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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-04 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-21 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 237
Pages: 237
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-14 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite ap
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-01 - Publisher: Hill and Wang
The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmar
