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Study Guide for Decoding Lady Chatterley's Lover

With Typical Questions and Answers

By: Steven Smith

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Study Guide for Decoding Lady Chatterley's Lover

With Typical Questions and Answers

By: Steven Smith

Decoding Lady Chatterley's Lover" delves deeply into D.H. Lawrence's seminal work, exploring the intricate themes of intimacy, societal norms, class conflict, and the quest for personal freedom in post-World War I Britain. The guide examines the complex relationships within the novel, particularly focusing on Lady Constance Chatterley's emotional and sexual awakening with Oliver Mellors, set against her sterile marriage to Clifford Chatterley. The guide provides detailed analyses of the novel's major conflicts, such as the tension between individual desires and societal expectations, the contrast between industrialization and nature, and the diverse perspectives on love and relationships. Through careful examination of character motivations, transformations, and complexities, alongside thematic discussions that highlight Lawrence's critique of early 20th-century societal norms, students are equipped with insights into the human condition as portrayed in the novel. Key features of the study guide include in-depth character analyses that illuminate the inner workings of Connie, Mellors, Clifford, and other supporting characters. It also explores the historical context of the 1920s, reflecting on how the societal changes of the era influenced the narrative. Memorable lines from the book are discussed, showcasing Lawrence’s literary craftsmanship and the thematic core of the work. A concise summary encapsulates the plot and sets the stage for a deeper exploration of its themes and characters. "Decoding Lady Chatterley's Lover" serves as an invaluable resource for students aiming to grasp the depth of the novel, offering tools for critical analysis and appreciation of Lawrence's masterpiece and inviting readers to consider the enduring themes of love, freedom, and the struggle for personal fulfillment within societal confines.

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Sherwood Press

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1964189500

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Acts of Conscience

World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors

By: Steven J. Taylor

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Acts of Conscience

World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors

By: Steven J. Taylor

In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation’s mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. Bringing the abuses to the attention of newspapers and magazines across the country, they led a reform effort to change public attitudes and to improve the training and status of institutional staff. Prominent Americans, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, ACLU founder Roger Baldwin, author Pearl S. Buck, actress Helen Hayes, and African-American activist Mary McLeod Bethune, supported the efforts of the young men. These young men were among the 12,000 World War II conscientious objectors who chose to perform civilian public service as an alternative to fighting in what is widely regarded as America’s "good war." Three thousand of these men volunteered to work at state institutions where they discovered appalling conditions. Acting on conscience a second time, they challenged America’s treatment of its citizens with severe disabilities. Acts of Conscience brings to light the extra-ordinary efforts of these courageous men, drawing upon extensive archival research, interviews, and personal correspondence. The World War II conscientious objectors were not the first to expose public institutions, and they would not be the last. What distinguishes them from reformers of other eras is that their activities have faded from the professional and popular memory. Taylor’s moving account is an indispensable contribution to the historical record.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815651406

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9780815651406

American Political Leaders

From Colonial Times to the Present

By: Steven O'Brien

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American Political Leaders

From Colonial Times to the Present

By: Steven O'Brien

This book includes biographical facts as well as political contributions.

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VNR AG

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0874365708

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9780874365702

Foliations: Dynamics, Geometry and Topology

By: Masayuki Asaoka,Aziz El Kacimi Alaoui,Steven Hurder,Ken Richardson

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Foliations: Dynamics, Geometry and Topology

By: Masayuki Asaoka,Aziz El Kacimi Alaoui,Steven Hurder,Ken Richardson

This book is an introduction to several active research topics in Foliation Theory and its connections with other areas. It contains expository lectures showing the diversity of ideas and methods converging in the study of foliations. The lectures by Aziz El Kacimi Alaoui provide an introduction to Foliation Theory with emphasis on examples and transverse structures. Steven Hurder's lectures apply ideas from smooth dynamical systems to develop useful concepts in the study of foliations: limit sets and cycles for leaves, leafwise geodesic flow, transverse exponents, Pesin Theory and hyperbolic, parabolic and elliptic types of foliations. The lectures by Masayuki Asaoka compute the leafwise cohomology of foliations given by actions of Lie groups, and apply it to describe deformation of those actions. In his lectures, Ken Richardson studies the properties of transverse Dirac operators for Riemannian foliations and compact Lie group actions, and explains a recently proved index formula. Besides students and researchers of Foliation Theory, this book will be interesting for mathematicians interested in the applications to foliations of subjects like Topology of Manifolds, Differential Geometry, Dynamics, Cohomology or Global Analysis.

