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Left Out of the Bargain

Settlements in Foreign Bribery Cases and Implications for Asset Recovery

By: Jacinta Anyango Oduor,Francisca M.U. Fernando,Agustin Flah,Dorothee Gottwald,Jeanne M. Hauch,Marianne Mathias,Ji Won Park,Oliver Stolpe

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Left Out of the Bargain

Settlements in Foreign Bribery Cases and Implications for Asset Recovery

By: Jacinta Anyango Oduor,Francisca M.U. Fernando,Agustin Flah,Dorothee Gottwald,Jeanne M. Hauch,Marianne Mathias,Ji Won Park,Oliver Stolpe

Over the past decade, countries have increasingly used settlements that is, any procedure short of a full trial to conclude foreign bribery cases and have imposed billions in monetary sanctions. There exists a gap in knowledge, however, regarding settlement practices around the world and the disposition of these monetary sanctions notably through the lens of recovery of stolen assets. Left out of the Bargain, a study by the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR), provides an overview of settlement practices by civil and common law countries that have been active in the fight against foreign bribery. Using the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) as its point of reference, the study addresses concerns voiced by the international community: What happens to the money associated with the settlements, and is it being returned to those most directly harmed by the corrupt practices? And what can be done to assist those countries harmed by foreign bribery? Left out of the Bargain has found that 395 settlement cases took place between 1999 and mid-2012, resulting in a total of US$6.9 billion in monetary sanctions imposed against companies and individuals. Of this amount, nearly US$6 billion came from settlements that took place in a country different from that of the allegedly bribed foreign public officials. But only about US$197 million, or 3 percent, has been returned or ordered returned to the countries whose officials were accused of accepting bribes. Left out of the Bargain urges countries whose officials were allegedly bribed to intensify their efforts to investigate and prosecute the providers and recipients of foreign bribes, hence improving these countries' prospects for recovery of assets lost through corruption. The study also calls for more proactive international cooperation and coordination to ensure that all affected countries are afforded the opportunity to seek redress for harms suffered and for the recovery of assets thus fulfilling the principles set out in UNCAC.

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World Bank Publications

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1464800871

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9781464800870

A Death at Crooked Creek

The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter

By: Marianne Wesson

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A Death at Crooked Creek

The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter

By: Marianne Wesson

This is an extraordinary and ground-breaking book, a wonderfully creative mix of fact and theory, imagination and drama…The startling origin of the complex 'intention exception' to the hearsay evidence rule becomes canvas on which a grand and marvelously detailed tale is told. This is modern narrative at its best: a marriage of spectacular writing and hard, documented truth presented by a brilliant author who doubles as a gifted and fastidious legal scholar and historian." —Andrew Popper, American University One winter night in 1879, at a lonely Kansas campsite near Crooked Creek, a man was shot to death. The dead man’s traveling companion identified him as John Hillmon, a cowboy from Lawrence who had been attempting to carve out a life on the blustery prairie. The case might have been soon forgotten and the apparent widow, Sallie Hillmon, left to mourn—except for the $25,000 life insurance policies Hillmon had taken out shortly before his departure. The insurance companies refused to pay on the policies, claiming that the dead man was not John Hillmon, and Sallie was forced to take them to court in a case that would reach the Supreme Court twice. The companies’ case rested on a crucial piece of evidence: a faded love letter written by a disappeared cigarmaker, declaring his intent to travel westward with a “man named Hillmon.” In A Death at Crooked Creek, Marianne Wesson re-examines the long-neglected evidence in the case of the Kansas cowboy and his wife, recreating the court scenes that led to a significant Supreme Court ruling on the admissibility of hearsay evidence. Wesson employs modern forensic methods to examine the body of the dead man, attempting to determine his true identity and finally put this fascinating mystery to rest. This engaging and vividly imagined work combines the drama, intrigue, and emotion of excellent storytelling with cutting-edge forensic investigation techniques and legal theory. Wesson’s superbly imagined A Death at Crooked Creek will have general readers, history buffs, and legal scholars alike wondering whether history, and the Justices, may have misunderstood altogether the events at that bleak winter campsite. Marianne Wesson is Professor of Law and President’s Teaching Scholar, University of Colorado Law School. She is the author of best-selling and prize-winning legal novels including Render up the Body, A Suggestion of Death, and Chilling Effect. She lives in a Colorado mountain valley with her husband, llamas, dogs, and visiting wildlife.

