New and noteworthy ¨C 1 December 2016

Chase F. Robinson
Thames & Hudson

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Miriam Gebhardt
Polity

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Marcel Danesi
Bloomsbury

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Gordon M. Shepherd
Columbia University Press

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Leonard J. Waks
Palgrave Macmillan

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