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The Indie Game Developer Handbook

The Indie Game Developer Handbook

The indie game developer‘s complete guide to running a studio. The climate for the games industry has never been hotter and this is only set to continue as the marketplace for tablets consoles and phones grow. Seemingly every day there is a story of how a successful app or game has earned thousands of downloads and revenue. As the market size increases so does the number of people developing and looking to develop their own app or game to publish. The Indie Game Developer Handbook covers every aspect of running a game development studio from the initial creation of the game through to completion release and beyond. Accessible and complete guide to many aspects of running a game development studio from funding and development through QA publishing marketing and more. Provides a useful knowledge base and help to support the learning process of running an indie development studio in an honest approachable and easy to understand way. Case studies interviews from other studies and industry professionals grant an first-hand look into the world of indie game development

GBP 175.00
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The Game of Humor A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh

The Game of Humor A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh

Humor wit and laughter surround each person. From everyday quips to the carefully contrived comedy of literature newspapers and television we experience humor in many forms yet the impetus for our laughter is far from innocuous. Misfortune stupidity and moral or cultural defects however faintly revealed in others and ourselves seem to make us laugh. Although discomforting such negative terms as superiority aggression hostility ridicule or degradation can be applied to instances of humor. According to scholars Thomas Hobbes's superiority theory that humor arises from mischances infirmities and indecencies where there is no wit at all applies to most humor. With the exception of good-natured play Charles R. Gruner claims that humor is rarely as innocent as it first appears. Gruner's proposed superiority theory of humor is all-encompassing. In The Game of Humor he expands the scope of Hobbes's theory to include and explore the contest aspect of good-natured play. As such the author believes all instances of humor can be examined as games in terms of competition and keeping score winners and losers. Gruner draws on a broad spectrum of thought-provoking examples. Holocaust jokes sexual humor the racialist dialogue of such comic characters as Stepin Fetchit and Archie Bunker simple puns and many of the author's own encounters with everyday humor. Gruner challenges the reader to offer a single example of humor that cannot be de-humorized by its agonistic nature. The Game of Humor makes intriguing and enjoyable reading for people interested in humor and the aspects of human motivation. This book will also be valuable to professionals in communication and information studies sociologists literary critics and linguists and psychologists concerned with the conflicts and tensions of everyday life. | The Game of Humor A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh

GBP 130.00
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Game Audio Implementation A Practical Guide Using the Unreal Engine

Game Audio Implementation A Practical Guide Using the Unreal Engine

Game Audio Implementation offers a unique practical approach to learning all about game audio. If you've always wanted to hear your sound or music in a real game then this is the book for you. Each chapter is accompanied by its own game level where you can see the techniques and theories in action before working through over 70 exercises to develop your own demo level. Taking you all the way from first principles to complex interactive systems in the industry standard Unreal Engine you‘ll gain the skills to implement your sound and music along with a deep transferable knowledge of the principles you can apply across a range of other game development tools. The accompanying website (www. gameaudioimplementation. com) includes: 12 downloadable demonstration games A unique exercise level for you to develop for your portfolio An up-to-date online bibliography with further reading for each chapter A free sound library with hundreds of game SFX | Game Audio Implementation A Practical Guide Using the Unreal Engine

GBP 175.00
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The Essential Guide to Game Audio The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games

The Essential Guide to Game Audio The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games

The Essential Guide to Game Audio: The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games is a first of its kind textbook and must-have reference guide for everything you ever wanted to know about sound for games. This book provides a basic overview of game audio how it has developed over time and how you can make a career in this industry. Each chapter gives you the background and context you will need to understand the unique workflow associated with interactive media. The practical easy to understand interactive examples provide hands-on experience applying the concepts in real world situations. | The Essential Guide to Game Audio The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games

GBP 175.00
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Critical Game Theory Humanistic and Radical Alternatives to the Mainstream

