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The Cambridge History of China: pt. 1. The Sung Dynasty and its precursors, 907-1279

By: Denis Crispin Twitchett,John K. Fairbank

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The Cambridge History of China: pt. 1. The Sung Dynasty and its precursors, 907-1279

By: Denis Crispin Twitchett,John K. Fairbank

This first of two volumes on the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) and its Five Dynasties and Southern Kingdoms precursors presents the political history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279. Its twelve chapters survey the personalities and events that marked the rise, consolidation, and demise of the Sung polity during an era of profound social, economic, and intellectual ferment. The authors place particular emphasis on the emergence of a politically conscious literati class during the Sung, characterized by the increasing importance of the examination system early in the dynasty and on the rise of the tao-hsueh (Neo-Confucian) movement toward the end. In addition, they highlight the destabilizing influence of factionalism and ministerial despotism on Sung political culture and the impact of the powerful steppe empires of the Khitan Liao, Tangut Hsi Hsia, Jurchen Chin, and Mongol Yüan on the shape and tempo of Sung dynastic events

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Cambridge University Press

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0521812488

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Escape from Paradise

From Third World to First

By: John Harding,May Chu Harding

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Escape from Paradise

From Third World to First

By: John Harding,May Chu Harding

Subject: Autobiography. Escape from Paradise is a contemporary and true woman?s story set in Singapore, Brunei, Australia, England, and the United States. It involves Singapore?s famous Tiger Balm family, and a wealthy and mysterious family from Brunei?and the link between them, a young Singaporean woman, May Chu Lee. From its first paragraph, the book draws the reader into the ambiance of a cosmopolitan Asia never touched upon by any other book ?

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John Harding

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0971092907

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Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650

The Chin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties

By: Kojiro Yoshikawa,John Timothy Wixted

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Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650

The Chin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties

By: Kojiro Yoshikawa,John Timothy Wixted

Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span of Chinese poetry. Written by the foremost Japanese sinologist of this century, and translated here in a lucid analogue to his famous prose style, the work provides a brief but comprehensive review of the period's literary history, a sketch of its political and social history in relation to literature, and a rendering of more than one hundred and fifty poems. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400860466

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Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800

By: John Robert Shepherd

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Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800

By: John Robert Shepherd

A Stanford University Press classic.

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Stanford University Press

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0804720665

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Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953

By: Noriko Kamachi,John K. Fairbank,Chūzō Ichiko

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Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953

By: Noriko Kamachi,John K. Fairbank,Chūzō Ichiko

A comprehensive bibliographical guide to Japanese research published between 1953 and 1969 on the topic of Modern China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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BRILL

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1684171911

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9781684171910

Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities

By: John F. Schank,Mark V. Arena,Paul DeLuca,Jessie Riposo,Kimberly Curry Hall,Kimberly Curry

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Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities

By: John F. Schank,Mark V. Arena,Paul DeLuca,Jessie Riposo,Kimberly Curry Hall,Kimberly Curry

Nuclear submarine design resources at the shipyards, their suppliers, and the Navy may erode for lack of demand. Analysis of alternative workforce and workload management options suggests that the U.S. Navy should stretch out the design of the next submarine class and start it early or sustain design resources above the current demand, so that the next class may be designed on time, on budget, and with low risk.

