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The Sparkling Stories of Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Two Books in One

By: Dana Simpson

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The Sparkling Stories of Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Two Books in One

By: Dana Simpson

Both of Dana Simpson's original Phoebe and Her Unicorn graphic novels — "The Magic Storm" and "Unicorn Theater" — are collected here in one sparkling volume. Two books in one.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1524888419

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9781524888411

Camping with Unicorns

Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure

By: Dana Simpson

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Camping with Unicorns

Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure

By: Dana Simpson

Life is never boring when your best friend is a unicorn! The latest installment in this bestselling series is full of mischief, magic and adventure — as well as an important reminder to always stay true to yourself. School’s out, so Phoebe and her unicorn best friend, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, have the entire summer to play games, visit the pool, and even go camping. Unicorn horns are excellent utensils for roasting things over the campfire, too, even if Marigold prefers toasted apples to s’mores. While exploring in the woods, Phoebe and friends meet a unicorn named Alabaster, who uses a special video game console that’s powered by plants. Throughout her summer adventures, Phoebe learns that being cool isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and that it’s much better to be your true self. It’s all part of the unforgettable experience of Camping with Unicorns.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1524862568

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9781524862565

The Book of Why

The New Science of Cause and Effect

By: Judea Pearl,Dana Mackenzie

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The Book of Why

The New Science of Cause and Effect

By: Judea Pearl,Dana Mackenzie

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

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Basic Books

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0465097618

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9780465097616

Virtual Unicorn Experience

Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure

By: Dana Simpson

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Virtual Unicorn Experience

Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure

By: Dana Simpson

With over 1.6 million copies sold, the Phoebe and Her Unicorn book series for middle-grade readers is an immensely popular and magical world of unicorns, adventure, and friendship. Marigold Heavenly Nostrils is one magical unicorn—and she knows it! But sometimes it’s harder for humans like Phoebe to understand that they can be magical, too. In the latest Phoebe and Her Unicorn adventure, the pair visits the science museum, tests out an extra-special virtual unicorn reality, and performs in the school talent show. With the help of her best friend and an emergency sparkle transfusion, Phoebe learns about confidence, empathy, and resilience—and even how to live without her cellphone. It’s all part of the very real excitement of Virtual Unicorn Experience.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1524866148

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9781524866143

The New American Cyclopaedia

Vol. XIV

By: George Ripley,Charles A. Dana

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The New American Cyclopaedia

Vol. XIV

By: George Ripley,Charles A. Dana

Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

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3375018355

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9783375018351

Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense June 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Shirlee McCoy,Dana Mentink,Kathleen Tailer

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Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense June 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Shirlee McCoy,Dana Mentink,Kathleen Tailer

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. LONE WITNESS FBI: Special Crimes Unit by Shirlee McCoy Rescuing a little girl from a kidnapping thrusts Tessa Carlson from her hideout into the media’s spotlight—and a killer’s crosshairs. But the child’s father, widowed FBI agent Henry Miller, vows he’ll protect her from the ruthless criminal who wants her dead. DANGER ON THE RANCH Roughwater Ranch Cowboys by Dana Mentink After her serial killer ex-husband escapes from prison, Jane Reyes has only one person to turn to—his brother who put him in jail. But when she shows up at Mitch Whitehorse’s ranch, can he keep Jane and the nephew he never knew about safe? PERILOUS PURSUIT by Kathleen Tailer Someone will do anything to get Mackenzie Weaver’s documentary footage—even kill her. But US deputy marshal Jake Riley won’t let anyone harm his late best friend’s little sister…especially since he’s beginning to wish they could have a future together.

