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Reading Parfit On What Matters

Reading Parfit On What Matters

Derek Parfit was one of the world’s leading philosophers. His On What Matters was the most eagerly awaited book in philosophy for many years. Reading Parfit: On What Matters is an essential overview and assessment of volumes 1 and 2 of Parfit’s monumental work by a team of international contributors and includes responses by Parfit himself. It discusses central features of Parfit’s book including the structure and nature of reasons; the ideas underlying moral principles; Parfit’s discussions of consequentialism contractualism and Kantian deontology; and his metaethical ideas and arguments. Reading Parfit will be central reading for students of ethics and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of one of the most important works of philosophy published in the last fifty years. | Reading Parfit On What Matters

GBP 38.99
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Public Space notes on why it matters what we should know and how to realize its potential

Public Space notes on why it matters what we should know and how to realize its potential

Public Space: notes on why it matters what we should know and how to realize its potential journeys a vast territory and presents a panoramic view of public space—an understanding from numerous disciplines—under one cover in an incisive and concise manner. As a dialogue between the social-political and the material-physical the book brings together the key ideas that encompass the social political and physical issues in the making and experience of public space. The book is at the same time a primer and a progressive text. It makes the case for public space digs deep into understanding what public space is followed by three sections that present the inherent paradoxes the possibilities and propositions for a more meaningful public space. The book presents ideas in concise and approachable ways—from established tenets to new propositions—that are constructive and thought-provoking with many that will challenge the reader’s preconceived notions. Students and scholars in the built environment disciplines and social sciences public space managers public and private sector practitioners and civic leaders but also residents who want to better understand and make an impact in their communities and cities will find Public Space to be a valuable resource. | Public Space notes on why it matters what we should know and how to realize its potential

GBP 27.99
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Dance Matters Too Markets Memories Identities

Dance Matters Too Markets Memories Identities

Dance Matters Too: Markets Memories Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new avenues of scholarly inquiry and critical engagement and opens the field in innovative ways. This volume builds on Dance Matters (2009) which mapped the interdisciplinary breadth of the field. The chapters presented here continue to underline the uniqueness of a field that is a blend of critical scholarship on aesthetics and performance with the humanities and social sciences. Including diverse material analytical approaches and perspectives from scholars and practitioners this multidimensional volume explores debates on dance preservation and tradition in globalizing India multimedia choreographies and the circulation of dance via electronic media embodiment and memory power democracy and bourgeoning markets classification and censorship and corporatization and Bollywood. This tour de force will appeal to those in dance and performance studies cultural studies sociology as well as to readers interested in tradition modernity gender and globalization. | Dance Matters Too Markets Memories Identities

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Shame Matters Attachment and Relational Perspectives for Psychotherapists

Shame Matters Attachment and Relational Perspectives for Psychotherapists

Winner of the 2022 Gradiva® Award for Best Edited Book! Understanding shame as a relational problem Shame Matters explores how people with support can gradually move away from the relentless cycle of shame and find new and more satisfying ways of relating. Orit Badouk Epstein brings together experts from across the world to explore different aspects of shame from an attachment perspective. The impact of racism and socio-economic factors on the development and experience of shame are discussed and illustrated with clinical narratives. Drawing upon the experience of infant researchers trauma experts and therapists using somatic interventions Shame Matters explores and develops understanding of the shameful deflations encountered in the consulting room and describes how new and empowered ways of relating can be nurtured. The book also details attachment-informed research into the experience of shame and outlines how it can be applied to clinical practice. Shame Matters will be an invaluable companion for psychotherapists clinical psychologists counsellors social workers nurses and others in the helping professions. | Shame Matters Attachment and Relational Perspectives for Psychotherapists

GBP 24.99
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E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

Through attending to the nonhuman E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates concerned with the intersection of neomaterialism environmental humanities and queer ecology. The book revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a materialist perspective by focusing on humans’ embodied activities in artificial and natural environments. By examining the everyday embodied experiences of characters the book thus brings to the fore insignificant and sometimes overlooked aspects in Forster’s fiction. It also places importance on the texts’ treatment of queer intimacy as an embodied experience that can transcend sexual desire. The book acknowledges nonhuman agency as central to our understanding of queerness in Forster’s texts and studies the representation of formless matters such as dust as a way through which Forster’s ecological concerns arise by linking the fate of oppressed humans with oppressed nonhuman others. | E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

GBP 130.00
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Waste Matters Adaptive Reuse for Productive Landscapes

