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Love & protest;: Chinese poems from the sixth century B.C. to the seventeenth century A.D (Harper colophon books, CN 261)

Literature & Fiction

SCOTT, JOHN

Poetry

Harper&Row

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Oxford University Press

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Marshall, Gordon

Social Sciences

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Fulcher, James

Oxford Univ. Pr.

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Love & protest;: Chinese poems from the sixth century B.C. to the seventeenth century A.D (Harper colophon books, CN 261)

Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes

Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes

A Dictionary of Sociology

A Dictionary of Sociology (Oxford Quick Reference)

Sociology

Sociology

Sociology

Sociology

A Dictionary of Sociology (Oxford Quick Reference)