Book review: ELEMÉR HANKISS,The Toothpaste of Immortality: Self-Construction in the Consumer Age. Baltimore,MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press,2006,xvi + 425 pp.,US$60 (hardback),US$24.95 (paperback)
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Book review: ELEMÉR HANKISS,The Toothpaste of Immortality: Self-Construction in the Consumer Age. Baltimore,MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press,2006,xvi + 425 pp.,US$60 (hardback),US$24.95 (paperback)
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