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ALLISON, ANNE: Precarious Japan. x, 246 pp. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2013. £13.99. ISBN 978 0 8223 5562 5.

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BARAK, ON: On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt. xiv, 341 pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. £19.95. ISBN 978 0 520 27614 7.

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BIEBUYCK, DANIEL P.: Sherungo Muriro: Mémoires d'un Nyanga. 320 pp. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 2013. €32. ISBN 978 2 7053 3879 4.

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BROWN HALPER, LEZLEE and HALPER, STEFAN: Tibet: An Unfinished Story. xxii, 367 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2014. £20. ISBN 978 1 84904 359 5.

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CROSBY, KATE: Theravada Buddhism: Continuity, Diversity, and Identity. (Wiley Blackwell Guides to Buddhism.) xi, 300 pp. Chichester and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. £22.99. ISBN 978 1 4051 8906 4.

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ELTSCHINGER, VINCENT: Caste and Buddhist Philosophy: Continuity of Some Buddhist Arguments against the Realist Interpretation of Social Denominations. (Buddhist Traditions Series.) xxi, 235 pp. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2013. Rs. 500. ISBN 978 81 208 3559 7.

EMMERICH, MICHAEL: The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature. xv, 494 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. £41.50. ISBN 978 0 231 16272 2.

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FLOOD, GAVIN: The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. xviii, 310 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978 0 19 968456 4.

GANA, NOURI (ed.): The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English: The Politics of Anglo Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. xiii, 498 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. £125. ISBN 978 0 7486 8553 0.

GESCHIERE, PETER: Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison. xxviii, 293 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. £17.50. ISBN 978 0 226 04761 4.

GLEAVE, ROBERT: Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory. xii, 212 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. ISBN 978 0 7486 8986 6.

GRABSKI, JOANNA and MAGEE, CAROL (eds): African Art: Interviews – Narratives: Bodies of Knowledge at Work. (African Expressive Cultures.) ix, 194 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Pess, 2013. £19.99. ISBN 978 0 253 00691 2.

GÜRPINAR, DOĞAN: Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy: A Political, Social and Cultural History. vii, 350 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014. £59.50. ISBN 978 1 78076 112 1.

HARRIS, DAVID: Sierra Leone: A Political History. viii, 232 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2013. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 84904 323 6.

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HOLLOWAY, KENNETH W.: The Quest for Ecstatic Morality in China. x, 161 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £17. ISBN 978 0 19 994174 2.

HOLTEN PIND, OLE: Kaccāyana and Kaccāyanavutti. xv, 326 pp. Bristol: The Pali Text Society, 2013. ISBN 978 0 86013 4909.

HONEY, DAVID B.: The Southern Garden Poetry Society: Literary Culture and Social Memory in Guangdong. xiv, 258 pp. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2013. ISBN 978 962 996 467 2.

HUDSON, GROVER: Northeast African Semitic: Lexical Comparisons and Analysis. (Porta Linguarum Orientalium.) x, 323 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. ISBN 978 3 447 06983 0.

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IDEMA, WILT L. and WEST, STEPHEN H.: The Generals of the Yang Family: Four Early Plays. xxxviii, 228 pp. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2013. £32. ISBN 978 981 4508 68 1.

JAMES, DAVID: A Masterpiece of Arab Painting: The “Schefer” Maqāmāt Manuscript in Context. ix, 219 pp. London: East & West, 2013. ISBN 978 1 907318 08 5.

JONES, HILARY: The Métis of Senegal: Urban Life and Politics in French West Africa. xi, 276 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. £19.99. ISBN 978 0 253 00674 5.

KASAMATSU, S., NISHI, Y., KAWASAKI, Y. and OUSAKA, Y.: Index to the Milindapañha. x, 311 pp. Bristol: The Pali Text Society, 2013. ISBN 978 0 86013 500 5.

KELLEHER, M. THERESA (trans.): The Journal of Wu Yubi: The Path to Sagehood. xliii, 187 pp. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett, 2013. £9.95. ISBN 978 1 62466 042 9.

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KESHODKAR, AKBAR: Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar: Struggles for Identity, Movement and Civilization. xi, 233 pp. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. £49.95. ISBN 978 0 7391 7543 9.

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KNÜPPEL, MICHAEL: Alttürkischen Handschriften. Teil 17. (Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland.) 314 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. €69. ISBN 978 3 515 10429 6.

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LAL, RUBY: Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness. xvii, 229 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £60. ISBN 978 1 107 03024 4.

LAMBERT, W.G.: Babylonian Creation Myths. (Mesopotamian Civilizations.) xvi, 640 pp. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013. ISBN 978 1 57506 247 1.

LAURIER DECOTEAU, CLAIRE: Ancestors and Antiretrovirals: The Biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa. xvi, 324 pp. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. £23. ISBN 978 0 226 06459 8.

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LIWAK, RÜDIGER: Israel in der altorientalischen Welt: Gesammelte Studien zur Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte des antiken Israel. xvi, 335 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. €99.95. ISBN 978 3 11 027141 6.

LOIMEIER, ROMAN: Muslim Societies in Africa: A Historical Anthropology. xv, 358 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. £40. ISBN 978 0 253 00788 9.

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MCGLOIN, NAOMI H., HUDSON, MUTSUKO ENDO, NAZIKIAN, FUMIKO and KAKEGAWA, TOMOMI: Modern Japanese Grammar: A Practical Guide. (Routledge Modern Grammars.) xxxii, 394 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. £28.99. ISBN 978 0 415 57201 9.

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MENGISTEAB, KIDANE: The Horn of Africa. (Hot Spots in Global Politics.) x, 272 pp. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013. £15.99. ISBN 978 0 7456 5122 4.

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NIZAMEDDIN, TALAL: Putin's New Order in the Middle East. ix, 358 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2013. £45. ISBN 978 1 84904 259 8.

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