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Tracing Cultural Change in Turkey's Experience of Democratization Unexpected Dialogues on Intolerance

Tracing Cultural Change in Turkey's Experience of Democratization Unexpected Dialogues on Intolerance

Does democracy require an agreement on specific foundational values? Bringing insights from Turkey to the study of democratization this book argues that democracy may rather be about acknowledging the disagreement over values before negotiating over other concerns such as rights freedoms capabilities and duties. It explores this idea by examining three landscapes of culture in Turkey which have been the subjects of persistent stories regarding the unequal relationship between the self and the other. These include LGBT visibility and the entertainment sector women and clothing and Alevism and funerals. Through these case studies the book analyses the remaking of (in)tolerance through the integration of LGBT representations into broader political struggles over values the assertion of women’s rights and freedoms from traditional values surrounding dress and the conflict between essentialist intolerance and the syncretic traditions of Alevi identity. Bringing these landscapes together with the surrounding cultural tensions in Turkey and the West Tracing Cultural Change in Turkey's Experience of Democratization will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Middle Eastern studies and politics gender studies and cultural studies. | Tracing Cultural Change in Turkey's Experience of Democratization Unexpected Dialogues on Intolerance

GBP 120.00
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Rotating Machinery Research and Development Test Rigs

Rotating Machinery Research and Development Test Rigs

Rotating Machinery Research and Development Test Rigs presents the purpose and development processes for test apparatuses built for Research & Development in machinery technology and product development. Each R & D apparatus is the focus of an entire chapter with fifteen detailed case studies included from mechanical aerospace chemical and biomedical engineering. Specific machinery components covered include bearings seals power plant pumps rotors turbines and compressors. Machinery condition monitoring and product development processes have been integrated. The specific purpose and results for each test rig are comprehensively presented and explained.

GBP 150.00
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The Turing Test Argument

The Turing Test Argument

This book departs from existing accounts of Alan Turing's imitation game and test by placing Turing's proposal in its historical social and cultural context. It reconstructs a controversy in England 1946–1952 over the intellectual capabilities of digital computers which led Turing to propose his test. It argues that the Turing test is best understood not as a practical experiment but as a thought experiment in the modern scientific tradition of Galileo Galilei. The logic of the Turing test argument is reconstructed from the rhetoric of Turing’s irony and wit. Turing believed that learning machines should be understood as a new kind of species and their thinking as different from human thinking and yet capable of imitating it. He thought that the possibilities of the machines he envisioned were not utopian dreams. And yet he hoped that they would rival and surpass chauvinists and intellectuals who sacrifice independent thinking to maintain their power. These would be transformed into ordinary people as work once considered 'intellectual' would be transformed into non-intellectual 'mechanical' work. The Turing Test Argument will appeal to scholars and students in the sciences and humanities and all those interested in Turing's vision of the future of intelligent machines in society and nature.

GBP 130.00
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The Total CISSP Exam Prep Book Practice Questions Answers and Test Taking Tips and Techniques

The Total CISSP Exam Prep Book Practice Questions Answers and Test Taking Tips and Techniques

Until now those preparing to take the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) examination were not afforded the luxury of studying a single easy-to-use manual. Written by ten subject matter experts (SMEs) - all CISSPs - this test prep book allows CISSP candidates to test their current knowledge in each of the ten security domains that make up the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) from which the CISSP examination is based on. The Total CISSP Exam Prep Book: Practice Questions Answers and Test Taking Tips and Techniques provides an outline of the subjects topics and sub-topics contained within each domain in the CBK and with it you can readily identify terms and concepts that you will need to know for the exam. The book starts with a review of each of the ten domains and provides 25 sample questions with answers and references for each. It discusses successful approaches for preparing for the exam based on experiences of those who have recently passed the exam. It then provides a complete 250-question practice exam with answers. Explanations are provided to clarify why the correct answers are correct and why the incorrect answers are incorrect. With a total of 500 sample questions The Total CISSP Exam Prep Book gives you a full flavor of what it will take to pass the exam. | The Total CISSP Exam Prep Book Practice Questions Answers and Test Taking Tips and Techniques

GBP 160.00
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PgMP Exam Practice Test and Study Guide

