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African-american Mayors: Race, Politics, And The American City

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionOn November 7, 1967, the voters of Cleveland, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana, elected the nation`s first African-American mayors to govern their cities. Ten years later more than two hundred black mayors held office, and by 1993 sixty-seven major urban centers, most with majority-white populations, were headed by African Americans. Once in office, African-American mayors faced vexing challenges. In large and small cities from the Sunbelt to the Rustbelt, black mayors assumed office during economic downturns and confronted the intractable problems of decaying inner cities, white flight, a dwindling tax base, violent crime, and diminishing federal support for social programs. Many encountered hostility from their own parties, city councils, and police departments, others worked against long-established power structures dominated by local business owners or politicians. Still others, while trying to respond to multiple demands from a diverse constituency, were viewed as… [detailed...]

ISBN: 025207260X
Book size: —; Page extent: 280.

 

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Africanisms In American Culture (Blacks in the Diaspora)

2005 y.
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ISBN: 0253217490
Book size: —; Page extent: 436.

 

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Margo Russell, Martin Russell
Afrikaners of the Kalahari: White Minority in a Black State (African Studies)

2009 y.
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Description: The popular image of the Kalahari is a romantic one of desert space and untouched Bushmen. The popular image of the Afrikaners is of a unique and vicious racialism. Yet Afrikaners have been living in the Kalahari for more than a hundred years, their presence often studiously ignored by writers, and since 1961, independent Botswana with its policy of scrupulous non-racialism has embraced both Afrikaner and Bushman in common citizenship. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521101409
Book size: —; Page extent: 181.

 

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Afrique: Atlas D`un Environnement En Mutation

2008 y.
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ISBN: 9280729012
Book size: —; Page extent: 374.

 

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Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts

2009 y.
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Description: This omnibus volume offers a unique look at a fascinating and evocative strain of art that originated chiefly in the rural American South and in the black cultural centers as blacks migrated across the continent.Pictorial quilts, sculpture and carvings, basketry, pottery, forged metal, musical instruments, and dwellings---these are among the forms that express this appealingly quaint yet powerful presence in American art and African folk heritage from which this wonderful art springs.Celebrating its African folk roots and the individual artists whose lives are so closely intertwined with their art, this illuminating introduction collects writings by sixteen notable scholars of this rich and varied treasury of folk culture.Contributors include Marie Jeanne Adams, Elizabeth Adler, Simon Bronner, John Burrison, Gerald L. Davis, Dena Epstein, David Evans, William R. Ferris, Roland L. Freeman, Christopher Lornell, Brenda McCallum, Clarence Mohr, John Scully, Ellen Slack, Robert F…. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1604733918
Book size: —; Page extent: 440.

 

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Tony Bolden
Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionIn Afro-Blue Tony Bolden traces the ways innovations in black music and poetry have driven the evolution of a variety of other American vernacular artistic forms. The blues tradition, Bolden demonstrates, plays a key role in the relationship between poetry and vernacular expressive forms. Through an analysis of the formal qualities of black poetry and music, Afro-Blue shows that they function as a form of resistance, affirming the values and style of life that oppose bourgeois morality. Even before the term `blues` had cultural currency the inscriptions of style and resistance embodied in the blues tradition were already a prominent feature of black poetics. Bolden delineates this interrelation, examining how poets extend and reshape a variety of other verbal folk forms in the same way as blues musicians play with other musical genres. He identifies three distinct bodies of blues poetics: some poets mimic and riff on oral forms, another group fuse their… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0252028740
Book size: —; Page extent: 184.

 

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Dan Thress
Afro-Cuban Rhythms for Drumset

1994 y.
Publisher: Warner Brothers
Description: An introduction to Afro-Cuban rhythms, including the history, traditional instruments and basic styles of Afro-Cuban music. The book explores the complexities of these various styles in a simple, understandable way. The companion audio is invaluable to anyone interested in adapting these rhythms to the drum set. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0897245741
Book size: —; Page extent: 68.

 

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Lydia Cabrera
Afro-Cuban Tales

2004 y.
Publisher: Bison Books
Description: As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In `Afro-Cuban Tales` this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western culture of the Americas. In this charmed realm of myth and legend, imaginative flights, and hard realities, Cabrera shows us a world turned upside down. In this domain guinea hens can make dour Asturians and the king of Spain dance, little fat cooking pots might prepare their own meals, the pope can send encyclicals about pumpkins, and officials can be defeated by the shrewdness of turtles…. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-8032-6438-0, 0-8032-1533-9, 0-8032-6438-0
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Bill V. Mullen
Afro-Orientalism

2004 y.
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ISBN: 0816637490
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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Claire Tristram
After : A Novel

