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050		4	_aP95.45 _b.M54 2006
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100	1		_aMiller, Stephen. _9119252
245	1	0	_aConversation : _ba history of a declining art / _cStephen Miller.
260			_aNew Haven, CT ; _aLondon, UK : _bYale University Press, _c2006.
300			_axv, 336 p.: _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aConversations and its discontents -- Ancient conversation: from the Book of Job to Plato's Symposium -- Three factors affecting conversation: religion, commerce, women -- The age of conversation: eighteenth-century Britain -- Samuel Johnson: a conversational triumph; lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Conversation lost -- Conversation in decline: from raillery to reverie -- Conversation in America: from Benjamin Franklin to Dale Carnegie -- Modern enemies of conversation: from countercultural theorists to "White Negroes" -- The ways we don't converse now -- The end of conversation?
650		0	_aConversation anaylsis. _9119253
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