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Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church, Paperback - George Weigel

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. The Catholic Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its history. As the curtain comes down on the Church of the 16th-century Counter-Refor...

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The Case for Trump, Paperback - Victor Davis Hanson

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis New York Times bestselling Trump biography from a major American intellectual explains how a renegade businessman became one of the...

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The Feminist Standpoint Revisited, and Other Essays, Paperback - Nancy CM Hartsock

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. For over twenty years Nancy Hartsock has been a powerful voice in the effort to forge a feminism sophisticated and strong enough to make a differen...

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Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness, Paperback - Betty Jean Lifton

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would understand the adoption experience, explores further ...

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The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data, Paperback - David Spiegelhalter

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking (New Yorker), discover how data literacy is changing the world and gives you a ...

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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States, Paperback - Erika Lee

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society" (Ibram X. Kendi, New Y...

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Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, Paperback - Randy Roberts

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion...

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Screen Time: How Electronic Media--From Baby Videos to Educational Software--Affects Your Young Child, Paperback - Lisa Guernsey

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. As a mother, Lisa Guernsey wondered about the influence of television on her two young daughters. As a reporter, she resolved to find out. What she...

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Religion Explained, Paperback - Pascal Boyer

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer qu...

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Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again, Hardcover - Eric Topol

105,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionOne of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to disas...

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Relationship Marketing: Successful Strategies for the Age of the Customer, Paperback - Regis McKenna

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. From the author of the bestselling The Regis Touch, a simple process for building the crucial relationships that help a company dominate--and own--...

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The Mobius Strip: Dr. August Mobius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology, Paperback - Clifford a. Pickov

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. The road that leads from the Mobius strip - a common-sense-defying continuous loop with only one side and one edge, made famous by the illustration...

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The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar, Paperback - Mark C. Baker

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical impl...

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Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Paperback - Don Norman

106,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for th...

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A Seaman's Guide to Basic Chartwork. 2 Revised edition, Paperback - ***

106,99 RON

Publisher: Morgans Technical Books LtdIllustration(s): 182ill.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 1985Dimensions: 147 x 208 x 19Cover type: Paper...

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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Paperback - Edward E. Baptist

107,99 RON

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...

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Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum, Paperback - Leonard Susskind

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA funny, insightful, and self-contained guide to Einstein's relativity theory and classical field theories--including electromagnetism P...

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Hidden Heroism: Black Soldiers in America's Wars, Paperback - Robert Edgerton

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. In Hidden Heroism, Robert Edgerton investigates the history of Afro-American participation in American wars, from the French and Indian War to the ...

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The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left, Paperback - Yuval Levin

108,99 RON

For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuva...

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Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It, Paperback - Ian Leslie

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. "I have no special talents, " said Albert Einstein. "I am only passionately curious." Everyone is born curious. But only some retain the habits of ...

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Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot, Paperback - Ken McGoogan

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even appr...

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The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches, Paperback - Myrlie Evers-Williams

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. The Autobiography of Medgar Evers is the first and only comprehensive collection of the words of slain civil rights hero Medgar Evers. Evers became...

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A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River, Paperback - Dan O'Neill

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off from Dawson, Yukon Territory, onetime site of the Klondike gold rush, to trace the ...

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To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life, Paperback - Hayim H. Donin

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe classic guide to the ageless heritage of Judaism Embraced over many decades by hundreds of thousands of readers, To Be a Jew offers ...

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Who Got Einstein's Office': Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study, Paperback - Edward Jr. Regis

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edward Jr. RegisAuthor: Ed RegisIt was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt G edel starved himself in paranoid...

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Race and Culture: A World View, Paperback - Thomas Sowell

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. Encompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, o...

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Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century, Paperback - Riane Tennenhaus Eisler

108,99 RON

In the wake of the tragedy of the shootings in Littleton at Columbine High School and other killings of children by children, there is increasing r...

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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, Paperback - Tom Holland

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst f...

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The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You, Paperback - Scott E. Page

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in orde...

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Blood Diamonds, Revised Edition: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones, Paperback - Greg Campbell

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds"...

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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism: 20th Anniversary Edition, Paperback - Daniel Bell

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism--and the culture it create...

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Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, Paperback - Frank H. Wu

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar...

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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe, Paperback - Serhii Plokhy

109,99 RON

A Chernobyl survivor and award-winning historian "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account...

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The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe, Paperback - Andrew Wheatcroft

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple, " as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing sieg...

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Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant, Paperback - Kathi Diamant

110,99 RON

San Diego Book AwardsIn this gripping literary detective story, Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Kafka's heart and kept...

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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force, Paperback - Eliot A. Cohen

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. "A must-read for anyone interested in military might--and how it can help us maintain the edge we need in this treacherous age." --Walter Russell M...

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The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld, Paperback - Herbert Asbury

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. Home to the notorious "Blue Book, " which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light d...

