daniel P.

“…Modern Jewish history.…”
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Painted poetry colour in Baudelaire's art criticism / by Smith, Ann Kennedy, 1962-

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Publius and political thought / by Frank, Jason A.

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Gossip, sexuality and scandal in France (1610-1715) by Hammond, Nicholas, 1963-

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Emerging South Asian women writers : essays and interviews /

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Thomas de Quincey British rhetoric's romantic turn / by Agnew, Lois Peters

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Manichaean delirium decolonizing the judiciary and Islamic renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985 / by Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd Allāh ʻAlī

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Invented Edens techno-cities of the twentieth century / by Kargon, Robert Hugh

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The Pinter ethic the erotic aesthetic / by Prentice, Penelope

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Slavic sins of the flesh food, sex, and carnal appetite in nineteenth-century Russian fiction / by LeBlanc, Ronald Denis

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Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies /

Table of Contents: “…Daoism and nationalism in modern and contemporary China /…”
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The progressive poetics of confusion in the French Enlightenment / by O'Neal, John C.

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Luxury and Rubble : Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon / by Harms, Erik (Anthropologist)

Table of Contents: “…Rubble -- Thư Thiêm futures past : a short history of seeing without seeing -- Building a civilized, modern, and sentimental city -- From the rubble -- Conclusion : civility and dispossession.…”
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"The game as it is played" : essays on Theodore Dreiser / by Pizer, Donald

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