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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Perennial Classics) (edit title)

by Margaret Mead (Author) (edit contributors)

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Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book.  When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike. Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but... read more

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During the last hundred years parents and teachers have ceased to take childhood and adolescence for granted.

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  1. Margaret Mead (Author)

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