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Narratives of fortune in the long twentieth century
Robert S. C. Gordon p3
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Modern Luck
Robert S.C. Gordon · 2023
81,796 words · about 5 h 44 min to read
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Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN) · Gordon, Robert S.C. (2023), Modern Luck, open access publisher - licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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- Robert S.C. Gordon
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2023
- Length
- 81,796 words · about 5 h 44 min
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- 3 reader sections
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- CC BY-NC 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)
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- Front matter about 1 min
- Part II 6 Moral luck and the survivor 7 Luckand the low life about 5 h
- Afterword about 43 min
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