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Russia’s Visionaries: Direct Speech

by Alexander Burak

  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publication Date: 12/09/2020
  • ISBN 78-1-5275-6162-5
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Breaking Free from Death: The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer

by Galina Rylkova

  • Publisher: Academic Studies Press
  • Publication Date: 03/2020
  • ISBN 9-781-644-69264-6 (Hardback)
  • ISBN 9-781-644-69266-0 (Paperback)
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Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition:  Spiritual Imperialism in the Italian Imagination

by Mary Alexandra Watt

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publication Date: 04/04/2017
  • ISBN 9-781-472-48888-6 (Hardback)
  • ISBN 9-781-315-23295-9 (eBook)
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Encyclopedia of the Yoruba

akinyemi-5Edited by Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi

  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publication Date: 6/20/2016
  • ISBN 978-0-253-02156-4
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Perspective on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII

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Edited by Youssef A. Haddad and Eric Potsdam
Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014

  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Hardbound: ISBN 9789027200327
  • E-book: ISBN 9789027266897
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The Medieval Risk-Reward Society: Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages

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by Will Hasty

  • Publisher: The Ohio State University Press
  • Publication Date: 3/29/2016
  • Hardbound:  ISBN 978-0-8142-1303-2
  • E-Book: ISBN 978-0-8142-7461-3

Early Medieval Chinese Texts
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A Bibliographical Guide (CRM 71)

Edited by Cynthia L Chennault, Keith N. Knapp, Alan J. Berkowitz, Albert E. Dien.

  • Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
  • Publication Date: December 2015
  • ISBN-13 (print): 978-1-55729-109-7
  • ISBN 10 (print): -55729-109-8
  • E-book: ISBN 978-1-55729-171-4
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2015-macdonald_cvpage.jpgAnimation in China: History, Aesthetics, Media

by Sean Macdonald

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Date of Publication: November 24, 2015
  • E-Book – ISBN 9781315675435
  • Hardcover – ISBN 9781138938809
  • Format: Hardcover, Kindle, Google Play, Apple iBook, Vitalsource
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2015-essegbey-cvpgeLanguage Documentation and Endangerment in Africa

Edited by James Essegbey, Brent Henderson, and Fiona McLaughlin

2015-blum-cvpageTraveling in French Cinema

by Sylvie Blum-Reid

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Date of Publication: October 2015
  • ISBN: 978-1-1375-5353-9
  • Formats: Hardcover Ebook (EPUB) – Ebook (PDF)
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2015-wehmeyer-covpageTōkaidō Texts and Tales: Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige and Kunisada

Edited by Andreas Marks, With Contributions by Laura Allen & Ann Wehmeyer

2015-weltman-cover-pageAlgerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015)

by Brigitte Weltman-Aron

akinyemi-4Orature and Yoruba Riddles

by Akintunde Akinyemi

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-1-137-50262-9
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2014-burak-book-cvpg-7What it takes to be a Translator: Theory and Practice

by Alexander L. Burak

  • Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-3-659-51985-7

Available through Amazon.com

2014-gorham_afternewspeak_coverAfter Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin

by Michael S. Gorham

2014-gorham-digital-russia-coverDigital Russia: The Language, Culture, and Politics of New Media Communication

Edited by Michael Gorham, Ingunn Lunde, and Martin Paulsen

The “Other” in Translation

by Alexander Burak

2012mennel-turkish-german-cinemaTurkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens

Edited by Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel

Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English

by Benjamin Hebblethwaite

  • Publisher: Temple University Press
  • Languages: English and Haitian Creole
  • ISBN:  978-1-43990-602-6
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2012mennelqueercinemaQueer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys

by Barbara Mennel

2012-tlili-book-thumbnailAnimals in the Qur’an

by Sarra Tlili

The Ming Prince and Daoism: Institutional Patronage of an Elite

by Richard G. Wang

  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780199767687

Available through Oxford University Press

2012-haddad-book-thumbControl into Conjunctive Participle Clauses

by Youssef Haddad

2011blondeaubookcover_greyCet “autres” qui nous distingue. Tendances communautaires et parcours individuels dans le système des pronoms en français québécois

by Hélène Blondeau

2010-mennel-spatial-turnsSpatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literature and Visual Culture

by Barbara Mennel

20091021-mclaughlin-thumb-greyThe Languages of Urban Africa

by Fiona McLaughlin

20090824-bloom-thumbMan of Quality, Man of Letters: The Abbé Prévost between Novel and Newspaper

by Rori Bloom

20090803-emc-thEarly Medieval China

edited by Cynthia Chennault

2009-wehmeyer-thDialect for All Seasons

featuring a chapter by Ann Wehmeyer

  • Selective Subtitling of Non-Standard Speech on Japanese Television

20090624-crosier-thAlbert Camus, Œuvres Complètes

edited by Raymond Gay-Crosier

2007-calinTwentieth-Century Humanist Critics: From Spitzer to Frye

by William Calin

hasty_9German Literature of the High Middle Ages

by Will Hasty

rylkova_1The Archaeology of Anxiety

by Galina Rylkova

mennel_1_thMasochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature

by Barbara Mennel

mennel-cities-cinema-thCities and Cinema

by Barbara Mennel

kligerman-2-thSites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts

by Eric Kligerman

Carthage ou la flamme du brasier: Mémoire et échos chez Virgile, Senghor, Mellah, Ghachem, Augustin, Ammi, Broch, et Glissant

by Bernadette Cailler

burak-translate-thTranslating Culture: Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication

by Alexander Burak