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Three Selected Papers on Catalan Folklore

Traditional Literature and Ethnopoetics, Introduction to a History of Folklores Extraordinary Stories, Urban Legends

By: Josep M. Pujol

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Three Selected Papers on Catalan Folklore

Traditional Literature and Ethnopoetics, Introduction to a History of Folklores Extraordinary Stories, Urban Legends

By: Josep M. Pujol

This volume contains a selection of three translations of articles by Josep M. Pujol (Barcelona, 1947–2012), one in each of the three areas that he defined to characterise his work in the field of folklore: the theory of interactive artistic communication; the history of folklore studies and folk literature; and folk narrative. The three articles give a taste of the important contributions he made to the study of folklore, and which have been studied and contextualised by Carme Oriol in the introduction that precedes the three texts. This edition also includes the complete folkloric bibliography of Josep M. Pujol in chronological order, with all the references.

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PUBLICACIONS UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA i VIRGILI

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8469591762

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9788469591765

Z2Z4-Linear Codes

By: Joaquim Borges,Cristina Fernández-Córdoba,Jaume Pujol,Josep Rifà,Mercè Villanueva

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Z2Z4-Linear Codes

By: Joaquim Borges,Cristina Fernández-Córdoba,Jaume Pujol,Josep Rifà,Mercè Villanueva

The theory developed for Z2Z4-additive codes is the starting point for much generalization about codes over mixed alphabets. They have opened a new, emergent area of research. The techniques used for Z2Z4-linear codes are being generalized and applied to more general codes. By example, these codes have contributed to the classification of many nonlinear codes. Moreover, they can be considered as the starting point of many different generalizations given over mixed alphabets, thereby representing a useful area of research. Since 2010, more than 30 papers have been published about the codes considered in the book, which includes important classes of binary codes (1-perfect, Hadamard, etc.) that are not linear in general. For example, much recent research has shown the application of the techniques described for the family of cyclic Z2Z4-linear codes. Topics and Features: Examines everything from the basic definitions to very advanced results Provides numerous examples, succinctly and comprehensively gathering and using the relevant information Includes examples using commands from a new Magma package, developed mostly by the same authors Proposes algorithms, for instance to describe coding and decoding strategies This unique volume will be eminently suitable for researchers working on coding theory over rings, especially over mixed alphabets. Experts will find commands and algorithms that will be useful in the generalization to codes over mixed alphabets. Additionally, by outlining the basic theory of codes over mixed alphabets and providing numerous examples, the book will be useful to researchers wanting to be introduced to the topic. The authors are all affiliated with the Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Joaquim Borges and Cristina Fernández-Córdoba are Associate Professors, Jaume Pujol is a now retired Associate Professor, Josep Rifà is Professor Emeritus, and Mercè Villanueva is Associate Professor.

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245

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Springer Nature

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3031054415

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9783031054419

Private Life

By: Josep Maria de Sagarra

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Private Life

By: Josep Maria de Sagarra

Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail. The novel, practically a roman-à-clef for its contemporaries, was a scandal in 1932. The 1960's edition was bowdlerized by Franco's censors. Part Lampedusa, part Genet, this translation will bring an essential piece of 20th-century European literature to the English-speaking public.

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Archipelago

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091467126X

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9780914671268

The Problem of Nutrition

Experimental Science, Public Health, and Economy in Europe, 1914-1945

By: Josep Lluís Barona,Josep Lluis Barona Vilar

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The Problem of Nutrition

Experimental Science, Public Health, and Economy in Europe, 1914-1945

By: Josep Lluís Barona,Josep Lluis Barona Vilar

The first decades of the 20th century were marked by a crisis. The impact of the Great War, the rise of the workers' revolutionary movement and the National Socialist expansion as well as the disaster of the 1929 crash and the great depression of the 1930s created a landscape of tension, radicalism and political instability. In this context, nutrition emerges as an excellent ground from which to explore the genesis of experimental knowledge, the social interests involved, and the transfer of knowledge and practices to public health, the economy, trade and politics. The exceptional confluence of all factors influencing the interwar period contributed to building the problem of nutrition. This book offers a wide perspective including international agencies committed to a global approach to define nutritional problems, agricultural reforms, surveys in different countries and rural areas, methodological agreements on nutritional standards, the main trends of experimental research, the dreadful impact of the war and some experiments developed in internment camps. The author examines nutrition as a cornerstone to show interactions between science, politics, economy and public health.

