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The Italian Invert. A Gay Man's Intimate Confessions to Emile Zola, Paperback - ***

179,99 RON

In the late nineteenth century, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession: In a series of revealing letters, he frankly described h...

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Global Easts. Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing, Paperback - Jie-Hyun Lim

199,99 RON

This book explores entangled Easts to reconsider global history from the margins. Examining the politics of history and memory, Jie-Hyun Lim reveal...

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Free Indirect. The Novel in a Postfictional Age, Paperback - Timothy Bewes

199,99 RON

This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman...

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Securing Borders, Securing Power. The Rise and Decline of Arizona's Border Politics, Paperback - Mike Slaven

179,99 RON

Tracing how the issue of unauthorized migration consumed Arizona state politics from 2003 to 2010, this book provides new perspective on why policy...

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Little Lindy Is Kidnapped. How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century, Paperback - Thomas Doherty

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Thomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction of the child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh...

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Waiting for Dignity. Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan, Paperback - Florian Weigand

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Florian Weigand investigates legitimacy and its absence in Afghanistan. He shows that what matters in conflict zones is dignity: People judge autho...

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Claude McKay. The Making of a Black Bolshevik, Paperback - Winston James

179,99 RON

One of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889-1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem R...

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Filming History from Below. Microhistorical Documentaries, Paperback - Efren Cuevas

179,99 RON

In recent decades, a type of historical documentary has emerged that focuses on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person...

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Worlds Woven Together. Essays on Poetry and Poetics, Paperback - Vidyan Ravinthiran

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The critic, poet, and scholar Vidyan Ravinthiran searches for alternatives to the standard models of writing about poetry, pursuing close, imaginat...

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Shari'a Scripts. A Historical Anthropology, Paperback - Brinkley Messick

179,99 RON

Shari'a Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. Brinkley Messick uses the writings of the Yem...

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The Heart of Toronto. Corporate Power, Civic Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge Street, Hardback - Daniel Ross

639,99 RON

From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projec...

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The Green New Deal and the Future of Work, Paperback - ***

199,99 RON

This book brings together leading experts to explore the possibilities of the Green New Deal, emphasizing the future of work. They examine transfor...

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The Politics of Arab Authenticity. Challenges to Postcolonial Thought, Paperback - Ahmad Agbaria

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Ahmad Agbaria tells the story of a generation of postcolonial thinkers and activists who came to question their modernist commitments. He analyzes ...

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Make It the Same. Poetry in the Age of Global Media, Paperback - Jacob Edmond

179,99 RON

Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contem...

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Buddhist Historiography in China, Paperback - John Kieschnick

199,99 RON

John Kieschnick provides an innovative, expansive account of how Chinese Buddhists have sought to understand their history through a Buddhist lens....

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A Friendship in Twilight. Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life, Paperback - ***

149,99 RON

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor embarked on an extended conversation about living and dying in an imperiled wo...

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The Immersive Enclosure. Virtual Reality in Japan, Paperback - Paul Roquet

199,99 RON

Is immersion just another name for enclosure? In this groundbreaking analysis of virtual reality in Japan, Paul Roquet uncovers how the technology ...

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Computing the News. Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity, Paperback - Sylvain Parasie

199,99 RON

Sylvain Parasie examines how data journalists and news organizations have navigated the tensions between traditional journalistic values and new te...

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"Keep 'Em in the East". Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance, Paperback - Richard Koszarski

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Richard Koszarski chronicles the compelling and often surprising origins of New York's postwar film renaissance. He examines the social, cultural, ...

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Making the Case. 2SLGBTQ+ Rights and Religion in Schools, Hardback - Paul T. Clarke

529,99 RON

Making the Case provides clear explanations of how law protects sexual minority rights, making it an essential resource for supporting 2SLGBTQ+ stu...

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The Racial Unfamiliar. Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture, Paperback - John Brooks

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John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences per...

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To Raise a Fallen People. The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics, Paperback - Rahul Sagar

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To Raise a Fallen People brings to light pioneering writing on international politics from nineteenth-century India. Drawing on extensive archival ...

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Sacred Kingship in World History. Between Immanence and Transcendence, Paperback - ***

219,99 RON

Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and i...

