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Simple Rules

How to Thrive in a Complex World

By: Donald Norman Sull,Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

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Simple Rules

How to Thrive in a Complex World

By: Donald Norman Sull,Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

Outlines an approach to high-performance problem solving and decision making that draws on insights from survival guides, pop culture, and other sources.

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0544409906

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9780544409903

The Norman Kingdom of Sicily

By: Donald Matthew

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This book is an introductory account of the kingdom of Sicily established in 1130 by Roger II, a 'Norman' king, and ruled by Roger, his own son and grandsons until 1194 when the kingdom was conquered by his son-in-law, Henry VI of Hohenstaufen. The period covered does, however, extend from Charles of Anjou, a period roughly as long and as coherent as the 'Norman' monarchy of England between 1066 and 1204. Roger II's difficulties in creating an enduring kingdom needed continuous military effort. Even when these efforts were no longer required, the monarchy had still to learn how to function in lands where traditions of local government were strong. Yet when the monarchy itself faltered, the kingdom did not fall apart. Frederick II, the grandson of Roger II, showed that it could be revived and that his sons could maintain it. The ways in which the monarchy made itself indispensable cannot be traced in detail, but pointers to its success can be seen. The kingdom did not spring full-armed at birth - it took time and experience to hammer it into shape. When at last it looked capable of assuming the leadership of all Italy, its enemies combined to prevent it from doing so with the most profound consequences for Italy, the papacy and the west.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521269113

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9780521269117

Made In China

What Western Managers Can Learn from Trailblazing Chinese Entrepreneurs

By: Donald N. Sull,Yong Wang

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Made In China

What Western Managers Can Learn from Trailblazing Chinese Entrepreneurs

By: Donald N. Sull,Yong Wang

Executives worldwide have studied and emulated U.S. entrepreneurs from Bill Gates to Michael Dell. Yet, we know next to nothing about the pioneers who are reshaping the world's second largest economy: China. In the face of murky ownership structures, inconsistent access to capital, shifting industrial policy, and other obstacles, an elite few Chinese firms have thrived during the turbulence of the last decade. In Made in China, Donald N. Sull profiles eight of these formidable ventures to reveal the secrets behind their surprising success. Based on extensive research, including in-depth interviews and access to corporate archives, Made in China explores these entrepreneurs' winning strategies, from how they anticipate and maneuver through emerging threats and opportunities ("active waiting") to how they manage risks and how they consistently out-execute rivals. Taken together, these principles represent a comprehensive model for managing in unpredictable environments worldwide. An insider's look at the playbook of some of the world's savviest and most resilient entrepreneurs, Made in China is essential reading for companies operating in China or in any volatile industry or market. Sull is an associate professor of management practice at London Business School. Previously an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, Sull was also a consultant at McKinsey & Co., Inc. He advises both multinational firms and new ventures in several countries.

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Harvard Business Press

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1422163385

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9781422163382

The Upside of Turbulence

Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World

By: Donald Sull

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The Upside of Turbulence

Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World

By: Donald Sull

The Upside of Turbulence is an enlightening look at the inherent paradox of how to strategize and plan in a turbulent business world where the only thing that doesn’t change is change itself. In this book, based on a decade of research, historical case studies, and intensive work with established enterprises and start-ups, Donald Sull, named an “up and coming thinker” by the Financial Times, lays out the fundamental logic of opportunity and provides a series of practical steps to translate insight into action.

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Harper Collins

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0061939765

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Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus

By: Donald F. Duclow

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Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus

By: Donald F. Duclow

The medieval Christian West's most radical practitioners of a Neoplatonic, negative theology with a mystical focus are John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas Cusanus. All three mastered what Cusanus described as docta ignorantia: reflecting on their awareness that they could know neither God nor the human mind, they worked out endlessly varied attempts to express what cannot be known. Following Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, they sought to name God with symbolic expressions whose negation leads into mystical theology. For within their Neoplatonic dialectic, negation moves beyond reason and its finite distinctions to intellect, where opposites coincide and a vision of God's infinite unity becomes possible. In these papers Duclow views these thinkers' efforts through the lens of contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. He highlights the interplay of creativity, symbolic expression and language, interpretation and silence as Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus comment on the mind's work in naming God. This work itself becomes mystical theology when negation opens into a silent awareness of God's presence, from which the Word once again 'speaks' within the mind - and renews the process of creating and interpreting symbols. Comparative studies with Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius, Anselm and Hadewijch suggest the book's wider implications for medieval philosophy and theology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040247547