Critical Game Theory Humanistic and Radical Alternatives to the Mainstream

The models in mainstream game theory generally assume that actors act according to a single consistent utility function. Empirical studies common sense and humanistic wisdom all suggest that that assumption is too simple. This book starts with an assumption that actors are controlled by diverse inconsistent forces and demonstrates that introducing this level of complexity allows for the creation of critical game theory models that can help to attain new insights into nature human nature human institutions and human behavior. The book begins with an evolutionary or Evo model in which the players have concerns for the other player as well as egoistic interests. Part I analyzes the Prisoner’s Dilemma using a literary or Lit model in which the players have entropic or Entro masochistic and sadistic drives as well as altruistic and egoistic ones. Part II suggests that the Lit model opens the door to a “where Entro is let Evo be” critical perspective on politics. Part III considers how core stories in mainstream game theory can be usefully supplemented and deepened by critical models and reflects on possible futures for critical game theory. The discussion of games and subgames includes poems as well as matrices in pursuit of a mode of presentation that respects the complex simultaneously humanistic and scientific qualities of critical game theory. The vision of critical game theory advanced in the book will be of significant interest to researchers in an array of theoretical and applied disciplines including but not limited to literature psychology political science economics computer science ethics business ethics law and law and economics. | Critical Game Theory Humanistic and Radical Alternatives to the Mainstream

GBP 130.00
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Game Art Complete All-in-One: Learn Maya 3ds Max ZBrush and Photoshop Winning Techniques

Game Art Complete All-in-One: Learn Maya 3ds Max ZBrush and Photoshop Winning Techniques

A compilation of key chapters from the top Focal game art books available today - in the areas of Max Maya Photoshop and ZBrush. The chapters provide the CG Artist with an excellent sampling of essential techniques that every 3D artist needs to create stunning game art. Game artists will be able to master the modeling rendering rigging and texturing techniques they need - with advice from Focal's best and brightest authors. Artists can learn hundreds of tips tricks and shortcuts in Max Maya Photoshop ZBrush - all within the covers of one complete inspiring reference. | Game Art Complete All-in-One: Learn Maya 3ds Max ZBrush and Photoshop Winning Techniques

GBP 175.00
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Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash' Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)

Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash' Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)

Inside the Black Box of ‘White Backlash’ researches the contents of the letters of support sent to British politician Enoch Powell in the wake of his so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech of April 20 1968. Never has a politician received so much written support in so short a time. This book takes a thematic approach to investigate the way British whites used Powell’s speech to vent their frustrations anger hostility against (non-white) immigrants and the evolution of British society in the late 1960s. Each chapter unpacks one facet of a 10 000-letter sample out of the approximately 100 000 letters Powell received: Race State War Empire America Class Gender Elites Parties ‘Against’ - with this last chapter analysing letters of protest against Powell. This extraordinary archival material provides an altogether unique window into British society in the late 1960s and reads like a (white) anthropology of nativist Britons in times of swift change. The book will be of interest to both students and academics of race immigration and ethnicity as well as by the general public. Olivier Esteves appears in this short video about the book: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=o0lA5Nb9cso | Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash' Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)

GBP 120.00
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A History of Competitive Gaming

A History of Competitive Gaming

Competitive gaming or esports – referring to competitive tournaments of video games among both casual gamers and professional players – began in the early 1970s with small competitions like the one held at Stanford University in October 1972 where some 20 researchers and students attended. By 2022 the estimated revenue of the global esports industry is in excess of $947 million with over 200 million viewers worldwide. Regardless of views held about competitive gaming esports have become a modern economic and cultural phenomenon. This book studies the full history of competitive gaming from the 1970s to the 2010s against the background of the arrival of the electronic and computer age. It investigates how competitive gaming has grown into a new form of entertainment a sport-like competition a lucrative business and a unique cultural sensation. It also explores the role of competitive gaming in the development of the video game industry making a distinctive contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the history of video games. A History of Competitive Gaming will appeal to all those interested in the business and culture of gaming as well as those studying modern technological culture.

GBP 130.00
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Opera Outside the Box Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Opera Outside the Box Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic “experiences” outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century. The essays adopt a variety of perspectives exploring the processes through which opera and ideas about opera were cultivated and disseminated by examining opera-related matters in publication and performance in both musical and non-musical genres outside the traditional approaches to transmission of operatic works and associated concepts. As a group they exemplify the broad array of questions to be grappled with in seeking to identify commonalities that might shed light in new and imaginative ways on the experiences and manifestations of opera and notions of opera in Victorian Britain. In unpacking the significance relevance uses and impacts of opera within British society the collection seeks to enhance understanding of a few of the manifold ways in which the population learned about and experienced opera how audiences and the broader public understood the genre and the aesthetics surrounding it how familiarity with opera played out in British culture and how British customs values and principles affected the genre of opera and perceptions of it. | Opera Outside the Box Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

