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Find You in the Dark

By: Nathan Ripley

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In this bestselling debut thriller, reminiscent of Dexter and The Talented Mr. Ripley, a family man obsessed with digging up the undiscovered remains of serial killer victims catches the attention of a murderer prowling the streets of Seattle. For years, Martin has been illegally buying police files on serial killers and using them to locate long-lost victims. After he uncovers the bodies, he calls the police anonymously and taunts them with his finds. He sees his work as a public service, a righting of all the mistakes cops have made for years. On his latest dig, he searches in a graveyard for the first kill of Jason Shurn, the murderer also thought to be responsible for the disappearance years before of Martin’s sister-in-law. But at the site, he is shocked to discover a fresh body lying among decades-old remains. Detective Sandra Whittal is a case-closer on a meteoric rise through the police ranks. She’s suspicious of the mysterious caller—the Finder, she names him. Even if the Finder isn’t the killer, who’s to say that he won’t start killing soon? Then the call about the latest find comes in. Whittal’s fears deepen. And Martin wonders what’s going on—because whoever made the call, it wasn’t him…

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198213187X

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9781982131876

Heroic Couples

By: Nathan Highfill

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Heroic Couples

By: Nathan Highfill

Two college roommates, one a magazine columnist and the other an erstwhile professional wrestler who has written an exposé about the underside of the wrestling world and has become famous, reunite to attend the wedding of the columnist's former girlfriend, a faded professional mannequin who is marrying a housepainter enamored with his involvement in a get rich quick pyramid scheme. Events descend into farcical catastrophe as personal enmities can no longer be contained and Ripley Bradley, former wrestler, does his heroic best to rectify the situation. The work is accompanied by several abortive attempts by the first person narrator to create epic poems based on his pathetic experience in a transparent attempt to elevate his struggle from its endemic absurdity to a more tragic and profound state. The story itself is piggybacked on an allegory about the futility and cupidity of the concept underlying Manifest Destiny. The story travels, in an homage to picaresque comic novels of the nineteenth century, from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Dallas, Texas setting up several nods to Jamesian comedies of manners and class comedies from the Restoration.

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iUniverse

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0595229417

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9780595229413

Alien Vault

The Definitive Story Behind the Film

By: Ian Nathan

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Alien Vault

The Definitive Story Behind the Film

By: Ian Nathan

Alien Vault is the ultimate tribute to a film that changed cinema forever.

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White Lion Publishing

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1781319421

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9781781319420

Agenda Setting in the U.S. Senate

Costly Consideration and Majority Party Advantage

By: Chris Den Hartog,Nathan W. Monroe

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Agenda Setting in the U.S. Senate

Costly Consideration and Majority Party Advantage

By: Chris Den Hartog,Nathan W. Monroe

Proposes a new theory of Senate agenda setting that reconciles a divide in literature between the conventional wisdom – in which party power is thought to be mostly undermined by Senate procedures and norms – and the apparent partisan bias in Senate decisions noted in recent empirical studies. Chris Den Hartog and Nathan W. Monroe's theory revolves around a 'costly consideration' framework for thinking about agenda setting, where moving proposals forward through the legislative process is seen as requiring scarce resources. To establish that the majority party pays lower agenda consideration costs through various procedural advantages, the book features a number of chapters examining partisan influence at several stages of the legislative process, including committee reports, filibusters and cloture, floor scheduling and floor amendments. Not only do the results support the book's theoretical assumption and key hypotheses, but they shed new light on virtually every major step in the Senate's legislative process.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139499300

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9781139499309

The American Counties

Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, and Population Data, 1950-2000

By: Joseph Nathan Kane,Charles Curry Aiken

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The American Counties

Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, and Population Data, 1950-2000

By: Joseph Nathan Kane,Charles Curry Aiken

The premiere guide to information on the histories of the names, sizes, and populations of the counties of the United States.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810850362

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9780810850361

Nanopunk

By: Nathan McGrath

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Nanopunk

By: Nathan McGrath

Two teenagers in a perilous chase across a devastated, Icebound Earth On a world recovering for climate devastation, Alister is infected with nanoparticles that give him the power to hack into the most secure networks. When his sister, the inventor of the particles, is kidnapped by Lycus, a corrupt military corporation, he sets out to rescue her. It's not long before MI6, mercenaries start to hunt him down, and his search becomes a deadly chase. What readers and reviewers are saying about Nanopunk: "Pacey and compelling", "Smart and sharp", "Gripping and exciting" "Sit back and enjoy the rip-roaring plot" , "carries a lot of clout" "The plot moves along a pace and is gripping and exciting. The characters are sympathetic, full and realistic. The combination of a futuristic world with barely on the horizon technology, and warm human relationships -- makes for a great experience. Read it, then await the next one.

