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John Rawls
A Theory of Justice: Original Edition

2005 y.
Publisher: Belknap Press
Description: Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls`s A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. `Each person,` writes Rawls, `possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.` Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls`s theory is as powerful today as it was when first published. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0674017722
Book size: —; Page extent: 624.

 

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Diana Hancock
A Theory of Production for the Financial Firm (Innovations in Financial Markets and Institutions, Vol 4)

— y.
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ISBN: 0792391403
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Frederic Cao, Jose-Luis Lisani, Jean-Michel Morel, Pablo Muse, Frederic Sur
A Theory of Shape Identification (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Recent years have seen dramatic progress in shape recognition algorithms applied to ever-growing image databases. They have been applied to image stitching, stereo vision, image mosaics, solid object recognition and video or web image retrieval. More fundamentally, the ability of humans and animals to detect and recognize shapes is one of the enigmas of perception. The book describes a complete method that starts from a query image and an image database and yields a list of the images in the database containing shapes present in the query image. A false alarm number is associated to each detection. Many experiments will show that familiar simple shapes or images can reliably be identified with false alarm numbers ranging from 10-5 to less than 10-300. Technically speaking, there are two main issues. The first is extracting invariant shape descriptors from digital images. Indeed, a shape can be seen from various angles and distances and in various lights. A shape can even be… [detailed...]

ISBN: 3540684808
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Carlos F. Daganzo
A Theory of Supply Chains (LECTURE NOTES IN ECONOMICS AND MATHEMATICAL SYSTEMS)

— y.
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ISBN: 354000288X
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Yoram Barzel
A Theory of the State: Economic Rights, Legal Rights, and the Scope of the State (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

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Publisher: —
Description: This book models the emergence and evolution of the rule-of-law state. The protector or ruler is assumed to be self-seeking. Individuals will install a protector only after they create institutions to control him. Organized protection engenders legal institutions that enforce rights. A `state of nature` then gradually turns into a rule-of-law state. Individuals employ both the state and other third parties for enforcement. The fraction of agreements that the state enforces determines its scope. Rule-of-law states encourage market transactions and standards that facilitate trade. The larger the domain of the state`s ultimate enforcer, the greater the advantage of scale economies to contracting. This force may explain the creation of rule-of-law empires. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521000645
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Hong Liang
A Thesis on the Rationales of Import Substitution Industrialization Strategy

1993 y.
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Description: The purpose of this research paper is to try to clarify and evaluate the major issues and arguments in the debate on Import Substitution Industrialization Strategy (ISI) between the neoclassical economists and the development economists. In particular, it will focus on some basic underlying models employed by the two schools of thought, rather than on specific policy recommendations given by either school. It will conclude that the critiques against ISI from the neoclassical economists are based on a static equilibrium model, which can not fully comprehend the dynamic relationship between growth and ISI at a macroeconomic level. This paper starts by examining the historical background and formative influences of ISI, then goes on to compare and contrast the structuralist rationales for ISI and neoclassical rationales against it. The conclusion I reached is that the fundamental rationales behind ISI - the infant industry argument, external economies and linkages effects-remain… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1-58112-007-9
Book size: 140x215; Page extent: 102.

 

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Michael Lavalette
A Thing of the Past?: Child Labour in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Child labor is often assumed to be a Third World problem, but it is in reality much more common. The focus of this book is on the phenomenon in Britain in the nineteenth and 20th centuries. The authors aim to survey and analyze continuities and changes in children`s labor activities during this period in order to sharpen theoretical tools of analysis and identify future research issues. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0312218117
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Samuel Fuller
A Third Face : My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionWinner of Best Non-Fiction for 2002 Award from the Los Angeles Times Book Review! Samuel Fuller was one of the most prolific and independent writer-director-producers in Hollywood. His 29 tough, gritty films made from 1949 to 1989 set outto capture the truth of war, racism and human frailties, and incorporate some of his own experiences. His film Park Row was inspired by his years in the New York newspaper business, where his beat included murders, suicides, state executions and race riots. He writes about hitchhiking across the country at the height of the Great Depression. His years in the army in World War II are captured in his hugely successful pictures The Big Red One, The Steel Helmet and Merrill`s Marauders. Fuller`s other films include Pickup on South Street, Underworld U.S.A., a movie that shows how gangsters in the 1960s were seen as `respected` tax-paying executives, Shock Corridor, which exposed the conditions in mental institutions, and White Dog, written… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1557836272
Book size: —; Page extent: 608.

 

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A Thomas More Source Book

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionThis Source Book brings together classic texts by and about Thomas More?poet, scholar, statesman, family man, educational reformer, philosopher, historian, and saint. In addition to serving as an introduction to More?s life and writings for the general reader, this collection is a helpful companion to the study of More?s literary and philosophical masterwork, Utopia, and to the study of sixteenth-century history, literature, philosophy, or politics. The writings focus upon More?s views of education, political theory, church-state relations, love and friendship, practical politics, and the vexing issues of conscience. They shed light on the distinctive Christian humanism that More expressed and embodied. Also included in this book are three famous sixteenth-century accounts of More?s life by Erasmus, Roper, and a team of London playwrights including William Shakespeare. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0813213762
Book size: —; Page extent: 427.

