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Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

by Viviana A Zelizer

Recommendations from our site

Other books by Viviana A Zelizer

The Social Meaning of Money by Viviana A Zelizer

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Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

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The Social Meaning of Money
by Viviana A Zelizer

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)