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THE STORY OF MY LIFE By Helen Keller With Her Letters (1887-1901) And Supplementary Account of Her Education, Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of her Teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, By John Albert Macy Special Edition CONTAINING ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS BY HELEN KELLER To ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies, I dedicate this Story of My Life. CONTENTS Editor's Preface I. THE
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"CHII"IURENGA II 1896 - 1897: A REVISIONIST STUDY THESIS Submitted in Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS of Rhodes University I by MARK PHILLIP MALCOLM HORN January 1986 The following typog~aphical co~~ections attention since submission of this thesis. have come to my p.i line 8, "Phillip" should ~ead Philip. p.vi, li.ne 11, "Risings" should ~ead Rising. p.Vll, line 12, "~esponce" should ~ead ~esponse. p.3, line 17, "wa~f-io~" should read warriors. p
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Sociocognitive Dynamics in a Product Market Author(s): José Antonio Rosa, Joseph F. Porac, Jelena Runser-Spanjol and Michael S. Saxon Source: Journal of Marketing, Vol. 63, Fundamental Issues and Directions for Marketing (1999), pp. 64-77 Published by: American Marketing Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1252102 Accessed: 28-09-2015 11:20 UTC REFERENCES Linked references are available on JSTOR for this article: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1252102?seq=1&cid=pdf-reference#references_tab_contents
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