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What We Hold in Trust: Rediscovering the Purpose of Catholic Higher Education, Paperback - Don J. Briel

199,99 RON 213,99 RON

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We Only Know Men: The Rescue of Jews in France During the Holocaust, Paperback - Patrick Henry

202,99 RON 217,99 RON

Reducere. Patrick Henry, working with more than one thousand unpublished autobiographical pages written by key rescuers and with documents, letters, and inte...

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Nostra Aetate. Celebrating 50 Years of the Catholic Church's Dialogue with Jews and Muslims, Paperback - ***

352,99 RON

The essays and lectures colleced in this volume focus on the relationship of the Catholic Church with the other "Abrahamic" faiths, primarily Islam...

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The History of Anthropology: A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America, Paperback - Regna Darnell

273,99 RON 293,99 RON

Reducere. In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas ...

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Excavating Nauvoo: The Mormons and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America, Paperback - Benjamin C. Pykles

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. This detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, takes readers back to the roots of historical archaeology. B...

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Travels in North America, 1832-1834: A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Hardcover - Prince Alexander Phi Maximilian of Wi

316,99 RON 339,99 RON

Reducere. The journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied rank among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early-nineteenth-century American West. P...

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The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, Paperback - Gerald Horne

151,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Gerald Horne Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1...

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In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire, Hardcover - Eiichiro Azuma

425,00 RON

DescriptionIn Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese Am...

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Saving America?: Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society, Paperback - Robert Wuthnow

298,99 RON

On January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order creating the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. T...

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The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, Paperback - Michael T. Taussig

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

Reducere. In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners i...

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Investigating Vatican II: Its Theologians, Ecumenical Turn, and Biblical Commitment, Paperback - Jared Wicks

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. Investigating Vatican II is a collection of Fr. Jared Wicks' recent articles on Vatican II, and presents the Second Vatican Council as an event to ...

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Slavery and Silence. Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate, Hardback - Paul D. Naish

410,99 RON

In the thirty-five years before the Civil War, as it became increasingly difficult for those outside the world of politics to have frank and open d...

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An Introduction to Vatican II as an Ongoing Theological Event, Paperback - Matthew Levering

174,99 RON 187,99 RON

Reducere. Contemporary scholars often refer to "the event of Vatican II, " but what kind of an event was it? In this first book of the new CUA Press series S...

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Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - Joseph Ratzinger

127,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Joseph RatzingerEditor: Aidan NicholsTranslator: Michael WaldsteinPresents a balanced perspective of the doctrine at the ce...

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Living the Good Life a Beginner's Thomistic Ethics, Paperback - Steven J. Jensen

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steven J. JensenLiving the Good Life presents a brief introduction to virtue and vice, self-control and weakness, misery an...

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Aquinas's Summa: Background, Structure, and Reception, Paperback - Jean-Pierre Torrell

120,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Pierre TorrellTranslator: Benedict M. GuevinIn this concise new volume by the acclaimed author of the biography of Sai...

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The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America, Paperback - Meika Loe

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Contributor(s): Author: Meika LoeSince its introduction in 1998, Viagra has launched a new kind of sexual revolution. Quickly becoming one of the m...

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Design After Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities, Paperback - Brent D. Ryan

185,99 RON

DescriptionAlmost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities--Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others--began shedding people and ...

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Story of Silver. How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, Paperback - William L. Silber

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Christ Our Hope an Introduction to Eschatology, Paperback - Paul O'Callaghan

245,99 RON 263,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul O'CallaghanChrist Our Hope is a masterful reflection on Christian eschatology, in a textbook of twelve accessible chap...

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Killer Instinct. The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America, Hardback - Nadine Weidman

294,99 RON

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are innately aggressive or...

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Unbuttoning America: A Biography of "peyton Place, Hardcover - Ardis Cameron

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and soc...

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Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America, Paperback - Johann N. Neem

139,99 RON

At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a rob...

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Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America, Paperback - Leslie J. Reagan

255,99 RON 273,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national an...

