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Sudden Death

The Incredible Saga of the 1986 Swift Current Broncos

By: Leesa Culp,Gregg Drinnan,Bob Wilkie

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Sudden Death

The Incredible Saga of the 1986 Swift Current Broncos

By: Leesa Culp,Gregg Drinnan,Bob Wilkie

A true story of hockey heartbreak, tragedy, and triumph. Limited time offer. Sudden Death brings to life the incredible ongoing saga of the Swift Current Broncos hockey team. After a tragic game-day bus accident on December 30, 1986, left four of its star players dead, the first-year Western Hockey League team was faced with nearly insurmountable odds against not only its future success but its very survival. The heartbreaking story made headlines across North America, and the club garnered acclaim when it triumphantly rebounded and won the Canadian Hockey League’s prestigious Memorial Cup in 1989. Many of the surviving Broncos continued their successful hockey careers in the NHL, among them 2012 Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Sakic, Sheldon Kennedy, and Sudden Death co-author Bob Wilkie. Years later the Broncos’ tragedy-to-triumph tale was overshadowed when the team’s former coach, Graham James, was convicted of sexual assault against Sheldon Kennedy, Theoren Fleury, and Todd Holt, all of whom played for him.

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Dundurn

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1459705467

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9781459705463

The Secretaries of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security

By: Bob Navarro

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The Secretaries of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security

By: Bob Navarro

The Secretary of Veterans Affairs deals with issues related to veterans who have served in the military. The Secretary of Homeland Security is concerned with the safety of the country and its citizens, especially with attacks by terrorists.

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Lulu.com

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0359935672

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9780359935673

Hot Dog Skiing

By: Bob Mann

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Hot Dog Skiing

By: Bob Mann

Phenomenal photos, candid text, expert instruction and analysis--somebody has finally given our sport its due!" --John Clendenia, National Freestyle Champion

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393086909

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9780393086904

The Scottish People and the French Revolution

By: Bob Harris

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The Scottish People and the French Revolution

By: Bob Harris

Presents a study of the political culture of Scotland in the 1790s. This book compares the emergence of 'the people' as a political force, with popular political movements in England and Ireland. It analyses Scottish responses to the French Revolution across the political spectrum; explaining Loyalist as well as Radical opinions and organisations.

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Routledge

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1317315308

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Opening Doors to a Richer English Curriculum for Ages 10 to 13 (Opening Doors series)

By: Verity Jones,Leah Crawford,Bob Cox

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Opening Doors to a Richer English Curriculum for Ages 10 to 13 (Opening Doors series)

By: Verity Jones,Leah Crawford,Bob Cox

Opening Doors to a Richer English Curriculum for Ages 10 to 13 takes Bob Cox's award-winning 'Opening Doors' series into bold new territories, providing a treasury of techniques and strategies all carefully selected to support the design of a deeper, more creative and more expansive curriculum. Together with Leah Crawford and Verity Jones, Bob has compiled this rich resource to help teachers enhance their learners' engagement with challenging texts and develop their writing skills as budding wordsmiths. It includes 15 ready-to-use units of work covering a range of inspiring poetry and prose from across the literary tradition, complete with vivid illustrations by Victoria Cox. Bob, Leah and Verity's innovative ideas on theory, best practice and how to cultivate a pioneering classroom spirit are all integrated into the lesson suggestions, which have been designed for both the teacher's and the learners' immediate benefit. Together they empower teachers to explore with their learners the scope and depth of literature capable of inspiring high standards and instilling a love of language in its many forms. Furthermore, they help teachers to lay down intricate curricular pathways that will prompt their pupils to better enjoy literature, read and analyse texts with a greater sense of curiosity, and write with more originality. The book includes a great range of texts both as the core of each unit and as link reading, incorporating some contemporary texts to show how past and present co-exist - and how various literary styles can be taught using similar principles, all of which are open to further adaptation. The authors have also suggested key concepts around which the curriculum can be built, with the units providing examples with which you can work. All of the extracts and illustrations you will need in order to begin opening doors in your classroom are downloadable, and the book also includes a helpful glossary of key terms.