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168

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Peter Lang

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9052015821

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9789052015828

Teoría del conocimiento

By: Tobies Grimaltos

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Teoría del conocimiento

By: Tobies Grimaltos

Aproximación sistemática y actualizada a los problemas filosóficos que plantea el conocimiento humano, dividida en cinco grandes apartados: método, definición y posibilidades de conocimiento, justificación, base empírica del conocimiento y relación entre semántica y epistemología. El libro de J. L. Blasco y T. Grimaltos aporta una exposición clara y rigurosa de la epistemología contemporánea.

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Universitat de València

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8437089379

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9788437089379

The Spanish Frustration

How a Ruinous Empire Thwarted the Nation-State

By: Josep M. Colomer

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The Spanish Frustration

How a Ruinous Empire Thwarted the Nation-State

By: Josep M. Colomer

Old troubles with remote origins persist in modern Spain, including huge public debts, extensive corruption, widespread unlawfulness, oligarchical politics, territorial splits, and permanent protests and riots. When did Spain screw up? The Spanish Frustration provides an interpretation of several important aspects of present-day Spain and its past stories. It argues that, in the long term, Spain missed the opportunity to become a consolidated modern nation-state because it was entangled in imperial adventures for several centuries when it should have been building a solid domestic basis for further endeavors. In short: a ruinous empire made a weak state, which built an incomplete nation, which sustains a minority democracy.

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Anthem Press

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178308989X

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9781783089895

Foundations of National Identity

From Catalonia to Europe

By: Josep R. Llobera

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Foundations of National Identity

From Catalonia to Europe

By: Josep R. Llobera

Since it emergence in the 19th century in response to feudalism, nationalism has been a mixed blessing. Originally seen as a positive force, often enough it has resulted in warfare and persecution of minorities, so much so that, over time, it has been considered a social evil whose apparent decline has been greeted as a positive development. The author disputes this or rather, he maintains that the picture that emerges is more complex: nationalism is not disappearing but has taken on a different form. What we are experiencing is an increasing autonomy of ethnonations, i.e. nations without a state, in the wake of a weakening of the multinational states and the transfer of their sovereignty upwards, in the case of Europe to the federation of the European Union, and downwards to the "ethnonations." Catalonia is the major case study in this book but it is embedded in a comprehensive theoretical framework as well as the historical and contemporary reality of Europe, opening up a new perspective. The author, one of the foremost scholars in this field, brilliantly succeeds in developing an original, clear and comprehensive vision of nationalism that is accessible to a wide readership.

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Berghahn Books

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1845450426

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9781845450427

The Imperial Nation

Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires

By: Josep M. Fradera

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The Imperial Nation

Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires

By: Josep M. Fradera

How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entities Historians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a sweeping examination of four of these modern powers—Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States—and asks how, after the great revolutionary cycle in Europe and America, the history of monarchical empires shaped these new nations. Josep Fradera explores this transition, paying particular attention to the relations between imperial centers and their sovereign territories and the constant and changing distinctions placed between citizens and subjects. Fradera argues that the essential struggle that lasted from the Seven Years’ War to the twentieth century was over the governance of dispersed and varied peoples: each empire tried to ensure domination through subordinate representation or by denying any representation at all. The most common approach echoed Napoleon’s “special laws,” which allowed France to reinstate slavery in its Caribbean possessions. The Spanish and Portuguese constitutions adopted “specialness” in the 1830s; the United States used comparable guidelines to distinguish between states, territories, and Indian reservations; and the British similarly ruled their dominions and colonies. In all these empires, the mix of indigenous peoples, European-origin populations, slaves and indentured workers, immigrants, and unassimilated social groups led to unequal and hierarchical political relations. Fradera considers not only political and constitutional transformations but also their social underpinnings. Presenting a fresh perspective on the ways in which nations descended and evolved from and throughout empires, The Imperial Nation highlights the ramifications of this entangled history for the subjects who lived in its shadows.