PgMP Exam Practice Test and Study Guide

PgMP Exam Practice Test and Study Guide Fourth Edition is the book you need to pass the Program Management Professional (PgMP) exam the first time around. It reflects recent revisions based on PMI's Standard for Program Management - Third Edition (2013). Based on best practices that complement PMI‘s standards this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource available to help you prepare for the exam with new and changed terminology. It includes a list of the major topics covered on the exam organized by the five performance domains‘strategic program management program life cycle benefits management stakeholder management and governance as presented in the Program Management Professional Examination Content Outline. It also includes helpful tips on how to make the most of the time you have available to prepare for the exam. Just like its bestselling predecessors this indispensable study guide includes 20 multiple-choice practice questions for each domain along with a comprehensive answer key. The program life cycle domain includes 20 questions for each of the five phases. Each question also has a plainly written rationale for each correct answer with bibliographic references for further study. Two challenging 170-question practice tests that simulate the actual exam are included in the book and online so you can retake them as many times as necessary. They also include a rationale and reference. Scores for the online tests are presented as if each question is rated similarly but this edition also includes a new component: the authors own weighting system for the level of difficulty for each question. This system will show you what they feel meets the exam‘s criteria for Proficient Moderately Proficient and below Proficient. You then will see your scores by domain in both approaches. Supplying an in | PgMP® Exam Practice Test and Study Guide

GBP 175.00
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Flow and Sediment Transport in Compound Channels The Experience of Japanese and UK Research

Flow and Sediment Transport in Compound Channels The Experience of Japanese and UK Research

This monograph provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art description of the work carried out in the UK and Japan on Flow and Sediment Transport in Compound Channels. It therefore describes research which has been conducted primarily over the last two decades and which has yielded a fairly detailed picture of the important behaviours of compound channels and produced a number of engineering prediction methods which ought to be widely adopted in practice. The text will inevitably highlight areas where our knowledge is sparse and it will spur others on in the task of filling in such gaps. The concept of bi-national groups of researchers meeting together intermittently over period of some years though not new has drawn both inspiration and experience and the interaction has produced tangible outcomes in the form of this useful publication. | Flow and Sediment Transport in Compound Channels The Experience of Japanese and UK Research

GBP 115.00
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Communism Conformity and Liberties

Communism Conformity and Liberties

If there is a-desert island book in the conduct of social research it is arguably this book. Whether in terms of sociological structures or psychological nuances Communism Conformity and Civil Liberties originally published in 1955 is a recognized landmark. Stouffer helped strengthen the fundamental liberties of all Americans by showing dangerous consequences of efforts to thwart a perceived Communist conspiracy including some of the very real liberties that can be destroyed in the process of a witch-hunt. Stouffer explores attitudes of Americans against a backdrop of a history of intolerance that dates back to the Know-Nothing party before the Civil War and extending through the Ku Klux Klan after World War I. The overall results show a markedly strong relationship between perception of high national risk and personal intolerance of differences and also the perception of threat and tolerance that operates as a predisposing tendency that affects judgments about specific political movements and events. Stouffer enriches the sense and meaning of survey research by emphasizing patterns of percentages rather than actual amounts; survey craftsmanship; the use of paired sampling techniques to reduce problems of chance; the importance of completion rates in survey research work; the importance of interruptions during a questioning period; the choice of field workers in performing the surveys. The actual survey instruments are included as prepared by the National Opinion Research Center and the Gallup Organization. They remain a model for large-scale samples of this kind. The beautiful highly personal introduction by James Davis places Stouffer in an appropriate academic and professional context. Stouffer was a great sociologist with two landmark efforts to his credit: The American Soldier and then Communism Conformity and Civil Liberties. Professor Davis calls this a great classic of empirical sociology. It is indeed that: a model of craftsmanship exemplary argumentation and presentation of data still unsurpassed. The book is not part of ancient history but of living democratic culture. | Communism Conformity and Liberties

GBP 130.00
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International Regulatory Rivalry in Open Economies: The Impact of Deregulation on the US and UK Financial Markets The Impact of Deregulation

International Regulatory Rivalry in Open Economies: The Impact of Deregulation on the US and UK Financial Markets The Impact of Deregulation

This title was first published in 2003. This text aims to fill a gap in the literature for a text on the theory and practice of international regulatory competition in the open financial markets of the US and UK. | International Regulatory Rivalry in Open Economies: The Impact of Deregulation on the US and UK Financial Markets The Impact of Deregulation

GBP 89.99
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The Migration of Professional Women from Nigeria to the UK Narratives of Work Family Life and Adaptation

The Migration of Professional Women from Nigeria to the UK Narratives of Work Family Life and Adaptation

