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Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encount...
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Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world—and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastTo...
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The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A look at the close resemblance between the creation and structure of matter in both Dogon mythology and modern science • Reveals striking simila...
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Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the co...
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Who Counts?: The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economi...
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Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term 'indigenous st...
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A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"This is a terrific book―moving, clear, and compassionate. It not only illustrates the way psychiatric illness is shaped by culture, but also sug...
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From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about th...
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Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer ...
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Nurturing Masculinities: Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Two structuring concepts have predominated in discussions concerning how Middle Eastern men enact their identity culturally: domination and patri...
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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political...
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Japan: Its History and Culture / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods,Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes...
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Tokyo: A Biography: Disasters, Destruction and Renewal: The Story of an Indomitable City
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinating, centuries-old city, Tokyo: A Biography is...
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In the Land of Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israe...
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We Are the Land: A History of Native California
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California ...
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our earl...
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The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War For Africa'S Gold Coast
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, ma...
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /With over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal ...
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The Silk Road: A New History
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of...
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The Lost World of the Kalahari
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An account of the author’s grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa’s remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of...
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Dreaming With the Wheel: How to Interpret Your Dreams Using the Medicine Wheel
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An explanation of the dream-interpretation principles of the Native American medicine wheel.The authors of The Medicine Wheel explore different v...
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Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them? The Bureau of Indian Affairs was hatched in the U.S. De...
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Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political ...
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The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Using a slew of disciplines - including archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, ethnobotany, biology and other fields - The Long Trip strips bare...
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