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The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America, Hardcover - Jonathan Zimmerman

213,99 RON

American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. But we've heard that complaint for the past 150 years, as critics have denounced the poo...

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Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding, Hardcover - Steven K. Green

208,99 RON 223,99 RON

Reducere. Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in e...

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Being and the Cosmos. From Seeing to Indwelling, Paperback - Robert E. Wood

425,99 RON

Aims to reestablish a speculative view of the cosmos that goes back to the ancient Greeks and that corresponds to the holism of contemporary physic...

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Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding, Paperback - Steven K. Green

228,99 RON 245,99 RON

Reducere. Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in e...

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White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America, Hardcover - Khyati Y. Joshi

179,99 RON

Exposes the invisible ways in which Christian privilege disadvantages religious minorities in America The United States is recognized as the most r...

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The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America, Paperback - Robert H. Churchill

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the ...

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America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History, Hardcover - Francis M. Carroll

287,99 RON 308,99 RON

Reducere. Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign inde...

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The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty, Hardcover - Ray Takeyh

213,99 RON

The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries "An original interpreta...

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Caring for America. Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State, Paperback - ***

262,99 RON

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jennifer (Professor of History, Professor of History, Yale University) KleinIllustration(s): 12 il...

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It is the Spirit Who Gives Life. New Directions in Pneumatology, Paperback - ***

399,99 RON

Presents essays authored by eleven world-renowned theologians. Each contribution originated as a public lecture addressed to theologians and an edu...

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A Treasure to be Shared. Understanding Anglicanorum coetibus, Paperback - Cardinal Luis Ladaria

349,99 RON

Intended to promote a more widespread knowledge of the Apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009. The ...

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Intercolonial Intimacies. Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898-1964, Hardback - Paula Park

309,99 RON

Elaborates on the "intercolonial intimacies" that shape a transpacific understanding of coloniality and latinidad.Publisher: University of Pittsbur...

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White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America, Paperback - Khyati y. Joshi

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. Exposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege disadvantages racial and religious minorities in America The United States is recogni...

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Constructing Latin America. Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art, Hardback - Patricio del Real

419,99 RON

A nuanced look at how the Museum of Modern Art's carefully curated treatment of Latin American architecture promoted U.S. political, economic, and ...

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Reimagining the Gran Chaco. Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America, Paperback - ***

352,99 RON

Traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a biodiverse region at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, B...

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The Complexities of Race. Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America, Paperback - ***

180,99 RON

Publisher: New York University PressNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 151 x 230 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

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Strength Coaching in America: A History of the Innovation That Transformed Sports, Hardcover - Jason P. Shurley

291,99 RON

It's hard to imagine, but as late as the 1950s, athletes could get kicked off a team if they were caught lifting weights. Coaches had long believed...

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Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America, Paperback - Tom Carlson

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Tom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the multi-million dollar...

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Contemporary Catholic Approaches to the People, Land, and State of Israel, Paperback - H.B. Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM

352,99 RON

A unique collection of essays from leading Catholic theologians from the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, England, and the Middl...

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The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship: Volume 1, to 1865, Paperback - Juliet E. K. Walker

310,99 RON 332,99 RON

Reducere. Despite almost four centuries of black independent self-help enterprises, the agency of African Americans in attempting to forge their own economic...

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Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America Since 1887, Paperback - Daniel M. Cobb

268,99 RON 287,99 RON

Reducere. In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights...

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Jesus, Interpreted: Benedict XVI, Bart Ehrman, and the Historical Truth of the Gospels, Paperback - Matthew J. Ramage

267,99 RON 286,99 RON

Reducere. In this sequel volume to his Dark Passages of the Bible (CUA Press, 2013), author Matthew Ramage turns his attention from the Old to the New Testam...

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Building Culture. Studies in the Intellectual History of Industrializing America, 1867-1910, Hardback - Richard F. Teichgraeber III

242,99 RON

An unprecedented wave of interest in building new cultural institutions swept through America from the end of the Civil War through the first decad...