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H.H Dervish

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0956826903

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9780956826909

The American Counties

Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010

By: Charles Curry Aiken,Joseph Nathan Kane

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The American Counties

Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010

By: Charles Curry Aiken,Joseph Nathan Kane

Most Americans give little thought to their county’s size, population, when it was created, or how its name came about. But such information can be very helpful to anyone, particularly researchers and genealogists, investigating local or state history. Drawing on information obtained from the 2010 Census, the 6th edition of The American Counties provides up-to-date data on each county’s: land area population county seat date of creation name origin dates of governmental organization, elimination, and re-creation This edition includes information on counties created since the previous edition was published as well as more precise “date of creation” details for many colonial counties. If a county is named for a geographical feature—river, mountain, lake, etc.—the origin of the name and the meaning of any Indian or foreign words is provided. For those counties that were named after a specific individual, a brief sketch of the person’s life is provided, including updated biographical information from previous editions. The Introduction has been expanded to address such topics as counties with similar names, persons who have more than one namesake county, the paucity of counties named for women, the practice of creating counties in uninhabited regions, and legislators naming counties for each other. At the request of many readers, the 6th edition contains new appendices ranking all counties nationally by population and area, as well as an appendix listing counties that have been eliminated. Containing information on all 3,143 counties and county equivalents (independent cities, parishes, boroughs, etc.) in the United States, the 6th edition of The American Counties is an essential resource for researchers looking for basic information on counties in the United States.

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0810887622

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The Keys of Power

The Rhetoric and Politics of Transcendentalism

By: Nathan Crick

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The Keys of Power

The Rhetoric and Politics of Transcendentalism

By: Nathan Crick

Examines Transcendentalism as a distinct rhetorical genre concerned primarily and self-consciously with questions of power Nathan Crick has crafted a new critical rhetorical history of American Transcendentalists that interprets a selection of their major works between the years 1821 and 1852 as political and ethical responses to the growing crises of their times. In The Keys of Power, Crick argues that one of the most enduring legacies of the Transcendentalist movement is the multifaceted understanding of transcendental eloquence as a distinct rhetorical genre concerned primarily and self-consciously with questions of power. Crick examines the Transcendentalist understanding of how power is constituted in both th self and in society, conceptualizing the relationships among technology, nature, language, and identity, critiquing the ethical responsibilities to oneself, the other, and the state, and defining and ultimately praising the unique role that art, action, persuasion, and ideas have in the transformation of the structure of political culture over historical time. What is offered hereis not a comprehensive genealogy of ideas, a series of individual biographies, or an effort at conceptual generalization,but instead an exercise in narrative rhetorical theory and criticism that interprets some of the major specific writings and speeches by men and women associated with the Transcendentalist movement—Sampson Reed, Amos BronsonAlcott, Orestes Brownson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederick Douglass—by placing them within a specific political and social history. Rather than attempting to provide comprehensive overviews of the life and work of each of these individuals, this volume presents close readings of individual texts that bring to life their rhetorical character in reaction to particular exigencies while addressing audiences of a unique moment. This rhetoric of Transcendentalism provides insights into the "keys of power"—that is, the means of persuasion for our modern era—that remain vital tools for individuals seeking to reconcile power and virtue in their struggle to make manifest a higher ideal in the world.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611177790

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9781611177794

Fire & Ice

By: Nathan Birr

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Fire & Ice

By: Nathan Birr

He's her anchor. She's his compass. But they're both in over their heads. Jake and Rachel Taylor head to "The Grand Strand" hoping to rejuvenate their marriage. But before they can get settled in Myrtle Beach, a late-night break-in and the discovery of an enigmatic device plunge them into an international caper. Beachside encounters with charming, glamorous foreigners, sightings of the Taylors' doppelgangers around town, and rumors of a secretive figure known as La Fantôme all complicate matters further. From a covert operation at a seaside mansion to a cat-and-mouse chase along the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk to a life-or-death struggle on the high seas, Jake and Rachel try to stay one step ahead of danger. As the Taylors get drawn deeper into the mystery, they will have to rely on each other like never before if they-much less their marriage-are to remain intact. Fire & Ice is a combination of adventure, intrigue, and romance-set in an exotic locale-that will keep you guessing until the very end!

