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The Bounded Field: Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley (New Directions in Anthropology #18) By Jaro Stacul Cover Image
$43.69
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The Doreen Massey Reader (Economic Transformations) By Doreen Massey, Brett Christophers (Editor), Rebecca Lave (Editor) Cover Image
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent By Dipo Faloyin Cover Image
$30.00
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities By Jane Jacobs Cover Image
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Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology #24) By Justin Farrell Cover Image
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains By Lucas Bessire Cover Image
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Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture By Grace Elizabeth Hale Cover Image
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Orientalism By Edward W. Said Cover Image
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The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul By Isabel Kershner Cover Image
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Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia By Emily Hilliard Cover Image
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Goodbye, Oakland By Dave Newhouse, Andy Dolich Cover Image
$28.00
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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History) By Benjamin Madley Cover Image
$22.00
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