GBP 120.00
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A Study of Chinese Characters

A Study of Chinese Characters

As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese ancient characters and newly unearthed literature this book brings together the author’s research articles that discuss the development of Chinese characters and the tradition of Chinese palaeography. The 23 chapters in this book focus on two aspects of Chinese characters. The first 13 chapters centre on the evolution of Chinese characters analysing the composition system and its transformation the motivation and mechanisms behind its evolution as well as the methodology of the study of ancient characters. The subsequent 10 chapters mainly revolve around Shuowen Jiezi one of the oldest character dictionaries in China. The author offers a novel understanding of the core issues related to this most important philological work such as the version of the dictionary misunderstandings in previous scholarship and its relations with other palaeographical materials. The title will appeal to students and scholars of Sinology Chinese philology and palaeography as well as Chinese characters. | A Study of Chinese Characters

GBP 130.00
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Football and Diaspora Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game

Football and Diaspora Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game

This is the first book to examine football (soccer) through the lens of diaspora studies. Presenting case studies from across four continents it considers how diasporic minorities develop a sense of belonging between their national and transnational ethnic communities through an active participation in football. Bringing together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars working in anthropology communication cultural studies history psychology politics sociology and sport it unearths the connections between culture identities politics nationalism globalization and how those manifest in the lived experience of diasporic peoples. Against a background of the continued internationalization of sport and pervasive global migration it explores key themes in the social sciences including migration acculturation and assimilation; sport identity fandom and representation; and nationhood citizenship and politics. As the book focuses on diverse ethnoreligious groups dispersed around the world it covers a wide range of geographic locations with cases addressing the Bolivian Ethiopian Moroccan Zimbabwean Croatian Irish and Basque diasporas. It is fascinating reading for anybody working in sport studies diaspora studies political science sociology cultural studies international history or social history. | Football and Diaspora Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game

GBP 130.00
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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism 2-Volume Set

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism 2-Volume Set

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism provides comprehensive coverage of Taoist religion thought and history reflecting the current state of Taoist scholarship. It contains hundreds of entries authored by an international body of experts which cover areas such as schools and traditions texts persons and sacred sites. Terms are given in their original characters transliterated and translated. The encyclopedia is thoroughly cross-referenced and indexed and also includes a chronology and bibliography. It is invaluable for students and scholars in the fields of religious studies philosophy and religion and Asian history and culture. | The Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism 2-Volume Set

GBP 90.00
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A Sociological Genealogy of Culture Wars

A Sociological Genealogy of Culture Wars

This book analyzes the culture wars as those struggles for the monopoly of the legitimate representation of the world in the normative elucidation of controversial issues linked to values. Public culture in this context would consist of a set of complex classificatory systems of symbols and meanings that constitute a semantic field in permanent dynamic tension. In this work we analyze a whole series of lines of cultural conflict such as the social and semantic genesis of the different forms of “culture war” from the thesis of “modern polytheism” pointed out by Max Weber at the beginning of the 20th century to the national culture wars and the current global culture wars; the social production of truth and the clash with the epistemological tribalisms; the struggles between the new warrior gods daimons and demons that emerge in modern societies; the struggles of fusion and fission on the symbolic battlefield of “Europe”; the struggles between “pioneers” and “gatekeepers” to define the limits of human nature; the struggles between utopias and dystopias that colonize the present future. This book will be of great help to anybody looking for key interpretations on the nature and structure of modern conflicts in contemporary societies. | A Sociological Genealogy of Culture Wars

GBP 130.00
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A History of Ecological Economic Thought

A History of Ecological Economic Thought

Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective this book provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought. The work unearths a diverse set of ideas within a Western and Slavic context from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the late 1940s to reveal insights firmly grounded in historiographical research and of import for addressing current sustainability challenges not least by means of improving our grasp on how humans and nature can generously coexist in the long term. The history of ecological economic thought offered in this volume is rich and diverse encompassing views that are bound by the observance of the tenets of the natural sciences but which differ significantly in terms of the role of energy and materials to cultural development and the normative aspects involving resource distribution social ideals and policy-making. Combining the approaches of independent scholarly figures and scientific communities from different historical periods and nationalities the book brings elements that are still missing in the scarce literature on the history of ecological economic thought and highlights the underlying threads which unite such initiatives. The book brings a fresh look into the historical development of ecological economic ideas and will therefore be of great interest to scholars and students of ecological economics environmental economics sustainability science interdisciplinary studies and history of economic thought. | A History of Ecological Economic Thought

