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Tinket’s Canoe

By: Roland Bianchi

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Tinket’s Canoe

By: Roland Bianchi

“Tinket’s Canoe” is a fictional story about an Indian youth of the Cayugas tribe who travels West in his birch bark canoe. He discovers many other tribes and their lore in the late 1800’s.

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1503570932

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9781503570931

Genetics and Breeding of Common Carp

By: Valentin S. Kirpitchnikov,Roland Billard

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Genetics and Breeding of Common Carp

By: Valentin S. Kirpitchnikov,Roland Billard

This book presents not only the different biotopes in which the common carp has settled, but also a thorough analysis of the phenotypic and genotypic traits of the various pigmented species. The different artificial selection and breeding methods will enable an optimum production of very resistant hybrids.

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2738008690

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9782738008695

Animal Alchemy

By: Mark Roland Langdale

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Animal Alchemy

By: Mark Roland Langdale

Jag, short for Jaguar, was orphaned when her environmentalist parents died in the jungle saving animals’ lives. Although she was put into a care home, she ran away two years to live on the streets where she was adopted into a street gang who have now become her family. Danny, the trickster and street magician and Tiger, whose animal instincts run close to the surface, and a few others are all animal activists at heart. Although they go one night to an animal sanctuary in the country to tag the walls with graffiti, Jag gets caught in an enclosure. However, it ends up for the best as the keeper takes a shine to her and offers a part time job when she hears Jag’s affinity with the Jaguar spirit. With Jag working at the sanctuary, her gang start spending more time there to see the great Cat Man Do perform his animal magic – until one day when a tiger is let out its cage. And that is only the beginning as a villainous Cat Man begins to stalk the streets with two pet panthers out for blood, seemingly appearing and disappearing at will. With newspapers reporting maulings and deaths and Sergeant Dickins not sure what’s going on, the kids are intrigued by the reports. After witnessing an attack, the kids get sucked into this mysterious Cat Man’s idea of a theatrical villain performance – but even if they have animal instincts and spirits with them and even if the big cats are swaying to their side, should they run before they too turn prey?

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1803130865

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9781803130866

Biodiversity and Domestication of Yams in West Africa

Traditional Practices Leading to Dioscorea Rotundata Poir.

By: Roland Dumont

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Biodiversity and Domestication of Yams in West Africa

Traditional Practices Leading to Dioscorea Rotundata Poir.

By: Roland Dumont

A study of yam domestication practices among smallholders has provided an insight into how farmers exploit wild plant genetic resources so as to adapt them to agriculture. This book describes the domestication operations leading to Dioscorea rotundata yams in Africa. The biodiversity of these yams and of their wild relatives is investigated, and the authors put forward hypotheses to explain the phenotypic changes resulting from smallholder practices. These hypotheses could be possible lines of research for breeders.

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2876146320

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9782876146327

Marxist Criticism of the Bible

A Critical Introduction to Marxist Literary Theory and the Bible

By: Roland Boer

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Marxist Criticism of the Bible

A Critical Introduction to Marxist Literary Theory and the Bible

By: Roland Boer

This is the first large-scale critical introduction for biblical criticism of a significant area of contemporary cultural and literary theory, namely Marxist literary criticism. The book comprises studies of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Eagleton, Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, Lefebvre, Lukcs and Jameson. At the same time, through careful choice of critics, the book will function as a general introduction to Marxist literary theory as a whole in relation to biblical studies. Throughout the aim is to show how this material is relevant to biblical criticism, in terms of both particular approaches to the Bible and the use of those approaches for interpreting selected texts from Genesis, Exodus, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Psalms and Daniel. Biblical Seminar Series, Volume 87

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A&C Black

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0826463282

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9780826463289

The American Robin

By: Roland H. Wauer

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The American Robin

By: Roland H. Wauer

The American Robin is North America's most widespread songbird, with a range extending from Alaska, Canada, and Newfoundland to the highlands of Mexico and Guatemala. Its ruddy red breast and cheerful song have also made it one of our most beloved birds-as American as apple pie, as familiar a harbinger of spring as the first daffodil. Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin have chosen the American Robin as their state bird, while a pair of robins grace the Canadian two dollar bill. In this book, Roland Wauer offers a complete natural history of the American Robin for a popular audience. Combining his own observations as a field naturalist with data gleaned from the scientific literature, he describes the American Robin from every angle-appearance and biology, distribution, behavior, life cycle, and enemies and threats. In addition, he explores the legends and lore surrounding robins and offers suggestions for attracting them to your yard.