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description After is the story of an intense affair that takes place over a day and a night. It has been a year since the woman’s husband was murdered by Islamic extremists. Now she decides to take a lover, a Muslim man. Telling their story from both points of view, Claire Tristram describes their passion and their tenderness, their shifting desires and hesitations, and the unexpected escalation of their lovemaking into terrifying violence. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0312424760
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam

2007 y.
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Description: This is a new study of the history, archaeology and numismatics of Central Asia, an area of great significance for our understanding of the ancient and early medieval world. This vast, land locked region, with its extreme continental climate, was a centre of civilization with great metropolises. Its cosmopolitan population followed different religions (Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Buddhism), and traded extensively with China, India, the Middle East, and Europe. The millennium from the overthrow of the first world empire of Achaemenian Persians by Alexander the Great to the arrival of the Arabs and Islam was a period of considerable change and conflict. The volume focuses on recent investigations in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. It provides a complex analysis of the symbiosis between the city life based on oases, and the nomadic peoples grazing their animals in the surrounding semi deserts. Other topics include the influence of the Greek colonists on military architecture, and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 197263844X
Book size: —; Page extent: 500.

 

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Tom Herron, John Lynch
After Bloody Sunday: Representation, Ethics, Justice

2008 y.
Publisher: Cork University Press
Description: After Bloody Sunday investigates the ways in which the events in Derry on January 30, 1972, have found representation in photography, film, theatre, poetry, television documentary, art installations, murals, music, commemorative events, legal discourse, eyewitness testimony, and pressure-group campaigns. Thirty-six years after the killing and wounding of twenty-six civil rights protestors in Derry, the new independent tribunal chaired by Lord Mark Saville of Newdigate is close to publishing its findings. The Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry promises to be the most comprehensive act of truth-recovery yet attempted in relation to the many atrocities that scarred the North of Ireland during the three decades of political conflict. Mark Saville has the formidable, and perhaps impossible, task of establishing the definitive truth of Bloody Sunday. His attempt comes in the wake of many other earlier versions of the events of 30th January 1972 that have also claimed to present the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1859184251
Book size: —; Page extent: 156.

 

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David Schweickart
After Capitalism (New Critical Theory)

— y.
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ISBN: 0742513009
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After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance (New Interventions in Art History)

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionIt has recently become apparent that criticism is in trouble. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become institutionally routine. This book explores contemporary approaches that have sought to renew criticism`s energies in the wake of a theatrical turn in recent visual arts practice and the emergence of a performative arts writing over the past decade or so. Issues addressed include the performing of art`s histories, the consequences for criticism of embracing boredom, distraction, and other `queer` forms of (in)attention, and the importance of exploring writerly process in responding to aesthetic experience. Bringing together newly commissioned work from the fields of art history, performance studies, and visual culture with the writings of contemporary artists, After Criticism provides a set of experimental essays that demonstrate how the critical might live on as a vital and efficacious force within contemporary culture. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0631232842
Book size: —; Page extent: 215.

 

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Murakami, Haruki
After Dark Exp

2008 y.
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ISBN: 9780307388889
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Haruki Murakami
After Dark

2007 y.
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Description: The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned and content to read, smoke and drink coffee until dawn. They realise they`ve been acquainted through Eri, Mari`s beautiful sister. The musician soon leaves with a promise to return before dawn. Shortly afterwards Mari will be interrupted a second time by a girl from the Alphaville Hotel, a Chinese prostitute has been hurt by a client, the girl has heard Mari speaks fluent Chinese and requests her help. Meanwhile Eri is at home and sleeps a deep, heavy sleep that is `too perfect, too pure` to be normal, pulse and respiration at the lowest required level. She has been in this soporific state for two months, Eri has become the classic myth - a sleeping beauty. But tonight, as the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-1-846-55048-5
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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Christopher Andersen
After Diana: William, Harry, Charles, and the Royal House of Windsor

2007 y.
Publisher: Hyperion
Description: For all the millions of words that have been written about the People`s Princess, no one has yet penetrated palace walls to reveal what has really happened to the Royal Family she left behind ten years ago. Until now. In the manner of his #l New York Times bestsellers The Day Diana Died and The Day John Died, as well as such other bestsellers as Jackie After Jack, Christopher Andersen-who was consulted by Operation Paget. Scotland Yard`s official inquiry into Diana`s death-draws on important new sources to paint the first full portrait of a Royal Family still haunted by the ghost of Diana. All the compelling elements of a true dynastic saga are here: power, sex. wealth, intrigue, betrayal, tragedy, and scandal. But so, too, is the Princess`s legacy of love and compassion - alive in the sons who have grown to manhood and are now forging a legacy of their own. Sometimes heartbreaking, often inspiring, always riveting. After Diana is more than just the first comprehensive… [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-7868-9124-5
Book size: —; Page extent: 786.

