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Cool, earnest, contemporary and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- David Darling
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Wiley, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780471667001
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First sentence
“A counting frame that started out, several thousand years ago, as rows of pebbles in the desert sands of the Middle East.”
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