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November 30, 2008
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Oxford University Press, USA
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2008
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Reginster, Bernard
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Sassen, Saskia
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July 21, 2008
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Political Theology II: The Myth of the Closure of any Political Theology
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2008
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The Princeton Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
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Princeton University Press
November 30, 2008
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Silbergeld, Jerome
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What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality
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Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
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Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi
Harvard University Press
October 15, 2008
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Villa, Dana
Princeton University Press
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Vogler, Candace
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Liverpool University Press
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Screening Sex
Williams, Linda
Duke University Press
2008
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America
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For the Confederate Dead
Young, Kevin
Knopf
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The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois
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Cambridge University Press
October 13, 2008
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Solomon and Marcolf
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Department of the Classics
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History: Medieval