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On Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy

On Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy

True American heroes need not have superhuman abilities nor do they need to act alone. Heroism in a democracy is different from the heroism of myths and legends writes Gerald Pomper in this original contribution to the literature of U. S. politics. Through the remarkable stories of eight diverse Americans who acted as heroes by just doing their jobs during national crises he offers a provocative definition of heroism and fresh reasons to respect U. S. institutions and the people who work within them. This new paperback edition includes photographs an introductory chapter on American heroism after 9/11 a survey of the meanings of heroism in U. S. popular culture and an original concluding theory of ordinary heroism. | On Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy

GBP 175.00
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Heroes in Contemporary British Culture Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change

Heroes in Contemporary British Culture Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change

This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through British television drama. Drawing on case studies including programmes such as The Last Kingdom Spooks Luther and Merlin the book explores the aesthetic strategies of heroisation in television drama and contextualises the programmes within British public discourses at the time of their production original broadcasting and first reception. British television drama is a cultural forum in which contemporary Britain’s problems wishes and cultural values are revealed and debated. By revealing the tensions in contemporary notions of heroes and heroisms television drama employs the heroic as a lens through which to scrutinise contemporary British society and its responses to crisis and change. Looking back on the development of heroic representations in British television drama over the last twenty years this book’s analyses show how heroisation in television drama reacts to and reveals shifts in British structures of feeling in a time marked by insecurity. The book is ideal for readers interested in British cultural studies studies of the heroic and popular culture. | Heroes in Contemporary British Culture Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change

GBP 38.99
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Slavic Gods and Heroes

Slavic Gods and Heroes

This book offers a radical reinterpretation of the Slavic pagan religion made on the basis of a thorough re-examination of all reliable sources. What did Slavic pagan religion have in common with the Afro-American cult of voodoo? Why were no Slavic gods mentioned before the mid-tenth century and why were there no Slavic gods at all between the Dnieper and the Oder? Why were Slavic foundation legends similar to the totemic myths of the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe and who were Slavic Remus and Romulus? What were the Indo-European roots of Slavic hippomantic rituals and where was the Eastern Slavic dragon Zmey Gorynych born? Answers to these and many other provocative questions can be found in this book. | Slavic Gods and Heroes

GBP 38.99
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Music in the Role-Playing Game Heroes & Harmonies

Music in the Role-Playing Game Heroes & Harmonies

Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies offers the first scholarly approach focusing on music in the broad class of video games known as role-playing games or RPGs. Known for their narrative sophistication and long playtimes RPGs have long been celebrated by players for the quality of their cinematic musical scores which have taken on a life of their own drawing large audiences to live orchestral performances. The chapters in this volume address the role of music in popular RPGs such as Final Fantasy and World of Warcraft delving into how music interacts with the gaming environment to shape players’ perceptions and engagement. The contributors apply a range of methodologies to the study of music in this genre exploring topics such as genre conventions around music differences between music in Japanese and Western role-playing games cultural representation nostalgia and how music can shape deeply personal game experiences. Music in the Role-Playing Game expands the growing field of studies of music in video games detailing the considerable role that music plays in this modern storytelling medium and breaking new ground in considering the role of genre. Combining deep analysis with accessible personal accounts of authors’ experiences as players it will be of interest to students and scholars of music gaming and media studies. | Music in the Role-Playing Game Heroes & Harmonies

GBP 42.99
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Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture Static Heroes Social Movements and Empowerment

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture Static Heroes Social Movements and Empowerment

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to clarify the connections between race space class and identity as it concentrates on different occupations and disoccupations enclosures and boundaries. Space is scaled up and down from the body the ground zero of spatiality to the texturology of Manhattan; from the striated place of the office in Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener on Wall Street to the striated spaces of internment camps and reservations; from the lowest of the low the (human) clutter that lined the streets of Albany NY during the Depression to the new Towers of Babel that punctuate the contemporary architecture of transparencies. As it strings together these spatial narratives the volume reveals how beyond the boundaries that characterize each space every location has loose ends that are impossible to contain. | Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture Static Heroes Social Movements and Empowerment

GBP 31.99
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Routledge Library Editions: Psychology of Education 53 Volume Set

Routledge Library Editions: Psychology of Education 53 Volume Set

Routledge Library Editions: Psychology of Education (53 Volume set) brings together a mix of titles involving psychology and education from early years to later life. Covering areas across both education and psychology including learning theory and strategies social developmental and cognitive aspects school psychology and counselling in schools. The series of previously out-of-print titles originally published between 1930 and 1996 includes contributions from a range of authors many considered leaders in their field. | Routledge Library Editions: Psychology of Education 53 Volume Set

GBP 3300.00
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A History of British Prime Ministers Two Volume Set

