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Selected Faculty eBooks

book cover: Struggles of Voice : The Politics of Indigenous Representation in the Andes
book cover: Biology in the Grid : Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life.
book cover: An Absent Presence : Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960
book cover: Religion and Public Memory : a Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India
book cover: Freedom with Violence : Race, Sexuality, and the US State
book cover: The Quotidian Revolution : Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India
book cover: Monrovia Modern : Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia
book cover: The Emergence of Genetic Rationality : Space, Time, & Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920
book cover: Real Folks : Race and Genre in the Great Depression
book cover: Saltwater Slavery : a Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
book cover: The War Machines : Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia

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Finding Books Beyond the UW

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