Based on interviews with women who were professionals in different fields in Nigeria prior to migrating The Migration of Professional Women from Nigeria to the UK examines the ways in which professional middle-class women make sense of their lived experiences their roles in migration decision-making and their experiences of adaptation in the UK. Drawing on the thought of Mead on the symbolic reconstruction of the past from the standpoint of the present and employing a feminist approach to qualitative research the book considers the reflexive construction of women’s narratives concerning their lived experiences in Nigeria and sheds light on their decisions to migrate. Using intersectionality and critiquing the concept of Strong Black Woman the author analyses participants’ narratives of integration adaptation and work and family life in the UK. Rejecting the notion of culture shock as a means of explaining immigrants' early experiences the use of a person-by-situation approach is proposed to accommodate the nuances of individual narratives. A rich theoretically informed study of the narratives of skilled migrants whose experiences are often subsumed into studies of African migration more broadly this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology anthropology and cultural geography with interests in migration gender and the sociology of work and family life. | The Migration of Professional Women from Nigeria to the UK Narratives of Work Family Life and Adaptation

GBP 130.00
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Brexit and Energy Law Implications and Opportunities

Brexit and Energy Law Implications and Opportunities

Bringing together leading experts from across the UK and Europe this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of Brexit on the energy sector in the UK and in the European Union and its Member States. In recent decades the trend within the EU has been towards greater integration and liberalisation of energy markets. Through the development of the Union’s internal energy market and the funding of cross-border energy infrastructure EU membership facilitates cross-border trade in energy promotes security of energy supply and via the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) allows EU Member States to trade in nuclear material for energy production. Brexit changes all of this. The significant level of integration and interdependence in EU energy policy means that the UK’s departure from the Union poses many challenges for the UK the EU and EU Member States. While certain energy-related arrangements have been addressed the relationship between the UK and EU in the energy sector has been changed fundamentally. In this context important and interrelated questions arise such as the following: Under what terms will energy trading between the EU and UK now take place? What access will the UK have to EU energy markets? What does Brexit mean for the security of energy supply? What does the UK’s departure from Euratom mean for nuclear research? Can the crossborder single energy market (SEM) on the island of Ireland continue following Brexit? What implications does Brexit have for renewables the environment and climate change? Brexit comes at a time when the European energy sector is undergoing the processes of decarbonisation and energy transition. This book offers researchers legal practitioners and policy advisers in-depth understanding of the interplay between these challenges and Brexit. | Brexit and Energy Law Implications and Opportunities

GBP 125.00
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Statistical Analysis for Education and Psychology Researchers Tools for researchers in education and psychology

Statistical Analysis for Education and Psychology Researchers Tools for researchers in education and psychology

Basic statistical concepts such as probability estimation and inference and their role in research design and analysis are presented in this volume. The author demonstrates which statistical test to use in given circumstances and how to use it drawing on data from psychology and education. ; Written for those without a strong mathematical background the book's examples can be worked using a pocket calculator. Real life data are analyzed using statistical software (SAS) output is interpreted and a decision chart is presented which summarizes considerations when choosing a statistical test. | Statistical Analysis for Education and Psychology Researchers Tools for researchers in education and psychology

GBP 175.00
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Diversity and Change Education Policy and Selection

Diversity and Change Education Policy and Selection

It is not only the UK education system which has recently undergone a process of change although it has certainly been one of the most dramatically affected. Free market conceptions have played their part in these changes particularly throughout the European Union. This collection therefore focuses on the economic and social contexts for education both in the UK and internationally and how these have had an impact on the education systems of different countries. The authors write from a wide range of standpoints some supportive and some critical of the new paradigms but all focus on the traditions which have been subjected to ideological attacks and in the processes and outcomes of those attacks. | Diversity and Change Education Policy and Selection

GBP 175.00
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Trade Investment and the Environment

Trade Investment and the Environment

A discussion on the future of trade investment and the environment. It sets out the trade investment and environment agenda in the run-up to the Millennium Round of trade negotiations. Topics covered include: building markets for sustainable trade; environmental regulation; finance and transnational corporations; environmental regulation and international investment; and conflict resolution in the World Trade Organization. The contributors include Renato Ruggiero (WTO Director General) Brian Wilson MP (UK Trade Minister) and John Gummer MP (former UK Secretary of State for the Environment).