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University of Texas Press

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0292791232

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9780292791237

Candid Creatures

How Camera Traps Reveal the Mysteries of Nature

By: Roland Kays

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Candid Creatures

How Camera Traps Reveal the Mysteries of Nature

By: Roland Kays

A riveting collection of photographs that captures wild animals in their native habitats. In Candid Creatures, the first major book to reveal the secret lives of animals through motion-sensitive game cameras, biologist Roland Kays has assembled over 600 remarkable photographs. Drawing from archives of millions of color and night-vision photographs collected by hundreds of researchers, Kays has selected images that show the unique perspectives of wildlife from throughout the world. Using these photos, he tells the stories of scientific discoveries that camera traps have enabled, such as living proof of species thought to have been extinct and details of predator-prey interactions. Each image captures a moment frozen in the camera’s flash as animals move through their wild habitats. Kays also discusses how scientists use camera traps to address conservation issues, creating solutions that allow humans and wild animals to coexist. More than just a collection of amazing animal pictures, the book’s text, maps, and illustrations work together to describe the latest findings in the fast-moving field of wildlife research. Candid Creatures is a testament to how the explosion of game cameras around the world has revolutionized the study of animal ecology. The powerful combination of pictures and stories of discovery will fascinate anyone interested in science, nature, wildlife biology, or photography.

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JHU Press

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1421418886

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9781421418889

Time of Troubles

A New Economic Framework for Early Christianity

By: Roland Boer,Christina Petterson

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Time of Troubles

A New Economic Framework for Early Christianity

By: Roland Boer,Christina Petterson

Economic realities have been increasingly at the center of discussion of the New Testament and early church. Studies have tended to be either apologetic in tone, or haphazard with regard to economic theory, or both‒‒either imagining the ancients as involved in “primitive” economic relationships, or else projecting the modern capitalist preoccupation with markets and the enterprising individual back onto first-century realities. Roland Boer and Christina Petterson blaze a new trail, relying on the expansive work on the Roman economy of G. E. M. de Ste. Croix (who was relatively uninterested in the New Testament, however) and on the theoretical framework of the Regulation school. Theoretically flexible and responsive to historical data, Regulation theory gives appropriate regard to the centrality of agriculture in the ancient world and finds economic instability to be the norm, except for brief episodes of imposed stability. Boer and Petterson find the Roman world in crisis as slavery expands, transforming the agricultural economy so that slave estates could supply the needs of the polis. Successive chapters describe aspects of the economic crisis in the first century and turn at last to understand the ideological role played by nascent Christianity.

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Fortress Press

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1506406327

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9781506406329

Heralds of Spring in Texas

By: Roland H. Wauer

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Heralds of Spring in Texas

By: Roland H. Wauer

We know by the calendar when springs officially begins, but how does nature tell us spring has come? In Heralds of Spring in Texas Roland H. Wauer walks us through Texas, from the Rio Grands to the panhandle, as spring arrives.

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Texas A&M University Press

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0890968799

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9780890968796

Foundations of Computational Linguistics

Human-Computer Communication in Natural Language

By: Roland Hausser

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Foundations of Computational Linguistics

Human-Computer Communication in Natural Language

By: Roland Hausser

As an interdisciplinary field, computational linguistics has its sources in several areas of science, each with its own goals, methods, and historical background. Thereby, it has remained unclear which components fit together and which do not. This suggests three possible approaches to designing a computational linguistics textbook. The first approach proceeds from one's own school of thought, usually determined of study, rather than by a well-informed, delib by chance, such as one's initial place erate choice. The goal is to extend the inherited theoretical framework or method to as many aspects of language analysis as possible. As a consequence, the issue of com pat ibility with other approaches in the field need not be addressed and one's assumptions are questioned at best in connection with 'puzzling problems. ' The second approach takes the viewpoint of an objective observer and aims to survey the field as completely as possible. However, the large number of different schools, methods, and tasks necessitates a subjective selection. Furthermore, the pre sumed neutrality provides no incentive to investigate the compatibility between the elements selected. The third approach aims at solving a comprehensive functional task, with the differ To arrive at the desired solution, suitability ent approaches being ordered relative to it. and compatibility of the different elements adopted must be investigated with regard to the task at hand.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662043378