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Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power, Paperback - Joseph S. Jr. Nye

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. This book, written by a scholar of international relations, argues that American leadership is likely to continue well into the 21st century, but t...

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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States, Paperback - Walter Johnson

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St...

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The Ways of the Will: Selected Essays Expanded Edition, Paperback - Leslie Farber

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. The psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of penet...

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Not Out of Africa: How "afrocentrism" Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History, Paperback - Mary Lefkowitz

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle...

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The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New Yor, Paperbac

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. On August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called the Sun brought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discoveries. A series of six ar...

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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, Paperback - Niall Ferguson

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarte...

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Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster, Paperback - Michael Eric Dyson

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, di...

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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution, Paperback - Jeremy Popkin

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. From an award-winning historian, a "vivid" (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern worldThe French Revolution's pri...

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Tragedy of the European Union, Hardcover - George Soros

113,99 RON

Soros reveals the roots of Europe's current financial crisis and assesses the consequences of that crisis for the global economy and on the politic...

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The Rise of the Creative Class, Paperback - Richard Florida

113,99 RON

DescriptionWorld-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now upd...

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Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat, Hardcover - Marta Zaraska

113,99 RON

One of the great science and health revelations of our time is the danger posed by meat-eating. Every day, it seems, we are warned about the harm p...

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Anatomy of the Moving Body, Second Edition: A Basic Course in Bones, Muscles, and Joints, Paperback - Theodore Dimon

113,99 RON

Learning anatomy requires more than pictures and labels; it requires a way "into" the subject, a means of making sense of what is being shown. Anat...

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July 1914: Countdown to War, Paperback - Sean McMeekin

113,99 RON

A bold, gripping history of the first month of World War IWhen an assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, no one could hav...

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Drawing Realistic Pencil Portraits Step by Step: Basic Techniques for the Head and Face, Paperback - Justin Maas

114,00 RON

Description"As long as humans have been alive, we have drawn." Justin Maas Drawing is the most essential of all visual arts. Everyone, from sculpto...

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The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe, Paperback - Russell Jacoby

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been do...

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Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures, Paperback - Ian Stewart

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ian StewartOpening another drawer in his Cabinet of Curiosities, renowned mathematics professor Ian Stewart presents a new ...

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The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment in Evolution, Paperback - George W. Barlow

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. Cichlid fishes are amazing creatures. In terms of sheer number of species, they are the most successful of all families of vertebrate animals, and ...

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Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language, Paperback - William H. Calvin

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. In a series of stories before, after, and even during neurosurgery, an epileptic patient, Neil; his surgeon, George Ojemann; and neuroscientist Wil...

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A Dark Muse: A History of the Occult, Paperback - Gary Lachman

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. The occult was a crucial influence on the Renaissance, and it obsessed the popular thinkers of the day. But with the Age of Reason, occultism was s...

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Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Paperback - Glyn Moody

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. The open source saga has many fascinating chapters. It is partly the story of Linus Torvalds, the master hacker who would become chief architect of...

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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy, Paperback - Elaine Tyler May

116,99 RON

An award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (...

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Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined, Paperback - Scott Barry Kaufman

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman--who was relegated to special education as a child--offers a new way of looking at intellig...

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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees, Paperback - Thor Hanson

116,99 RON

DescriptionAs seen on PBS's American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers presents a natural and cultural his...

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The Mathematics of Life, Paperback - Ian Stewart

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. "Will this book do for biomathematics what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time did for relativity and cosmology? Time will tell. Until then, ...

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Memo. What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table, Paperback - Minda Harts

116,99 RON

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Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis, Paperback - Adam Phillips

117,99 RON 126,99 RON

Reducere. As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: the mastery of psychotherapy as a practitioner and a theorist-and a reputation as on...

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How We Got Here: The 70s the Decade That Brought You Modern Life -- For Better or Worse, Paperback - David Frum

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. For many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it ...

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Quintessence the Search for Missing Mass in the Universe, Paperback - Lawrence M. Krauss

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. Will the universe continue to expand forever, reverse its expansion and begin to contract, or reach a delicately poised state where it simply persi...

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Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, Paperback - Steven Pinker

119,99 RON 128,99 RON

Reducere. How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue? Why do languages change over time, making Shakespearean English difficult for us...

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Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, Paperback - Jim Marrs

119,99 RON

What really happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963? Was the assassination of John F. Kennedy simply the work of a warped, solitary young man, or w...

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Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria, Paperback - Juliet Mitchell

119,99 RON 128,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Juliet MitchellThis worthy successor to Juliet Mitchell's pathbreaking Psychoanalysis and Feminism is both a defense of the...

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Drink Beer, Think Beer: Getting to the Bottom of Every Pint, Hardcover - John Holl

119,99 RON

From an award-winning journalist and beer expert, a thoughtful and witty guide to understanding and enjoying beerRight here, right now is the best ...

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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, Paperback - Mark Pendergrast

119,99 RON

DescriptionThe definitive history of the world's most popular drugUncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancien...

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