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NYU Press

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0814784569

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9780814784563

A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests

Fundamentals of Neuropsychological Assessment and Test Reviews for Clinical Practice

By: Elisabeth Sherman,Marianne Hrabok

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A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests

Fundamentals of Neuropsychological Assessment and Test Reviews for Clinical Practice

By: Elisabeth Sherman,Marianne Hrabok

The Compendium is an essential guidebook for selecting the right test for specific clinical situations and for helping clinicians make empirically supported test interpretations. BL Revised and updated BL Over 85 test reviews of well-known neuropsychological tests and scales for adults BL Includes tests of premorbid estimation, dementia screening, IQ, attention, executive functioning, memory, language, visuospatial skills, sensory function, motor skills, performance validity, and symptom validity BL Covers basic and advanced aspects of neuropsychological assessment including psychometric principles, reliability, test validity, and performance/symptom validity testing

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Oxford University Press

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0190667966

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9780190667962

Parkinson's Disease

New Research

By: Marianne J. Willow

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Parkinson's Disease

New Research

By: Marianne J. Willow

Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterised by an insidious onset with slowing of emotional and voluntary movement, muscular rigidity, postural abnormality and tremor. Parkinson's disease was first described in 1817 by James Parkinson. It is a progressive, neurological disease mainly affecting people over the age of 50, although at least 10 per cent of cases occur at an earlier age. It affects people of either sex and all ethnic groups. In the normal brain, some nerve cells produce the chemical dopamine, which transmits signals within the brain to produce smooth movement of muscles. In Parkinson's patients, 80 percent or more of these dopamine-producing cells are damaged, dead, or otherwise degenerated. This causes the nerve cells to fire wildly, leaving patients unable to control their movements. This new book brings together the latest research in this field.

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Nova Publishers

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1594543526

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9781594543524

Small Animal Surgical Nursing - E-Book

By: Marianne Tear

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Small Animal Surgical Nursing - E-Book

By: Marianne Tear

- NEW! Online user resources on the Evolve companion website that includes interactive activities.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323312284

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9780323312288

Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema

Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men of the Future

By: Marianne Kac-Vergne

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Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema

Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men of the Future

By: Marianne Kac-Vergne

If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us? In the classics of science fiction cinema, humanity is nearly always represented by a male, and until recently, a white male. Spanning landmark American films from Blade Runner to Avatar, this major new study offers the first ever analysis of masculinity in science fiction cinema. It uncovers the evolution of masculine heroes from the 1980s until the present day, and the roles played by their feminine counterparts. Considering gender alongside racial and class politics, Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema also situates filmic examples within the broader culture. It is indispensable for understanding science fiction and its role in contemporary cultural politics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786723158

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Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895

Genre, Gender and Criticism

By: Marianne Van Remoortel

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Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895

Genre, Gender and Criticism

By: Marianne Van Remoortel

In a series of representative case studies, Marianne Van Remoortel traces the development of the sonnet during intense moments of change and stability, continuity and conflict, from the early Romantic period to the end of the nineteenth century. Paying particular attention to the role of the popular press, which served as a venue of innovation and as a site of recruitment for aspiring authors, Van Remoortel redefines the scope of the genre, including the ways in which its development is intricately related to issues of gender. Among her subjects are the Della Cruscans and their primary critic William Gifford, the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his circle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, George Meredith's Modern Love, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's House of Life and Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter. As women became a force to be reckoned with among the reading public and the writing community, the term 'sonnet' often operated as a satirical label that was not restricted to poetry adhering to the strict formalities of the genre. Van Remoortel's study, in its attentiveness to the sonnet's feminization during the late eighteenth century, offers important insights into the ways in which changing attitudes about gender and genre shaped critics' interpretations of the reception histories of nineteenth-century sonnet sequences.

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Routledge

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1317104013

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9781317104018

Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession, c. 1630–1800

By: Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen

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Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession, c. 1630–1800

By: Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen

In Learning Law and Travelling Europe, Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen offers an exciting account of the study journeys of Swedish lawyers in the early modern period. Based on archival sources and biographical information, the study delves into the backgrounds of the law students, their travels through Europe, and their future careers. In seventeenth-century Sweden, the state-building process was at its height, and trained officials were desperately needed for the administration and judiciary. The book shows convincingly that the studies abroad of future lawyers were intimately linked to this process, whereas in the eighteenth century, study journeys became less important. By examining the development of the Swedish early modern legal profession, the book also represents an important contribution to comparative legal history.