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Harlequin

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1488040982

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9781488040986

Pagans and the Law

Understand Your Rights

By: Dana D. Eilers

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Pagans and the Law

Understand Your Rights

By: Dana D. Eilers

New Age, Pagans & law

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1564146715

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9781564146717

The Feminization of Quest-Romance

Radical Departures

By: Dana A. Heller

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The Feminization of Quest-Romance

Radical Departures

By: Dana A. Heller

What happens when a woman dares to imagine herself a hero? Questing, she sets out for unknown regions. Lighting a torch, she elicits from the darkness stories never told or heard before. The woman hero sails against the tides of great legends that recount the adventures of heroic men, legends deemed universal, timeless, and essential to our understanding of the natural order that holds us and completes us in its spiral. Yet these myths and rituals do not fulfill her need for an empowering self-image nor do they grant her the mobility she requires to imagine, enact, and represent her quest for authentic self-knowledge. The Feminization of Quest-Romance proposes that a female quest is a revolutionary step in both literary and cultural terms. Indeed, despite the difficulty that women writers face in challenging myths, rituals, psychological theories, and literary conventions deemed universal by a culture that exalts masculine ideals and universalizes male experience, a number of revolutionary texts have come into existence in the second half of the twentieth century by such American women writers as Jean Stafford, Mary McCarthy, Anne Moody, Marilynne Robinson, and Mona Simpson, all of them working to redefine the literary portrayal of American women's quests. They work, in part, by presenting questing female characters who refuse to accept the roles accorded them by restrictive social norms, even if it means sacrificing themselves in the name of rebellion. In later texts, female heroes survive their "lighting out" experiences to explore diverse alternatives to the limiting roles that have circumscribed female development. This study of The Mountain Lion, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Housekeeping, and Anywhere but Here identifies transformations of the quest-romance that support a viable theory of female development and offer literary patterns that challenge the male monopoly on transformative knowledge and heroic action.

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University of Texas Press

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0292762623

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9780292762626

American Women in Mission

A Social History of Their Thought and Practice

By: Dana Lee Robert

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American Women in Mission

A Social History of Their Thought and Practice

By: Dana Lee Robert

The stereotype of the woman missionary has ranged from that of the longsuffering wife, characterized by the epitaph Died, given over to hospitality, to that of the spinster in her unstylish dress and wire-rimmed glasses, alone somewhere for thirty years teaching heathen children. Like all caricatures, those of the exhausted wife and frustrated old maid carry some truth: the underlying message of the sterotypes is that missionary women were perceived as marginal to the central tasks of mission. Rather than being remembered for preaching the gospel, the quintessential male task, missionary women were noted for meeting human needs and helping others, sacrificing themselves without plan or reason, all for the sake of bringing the world to Jesus Christ.Historical evidence, however, gives lie to the truism that women missionaries were and are doers but not thinkers, reactive secondary figures rather than proactive primary ones. The first American women to serve as foreign missionaries in 1812 were among the best-educated women of their time. Although barred from obtaining the college education or ministerial credentials of their husbands, the early missionary wives had read their Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins. Not only did they go abroad with particular theologies to share, but their identities as women caused them to develop gender-based mission theories. Early nineteenth-century women seldom wrote theologies of mission, but they wrote letters and kept journals that reveal a thought world and set of assumptions about women's roles in the missionary task. The activities of missionary wives were not random: they were part of a mission strategy that gave women a particular role inthe advancement of the reign of God.By moving from mission field to mission field in chronological order of missionary presence, Robert charts missiological developments as they took place in dialogue with the urgent context of the day. Each case study marks the beginning of the mission theory. Baptist women in Burma, for example, are only considered in their first decades there and are not traced into the present. Robert believes that at this early stage of research into women's mission theory, integrity and analysis lies more in a succession of contextualized case studies than in gross generalizations.

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Mercer University Press

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0865545499

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The Destructionists

The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

By: Dana Milbank

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The Destructionists

The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

By: Dana Milbank

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnist "A thorough and scathing account of how the Republican Party fell prey to Trumpism."—The New York Times Book Review In 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirsty mob incited by President Trump invaded the Capitol. Dana Milbank sees a clear line from the Contract with America to the coup attempt. In the quarter century in between, Americans have witnessed the crackup of the party of Lincoln and Reagan, to its current iteration as a haven for white supremacists, political violence, conspiracy theories and authoritarianism. Following the questionable careers of party heavyweights Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell, and Rudy Giuliani, and those of many lesser known lowlights, Milbank recounts the shocking lengths the Republican Party has gone to to maintain its grip on the American people.

