The cultural animal : human nature, meaning, and social life

✍ Scribed by Baumeister, Roy F

Publisher: Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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xi, 450 pages ; 25 cm

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