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The Feminism Book ( Big Ideas)
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The First Century of Welfare: Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire 1620-1730 (4 Volume) (People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History)
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The First World War, Anticolonialism and Imperial Authority in British India, 1914-1924 (Empires in Perspective)
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The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King: A Life of Buddha
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