Waste Matters Adaptive Reuse for Productive Landscapes

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposal—from burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in search of an unscathed environment. Habits of disposal are deeply ingrained in our daily lives so casual and continual that we rarely ever stop to ponder the big-picture effects on social spatial and ecological orders. Rethinking the ways in which we produce collect discard and reuse our waste whether it’s materials spaces or places is essential to ensure a more feasible future. Waste Matters: Adaptive Reuse for Productive Landscapes presents a series of historical and contemporary design ideas that reimagine a range of repurposed materials at diverse scales and in various contexts by exploring methods of hacking disassembly reassembly recycling adaptive reuse and preservation of the built environment. Waste Matters will inspire designers to sample and rearrange bits of artifacts from the past and present to produce culturally relevant and ecologically sensitive materials objects architecture and environments. | Waste Matters Adaptive Reuse for Productive Landscapes

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Feeling Matters

Feeling Matters

As long as feelings are second-class citizens people will be second class citizens. Experience is an endangered species. An important function of psychotherapy is to make time for experiencing. Psychic taste buds really exist and rarely rest. They feed us each other gauge states of being states of spirit. We taste each other's feelings and intentions. An important aim of this book is to build psychic taste buds not put them down or pretend they don't exist. A positive feeling runs through this book a love of life an affirmation. Yet we discover many feel they do not have an impact. A sense of helplessness and impotence in face of awesome forces seems to be increasing. Health is a broad term with many dark threads. A creeping annihilating sense varies from pockets we try not to notice to soul murder that must be addressed. Yet individuals do try in their private struggles and in the larger social sphere. | Feeling Matters

GBP 130.00
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Why Biodiversity Matters

Why Biodiversity Matters

All life on Earth has the right to exist but as we teeter on the verge of a sixth extinction this book discusses why biodiversity matters and why we should care if species go extinct. We are witnessing the largest and fastest rate of extinction in the history of the planet. While the concept of rights is a human one all plants and animals strive to survive and this book argues for their rights to continue doing so without being driven into premature extinction by human actions. Acknowledging and describing the practical reasons for conserving biodiversity this book argues that these should not overshadow the compelling ethical reasons to care about the future of species other than our own. However the issues are complex. What do we do when faced with an immediate ethical choice where biodiversity rights animal rights human rights economic development and ecosystem survival all get mixed up together? There are seldom hard and fast answers but thinking about and understanding a variety of points of view will help us make informed trade-offs. Drawing on his vast practical experience the author presents insightful perspectives and real-world examples with the hope that this book will instigate a much-needed rethink about why and how we practise conservation. This book is essential reading for all those concerned with sustaining our planet and all who inhabit it in the face of climate breakdown biodiversity loss and ecological collapse.

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Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory Investing That Matters

Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory Investing That Matters

Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters tells the story of how Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) revolutionized the investing world and the real economy but is now showing its age. MPT has no mechanism to understand its impacts on the environmental social and financial systems nor any tools for investors to mitigate the havoc that systemic risks can wreck on their portfolios. It’s time for MPT to evolve. The authors propose a new imperative to improve finance’s ability to fulfil its twin main purposes: providing adequate returns to individuals and directing capital to where it is needed in the economy. They show how some of the largest investors in the world focus not on picking stocks but on mitigating systemic risks such as climate change and a lack of gender diversity so as to improve the risk/return of the market as a whole despite current theory saying that should be impossible. Moving beyond MPT recognizes the complex relations between investing and the systems on which capital markets rely Investing that matters embraces MPT’s focus on diversification and risk adjusted return but understands them in the context of the real economy and the total return needs of investors. Whether an investor an MBA student a Finance Professor or a sustainability professional Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters is thought-provoking and relevant. Its bold critique shows how the real world already is moving beyond investing orthodoxy. | Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory Investing That Matters

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Archaeology and its Discontents Why Archaeology Matters

Archaeology and its Discontents Why Archaeology Matters

Archaeology and its Discontents examines the state of archaeology today and its development throughout the twentieth century making a powerful case for new approaches. Surveying the themes of twentieth-century archaeological theory Barrett looks at their successes limitations and failures. Seeing more failures and limitations than successes he argues that archaeology has over-focused on explaining the human construction of material variability and should instead be more concerned with understanding how human diversity has been constructed. Archaeology matters he argues precisely because of the insights it can offer into the development of human diversity. The analysis and argument are illustrated throughout by reference to the development of the European Neolithic. Arguing both for new approaches and for the importance of archaeology as a discipline Archaeology and its Discontents is for archaeologists at all levels from student to professor and trainee to experienced practitioner. | Archaeology and its Discontents Why Archaeology Matters

