People s history of catalonia

People's History of Catalonia

A history of Catalonia and its centuries-long struggles for survival and, now, independence

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People's History Of Civilization

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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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People's History of the Vampire Uprising

In this wildly original debut - part social-political satire, part international mystery - a new virus turns people into something inhuman, upending s

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

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People's Games

Now, in The PeopleÂ’s Games, John Scally tells the compelling stories of the men and women behind the rich history of Gaelic Games. Since the introd

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The BBC: A People´s History - Hendy David

Anotace: `Thorough and engaging ... you can`t understand England without understanding the BBC` New York Times`Fascinating and informative` Daily Telegraph`A dramatic tale of innovation and determination` GuardianIn 1922, a tiny group of men and women came together to found the BBC, using what had been a weapon of war - Marconi`s wireless - to remake culture for the good...

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

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Who Made England?

ItÂ’s true: just over 1,000 years ago, English people lived in several smaller countries all over the island of Britain. A Saxon king called Alfred is

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Oxford World´s Classics The History of the English People 1000-1154 Oxford University Press

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Bloody Brilliant People

â€Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman’s witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look at your relatio

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Painted People - Matt Lodder

<p>In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’ </p> <p>Until now.</p> <p>Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity.</p> <p>The earliest tattoos yet ide...

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Oxford World´s Classics - Religion/Anthropology The Ecclesiastical History of the English People Oxford University Press

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Cork: A Potted History

An accessible history of Cork from its beginnings to the present day, following a walking trail highlighting the cityÂ’s significant events and people

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Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers - Paul Morland

<p>The great forces of population change – the balance of births, deaths and migrations – have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity, which economies top the international league tables and which are at best also-rans.The same forces that have shaped our past and present are sha...

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A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Anotace: Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill B...

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Empire of Pain : The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty - Keefe Patrick Radden

Anotace: The highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sc...

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Black Britain : A Photographic History - Gilroy Paul

Anotace: People of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited Great Britain for centuries. Professor Paul Gilroy has assembled a living visual history of their social life in the modern British Isles. Published in association with Getty Images,this volume faeture 321 b&w photographs, commentary by Paul Gilroy and a preface from Professor Stuart Hall.

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The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History Taylor & Francis Ltd

This 9th edition of Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 192 maps, presenting a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials and tribulations which have haunted their story. This new edition now includes an additional 38 of Martin Gilbert’s maps, across the whole range of Jewish history, originally published across ...

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The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History Taylor & Francis Ltd

This 9th edition of Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 192 maps, presenting a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials and tribulations which have haunted their story. This new edition now includes an additional 38 of Martin Gilbert’s maps, across the whole range of Jewish history, originally published across ...

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All Good People Here - Flowers Ashley

Anotace: What really happened to January Jacobs?A MYSTERIOUS COLD CASE...Twenty-five years ago, January Jacob`s parents awoke to find their daughter`s bed empty, a horrifying message spray-painted onto their wall. Hours later, January`s body was found discarded in a ditch. Her murder was never solved. But the town remembers.A DANGEROUS OBSESSION...Journalist Margot Davie...

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Prague In Black And Gold: The History Of A City - Demetz Peter

Anotace: From the Velvet Revolution to the disturbing world of Franz Kafka, from the devestation of the Thirty Years War to the musical elegance of Mozart and Dvorak, Prague is steeped in a wealth of history and culture. PRAGUE IN BLACK AND GOLD is a first class history of this unique city, allowing us to unravel layer upon layer of startlingly symbolic sites and buiding...

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The Story of China : A portrait of a civilisation and its people - Wood Michael

Anotace: China`s story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK`s pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today.China is the oldest living civilisation on earth, but its history is still surprisingly ...

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Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations - Prashad Vijay

Anotace: Essays on acts of US imperialism, from the 1953 Iran coup to the 2019 ouster of Evo MoralesWashington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easi...