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BRILL

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9004431667

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9789004431669

Spiral CT of the Abdomen

By: F. Terrier,Marianne Grossholz

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Spiral CT of the Abdomen

By: F. Terrier,Marianne Grossholz

The advent of spiral CT has led to a breakthrough in abdominal imaging. This illustrated volume, written by US and European experts in the field, provides technical information on the modality and considers the key pathologies of each abdominal organ system in which spiral CT has resulted in major diagnostic improvements.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540634630

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9783540634638

Destabilizing the Margins

An Intersectional Approach to Early Christian Memory

By: Marianne Bjelland Kartzow

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Destabilizing the Margins

An Intersectional Approach to Early Christian Memory

By: Marianne Bjelland Kartzow

In this book Marianne Bjelland Kartzow suggests that ideas taken from recent discussions of multiple identities and intersectionality, combined with insights from memory theory, can renew our engagement with biblical texts. Some marginal early Christian passages, and what the scholarly community has reconstructed of their historical contexts, are encountered, looking for alternative ways these texts can produce meaning. A fresh look at some marginal biblical figures--such as male and female slaves who are beaten by a fellow slave, the queer figure of the Ethiopian eunuch, foreign Egyptian women, rebellious widows, or a possessed fortune-telling slave girl--can help biblical users to talk in more critical and creative ways about responsibility, identity, injustice, violence, inclusion/exclusion, and the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class. These perspectives may be relevant for those who see the New Testament as Christian canon or as cultural canon, or as both.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1610976754

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9781610976756

Qualitytime-Esl

The Digital Resource Book

By: Marianne Raynaud

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Qualitytime-Esl

The Digital Resource Book

By: Marianne Raynaud

Learning another language can often be a challenging task. Teacher and author Marianne Raynaud has developed an intensive program to aid teachers and students with materials that really work. Filled with unique and motivating activities, the ideas presented will help all teachers of foreign languages to assist their students to effectively and efficiently learn a new language. With more than twenty-four years of experience teaching, Raynaud details her philosophy and the techniques she has developed. The text is accompanied by a Digital Document Annex that includes more than 1,500 ready-to-use teaching materials focusing on listening, comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, and translations. The annex also contains PowerPoint presentations, audio recordings, short videos, and examples of student work. Chapters provide information about: Incorporating teamwork Establishing a core curriculum Individualizing teaching Helping students enjoy labs Writing exercises that correspond to student needs Providing a challenging workload Intended to help teachers establish a successful program, QualityTime-ESL: The Digital Resource Book provides an extensive toolbox of teaching materials from which teachers can freely choose and then adapt. This detailed guide will help teachers to create a dynamic learning course to further the teaching of English.

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iUniverse

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0595486681

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9780595486687

Old House Handbook

A Practical Guide to Care and Repair, 2nd edition

By: Roger Hunt,Marianne Suhr

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Old House Handbook

A Practical Guide to Care and Repair, 2nd edition

By: Roger Hunt,Marianne Suhr

This fully revised and updated book is the authoritative guide on how to look after your old house – whether it is a timber-framed medieval cottage, an eighteenth-century town house or a Victorian or Edwardian terrace. Written in association with The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the authors’ approach is one of respect, restraint and repair rather than ‘restoration’, which can so easily and permanently destroy the special qualities of an old building. From the foundations to the roof, from the need for modern services to traditional paintwork and finishes, from windows and doors to breathability and damp in walls and floors, this handbook provides informed practical guidance. It is essential reading on maintenance and repair for all those with an old house.

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Frances Lincoln

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0711281483

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9780711281486

'While the Bridegroom is with Them'

Marriage, Family, Gender and Violence in the Gospel of Matthew

By: Marianne Blickenstaff

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'While the Bridegroom is with Them'

Marriage, Family, Gender and Violence in the Gospel of Matthew

By: Marianne Blickenstaff

Interpreters of Matthew's Parable of the Wedding Feast (22.1-14) typically associate the 'king' with God and then justify his violent attacks against city and guests; interpreters of the Parable of the Ten Virgins (25.1-13) typically associate the 'bridegroom' with Jesus and then justify his extreme rejection of the 'foolish virgins.' Questioning such allegorical interpretations, this study first details how Hebrew, Greek, and Roman texts depict - without requiring allegorical understandings - numerous bridegrooms associated not only with joy but also with violence and death. Second, this project appeals to the disruptive nature of parables, the feminist technique of resisting reading, and the Matthean Jesus's own ethical instructions to argue that in the parables, those who resist violent rulers and uncaring bridegrooms are the ones worthy of the Kingdom. The study then shows how the Matthean Jesus - the brideless, celibate bridegroom -- creates a fictive family by disrupting biological and marital ties, redefining masculinity, and undermining the desirability of marriage and procreation. JSNTS 292

