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Book Title: Rousseau's Dog : Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Philosophers, European / French, Individual Philosophers, World
Publication Year: 2007
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: John Eidinow, David Edmonds
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Perfect