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Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America, Paperback - James Marten

296,00 RON

After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. ...

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Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America, Paperback - Eva Marie Garroutte

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with whi...

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Introduction to the Mystery of the Church, Paperback - Op Benoit-Dominique De La Soujeole

253,99 RON 271,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Op Benoit-Dominique De La SoujeoleTranslator: Michael J. MillerIntroduction to the Mystery of the Church is an ecclesiologi...

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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, Hardcover - W. Caleb McDaniel

125,99 RON

DescriptionThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinn...

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Sweet Land of Liberty. America in the Mind of the French Left, 1848-1871, Hardback - Tom Sancton

378,99 RON

Examines how the French left perceived and used the image of the United States against the backdrop of major historical developments in both countr...

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Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America, Hardcover - Marcela A. Fuentes

703,99 RON

Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as peo...

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The Happy Life; Answer to Sceptics; Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil, Soliloquies, Paperback - St Augustine

293,99 RON

This volume contains translations of four of Augustine's earliest works: De beata vita, Contra Academicos, De ordine, and Soliloquia. His embrace o...

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The Priest Who Put Europe Back Together: The Life of Father Fabian Flynn, Cp, Paperback - Sean Brennan

384,99 RON

Philp Fabian Flynn led a remarkable life, bearing witness to some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. Flynn took part in the invas...

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Texas vs. California: A History of Their Struggle for the Future of America, Paperback - Kenneth P. Miller

247,99 RON 265,99 RON

Reducere. Texas and California are the leaders of Red and Blue America. As the nation has polarized, its most populous and economically powerful states have ...

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The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First-Century America, Paperback - Irwin Redlener

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Raymond is a talented young artist who carries his work from homeless shelter to homeless shelter in a tattered bag but has never even been inside ...

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The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America, Hardcover - Ellen Wayland-Smith

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The popular image of a midcentury adwoman is of a feisty girl beating men at their own game, a female Horatio Alger protagonist battling her way th...

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Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America, Hardcover - Brian P. Luskey

271,99 RON 291,99 RON

Reducere. When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day, " he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart o...

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The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition, Paperback - James Matthew Wilson

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead--an age that claims mastery over the world but als...

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Human Capital versus Basic Income. Ideology and Models of Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America, Paperback - Fabian A Borges

287,99 RON

Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus B...

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Human Capital versus Basic Income. Ideology and Models of Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America, Hardback - Fabian A Borges

574,99 RON

Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus B...

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Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands, Paperback - Lindsay G. Robertson

237,99 RON

John Marshall's landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v. M'Intosh gave the European sovereigns who "discovered" North America rights to the land, conve...

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In the Shadow of Dred Scott: St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America, Paperback - Kelly M. Kennington

203,99 RON

DescriptionThe Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread...

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The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation - Tom Engelhardt

246,99 RON 264,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn a substantial new afterword to his classic account of the collapse of American triumphalism in the wake of World War II, Tom Engelhar...

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Book of Psalms-OE: A New Translation According to the Hebrew Text, Paperback - Jewish Publication Society of America

124,99 RON

A new translation according to the traditional Hebrew text The Psalms have long brought comfort to those who mourn and have helped us find the spir...

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Master of Penance: Gratian and the Devlopment of Penitential Thought and Law in the Twelfth Century, Paperback - Atria A. Larson

204,99 RON

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At the Center of the Human Drama: The Philosophy of Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II, Paperback - Kenneth L. Schmitz

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. Relying upon many translations of Wojtyla's work (some not available in English), Schmitz locates Wojtyla's philosophy of human nature in the broad...

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Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: Homilies 48-88, Paperback - John Chrysostom

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Reducere. The Homilies on St. John's Gospel come from the period in which Chrysostom attained his greatest fame as pulpit orator, the years of his simple pri...

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Transnational Perspectives on Latin America. The Entwined Histories of a Multi-State Region, Hardback - ***

483,99 RON

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Luis (Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, ...

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