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414

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Princeton University Press

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0691217343

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9780691217345

Josep M. Jujol

By: Vincent Ligtelijn,Josep Maria Jujol i Gibert,Rein Saariste

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Josep M. Jujol

By: Vincent Ligtelijn,Josep Maria Jujol i Gibert,Rein Saariste

Architect Josep Maria Jujol (1879 - 1949).

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010 Publishers

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906450248X

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Great Empires, Small Nations

The Uncertain Future of the Sovereign State

By: Josep M. Colomer

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Great Empires, Small Nations

The Uncertain Future of the Sovereign State

By: Josep M. Colomer

Colomer's book is a stimulating read, certainly for anyone willing to entertain nonconventional observations that hold up well in what is happening in the world. His most important argument is that global public services, such as security, a trading system, an international monetary regime, and communication networks provided by large democratic entities such as the United States and the European Union provide opportunities for small countries and regions to prosper. The successful smaller units – like Ireland or Catalonia – trade more in proportion to their economies than large ones, are generally more democratic, and have more multilingual populations. I expect this book to be widely read and greatly admired.’–Sidney Weintraub, William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, USA

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129

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Routledge

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1134072848

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9781134072842

The Gray Notebook

By: Josep Pla

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The Gray Notebook

By: Josep Pla

Josep Pla’s masterpiece, The Gray Notebook, is one of the most colorful and unusual works in modern literature. In 1918, when Pla was in Barcelona studying law, the Spanish flu broke out, the university shut down, and he went home to his parents in coastal Palafrugell. Aspiring to be a writer, not a lawyer, he resolved to hone his style by keeping a journal. In it he wrote about his family, local characters, visits to cafés; the quips, quarrels, ambitions, and amours of his friends; writers he liked and writers he didn’t; and the long contemplative walks he would take in the countryside under magnificent skies. Returning to Barcelona to complete his studies, Pla kept up his diary, scrutinizing life in the big city with the same unflagging zest and humor. Pla, one of the great Catalan writers, held on to this youthful journal for close to fifty years, reworking and adding to it, until he finally published The Gray Notebook as both the first volume and the capstone of his collected works. It is a beautiful, entrancing, delightful book—at once a distillation of the spirit of youth and the work of a lifetime.

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657

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New York Review of Books

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1590176715

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9781590176719

Memoir of My Youth in Cuba

A Soldier in the Spanish Army During the Separatist War, 1895–1898

By: Josep Conangla i Fontanilles

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Memoir of My Youth in Cuba

A Soldier in the Spanish Army During the Separatist War, 1895–1898

By: Josep Conangla i Fontanilles

Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895-1898 by Josep Conangla is an important addition to the accounts of Spanish and Cuban soldiers who served in Cuba's second War of Independence.

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206

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University of Alabama Press

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0817358927

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9780817358921

The Complete Book of Bookbinding

By: Josep Cambras

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The Complete Book of Bookbinding

By: Josep Cambras

A time-honored craft, bookbinding protects and enhances written and printed documents. Many of the diverse techniques of the improve a book's functionality and appearance are described in the these thoroughly illustrated pages.

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174

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Lark Books

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157990646X

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9781579906467

Experiència màgica del cinema, L'. Col·lecció Josep Queraltó

By: Universitat de Barcelona,Fundació Aula de Cinema Col·lecció Josep M. Queraltó

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Experiència màgica del cinema, L'. Col·lecció Josep Queraltó

By: Universitat de Barcelona,Fundació Aula de Cinema Col·lecció Josep M. Queraltó

