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- ISBN10 0618052844
- ISBN13 9780618052844
- Publish Date 8 June 2000 (first published 1 December 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 December 2013
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Academic)
- Edition 5th edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 816
- Language English