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Anchor

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059346639X

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9780593466391

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Not So Useless Facts

By: Dana Sherwood,Sandy Wood

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The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Not So Useless Facts

By: Dana Sherwood,Sandy Wood

People love weird facts. And this gift hardcover is bursting with 208 pages of all sorts of amazing, arcane, interesting, and shocking bits of information about everything under the sun—and then some. Put together by an expert team of fact finders and pop culture specialists, this collection includes fascinating facts that could be useful to students, collectors, tourists, and enthusiasts alike. • Nearly 1,000 amazing, not-so-useless facts

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Penguin

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144069690X

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Occupy Until I Come

A. T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World

By: Dana L. Robert

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Occupy Until I Come

A. T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World

By: Dana L. Robert

Arthur Tappan Pierson (1837 1911) was the elder statesman of the student missionary movement and the leading evangelical advocate of foreign missions in the late 1800s. Occupy until I Come, the first biography of Pierson in more than a century, explores the life, thought, and legacy of this major figure in American religious history. Working from the best available sources, Dana Robert illumines the relationship between A. T. Pierson's role in the surging foreign missions movement and the development of nineteenth-century evangelicalism. Pierson was famous in his day as a Bible teacher, a leader in Keswick holiness piety, and an urban pastor who cared passionately for the poor. An original editor of the Scofield Reference Bible, Pierson also carried on a transatlantic preaching ministry that made him famous in Scotland and England. In covering both Pierson's career and his context, this book is not only the finest available biography of A. T. Pierson but also a valuable portrait of America's religious landscape at a key point in history.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802807801

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9780802807809

The Merchants' Magazine, and Commercial Review

Volume III

By: I. Smith Homans,Freeman Hunt,Thomas Prentice Kettell,William B. Dana

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The Merchants' Magazine, and Commercial Review

Volume III

By: I. Smith Homans,Freeman Hunt,Thomas Prentice Kettell,William B. Dana

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

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3368741055

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9783368741051

And Then Came Hera

By: Dana G. DiRicco

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And Then Came Hera

By: Dana G. DiRicco

How the humanitarian act of saving one foal, a by-product of a Premarin producing Pregnant Mare Urine Line (PMU), from slaughter evolves into a life changing odyssey. The unforeseen trail leads a woman from the California Wine Country through the PMU farms in Canada to the National Champion Draft Horse Driving Shows of two countries. Along the way, while learning to drive and show her Percheron Draft Horses, many emotional experiences, from comical to tear-producing are encountered. Her amusing thought-provoking story is brilliantly delivered, as she candidly reveals behind-the-scene secrets about driving, training and showing horses, with the turn of every page. Embark upon the spirited adventure of this inspiring literary work that will intrigue all. Those who have read this uplifting book find it impossible to put down, cover to cover.

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AuthorHouse

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148173010X

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9781481730105

Landscapes of Power

Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation

By: Dana E. Powell

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Landscapes of Power

Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation

By: Dana E. Powell

In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to trace the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty and contemporary energy development on Navajo (Diné) Nation land. Powell's historical and ethnographic account shows how the coal-fired power plant project's defeat provided the basis for redefining the legacies of colonialism, mineral extraction, and environmentalism. Examining the labor of activists, artists, politicians, elders, technicians, and others, Powell emphasizes the generative potential of Navajo resistance to articulate a vision of autonomy in the face of twenty-first-century colonial conditions. Ultimately, Powell situates local Navajo struggles over energy technology and infrastructure within broader sociocultural life, debates over global climate change, and tribal, federal, and global politics of extraction.

