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Book Title: Is for Ox : the Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.2in
Author: Barry Sanders
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Educational Psychology, General, Violence in Society, Social Psychology
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1995
Genre: Education, Psychology, Social Science, Fiction
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
