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Shibusa - Extracting Beauty. / Adkins, Monty (Editor); Dickens, Pip (Editor).
Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield Press, 2012. 144 p.

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Adkins M, (ed.), Dickens P, (ed.). Shibusa - Extracting Beauty. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield Press, 2012. 144 p.

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Adkins, Monty (Editor) ; Dickens, Pip (Editor). / Shibusa - Extracting Beauty. Huddersfield : University of Huddersfield Press, 2012. 144 p.

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