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9783662043370

John Wayne Was Here

The Film Locations and Favorite Places of an American Icon

By: Roland Schaefli

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John Wayne Was Here

The Film Locations and Favorite Places of an American Icon

By: Roland Schaefli

John Wayne worked on film sets around the globe. This book follows the trail, from his beginnings on the Fox backlot to his final filming in Lone Pine, California. Locations in Mexico, Normandy, Rome, Madrid, London, Ireland, Libya and Africa are covered, along with his favorite vacation spots in Hawaii, Acapulco, Greece, Monaco, and the Hollywood hot-spots he frequented. Anecdotes revisit his most famous scenes, including Rooster Cogburn's charge in True Grit (1969) and Davy Crockett's last stand in The Alamo (1960). Production details describe how San Diego stood in for Iwo Jima, how Old Tucson was turned into El Dorado, and how Genghis Kahn ruled over the deserts of Utah. Never before published photos present then-and-now views in this first of its kind guided tour for film location hunters and Wayne aficionados.

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McFarland

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1476641277

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9781476641270

Native Host Plants for Texas Butterflies

A Field Guide

By: Jim Weber,Lynne M. Weber,Roland H. Wauer

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Native Host Plants for Texas Butterflies

A Field Guide

By: Jim Weber,Lynne M. Weber,Roland H. Wauer

While many growers focus on attracting adult butterflies to their gardens, fewer know about the plants that caterpillars need to survive. Native host plants—wildflowers, trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, and sedges—not only provide a site for the butterfly to lay its eggs, they also provide a ready food source for the emerging caterpillar. Think of these plants as the nurseries of the garden. This user-friendly, heavily illustrated field guide describes 101 native larval host plants in Texas. Each species account includes descriptive information on each plant, a distribution map, and photos of both the caterpillars and adult butterflies who frequent those plants. An adult butterfly may nectar on a wide variety of flowers, but caterpillars are much more restricted in their food sources. Some feed on only a limited number of plant species, so female butterflies seek out these specific plants to lay their eggs. For example, the host plants for Monarch caterpillars are various species of milkweed. Often, these plants are not the same as the ones the adult butterfly will later use for nectar. Learning more about the plants caterpillars need is crucial for butterfly conservation. Butterflies’ dependency on specific caterpillar host plants is one of the key factors restricting their range and distribution. Armed with this knowledge, readers can also hone their ability to find specific species of breeding butterflies in nature. This is a handy guide whether you are in the field searching for butterflies or on the hunt for butterfly-friendly options at your local plant sale.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623496470

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The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel

By: Roland Boer

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The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel

By: Roland Boer

The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel offers a new reconstruction of the economic context of the Bible and of ancient Israel. It argues that the key to ancient economies is with those who worked on the land rather than in intermittent and relatively weak kingdoms and empires. Drawing on sophisticated economic theory (especially the Régulation School) and textual and archaeological resources, Roland Boer makes it clear that economic “crisisâ€ was the norm and that economics is always socially determined. He examines three economic layers: the building blocks (five institutional forms), periods of relative stability (three regimes), and the overarching mode of production. Ultimately, the most resilient of all the regimes was subsistence survival, for which the regular collapse of kingdoms and empires was a blessing rather than a curse. Students will come away with a clear understanding of the dynamics of the economy of ancient Israel. Boer's volume should become a new benchmark for future studies.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1611645557

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9781611645552

Hunting dog training

Hunting dog Training and much more!

By: Roland Berger

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Hunting dog training

Hunting dog Training and much more!

By: Roland Berger

Already centuries ago the hunters of that time found out that a hunt together with a hunting helper is much easier than if only humans participate in this hunt. They found out that especially dogs show a sense of detection indispensable on the hunt, which a human alone could never imitate or copy in such a way. Especially for this purpose, dog breeds have been bred over the years to make a hunter's life easier. So how do I find out which dog breed best suits me as a hunter? What kind of hunting can he do with me and what exactly do I have to do once I have acquired a dog? After all, not just any dog is allowed to come along on a hunt. Instead, this is regulated by the state, which is why there are also some guidelines to follow that the hunter should place great importance on. This can clearly confuse a prospective dog handler or hunter. Basically, any family dog can become a hunting dog. Nevertheless, there are some requirements that a dog must meet in order to be admitted to or pass the usefulness test for hunting dogs. Suitable dog breeds are presented in the book. In this book you will find many important contents about the training of hunting dogs: - Hunting - Dog breeds - Training your own dog - Dummy training - Anti-hunting training - The equipment This guidebook is intended to help a hunter to get his hunting companion through the serviceability test for hunting dogs without any problems, so that said hunting helper can also become a full-fledged member of the hunt. This book will give you an insight into the training of a hunting dog and not only that. It is a glimpse into a bond between man and animal that does not often exist on such a high and extreme level between an owner and their pet. The hunting dog is not just a tool, but a family member and also someone who enjoys just being petted and played with. We wish you a lot of fun with your hunting dog.