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Knowledge of Things Human and Divine

Vico's New Science and "Finnegans Wake"

By: Donald Phillip Verene

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Knowledge of Things Human and Divine

Vico's New Science and "Finnegans Wake"

By: Donald Phillip Verene

This is the first book to examine in full the interconnections between Giambattista Vico’s new science and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Maintaining that Joyce is the greatest modern “interpreter” of Vico, Donald Phillip Verene demonstrates how images from Joyce’s work offer keys to Vico’s philosophy. Verene presents the entire course of Vico’s philosophical thought as it develops in his major works, with Joyce’s words and insights serving as a guide. The book devotes a chapter to each period of Vico’s thought, from his early orations on education to his anti-Cartesian metaphysics and his conception of universal law, culminating in his new science of the history of nations. Verene analyzes Vico’s major works, including all three editions of the New Science. The volume also features a detailed chronology of the philosopher’s career, historical illustrations related to his works, and an extensive bibliography of Vico scholarship and all English translations of his writings.

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Yale University Press

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0300127936

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The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century

By: Donald J. Wilcox

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The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century

By: Donald J. Wilcox

Presenting a new interpretation of humanist historiography, Donald J. Wilcox traces the development of the art of historical writing among Florentine humanists in the fifteenth century. He focuses on the three chancellor historians of that century who wrote histories of Florence--Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, and Bartolommeo della Scala--and proposes that these men, especially Bruni, had a new concept of historical reality and introduced a new style of writing to history. But, he declares, their great contributions to the development of historiography have not been recognized because scholars have adhered to their own historical ideals in judging the humanists rather than assessing them in the context of their own century. Mr. Wilcox introduces his study with a brief description of the historians and historical writing in Renaissance Florence. He then outlines the development of the scholarly treatment of humanist historiography and establishes the need for a more balanced interpretation. He suggests that both Hans Baron's conception of civic humanism and Paul Oscar Kristeller's emphasis on the rhetorical character of humanism were important developments in the general intellectual history of the Renaissance and, more specifically, that they provided a new perspective on the entire question of humanist historiography. The heart of the book is a close textual analysis of the works of each of the three historians. The author approaches their texts in terms of their own concerns and questions, examining three basic elements of their art. The first is the nature of the reality the historian is re- counting. Mr. Wilcox asks, "What interests the writer? What is the substance of his narrative? ... What does he choose from his sources ... and what does he ignore? What does he interpolate into the account by drawing on his own understanding of the nature of history?" The second is the various attitudes--moral judgments, historical conceptions, analytical views--with which the historian approaches his narrative. And the third is the aspect of humanist historiography to which previous scholars have paid the least attention: the historian's narrative technique. Mr. Wilcox identifies the difficulties involved in expressing historical ideas in narrative form and describes the means the historians developed for overcoming those difficulties. He emphasizes the positive value of rhetoric in their works and points out that they "sought by eloquence to teach men virtue." He devotes three chapters to Bruni, whom he considers the most original and important of the three historians. The next two chapters deal with Poggio, and the last with Scala. Throughout the book Mr. Wilcox exposes the internal connections among the three histories, thus illustrating the basic coherence of the humanist historical art.

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Harvard University Press

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0674200268

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A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity

By: Paul Christesen,Donald G. Kyle

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A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity

By: Paul Christesen,Donald G. Kyle

A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle. Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity specialties Goes beyond the usual concentrations on Olympia and Rome to examine sport in cities and territories throughout the Mediterranean basin Features a variety of illustrations, maps, end-of-chapter references, internal cross-referencing, and a detailed index to increase accessibility and assist researchers

