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__0__ The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java by Adam Bobbette
Duke University Press 2023. 248 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4780-2708-9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-2505-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4780-2007-3
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Dandy Volcanoes
The Pulse of the Earth by Adam Bobette invites readers to get up close to the formation of the earth. This book is about active volcanoes in Indonesia, whose craters animate both geological (…)
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What is Sexual Capital?
by Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz
Polity Press, Cambridge 2022. 140 pp., pb ISBN 9781509552320
Reviewed by Emily Laurent-Monaghan
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