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On the Walls and in the Streets

American Poetry Broadsides from the 1960s

By: James Donal Sullivan

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On the Walls and in the Streets

American Poetry Broadsides from the 1960s

By: James Donal Sullivan

James Sullivan presents a brief history of American poetry broadsides from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. He then explores the extensive use of the broadside during one era, the 1960s, showing how it refigured the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and others and situating it for specific cultural uses within the social and political struggles of the times. Sullivan's introduction lays out the project's theoretical groundwork in the cultural studies movement and surveys the history of the broadside in North America since the advent of printing.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252066243

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9780252066245

Enduring Vietnam

An American Generation and Its War

By: James Wright

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Enduring Vietnam

An American Generation and Its War

By: James Wright

Introduction: a generation goes to war -- Memorial days -- Dong Ap Bia: becoming Hamburger Hill -- Passing the torch to a new generation -- Receiving the torch -- Not their father's way of war -- The American war in Vietnam -- Getting out of this place -- Duck and cover -- Enduring Vietnam: a story that has no end

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Thomas Dunne Books

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1250092485

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9781250092489

Fascism and Constitutional Conflict

The British Extreme Right and Ulster in the Twentieth Century

By: James Loughlin

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Fascism and Constitutional Conflict

The British Extreme Right and Ulster in the Twentieth Century

By: James Loughlin

The first major assessment of the British fascist and neo-fascist engagement with the Ulster question, from Rotha Lintorn-Orman's British Fascists in the 1920s and early 1930s, Oswald Mosley's BUF in the 1930s and neo-fascist Union Movement in the post-war period, through to the National Front and BNP during the Troubles.

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384

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1786941775

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9781786941770

The Book of World-famous Music

Classical, Popular, and Folk

By: James J. Fuld

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The Book of World-famous Music

Classical, Popular, and Folk

By: James J. Fuld

Well-researched compilation of music information, analyzes nearly 1,000 of the world's most familiar melodies -- composers, lyricists, copyright date, first lines of music, lyrics, and other data. Includes 30 black-and-white illustrations.

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756

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Courier Corporation

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0486414752

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9780486414751

Ireland. As She is, as She has been and as She Ought to be

By: James J. Clancy

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Ireland. As She is, as She has been and as She Ought to be

By: James J. Clancy

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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346

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385553768

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9783385553767

Chariots for Apollo

The NASA History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft to 1969

By: Courtney G. Brooks,James M. Grimwood,Loyd S. Swenson

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Chariots for Apollo

The NASA History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft to 1969

By: Courtney G. Brooks,James M. Grimwood,Loyd S. Swenson

This illustrated history by a trio of experts is the definitive reference on the Apollo spacecraft and lunar modules. It traces the vehicles' design, development, and operation in space. More than 100 photographs and illustrations.

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578

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Courier Corporation

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0486140938

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9780486140933

War and American Life

Reflections on Those Who Serve and Sacrifice

By: James Wright

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War and American Life

Reflections on Those Who Serve and Sacrifice

By: James Wright

War and American Life is a book of essays and reflections of a veteran and a historian who has been an advocate and a teacher/scholar. It considers American veterans and how our society needs to understand who they are and what they have done-and the responsibilities that follow this recognition"--

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260

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Brandeis University Press

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1684580994

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9781684580996

Reel Views 2

The Ultimate Guide to the Best 1,000 Modern Movies on DVD and Video

By: James Berardinelli

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Reel Views 2

The Ultimate Guide to the Best 1,000 Modern Movies on DVD and Video

By: James Berardinelli

Thoroughly revised and updated for 2005! Includes a new chapter on the best special edition DVDs and a new chapter on finding hidden easter egg features.

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Justin, Charles & Co.

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1932112405

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9781932112405

Jeannie Robertson

Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice

By: James Porter,Herschel Gower

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Jeannie Robertson

Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice

By: James Porter,Herschel Gower

Combining biography, folklore, oral history, and ethnomusicology, this book explores the life and repertoire of the Scottish traditional singer Jeannie Robertson (1908-1975) - an artist whom Alan Lomax hailed as "a monumental figure in twentieth-century folksong". Utilizing numerous quotations from Robertson's own oral accounts of her life, James Porter and Herschel Gower trace her career as a member of the marginal nomadic group in Northeast Scotland known as "travellers", whose origin is obscure. They explain the importance of traditional song in Robertson's family and community and include eighty of her songs, complete with musical notation.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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0870499041

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9780870499043

Russia in the German Global Imaginary

Imperial Visions and Utopian Desires, 1905-1941

By: James E. Casteel

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Russia in the German Global Imaginary

