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Book Review

Activity systems analysis methods: understanding complex learning environments, by Lisa C. Yamagata-Lynch

New York, Springer, 2010, xvi + 148 pp., US$129.00 (hardcover), ISBN 987-1-4419-6320-8

Pages 95-99 | Published online: 28 Nov 2011

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