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My Brother's Voice

How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived the Holocaust : a True Story

By: Stephen Nasser,Sherry Rosenthal

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My Brother's Voice

How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived the Holocaust : a True Story

By: Stephen Nasser,Sherry Rosenthal

Stephen Nasser somehow dug deep within his soul to survive the brutal and inhumane treatement his captors inflicted on the Jews. He was the only one of his family to survive--but the memory of his brother's dying words compelled him to live. Stephen's account of the Holocaust, told in the refreshingly direct and optimistic language of a young boy, appeals to both younger audiences and his contemporaries. Written in a straightforward, narrative style, Nasser avoids the cloying or maudlin language that characterizes some stories of the Holocaust. Perhaps it's for that reason readers will find his book one they won't forget--and one they recommend to others as a "must read.

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Stephens Press, LLC

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1932173102

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9781932173109

The Origins of Alliance

By: Stephen M. Walt

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The Origins of Alliance

By: Stephen M. Walt

How are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt makes a significant contribution to this topic, surveying theories of the origins of international alliances and identifying the most important causes of security cooperation between states. In addition, he proposes a fundamental change in the present conceptions of alliance systems. Contrary to traditional balance-of-power theories, Walt shows that states form alliances not simply to balance power but in order to balance threats. Walt begins by outlining five general hypotheses about the causes of alliances. Drawing upon diplomatic history and a detailed study of alliance formation in the Middle East between 1955 and 1979, he demonstrates that states are more likely to join together against threats than they are to ally themselves with threatening powers. Walt also examines the impact of ideology on alliance preferences and the role of foreign aid and transnational penetration. His analysis show, however, that these motives for alignment are relatively less important. In his conclusion, he examines the implications of "balance of threat" for U.S. foreign policy.

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Cornell University Press

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0801469996

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9780801469992

Aspects of British Political History 1914-1995

By: Stephen J. Lee

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Aspects of British Political History 1914-1995

By: Stephen J. Lee

Aspects of British Political History 1914-1995 examines all the major themes, personalities and issues of this important period in a clear and digestible form. It: * introduces fresh angles to long-studied topics * consolidates a great body of recent research * analyses views of different historians * offers an interpretive rather than narrative approach * gives concise treatment to complex issues * is directly relevant to student questions and courses * is carefully organised to reflect the way teachers tackle these courses * is illustrated with helpful maps, charts, illustrations and photographs.

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Routledge

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1134790406

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9781134790401

Eisenhower Volume II

The President

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

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Eisenhower Volume II

The President

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Dwight D. Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, and most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. Eisenhower: The President, the second and concluding volume of Stephen Ambrose's brilliant biography, is the first assessment of a postwar President based on access to the entire record. It covers a wide range of subjects, including Eisenhower's rejection of the near-unanimous advice he received as President to use atomic weapons; his thinking on defense policy and the Cold War; his handling of a multitude of foreign-affairs crises; his attitudes and actions on civil rights; his views on Joseph McCarthy and on communism. Also illuminated are Eisenhower's relations with Nixon, Truman, Khrushchev, de Gaulle, and other world leaders. Ambrose provides us with an extraordinary portrait—fairminded and enormously well-informed—of the man, both decent and complex, who is increasingly regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest Presidents.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476745870

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9781476745879

United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I

For Profits and Security

By: Stephen J. Randall

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United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I

For Profits and Security

By: Stephen J. Randall

First ed. (1985) publ. under title: United States foreign oil policy, 1919-1948.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773529225

