A people s history of the united states

A People's History of the United States

With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the book's thirty-five year history and demonstrates once again why it is a significant contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronic...

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Young People's History Of The United States

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Young People's History Of The United States

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Young People's History Of The United States

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History of the United States

Vysokoškolská učebnica History of the United States je primárne zameraná na výučbu odborného anglického jazyka v kontexte politického vývoja USA. V šiestich kapitolách učebnica overuje pochopenie textu a vybranými aktivitami rozvíja jazykové zručnosti na pozadí odborného jazyka. Publikácie je určená študentom odborov medzinárodné vzťahy a politológia, s možným využitím aj...

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Young People's History Of The United States, Vol.2

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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (0062397346)

Kniha - autor Howard Zinn, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná

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21st Century Voices Of A People's History Of The United States

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SS United States

An insiderGÇÖs view of the most detailed technical history of one of the world's greatest ocean liners GÇô the SS United States!

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How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps - Shapiro Ben

Anotace: A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it`s taken us 250 years to build-and they`ll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture.Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can`t agree on what makes America special. We can`t even agree that America is special. We`re coming to the point that we can`t even agree what the word...

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Australia & the Pacific: A history

Anotace: There are many ways to present a history of Australia and its Pacific neighbourhood, though there have been remarkably few attempts to do so. Had I worked as a reporter, administrator, aid worker or entrepreneur my insights would be very different. So, too, if I were a missionary or the son of the same. Instead, I am a historian... Australia & the Pacific is a r...

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Making History: The First World War

Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new. This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully reali...

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Making History: The First World War (PC)

Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new.This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully re...

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Native American Loanwords in Contemporary American English : History and Development - Reese Katharina

Anotace: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (John-F. Kennedy-Institut fur Nordamerikastudien), course: Language Change II: Language Contact Phenomena and Change in English, language: English, abstract: The number of indigenous people that inhabited the American continent before the Europea...

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Definitely: The Official Story of Def Leppard - Leppard Def

Anotace: JOE ELLIOTT: We had balls and we were naive, in a good way. We just went out there, full throttle.Offering fans the most personal and comprehensive record of Def Leppard`s history to date, Definitely: The Official Story of Def Leppard is narrated by the band in their own words, illustrated with photography and memorabilia from the Def Leppard archives.RICK SAVAG...

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The Rise & Fall of Great Powers - Rachman Tom

Anotace: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNPR - The Seattle Times - The Globe and Mail - Kirkus Reviews - Daily Mail - The Vancouver Sun From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past. Look in the back of the book for a convers...

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The Dream of Europe : Travels in a Troubled Continent - Mak Geert

Anotace: How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.The great European project was built out of a common desire for peace, prosperity and freedom; a wish for a united E...

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Countdown to Darkness: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume II

Anotace: The book´s first chapter contains new revelations about how Oswald was a witting false defector to the USSR in a CIA plan to surface a KGB mole in the CIA. The second volume in a series on the assassination of President Kennedy, "Countdown to Darkness" describes events during a dangerous quickening of the Cold War. The race for a long-range delivery system for n...

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Empire of Liberty

A magnificent new volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States, written by the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Gordon S. Wo

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Secret Of The Royal Throne (PC)

It is believed that, in ancient India there was a noble king who had a throne guided by 13 deities. His kingdom was prosperous and invincible until an angry sage cursed the royal throne locking the deitie's powers.One day a renowned archeologist from the United States learns during his archeological site visit in India, that the kingdom really exists today a...

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The Long Tomorrow - Brackett Leigh

Anotace: `No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America.`Thirtieth Amendment to the Constitution of the United StatesTwo generations after the nuclear holocaust, rumours persisted about a secret desert hideaway where scientists work...

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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness (0307452425)

Kniha - autor Robert Whitaker, 416 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná Updated with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with new research, this New York Times bestseller is essential reading for a time when mental health is constantly in the news. In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker...

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Among the Sinners - Karen von Kunes

Anotace: Written in the Kunderian playful style of "lightness of form and heaviness of inquiry," Karen von Kunes´ debut novel Among the Sinners makes allusions to Boccaccio's novel The Decameron. Like ten young people who flee from plague-ridden Florence to an abandoned mansion in mediaeval times, the ten young `sinners´ from various countries hide in "The Decameron," a ...

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A Long Arc: Photography and the American South

<p>Collects over 175 years of key moments in the visual history of the Southern United States, with over two hundred and fifty photographs taken from 1845 to present.</p> <p>The South is perhaps the most mythologized region in the United States and also one of the most depicted. Since the dawn of photography in the nineteenth century, photographers have ...

