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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-12 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 202
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-17 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 232
Pages: 232
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-10-27 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Can we know the risks we face, now or in the future? No, we cannot; but yes, we must act as if we do. Some dangers are unknown; others are known, but not by us
Language: en
Pages: 140
Pages: 140
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-27 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-17 - Publisher: Routledge
First published in 1973, Rules and Meanings is an anthology of works that form part of Mary Douglas' struggle to devise an anthropological modernism conducive t