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9780773529229

Beyond America's Grasp

A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East

By: Stephen P. Cohen

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Beyond America's Grasp

A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East

By: Stephen P. Cohen

AN INCISIVE "WHITE PAPER" ON THE UNITED STATES'S STRUGGLE TO FRAME A COHERENT MIDDLE EAST POLICY In this book, the Middle East expert Stephen P. Cohen traces U.S. policy in the region back to the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, when the Great Powers failed to take crucial steps to secure peace there. He sees in that early diplomatic failure a pattern shaping the conflicts since then—and America's role in them. A century ago, there emerged two dominant views regarding the uses of America's newfound power. Woodrow Wilson urged America to promote national freedom and self-determination through the League of Nations—in stark contrast to his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt, who had advocated a vigorous foreign policy based on national self-interest. Cohen argues that this running conflict has hobbled American dealings in the Middle East ever since. In concise, pointed chapters, he shows how different Middle East countries have struggled to define themselves in the face of America's stated idealism and its actual realpolitik. This conflict came to a head in the confused, clumsy Middle East policy of George W. Bush—but Cohen suggests the ways a greater awareness of our history in the region might enable our present leaders to act more sensibly.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429942371

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9781429942379

The Tenth Prayer

A Novel of Israel

By: Stephen G. Esrati

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The Tenth Prayer

A Novel of Israel

By: Stephen G. Esrati

The Tenth Prayer tells the story of Israel in its early days. The book follows half a dozen people from the 1930s through 1960 and focuses on one theme: "Who is a Jew?" That question, which has divided Israel since independence, is raised by a character saying "I want to be a Jew, a Jewish Jew from Palestine." It is raised again by a follower of the Irgun Zvai Leumi who uses "Hebrew" as a nationality. And it is raised again when a whole village of Italian Catholics converts to Judaism during the war and must fight for acceptance as Jews. Finally, it is raised in the death of a baby of an Israeli Jew and an American Baptist, a baby that cannot be buried under Israeli law. Also touched on are civil rights, freedom of the press, the Law of Return, the Eichmann case, and the little Eichmann case (a Zionist leader accused of helping the Germans), which leads to unpunished murder. The novel brings the story only to 1960, but it portrays the new country without the adulation of previous English-language fiction, as might be imagined since the main character is the woman who broadcast as the Voice of Fighting Zion, broadcasting station of the Irgun. Other characters include a kibbutz woman who must leave her settlement because her husband voted for the wrong party, an assimilated American Jew who was active in Peter Bergsons American League for a Free Palestine. One character spends time in a Lebanese concentration camp where this author was the first American hostage in Lebanon.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462816207

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9781462816200

US Arms Policies Towards the Shah's Iran

By: Stephen McGlinchey

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US Arms Policies Towards the Shah's Iran

By: Stephen McGlinchey

This book reconstructs and explains the arms relationship that successive U.S. administrations developed with the Shah of Iran between 1950 and 1979. This relationship has generally been neglected in the extant literature leading to a series of omissions and distortions in the historical record. By detailing how and why Iran transitioned from a primitive military aid recipient in the 1950s to America’s primary military credit customer in the late 1960s and 1970s, this book provides a detailed and original contribution to the understanding of a key Cold War episode in U.S. foreign policy. By drawing on extensive declassified documents from more than 10 archives, the investigation demonstrates not only the importance of the arms relationship but also how it reflected, and contributed to, the wider evolution of U.S.-Iranian relations from a position of Iranian client state dependency to a situation where the U.S. became heavily leveraged to the Shah for protection of the Gulf and beyond – until the policy met its disastrous end in 1979 as an antithetical regime took power in Iran. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Middle East studies, US Foreign Policy and Security studies and for those seeking better foundations for which to gain an understanding of U.S. foreign policy in the final decade of the Cold War, and beyond.