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The Hill We Climb and Other Poems - Gorman Amanda

Anotace: Including `The Hill We Climb,` the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this luminous poetry collection by Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an im...

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Countdown to Darkness: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume II - John M. Newman

<p>The book’s first chapter contains new revelations about how Oswald was a witting false defector to the USSR in a CIA plan to surface a KGB mole in the CIA. The second volume in a series on the assassination of President Kennedy, “Countdown to Darkness” describes events during a dangerous quickening of the Cold War. The race for a long-range delivery system for nu...

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Ally : My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide - Oren Michael B.

Anotace: "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Michael B. Oren s memoir of his time as Israel s ambassador to the United States a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship between America and its closest ally in the region. Michael Oren served as the Israe...

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The Quarry (Deluxe Edition) [Steam]

Zatímco slunce zapadá poslední den letního tábora, mladí vychovatelé z Hackett's Quarry pořádají oslavný večírek. Žádné děti, žádní dospělí, žádná pravidla. O hře Váš příběh, jejich osud Odvážíte se podívat, co je za těmi padacími dveřmi? Prozkoumáte ty výkřiky, které se ozývají z lesa? Zachráníte přátele, nebo raději zoufale utečete? Každé velké i malé rozhodnutí bu...

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America Is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo

<p>How many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in the Philippines, she's already on her third. Her uncle, Pol, who has offered her a fresh start and a place to stay in the Bay Area, knows not to ask about the first and second. And his younger wife, Paz, has learned enough about the might and ...

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Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage Taylor & Francis Ltd

Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History chronicles the development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day.Itexplores the fascinating tug-and-pull between the European classical, folk and social dance imports and America’s indigenous dance forms as th...

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Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage Taylor & Francis Ltd

Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History chronicles the development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day.Itexplores the fascinating tug-and-pull between the European classical, folk and social dance imports and America’s indigenous dance forms as th...

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The New York Times The Complete Front Pages 1851-2 - Bill Keller

<p>New edition of the national blockbuster and New York Times bestseller—with more than a dozen new front pages, including Obama's election and inauguration, his first trip abroad, the financial meltdown, Madoff, and more. One of the most popular gift books of the 2008 holiday season now includes the history-making Obama front pages and so much more. The book and th...

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Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know - Tim Marshall

<p>DISCOVER THE TEN MAPS THAT REVEAL THE FUTURE OF OUR WORLD IN THE POWER OF GEOGRAPHY - THE SEQUEL TO PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY - OUT ON 22/04/2021 - PREORDER NOW! THE MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERGeography shapes not only our history, but where we're headed...All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and co...

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Vermeer. The Complete Works. 40th Anniversary Edition - Karl Schutz

<p>Discover one of the most admired artists in history: Johannes Vermeer. Complete with crisp reproductions, details, and insightful essays, this monograph spans his entire repertoire, illuminating the artist’s outstanding ability not only to bear witness to the spirit of the Dutch Golden Age, but also to encapsulate an entire story in just one transient gesture, ex...

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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (hardcover) - Michael Wolff

<p>#1 New York Times Bestseller</p> <p>With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.</p> <p>Since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, th...

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, 1. vydání - Timothy Snyder

<p>THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br /><br /> 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer<br /> History does not repeat, but it does instruct.<br /> In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascis...

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Historie Čechů v USA - Renáta Fučíková

Anotace: Czech immigrants traveled to the unknown beyond the Atlantic in several waves. Some came to America in search of religious and political freedom, while others simply sought a better life in a country of great opportunities. Today we know that without their involvement, independent Czechoslovakia would hardly have come to exist, and without the assistance of the ...

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Decision Points - Bush George W.

Anotace: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this candid and gripping memoir, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life. George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world an...

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Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know - Marshall Tim

Anotace: THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER; All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements...but if you don`t know geography, you`ll never have the full picture.; To understand Putin`s actions, for example, it is ess...

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Fascism : A Warning, 1. vydání - Madeleine Albright

<p>A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. "There is priceless wisdom on every page." Kirkus Starred review A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, `is someone who claims...

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Road To Unfreedom - neuveden

Anotace: From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America.<br> With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as...

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Becoming - neuveden

Anotace: An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America-the first African American to serve in that role-she helped create the most welcoming and ...