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444339524

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Freedom

A History

By: Donald W. Treadgold

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Freedom

A History

By: Donald W. Treadgold

A worldwide trend toward democracy is surely one of the more remarkable phenomena of our times, even if the movement twoard that goal may often be haphazard and elusive. Past history will provide a healthy skepticism concerning the likelihood of democracy being reached in the near future in many parts of the world, as well as a preparedness for the possibility that many countries apparently close to the "institutional divide" are going to slip back rather than cross it soon. Nevertheless, the past 2600 years, or even 5000, yield the reassuring message that during that long period freedom has improved its extent significantly, with respect both to geographical breadth and institutional depth. This book is the first to attempt to describe the history of the growth of freedom on a world scale within one single set of covers. It sets out not to redefine freedom nor to discvoer freedom where no one else has, nor to argue that freedom is the proud possession of one country or tradition or people. Its purpose instead is to show how certain elements of free society made their appearance in an amazing variety of places, from ancient Sumeria and China to medieval Japan, modern Czechoslovakia and Costa Rica, in areas both inside and outside of the Western European and North American tradition that will probably be familiar to most readers of the English language edition of this book. The whole story, with its fits and starts, triumphs and tragedies, deserves the thoughtful reflection of everyone who in the wish to establish and protect freedom would avoid needless disappointment and despair and desires to act intelligently to attain the attainable. But even for the quietest, the person who has no faith in human action to improve man's lot, the story is worth pondering, for along with failure and misery it holds much that is noble and uplifting, tells of much gain for humanity through patient suffering and self-sacrifice, and catches a vision of liberty for all in the present an dpossible future that was inconceivable at the dawn of history.

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NYU Press

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081478190X

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9780814781906

New Venture Management

The Entrepreneur's Roadmap for Development, Management, and Growth

By: Donald F. Kuratko,Jeffrey S. Hornsby

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New Venture Management

The Entrepreneur's Roadmap for Development, Management, and Growth

By: Donald F. Kuratko,Jeffrey S. Hornsby

• Covers the entire new venture management process, from ideas to finance to HRM • Now includes international cases in all chapters • Offers a complete and contemporary business plan for students to follow • Includes material on the latest issues in entrepreneurship, such as equity crowdfunding and ‘blitzscaling’

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Routledge

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100032673X

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States of Grace

Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration

By: Donald Martin Carter

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States of Grace

Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration

By: Donald Martin Carter

States of Gracewas first published in 1997. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Leaving their depleted fields for better prospects, Senegalese immigrants have made their way to Italy in significant numbers. What this migration means, in the context of both the migratory traditions and conditions of Africa and the history and future of the European nation-state, is the subject of this timely and ambitious book. Focusing on Turin, the northern Italian point of entry for so many Senegalese, States of Grace chronicles the arrival and formation of a transnational African Islamic community in a largely Catholic Western European country, one that did not have immigrant legislation until 1991. With no colonial relation to Italy, the Senegalese represent the vanguard of population movements expanding outside of the arch of former colonial powers. Donald Martin Carter locates the Senegalese migration in the context of past African internal and international migration and of present crises in West African agriculture. He also shows how the Senegalese migration, constituting a "phenomenon" and catalyzing new immigration restrictions among European states, calls into question the European interstate system, the future of the nation-state, and the nature of its relationship with non-European states. Throughout Europe, protectionist immigration policies are often crafted in chauvinist and racist tones in which "migrants" is a euphemism for blacks, Arabs, and Asians. States of Grace uses Senegalese migration to demonstrate that racial conceptions are crucial to understanding the classifications of non-national "outside" and internal "other." The book is a bracing encounter with the ever-increasing cultural and ethnic heterogeneity that is the new and pressing reality of European society. Donald Martin Carter is visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

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1452903158

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Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II

A Century of Wonder. Book 3: The Scholarly Disciplines

By: Donald F. Lach

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Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II

A Century of Wonder. Book 3: The Scholarly Disciplines

By: Donald F. Lach

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history. Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

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0226467139

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War, Government, and Society in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

By: Donald J. Kagay

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War, Government, and Society in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

By: Donald J. Kagay

The focus of this collection of articles by Donald J. Kagay is the effect of the expansion of royal government on the societies of the medieval Crown of Aragon. He traces how, in the long conflicts against Spanish Islam and neighbouring Christian states during the 13th and 14th centuries, the relationships of royal to customary law, of monarchical to aristocratic power, and of Christian to Jewish and Muslim populations, all became issues that marked the transition of the medieval Crown of Aragon to the early modern states of Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754659046