GBP 130.00
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HyperThinking Creating a New Mindset for the Age of Networks

HyperThinking Creating a New Mindset for the Age of Networks

Hyperthinking is predicated on the assumption that the single most important skill required to help you and your organization thrive in the age of perpetual change digital communications and networks is the mind-set of individuals. This includes your values your ability to learn and ability to adapt to change. After 14 years of experience with leading global companies author Philip Weiss has developed an approach that pulls together the ingredients needed for the modern executive to both adapt and thrive in this new age. The Hyperthinking model has been developed and tested on teams clients and the author‘s networks with great success. The book explains how Hyperthinking can apply to different facets of our lives starting from our personal experience and our role in society and shows how to adapt better to the new business world. Hyperthinking is a set of values and tools that used in combination enable individuals to embrace change develop their creativity and effectively engage in the digital age. It has been tested by a variety of business executives and helped them to understand change as well as overcome fear or resistance to technology. Philip Weiss offers the perfect antidote to information overload; a wonderful blueprint for personal and organizational innovation; and a set of perspectives to help us all make sense of a fast-changing business environment. Read it and start Hyperthinking! | HyperThinking Creating a New Mindset for the Age of Networks

GBP 175.00
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Liquid Architecture Experimental Practices of Design in a State of Flux

Liquid Architecture Experimental Practices of Design in a State of Flux

Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing. This book moves away from form as the primary driver of spatial protocols and explores what the built environment might look like when viewed through the lenses of a ‘wet ontology’ that is attentive to fluidity flows and territorial dynamism. A reconfiguration of architectural materials and authorship is thus considered leading in turn to an exploration of the ethical dimensions of co-designing with natural systems (of various viscosities) through liquid paradigms. The book examines a set of principles for practice-led discoveries that incorporate hybrid mixed media with the author’s intersubjective relationship with liquid matter. Drawing from qualitative-based analytical investigation models the text allows comprehension of the liquid phenomena via material contextualisation of an ever-becoming research setting. Through a practical and theoretical engagement with the ontology of liquids the reader is exposed to a range of design-led experiments and creative propositions visualisation systems construction and testing of physical models that collectively translate into a series of novel insights for architectural agendas. This book will be of interest to architecture and design research students and academics because it advocates the need for a more symbiotic and resilient approach to natural systems which could benefit from the integration of regenerating material flows into our buildings and urban settlements. | Liquid Architecture Experimental Practices of Design in a State of Flux

GBP 130.00
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The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Three Volume Set

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Three Volume Set

Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in twentieth-century philosophy. A great liberal humanist his multi-faceted work spans the history of philosophy the philosophy of science intellectual history aesthetics epistemology the study of language and myth and more. Cassirer’s thought also anticipates the renewed interest in the origins of analytic and continental philosophy in the Twentieth Century and the divergent paths taken by the 'logicist' and existential traditions epitomised by his now legendary debate in 1929 with the philosopher Martin Heidegger over the question What is the Human Being? The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. It was first published in German in 1923 the third and final volume appearing in 1929. In it Cassirer presents a radical new philosophical worldview - at once rich creative and controversial - of human beings as fundamentally symbolic animals placing signs and systems of expression between themselves and the world. This major new translation of all three volumes the first for over fifty years brings Cassirer's magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars. Taken together the three volumes of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms are a vital treatise on human beings as symbolic animals and a monumental expression of neo-Kantian thought. Correcting important errors in previous English editions this translation reflects the contributions of significant advances in Cassirer scholarship over the last twenty to thirty years. Each volume includes a new introduction and translator's notes by Steve G. Lofts a foreword by Peter E. Gordon a glossary of key terms and a thorough index. | The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Three Volume Set

GBP 170.00
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The Autobiography of a Revolutionary in British India

The Autobiography of a Revolutionary in British India

This is a fascinating autobiography set before the partition of the subcontinent. Kali Prasad Ghosh belonged to a zamindar or landed family in Bengal. He joined the Congress movement and later in the 1920s became more radical. He was brought up as an intellectual but in the end his interest shifted to making bombs intended to blow up British property. The narrative if that of a man looking back and trying to understand his own coming to political awareness in the 1920s and 30s. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka | The Autobiography of a Revolutionary in British India