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Crown House Publishing Ltd

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1785834517

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9781785834516

Researching Hospitality and Tourism

A Student Guide

By: Bob Brotherton

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Researching Hospitality and Tourism

A Student Guide

By: Bob Brotherton

This textbook will be used to support undergraduate dissertation supervision. The book clearly sets out the research philosophies, principles and practices relevant to conduct of fieldwork. A useful and informative text to aid the research design and process." - Nazia Ali, Bedfordshire University "A key text for students studying research methods or undertaking a research project in the hospitality and tourism industries." - Lisa Wyld, Westminster Kingsway College "An excellent overview of primary research itself and its application in Hospitality and Tourism." - Jane Warren, SHRM College Hospitality and tourism is the fourth biggest industry in the world. What are the key research issues in the field? What methods are particularly useful to answer questions of management, policy, strategy and general understanding? This is the first comprehensive guide to research methods and issues for students engaged in hospitality and tourism studies. Jargon-free, incisive and relevant, the book offers an uncluttered guide to key concepts and essential research techniques. It is grounded in a real world approach that concentrates upon the issues that students will encounter in their studies and work experience. It fills an enormous gap in the field providing students with the first dedicated introduction to research methods for hospitality and tourism students.

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SAGE

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1446203700

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9781446203705

Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare, Third Edition

The Invisible Architecture of Core Values, Attitude, and Self-Empowerment

By: Joe Tye,Bob Dent

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Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare, Third Edition

The Invisible Architecture of Core Values, Attitude, and Self-Empowerment

By: Joe Tye,Bob Dent

“The ‘Invisible Architecture’ is built on knowing, and acting on, what research tells us creates a great employee experience. Thank you, Joe and Bob, for writing a book whose time has come—and for your efforts to make healthcare better and better.” -Quint Studer, MSE Co-author, The Human Margin: Building the Foundations of Trust "A must read and a great resource for every leader in today's transforming work environment." -Tim Porter-O'Grady, DM, EdD, APRN, FAAN, FACCWS Senior Partner, Health Systems, TPOG Associates Clinical Professor, Emory University, SON Registered Mediator In the aftermath of the pandemic, preexisting challenges in healthcare organizations have intensified. Stress, burnout, staffing shortages, and even the erosion of trust in organizational leadership are pressing issues that need solutions. Using construction as their metaphor, authors Joe Tye and Bob Dent make a compelling case that a healthcare organization’s Invisible Architecture—a foundation of core values, a superstructure of organizational culture, and the interior finish of workplace attitude—is no less important than its visible architecture. In this third edition of Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare, readers will learn how investing in their organization and their people can enable a significant, successful change in productivity; employee engagement; nurse satisfaction, recruitment, and retention; quality of care; patient satisfaction; and positive financial outcomes. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Invisible Architecture Chapter 2: From Accountability to Ownership Chapter 3: The Foundation of Core Values Chapter 4: The Superstructure of Organizational Culture Chapter 5: The Interior Finish of Workplace Attitude Chapter 6: Blueprinting a Culture of Ownership Chapter 7: Three Essential Elements of a Culture of Ownership Chapter 8: Personal Values and Organizational Values Chapter 9: The Four Dimensions of Transformational Leadership Chapter 10: Anatomy of a Change Movement: What the Movement to Ban Public Smoking Has to Teach Healthcare Leaders About Culture Change Afterword Epilogue

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Sigma Theta Tau

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1646481275

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Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare, Second Edition

The Invisible Architecture of Core Values, Attitude, and Self-Empowerment

By: Joe Tye,Bob Dent

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Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare, Second Edition

The Invisible Architecture of Core Values, Attitude, and Self-Empowerment

By: Joe Tye,Bob Dent

Using construction as their metaphor, authors Joe Tye and Bob Dent make a compelling case that a healthcare organization’s invisible architecture—a foundation of core values, a superstructure of organizational culture, and the interior finish of workplace attitude—is no less important than its visible architecture. Further, they assert that culture will not change unless people change, and people will not change unless they are inspired to do so and given the right tools. The fully updated second edition of Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare takes readers on a journey from accountability to ownership—providing a proven model, strategies, and practical solutions to help improve organizational culture in the healthcare setting. Learn how investing in your organization and your people can enable a significant, successful change in productivity; employee engagement; nurse satisfaction, recruitment, and retention; quality of care; patient satisfaction; and financial outcomes.

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Sigma

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1948057735

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9781948057738

Committed to Christ: Adult Readings and Study Book

Six Steps to a Generous Life

By: Bob Crossman

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Committed to Christ: Adult Readings and Study Book

Six Steps to a Generous Life

By: Bob Crossman

Committed to Christ: Six Steps to a Generous Life is a six-week stewardship program that presents giving as a lifelong journey in Christian discipleship. This Adult Readings and Study Book is designed for use in the six-week small group study that undergirds the program, as well as by others participating in the program. After an introductory Sunday stressing the importance of commitment to Christ, the next six weeks are spent exploring six steps to a generous life: Prayer Bible Reading Worship Witness Financial Giving Service With each step, readers are asked to assess prayerfully their own level of commitment and to consider increasing that commitment by one step. Equal emphasis is placed on each of the six steps, clearly communicating that this program is not simply about money, but rather cultivating a thankful heart that will lead us to giving more than we can ever imagine. “For a program that focuses on the totality of stewardship, there is none better.” -Jim Polk, Senior Pastor, El Dorado First United Methodist Church, El Dorado AR