 

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C. M. Houck
After Eden

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionAccording to scriptural myth the story of the species known as man began with `the man` being expelled from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:23-24). The journey that `the man` embarked upon was physical life, and every being that has ever been born has continued that journey of self-discovery. This is the simple premise upon which After Eden is structured. Although each poem, verse and entry stands as an individual composition, it is when they are read in sequence that we gradually realize that they are actually relating small parts of a larger multi-faceted picture. Almost reluctantly the attention moves from simplicity and innocence into the sensual frailties and harsh realities encountered with life. The result is a very personal approach to life`s experiences as related by one who dares to sometimes question the hollow shibboleths that pass as spiritual insight. Life`s diversity is celebrated by this life traveler who is a special blend of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0595319262
Book size: —; Page extent: 194.

 

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J. J. Marshall, Zed Saeed, J.J. Marshall, Zed Saeed
After Effects 5 Bible

— y.
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Description: After Effects has been established as the world`s most powerful and cost-effective solution for motion graphics professionals. The application has revolutionized the broadcast industry. Proof of the revolution was clear when the mid-1990s revealeda dazzling array of visual artistry in ad campaigns and television network promotions, the quality and the quantity of which had never been seen. Version 5.0 was a major upgrade (3D, expressions, parenting, to name a few) and Version 5.5 could hardly be considered a dot release. Truly phenomenal software, this build of After Effects boasts a variety of new features as well as vast enhancements to its user interface. There are numerous new filters for concretizing any visual effects that the mind can envision. Additionally, After Effects 5.5 includes improved 3D-compositing capabilities, greater command over expressions with the Expression Controls effects, as well as native support for OSX, among numerous other improvements. … [detailed...]

ISBN: 0764536559
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Lynda Weinman, Craig Newman
After Effects 5.0/5.5 Hands-On Training

— y.
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Description: Adobe After Effects gives Web developers and designers the tools to create sophisticated motion graphics and effects, but tools are worthless without expert guidance. If you work with After Effects--or would like to--you can now turn to one of the toppros in the field for her hard-won advice on how to get the most out of this powerful program, and how to do it quickly. After Effects 5.0/5.5 Hands-On Training brings classroom-tested lessons designed by Web guru Lynda Weinman and her coauthor, Craig Newman, right to your desktop. The projects in After Effects 5.0/5.5 HOT lead you through the basics of After Effects and beyond: Lynda and Craig designed the dozens of hands-on exercises around specific, real-world projects that teach core techniques such as managing footage, hierarchical layering, masking, creating effects, and rendering. Throughout the book, you`ll find practical tips and discussions of the design principles that inform the projects. An accompanying… [detailed...]

ISBN: 020175469X
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Antony Bolante
After Effects 6.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide (Visual Quickpro Guide)

2004 y.
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Description: Tough motion-graphics and effects production challenges require bold solutions, and Adobe`s completely overhauled After Effects 6.0 ($699, Standard Edition, $999, Professional Edition) has a bushel of them! Here to get you up to speed on it--perhaps in time to meet your next deadline!--is everyone`s favorite task-based guide. Employing the same concise instructions and visual approach as Peachpit`s popular Visual QuickStart Guides but geared toward more advanced users, this Visual QuickPro Guide covers all the improvements that make this version of Adobe`s motion-graphics and effects program such a boon to video pros of all stripes: a revolutionary text engine, support for OpenGL (which greatly accelerates 2D and 3D graphics rendering), new vector paint tools (which allow painting on layers), a faster and more accurate motion tracker, advanced keying tools, and more. Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by plenty of tips and sidebars, veteran video editor Antony Bolante will… [detailed...]

ISBN: 032119957X
Book size: —; Page extent: 736.

 

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Chris and Trish Meyer
After Effects Apprentice, Second Edition

2009 y.
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Description: If you`re new to After Effects and want to get up to speed quickly, After Effects Apprentice was created just for you. With 11 core lessons plus a hip final project that pulls it all together, you`ll learn how to tap this program`s vast potential -whether you want to create motion graphics for network television, corporate communications, or your own work.Fully updated to cover After Effects CS4, this book presents a professional perspective on the most important features a motion graphics artist needs to learn in order to use this program effectively. You`ll learn to creatively combine layers, animate eye-catching titles, manipulate 3D space, key and stabilize a shot to place it in a new environment, and use effects to generate excitement or enhance the realism of a scene. DVD contains: All exercise source material and projects, guided video tours, and movies of the finished projects. Topics include how to:. Animate, edit, layer, and composite… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0240811364
Book size: —; Page extent: 336.

