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Book Title: Dialectic Of Enlightenment
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.8in
Item Width: 6in
Author: MAX Horkheimer, Theodor w. Adorno
Publication Name: Dialectic of Enlightenment
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.
Publication Year: 2002
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Number of Pages: 304 Pages