'Will it smash?': Modernity and the fear of falling
(2002)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2002). 'Will it smash?': Modernity and the fear of falling. In J. Arthurs, & I. H. Grant (Eds.), Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material (15-22). Intellect Books
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