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Aesthetics

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In Praise of Shadows
The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies
Ghosts of My Life
The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture
Unbecoming Cinema: Unsettling Encounters with Ethical Event Films

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Alternate History

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From the Fatherland, with Love

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American

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To Kill a Mockingbird
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Bright Lights, Big City
Model Behaviour

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Animation Studies

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The Anime Machine

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Anthropology

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Offensive Films
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
Manufacturing Consent
Interpreting Our Heritage
Orientalism

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Apocalyptic

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Meat
Zone One
The Sheep Look Up
Ice
Wilder Girls

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Argentinian

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On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Traveler of the Century
Elena Knows
Things We Lost in the Fire

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Arthurian

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript
The Buried Giant

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Australian

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A Postcapitalist Politics
The Transit of Venus
The Peaceful Pill Handbook
Race and Popular Fantasy Fiction: Habits of Whiteness
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Austrian

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The Uncanny

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Austro Hungarian

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The Metamorphosis

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Beninese

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself.

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Biography

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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
John Lennon: The Life
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Deviant

John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster
Dark Star : The Satanic Rites of Gilles de Rais

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Boys Love

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Gaze at the Scenes of Debauchery
Confessions of a Mask
The Demon of the Lonely Isle

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British

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Love Sick
Offensive Films
Hamlet
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet

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Buildungsroman

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Nervous Conditions
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Catcher in the Rye
Speak
The Diary of a Young Girl

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Cameroonian

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Necropolitics
Behold the Dreamers
On the postcolony

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Canadian

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The Death Scene Artist
The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Neuromancer
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Anime's Media Mix

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Chilean

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2666

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Chinese

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Seeking Good Temptation
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Gaze at the Scenes of Debauchery
A Madman's Diary 狂人日記
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

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Chinese Classics

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Tao Te Ching

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Choose Your Own Narrative

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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter

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Classical Antiquity

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Meditations
The Odyssey
The Republic
Poetics

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Collections And Anthologies

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Monkey Brain Sushi

FurScience! A Summary of Five Years of Research from the International Anthropomorphic Research Project
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ラギッド・ガール　廃園の天使Ⅱ

Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
Porn Studies

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Colombian

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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Of Love and Other Demons

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Comics Studies

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Seduction of the Innocent
Understanding Comics
Comics and Sequential Art
The Superhero Reader
The Contemporary Superhero Film: Projections of Power and Identity

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Confederate American

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War Poetry of the South

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Courtroom

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John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster
Billy Budd
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Time to Kill
Sanctuary

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Creepypasta

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Psychosis

The Showers
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Humans Can Lick, Too

The Russian Sleep Experiment
The Smiling Man

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Crime

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Grotesque
The Purloined Letter/Murders in Rue Morgue
Martin Faber: The Story of a Criminal
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The Quaker City

The Black Cat

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Critical Theory

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The Culture Industry
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things
Media Theory in Japan
Orientalism
Otaku

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Cthulhu Mythos

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The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
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The Whisperer in Darkness

At the Mountains of Madness
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The Flock of Ba-Hui and Other Stories

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Cyberpunk

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Storming the Reality Studio
Neuromancer
One Love Chigusa
Virtual Light
Snow Crash

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Czech

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Metamorphosis

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Danish

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The Little Match Girl
Ugly Duckling
After the Sun

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Decadent

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The Torture Garden
Neo-Decadence Evangelion

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Detective

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue - a C. Auguste Dupin Short Story
Red Harvest
The Honjin Murders
The Butterfly Garden
Pale Fire

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Dominican

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Dropped

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神栖麗奈は此処にいる Kamisu Reina Wa Koko Ni Iru
The Notebook
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Fifty Shades of Grey
Paper Towns

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Dutch

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Under the Skin
Hex
Sea Monsters

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Dystopian

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Fahrenheit 451
The Giver
Meat
Childhood's End
Archaeologies of the Future

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Economics

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Shutting out the sun
Too Much and Never Enough
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The Communist Manifesto
The Constitution of the United States of America and Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers

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Ecuadorian

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On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

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Environmental Studies

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The Great Derangement
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Floating Coast
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

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Epic

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The Odyssey
Beowulf
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Beowulf and the Critics

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Epistemology

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On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Propaganda and the public mind : conversations with Noam Chomsky
"Society Must Be Defended"
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
One Is Not Born a Woman

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Epistolary

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Dear Senthuran
Dracula
The Lustful Turk
De Profundis
The Fire Next Time

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Ero Guro

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Some Prefer Nettles
The Key
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle
Diary of a mad old man

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Erotica

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Story of O
Some Prefer Nettles
Naomi
The Key
Silent Love

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Essays

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Offensive Films
Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
In Praise of Shadows
The Stranger

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Ethiopian

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Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

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Ethnography

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Otaku Spaces
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Precarious Japan

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Extremes And Transgression

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The Butterfly Garden
In the Miso Soup
Perfect Blue
Under the Skin
The Tell-Tale Heart

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Fairy Tale

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Donkey Skin

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Fantasy

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The Buried Giant
Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Jk Haru Is a Sex Worker in Another World
The Castle of Otranto