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Routledge

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131769709X

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9781317697091

Plural International Relations in a Divided World

By: Stephen Chan

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Plural International Relations in a Divided World

By: Stephen Chan

The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings. It seems a new world order of fundamentalist violence and meaningless atrocity is upon us, whilst civilised instruments for cooperation and compromise are becoming increasingly ineffective. In this timely book, Stephen Chan explores the historical and philosophical roots of difference and discord in the international system. He begins with the introduction of the Westphalian system, showing how, throughout the 20th century, new states - from the Middle East, Asia and Africa - entered that system with reservations, preconditions, and great efforts to introduce new forms of concerts and congresses but without seriously challenging the international status-quo. By contrast, the 21st century has brought turmoil and change in the form of militant Islam - be it the Taleban, Al Qaeda, or ISIS - whose varied roots and fluid emergence have so far prevented the West from being able to understand and combat it. Developing Kissinger's suspicion of Saudi Arabia as an Islamic state in Westphalian dress, Chan argues that what is at stake today is not the development of a new Caliphate or an old radicalism - but the effort to supplant and replace the Westphalian system itself. This is the complex and challenging reality to which a truly modern and persuasively relevant plural international relations must now adapt. Whether it can do so remains to be seen.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509508716

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9781509508716

The New Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa

By: Stephen J. King

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The New Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa

By: Stephen J. King

Ultimately, King's forward-thinking analysis offers a way to enhance the prospects for democracy in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Indiana University Press

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0253221463

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9780253221469

The Presidents

The Transformation of the American Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama

By: Stephen Graubard

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The Presidents

The Transformation of the American Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama

By: Stephen Graubard

In this magisterial examination of the Presidency over the course of the 20th Century, the author explores the history of the world's greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the scope of its powers. Using individual presidential portraits of each of the presidents of the past century Graubard asks, and answers, a wide variety of crucial questions about each President. What intellectual, social and political assets did they bring to the White House, and how quickly did they deplete or mortgage that capital? How well did they cope with crises, foreign and domestic? How much attention did they pay to their election pledges after they were elected? How did they use the media, old and new? Above all, how did they conduct themselves in office and what legacy did they leave to their successors? Graubard provides original analysis in each case, and reaches many surprising conclusions.

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Penguin UK

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0141042907

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9780141042909

The Two Faces of Islam

Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism

By: Stephen Schwartz

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The Two Faces of Islam

Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism

By: Stephen Schwartz

Since its formation in 1932, Saudi Arabia has been ruled by two interdependent families. The Al Sa’uds control politics and the descendants of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab impose Wahhabism—a violent, fanatical perversion of the pluralistic Islam practiced by most Muslims. Stephen Schwartz argues that Wahhabism, vigorously exported with the help of Saudi oil money, is what incites Palestinian suicide bombers, Osama bin Laden, and other Islamic terrorists throughout the world. Schwartz reveals the hypocrisy of the Saudi regime, whose moderate facade conceals state-sponsored repression and terrorism. He also raises troubling questions about Wahhabi infiltration of America’s Islamic community and about U.S. oil companies sanitizing Saudi Arabia’s image for the West. This sharp analysis and eye-opening expose illuminates the background to the September 11th terrorist attacks and offers new approaches for U.S. policy toward its closest ally in the Middle East.

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Anchor

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1400076293

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9781400076291

Camels Love Dubai

By: Stephen Wilkins

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Camels Love Dubai

By: Stephen Wilkins

Camels love Dubai gives a wonderful insight into the realities of teen life in contemporary Dubai. The novel also examines from a child's point of view what it can be like being adopted or fostered by someone from a foreign country.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848761007

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9781848761001

Losing Iraq

Insurgency and Politics

By: Stephen C. Pelletière

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Losing Iraq

Insurgency and Politics

By: Stephen C. Pelletière

According to the Bush administration, the war in Iraq ended in May 2003 when the president pronounced mission accomplished from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. Yet, fighting, resistance, and American casualties continue. Stephen Pelletière argues that it is Iraqi suspicion of the Americans' motive—the belief that the United States is out to tear the state apart—that is fueling the current rebellion. Resistance in Iraq has become a national struggle, tied to the mood of Iraqis generally, as well as to anger fed by experiences of the whole people over the course of the last quarter century. Americans see Iraq as a failed state because they lack knowledge of those experiences and of Iraqi history. That is what Pelletière has set out to remedy. In doing so, he relates American behavior in Iraq to the wider sphere of U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf specifically and the Middle East overall, positioning the war as part of a larger geo-political struggle that encompasses not just the Iraqis or the Iranians, but the Israelis and all of the other client states of the United States in the Middle East.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313083819

