Fear of Blue Skies

Year 1998
Pages 184

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Summary

The catalog record identifies a 184-page book by Richard Burgin, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1998. Its title is the clearest available guide to the reading experience.

Why this book now

Its concise length makes Fear of Blue Skies a focused way to revisit a late-1990s Johns Hopkins title.

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Richard Burgin’s Fear of Blue Skies is a compact 1998 general-interest title from Johns Hopkins University Press.

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