Reading the World: Ideas That Matter
- ISBN-10
- 0393936309
- ISBN-13
- 9780393936308
- Series
- Reading the World
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 752
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-02-01
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Author
- Michael Austin
Description
The only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective.
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Other editions
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- 2015-01-05
- 156 pages
- Paperback
- Cognella Academic Publishing
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