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Mediation of Legitimacy in Early China. A Study of the Neglected Zhou Scriptures and the Grand Duke Traditions, Hardback - Yegor Grebnev

359,99 RON

Yegor Grebnev examines crucial noncanonical texts preserved in the Yi Zhou shu (Neglected Zhou Scriptures) and the Grand Duke traditions. He develo...

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The New Pragmatist Sociology. Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy, Paperback - ***

219,99 RON

In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas...

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The Traveler's Guide to Space. For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists, Hardback - Neil Comins

219,99 RON

An inside look at the experience of space travel and the destinations we may one day visit as space tourists.Publisher: Columbia University PressAu...

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Disability Injustice. Confronting Criminalization in Canada, Hardback - ***

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In Disability Injustice, scholars and activists deliver a much-needed and long overdue analysis of disability and criminalization in Canada.Publish...

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Generation Gap. Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture, Hardback - Kevin Munger

669,99 RON

Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that...

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Before Central Park, Hardback - Sara Cedar Miller

179,99 RON

This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the p...

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Common Ground. Tibetan Buddhist Expansion and Qing China's Inner Asia, Paperback - Lan Wu

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Lan Wu analyzes how Tibetan Buddhists and the Qing imperial rulers interacted and negotiated as both sought strategies to extend their influence in...

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The Substance of Fiction. Literary Objects in China, 1550-1775, Paperback - Sophie Volpp

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Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical things. Instead, she argues, ...

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Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema, Paperback - William Carroll

199,99 RON

William Carroll offers a new account of Suzuki Seijun's career that highlights the intersections of film theory, film production, cinephile culture...

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In Love with Movies. From New Yorker Films to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, Paperback - Daniel Talbot

149,99 RON

Daniel Talbot changed the way the Upper West Side-and art-house audiences around the world-went to the movies. In Love with Movies is his memoir of...

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Partial Truths. How Fractions Distort Our Thinking, Hardback - James C. Zimring

159,99 RON

James C. Zimring argues that many of the mistakes that the human mind consistently makes boil down to misperceiving fractions. Blending key scienti...

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The Culture of Language in Ming China. Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge, Paperback - Nathan Vedal

199,99 RON

The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccu...

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Power and Restraint in China's Rise, Paperback - ***

199,99 RON

Why and when does China exercise restraint-and how does this aspect of Chinese statecraft challenge the assumptions of international relations theo...

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The Quantified Scholar. How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences, Paperback - Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

199,99 RON

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure...

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Vulnerable Minds. The Neuropolitics of Divided Societies, Paperback - Liya Yu

199,99 RON

Liya Yu develops a novel political framework that builds on neuroscientific discoveries to rethink the social contract. She advances a new neuropol...

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The Urbanization of People. The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City, Paperback - Eli Friedman

199,99 RON

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

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Liquid Light. Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition, Paperback - G. William Barnard

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The Santo Daime is a syncretic religion whose spiritual practice is based around the sacramental use of ayahuasca. G. William Barnard-an initiate o...

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Who Ate Up All the Shinga?. An Autobiographical Novel, Paperback - Wan-suh Park

109,99 RON

Park Wan-suh's Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a t...

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Hollywood's Embassies. How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World, Paperback - ***

199,99 RON

Beginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and o...

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Art and Posthistory. Conversations on the End of Aesthetics, Hardback - Demetrio Paparoni

449,99 RON

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about conte...

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Salo Baron. The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America, Paperback - ***

179,99 RON

In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions. This book b...

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Gastronativism. Food, Identity, Politics, Hardback - ***

559,99 RON

Fabio Parasecoli identifies and defines the phenomenon of "gastronativism, " the ideological use of food to advance ideas about who belongs to a co...

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Accidental Agents. Ecological Politics Beyond the Human, Paperback - Martin Crowley

179,99 RON

Martin Crowley argues that a new conception of agency as both distributed and decisive is necessary in the Anthropocene. A major intervention into ...

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Global Environmental Politics. The Transformative Role of Emerging Economies, Paperback - Johannes Urpelainen

199,99 RON

This book explains why emerging economies have come to dominate global environmental politics and examines the implications for international coope...

