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Issues for Science and Engineering Researchers in the Digital Age [PDF ebook] 

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This is the first book to bring together distinguished jurisprudential theorists, as well as up-and-coming scholars, to critically assess the nature of legal reasoning. The volume is divided into 3 p …

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