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Duke University Press

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0822372290

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9780822372295

Land Is Kin

Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites

By: Dana Lloyd

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Land Is Kin

Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites

By: Dana Lloyd

Responding to Vine Deloria, Jr.’s call for all people to “become involved” in the struggle to protect Indigenous sacred sites, Dana Lloyd’s Land Is Kin proposes a rethinking of sacred sites, and a rethinking of even land itself. Deloria suggested using the principle of religious freedom, but this principle has failed Indigenous peoples for decades. Lloyd argues that religious freedom fails Indigenous claimants because settler law creates a tension between two competing rights—one party’s religious freedom and another party’s property rights. In this contest, the right of property will always win. Through an analysis of the 1988 US Supreme Court case Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, which she interprets as a case about sovereignty and the meaning of land, Lloyd proposes a multilayered understanding of land and the different roles it can simultaneously play. Rejecting the binary logic of sacred religion versus secular property, Lloyd uses the legal dispute over the High Country—an area of the Six Rivers National Forest in Northern California sacred to the Yurok, Karuk, and Tolowa Indigenous nations—to show that there are at least five different, but not equally valid, ways to understand land in the Lyng case: home, property, sacred site, wilderness, and kin. To protect the High Country, the Yurok filed a religious freedom lawsuit but then proceeded to describe the land as their home in court. They lobbied for protecting the High Country through a wilderness designation even as they continued to argue that they had been managing it for centuries. They have purchased large parcels of ancestral land and also declare the land their kin, a relationship that ostensibly excludes the possibility of ownership. Land Is Kin demonstrates the complexity of land in contemporary religious, political, and legal discourse. By drawing on Indigenous perspectives on the land as kin, Lloyd points toward a framework that shifts sovereignty away from binary oppositions—between property and sacred site, between the federal government and Native nations—toward seeing the land itself as sovereign.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700635890

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9780700635894

The Politics of Place

A History of Zoning in Chicago

By: Joseph P. Schwieterman,Dana M. Caspall

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The Politics of Place

A History of Zoning in Chicago

By: Joseph P. Schwieterman,Dana M. Caspall

Only in Chicago Can Zoning Be Epic... Chicago is renowned for its distinctive skyline, its bustling Loop business district, and its diverse neighborhoods. How the face of Chicago came to be is a story of enterprise, ingenuity, opportunity--and zoning. Until now, however, there has not been a book that focuses on the important, often surprising, role of zoning in shaping the 'The City that Works.' "The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago" reviews the interplay among development, planning, and zoning in the growth of the Gold Coast, the Central Area, and, more recently, massive 'Planned Developments'; such as Marina City, Illinois Center, and Dearborn Park. It tells the story of bold visions compromised by political realities, battles between residents and developers, and occasional misfires from City Council and City Hall. What emerges is a fascinating, behind-the-scenes inspection of the evolving character of the city's landscape. Schwieterman and Caspall recount the many planning innovations that have originated in Chicago, the complexities and intrigue of its zoning debates, and the recent adoption of a new zoning ordinance that promises to affect the city's economy and image for years to come.

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Lake Claremont Press

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1893121267

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9781893121263

Handbook of Religion and Health

By: Harold Koenig,Dana King,Verna B. Carson

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Handbook of Religion and Health

By: Harold Koenig,Dana King,Verna B. Carson

The Handbook of Religion and Health has become the seminal research text on religion, spirituality, and health, outlining a rational argument for the connection between religion and health. The Second Edition completely revises and updates the first edition. Its authors are physicians: a psychiatrist and geriatrician, a primary care physician, and a professor of nursing and specialist in mental health nursing. The Second Edition surveys the historical connections between religion and health and grapples with the distinction between the terms ''religion'' and ''spirituality'' in research and clinical practice. It reviews research on religion and mental health, as well as extensive research literature on the mind-body relationship, and develops a model to explain how religious involvement may impact physical health through the mind-body mechanisms. It also explores the direct relationships between religion and physical health, covering such topics as immune and endocrine function, heart disease, hypertension and stroke, neurological disorders, cancer, and infectious diseases; and examines the consequences of illness including chronic pain, disability, and quality of life. Finally, the Handbook reviews research methods and addresses applications to clinical practice. Theological perspectives are interwoven throughout the chapters. The Handbook is the most insightful and authoritative resource available to anyone who wants to understand the relationship between religion and health.

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Oxford University Press

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0199912718

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9780199912711

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