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Abingdon Press

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1426758588

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9781426758584

Queensbury and Glens Falls

By: Bob Bayle,Andrea Matte,Tim Weidner

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Queensbury and Glens Falls

By: Bob Bayle,Andrea Matte,Tim Weidner

In 1762, Abraham Wing led a group of Quakers to lands he had acquired on the edge of the Adirondacks. Soon, a cluster of log cabins surrounded the mills that Wing had built at the falls on the Hudson River. By the early 19th century, Queensbury consisted of several small hamlets and the village of Glens Falls, which grew into an industrial and commercial center. Factories produced lumber, lime, paper, shirts, and cement, and the city featured many stores, churches, theaters, and a hospital. The surrounding township remained largely agricultural but offered such recreational activities as golf, swimming, fishing, boating, and skiing. After World War II, commercial momentum shifted to Queensbury as motels, tourist attractions, and shopping centers sprang up along Route 9, the main route to Lake George and the Adirondacks.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738591491

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Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820

By: Bob Harris

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Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820

By: Bob Harris

This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon personal documents, town council minutes, legal cases, inventories, travellers' tales, plans and drawings relating to some 30 Scots burghs of the Georgian period. It establishes a distinctive and much-needed history for the development of Georgian Scots burghs.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748692584

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9780748692583

Lengthening Shadows

By: Bob Franklin

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Lengthening Shadows

By: Bob Franklin

The master of creeping unease and unrelenting consequences is back. The vain and the cruel, the indifferent and the excessive, across ten tales of cut corners and grubby compromise, Bob Franklin turns his fairground mirror on contemporary Australia, with a cast of characters navigating modern life and trying to get by, get on and get away with whatever they can, whatever the cost. A gaggle of comedians exchange escalating jokes about a needy fan. A small business owner delights in making top dollar off uncomprehending customers. A widower finds solace in a new dog that gives focus and purpose to his rage and grief. In 60s London a rock band rise and rise, aided by occult forces from another place. After dinner stories in an elite gentleman's club turn to impossible murder and skullduggery in an Australian mining company. Gleefully macabre, drily menacing, chillingly acute, Franklin spares nobody.

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Affirm Press

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1922419737

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9781922419736

What Earl Scruggs Heard

String Music Along the North Carolina-South Carolina Border

By: Bob Carlin

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What Earl Scruggs Heard

String Music Along the North Carolina-South Carolina Border

By: Bob Carlin

When the story of banjo superstar Earl Scruggs is told, the rich musical environment that produced him is often ignored. During his lifetime Scruggs spun a creation myth around his playing, convincing many that he was the sole originator of a three-finger, up-picking, banjo style. For the first time, this book tells the full story of the music and musicians of the western Carolinas that influenced Earl Scruggs. Based on more than 15 years of in-depth research, this book includes the story of country music recording pioneers Parker and Woolbright, Fisher Hendley and Martin Melody Boys; rare images of area music makers; and the history and development of fiddlers' conventions and radio barn dances. Together, these stories are woven into the biographies of Earl's mentors to reveal the musical atmosphere in which they developed the "three-finger picking" style that so enchanted a young Earl Scruggs.

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McFarland

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1476644241

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9781476644240

Quest for the Presidency

The Storied and Surprising History of Presidential Campaigns in America

By: Bob Riel

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Quest for the Presidency

The Storied and Surprising History of Presidential Campaigns in America

By: Bob Riel

Quest for the Presidency gathers in a single volume the compelling stories behind every presidential campaign in American history, from 1789 through 2020. Bob Riel takes us inside the 1800 clash between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, the 1860 election that launched the Civil War, the 1948 whistle-stop comeback of Harry Truman, the Kennedy-Nixon drama of 1960, the 1980 Reagan Revolution, the historic 2008 election of Barack Obama, the turbulent 2020 battle between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and everything in between. This engaging and insightful book includes a trove of entertaining stories about campaigns and candidates, and it goes beyond the campaign tales to also consider the threads that link elections across time. It sheds light on the continually evolving story of American democracy in a way that helps us to better understand present-day politics.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640125280

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9781640125285

Routledge History of International Organizations

From 1815 to the Present Day

By: Bob Reinalda

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Routledge History of International Organizations

From 1815 to the Present Day

By: Bob Reinalda

This is a definitive and comprehensive history of international organizations from their very beginning at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 up to the present day, and provides the reader with nearly two centuries of world history seen from the perspective of international organizations. It covers the three main fields of international relations: security, economics and the humanitarian domain which often overlap in international organizations. As well as global and intercontinental organizations, the book also covers regional international organizations and international non-governmental organizations in all continents. The book progresses chronologically but also provides a thematic and geographical coherence so that related developments can be discussed together. A series of detailed tables, figures, charts and information boxes explain the chronologies, structures and relationships of international organizations. There are biographies, histories and analysis of hundreds of international organizations. This is an essential reference work with direct relevance to scholars in international relations, international political economy, international economics and business and security studies.