GBP 36.99
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Material Matters Developing Business for a Circular Economy

Material Matters Developing Business for a Circular Economy

Our planet is a closed system with limited material resources yet our current economic model is designed in a one-way direction from resource extraction to disposal leading to resource depletion. This book proposes a new economic model offering an alternative to this linear ‘take-make-waste’ economy. Material Matters shows a way of creating a circular economy by using the unlimited resources we have: renewable energy data and intelligence. It describes a system based on circular business models centred on selling performance rather than ownership designing products and buildings as resource banks and equipping products with a ‘material passport’ to ensure their usability for future generations. Businesses thereby become custodians of materials rather than consumers of materials and sellers of products. The book evokes the vision of a radically new economic model based on a compelling narrative supported with cases that have been developed in conjunction with major companies for example convincing Philips to sell light instead of lamps saving energy and materials by creating a whole new business model a case which has become iconic for the circular economy. Material Matters is not a somber analysis of the state of the planet but a concrete and comprehensive agenda for change offering perspectives for taking action for business and individual consumers alike. | Material Matters Developing Business for a Circular Economy

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Religion Matters How Sociology Helps Us Understand Religion in Our World

Religion Matters How Sociology Helps Us Understand Religion in Our World

Religion Matters: How Sociology Helps Us Understand Religion in Our World focuses on religion’s interplay with broader society introducing students to the basic questions ideas and methods with which sociologists have analyzed the relationship between religion and society. Since the first edition religion as a social force has changed dramatically in its content and consequences for the world. In this new edition the authors update the foundational lenses used to understand religion’s multiple roles in society assess the impact of technology and social media on religion and faith draw further reflection from contemporary studies of religion and gender and add a new chapter examining the increasing amount of religious polarization in the United States and throughout the world. With new illustrations and connections that make this readable textbook more accessible and relevant for today’s student the second edition of Religion Matters remains a perfect counterpart for introductory courses concerned with the sociological study of religion. | Religion Matters How Sociology Helps Us Understand Religion in Our World

GBP 59.99
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Measure and Probability

Measure and Probability

This book covers the fundamentals of measure theory and probability theory. It begins with the construction of Lebesgue measure via Caratheodory’s outer measure approach and goes on to discuss integration and standard convergence theorems and contains an entire chapter devoted to complex measures Lp spaces Radon–Nikodym theorem and the Riesz representation theorem. It presents the elements of probability theory the law of large numbers and central limit theorem. The book then discusses discrete time Markov chains stationary distributions and limit theorems. The appendix covers many basic topics such as metric spaces topological spaces and the Stone–Weierstrass theorem. | Measure and Probability

GBP 69.99
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How to Measure Customer Satisfaction

How to Measure Customer Satisfaction

Customer satisfaction and loyalty are key differentiators between the better and poorer performing businesses in most markets. Satisfaction drives loyalty and loyalty drives business performance. This new edition of How to Measure Customer Satisfaction takes readers step-by-step through designing and implementing a CSM survey highlighting blunders that are commonly made and explaining how to make sure that the measures produced are accurate and credible. It also covers ways of gaining understanding and ownership of the CSM programme throughout the organization and clarifies the business case for customer satisfaction. If you are committed to the future of your company the ability to measure what your customers think of you is essential - and so is this book!

GBP 175.00
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Site Matters Strategies for Uncertainty Through Planning and Design

Site Matters Strategies for Uncertainty Through Planning and Design

In the era of the Anthropocene site matters are more pressing than ever. Building on the concepts theories and multi-disciplinary approaches raised in the first edition this publication strives to address the changes that have taken place over the last 15 years with new material to complement and re-position the initial volume. Reaching across design disciplines this highly illustrated anthology assembles essays from architects landscape architects urban designers planners historians and artists to explore ways to physically and conceptually engage site. Thoughtful discourse and empirically grounded pieces combine to provide the language and theory to contextualize the meanings of site in the built environment. The increasingly complex hybridity of constructed environments today demands new tools for thinking about and working with site. Drawing contributions from outside and within the traditional design disciplines this edition will trace important developments in site thinking with new essays on topics such as climate change landscape as infrastructure shifts from global to planetary urbanization debates and the proliferation of participatory site transformation practices. Edited by two leading practitioners and academics Site Matters juxtaposes timeless contributions from individuals including Elizabeth Meyer Robert Beauregard and Robin Dripps with original new writings from Peter Marcuse Jane Wolff Neil Brenner and Thaisa Way amongst others to recontextualize and reignite the debate around site. An ideal text for students academics and researchers interested in site and design theory. | Site Matters Strategies for Uncertainty Through Planning and Design

GBP 34.99
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Scholarly Podcasting Why What How?

