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- Anarchisms
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- Various,

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- Reverse Sod Swap
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- Perry, Mike

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- Across a Frontier
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- John Berger (edited by Teju Cole)

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- Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us
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- Huber, Sonya

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- The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: The Postmodernism Essay
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- Jameson, Fredric

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- Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968
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- Kanafani, Ghassan

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- Why Socialism?
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- Einstein, Albert

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- I Deliver Parcels in Beijing: On Making a Living
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- Hu, Anyan

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- What Architecture Is
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- Rybczynski, Witold

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- What We Do Now: Standing Up for Democracy in America
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- Various

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- Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature: New Literary Perspectives on the Times, Spaces and Forms of Women’s Work
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- Hogg, Emily J.

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- Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
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- Morris, Susana M.

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- Agatha Christie: The Mother of the Cozy Mystery
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- West, Nancy

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- Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches
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- Various

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- Darkness Becomes Bright: The Haunted Life (and Afterlife) of Edgar Allan Poe
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- Ogden, Emily

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- A Miscellany of Fairy Folk, Myths, and Magic
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- Kynes, Sandra