Super-rich lifestyles

Elite Mobilities

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 99-135

  Featherstone, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84905959949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203078532     Document Type: Chapter

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