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A&C Black

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0567041123

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9780567041128

Gap Year Girl

A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries

By: Marianne C. Bohr

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Gap Year Girl

A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries

By: Marianne C. Bohr

In the 1960s and ’70s, thousands of baby boomers strapped packs to their backs and flocked to Europe, wandering the continent on missions of self-discovery. Many of these boomers still dream of “going back”—of once again cutting themselves free and revisiting the places they encountered in their youth, recapturing what was, and creating fresh memories along the way. Marianne Bohr and her husband, Joe, did just that. In Gap Year Girl, Bohr describes what it’s like to kiss your job good-bye, sell your worldly possessions, pack your bags, and take off on a quest for adventure. Page by page, she engagingly recounts the experiences, epiphanies, highs, lows, struggles, surprises, and lessons learned as she and Joe journey as independent travelers on a budget—through medieval villages and bustling European cities, unimaginable culinary pleasures, and the entertaining (and sometimes infuriating) characters encountered along the way. Touching on universal themes of escape, adventure, freedom, discovery, and life reimagined, Gap Year Girl is an exciting account of a couple’s experiences on an unconventional, past the-blush-of-youth journey.

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Simon and Schuster

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1631528211

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9781631528217

The Curtain Within

Haida Social and Mythical Discourse

By: Marianne Boelscher

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The Curtain Within

Haida Social and Mythical Discourse

By: Marianne Boelscher

The Curtain Within explores the management of social roles and symbols to achieve various goals by people living in a modern Haida community. Moiety and lineage, social rank, the rules of entitlement to inherited property, and the mode of thought encoded in mythology still have force in Haida society. Political action did not and does not take place within the context of formal political institutions; instead it exists through the management of the symbols of social relationships and of entitlement to tangible and intangible property.

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UBC Press

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0774844752

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9780774844758

SPIRULINA Survival Food for a New Era

Amazing Healing Success with the Blue-green Algae - Delicious Recipes with the Primal Nourishment

By: Marianne E. Meyer

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SPIRULINA Survival Food for a New Era

Amazing Healing Success with the Blue-green Algae - Delicious Recipes with the Primal Nourishment

By: Marianne E. Meyer

Who needs Spirulina? We all do! Why? Because of infertile soils we can hardly get any energy from our food. The blue-green microalga is concentrated solar power because it contains all the colors of the spectrum and thus all frequencies of light, just like the water of Lourdes. M. E. Meyer was able to make the Blue-green Miracle known in German-speaking Europe and Russia through her same-named Spirulina bestseller and an appearance on Prime TV. Since then more and more people supplement their diets with the beneficial protein food. And more and more dentists use it for discharging amalgam and other poisons. Around the globe sensational studies and reports prove: With Spirulina we can strengthen our immune system as well as stand up to pain, depression, diabetes, MS, cataracts, allergies, anemia, arthritis, liver fibrosis, Parkinson's disease, and even AIDS, cancer, and radium rays. We need the Green Gold now more than ever because it strengthens the heart, makes you fit and slim, provides for healthy eyes, skin and hair and deacidifies and regenerates all organs. Particularly benefiting from Spirulina are the sick, convalescent, heavy workers, athletes, stressed mothers, hyperactive children, the elderly, busy managers and our pets. In the lovingly illustrated book with delicious recipes, the doctor of nutritionist has covered each chapter in note form and highlighted important parts. So cross-readers can attain a compact knowledge of the #1 superfood (AARP) in 30 minutes.

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Left Out of the Bargain

Left Out of the Bargain

A Death at Crooked Creek

A Death at Crooked Creek

A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests

A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests

Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson's Disease

Small Animal Surgical Nursing - E-Book

Small Animal Surgical Nursing - E-Book

Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema

Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema

Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895

Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895

Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession, c. 1630–1800

Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession, c. 1630–1800

Spiral CT of the Abdomen

Spiral CT of the Abdomen

Destabilizing the Margins

Destabilizing the Margins

Qualitytime-Esl

Qualitytime-Esl

Old House Handbook

Old House Handbook

'While the Bridegroom is with Them'

'While the Bridegroom is with Them'

Gap Year Girl

Gap Year Girl

The Curtain Within

The Curtain Within

SPIRULINA Survival Food for a New Era

SPIRULINA Survival Food for a New Era

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