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306:'s purpose as a "blueprint", stating that "nly the search for universal features, while treasuring all the exceptional specifics, offers some hope of sketching out the general shape of the evolutionary process so that we can explain it honestly as a Lie-to-Children". Similarly, in
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1259:Mishra, Sudhanshu K. (23 May 2010).
1207:"Caricatures, Myths, and White Lies"
1161:. Sense Publishers. pp. 15–28.
1150:Ross, Jenn; Macleod, Hamish (2011).
902:from the original on 31 October 2012
1916:Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?
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1855:The Unseen University Cut Out Book
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331:University of Western Ontario
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2678:The Discworld Companion
2646:The Pratchett Portfolio
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1800:The Pratchett Portfolio
1775:The Discworld Companion
1396:University of Melbourne
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1691:I Shall Wear Midnight
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2653:The Art of Discworld
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2760:Johnny and the Dead
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2217:The Colour of Magic
2063:Races and creatures
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1969:The Colour of Magic
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2469:Unseen Academicals
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1656:Monstrous Regiment
1621:The Fifth Elephant
1611:The Last Continent
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