A History of British Prime Ministers Two Volume Set

This new two volume set of Dick Leonard's British Premiers trilogy surveys the lives and careers of all the fifty-five Prime Ministers between Sir Robert Walpole (1721-42) and Boris Johnson (2019- ) bringing to life the political achievements and also the personal idiosyncrasies of Britain's rulers over nearly three centuries. Volume One surveys the lives and careers of all the 32 Prime Ministers from Sir Robert Walpole (1721-42) to Archibald Philip Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery (1894-95) in 32 succinct informative and entertaining chapters. Volume Two continues this survey on the remaining 23 Prime Ministers from Arthur James Balfour 1st Earl of Balfour (1902-05) to Boris Johnson (2019-). This book will be of key interest to scholars students and readers of British political history the Executive Government and British Politics. | A History of British Prime Ministers Two Volume Set

GBP 74.99
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Handbook Of Eyewitness Psychology 2 Volume Set

Handbook Of Eyewitness Psychology 2 Volume Set

The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for the courts. For the first time extensive reviews of factors influencing witnesses of all ages – children adults and the elderly – are compiled in a single pair of volumes. The disparate research currently being conducted in eyewitness memory in psychology criminal justice and legal studies is coherently presented in this work. Volume 1 covers memory for events. Volume 2 cover memory for people. | Handbook Of Eyewitness Psychology 2 Volume Set

GBP 51.99
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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 History of Private Bill Legislation (2 Volume Set)

A History of Private Bill Legislation (2 Volume Set)

This is Volume II of two of a history of the private bill legislation originally published in 1887. Meant by the author as serving as a Jubilee record of the Queen Victoria’s reign it covers the topics of highways the water supply of London from the seventeenth century local authorities before and after the Conquest corporation of the City of London Marine life and fire insurance the Docks on the Thames Fees on private bills and preliminary inquiries and public legislation. | A History of Private Bill Legislation (2 Volume Set)

GBP 32.99
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The History of the Philosophy of Mind Six volume set

The History of the Philosophy of Mind Six volume set

The History of the Philosophy of Mind is a major six-volume reference collection covering the key topics thinkers and debates within philosophy of mind from Antiquity to the present day. Each volume is edited by a leading scholar in the field and comprises chapters written by an international team of specially commissioned contributors. Including a general introduction by Rebecca Copenhaver and Christopher Shields and fully cross-referenced within and across the six volumes The History of the Philosophy of Mind is an essential resource for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and will also be of interest to those in many related disciplines including Classics Religion Literature History of Psychology and Cognitive Science. Vol. 1 Philosophy of Mind in Antiquity edited by John E. Sisko Vol. 2 Philosophy of Mind in the Early and High Middle Ages edited by Margaret Cameron Vol. 3 Philosophy of Mind in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance edited by Stephan Schmid Vol. 4 Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages edited by Rebecca Copenhaver Vol. 5 Philosophy of Mind in the Nineteenth Century edited by Sandra Lapointe Vol. 6 Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries edited by Amy Kind General Editors: Rebecca Copenhaver and Christopher Shields | The History of the Philosophy of Mind Six volume set

GBP 625.00
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Smith: Psychology of Education II (4-vol. set)

Smith: Psychology of Education II (4-vol. set)

This new title in Routledge’s Major Themes in Education series is a four-volume collection of major works of scholarship. It is an essential successor to an earlier Routledge anthology Psychology of Education (978-0-415-19302-3) (2000) edited by Peter K. Smith and Anthony D. Pellegrini. Research in and around psychology and education has experienced dramatic growth in recent years. Psychology of Education (2000) was the first comprehensive collection of the field’s canonical and cutting-edge research and this new collection takes full account of the many important developments that have taken place since its appearance. Psychology of Education II also includes coverage of areas without the scope of the first collection. With a full index together with a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context Psychology of Education II is an indispensable work of reference. | Smith: Psychology of Education II (4-vol. set)

GBP 625.00
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Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grade 5 Student Workbooks Poetry (Set of 5)

Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grade 5 Student Workbooks Poetry (Set of 5)

The Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program targets reading comprehension skills in high-ability learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic understanding to critical analyses of texts using a field-tested method developed by the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary. Students in grade 5 will learn to comprehend and analyze any reading passage after completing the activities in Jacob's Ladder Grade 5 (2nd ed. ). Each set of student workbooks includes 5 student booklets divided by grade level and area of emphasis (short stories poetry nonfiction). Corresponding to the activities in Jacob's Ladder Grade 5 | Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grade 5 Student Workbooks Poetry (Set of 5)

GBP 14.99
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Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grade 4 Student Workbooks Poetry (Set of 5)

Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grade 4 Student Workbooks Poetry (Set of 5)

The Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program targets reading comprehension skills in high-ability learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic understanding to critical analyses of texts using a field-tested method developed by the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary. Students in grade 4 will learn to comprehend and analyze any reading passage after completing the activities in Jacob's Ladder Grade 4 (2nd ed. ). Each set of student workbooks includes 5 student booklets divided by grade level and area of emphasis (short stories poetry nonfiction). Corresponding to the activities in Jacob's Ladder Grade 4 | Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grade 4 Student Workbooks Poetry (Set of 5)

GBP 14.99
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The Lively Audience A Study of Children Around the TV Set

The Lively Audience A Study of Children Around the TV Set

The Lively Audience (1986) studies television from the children’s own point of view. Contrary to most prevailing opinion it contends that television has much to teach children and that their relationship with the medium is not one of passive dependency after all. Research shows that what children gain from television depends very much on the child’s age and social experience and that children ‘see’ television differently from adults. This book examines this issue and gives us a different understanding of the child audience and the impact of their television viewing. | The Lively Audience A Study of Children Around the TV Set

GBP 85.00
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Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry 24 Volume Set

Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry 24 Volume Set

Psychiatry is a medical field concerned with the diagnosis treatment and prevention of mental health conditions. Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry (24 Volume set) brings together titles originally published between 1958 and 1997. The set demonstrates the varied nature of mental health and how we as a society deal with it. Covering a number of areas including child and adolescent psychiatry alternatives to psychiatry the history of mental health and psychiatric epidemiology. | Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry 24 Volume Set

GBP 1150.00
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History of Psychology through Symbols Two Volume Set

History of Psychology through Symbols Two Volume Set

This set of two volumes are ideal for anyone seeking a dynamic and engaging way of learning about or teaching the history of psychology. Both books would also be of interest to students practitioners and scholars of science philosophy history and systems art and mental health and drug and alcohol treatment as well as those interested in living history on a daily basis. Volume OneVolume One of The History of Psychology through Symbols provides a groundbreaking approach by expanding the roots of psychology beyond the Greeks to concurrent events during the same period (800 BCE-200 BCE) defined as the Axial Age by German-Swiss psychiatrist Karl Jaspers. The Axial Age emphasized seeking the universal connection that unites all humanity a focus not on what one believed but how one lived. This includes the human desire to connect to something greater the totality of being human explained by using symbol the universal language. The Volume describes the psychological implications of the Axial Age through the developments of Buddhism Hinduism Confucianism Daoism Judaism Zoroastrianism as well as Greek thought. Rooted in the Axial Age Volume One explores how the Christian and Islamic eras influenced psychology which resulted in the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution which provided the historic roots of modern psychology. Rejecting that science transcends historical events the Volume provides a political socio-economic and cultural context for all the historic developments. The chapter on the History of Mental Illness provides inspiration for a new mental health system with specific recommendations for radical system reform. In the spirit of the Axial Age on the importance of how one lives there is an emphasis on engagement with symbols and with specific exercises called emancipatory opportunities to apply the lessons of psychological history to daily life. Volume TwoVolume Two of The History of Psychology through Symbols continues a groundbreaking approach of using symbol to deepen the understanding of psychological history as well as the importance of how one lives an emphasis on engagement with symbols and with specific exercises called emancipatory opportunities to apply the lessons of psychological history to daily life. From the birth of modern psychology in the laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt Volume Two discusses how the early theories of voluntarism structuralism evolution and pragmatism influenced the modern development of psychology. The importance of making unconscious shadow forces in science conscious is explored through the impact of the eugenic movement the controversies surrounding the development of psychological testing and current research biases in psychology. Volume Two describes how Clinical Psychology emerged as a powerful profession in mental health care. The Four Forces of Psychology are explored through their natural and hermeneutic science influences. Psychoanalytic and Jungian Analytical Psychology comprise the first force behaviorism the second force humanistic-existential the third force and transpersonal psychology the fourth force which includes groundbreaking discussion of psychedelic history and research which could revolutionize mental health and drug and alcohol treatment. Rejecting that science transcends historical events the Volume provides a political socio-economic and cultural context for modern psychology and all the Four Forces of Psychology. Both volumes are also available for purchase separately. | History of Psychology through Symbols Two Volume Set

GBP 77.38
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The Wisdom of Balahvar A Christian Legend of the Buddha

The Wisdom of Balahvar A Christian Legend of the Buddha

Originally published in 1957 and forming a companion volume to The Balavariani this volume provides valuable research into the biography of Gautama Buddha and its influence on medieval Christian thought. This work the romance of Barlaam and Josaphat was included by Caxton in The Golden Legend and inspired the episode of the Caskets in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice; its heroes were venerated as Saints. Over a century ago however the legend was finally identified as an adaptation of episodes from the life and ministry of the Buddha. The first part of the book is devoted to tracing the development and migration of the Barlaam and Josaphat legend from its original Buddhist environment to the West. The second part is a translation of the Georgian text – the first published in any Western European language. The volume therefore gives one of the oldest Near Eastern versions of the story. | The Wisdom of Balahvar A Christian Legend of the Buddha

