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Wilt L. Idema
A Historical Taxonomy of Talking Birds in Chinese Literature

Parrots and mynahs have played a unique role in Chinese literature for two millennia. In this wide-ranging thematic study, Wilt L. Idema traces the development of the parrot and the mynah as characters in…

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Murty Classical Library of India
Ten Indian Classics

Ten Indian Classics showcases translations from a vast array of India's literary traditions, Hindi, Kannada, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Urdu, with a foreword by the award-winning poet a…

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Julian Jackson
France on Trial

In July 1945, France's disgraced former head of state was on trial. As head of the Vichy regime, Philippe Pétain was a lightning rod for collective guilt and retribution. But he has also been a conservati…

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Michelle Jackson
The Division of Rationalized Labor

Specialization should make workers perform an ever-narrower range of tasks. Yet evidence shows that many specialized occupations have grown more complex. Michelle Jackson untangles this paradox, arguing t…

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Jason Jackson
Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry

Foreign capital can catalyze economic growth in developing countries but can also be a vehicle for extraction. Jason Jackson shows how Indian officials have navigated this terrain, developing moral discou…

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Rahel Jaeggi,
Progress and Regression

A landmark work of social and political philosophy that finds this leading heir to the Frankfurt School at the height of her powers.Despite widespread technological innovation, scientific and medical brea…

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Sheila Miyoshi Jager
The Other Great Game

Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean Peninsula. The battle to colonize Korea upended East Asian geopolitics, set great-power c…

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Leslie James
The Moving Word

In the 1930s and 1940s, Caribbean and West African newspapers nurtured anticolonial movements through experimental reporting. But as press professionalism became a proxy for a colony's capacity to self-go…

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Nicholas Jenkins
The Island

Nicholas Jenkins explores war, love, and politics in the early works of W. H. Auden, one of the twentieth century's most controversial and moving poets. Auden's poems embraced both haunted meditations on …

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Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li, Claire Cousineau
The Highest Exam

Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao-China's high-stakes college admissions test-shapes that society and influences education debates in the United Sta…

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Raymond Jonas
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande

"Vividly reconstructs how Maximilian's power was forged and maintained by the sharp end of a French bayonet." --New York Times Book ReviewThe story of how nineteenth-century European rulers cons…

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Renée M Jones
Untamed Unicorns

The definitive account of the harms that have come from deregulating venture capital financing and allowing startups to become gigantic while remaining private.The term "unicorn" for a private s…

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Amy Kaplan
Our American Israel

How did a Jewish state come to resonate profoundly with Americans in the twentieth century? Since WWII, Israel's identity has been entangled with America's belief in its own exceptionalism. Turning a crit…

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Sean C Kim, Ilisa Barbash,
The Forgotten Home Front

As the Korean war (1950-1953) drew to a close and South Korea began to rebuild, American GI Roger Marshutz (1929-2007) was stationed in Pusan to photograph U.S. reconstruction efforts. In his spare time, …

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Jungwon Kim
Virtue That Matters

Virtue That Matters is a groundbreaking exploration of chastity culture in Chos¿n Korea that illustrates the interplay between state-led indoctrination, socio-legal changes, and gender relations. Jungwon …

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William C Kirby
Empires of Ideas

The United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so. William Kirby examines sources of-and threats to-US higher education supremacy and chart…

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Iya Kiva,
Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters

Iya Kiva's poetry, collected in English translation in Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters, stitches memories of the past into Ukraine's new reality.¿Her lyric poems reflect her Ukrainian, Russian, and Je…

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Iya Kiva,
Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters

Born out of the pain and loss of a fragmented present, Iya Kiva's poetry, collected in English translation in Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters, stitches memories of the past into Ukraine's new reality.…

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Michael Klausner, Guhan Subramanian
Deals

A successful business deal maximizes value for all parties. Drawing on diverse case studies and decades of experience, Michael Klausner and Guhan Subramanian show how contracting parties can reach that go…

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Rebecca Kobrin
Credit to the Nation

From a leading historian, the story of how entrepreneurial Jewish immigrants transformed commercial banking and enabled the economic and social advancement of Jews in America.What are immigrants to do whe…

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