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"ref": "1976, Robert Plant Armstrong, “The Qualities of a Book, the Wants of a Dissertation”, in Eleanor Harman, Ian Montagnes, editors, The Thesis and the Book, paperbound edition, Toronto, Ont., Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, published 2002, pages 19–20",
"text": "Nonbooks are of several kinds; but their differences notwithstanding, they all share two common features: they tend to be written for market rather than for intellectual reasons, and they are all means rather than ends. [...] Of all nonbooks, the most conspicuous example is the ‘coffee-table book’. The latter usually find their market by virtue of their decorative assets rather than from any literary or intellectual merit, or for that matter – since such works are often art books – by significantly serving important aesthetic or historical purposes.",
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"ref": "1996 November, “Ebony Bookshelf”, in Lerone Bennett Jr., editor, Ebony, volume LII, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18B",
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"ref": "2002, NAWCC Bulletin, volume 44, Columbus, Pa.: National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 1",
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"ref": "2003, “In a Timeless Wrap: The Sari is Serenaded as a Living Entity that Defines the Dreams of the Indian Woman”, in India Today, volume 28, New Delhi: Thomson Living Media India, →OCLC, page cxlix",
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"sense": "large book typically displayed on a coffee table",
"word": "பெரிதாக்கப்பட்ட காபி மேஜை புத்தகம்"
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"sense": "large book typically displayed on a coffee table",
"word": "หนังสือโต๊ะกาแฟ"
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