GBP 27.99
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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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Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grade 4 Student Workbooks Nonfiction (Set of 5)

Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grade 4 Student Workbooks Nonfiction (Set of 5)

The Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program targets reading comprehension skills in high-ability learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic understanding to critical analyses of texts using a field-tested method developed by the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary. Students in grade 4 will learn to comprehend and analyze any reading passage after completing the activities in Jacob's Ladder Grade 4 (2nd ed. ). Each set of student workbooks includes 5 student booklets divided by grade level and area of emphasis (short stories poetry nonfiction). Corresponding to the activities in Jacob's Ladder Grade 4 (2nd ed. ) students read high-interest passages then complete skill ladders connected to the nonfiction readings to move them from concrete thinking skills to higher order critical thinking skills. The ladders include multiple skills necessary for academic success covering language arts standards such as sequencing determining cause and effect classifying inferencing and recognizing main ideas. Grade 4 | Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grade 4 Student Workbooks Nonfiction (Set of 5)

GBP 14.99
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Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grade 3 Student Workbooks Nonfiction (Set of 5)

Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grade 3 Student Workbooks Nonfiction (Set of 5)

The Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program targets reading comprehension skills in high-ability learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic understanding to critical analyses of texts using a field-tested method developed by the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary. Students in grade 3 will learn to comprehend and analyze any reading passage after completing the activities in Jacob's Ladder Grade 3 (2nd ed. previously published as Level 1). Each set of student workbooks includes 5 student booklets divided by grade level and area of emphasis (short stories poetry nonfiction). Corresponding to the activities in Jacob's Ladder Grade 3 (2nd ed. ) students read high-interest passages then complete skill ladders connected to the nonfiction readings to move them from concrete thinking skills to higher order critical thinking skills. The ladders include multiple skills necessary for academic success covering language arts standards such as sequencing determining cause and effect classifying inferencing and recognizing main ideas. Grade 3 | Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grade 3 Student Workbooks Nonfiction (Set of 5)

GBP 14.99
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The Sociology of Health Healing and Illness

The Sociology of Health Healing and Illness

With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice this leading textbook is widely acclaimed by instructors as the most comprehensive of any available. Written in an engaging and accessible style with multiple student-friendly features it integrates recent research in medical sociology and public health to introduce students to a wide range of issues affecting health healing and health care today. This new edition links information on COVID-19 into each chapter providing students with a solid understanding of the social history of medicine; social epidemiology; social stress; health and illness behavior; the profession of medicine; nurses and allied health workers; complementary and alternative medicine; the physician-patient relationship; medical ethics; and the financing and organization of medical care. Important changes and enhancements in the eleventh edition include: Inclusion of material on COVID-19 in the main text of every chapter with special sections at the end of each chapter exploring additional intersections of COVID-19 with chapter content. Expanded coverage of fundamental cause theory and the social determinants of health. New centralized discussions of how and why social disparities in race class gender and sexual identity impact health outcomes in the United States. New “In the Field” boxed inserts on topics such as medical education and student debt physicians’ use of medical jargon and corporate greed. New “In Comparative Focus” boxed inserts on topics such as the 1918 influenza pandemic infant and maternal mortality in Afghanistan the patient care coordination process drug prices long-term care and global health. A more in-depth look at both physician and nursing shortages. Expanded discussion of nurse burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic. Curricular and pedagogical changes in medical schools. Discussion of continued changes in the financing of the US health care system. A more in-depth look at quality concerns in nursing homes. Increased attention to the health care systems in Norway Germany Cuba and Mexico. An updated instructor’s guide with test bank and PowerPoint slides. | The Sociology of Health Healing and Illness

GBP 32.99
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The International Library of Essays on Aviation Policy and Management: 6-Volume Set

The International Library of Essays on Aviation Policy and Management: 6-Volume Set

The development of civil aviation in the early 20th century presented a range of new legal and regulatory challenges concerning the rights of an aircraft from one state to enter the aerial territory of another. International flights threatened the territorial integrity of nation states and prompted politicians to draw up new aerial legislation and regulations to govern this new form of aerial movement. Whereas some states advocated free and open access to airspace and unrestricted aerial movement other nations pursued a more protectionist stance based on regulation and reciprocal access arrangements. Technological developments in aircraft design and performance combined with changing global political relations and the introduction of new forms of economic regulation have all fundamentally affected the development of air transport. | The International Library of Essays on Aviation Policy and Management: 6-Volume Set

GBP 1000.00
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