 

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Jane Smiley
A Thousand Acres : A Novel

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Amazon.comAging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm--one of the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa--to his three daughters, Caroline, Ginny and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities, he carves Caroline out of the deal because she has the nerve to be less than enthusiastic about her father`s generosity. While Larry Cook deteriorates into a pathetic drunk, his daughters are left to cope with the often grim realities of life on a family farm--from battering husbands to cutthroat lenders. In this winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Smiley captures the essence of such a life with stark, painful detail. Book DescriptionA successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. Whenthe youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear cast upon a… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1400033837
Book size: —; Page extent: 384.

 

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Peter Tertzakian
A Thousand Barrels a Second : The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionHow the world`s dizzying consumption of oil is poised to forever change worldeconomies and businesses By the end of 2005, world oil consumption will for the first time exceed 1,000 barrels per second. That`s the jumping-off point for AThousand Barrels a Second , in which chief energy economist and investment strategist Peter Tertzakian delivers an informed and provocative look at the future of oil, providing advice to those making multimillion dollar decisions about their businesses, investments, or economies. He explains the issues behind the world`s growing dependence on oil, explores the ramifications of this insatiable consumption for our nation and emerging powers such as China, and predicts the most likely scenarios arising out of this volatile shift between supply and demand. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0071468749
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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Raymond Merritt &, Miles Barth
A Thousand Dogs / 1000 Hunde / 1000 Chiens

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Special budget abridged edition. You don`t need Taschen to tell you how wonderful dogs are - you know that already. In celebration of the world`s favorite animal, we bring you over 500 photographs of or about dogs, many of which have rarely been seen. Intellectually and visually stimulating, this book is much more than just a bunch of dog pictures. This exceptional book features the work of numerous famous photographers and artists (from Picasso to Man Ray, Ralph Gibson to Eric Fischl, Wolfgang Tillmans to David Salle, and of course Elliott Erwitt and William Wegman), as well as captivating essays on the presence of dogs in the history of photography and their relations with man. Spanning over 150 years, this book chronicles the life and times of man and dog. It is presented in five chapters: `Catching the Sun: Seeing the Light` (1839 to 1890), `Embracing Uncertain Verities` (1890 to 1930), `Weathering the Storms` (1930 to 1950), `Looking Within` (1950 to 1980),… [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-3-8365-0504-8
Book size: 145x195; Page extent: 576.

 

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Silvia Federici, Constantine George Caffentzis, Ousseina Alidou
A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities

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ISBN: 0865437734
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Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

2007 y.
Publisher: Harmony
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ISBN: 0307339238
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

2008 y.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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ISBN: 0307339246
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Brian Massumi
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

1987 y.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Description: Language Notes Text: English, French (translation) [detailed...]

ISBN: 0816614024
Book size: —; Page extent: 610.

 

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Murray Peden
A Thousand Shall Fall: The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War Two

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionDuring World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Those selected for Bomber Command operations went on to rain devastation upon the Third Reich in the great air battles over Europe, but their losses were high. German fighters and anti-aircraft guns took a terrifying toll. The chances of surviving a tour of duty as a bomber crew were almost nil. Murray Peden`s story of his training in Canada and England, and his crew`s operations on Stirlings and Flying Fortresses with 214 Squadron, has been hailed as a classic of war literature. It is a fine blend of the excitement, humour, and tragedy of that eventful era. [detailed...]

ISBN: 155002454X
Book size: —; Page extent: 490.

 

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Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns

2007 y.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Description: After More Than Two Years On The Bestseller Lists, Khaled Hosseini Returns With A Beautiful, Riveting, And Haunting Novel Of Enormous Contemporary Relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan`s last thirty years - from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding - that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives - the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness - are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heartwrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an… [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-1-59448-307-3
Book size: 105x170; Page extent: 464.

 

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Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns

2007 y.
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Description: After More Than Two Years On The Bestseller Lists, Khaled Hosseini Returns With A Beautiful, Riveting, And Haunting Novel Of Enormous Contemporary Relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan`s last thirty years - from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding - that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives - the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness - are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heartwrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1594489505
Book size: —; Page extent: 372.

 

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Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns

2008 y.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Description: Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-7475-8589-3
Book size: —; Page extent: 432.

 

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Robin Lissak, George Bailey
A Thousand Tribes: How Technology Unites People in Great Companies

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Publisher: —
Description: `With A Thousand Tribes, Lissak and Bailey have shown us the power of corporate portals to promote innovation and further employee satisfaction while reducing operational costs. They back up their position with compelling case studies and firsthand experience. This is a must-read for CEOs and managers who want to harness the power of ?Business-to-Everything?.` ?Tom Kelley, General Manager, IDEO author, The Art of Innovation Discover the real power of the Internet?the power to help your organization achieve instant global connectivity, lower costs, and maximize the value of existing resources. A Thousand Tribes gives you all the information you need to rush to the front lines in the Business-to-Everything revolution. You?ll learn how B2E enables you to fully activate existing technologies, unify every aspect of your business, and integrate the disparate systems that often hobble corporate communication and business performance. … [detailed...]