La Col·lecció Josep M. Queraltó, una de les més importants d’Europa sobre la tècnica cinematogràfica, reuneix innombrables peces i enginys de tota mena, avui insospitats, que van fer possible l’origen i l’evolució del setè art. La seva història, el seu relat, és apassionant. Aquest catàleg –que publiquem amb motiu de la mostra «L’experiència màgica del cinema», celebrada a la Universitat de Barcelona–, submergeix el lector en l’univers fascinador del cinema i n’explica la història des de les primeres albors fins a l’aparició del cinematògraf dels germans Lumière, així com els seus vincles amb les ciències i l’art. Les ombres xineses, les llanternes, les kinores, les joguines òptiques i tants d’altres artefactes avui desconeguts són la materialització de l’anhel reeixit de la humanitat de captar i reproduir la realitat o, més aviat, l’experiència fugissera que en tenim. Els textos de Josep Maria Caparrós i Jordi S. Bonet contextualitzen i expliquen amb amenitat l’abast d’aquests objectes primigenis, que han evolucionat en paral·lel a la història d’una disciplina tan universal i estimada com ho és el cinema. Sens dubte una de les millors maneres d’endinsar-nos en la màgia dels orígens, que encara avui conservem. ; ; The Josep M. Queraltó Collection, one of the most important in Europe on the Technology of the cinema, includes countless pieces and all kinds of devices, now forgotten, that made the origins and the development of the Seventh Art possible. Its history, the story it tells, is exciting. This catalogue – published for the show “The Magical Experience of the Cinema”, held in the University of Barcelona – immerses readers in the fascinating world of the cinema and tells its story from the earliest days to the appearance of the Lumière brothers’ cinématographe, and its connections with the sciences and art. Chinese shadows, lanterns, Kinoras, optical toys and so many other artefacts, now unknown, are the materialization of mankind’s successful longing to capture and reproduce reality or, rather, the fleeting experience that we have of it. The texts by Josep Maria Caparrós and Jordi S. Bonet pleasantly contextualize and explain the scope of these rudimentary objects, which have developed parallel to the history of such a universal and well-loved discipline: the cinema. It is unquestionably one of the best ways to learn about the magic of the origins, which we still conserve today.

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Edicions Universitat Barcelona

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8447537404

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9788447537402

The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500

Translation, Imitation, and Literacy

By: Lluís Cabré,Montserrat Ferrer,Alejandro Coroleu,Josep Pujol,Albert Lloret

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The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500

Translation, Imitation, and Literacy

By: Lluís Cabré,Montserrat Ferrer,Alejandro Coroleu,Josep Pujol,Albert Lloret

The first comprehensive study of the reception of the classical tradition in medieval Catalan letters.

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304

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Tamesis Books

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1855663228

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9781855663220

The Spanish Frustration

How a Ruinous Empire Thwarted the Nation-State

By: Josep M. Colomer

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The Spanish Frustration

How a Ruinous Empire Thwarted the Nation-State

By: Josep M. Colomer

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210

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Anthem Press

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178308989X

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Això era i no era

Obra folklòrica de Josep M. Pujol

By: Josep M. Pujol

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Obra folklòrica de Josep M. Pujol

By: Josep M. Pujol

L'estudi del folklore català ha conegut en els darrers anys un important impuls a casa nostra, i això ha estat degut sobretot al mestratge exercit per Josep M. Pujol tant a través de la seva docència universitària a Tarragona com mitjançant les moltes conferències impartides i els estudis que va publicar. Des d'un coneixement profund de les teories i els mètodes que el folklore ha anat forjant al llarg del temps, va saber explicar quin és el sentit que ha tingut i que té el folklore en la vida de les persones, quin ha estat el llegat dels nostres folkloristes i quines són les possibilitats d'estudi que s'obren de cara al futur. Els assajos aplegats en aquest llibre comprenen el conjunt de treballs (articles, capítols de llibre, intervencions en seminaris i introduccions) que l'autor va publicar entre 1985 i 2012 i que, pel fet d'haver aparegut en llocs de característiques molt diverses, avui dia poden resultar difícils de localitzar i de consultar. En aquest llibre el lector hi trobarà uns assajos clarividents i suggeridors, plens de contingut i d'erudició, però, a més, escrits en un llenguatge precís i elegant que, de ben segur, serà la garantia d'una plaent lectura.

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416

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PUBLICACIONS UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA i VIRGILI

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8484242579

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9788484242574

Life Embitters

By: Josep Pla

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Life Embitters

By: Josep Pla

A book of stories, or "narrations," by the finest Catalan writer of his generation. In this beautiful work, translated into English for the first time, Pla transcribes his witnessings of basic truths: the waves of the sea, the hardness of rolled tobacco. The reader feels tangibly the pleasure with which Pla puts the sensual and real on paper.

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610

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Archipelago

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0914671138

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9780914671138

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