Edgework: The Risk-Taking Experience

Edgework: the Sociology of Risk-Taking

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 3-15

  Lyng, Stephen ^a  

^a CARTHAGE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 85146407071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203005293-2     Document Type: Chapter

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