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Masculinities in Polish, Czech, and Slovak Cinema: Black Peters and Men of Marble

by Ewa Mazierska (Berghahn Books; 249 pages; $90). A comparative study of central character types in the cinemas of the two, later three, countries.

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Libanius's "Progymnasmata": Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric

translated by Craig A. Gibson (Society of Biblical Literature; 572 pages; $64.95). Edition and translation of an instructional Greek text on writing from the fourth century AD by Libanius of Antioch.

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Contemporary Dickens

edited by Eileen Gillooly and Deirdre David (Ohio State University Press; 392 pages; $51.95). Essays on Dickens in relation to gender, environmentalism, and other contemporary concerns.

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Commentary on Matthew

by St. Jerome, translated by Thomas P. Scheck (Catholic University of America Press; 347 pages; $39.95). First English translation of a commentary on the first Gospel written in 398 by the Latin Church father.

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Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860-1960

by Eiko Maruko Siniawer (Cornell University Press; 288 pages; $39.95). Documents how brawls, vandalism, intimidation, and other violence has been part of modern Japanese politics since the beginnings of democratization; also describes how certain yakuza, or gangster groups, have been ideological in nature.

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Franz Kafka: The Office Writings

edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner, translated by Eric Patton with Ruth Hein (Princeton University Press; 440 pages; $45). Translation, with commentary, of writings by Kafka produced in the course of his career as a high-ranking lawyer with the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the "Czech Lands" of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography

by Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully (Princeton University Press; 232 pages; $29.95). Reconstructs the life of the South African woman who was displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus.

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Global TV: New Media and the Cold War, 1946-69

by James Schwoch (University of Illinois Press; 220 pages; $70 hardcover, $25 paperback). Analyzes links between diplomacy and new global media, including the rise of psychological warfare and the absorption of the International Telecommunications Union into the United Nations.

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Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech

by Charles Walton (Oxford University Press; 334 pages; $49.95). Examines the legacy of the Old Regime in French revolutionists' campaigns to punish what was deemed injurious speech.

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The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880-1920

by Sabine Haenni (University of Minnesota Press; 336 pages; $75 hardcover, $25 paperback). Discusses early cinema and a wide range of theatergoing as experienced by the city's new immigrants.

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Dignity and Defiance: Stories From Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization

edited by Jim Schultz and Melissa Crane Draper (University of California Press; 341 pages; $60 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Documents Bolivians' experiences of resistance, including against the policies of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

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Borderlines in Borderlands: James Madison and the Spanish-American Frontier, 1776-1821

by J.C.A. Stagg (Yale University Press; 307 pages; $50). A study of the statesman's role in early American expansionism.

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Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism: Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Cesaire, Dorothy West

by Jennifer M. Wilks (Louisiana State University Press; 280 pages; $37.50). A study of two African-American and two Francophone Caribbean writers who challenged racial archetypes from the 1920s to the 1940s.

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Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace

by Kristin L. Ahlberg (University of Missouri Press; 296 pages; $42.50). Discusses Johnson's use of agricultural food aid to further various policy agendas, including winning support for U.S. policy in Vietnam and helping Israel strengthen its military.

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A Russian Merchant's Tale: The Life and Adventures of Ivan Alekseevich Tolchenov, Based on His Diary

by David L. Ransel (Indiana University Press; 320 pages; $65 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Documents life for the commercial class in 18th-century Russia through the writings of a merchant from the city of Dmitrov who kept a diary of his daily contacts for more than 40 years.

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Music and Wonder at the Medici Court: The 1589 Interludes for La Pellegrina

by Nina Treadwell (Indiana University Press; 277 pages; $39.95; includes a compact disc). A study of intermedii, or interludes, performed during a May 1589 performance of a Girolamo Bargagli comedy performed as part of the celebrations for the marriage of the new Medici Grand Duke of Florence, Ferdinando I.

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Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba

by Ivor L. Miller (University Press of Mississippi; 364 pages; $55). Discusses 18th- and 19th-century Cuba as a New World setting for Ekpe or "leopard" lodges of a secret initiation society from the Cross River basin of Nigeria and Cameroon.

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Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization

by Matthew Hilton (Cornell University Press; 328 pages; $85 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Traces the history of consumer activism as a global movement, including in some developing countries.

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The Jews of Bialystok During World War II and the Holocaust

by Sara Bender, translated by Yaffa Murciano (Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England; 448 pages; $50). A study of Jews in the Nazi-occupied Polish city that includes comparisons to other major communities, including in Vilna and Warsaw.

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Charles Lamb, Coleridge, and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s

by Felicity James (Palgrave Macmillan; 265 pages; $69.95). Topics include Lamb as an intermediary, reading and rewriting the work of his friends.

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Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health

by Nancy N. Chen (Columbia University Press; 128 pages; $24.50). Explores ideas of food as medicine in different cultures and historical settings.

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The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-First Century

by G. John Ikenberry and others (Princeton University Press; 157 pages; $24.95). Presents arguments for and against the notion that George W. Bush has been the heir and new practitioner of a Wilsonian foreign policy.

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Dependence, Independence, and Death: Toward a Psychobiography of Delmira Agustini

by William James (Peter Lang Publishing; 171 pages; $67.95). A critical study of the Uruguayan poet (1886-1914); topics include a fascination with death that eerily prefigured her murder at the hands of her husband.

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Douglas Haig and the First World War

by J.P. Harris (Cambridge University Press; 664 pages; $39). A biography of the British field marshal that offers an alternative to extremes of praise or vilification common to previous accounts.

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Rome's Cultural Revolution

by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Cambridge University Press; 526 pages; $130 hardcover, $49 paperback). Combines literary and archaeological perspectives in a study of changes in Roman identity from the late Republic to the Augustan era.

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