The Society for Useful Knowledge

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ISBN 13 : 1608195724
Total Pages : 241 pages
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691174768
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Index to the Principal Places in the World (modern)

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Finance and the Good Society

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ISBN 13 : 9781354249932
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The Knowledge Society

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ISBN 13 : 9400947240
Total Pages : 214 pages
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The biographical dictionary of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge [ed. by G.Long].

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