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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Updated with a New Chapter - Garton Ash Timothy

Anotace: `Tremendously enjoyable ... thoughtful, honest, open, self-deprecating` Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times`Readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide ... panoramic ... defiantly hopeful` Financial TimesDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.Timothy Garton Ash, our great...

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The World of Ice & Fire - The Untold History - Martin George R. R.

Anotace: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HISTORY OF WESTEROS AND THE LANDS BEYOND WITH HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF ALL-NEW MATERIAL FROM GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin s masterwork the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World o...

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Dagestan - History, Culture, Identity Taylor & Francis Ltd

Dagestan: History, Ethnography, Identity provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Dagestan, a strategically important republic of the Russian Federation which borders Chechnya, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and its people. It outlines Dagestan’s rich and complicated history, from 5th c ACE to post USSR, as seen from the viewpoint of the Dagestani people. Chapters f...

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Armenian Genocide: History, lessons, consequences - Igor Bondarenko; John Akopov

Anotace: Armenian Genocide: History, Lessons, Consequences, is based upon archival documents and numerous academic publications. The book examines the background and causes of the mass exterminations of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. The study analyzes the territorial, demographic, physical, cultural, psychological and other losses s...

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Armenian Genocide: History, lessons, consequences - Igor Bondarenko; John Akopov

<p>Armenian Genocide: History, Lessons, Consequences, is based upon archival documents and numerous academic publications. The book examines the background and causes of the mass exterminations of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. The study analyzes the territorial, demographic, physical, cultural, psychological and other losses su...

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The World: A Family History - Montefiore Simon Sebag

Anotace: THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST`S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Mont...

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The Good, The Bad and The History - Taylor Jodi

Anotace: BOOK 14 IN THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY`S SERIES, FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JODI TAYLOR. `Brilliant, hilarious, keeps you on your toes` Reader review `The characters make me come back time and time again` Reader review `I have not found another author who can tell a story involving time travel as well` Reader review St Mary`s is under investiga...

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An Encyclopedia of Tolkien : The History and Mythology That Inspired Tolkien´s World - David Day

<p>A comprehensive, illustrated guide to the history, lands, and inhabitants of Middle-earth. The fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth contains a rich assortment of people, cities, and creatures--as well as a deep, intertwined history that spans thousands of years. In this beautifully illustrated, leather-bound volume, best-selling author and Tolkien sc...

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Dust: The thrilling dystopian series, and the #1 drama in history of Apple TV (Silo) - Howey Hugh

Anotace: The much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy.`The next Hunger Games.` The Sunday Times`Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ... one of dystopian fiction`s masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World.` Daily Express________________In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order. Some...

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Wool: The thrilling dystopian series, and the #1 drama in history of Apple TV (Silo) - Howey Hugh

Anotace: NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF AppleTV+, SILO.An epic story of survival at all odds and one of the most anticipated books of the year, soon to also be a major Apple TV series.`Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ... one of dystopian fiction`s masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World.` DAILY EXPRESS_____________In a ruined and ho...

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Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo´s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 - Payne Chris

Anotace: An explosive oral history of emo`s takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuringMY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FALL OUT BOY, PARAMORE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, JIMMY EAT WORLD, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, AND MANY MOREIf Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City`s early 2000`s rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the turn-of-the-millen...

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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&rsquo;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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Prague in the Heart - 189 Stories from the City and its People - Renáta Fučíková

Anotace: Prague in the Heart is a collection of one hundred and eighty-nine true stories of events that have taken place in Prague over the past two hundred years. They show that the recent past has been no less dramatic and convoluted than in medieval times. Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Seifert, Bohumil Hrabal, Jaroslav Hašek, Jan Patočka, Jiří Dienstbier and ...

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Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations - Vijay Prashad

<p>Essays on acts of US imperialism, from the 1953 Iran coup to the 2019 ouster of Evo Morales Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could eas...

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The World of Ice &amp; Fire - The Untold History - George Raymond Richard Martin

<p>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HISTORY OF WESTEROS AND THE LANDS BEYOND WITH HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF ALL-NEW MATERIAL FROM GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin s masterwork the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World of...

