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Book title: Rethinking the Curriculum:Toward an Integrated, Interdisciplinary College Education.
Contributors: Mary E. Clark - Editor, Sandra A. Wawrytko - Editor.
Publisher: Greenwood Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1990.
Page number: 93.
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