The shift in our thinking that made the modern world
by Adam Wakeling
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9781922952066
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Pub Date: 2024-11-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Arden
294 Pages
For all the challenges we face in the modern world, those of us in first world democracies live lives which have seemed miraculous to our forebears of a few centuries ago. With modern medical science,...
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