ISBN: 0471222836
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Yiyun Li
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose. “Immortality,” winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for new writers, tells the story of a young man who bears a striking resemblance to a dictator and so finds a calling to immortality. In “The Princess of Nebraska,” a man and a woman who were both in love with a young actor in China meet again in America and try to reconcile the lost love with their new lives. … [detailed...]

ISBN: 081297333X
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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Abigail Thomas
A Three Dog Life

2007 y.
Publisher: Harvest Books
Description: In these exquisitely written essays Thomas reflects on how her marriage had to be reinvented after the night her husband, Richard, took their dog, Harry, out for a walk, and Harry came home alone. Richard had been hit by a car and was lying bleeding in the street. The traumatic head injury he suffered didn`t kill him, as attending police had predicted it would, but it rendered him susceptible to large-scale memory loss, hallucinations, and such wild rages that Thomas was forced to commit him to an institution. Lesser events have destroyed relationships, so it would not be surprising to learn that Thomas abandoned Richard. She didn`t. Instead, she sold their New York apartment, moved upstate to be near him, and acquired two more dogs to keep her company. What`s more, she can`t imagine life without her husband, saying, `It would be like falling through space with a parachute but no planet to land on`. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0156033232
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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Grant Hildebrand, T. William Booth
A Thriving Modernism: The Houses of Wendell Lovett and Arne Bystrom

2004 y.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Description: A Thriving Modernism celebrates the remarkable careers of architects Wendell Lovett and Arne Bystrom and their contributions to modernism and to the architectural legacy of the Pacific Northwest. Wendell Lovett joined the University of Washington faculty in 1948, Arne Bystrom was one of his first students. Their work, now encompassing half a century, has been published in Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, Denmark, England, Brazil, Switzerland, and France, and their reputations in these places are established. Yet in the United States, despite their being elected Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 1978 and 1985, respectively, they remain little known outside the Northwest. Both men believe deeply in the emotional dimension of architecture, both are dedicated to expressive detail, executed through exquisite craftsmanship, both have been offered remarkable sites on which to build. In a series of domestic projects, each has found, in his own way, a much enriched… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0295984333
Book size: —; Page extent: 168.

 

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Thomas Long
A Thug`s Life

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionDayvon and Ty ran the drug game in West Baltimore for years as the heads of the DFL (Dogs For Life) family. However, after Ty gets sent to prison on a suspect charge and Dayvon decides that he wants outta the game, drama is about to jumpoff between the two once loyal comrades. Ty plots his brutal revenge when he begins to think that Dayvon had something to do with his incarceration. Dayvon is not about to lie down and let Ty take him outta the game without a fight. To top it all off,they both face a surprise enemy in two up and coming members of their crew, Lil` Jay and Stink, who have their own plans to seize control of the family. What proceeds is an action packed adventure that will have you guessing as to who will survive thistale of urban warfare. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0974702536
Book size: —; Page extent: 212.

 

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Aisling Juanjuan Shen
A Tiger`s Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: `Like a suspense novel, this book is impossible to put down. All readers interested in China, as well as memoir fans (especially of success stories), must read this astonishing title.`--Library Journal (Starred Review) /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:`Table Normal`, mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0, mso-tstyle-colband-size:0, mso-style-noshow:yes, mso-style-parent:``, mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt, mso-para-margin:0in, mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt, mso-pagination:widow-orphan, font-size:10.0pt, font-family:`Times New Roman`, mso-ansi-language:#0400, mso-fareast-language:#0400, mso-bidi-language:#0400,} “In Aisling Juanjuan Shen’s remarkable and assured memoir, a peasant girl born to illiterate parents and bleak prospects rises to prominence as the first person in her village to graduate college. Determined to escape the trappings of rural village life, she leaves the stability of a government-assigned teaching… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1569475865
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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John Grisham
A Time To Kill

2007 y.
Publisher: Arrow Books
Description: When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It`s the kind of case that can make or break a young lawyer. But in the maelstrom of Clanton, it is also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-09-913401-5
Book size: 110x175; Page extent: 752.

 

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Lawrence S. Freundlich
A Time Well Spent: A Biography of Jerome Brody

— y.
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ISBN: 1566491738
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John R. Childress
A Time for Leadership: Global Perspectives from an Accelerated Market Place

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: European business leaders describe how business has changed with the freedom of the EU and what is required of companies and both sides of the Atlantic to do business in the new century. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0964846683
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Mary Fahy
A Time for Leaving

2007 y.
Publisher: Paulist Press
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ISBN: 0809144964
Book size: —; Page extent: 64.

 

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William E. Simon
A Time for Reflection: An Autobiography

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionWritten just before Simon`s death, this book is a breathtaking odyssey of his adventures crossing the Arctic Sea in a sailboat, a nearly tragic scuba diving accident with his sons, and his direction of the Federal Energy Administration atthe height of the oil embargo. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0895261707
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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