Imperial Visions and Utopian Desires, 1905-1941

By: James E. Casteel

This book traces transformations in German views of Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, leading up to the disastrous German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Casteel shows how Russia figured in the imperial visions and utopian desires of a variety of Germans, including scholars, journalists, travel writers, government and military officials, as well as nationalist activists. He illuminates the ambiguous position that Russia occupied in Germans' global imaginary as both an imperial rival and an object of German power. During the interwar years in particular, Russia, now under Soviet rule, became a site onto which Germans projected their imperial ambitions and expectations for the future, as well as their worst anxieties about modernity. Casteel shows how the Nazis drew on this cultural repertoire to construct their own devastating vision of racial imperialism.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822981351

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9780822981350

To The Hebrides

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour

By: Samuel Johnson,James Boswell

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To The Hebrides

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour

By: Samuel Johnson,James Boswell

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Ulva, Inchkenneth and Iona. Highly readable, often profound, and at times very funny, their accounts of the 'jaunt' are above all a valuable record of a society undergoing rapid change. In this pioneering new edition, Ronald Black brings together the two men's starkly contrasting accounts of each of the thirteen stages of the journey. He also restores to Boswell's text 20,000 words from his journal which were denied entry to his book because they were intimate, defamatory, or about the islands rather than Johnson. The endnotes incorporate Boswell's footnotes, translations of Latin passages, a clear summary of pre-existing information on the two texts, and a fresh focus on what the two men actually found on their trip. To the Hebrides also includes contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson, seventeen new maps and a comprehensive index.

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Birlinn

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0857905163

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9780857905161

Beyond Fingal's Cave

Ossian in the Musical Imagination

By: James Porter

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Beyond Fingal's Cave

Ossian in the Musical Imagination

By: James Porter

Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1760s and attributed to a purported ancient Scottish bard named Ossian. From around 1780 onwards, the poems stimulated poets, artists, and composers in Europe as well as North America to break away from the formality of the Enlightenment. The admiration for Ossian's poems -shared by Napoleon, Goethe, and Thomas Jefferson - was an important stimulus in the development of Romanticism and the music that was a central part of it. More important still was the view of the German cultural philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who saw past the controversy over the poems' authenticity to the traditional elements in these heroic poems and their mood of lament. James Porter's long-awaited book traces the traditional sources used by James Macpherson for his epoch-making prose poems and examines crucial works by composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Massenet. Many other relatively unknown composers were also moved to write operas, cantatas, songs, and instrumental pieces, some of which have proven to be powerfully evocative and well worth performing and recording.

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1580469450

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9781580469456

The Melodic Tradition of Ireland

By: James R. Cowdery

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The Melodic Tradition of Ireland

By: James R. Cowdery

Annotation Irish folk music, oriented around monophonic melodies which are varied and ornamented, is viewed from various angles--ethnographic and musical, a thriving melodic tradition. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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Kent State University Press

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0873384075

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9780873384070

The Pendulum

A Case Study in Physics

By: Gregory L. Baker,James A. Blackburn

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The Pendulum

A Case Study in Physics

By: Gregory L. Baker,James A. Blackburn

The pendulum: a case study in physics is a unique book in several ways. Firstly, it is a comprehensive quantitative study of one physical system, the pendulum, from the viewpoint of elementary and more advanced classical physics, modern chaotic dynamics, and quantum mechanics. In addition, coupled pendulums and pendulum analogs of superconducting devices are also discussed. Secondly, this book treats the physics of the pendulum within a historical and cultural context, showing, for example, that the pendulum has been intimately connected with studies of the earth's density, the earth's motion, and timekeeping. While primarily a physics book, the work provides significant added interest through the use of relevant cultural and historical vignettes. This approach offers an alternative to the usual modern physics courses. The text is amply illustrated and augmented by exercises at the end of each chapter.

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300

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OUP Oxford

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019156530X

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9780191565304

Jailbreak

Great Irish Republican Escapes, 1865–1983

By: James Durney

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Jailbreak

Great Irish Republican Escapes, 1865–1983

By: James Durney

The IRA’s spectacular 1983 breakout from the Maze Prison was the biggest jailbreak in UK penal history. It was the culmination of a long and valiant tradition of escape bids by Irish republican prisoners, who saw it as their moral duty to escape, attempting to do so in increasingly daring and audacious ways. Spanning the period 1865–1983, this collection features escapes on land, air and sea, including bomb blasts, tunnel escapes, mass breakouts and helicopter airlifts. Jailbreak is a fascinating chronicle, with each chapter featuring a history altering jailbreak, such as Éamon de Valera’s cunning rescue from Lincoln Jail in 1919, the ‘Greatest Escape’ of 112 anti -Treaty prisoners from Newbridge Barracks in 1922 and the epic helicopter airlift of IRA leaders from Mountjoy Prison in 1973. In this hugely entertaining book, James Durney deftly records twenty-three action-packed factual accounts of daring rescues, incredible escape bids and jailbreaks that raised the morale of nationalist Ireland and defied the might of empires and governments.