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9780754659044

Why Good Companies Go Bad and how Great Managers Remake Them

By: Donald Norman Sull

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Why Good Companies Go Bad and how Great Managers Remake Them

By: Donald Norman Sull

This is a revised edition of Revival of the Fittest published in Harvard Business Review's "OnPoint" feature in 2003. Sull (formerly at Harvard Business School; now at London Business School) emphasizes making/honoring/remaking commitments as an attribute behind great managers and businesses. He presents case examples, data on commitment life cycles and risks, and a Commitment Inventory. Annotation 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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1591397162

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Revival of the Fittest

Why Good Companies Go Bad and how Great Managers Remake Them

By: Donald Norman Sull

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Revival of the Fittest

Why Good Companies Go Bad and how Great Managers Remake Them

By: Donald Norman Sull

Will Your Organization Still Be Here in Ten Years? It's a familiar story: A company rises to become an industry leader. Competitors try to emulate it. Analysts rave about it. The CEO's picture is splashed across magazine covers. Then the company stumbles, profits erode, and the stock plummets. How does this happen? Why do good companies so often go bad? More important, what can you do to prevent it from happening to your company? In Revival of the Fittest , Donald N. Sull takes a provocative look at corporate failure and proposes a practical new model for effecting change that can vastly increase your organization's lifespan. Ironically, argues Sull, leaders sow the seeds of failure during a company's most successful times, when they make a set of commitments-whether to a core strategy, a key customer, or an innovative manufacturing method-that constitute the company's success formula . Managers become so married to the formula that they can't divorce themselves from it when the competitive situation changes. They respond to the future by doing more of what worked in the past-a phenomenon Sull calls "active inertia." Based on extensive global research into successful and failed transformations across many industries, Revival of the Fittest introduces a three-step model for making transforming commitments-actions that prevent managers from reinforcing old behaviors in the face of change. Sull identifies five areas in which transforming commitments can be anchored-strategic frames, processes, relationships, resources, and values-and provides diagnostic tests, hands-on tools, and real company examples to show how managers can: Gauge their company's susceptibility to active inertia Determine which commitment is right for a specific situation Appoint the best person to lead the charge Ensure that the new commitment sticks Avoid common mistakes that can sabotage the transformation effort Weigh the personal risks associated with leading corporate change In an unpredictable marketplace, commitments can make and break a company. But Sull shows that corporate demise is not inevitable. Through transforming commitments, revival of the fittest is possible-and managers can make the difference. Donald N. Sull is Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management area at Harvard Business School.

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1578519934

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Made in China

What Western Managers Can Learn from Trailblazing Chinese Entrepreneurs

By: Donald Norman Sull,Yong Wang

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Made in China

What Western Managers Can Learn from Trailblazing Chinese Entrepreneurs

By: Donald Norman Sull,Yong Wang

In Made in China, Donald N. Sull profiles eight of these formidable Chinese ventures to reveal the secrets behind their surprising success. Sull argues that in uncertain markets, successful companies consistently responded more quickly and effectively to shocks that threatened their very survival and forced less successful competitors out of business. They quickly seized major opportunities that positioned them well for the future. During periods of relative calm, they employed a dynamic approach to strategy - "active waiting" - by constantly anticipating and responding to evolving threats and opportunities faster than competitors." "Based on extensive research and illustrated through detailed case studies of firms such as home appliance leader Haier and Internet portal pioneer Sina Corporation, Made in China distills a set of winning strategies for managing in any unpredictable market."--BOOK JACKET.

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1591397154

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Simple Rules

Simple Rules

The Norman Kingdom of Sicily

The Norman Kingdom of Sicily

Made In China

Made In China

The Upside of Turbulence

The Upside of Turbulence

Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus

Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus

Knowledge of Things Human and Divine

Knowledge of Things Human and Divine

The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century

The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century

A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity

A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity

Freedom

Freedom

New Venture Management

New Venture Management

States of Grace

States of Grace

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II

War, Government, and Society in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

War, Government, and Society in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Why Good Companies Go Bad and how Great Managers Remake Them

Why Good Companies Go Bad and how Great Managers Remake Them

Revival of the Fittest

Revival of the Fittest

Made in China

Made in China

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