Scholarly Podcasting Why What How?

Exploring what academic podcasting is and what it could be this book is the first to consider the why what and how academics engage with this insurgent curious craft. Featuring interviews with 101 podcasting academics including scholars and teachers of podcasting this book explores the motivations of scholarly podcasters interrogates what podcasting does to academic knowledge and leads potential podcasters through the creation process from beginning to end. With scholarship often trapped inside expensive journals wrapped in opaque language and laced with a standoffish tone this book analyses the implications of moving towards a more open and accessible form. This book will also inform inspire and equip scholars of any discipline rank or affiliation who are considering making a podcast or who make podcasts with the background knowledge and technical and conceptual skills needed to produce high-quality podcasts through a reflexive critique of current practices. | Scholarly Podcasting Why What How?

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Media Management Matters Challenges and Opportunities for Bridging Theory and Practice

Media Management Matters Challenges and Opportunities for Bridging Theory and Practice

This edited volume explores media management as engaged scholarship building a bridge between theory and practice and discussing research collaboration between academia policymakers and the media industry. In addition to advancing the scholarly discipline it also questions investigates and discusses the practical value of the research undertaken showing how media management research can provide actionable practice-relevant knowledge to decision makers throughout the media industry. The volume is broken into two parts: a section reflecting on the need for collaboration between research and practice and a section overviewing specific projects that aim to deliver administrative value to stakeholders. The international research projects presented here span topics such as digital transformation business models in news and digital journalism media entrepreneurship and start-ups ad-blocking location-based services audiovisual consumption preferences the sustainability of small television markets co-located and clustered industries and digital privacy. Incorporating under-used methodological approaches such as action research and ethnography Media Management Matters brings suggestions for how scholarship might be promoted outside academia. Simply put this book aims to demonstrate why media management matters. Featuring an international roster of contributors this collection is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of media management business and policy. | Media Management Matters Challenges and Opportunities for Bridging Theory and Practice

GBP 35.99
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Color that Matters A Comparative Approach to Mixed Race Identity and Nordic Exceptionalism

Color that Matters A Comparative Approach to Mixed Race Identity and Nordic Exceptionalism

This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines arguing that while the official discourses in the region refer to a post-racial or color blind era color still matters in the lives of people of mixed ethnic descent. Drawing on research from people of mixed ethnic backgrounds the author offers insights into how color matters and is made to matter and into the ways in which terms such as ethnic and ethnicity remain very much indebted to their older racialized grammar. Color that Matters moves beyond the conventional Anglo-American focus of scholarship in this field showing that while similarities exist between the racial and ethnic discourses of the US and UK and those found in the Nordic region Scandinavia and Norway in particular manifests important differences in part owing to a tendency to view itself as exceptional or outside the colonial heritage of race and imperialism. Presenting both a contextualization of racial discourses since World War II based on documentary analysis and new interview material with people of mixed ethnic backgrounds the book acts as a corrective to the blind spot within Scandinavian research on ethnic minorities offering a new reading of race for the Nordic region that engages with the idea that color has been emptied of legitimate cultural content. | Color that Matters A Comparative Approach to Mixed Race Identity and Nordic Exceptionalism

GBP 38.99
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What Painting Is

What Painting Is

In this classic text James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a strange language to explore what it is a painter really does in the studio—the smells the mess the struggle to control the uncontrollable the special knowledge only painters hold of how colors will mix and how they will look. Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art historian this anniversary edition includes a new introduction and preface by Elkins in which he further reflects on the experience of painting and its role in the study of art today. | What Painting Is

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Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology In Alphabetical Order

Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology In Alphabetical Order

This is an ideal reference book for students (undergraduates and postgraduates) studying Building Surveying Quantity Surveying or Architecture etc. It should also be of use to the Construction-related legal profession Property Managers and Letting Agents. Builders (and homeowners interested in identifying faults in their property) should also benefit from this book. Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology covers a wide range of new and old building terms techniques technologies and materials but much more extensively than the average dictionary. The alphabetical format makes it easy to check up on terms and subject-areas quickly – and the detailed coverage (including helpful drawings by the author) provides clear guidance to the reader. This book covers a multitude of subject-areas including condensation problems cellar rot wet rot and dry rot thermal cracks settlement cracks metal wall-tie corrosion-and-expansion cracks subsidence cracks roof-spread recognition bulging- and/or leaning-walls etc. Further subject areas include inspecting and analysing residential building-structures both internally and externally; appraising underground drainage systems; and personal commentary on survey report writing. | Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology In Alphabetical Order

GBP 48.99
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What is Music Literacy?