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Merrion Press

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1785374931

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9781785374937

Satire as the Comic Public Sphere

Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement

By: James E. Caron

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Satire as the Comic Public Sphere

Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement

By: James E. Caron

Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel—these comedians are household names whose satirical takes on politics, the news, and current events receive some of the highest ratings on television. In this book, James E. Caron examines these and other satirists through the lenses of humor studies, cultural theory, and rhetorical and social philosophy, arriving at a new definition of the comic art form. Tracing the history of modern satire from its roots in the Enlightenment values of rational debate, evidence, facts, accountability, and transparency, Caron identifies a new genre: “truthiness satire.” He shows how satirists such as Colbert, Bee, Oliver, and Kimmel—along with writers like Charles Pierce and Jack Shafer—rely on shared values and on the postmodern aesthetics of irony and affect to foster engagement within the comic public sphere that satire creates. Using case studies of bits, parodies, and routines, Caron reveals a remarkable process: when evidence-based news reporting collides with a discursive space asserting alternative facts, the satiric laughter that erupts can move the audience toward reflection and possibly even action as the body politic in the public sphere. With rigor, humor, and insight, Caron shows that truthiness satire pushes back against fake news and biased reporting and that the satirist today is at heart a citizen, albeit a seemingly silly one. This book will appeal to anyone interested in and concerned about public discourse in the current era, especially researchers in media studies, communication studies, political science, and literary and cultural studies.

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357

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Penn State Press

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0271090332

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9780271090337

The Old Tradition

By: James Corbett

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The Old Tradition

By: James Corbett

The Old tradition is a novel based upon many years of detailed research which charts the progress of three generations of an Irish family through the stormiest years of their Nation's history. Murder, Kidnapping, Torture, Love, Commitment, Happiness, Faith and Family, they're all here.

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Lulu.com

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1409299732

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9781409299738

Ireland: The Struggle for Power

From the Dark Ages to the Jacobites

By: Jeffrey James

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Ireland: The Struggle for Power

From the Dark Ages to the Jacobites

By: Jeffrey James

A fascinating saga of invasion, resistance and colonisation

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403

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445662477

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9781445662473

The Ecology and Management of Wetlands

Volume 1: Ecology of Wetlands

By: Donal D. Hook,W. H. McKee Jr,H. K. Smith,James Gregory,V. G. Burrell Jr,M. Richard DeVoe,R. E. Sojka,Stephen Gilbert,Roger Banks,L. H. Stolzy,Chris Brooks,Thomas D. Matthews,T. H. Shear

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The Ecology and Management of Wetlands

Volume 1: Ecology of Wetlands

By: Donal D. Hook,W. H. McKee Jr,H. K. Smith,James Gregory,V. G. Burrell Jr,M. Richard DeVoe,R. E. Sojka,Stephen Gilbert,Roger Banks,L. H. Stolzy,Chris Brooks,Thomas D. Matthews,T. H. Shear

This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference in a Session organized by Professor B.B. Vartepetian. This group and others later conspired to contribute to a book entitled Plant Life in Anaerobic Environments (eds. D. D. Hook and R. M. M. Crawford, Ann Arbor Science, 1978). Several contributors to the book suggested in 1983 that a broad-scoped symposium on wetlands would be useful (a) in facilitating communication among the diverse research groups involved in wetlands research (b) in bringing researchers and managers together and (c) in presenting a com prehensive and balanced coverage on the status of ecology ami management of wetlands from a global perspective. With this encouragement, the senior editor organized a Plan ning Committee that encompassed expertise from many disciplines of wetland scientists and managers. This Committee, with input from their colleagues around the world, organized a symposium that addressed almost every aspect of wetland ecology and management.

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602

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468483781

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9781468483789

Young Ireland and the Writing of Irish History

By: James Quinn

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Young Ireland and the Writing of Irish History

By: James Quinn

Examines why Young Ireland attached such importance to the writing of history, how it went about writing that history, and what impact their historical writings had.

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University College Dublin Press

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191082092X

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9781910820926

The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park

A unique history of one of Ireland’s most famous places

By: James Flanagan,Frank Flanagan,Donal Fallon

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The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park

A unique history of one of Ireland’s most famous places

By: James Flanagan,Frank Flanagan,Donal Fallon

The Phoenix Park in Dublin holds a special place in the collective memory of Irish people. From the assassinations of 1882 and the destruction of several imperial monuments, to the arrival of Douglas Hyde as Ireland's first president and Pope John Paul's 1979 visit, it has been at the centre of Irish society for centuries. But the park is also part and parcel of daily life for many Dubliners - none more so than the Flanagan family, who have been lighting the gas lamps within its walls since 1890. Here, historian Donal Fallon speaks to brothers Frank and James Flanagan, lamplighters of the park, to give us a snapshot of a fading tradition, and a unique history of one of Ireland's most beloved places. With stunning photographs, historical events and personal stories, The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park shines a light on the park at the centre of our national identity, through the prism of this singular family, whose histories have been intertwined for more than 150 years.

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Hachette Books Ireland

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1399722824

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9781399722827

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