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1134024045

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9781134024049

Opening Doors to Ambitious Primary EnglishPitching high and including all

By: Julie Sargent,Leah Crawford,Angela Jenkins,Bob Cox

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Opening Doors to Ambitious Primary EnglishPitching high and including all

By: Julie Sargent,Leah Crawford,Angela Jenkins,Bob Cox

Together with Leah Crawford, Angela Jenkins and Julie Sargent, Bob Cox has compiled this rich resource, complete with vivid illustrations by Victoria Cox, to help teachers enhance their learners' engagement with challenging texts and develop their writing skills as budding wordsmiths.Working in association with the Opening Doors network of schools, the authors address the vital concept of pitching high but including all pupils and how this approach can be delivered in practice. Opening Doors to Ambitious Primary Englishexplains and models top quality ways of thinking, planning and teaching. Theresources, case studies andauthors' innovative ideas on theorywill help you to make primary English vibrant, creative and challenging in your school. It alsoprovides frameworks and principlesfor any school wishing to be more ambitious in developing pupils' speaking, listening, reading, writing and thinking witha greater sense of curiosity and more originality. Opening Doors to Ambitious Primary Englishcontains chapter by chapter explanations of how English in primary schools can be developed in ambitious ways. Supported by research references, examples of pupils' work and illuminating case studies, the book provides teachers with a toolkit of strategies which schools can adapt and apply to their own contexts. The book is supported by the Opening Doors series of books which contain units of work based around selected texts. The authors hope this book will act as a starting block from which to develop an Opening Doors approach to English, and havesuggested key concepts around which the curriculum can be built, with the units providing examples to work from. Suitable for teachers and curriculum leads in primary settings.

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Crown House Publishing Ltd

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1785836730

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9781785836732

Opening Doors to Quality Writing

Ideas for writing inspired by great writers for ages 10 to 13 (Opening Doors series)

By: Bob Cox

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Opening Doors to Quality Writing

Ideas for writing inspired by great writers for ages 10 to 13 (Opening Doors series)

By: Bob Cox

In the course of his educational consultancy work, Bob has seen many teachers successfully use the scope and depth which literature can offer to inspire high standards, mastery learning and, above all, a love of language in its many forms. Schools using the 'opening doors' strategies told Bob they led to: More teacher empowerment and confidence. More knowledge building for pupils and teachers. A growing confidence with literature, including poetry. Planning from the top becoming a norm. Planning for mastery learning becoming a norm. Improved comprehension skills. Improved quality writing and associated excitement. They also asked Bob for further examples of inspiring, quality texts, and more ways in which all abilities can access them. Bob was only too happy to oblige. These 15 units of work cover poetry and prose: each unit provides exciting stimulus material, creative ideas for writing projects, and differentiation and support strategies, meaning all pupils can achieve the quality writing objectives. All the units should help teachers facilitate understanding of the challenging texts and maximise the huge potential for quality writing. Discover a multitude of ready-to-use ideas, inspired by classic literature and great writers' works, along with plenty of new strategies and advice. All of the extracts and illustrations you will need to begin opening doors in your classroom are downloadable a link to the download web page is provided in the book. Units include: (Click on the links below to view a collection of written work produced by school children aged 10 to 13 who are following the passages and exercises related to the texts included in this book) Part 1: Opening doors to prose 1. Night Encounter - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 2. Spooky Scientists! - The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards 3. The Strongest Looking Brute in Alaska - That Spot by Jack London 4. Mr Knickerbocker's Notes - Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving 5. The Portrait of Doom - Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 6. The Hell Hound - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 7. Sinister Spaces - Metamorphosis and The Castle by Franz Kafka 9. All in This House is Mossing Over - From 'Mementos' by Charlotte Bronte 10. Dancing the Skies - 'High Flight' by John Gillespie Magee, Jr 11. The Mystery of the Lonely Merman - 'The Forsaken Merman' by Matthew Arnold 12. Making Magic Talk - 'The Magnifying Glass' by Walter de la Mare 13. The Spirit in the Garden - 'A Garden at Night' by James Reeves 14. A Shropshire Lad - 'Blue Remembered Hills' by A. E. Housman 15. The Silver Heel - 'I Started Early - Took My Dog' by Emily Dickinson The Opening Doors to Quality Writing series won the 2017 Education Resources Awards in the Educational Book Award category. Judges' Comments: "Described as two gems which provide innovative approaches to exploring quality texts as stimuli for children's writing. Judges described The Opening Doors to Quality Writing series as an invaluable resource, particularly for non-specialist teachers. Excellent literary choices contained within very attractively produced books." Opening Doors To Quality Writing: Ideas For Writing Inspired By Great Writers For Ages 6 To 9

