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Bad Moon Rising: A Chronicle of the Middle East Today
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Bahawalpur: The Kingdom that Vanished
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Banaras: The Atlas of the 21st Century
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Banaras: Urban Forms and Cultural Histories
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Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India (South Asia Edition)
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Barcelona and Its Rulers, 1096-1291-Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: 26 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 26)
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Battle For Bihar, The: Nitish Kumar (PB): Nitish Kumar and the Theatre of Power
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Bearing Witness: Prison Stories from a Woman’s Fight Against Fascism
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Because of This: A History of the Indo-Pak Air War of December 1971
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Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Studies in Legal History)
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