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Celebrate Christmas with Peter and friends! It’s Christmas time in the Lake District, and Peter, Benjamin, and Lily are in charge of delivering everyone’s Christmas dinner. They must dodge Mr.
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Ethnographers use conventional anthropological practice to explore the metaphoric value of vehicles for identity, history, and society in different cultures. In sections on people as vehicles, vehicle
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Each book in this Land of Our Lady series contains a concise yet interesting record of a specific period in American history—always explaining the Catholic influence of religion, culture, and morality
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A range of prominent Colombian academics and political commentators discuss the issues confronting the peace negotiations that began in Havana in November 2012 between the FARC and the Colombian gover
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