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XinXii

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3986469788

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Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition

By: Roland Boer

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Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition

By: Roland Boer

The only large-scale critical introduction to Western Marxism for biblical criticism. Roland Boer introduces the core concepts of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Deleuze and Guattari, Eagleton, Lefebvre, Lukács, Adorno, Bloch, Negri, Jameson, and Jameson. Throughout, Boer shows how Marxist criticism is relevant to biblical criticism, in terms of approaches to the Bible and in the use of those approaches in the interpretation of specific texts. In this second edition, Boer has added chapters on Deleuze and Guattari, and Negri. Each chapter has been carefully revised to make the book more useful on courses, while maintaining challenges and insights for postgraduate students and scholars. Theoretical material has been updated and sharpened in light of subsequent research and a revised conclusion considers the economies of the ancient world in relation to biblical societies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567497852

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9780567497857

Foundations of Computational Linguistics

Human-Computer Communication in Natural Language

By: Roland R. Hausser

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Foundations of Computational Linguistics

Human-Computer Communication in Natural Language

By: Roland R. Hausser

The central task of a future-oriented computational linguistics is the development of cognitive machines which humans can freely talk with in their respective natural language. In the long run, this task will ensure the development of a functional theory of language, an objective method of verification, and a wide range of practical applications. Natural communication requires not only verbal processing, but also non-verbal perception and action. Therefore the content of this textbook is organized as a theory of language for the construction of talking robots. The main topic is the mechanism of natural language communication in both the speaker and the hearer. The content is divided into four parts: Theory of Language, Theory of Grammar, Morphology and Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. The book contains more than 700 exercises for reviewing key ideas and important problems. In the Second Edition, changes are most noticeable in Chapters 22-24, which have been completely rewritten. They present a declarative outline for programming the semantic and pragmatic interpretation of natural language communication. The presentation is now simpler and more comprehensive. It is defined as a formal fragment and includes a new control structure, an analysis of spatio-temporal infer-encing, and an analysis of internal matching based on the notion of a task analysis. Examples and explanations which were contained in the old versions of Chapters 22-24 have been moved to the new Appendix. A schematic summary and a conclusion have been added as well.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540424172

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9783540424178

The Art of Multiculturalism

Bharati Mukherjee’s Imaginal Politics for the Age of Global Migration

By: Roland Benedikter,Judith Hilber

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The Art of Multiculturalism

Bharati Mukherjee’s Imaginal Politics for the Age of Global Migration

By: Roland Benedikter,Judith Hilber

This book describes what an “art of multiculturalism” could be and how in turn multiculturalism could be conceived as a form of art. It focuses on the early and middle work of Indian-born U.S. writer Bharati Mukherjee, in particular on her understanding of the “fusion” of literature and painting as a tool to inspire the creation of a “new global society” by empowering minorities through fostering and multiplying “differences in unity” and “unities in difference”. The book includes, in condensed ways, an explanation of Mukherjee’s use of ancient Indian painting techniques for postmodern writing; and it provides a short introduction to the relation between multiculturalism, postmodernity and “imaginal politics”. The book is written in an easy to read style accessible to all interested in the topic: high school and university students and teachers; those generally interested in the interface between literature, the arts and politics; and specialists in multicultural studies and global and international studies. The book is particularly suited to use in teaching.

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3319896687

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The Raggedy Tiger

By: Mark Roland Langdale

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The Raggedy Tiger

By: Mark Roland Langdale

A book about a girl aged 8, who is a talent artist. She paints a raggedy looking tiger onto an old red brick wall and it comes to life under a blue moon.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1805146149

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Blood on the Horns

The Long Strange Ride of Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls

By: Roland Lazenby

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Blood on the Horns

The Long Strange Ride of Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls

By: Roland Lazenby

“A must read!” —USA TODAY How big was the pressure? How deep was the division? Those were the questions that would beg answering long after the Chicago Bulls had completed their strife-ridden 1997-98 season in the National Basketball Association. BLOOD ON THE HORNS details the infighting & conflict between Jordan, coach Phil Jackson, teammate Scottie Pippen and the team's general manager, Jerry Krause, and managing partner, Jerry Reinsdorf. Through exclusive interviews with the team and staff, Lazenby expertly recreates the drama of 1997-98 and the Bulls’ struggle to remain a team.

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Diversion Books

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1938120809

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9781938120800

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