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1785831267

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American Nightingale

The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy

By: Bob Welch

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American Nightingale

The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy

By: Bob Welch

The heart-wrenching and inspirational WWII story of the first American nurse to die at the Normandy landings, the true account of a woman whose courage and compassion led to what a national radio show host in 1945 called "one of the most moving stories to come out of the war—a story of an army nurse that surpassed anything Hollywood has ever dreamed of." She was a Jewish girl growing up in World War I-torn Poland. At age seven, she and her family immigrated to America with dreams of a brighter future. But Frances Slanger could not lay her past to rest, and she vowed to help make the world a better place—by joining the military and becoming a nurse. Frances, one of the 350,000 American women in uniform during World War II, was among the first nurses to arrive at Normandy beach in June 1944. She and the other nurses of the 45th Field Hospital would soon experience the hardships of combat from a storm-whipped tent amid the anguish of wounded men and the thud of artillery shells. Months later, a letter that Frances wrote to the Stars and Stripes newspaper won her heartfelt praise from war-weary GIs touched by her tribute to them. But she never got to read the scores of soldiers' letters that poured in. She was killed by German troops the very next day. American Nightingale is the unforgettable, first-ever full-length account of the woman whose brave life stands as a testament to the American spirit.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416586490

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9781416586494

Real American Stories

By: Bob Quirk

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Real American Stories

By: Bob Quirk

Real American Stories include: * The diary of a Civil War soldier * A 15-year old Irish boy joins the British Merchant Marine and meets his future wife on board 14 years later on a voyage from Shanghi to London * A young woman sails to China in 1920 to teach school * Electricity and telephone come to a home for the first time * What was an outhouse? * What was the Horse Theif Detective Association? * What collage coach had an undefeated, untied and unscored on team? * What small high school team won a national high school tournament? * What small town boy became a hero at Colombine? ...and many more.

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1468531425

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9781468531428

Let's Do It

The Birth of Pop Music: A History

By: Bob Stanley

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Let's Do It

The Birth of Pop Music: A History

By: Bob Stanley

The must-read music book of the year—and the first such history bringing together all musical genres to tell the definitive narrative of the birth of Pop—from 1900 to the mid-1950s. Pop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century. Who were these earliest record stars—and were they in any meaningful way "pop stars"? Who was George Gershwin writing songs for? Why did swing, the hit sound for a decade or more, become almost invisible after World War II? The prequel to Bob Stanley’s celebrated Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!, this new volume is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record at the end of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of rock and the modern pop age. Covering superstars such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra, alongside the unheralded songwriters and arrangers behind some of our most enduring songs, Stanley paints an aural portrait of pop music's formative years in stunning clarity, uncovering the silver threads and golden needles that bind the form together. Bringing the eclectic, evolving world of early pop to life—from ragtime, blues and jazz to Broadway, country, crooning, and beyond—Let's Do It is essential reading for all music lovers. "An encyclopaedic introduction to the fascinating and often forgotten creators of Anglo-American hit music in the first half of the twentieth century."—Neil Tennant (The Pet Shop Boys)

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Simon and Schuster

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1639362517

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9781639362516

Human and Other Animals

Critical Perspectives

By: Bob Carter,Nickie Charles

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Human and Other Animals

Critical Perspectives

By: Bob Carter,Nickie Charles

This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare; whether and under what circumstances animals are regarded as social actors with agency; media representations of human-animal relations; and the relation between animals and national identity.