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Rand Corporation

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0833042769

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Resurrecting Church

Where Justice and Diversity Meet Radical Welcome and Healing Hope

By: John Cleghorn

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Resurrecting Church

Where Justice and Diversity Meet Radical Welcome and Healing Hope

By: John Cleghorn

Resurrecting Church interweaves three strands. First, it is the remarkable turnaround story of Caldwell Presbyterian Church, which was on the edge of extinction when author John Cleghorn filled the role of pastor. Second, Cleghorn tells the story of his own growth and liberation from the myopia of privilege. Cleghorn traded his position as senior vice president of the nation's largest bank for ministry and the dusty and dated church office at Caldwell Presbyterian. The third strand includes the stories of several diverse congregations researched by the author. These congregations are examples of faith communities that have taken risks, deepening empathy and seeking justice. Through these stories, the book updates the ""same old"" conversation about church vitality in timely and surprising ways. Cleghorn raises these important questions: Can churches survive, even be resurrected, at the intersections of race, sexuality, class, and faith background? Can congregations be liberated by rebuilding around those on the margins who have been wounded by church? As more US cities become majority-minority, the ""mainline"" church remains stubbornly white and homogeneous. Church leaders and thinkers are seeking ways to build more racial diversity and radical welcome. This book provides hope and practical examples of how this can happen. Cleghorn declares, ""God is doing what Isaiah calls 'a new thing'"" in congregations where multiple types of diversity intersect, erecting spiritual hospitals for the wounded and marginalized. For the church, these intersections provide both a current lens of self-examination and avenues to growth in faith. With stories, people profiles, and insights from their leaders and members, this book breaks new ground with practical learning and lessons drawn from original research and the lived experience of intersectional churches across the US.

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Fortress Press

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150646484X

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Pathobiology of Marine and Estuarine Organisms

By: John A. Couch,John W. Fournie

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Pathobiology of Marine and Estuarine Organisms

By: John A. Couch,John W. Fournie

Pathobiology of Marine and Estuarine Organisms is a comprehensive, up-to-date review of aquatic animal pathobiology covering infectious and non-infectious diseases of vertebrates such as marine mammals and fishes, in addition to diseases of invertebrates such as crustacea, mollusks, and lower phyla. The book provides critical information on viral, fungal, bacterial, parasitic, and neoplastic diseases of fish and invertebrates. Written by top-notch experts in the field, Pathobiology of Marine and Estuarine Organisms emphasizes pollution-associated diseases and includes an important review on the effects of pollution on marine mammals. The book will be a welcome addition to the libraries of aquatic and marine biologists, aquatic toxicologists, fisheries biologists, aquaculturalists, fish and invertebrate pathologists, and aquatic animal parasitologists.

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CRC Press

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1000099393

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Branches of Heaven

A History of the Imperial Clan of Sung China

By: John W. Chaffee

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Branches of Heaven

A History of the Imperial Clan of Sung China

By: John W. Chaffee

By the end of the Sung dynasty (960-1279), known descendants of the three Chao brothers who had founded the dynasty numbered over 20,000. Unlike the rulers of many other Chinese dynasties, however, the Sung emperors were not plagued by challenges to their rule from their relatives. So successful was Sung policy on the imperial clan that it would serve as a model for the subsequent Ming and Ch'ing dynasties. How the Sung created a social and political asset in the imperial clan while neutralizing it as a potential threat is the story of this book. This study of the imperial clan as an institution analyzes the history, its political tile and the lifestyle of its members, focusing on their residence patterns, marriages and occupations.

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BRILL

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1684173329

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Confucianism and Autocracy

Professional Elites in the Founding of the Ming Dynasty

By: John W. Dardess

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Confucianism and Autocracy

Professional Elites in the Founding of the Ming Dynasty

By: John W. Dardess

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

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Univ of California Press

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0520327578

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The Newsom Nightmare

The California Catastrophe and How to Reform Our Broken System

By: John H. Cox

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The Newsom Nightmare

The California Catastrophe and How to Reform Our Broken System

By: John H. Cox

In a time when American politics is at its lowest ebb, and when political leadership is notably absent across the ideological spectrum, one politician stands apart as a particularly unfortunate exemplar of everything that is wrong with our national leadership. Gavin Newsom. In this detailed and infuriating exposé of how big money has corrupted the political process at every level of society, businessman and philanthropist John Cox uses Newsom’s career to analyze how and why the system operates as it does. Politicians are bought and paid for by moneyed interests; media coverage is determined, first and foremost, by financial concerns; and the average citizen is fully disenfranchised from determining electoral or policy outcomes. And nowhere is this more evident—with tragic results—than in Gavin Newsom’s collapsing California. The cost of living is out of control; a homelessness epidemic is on the rise; there’s a shortage of housing, water, and energy; crime rates are at an all-time high; wildfires cause devastation at alarming rates each year; and high taxes make it nearly impossible to start a small business. We’re beginning to see these trends spread throughout the United States. As the old saying goes, “as goes California, so goes the nation.” Our system must be reformed. This book doesn’t just lay out the problems; it posits a workable and easy to implement solution that will work to get this country—and California—back on track. In The Newsom Nightmare, Cox deftly and succinctly provides an alternative that would, if implemented, put the American body politic back on solid ground.