What is Music Literacy?

What is Music Literacy? attempts to redefine music literacy with a more expansive meaning than is commonly in use and to articulate the potential impact of these ideas on music teaching practice. The notion of music literacy has involved the ability to read and write music scores. However this understanding does not extend theory to identify all music texts nor to offer a thorough treatment of what impact an expanded notion of music literacy might have on music instruction in the classroom and in ensembles. This book provides a formal expansive redefinition of music literacy. The author offers practical ideas for attending more effectively to music literacy in classroom instruction. The book highlights common elements in the music classroom: the music score the conductor surrounding ensemble members the musical model the musical instrument and presentations/recordings. It also describes four orientations that correspond to the National Core Music Standards (2014) and that characterize humans’ interactions with music: creator performer responder and connector. What is Music Literacy? uses these orientations along with a focus on authentic music texts and literacies to present literacy-based guidelines for music education along with numerous vignettes that describe actual literacy instructional events. | What is Music Literacy?

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What is Consciousness? A Debate

What is Consciousness? A Debate

What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling? For many years philosophers approached this question assuming a standard physicalist framework on which consciousness can be explained by contemporary physics biology neuroscience and cognitive science. This book is a debate between two philosophers who are united in their rejection of this kind of standard physicalism - but who differ sharply in what lesson to draw from this. Amy Kind defends dualism 2. 0 a thoroughly modern version of dualism (the theory that there are two fundamentally different kinds of things in the world: those that are physical and those that are mental) decoupled from any religious or non-scientific connotations. Daniel Stoljar defends non-standard physicalism a kind of physicalism different from both the standard version and dualism 2. 0. The book presents a cutting-edge assessment of the philosophy of consciousness and provides a glimpse at what the future study of this area might bring. Key Features Outlines the different things people mean by consciousness and provides an account of what consciousness is Reviews the key arguments for thinking that consciousness is incompatible with physicalism Explores and provides a defense of contrasting responses to those arguments with a special focus on responses that reject the standard physicalist framework Provides an account of the basic aims of the science of consciousness Written in a lively and accessibly style Includes a comprehensive glossary | What is Consciousness? A Debate

GBP 29.99
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The Model Black How Black British Leaders Succeed in Organisations and Why It Matters

The Model Black How Black British Leaders Succeed in Organisations and Why It Matters

This book is for anyone who wants to understand what being more inclusive at work means especially as it relates to black leaders. It is intended for those people who are saying “I don’t know where to start ” “I don’t know what to do” and “I don’t know what to say” when understanding and talking about race at work. Based on candid interviews with 30 successful black leaders it peels away the multifaceted layers of black British leaders in organisations to offer a new way of thinking about the black British experience. This book provides the insights and ideas required to have positive conversations about race at work and to create work environments where black leaders can thrive. In identifying the attributes and behaviours that successful black leaders have in common this book offers new ways of thinking about black people at work that help to further inclusion. It shines a light on the daily reality of being a black leader in the workplace providing an alternative entry point for conversations around inclusion and explores what individuals and organisations can do to increase inclusion in the workplace. Through first-hand stories this book explores the challenges compromises struggles and successes that black people encounter and the range of strategies they employ to achieve success as they navigate the “white” workplace. It is essential reading for business leaders in the private public and third sector human resources professionals students anyone teaching or mentoring black students or leaders and everyone interested in understanding race and furthering inclusion in the workplace. | The Model Black How Black British Leaders Succeed in Organisations and Why It Matters

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What is Ahead of Us?

What is Ahead of Us?

First published in 1937 What is Ahead of Us? is a collection of essays which were originally presented as lectures before the Fabian Society. Conceived in an era of growing fascism and economic despair the essays urge the reader to imagine more equitable alternatives to capitalism. The authors offer socialism as a solution but what is more interesting is their criticism of capitalism and the connections they draw between capitalism and fascism using examples from the West. This book will be of interest to students of history economics and political science.

GBP 85.00
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