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favorite novels and extended works of literary prose

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The Buried Giant
In Cold Blood
The Dunwich Horror
Earthlings
Lolita

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Feminism

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SCUM Manifesto
Females
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas
Glitch Feminism
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left

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Filipino

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The Caprices
Noli me tángere =
The Girl from the Well

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Film Studies

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Offensive Films
Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations
Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture
Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation
Media Theory in Japan

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Folklore

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The Shadow Book of Ji Yun

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
The Classic of Mountains and Seas
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Tomino's Hell

The Smiling Man

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Formally Studied

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Billy Budd
Notes from Underground
The Awakening
The Shawl

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French

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The Wall
Madame Bovary
Story of O
Whatever
O Pequeno Príncipe

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Genbaku Bomb Literature

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Black Rain

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Gender And Sexuality Studies

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Females
Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
Straight from the Heart
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Beautiful Fighting Girl

A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas

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German

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Hikikomori
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I Called Him Necktie

The Culture Industry
Critique of Cynical Reason
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Gothic

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City Crimes; Or, Life in New York and Boston

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The Quaker City

William Wilson
The Black Cat
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Hop Frog

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Greek

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The Odyssey
The Republic
Poetics
On the Sublime

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Grit Lit

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A Childhood
A Feast of Snakes
The Gospel Singer
Where All Light Tends to Go
Fay

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Harem

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The Lustful Turk
A Night in a Moorish Harem

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Historical Fiction

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My brother, my enemy
The Caprices
Philadelphia Fire
An Artist of The Floating World
The Shawl

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History

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Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
Interpreting Our Heritage
Orientalism
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Adult Manga

Shutting out the sun

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Horror

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My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
Songs of a Dead Dreamer
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Perfect Blue
The Raven

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Humor And Comedy

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Emma
Welcome to the N.H.K.
La mélancolie de Haruhi Suzumiya
Jk Haru Is a Sex Worker in Another World
Bartleby

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Hungarian

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The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories

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Icelandic

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The Prose Edda

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Indian

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The Great Derangement
A Critique Of Postcolonial Reason: Toward A History Of The Vanishing Present
The Calcutta Chromosome
Age of Anger

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Indigenous American

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza
As We Have Always Done
They Came for the Children: Canada, Aboriginal Peoples, and Residential Schools

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Interviews

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Propaganda and the public mind : conversations with Noam Chomsky
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Faulkner at Nagano,

Language and Responsibility: Based on Conversations with Mitsou Ronat

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Iranian

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Call Me Zebra

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Iraqi

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The Corpse Washer
The Book of Collateral Damage

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Irish

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Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Waiting for Godot
The Commitments
House of Splendid Isolation

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Italian

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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Anime and the Visual Novel : Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games
Petrolio
The Decameron

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Iyamisu

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Confessions
Earthlings
The Lady Killer
The Aosawa Murders
Nan-Core

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Jamaican

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John Crow's Devil
The Book of Night Women
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
Jamaica's Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism
Moon Witch, Spider King

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Japanese

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Boku no Bungeibu ni Bitch ga Irunante Arienai
No Longer Human
A Personal Matter
Black Rain
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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Journalism

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Generation Ecstasy

Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Rage
The Jungle
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

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Keitai Shousetsu

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The human body. Its structure and operation.
Seeking Good Temptation

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Korean

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Notes of a Desolate Man

Przeklęty królik
Tokyo Ueno Station
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Ghosts of the Vietnam War

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Law

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A review of the report of the Wood Royal Commission on Paedophilia, N.S.W., 1997

The Constitution of the United States of America and Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers
The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom

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Linguistics

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Language and Responsibility: Based on Conversations with Mitsou Ronat
Reflections on Language

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Literary Criticism

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Offensive Films
Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture
Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation
Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations
Orientalism

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Mahou Shoujo

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Earthlings

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Malaysian

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Jangan Baca Novel Ini
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Hammers on Bone (Persons Non Grata, #1)

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Media Theory

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Media : The Second God
Understanding Comics
Notes on Camp
Propaganda and the public mind : conversations with Noam Chomsky
Grace of Destruction, The: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas

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Memoir

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阿部定手記―愛の半生
The Horseman: Obsessions of a Zoophile
The Diary of a Young Girl
A Very Easy Death
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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Metaphysics

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Hegel in a Wired Brain
Glitch Feminism
Phänomenologie des Geistes
Unbecoming Cinema: Unsettling Encounters with Ethical Event Films
Supernatural Horror in Literature

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Mexican

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Sea Monsters
Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Paradais
Mexican Gothic

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Monster Studies

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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Supernatural Horror in Literature
The Classic of Mountains and Seas
The Real History of Dracula
Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends

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Music Studies

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Ghosts of My Life
Our Band Could Be Your Life
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AC/DC

Ultimate Encyclopedia of Rock
John Lennon: The Life

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Mystery

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And Then There Were None
Grotesque
美鶴木夜石は怖がらない
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - a C. Auguste Dupin Short Story
Death in Her Hands