GBP 175.00
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Tax Avoidance and the Law Understanding the UK General Anti-Abuse Rule

Tax Avoidance and the Law Understanding the UK General Anti-Abuse Rule

Tax Avoidance and the Law is a helpful guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students who want a thorough understanding of this dynamic area of law. The book is written in a way which is easy to follow and conveniently summarises complex case law on tax avoidance. Tax Avoidance and the Law explores the evolution of the UK’s General Anti- Abuse Rule. It provides a useful comparison with other Western jurisdictions’ anti-avoidance legislation including the United States of America Australia New Zealand South Africa Canada and the EU. The underlying theme of the book rests on the notion that the taxpayer’s subjective motives intentions or purposes are irrelevant when assessing tax liability. The book enables students to gain a good grasp of the fundamental issues in tax avoidance in a clear manner. | Tax Avoidance and the Law Understanding the UK General Anti-Abuse Rule

GBP 130.00
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Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide

Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide

Requiring no prior hacking experience Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide supplies a complete introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test or ethical hack from beginning to end. You will learn how to properly utilize and interpret the results of modern-day hacking tools which are required to complete a penetration test. The book covers a wide range of tools including Backtrack Linux Google reconnaissance MetaGooFil dig Nmap Nessus Metasploit Fast Track Autopwn Netcat and Hacker Defender rootkit. Supplying a simple and clean explanation of how to effectively utilize these tools it details a four-step methodology for conducting an effective penetration test or hack. Providing an accessible introduction to penetration testing and hacking the book supplies you with a fundamental understanding of offensive security. After completing the book you will be prepared to take on in-depth and advanced topics in hacking and penetration testing. The book walks you through each of the steps and tools in a structured orderly manner allowing you to understand how the output from each tool can be fully utilized in the subsequent phases of the penetration test. This process will allow you to clearly see how the various tools and phases relate to each other. An ideal resource for those who want to learn about ethical hacking but don‘t know where to start this book will help take your hacking skills to the next level. The topics described in this book comply with international standards and with what is being taught in international certifications.

GBP 170.00
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Course Notes: Constitutional and Administrative Law

Course Notes: Constitutional and Administrative Law

Course Notes is designed to help you succeed in your law examinations and assessments. Each guide supports revision of an undergraduate and conversion GDL/CPE law degree module by demonstrating good practice in creating and maintaining ideal notes. Course Notes will support you in actively and effectively learning the material by guiding you through the demands of compiling the information you need. Written by expert lecturers who understand your needs with examination requirements in mind Covers key cases legislation and principles clearly and concisely so you can recall information confidently Contains easy to use diagrams definition boxes and work points to help you understand difficult concepts Provides self test opportunities throughout for you to check your understanding Illustrates how to compile the ideal set of revision notes Covers the essential modules of study for undergraduate llb and conversion-to-law GDL/CPE courses Additional online revision guidance such as sample essay plans interactive quizzes and a glossary of legal terms at www. unlockingthelaw. co. uk | Course Notes: Constitutional and Administrative Law

GBP 175.00
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Edwin and John A Personal History of the American South

Edwin and John A Personal History of the American South

In Edwin and John: A Personal History of the American South award-winning author James T. Sears interweaves diaries letters and poems to craft an innovative first-person narrative history that details the hard realities of growing up gay in the South during the early decades of the 20th century. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the post-war South Edwin and John provides a unique and intimate approach to queer history by following the 50 year relationship between John Zeigler and Edwin Peacocke that carried them both from their roots in the conservative South through service in World War II and into a placid and loving literary life where they opened a bookshop in what was then the small town of Charleston South Carolina. Edwin and John is a revealing look at queer history detailing how these two men and their remarkable circle of close friends-which included some of the greatest writers and artists of their era including Prentiss Taylor Carson McCullers and John Bennett-endured war intolerance and jealousies while living proud and public lives in far more conservative times. | Edwin and John A Personal History of the American South

GBP 130.00
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LGBTQ+ Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice

LGBTQ+ Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book presents six scholarly examinations of emerging issues in criminology and criminal justice as they impact LGBTQ+ people. It brings together contributions from leading international researchers exploring the needs of people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities in the criminal justice context. In addition to focusing on how sexual orientation and gender identity impact access to justice for LGBTQ+ persons the book also explores how to improve the work of justice practitioners policing and corrections in ways that address the unique needs of LGBTQ+ clients. Specific chapters include: a study of support for myths about male rape victims and how indicators of intolerance might shape such beliefs; two examinations of police responses to same-sex intimate partner violence including an exploration of the role of mandatory arrest policies; an investigation into the barriers LGBTQ+ people face when attempting to access police liaison officers; an analysis of how media coverage framed the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando Florida; and suggestions for creating safer and more effective interventions for LGBTQ+ women and girls who are correctional clients. LGBTQ+ Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice will be a key resource for academics researchers and advanced students of criminology and criminal justice law victimology policing corrections research methods sociology and media studies. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Criminal Justice Studies.