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Lulu.com

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0998181366

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9780998181363

Foundations of Embodied Learning

A Paradigm for Education

By: Mitchell J. Nathan

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Foundations of Embodied Learning

A Paradigm for Education

By: Mitchell J. Nathan

Foundations of Embodied Learning advances learning, instruction, and the design of educational technologies by rethinking the learner as an integrated system of mind, body, and environment. Body-based processes—direct physical, social, and environmental interactions—are constantly mediating intellectual performance, sensory stimulation, communication abilities, and other conditions of learning. This book’s coherent, evidence-based framework articulates principles of grounded and embodied learning for design and its implications for curriculum, classroom instruction, and student formative and summative assessment for scholars and graduate students of educational psychology, instructional design and technology, cognitive science, the learning sciences, and beyond.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000430073

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Nathan Bedford Forrest

By: Nathan Bedford Forrest,Daniel Foxx

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Nathan Bedford Forrest

By: Nathan Bedford Forrest,Daniel Foxx

This Civil War biography sheds new light on the life of the legendary Confederate general before, during, and after the conflict that defined his legacy. Shelby Foote called Nathan Bedford Forrest one of the most authentic geniuses produced by the American Civil War, and Ulysses S. Grant said that Forrest was the only Confederate cavalry leader he feared. Sherman wanted him killed even if doing so broke the broke the Federal treasury and cost ten thousand lives. Arguably the best cavalry leader of the Civil War and undoubtedly one of the greatest in the history of mounted warfare, Nathan Bedford Forrest has been acclaimed and vilified, revered and hated, and still he is a man whose life defies categorization. This in-depth biography goes beyond Forrest’s war exploits. Here, historians Eddy W. Davison and Daniel Foxx depict a man as complex, brilliant, revolutionary, and tragic as the times in which he lived. In addition to revealing details about his childhood, marriage, and life as a businessman and civic leader, this comprehensive biography explains the alleged massacre at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, and the reasons for Forrest’s leadership in the Ku Klux Klan.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455609226

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9781455609222

Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960

By: Nathan Vernon Madison

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Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960

By: Nathan Vernon Madison

In this thorough history, the author demonstrates, via the popular literature (primarily pulp magazines and comic books) of the 1920s to about 1960, that the stories therein drew their definitions of heroism and villainy from an overarching, nativist fear of outsiders that had existed before World War I but intensified afterwards. These depictions were transferred to America's "new" enemies, both following U.S. entry into the Second World War and during the early stages of the Cold War. Anti-foreign narratives showed a growing emphasis on ideological, as opposed to racial or ethnic, differences--and early signs of the coming "multiculturalism"--indicating that pure racism was not the sole reason for nativist rhetoric in popular literature. The process of change in America's nativist sentiments, so virulent after the First World War, are revealed by the popular, inexpensive escapism of the time, pulp magazines and comic books.

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McFarland

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1476601364

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9781476601366

James Sallis

A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

By: Nathan Ashman

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James Sallis

A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

By: Nathan Ashman

Once described as "the best crime writer you've never heard of," James Sallis is a largely underexplored figure in contemporary American literature. Best known for his thriller novel Drive--later adapted into the acclaimed 2011 movie of the same name starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan--Sallis has written across a range of genres and forms, including short fiction, poetry, musicology, science fiction, biography, nonfiction essays, literary reviews, and criticism. This companion, the first comprehensive examination of Sallis' writings, locates him as a vital voice within mystery fiction. In addition to an alphabetized analysis of his works, it includes a biography, career chronology, and an interview with the author. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of Sallis' extraordinary life and career, as well as insight into the recurrent themes and motifs of his rich and varied writings. This book is both an introduction to Sallis' work for new readers and a thorough reference guide for established fans and scholars.