GBP 130.00
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A Study of Excavated Documents in China

A Study of Excavated Documents in China

As the second volume of a two-volume set on Chinese ancient characters and unearthed literature this book brings together the author’s scholarly works on Chinese scripts studies and unearthed materials. In this volume the author scrutinizes manuscripts unearthed from archaeological findings including silk books and bamboo slips discovered in ancient tombs that date back to the Warring States period and the Qin and Han dynasties as well as Turfan manuscripts. These materials serve as supplements of Shuowen Jiezi and other historical documents which complement our understanding of ancient characters. Through textual analysis of these newly excavated documents the author reinterprets the texts and resolves some knotty problems in Chinese palaeography. The title will appeal to students and scholars of Sinology Chinese philology and palaeography as well as Chinese characters and unearthed manuscripts. | A Study of Excavated Documents in China

GBP 130.00
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A Study of Thinking

A Study of Thinking

A Study of Thinking is a pioneering account of how human beings achieve a measure of rationality in spite of the constraints imposed by bias limited attention and memory and the risks of error imposed by pressures of time and ignorance. First published in 1956 and hailed at its appearance as a groundbreaking study it is still read three decades later as a major contribution to our understanding of the mind. In their insightful new introduction the authors relate the book to the cognitive revolution and its handmaiden artificial intelligence. The central theme of the work is that the scientific study of human thinking must concentrate upon meaning and its achievement rather than upon the behaviorists' stimuli and responses and the presumed connections between them. The book's point of departure is how human beings group the world of particulars into ordered classes and categories-concepts-in order to impose a coherent and manageable order upon that world. But rather than relying principally on philosophical speculation to make its point A Study of Thinking reports dozens of experiments to elucidate the strategies that people use in penetrating to the deep structure of the information they encounter. This seminal study was a major event in the cognitive revolution of the 1950s. Reviewing it at the time J. Robert Oppenheimer said it has in many ways the flavor of conviction which makes it point to the future.

GBP 145.00
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Practical Criticism A Study of Literary Judgment

Practical Criticism A Study of Literary Judgment

Linguist critic poet psychologist I. A. Richards (1893-1979) was one of the great polymaths of the twentieth century. He is best known however as one of the founders of modern literary critical theory. Richards revolutionized criticism by turning away from biographical and historical readings as well as from the aesthetic impressionism. Seeking a more exacting approach he analyzed literary texts as syntactical structures that could be broken down into smaller interacting verbal units of meaning. Practical Criticism first published in 1929 is a landmark volume in demonstrating this method. Practical Criticism was born of an experiment Richards undertook to discern the psychological foundations of reading and interpretation and a means for readers to discover how they think and feel about poetry. He submitted thirteen poems for analysis without date or author given to some four hundred of his Cambridge students. Poets of stature went in undifferentiated from obscure and forgotten figures. The results were mixed at best with many of the interpretations shockingly bad. These readings were based in large part not on the texts themselves but on then-current opinions presuppositions theories and beliefs. The results led Richards to define a set of interrelated mental obstacles to intelligent and accurate reading including irrelevant associations stock responses sentimentality and a general misunderstanding of the purpose or doctrine of poetry. Richards' concerns in Practical Criticism went well beyond the merely formal. In the humanist tradition he believed that the ability to read critically and use language truthfully was culturally regenerative a necessary skill in the modern world of mass-produced art and advertising. This classic volume will be of interest to teachers of literature cultural studies specialists and intellectual historians. | Practical Criticism A Study of Literary Judgment

GBP 145.00
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A History of Cambodia

A History of Cambodia

In this clear and concise volume author David Chandler provides a timely overview of Cambodia a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. Praised by the Journal of Asian Studies as an ''original contribution superior to any other existing work'' this acclaimed text has now been completely revised and updated to include material examining the early history of Cambodia whose famous Angkorean ruins now attract more than one million tourists each year the death of Pol Pot and the revolution and final collapse of the Khmer Rouge. The fourth edition reflects recent research by major scholars as well as Chandler's long immersion in the subject and contains an entirely new section on the challenges facing Cambodia today including an analysis of the current state of politics and sociology and the increasing pressures of globalization. This comprehensive overview of Cambodia will illuminate for undergraduate students as well as general readers the history and contemporary politics of a country long misunderstood. | A History of Cambodia

GBP 175.00
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