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When the Garden Isn't Eden. More Psychodynamic Concepts from Life, Hardback - Linda Kanefield

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Through poignant and sometimes painful stories from their personal and professional lives, three practicing psychoanalysts demonstrate the richness...

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Gender and the Dismal Science. Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession, Paperback - Ann Mari May

179,99 RON

This book is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics. Blending rich historical detail with e...

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The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work. second edition, Paperback - Frederic G. Reamer

179,99 RON

Social work rests on complex philosophical assumptions that should be central to practice, education, and training. Frederic G. Reamer explores how...

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Making Space for Justice. Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope, Paperback - Michele Moody-Adams

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Michele Moody-Adams explores what social movements have shown about the nature of justice and what it takes to create space for justice in the worl...

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Rare Merit. Women in Photography in Canada, 1840-1940, Paperback - Colleen Skidmore

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Rare Merit illuminates the impact of women as portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and printers in the e...

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How to Read Chinese Prose. A Guided Anthology, Paperback - ***

219,99 RON

This book offers a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and its literary and cultural significance. It features more than one hundred ...

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A Story to Save Your Life. Communication and Culture in Migrants' Search for Asylum, Paperback - Sarah Bishop

179,99 RON

Through powerful firsthand accounts, A Story to Save Your Life offers new insight into the harrowing realities of seeking protection in the United ...

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Hollywood and Israel. A History, Paperback - Giora Goodman

179,99 RON

Hollywood has long enjoyed a "special relationship" with Israel. This book offers a groundbreaking account of this relationship, both on and off th...

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The Fragrant Companions. A Play About Love Between Women, Paperback - ***

179,99 RON

The Fragrant Companions is the most significant work of literature that portrays female same-sex love in the entire premodern Chinese tradition. It...

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Making and Breaking Settler Space. Five Centuries of Colonization in North America, Paperback - Adam J. Barker

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Making and Breaking Settler Space deftly explores how power and space are organized under settler colonialism in order to uncover decolonization op...

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Horror Film and Otherness, Paperback - Adam Lowenstein

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Adam Lowenstein offers a new account of horror and why it matters for understanding social otherness. He argues that horror films reveal how the ca...

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Worldmaking in the Long Great War. How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East, Paperback - Jonathan Wyrtzen

179,99 RON

This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and...

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"I Was the Only Woman". Women and Planning in Canada, Paperback - Sue Hendler

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A compelling new perspective on Canada's planning history that offers a counter-narrative to the "official" story of the profession, one that has g...

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A Haven and a Hell. The Ghetto in Black America, Paperback - Lance Freeman

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Lance Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present...

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Creamy & Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food, Hardcover - Jon Krampner

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Reducere. More than Mom's apple pie, peanut butter is the all-American food. With its rich, roasted-peanut aroma and flavor; caramel hue; and gooey, consolin...

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Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, Paperback - James Fleming

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Reducere. As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists argue. Instead, ...

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The Best American Magazine Writing 2021, Paperback - Sid Holt

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Reducere. The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 will feature a selection of articles honored by this year's National Magazine Awards for Print and Digital ...

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A New Culture of Energy. Beyond East and West, Paperback - Luce Irigaray

155,99 RON

Luce Irigaray reflects on three critical concerns of our time: the cultivation of energy in its many forms, the integration of Asian and Western tr...

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The Pivot. Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action, Hardback - Steve Hamm

170,99 RON

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, a global volunteer collaboration called Pivot Projects was formed to rethink how the world works. In The Pivot, the...

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Samak the Ayyar. A Tale of Ancient Persia, Paperback - ***

170,99 RON

The adventures of Samak, a trickster-warrior hero of Persia's thousand-year-old oral storytelling tradition, are beloved in Iran. Translated from t...

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Thomas Berry. A Biography, Paperback - Andrew Angyal

131,99 RON

Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was one of the twentieth century's most prescient and profound thinkers. The first biography of Berry, this book illuminat...

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The Membranes. A Novel, Paperback - Ta-wei Chi

100,99 RON

First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes-heirloom ...

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Cook, Taste, Learn. How the Evolution of Science Transformed the Art of Cooking, Paperback - Guy, Ph.D Crosby

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Guy Crosby offers a lively tour of the history and science behind the art of cooking, with a focus on achieving a healthy daily diet. He traces the...

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