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Springer

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0230321364

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9780230321366

Have Tux, Will Travel

Bob Hope's Own Story, as Told to Pete Martin

By: Bob Hope

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Have Tux, Will Travel

Bob Hope's Own Story, as Told to Pete Martin

By: Bob Hope

If I had my life to live over again, I wouldn't have time." -- Bob Hope The legendary wit and unmistakable voice of America's favorite showman are captured here in the master entertainer's memoir of his first fifty years in show business. From his one-night stands in vaudeville to countless performances for servicemen on U.S. military bases across the globe, this delightfully candid book of funny life stories is pure Hope. In his own words, Hope recalls his brief career as an amateur prizefighter; his flops and successes in vaudeville; memories of sharing the stage with Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante; his courtship of the young singer who would become his bride; his forgettable first screen test; his friendship with Bing Crosby and their high jinks on the sets of the famous "Road" pictures; poignant and hair-raising trips to entertain the troops; a personal request from General Patton; and eighteen holes of golf with President Eisenhower. Bob Hope was the unchallenged king of the one-liner, a consummate performer, and a beloved supporter of our men in uniform, and his irrepressible spirit shines through in these hilarious, nostalgic, and truly memorable stories from a life lived to bring laughter to others.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743261038

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9780743261036

Central Florida's World War II Veterans

By: Bob Grenier

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Central Florida's World War II Veterans

By: Bob Grenier

Image of America: Central Florida's World War II Veterans portrays the courageous people of Central Florida who fought for freedom. From those who were witness to that "date which will live in infamy" to those who served in the Allied occupational forces following the victories in Europe and Japan in 1945, Images of America: Central Florida's World War II Veterans pays tribute to the courageous men and women who sacrificed and endured through this phenomenally patriotic time in American history. Represented within these pages is just a small number of the vast roll call of patriots who at one time called Florida home. Heroic, humorous, and heart-warming stories are featured through these vintage photographs of the brave men who landed on the beaches of France and on the shore of Iwo Jima, who marched at the Battle of the Bulge and at Anzio, who flew in the Doolittle Raid, and who were engaged at the pivotal Battle of Midway, as well as those who were prisoners of war and protected the home front. Also featured are the women who served as nurses, worked in the factories, encouraged people to purchase war bonds, and who joined the WAC, the WAVES, and the SPARS.

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Wildlife Ethics

The Ethics of Wildlife Management and Conservation

By: Clare Palmer,Bob Fischer,Christian Gamborg,Jordan Hampton,Peter Sandoe

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Wildlife Ethics

The Ethics of Wildlife Management and Conservation

By: Clare Palmer,Bob Fischer,Christian Gamborg,Jordan Hampton,Peter Sandoe

Wildlife Ethics A systematic account of the ethical issues related to wildlife management and conservation Wildlife Ethics is the first systematic, book-length discussion of the ethics of wildlife conservation and management, and examines the key ethical questions and controversies. Tackling both theory and practice, the text is divided into two parts. The first describes key concepts, ethical theories, and management models relating to wildlife; the second puts these concepts, theories, and models to work, illustrating their significance through detailed case studies on controversies in wildlife management and conservation. The book explores pressing topics including human responsibilities due to climate change, tradeoffs when managing zoonotic disease risks, the ethics of the wildlife trade, culling non-native species, indigenous wildlife use, and zoo-based conservation programs. Readers are encouraged to explore different ways of valuing wild animals and their practical implications. This essential text: Explains and explores relationships between valuing biodiversity, human utility, ecosystems, species, and animal welfare Describes established approaches to wildlife management, such as sustainable use, and emerging concepts, such as compassionate conservation Discusses key ethical theories, including utilitarianism, ecocentrism, and animal rights Offers a practical model of how to analyze ethical issues in wildlife management and conservation Wildlife Ethics: The Ethics of Wildlife Management and Conservation is an accessible introduction to complex ethical issues, making the book an important resource for students in fields such as conservation biology, ecology, environmental science and policy, game management, public health and veterinary medicine. It will also be an invaluable tool for wildlife managers, conservationists, One Health practitioners, practicing veterinarians and animal rehabilitation staff, contemporary wildlife professionals and other stakeholders.

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Nuclear Power, Pollution and Politics

By: Bob Burton

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Nuclear Power, Pollution and Politics

By: Bob Burton

Places the environmental issues related to the production of nuclear power in their political context. It evaluates the extent of nuclear pollution, in comparison with other forms of power, and looks at the future of energy.