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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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Armenian Genocide: History, lessons, consequences (978-80-971764-5-7)

Kniha - autor Igor Bondarenko; John Akopov, 232 stran, anglicky, pevná s přebalem lesklá Armenian Genocide: History, Lessons, Consequences, is based upon archival documents and numerous academic publications. The book examines the background and causes of the mass exterminations of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. The study analyzes t...

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Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo´s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 - Chris Payne

<p>An explosive oral history of emo's takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FALL OUT BOY, PARAMORE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, JIMMY EAT WORLD, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, AND MANY MORE If Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's early 2000's rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the turn-of-the-mil...

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How to Argue With a Racist : History, Science, Race and Reality - Rutherford Adam

Anotace: Racist pseudoscience may be on the rise, but science is no ally to racists. Instead science and history can be powerful allies against bigotry, granting us the clearest view of how people actually are, rather than how we judge them to be. HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics can and can`t tell us abo...

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Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don´t Know - Gladwell Malcolm

Anotace: The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger`s motives?Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and i...

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The World: A Family History - W. a CH. Awdry, Montefiore Simon Sebag

Anotace: The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a fresh and original history of humanity, unlike any previous world history: it uses family, the one thing all humans have in common, to tell the story. It is genuinely global, spanning all eras and all continents, from the perspective of places as diverse as Haiti, Congo and Cambodia as well as Europe, China and America. S...

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Fashion History from the 18th to the 20th Century

<p>Take an trip through three centuries of trend. In this spectacular collection from the Kyoto Costume Institute, one of the world’s most extensive clothing collections, the smartest minds and sharpest eyes in fashion studies walk us through the outer- and underwear, shoes, and accessories that have defined people around the world.</p> <p>Clothes define...

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The Cold War : A New Oral History - Kendall Bridget

Anotace: The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new physical and ideological boundaries between East and West. In this meticulously researched account, Bridget Ke...

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Making Gay History : The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights - Eric Marcus

<p>From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992. Using the heartfelt stories of more than sixty people, he ca...

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Fashion. A History from the 18th to the 20th Century - kolektiv (EN)

Clothes define people. A person’s attire, whether it’s a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Founded in 1978, the Kyoto Costume Institute recognizes the importance of understanding clothes from sociological, historical, and artistic perspectives.

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The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders: Invest in People Like Your Future Depends on It - Maxwell John C.

Anotace: What is the secret sauce for every kind of organization?What is the secret to organizational success? Whether the goal is developing a new product, establishing a new location, launching a new initiative, starting a new team, or improving your existing one, what will determine its success? The leaders! For any team, small business, large corporation, non-profit ...

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Children of the Whales 21 - Umeda Abi

Anotace: In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past.In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past.Neither fully human nor fully Nous, the emperor has had centuries to observe people ...

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The Physics of Sorrow - Gospodinov Georgi

Anotace: From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, this kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander uninvited into other people's memories. In the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest. Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from ...

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Prague Cuisine - A Selection of Culinary Experiences in the City of Spires - Dominic James

Anotace: Prague Cuisine is a culinary journey of discovery. From urban chic to fine dining, Dominic James shares his culinary experiences and discoveries, revealing a diverse selection of restaurants, cafés, bistros and confectioners in and around a city rich in history and tradition. With its beautiful collection of photographs and descriptive legends, this treas...

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The Future of Geography - Marshall Tim

Anotace: Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries` GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.This isn`t science fiction. It`s astropolitics.Humans are heading up and out, and we`re taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers and seas have on Earth. It`s no ...

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Winter of the World - Ken Follett

Anotace: Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-twentieth century Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother’s formidable friend and former British M...

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A Catalogue of Catastrophe - Taylor Jodi

Anotace: `Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History` C. K. MCDONNELL BOOK 13 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY`S SERIESFor fans of Richard Osman`s Thursday Murder Club series, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who.---Finally - finally! - Max has that nice office job she`s always wanted. The one with...

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Death Census of Black Â’47: Eyewitness Accounts of IrelandÂ’s Great Famine

The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of

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