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Titel Dijksterhuis: een biografie
Auteur Klaas van Berkel
Uitgever Bert Bakker, 1996
Oorspronkelijk uit de University of Michigan
Gedigitaliseerd 30 juli 2009
ISBN 9035116941, 9789035116948
Lengte 639 pagina's