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9780313083815

Between Memory and Desire

The Middle East in a Troubled Age

By: R. Stephen Humphreys

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Between Memory and Desire

The Middle East in a Troubled Age

By: R. Stephen Humphreys

Middle Easterners today struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involves fierce, sometimes violent debates over the role of religion in public life. In this post-9/11 updated edition R. Stephen Humphreys presents a thoughtful analysis of Islam's place in today's Middle East and integrates the medieval and modern history of the region to show how the sacred and secular are tightly interwoven in its political and intellectual life.

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Univ of California Press

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0520932587

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9780520932586

Rise to Globalism

American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised Edition

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

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Rise to Globalism

American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised Edition

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers a concise and informative overview of the evolution of American foreign policy from 1938 to the present, focusing on such pivotal events as World War II, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, and 9/11. Examining everything from the Iran-Contra scandal to the rise of international terrorism, the authors analyze-in light of the enormous global power of the United States-how American economic aggressiveness, racism, and fear of Communism have shaped the nation's evolving foreign policy.

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1101501294

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9781101501290

Eisenhower

Soldier and President

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

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Eisenhower

Soldier and President

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Condensed version of a two volume work originally published as: Eisenhower. c1983-c1984.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671747584

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9780671747589

Hospitality Law

Managing Legal Issues in the Hospitality Industry

By: Stephen C. Barth,David K. Hayes

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Hospitality Law

Managing Legal Issues in the Hospitality Industry

By: Stephen C. Barth,David K. Hayes

Reliable advice to help hospitality managers prevent legal problems and avoid litigation. Is an unhappy restaurant guest legally entitled to a refund for food she ate? Is a hotel required to replace money that a guest claims was taken from his room? Can a hospital food and beverage director legally accept a holiday gift from a vendor without threatening her employment status? Hospitality Law, Second Edition provides readers with answers to these questions and more. Packed with interactive exercises as well as up-to-date legal information specific to the hospitality industry, Hospitality Law benefits students by emphasizing preventive legal management and effective decision-making. This Second Edition gives students and managers background on safety and security requirements, disputes with customers, hiring and firing employees, liabilities associated with serving alcohol, and much more, including: New coverage of legal issues in travel and tourism, including those associated with transportation, travel agents, tour operators, gaming, mixed-use, and timeshare properties Newly added real-world legal case summaries that illustrate the practical application of hospitality laws in actual hospitality operations. Each case summary features a "Message to Management" that gives the reader a clear explanation of the impact of the decision on best practices, as well as preventative measures managers can take to limit exposure New coverage of legal issues related to amusement parks and the Internet booking phenomenon New "International Snapshots" offering insights from practicing attorneys and other professionals regarding differences between U.S. and international laws related to hospitality Updated Web exercises and guidance for researching on the Internet Encouraging readers to think critically about legal concepts related to hospitality, Hospitality Law, Second Edition is an indispensable part of every hospitality manager's education.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471464252

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9780471464259

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

By: Stephen Kinzer

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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

By: Stephen Kinzer

A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In this book, Stephen Kinzer places their extraordinary lives against the background of American culture and history. He uses the framework of biography to ask: Why does the United States behave as it does in the world? The Brothers explores hidden forces that shape the national psyche, from religious piety to Western movies—many of which are about a noble gunman who cleans up a lawless town by killing bad guys. This is how the Dulles brothers saw themselves, and how many Americans still see their country's role in the world. Propelled by a quintessentially American set of fears and delusions, the Dulles brothers launched violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries from Cuba to Iran. The story of the Dulles brothers is the story of America. It illuminates and helps explain the modern history of the United States and the world. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013

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Macmillan

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1429953527

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