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Post Hill Press

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Estuarine Circulation

By: Bruce J. Neilson,Albert Kuo,John Brubaker

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Estuarine Circulation

By: Bruce J. Neilson,Albert Kuo,John Brubaker

Estuaries exist along the edge of the oceans and seas, and are char acterized by the dilution of sea water by inflowing fresher waters. The motion and interaction of these two types of water (fresh and salt water) determine the salinity distribution within the estuary and that, in turn, affects the organisms residing there. The purpose of this vol ume is to review the status of our understanding of estuarine circu lation and how the circulation patterns affect living and nonliving resources in estuaries. For many years, the primary paradigm for estuarine circulation was the two-layered net or nontidal gravitational circulation pattern first proposed by Dr. Donald Pritchard in his studies of the James River estuary. During the last decade or so, research has focused on the many variations about this theme and the factors that control the transport processes. Many of these aspects are covered in the initial papers in this volume. Water movement, of course, is of interest be cause it transports marine organisms, sediments, and pollutants. Es tuarine circulation has a significant effect on estuarine food chains, and on the distribution and abundance of organisms, such as the American oyster, that are freely transported by the currents during larval stages. The intent is to bring together many of these topics in a single volume. This volume is dedicated to Dr. Donald W.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461245621

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9781461245629

The A to Z of Taiwan (Republic of China)

By: John Franklin Copper

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The A to Z of Taiwan (Republic of China)

By: John Franklin Copper

Taiwan, an island located off the east coast of southern China, is the largest piece of territory under the jurisdiction of the "nation" known officially as the Republic of China. Constant debate over whether Taiwan is its own sovereign state, part of the Republic of China, or part of the People's Republic of China has been going on for years. With Chinese leaders in the People's Republic of China rejecting Taiwan's legal separation and vowing that they will resolve the "Taiwan issue" by military force if necessary and most citizens of Taiwan opposing unification with China in the short run, it would appear that Taiwan faces some tough decisions ahead. The A to Z of Taiwan (Republic of China) offers insight into Taiwan's situation through a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a map, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on important people, places, events, political parties, and institutions, as well as major political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of this island country. Whether or not Taiwan joins the People's Republic of China or gains its independence, Taiwan's outcome is of the utmost importance, and this reference provides the necessary information to understand its state of affairs.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461672198

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9781461672197

Learning of the Way (Daoxue):

Self-Cultivation Through Neo-Confucian Learning, Kungfu, and Martial Arts

By: John E. Young, PhD

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Learning of the Way (Daoxue):

Self-Cultivation Through Neo-Confucian Learning, Kungfu, and Martial Arts

By: John E. Young, PhD

Over two thousand years ago, the Chinese sage Confucius proposed that “learning, and putting persistent learning into practice, is a great joy or pleasure.” In Learning of the Way (Daoxue), Dr. John E. Young presents, from a Confucian perspective, the rationale for engaging in traditional Chinese arts and practices. Dr. Young relies on his experience as a Chinese martial arts expert and professor emeritus to share the results of his comprehensive examination of the concept of Confucian learning that explores self-cultivation, introduces the era of Neo-Confucianism, investigates the practices of jing and gewu, examines the Zhu Xi approach, applies Confucian and Neo-Confucian concepts specifically to the art and practice of wushu, and scrutinizes the traditional aspects of wushu as understood and practiced by Chinese grandmasters. Included is a description of the state of enlightenment that suggests this level of consciousness--guantong--is identical to integral consciousness and is urgently needed in today’s increasingly complex, interconnected environments. Learning of the Way (Daoxue) is a comprehensive guidebook that examines and teaches Westerners about traditional Chinese arts and practices.

