Beauty around the world : a cultural encyclopedia / Erin Kenny and Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols.
Publisher: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2017]Description: xxiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781610699440
- 1610699440
- 646.7/2 23
- GT499 .K46 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-385) and index.
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