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If this book on the time structures of schools had been written before the Fall 2008 world it would have described a different world than the one we live in today. The global economic meltdown has caused almost inconceivable damage to many of the institutions that had been the backbone of the economic system that we all depend upon.
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Weiss, J., Brown, R.S. (2013). Introduction. In: Telling Tales Over Time. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-263-1_1
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