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Girl One - Murphy Sara Flannery

Anotace: Her birth was mankind`s greatest breakthrough. Her life is man`s greatest threat.Josephine Morrow is Girl One, the first of nine Miracle Babies conceived without male DNA on an experimental commune known as the Homestead.The Girls were raised at the Homestead in the shadow of controversy - plagued by zealots calling them aberrations - until a suspicious fire cla...

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A Promised Land - Barack Obama

Anotace: A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly p...

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Wheelmen - Albergotti Reed

Anotace: Lance Armstrong won a record-smashing seven Tours de France after staring down cancer, and in the process became an international symbol of resilience and courage. In a sport constantly dogged by blood-doping scandals, he seemed above the fray. Then, in January 2013, the legend imploded. He admitted doping during the Tours and, in an interview with Oprah, descri...

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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without me - Kaling Mindy

Anotace: Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear...

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How Democracies Die - neuveden

Anotace: How Democracies Die How does a democracy die? What lessons does history teach us? What can we do to save our own? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Levitsky and Ziblatt explain why democracies...

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A Promised Land, 1. vydání - Barack Hussein Obama

<p>A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracyIn the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly pers...

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Sebastiao Salgado: Kuwait. A Desert on Fire (Collector’s Edition) - Sebastiao Salgado

“We must remember that in the brutality of battle another such apocalypse is always just around the corner.” —Sebasti?o Salgado In January and February 1991, as the United States–led coalition drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein’s troops retaliated with an inferno. At some 700 oil wells and an unspecified number of oil-filled low-lying areas, they ignited vas...

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How To Kill Vampire - Pinto Christopher

Anotace: Fun! Artistic! Great Writing! Cool Images!" Have you ever been on a dark country road, face to face with one of the evil undead, and had no idea how to defend yourself? Well, probably not if you`re still alive and reading this. Finally, there is a book that very concisely and very quickly teaches you how to defend yourself and others against Vampires, those anno...

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Unequal Sisters Taylor & Francis Ltd

Unequal Sisters has become a beloved and classic reader, providing an unparalleled resource for understanding women’s history in the United States today. This classic work has incorporated the feedback of educators in the field, to make it the most user-friendly version to date and will be of interest to students and scholars of women’s history, gender and sexuality stu...

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Unequal Sisters Taylor & Francis Ltd

Unequal Sisters has become a beloved and classic reader, providing an unparalleled resource for understanding women’s history in the United States today. This classic work has incorporated the feedback of educators in the field, to make it the most user-friendly version to date and will be of interest to students and scholars of women’s history, gender and sexuality stu...

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Anti-Black Literacy Laws and Policies Taylor & Francis Ltd

This groundbreaking book uncovers how anti-Black racism has informed and perpetuated anti-literacy laws, policies, and customs from the colonial period to the present day. A counternarrative of the history of Black literacy in the United States, the bookarsquo,s historical lens reveals the interlocking political and social structures that have repeatedly failed to support...

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Anti-Black Literacy Laws and Policies Taylor & Francis Ltd

This groundbreaking book uncovers how anti-Black racism has informed and perpetuated anti-literacy laws, policies, and customs from the colonial period to the present day. A counternarrative of the history of Black literacy in the United States, the bookarsquo,s historical lens reveals the interlocking political and social structures that have repeatedly failed to support...

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On Tyranny - Timothy Snyder

Anotace: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br><br> 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer<br> History does not repeat, but it does instruct.<br> In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fas...

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Why Nations Fail

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or d...

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Wheelmen

Lance Armstrong won a record-smashing seven Tours de France after staring down cancer, and in the process became an international symbol of resilience and courage. In a sport constantly dogged by blood-doping scandals, he seemed above the fray. Then, in January 2013, the legend imploded. He admitted doping during the Tours and, in an interview with Oprah, described his "m...

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Sooley - John Grisham

<p>ONE MAN. ONE HOPE. ONCE CHANCE TO BECOME A LEGEND. ONE MAN Seventeen-year-old Samuel Sooleyman comes from a village in South Sudan, a war-torn country where one third of the population is a refugee. His great love is basketball: his prodigious leap and lightning speed make him an exceptional player. And it may also bring him his big chance: he has been noticed b...

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Becoming

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American to serve in that role - she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive...

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Airport Madness: Time Machine (PC) DIGITAL (PC)

You are an air traffic controller at a small grass airfield in 1925. Watch the airport develop over time, into a major international airport in 1970.Airport Madness: Time Machine's theme goes back to the core of what made Airport Madness fun in its beginning in 2008. It offers an airport that grows up over time. We take you back to 1925 and put you into the control t...

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