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ISBN10: 0814331793, ISBN13: 9780814331798, [publisher: Wayne State University Press] Hardcover Hardcover book with dustjacket. Light wear to dust jacket and to pages. [GEORGETOWN, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]
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Hardback. New. The art of interpreting personal character based on facial and other physical features dates back to antiquity. About Face tells the intriguing story of how physiognomics became particularly popular during the Enlightenment, no longer as a mere parlor game but as an empirically grounded discipline. ISBN 0814331793 9780814331798 [GB]
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