Suicide: Social causes and social types
- ISBN-10
- 0415278317
- ISBN-13
- 9780415278317
- Series
- Suicide
- Category
- Suicide
- Pages
- 374
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1952
- Author
- Émile Durkheim
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