 

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Trish Meyer
After Effects in Production: A Companion for Creating Motion Graphics

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Amazon.comThe most experienced professionals in any field are the first ones to say there is always more to learn. Often, the best way to learn is to be a fly on the wall while watching a peer. Chris and Trish Meyer have given After Effects users a unique and wonderful opportunity in After Effects in Production , allowing us to look over the shoulders of some of the best motion-graphics designers in the business and watch and learn as they go through the creative process. Unlike the fly on the wall, though, we have the chance to occasionally put down the book and practice what`s been learned. In the tutorials section, the authors break down the process of creating broadcast-quality motion graphics into a dozen step-by-step tutorials. Each tutorial focuses on or introduces a particular feature, and often builds on features that were introduced in a previous tutorial. The enclosed CD-ROM includes all 12 project and media files (and the final rendered movies), giving the reader… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1578202647
Book size: —; Page extent: 382.

 

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Dilip Hiro
After Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World

2010 y.
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Description: American corporations have to beg for capital from the cash-rich Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Persian Gulf. By invading Iraq, President George W. Bush grossly undermined American credibility in the international arena and irrevocably weakened Washington’s diplomatic clout.Together, these historic shifts have provided an opportunity for the world to move from the tutelage of the sole superpower, America, to a multi-polar global order, one where America’s moral, economic, and military leadership will be profoundly challenged.What form will this world resemble? What are the perils and promises of this new power order? In After Empire, Dilip Hiro provides a realistic, challenging, and nuanced look at the emerging power politics of the coming century and considers how they are going to turn our world upside-down. [detailed...]

ISBN: 156858427X
Book size: —; Page extent: 360.

 

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William A. Niskanen
After Enron: Lessons for Public Policy

2005 y.
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Description: After Enron addresses the major lessons about accounting, auditing, taxation, and corporate governance that are illustrated by the collapse of Enron and other recent major corporate scandals. The book then develops a set of proposals for changes in public policy that would lead accountants, bankers, board members, lawyers, and corporate managers to better serve the interests of the general public. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0742544338
Book size: —; Page extent: 384.

 

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William A. Niskanen
After Enron: Lessons for Public Policy

2007 y.
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Description: After Enron addresses the major lessons about accounting, auditing, taxation, and corporate governance that are illustrated by the collapse of Enron and other recent major corporate scandals. The book then develops a set of proposals for changes in public policy that would lead accountants, bankers, board members, lawyers, and corporate managers to better serve the interests of the general public. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0742544346
Book size: —; Page extent: 408.

 

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Mark C. Taylor
After God

2007 y.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Description: Religion, Mark C.Taylor argues in `After God`, is more complicated than either its defenders or critics think and, indeed, is much more influential than any of us realize. Our world, Taylor maintains, is shaped by religion even when it is least obvious. Faith and value, he insists, are unavoidable and inextricably interrelated for believers and nonbelievers alike. The first comprehensive theology of culture since the pioneering work of Paul Tillich, `After God` redefines religion for our contemporary age. This volume is a radical reconceptualization of religion and Taylor`s most pathbreaking work yet, bringing together various strands of theological argument and cultural analysis four decades in the making. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0226791696
Book size: —; Page extent: 416.

 

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Lynette Friesen
After Goodbye: A Daughter`s Story Of Grief And Promise

2005 y.
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ISBN: 189373286X
Book size: —; Page extent: 127.

 

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Robert O. Keohane
After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy

2005 y.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Description: This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries. Can cooperation persist without the dominance of a single power, such as the United States after World War II? To answer this pressing question, Robert Keohane analyzes the institutions, or `international regimes,` through which cooperation has taken place in the world political economy and describes the evolution of these regimes as American hegemony has eroded. Refuting the idea that the decline of hegemony makes cooperation impossible, he views international regimes not as weak substitutes for world government but as devices for facilitating decentralized cooperation among egoistic actors. In the preface the author addresses the issue of cooperation after the end of the Soviet empire and with the renewed dominance of the United States, in security matters, as well as recent scholarship on cooperation. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691122482
Book size: —; Page extent: 312.

 

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April Lewis
After Hours

2009 y.
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Description: After Hours is a thrilling tell of injustice. Never had one person endured so much hardship in the name of love. Ebony Kincaid will travel down a dark road of one man`s obsessive desire to claim her has his own. At the same time she will be forced to deal with a woman who is so vengegul against African-Americans, she will destroy her entire family to keep Ebony and her son apart. Will true love prevail? Or will the twisted carnage of two despicable individuals tear apart the souls of lovers. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1448673208
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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John Grant
After Image: Mind-altering Marketing

2004 y.
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ISBN: 1861976402
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