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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The open-access edition of this text was made possible by a Philip Leverhulme Prize from The Leverhulme Trust. Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully design...

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Main Author: Eve, Martin Paul (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: New York Bloomsbury Academic 2016
Series:Object Lessons
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