GBP 130.00
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The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Contexts Relations and Commodities

The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Contexts Relations and Commodities

The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux is a collection of ten essays by internationally known scholars of Irish British French and Atlantic History that covers the entire period in which there was a substantial Irish colony in Bordeaux (1689–1815). Among the topics discussed are the growth and decline of the community and the reasons for both the daily lives and assimilation of the Irish in Bordeaux the numerous activities and institutions in which the Irish were involved and the patterns of trade and the major commodities that were traded. This volume argues that the Irish community in Bordeaux was a product of contingent factors including religious bigotry and war but mostly because of commercial and educational opportunities that were not available in Ireland itself. This confessionally mixed Irish community made remarkable contributions to Atlantic European and global production consumption and trade especially in Bordeaux wine. The book will enlarge complicate and challenge our understanding of the eighteenth-century European and Atlantic worlds. Students and scholars who are interested in early modern immigrant and trading communities the impact of religious tolerance and intolerance the development of international trade networks and the production and meaning of commodities will find it invaluable. | The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Contexts Relations and Commodities

GBP 130.00
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Biological and Chemical Hazards in Food and Food Products Prevention Practices and Management

Biological and Chemical Hazards in Food and Food Products Prevention Practices and Management

This volume takes an in-depth look at various biological and chemical hazards in food and food products that pose health threats. It also outlines methods and practices for the diagnosis prevention and management of these hazards in food production processes. The new scientific research and case studies presented in the volume cover mycotoxins foodborne pathogens antibiotic residues from dairy animals pesticide residues the presence of heavy metals in food and more. Chapters also address food allergy management and offer lessons and practices in food recall situations. The authors discuss the various food toxins their sources as well as management mitigation and prevention strategies. Also addressed are the specific adverse effects on people with health problems such as diabetes hypertension cancer neurodegenerative diseases and more. This book is organized in such a way that each chapter treats one major food safety hazard and offers novel control methods for health food safety and quality enhancement through various means. Biological and Chemical Hazards in Food and Food Products: Prevention Practices and Management will aid researchers and policymakers as it illustrates the various aspects of food safety hazards and how to analyze and control these potential health threats. | Biological and Chemical Hazards in Food and Food Products Prevention Practices and Management

GBP 131.00
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Advances in Functional Pavements Proceedings of the 7th Chinese-European Workshop on Functional Pavement (CEW 2023) Birmingham UK 2-4 July 2023

Advances in Functional Pavements Proceedings of the 7th Chinese-European Workshop on Functional Pavement (CEW 2023) Birmingham UK 2-4 July 2023

Advances in Functional Pavements is a collection of papers presented at the 7th Chinese-European Workshop (CEW) on Functional Pavement (Birmingham UK 2-4 July 2023). The focus of the CEW series is on field tests laboratory test methods and advanced analysis techniques and covers analysis material development and production experimental characterization design and construction of pavements. The main areas covered by the book include: Green pavements for circular and low-carbon economy Intelligent pavements for future and smart cities Durable pavements for long-life infrastructures Safe pavements for user-friendly build environments Advances in Functional Pavements aims at contributing to the establishment of a new generation of pavement design methodologies in which rational mechanics principles advanced constitutive models and advanced material characterization techniques shall constitute the backbone of the design process. The book will be much of interest to professionals academics and practitioners in pavement engineering and related disciplines as it should assist them in providing improved road pavement infrastructure to their stakeholders. | Advances in Functional Pavements Proceedings of the 7th Chinese-European Workshop on Functional Pavement (CEW 2023) Birmingham UK 2-4 July 2023

GBP 120.00
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The Epistemological Development of Education Considering Bourdieu Foucault and Dewey

The Epistemological Development of Education Considering Bourdieu Foucault and Dewey

This book documents the political and economic ramifications of the policy impetus for a science of education and what this means for classroom teachers their teaching practices and for the field of education. In a critical exploration of current research and policy articulations of the purposes of education with attention given to Australia the UK and the USA this book delineates the evaluative mechanisms involved in the strategic science as method adoption of accountability competitiveness and test-driven criteria used in major education policy. It brings together the disciplines of sociology and philosophy by drawing on the theoretical insights of Michel Foucault Pierre Bourdieu and John Dewey. In addition the book argues for the deliberate use of the theoretical in education and is against the contemporary unquestioning advocacy that often accompanies a narrowly defined master narrative of a science of education. This book will be of special interest to post-graduate students as source material in general education courses and is also intended for academics with an interest in educational theory/philosophy and the sociology of education. | The Epistemological Development of Education Considering Bourdieu Foucault and Dewey

GBP 120.00
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