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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Not...
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Améfrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Traditional histories of Black letters in Latin America have delimited their geographic scope to the Caribbean while also omitting intertwined Afro...
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Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin...
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The Egyptian Social Contract: A History of State-Middle Class Relations
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$140.99$140.99 - $140.99Current price $140.99| /The Egyptian Social Contract explores the intricacies of the relationship between the state and its citizens, from the establishment of the semi-in...
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Tragedy In South Lebanon
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Through history, research and personal interviews, Cathy Sultan chronicles life in southern Lebanon and northern Israel during the brutal war of th...
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Turkey's Political Leaders: Authoritarian Tendencies in a Democratic State
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /This longitudinal study reveals how the conduct of political leaders has been central to the shortcomings of the Turkey's democratic system. The mo...
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The Struggle to Reshape the Middle East in the 21st Century
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /The volume examines the causes and consequences of regional turbulence in the Middle East following the 2003 Iraq war and the 2011 Arab uprisings. ...
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State Atrophy in Syria: War, Society and Institutional Change
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /How do governments contribute to galvanizing public hostility against state institutions? And what are the consequences of undermining the state as...
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Authoritarianism and Kurdish Alternative Politics: Governmentality, Gender and Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Latif Tas investigates the triangular relationship between nationalism, justice and gender politics to explore how influencing this dynamic allows ...
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Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope explores the ways in which Palestinians negotiate physical and symbolic erasures by pro...
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Iran's Soft Power in Afghanistan and Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /This book explores Iran's soft power in two of its eastern neighbours - namely Afghanistan and Pakistan - in key areas including the cultural, reli...
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A Companion to Modern Turkey's Centennial: Political, Sociological, Economic and Institutional Transformations Since 1923
HardcoverOriginal price $230.00 - Original price $230.00Original price $230.00$260.99$260.99 - $260.99Current price $260.99| /Bringing together rigorous, original scholarship from over 60 contributors around the globe, this reference volume examines Turkey's evolution from...
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The Alevis in Modern Turkey and the Diaspora: Recognition, Mobilisation and Transformation
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This book explores the struggles of a minority group - Alevis - for recognition and representation in Turkey and the diaspora. It examines how they...
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Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship "A timely, fluid, readable assessmen...
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Korea: A New History of South and North
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780300259810 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Yale University Press Publication Date: 06-27-2023 Pages: 288 Product Dimens...
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Hubbing for Tourists: Airports, Hotels and Tourism Development in the Indo-Pacific, 1934-2019
HardcoverOriginal price $98.99 - Original price $98.99Original price $98.99$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Dubai International Airport (DXB), Emirates Airlines, and the Burj al-Arab. Changi International Airport (SIN), Singapore Airlines, and Marina Bay ...
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Chinese Revolution in Practice: From Movement to the State
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist revolution began as an ideology-oriented intellectual movement aimed a...
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Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /The history of the contemporary is a history of crisis - most centrally, the twinned crises of environmental destruction and anti-Black violence. T...
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Geopolitics and Governance in North Africa: Local Challenges, Global Implications
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /North Africa was once on the geopolitical periphery of Middle East dynamics, but it has increasingly come to shape regional trends. In addition to ...
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Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to e...
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Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$170.99$170.99 - $170.99Current price $170.99| /By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to e...
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerThe Only Plane in the Sky — such an evocative title — is a monumental and moving oral history, documenting the stories ...
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Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A new look at the drama that lay behind the end of the war in the PacificSigned on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri ...
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In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A timely look at the impact of China’s booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia“An expert and lucid synthesis of the historical conte...
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