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Sport Coach Learning and Professional Development

Supporting Coaches in Performance Sport

By: Bob Muir,John Lyle

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Sport Coach Learning and Professional Development

Supporting Coaches in Performance Sport

By: Bob Muir,John Lyle

Sport Coach Learning and Professional Development describes the genesis and theoretical foundations of an emerging workflow for supporting sport coaches learning and professional development in performance and high‐performance sport. It is the clear exposition and critical insight into coaches’ learning and professional development, and of coaching practice, that provides the foundations for an Embedded, Relational and Emergent Coach Learning and Professional Development Strategy. Learning and development is not something that can be ‘done’ to people; rather, it is about working alongside, supporting experienced coaches to identify and resolve meaningful questions that generate personal and professional growth. This approach more appropriately attends to individual differences in biographies, perspectives, roles and socio‐ultural settings. Whilst the focus and nature of support shifts to reflect the goals that coaches and athletes are working towards relative to the changing demands of their context, the approach consistently centres around three overlapping themes: 1 Supporting coaches to learn through and from their everyday experiences. 2 Supporting coaches to reflect on and explore the nature of the experiences they create for others. 3 Supporting coaches by being available, listening, offering reassurance, support and caring. Working through this process necessitates close cooperation and frequently incorporates reflective dialogue, collaborative planning and shared enquiry. The work is therefore both relational and developmental. Coach and coach developer both bring something to the working relationship, which in turn shapes and influences the nature of the work undertaken. The nature of the goals pursued, the strategies employed and the collective courses of action taken are always shaped and influenced by the interpersonal resources that emerge through the work together (the overlap). The application and effective deployment of the strategy is illustrated and illuminated in a series of case studies. These demonstrate not only the efficacy of the strategy but also the lessons learned from working with coaches in their embedded contexts. This book is a key resource for coaches, coach developers, students and researchers working in the overlapping fields of sport coaching, learning and professional development.

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Taylor & Francis

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Brain & Behavior

An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience

By: Bob Garrett,Gerald Hough

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Brain & Behavior

An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience

By: Bob Garrett,Gerald Hough

Winner of the 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association′s The McGuffey Longevity Award In Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, authors Bob Garrett and Gerald Hough showcase the ever-expanding body of research into the biological foundations of human behavior through a big-picture approach. With thought-provoking examples and a carefully crafted, vibrant visual program, the text allows any student to appreciate the importance and relevance of this field of study. New features to the Sixth Edition include fully revised learning objectives, a streamlined box feature program, an expanded collection of foundational animations, and updated research on timely topics such as drugs and addiction, sex and gender, and emotions and health. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. LMS Cartridge Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site.

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1544373457

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The Right Angle

Tales from a Sporting Life

By: Bob Rich

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The Right Angle

Tales from a Sporting Life

By: Bob Rich

Erma Bombeck meets Ernest Hemingway." That’s how a friend described his impressions of Bob Rich’s stories. You may find yourself agreeing as you read these entertaining tales about the adventures of an avid sportsman and entrepreneur told with the light touch of a humorist. Bob Rich has always been a gamer, from his first hockey games as a kid on the ice rinks of Buffalo through his adult life on the high seas in pursuit of record sport fish. Games have defined him in business, sports, and life. In this collection of colorful vignettes spanning four decades, Rich recounts some of the major highlights of his sporting life and his career. Western New Yorkers will be especially interested in his discussion of his activities in the local community: pioneering the art of purchasing the naming rights for a professional football stadium—Rich Stadium—where the Buffalo Bills play; buying and selling a National Hockey League franchise—the Buffalo Sabres—twice; and pursuing the dream of Major League Baseball in his hometown, including behind-the-scene glimpses of Robert Redford’s The Natural, which was filmed in Buffalo. Beyond Western New York, Bob describes fishing trips around the world in pursuit of trout with the president of the United States and in search of a thousand-pound blue marlin known as a grander, as well as swimming around Key West, and much more. The combination of vivid characters, intriguing storylines, and Bob Rich’s easy, flowing conversational style of writing make this an appealing and enjoyable read. From the Hardcover edition.

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Prometheus Books

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1616144289

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Bob Monkhouse's Complete Speaker's Handbook

By: Bob Monkhouse

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Bob Monkhouse's Complete Speaker's Handbook

By: Bob Monkhouse

Discover Bob Monkhouse's secrets accumulated from a lifetime's experience in scriptwriting and speechmaking. With his own golden rules, advice and examples from fellow experts and famous friends, and a wealth of humorous material that worked for him, this light-hearted yet thoroughly practical handbook ensures that you will always be ready to say a few words.

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Random House

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1448114225

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How to Survive Being a Presbyterian!

A Merry Manual Celebrating the Foibles of the Frozen Chosen

By: Bob Reed

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How to Survive Being a Presbyterian!

