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Download or read book Exchange Is Not Robbery written by John M. Chernoff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to 'Hustling is not Stealing' this book relates more of the funny, shocking or poignant anecdotes told to the author by Hawa, a West African bar girl whose insistence upon independence had propelled her to the margin of society during the 1970s.
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