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Documentary has never attracted such
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The book provides an interesting analysis of the time-use
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This book is the first comprehensive account of
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There
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Culture and the Cognitive Science
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The Complete Guide to Landscape
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The measurement of tourism, for example
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Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality brings together a diverse group of scholars, activists and public intellectuals to consider one of t..
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ABOUT THE BOOKAn essential part of children’s development in
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This
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Reflections of a Neuropsychologist: Brushes with Brains follows the life of an influential neuropsychologist's fascinating and varied career. U..
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Practicing Communication Ethics: Development, Discernment,
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ABOUT THE BOOK Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty different figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 900 to ..
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ABOUT THE BOOKDuring
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