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Archway Publishing

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1480830496

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9781480830493

Taiwan

Nation-State or Province?

By: John Franklin Copper

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Taiwan

Nation-State or Province?

By: John Franklin Copper

In this newly revised and updated seventh edition of Taiwan: Nation-State or Province? Copper examines Taiwan's geography and history, society and culture, economy, political system and foreign and security politics in the context of Taiwan's uncertain status, as either a sovereign nation or a province of the People's Republic of China. Analyzing possible future scenarios and trends that could affect Taiwan’s status, the author argues that Taiwan's very rapid and successful democratization suggests Taiwan should be independent and separate from China, while economic links between Taiwan and China indicate the opposite. New features to this brand-new edition include: The triumph of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the 2016 elections. The impact of the Trump administration on US–Taiwan relations. The rise of popularism. The shift in cross-Strait relations with China given their increased power on the world stage. This revised and fully up-to-date textbook will be essential reading for students of Taiwan, China, US–China relations and democracy.

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Routledge

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0429808313

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9780429808319

Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts

By: John K. Whitmore

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Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts

By: John K. Whitmore

Essays that demonstrate ways to "read" the pasts of Vietnam through detailed analyses of its art, chronicles, legends, documents, and monuments. The book's many voices undermine the idea of a single Vietnamese past. All the essays, while varied, are connected by their common concerns with language and text.

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SEAP Publications

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0877277184

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9780877277187

Complications in Anesthesia

By: John L. Atlee

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Complications in Anesthesia

By: John L. Atlee

Practical text focuses on complications in the practice of anesthesia. Divided into sections similar to the thought processes involved in decision-making. Thumb indexing and cross-references are also included. All chapters have a case synopsis, problem analysis, and discussion of management and prevention.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1416022155

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9781416022152

The Tears of Greed

By: John C. Holmes

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The Tears of Greed

By: John C. Holmes

The opening chapters introduce the criminal elements whose atrocities have an impact throughout Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa. In South Africa, the reader meets a staunch conservationist family, the Smits, and their contributions to the eventual resolution of many criminal dockets in South Africa. A serious attack at a taxi rank in Durban leaves a member of the ruling political party dead, and the South African Police Services become involved with the case which is soon found to have strong links to Kenya. This murderous ex-mercenary is connected to various crimes in South Africa, and it is discovered that he is a main supplier of contraband and controls a poaching ring and a smuggling outfit operating in Ulundi which is adjacent to the Imfolozi/Hluhluwe Game reserve. The Kenyan Law enforcement agency is found to be corrupt with the exception of the assistant commissioner of police and his newly formed branch. This division starts investigating past unresolved cases and soon smashes a criminal syndicate. The South Africans are involved and a crack antipoaching team is involved to the end of a serious poaching expedition.

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Partridge Africa

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1482804794

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9781482804799

MANA

By: John A. Broussard

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MANA

By: John A. Broussard

The setting is the Big Island of Hawaii. With its active volcano and its frequent earthquakes, it has long been the subject of Polynesian legends. And, at the core of the legends, are the tales told of the alii, the Polynesian nobility, who possessed a strange power making them invulnerable to attack. Lehua Watanabe, investigative reporter for the Kona News, suddenly acquires this mysterious force, which serves her well in her encounter with organized crime, but which also has strange and unwanted side effects. For other mysteries, collections of short stories by John Broussard and an author image, bio, and sample read visit bosonbooks.com.

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Bitingduck Press LLC

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1932482245

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9781932482249

Handbook of Vegetable Pests

By: John L. Capinera

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Handbook of Vegetable Pests

By: John L. Capinera

Assisting anyone in need of an easy-to-use yet comprehensive survey of all pests likely to be encountered in North America, this handbook provides thorough identification guides, descriptions of pest life history, and pest management recommendations. Including hundreds of illustrations, this guide is cross-referenced to scientific literature, and includes color plates for ease of insect identification.

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Gulf Professional Publishing

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0121588610

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9780121588618

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