A Merry Manual Celebrating the Foibles of the Frozen Chosen

By: Bob Reed

In this tongue-in-cheek celebration of the funny foibles of the Frozen Chosen, the 300-year-old Percy T. Presby declares: "Presbyterianism is a series of meetings occasionally interrupted by a worship service." "The national drink of Presbyterian women is decaf coffee." "Some Presbyterians believe that a jazz band is the Boston Pops." This Presby 101 handbook uses an advice format to describe Presbyterians by ostensibly addressing new members of the church. But it is also a humorous primer and survival manual for ALL people in the denomination. Gently skewering the history, worship habits, and endless committee meetings, it covers clothing, potluck dinners, and-yes-sex, all from the Presbyterian perspective. "Insightful Witticisms"-Tampa Tribune "Keeps the Humor Flowing"-Cleveland Plain Dealer "A Gentle, Affectionate Poke"-Spokane Spokesman Review

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0595152252

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The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015

By: Greg M. Colón Semenza,Bob Hasenfratz,Robert J. Hasenfratz

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The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015

By: Greg M. Colón Semenza,Bob Hasenfratz,Robert J. Hasenfratz

From The Death of Nancy Sykes (1897) to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of British literature participate in a complex and fascinating history. The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015 is the only comprehensive narration of cinema's 100-year-old love affair with British literature. Unlike previous studies of literature and film, which tend to privilege particular authors such as Shakespeare and Jane Austen, or particular texts such as Frankenstein, or particular literary periods such as Medieval, this volume considers the multiple functions of filmed British literature as a cinematic subject in its own right-one reflecting the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas. In what ways has the British literary canon authorized and influenced the history and aesthetics of film, and in what ways has filmed British literature both affirmed and challenged the very idea of literary canonicity? Seeking to answer these and other key questions, this indispensable study shows how these adaptations emerged from and continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film history.

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1501329855

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Blue Dixie

Awakening the South's Democratic Majority

By: Bob Moser

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Blue Dixie

Awakening the South's Democratic Majority

By: Bob Moser

Keenly observed and deeply grounded in contemporary Southern politics, "Blue Dixie" reveals the changing face of American politics in the South itself and its impact on the rest of the nation.

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Macmillan

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0805090142

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Hands-On High Performance with Go

Boost and optimize the performance of your Golang applications at scale with resilience

By: Bob Strecansky

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Hands-On High Performance with Go

Boost and optimize the performance of your Golang applications at scale with resilience

By: Bob Strecansky

Proven methodologies and concurrency techniques that will help you write faster and better code with Go programming Key FeaturesExplore Go’s profiling tools to write faster programs by identifying and fixing bottlenecksAddress Go-specific performance issues such as memory allocation and garbage collectionDelve into the subtleties of concurrency and discover how to successfully implement it in everyday applicationsBook Description Go is an easy-to-write language that is popular among developers thanks to its features such as concurrency, portability, and ability to reduce complexity. This Golang book will teach you how to construct idiomatic Go code that is reusable and highly performant. Starting with an introduction to performance concepts, you’ll understand the ideology behind Go’s performance. You’ll then learn how to effectively implement Go data structures and algorithms along with exploring data manipulation and organization to write programs for scalable software. This book covers channels and goroutines for parallelism and concurrency to write high-performance code for distributed systems. As you advance, you’ll learn how to manage memory effectively. You’ll explore the compute unified device architecture (CUDA) application programming interface (API), use containers to build Go code, and work with the Go build cache for quicker compilation. You’ll also get to grips with profiling and tracing Go code for detecting bottlenecks in your system. Finally, you’ll evaluate clusters and job queues for performance optimization and monitor the application for performance regression. By the end of this Go programming book, you’ll be able to improve existing code and fulfill customer requirements by writing efficient programs. What you will learnOrganize and manipulate data effectively with clusters and job queuesExplore commonly applied Go data structures and algorithmsWrite anonymous functions in Go to build reusable appsProfile and trace Go apps to reduce bottlenecks and improve efficiencyDeploy, monitor, and iterate Go programs with a focus on performanceDive into memory management and CPU and GPU parallelism in GoWho this book is for This Golang book is a must for developers and professionals who have an intermediate-to-advanced understanding of Go programming, and are interested in improving their speed of code execution.

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178980177X

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The Beatles

The Biography

By: Bob Spitz

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The Beatles

The Biography

By: Bob Spitz

The definitive biography of The Beatles, hailed as "irresistible" by the New York Times, "riveting" by the Boston Globe, and "masterful" by Time. As soon as The Beatles became famous, the spin machine began to construct a myth -- one that has continued to this day. But the truth is much more interesting, much more exciting, and much more moving -- the highs and the lows, the love and the rivalry, the awe and the jealousy, the drugs, the tears, the thrill, and the magic to never be repeated. In this vast, revelatory, exuberantly acclaimed, and bestselling book, Bob Spitz has written the biography for which Beatles fans have long waited.

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0316031674

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