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Book Title: Inventing Socrates
Item Length: 8.5in
Item Height: 0.4in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Miles Hollingworth
Publication Name: Inventing Socrates
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 7.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
