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Book Title: Scripting Addiction: The Politics Of Therapeutic Talk And Am...
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Name: Scripting Addiction : the Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Communication Studies, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Psychopathology / Addiction
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Author: E. Summerson Carr
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Psychology
Item Width: 7.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
