Life as a Raw Material: Illusions of Control

Somatechnics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 250-262

  Catts, Oron ^a   Zurr, Ionat ^a  

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EID: 84978614017     PISSN: 20440138     EISSN: 20440146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/soma.2012.0060     Document Type: Article

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