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McFarland

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1476685487

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9781476685489

Missouri as it is in 1867

An illustrated Historical of Missouri

By: Nathan H. Parker

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Missouri as it is in 1867

An illustrated Historical of Missouri

By: Nathan H. Parker

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752532084

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9783752532081

Transformational Literacy

Making the Common Core Shift with Work That Matters

By: Ron Berger,Libby Woodfin,Suzanne Nathan Plaut,Cheryl Becker Dobbertin

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Transformational Literacy

Making the Common Core Shift with Work That Matters

By: Ron Berger,Libby Woodfin,Suzanne Nathan Plaut,Cheryl Becker Dobbertin

Engage, challenge, and inspire students with work that matters Transformational Literacy, written by a team from EL Education, helps teachers leverage the Common Core instructional shifts—building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction, reading for and writing with evidence, and regular practice with complex text—to engage students in work that matters. Worthy texts and worthy tasks help students see the connection between their hard work as readers and writers and their capacity to contribute to stronger communities and a better world. The stories, examples, and resources that permeate Transformational Literacy come primarily from the more than 150 EL Education schools around the country that support teachers to select, supplement, customize, and create curriculum, and improve instruction. The book also draws on EL Education's open source Common Core English Language Arts curriculum—often cited as one of the finest in the country—and professional development offered to thousands of teachers to implement that curriculum effectively. Transformational Literacy combines the best of what EL Education knows works for kids—purposeful, inquiry-based learning—and the new imperative of the Common Core—higher and deeper expectations for all students. Teach standards through a compelling and purposeful curriculum that prioritizes worthy texts and worthy task Improve students' evidence-based reading, thinking, talking, and writing Support students to develop a new mindset toward the challenge of reading complex texts Transformational Literacy introduces an approach to literacy instruction that will engage, challenge, and inspire student with work that matters.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118962230

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A Flaw in the Design

A Novel

By: Nathan Oates

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A Flaw in the Design

A Novel

By: Nathan Oates

A professor’s life is turned upside down when he takes in his charming, wildly dangerous nephew, whose wealthy parents have just died under mysterious circumstances, in this propulsive, edge-of-your-seat debut psychological thriller. “An absolute page-turner . . . I read it in a single sitting.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, bestselling author of The Paper Palace The cleverest psychopaths hide in plain sight. Gil is living a quiet life as a creative writing professor in a bucolic Vermont town, when he receives some shocking news: His sister and her husband have been killed in a car accident, and their only son is coming to live with him and his family. Gil and his wife are apprehensive about taking in seventeen-year-old Matthew. Yes, he has just lost both his parents, but they haven’t seen him in seven years—and the last time the families were together, Matthew lured their young daughter into a terrifying, life-threatening situation. Since that incident, Gil has been estranged from his sister and her flashy, wealthy banker husband. Now Matthew is their charge, living under their roof. The boy seems charming, smart, and urbane, if strangely unaffected by his parents’ deaths. Gil hopes they can put the past behind them, though he’s surprised when Matthew signs up for his creative writing class. Then Matthew begins turning in chilling stories about the imagined deaths of Gil’s family and his own parents. Bewildered and panicked, Gil ultimately decides he must take matters into his own hands—before life imitates art. Told in limber, mesmerizing prose, A Flaw in the Design is a twisting novel of suspense that brilliantly explores the tensions surrounding class, family, and the drive to control one’s own story.

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Random House

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0593446712

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Select Notes on the International Sabbath School Lessons for 1877. Explanatory, Illustrative, and Practical, with Maps and Table of the Signification and Pronunciation of Proper Names

By: Francis Nathan Peloubet

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Select Notes on the International Sabbath School Lessons for 1877. Explanatory, Illustrative, and Practical, with Maps and Table of the Signification and Pronunciation of Proper Names

By: Francis Nathan Peloubet

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3385526965

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Find You in the Dark

A Novel

By: Nathan Ripley

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Find You in the Dark

A Novel

By: Nathan Ripley

In this “fast-paced, morbidly addictive novel of chilling infatuation” (Iain Reid, bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things)—perfect for fans of Caroline Kepnes’s Hidden Bodies and Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter series—a family man with a habit of digging up the past catches the attention of a serial killer who is determined to keep his secrets uncovered. For years, unbeknownst to his wife and teenage daughter, Martin Reese has been illegally buying police files on serial killers and obsessively studying them, using them as guides to find the missing bodies of victims. He doesn’t take any souvenirs, just photos that he stores in an old laptop, and then he turns in the results anonymously. Martin sees his work as a public service, a righting of wrongs. Detective Sandra Whittal sees the situation differently. On a meteoric rise in police ranks due to her case‑closing efficiency, Whittal is suspicious of the mysterious source she calls the Finder, especially since he keeps leading the police right to the bodies. How can he know where all these bodies are located if he’s not the one putting them there? On his latest dig, Martin searches for the first kill of Jason Shurn, the early 1990s murderer who may have been responsible for the disappearance of his wife’s sister. But when he arrives at the site, he finds more than just bones. There’s a freshly killed body—a young and missing Seattle woman—lying there. Someone else knew where Jason Shurn left the corpses of his victims…and that someone isn’t happy that Martin has been going around digging up his work. And when a crooked cop with a tenuous tie to Martin vanishes, Whittal begins to zero in on the Finder. “A wickedly smart thriller that manages to be both chilling and wry” (Amy Stuart, bestselling author of Still Mine), Find You in the Dark will haunt you long after you turn the final page.

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