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Springer

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3034808712

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The Philosophy of TV Noir

By: Steven Sanders,Aeon J. Skoble

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The Philosophy of TV Noir

By: Steven Sanders,Aeon J. Skoble

Film noir reflects the fatalistic themes and visual style of hard-boiled novelists and many émigré filmmakers in 1940s and 1950s America, emphasizing crime, alienation, and moral ambiguity. In The Philosophy of TV Noir, Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble argue that the legacy of film noir classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Big Sleep is also found in episodic television from the mid-1950s to the present. In this first-of-its-kind collection, contributors from philosophy, film studies, and literature raise fundamental questions about the human predicament, giving this unique volume its moral resonance and demonstrating why television noir deserves our attention. The introduction traces the development of TV noir and provides an overview and evaluation of the book's thirteen essays, each of which discusses an exemplary TV noir series. Realism, relativism, and integrity are discussed in essays on Dragnet, Naked City, The Fugitive, and Secret Agent. Existentialist themes of authenticity, nihilism, and the search for life's meaning are addressed in essays on Miami Vice, The Sopranos, Carnivale, and 24. The methods of crime scene investigation in The X-Files and CSI are examined, followed by an exploration of autonomy, selfhood, and interpretation in The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Millennium. With this focus on the philosophical dimensions of crime, espionage, and science fiction series, The Philosophy of TV Noir draws out the full implications of film noir and establishes TV noir as an art form in its own right.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813181569

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9780813181561

David E. Lilienthal

The Journey of an American Liberal

By: Steven M. Neuse

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David E. Lilienthal

The Journey of an American Liberal

By: Steven M. Neuse

The Lilienthal story is one of paradoxes and contradictions in human nature, of an enormous ego yoked with good intentions and a humane spirit. As this book demonstrates in compelling detail, the liberal dream that Lilienthal embodied worked at home but not abroad.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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0870499408

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Master Gunslingers Revenge

By: Steven R. Smyrski

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Master Gunslingers Revenge

By: Steven R. Smyrski

Vince Masters was forced to learn the dangers of the Wild West early in life. For the past year he learned the dangers facing a green horn while traveling in the unsettled and untamed West. His love of the gun and agile ability to use it when necessary kept him alive this past year. How long could his ability keep him alive? Not able to decide where he would settle down, he decided to travel. Meeting interesting people in his travels was one thing Vince enjoyed. Meeting men who lived by the gun for the wrong reasons was the life Vince could have done without. Meeting Dick Roberts who wanted to clean up the West without a badge could prove fatal for Vince, but showing his patriotism and loyalty to his new friend was a good decision. He decided to back him and the law to become a vigilante of the New West. Finding ways to prosecute and exile the villains who wanted to run the West with lawlessness and profit from the weak was high on Vince Masters and his new found friend Dicks agenda. Finding a way to do such acts without crossing the fine line of being criminals themselves was another matter! Vince was a man who wanted to succeed at these feats anonymously. Follow the travels of Vince Masters and Dick Roberts to find out how the Wild West was really won.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426945337

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Second Act Trouble

Behind the Scenes at Broadway's Big Musical Bombs

By: Steven Suskin

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Second Act Trouble

Behind the Scenes at Broadway's Big Musical Bombs

By: Steven Suskin

These cautionary tales are provocative, highly instructive, occasionally brutal, and, from a safe distance, downright hilarious, making Second Act Trouble the perfect Broadway bedtime reader - unless you are prone to nightmares."--BOOK JACKET.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557836310

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Mysterious Places, Mysterious Dreams

A Novel Memoir

By: Steven Rivellino

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Mysterious Places, Mysterious Dreams

A Novel Memoir

By: Steven Rivellino

In this uniquely-written novel memoir, first-time author Steven Rivellino daringly delves into the lives and the minds of three very distinct men as they sail the world on their various voyages of discovery. The books protagonist, also named Steven, is a young, easily-influenced college student, dangerously on the verge of manhood. While onboard the Norwegian liner , he meets Percy, a somewhat flamboyant British gentleman grandly seeking wealth and good fortune; and Archibald,an author and historical lecturer nearly thirty years his seniorwhose lifetime search for acceptance and love inevitably leaves him in circles. Together, they set out on their journey to circumnavigate the globe. Unknowingly, however, they are destined for an epic adventure of great challenge, learning, and naked self-discovery. The events of the world clearly define their roles and along the way, their unique relationships evolve from initial denial and great distrust, to a close and dynamic bond never-before expected; forever true.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462826237

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9781462826230

Chinese Sociologics

An Anthropological Account of the Role of Alienation in Social Reproduction

By: P. Steven Sangren

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Chinese Sociologics

An Anthropological Account of the Role of Alienation in Social Reproduction

By: P. Steven Sangren

This volume explores the links between individuals, families, communities and the state in China through ritual and myth.

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Routledge

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1000321053

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The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict

Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan

By: Steven L. Spiegel

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The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict

Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan

By: Steven L. Spiegel

The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict illuminates the controversial course of America's Middle East relations from the birth of Israel to the Reagan administration. Skillfully separating actual policymaking from the myths that have come to surround it, Spiegel challenges the belief that American policy in the Middle East is primarily a relation to events in that region or is motivated by bureaucratic constraints or the pressures of domestic politics. On the contrary, he finds that the ideas and skills of the president and his advisors are critical to the determination of American policy. This volume received the 1986 National Jewish Book Award.

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University of Chicago Press

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022622614X

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A Game As Old As Empire

The Secret Word of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption

By: Steven Hiatt

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A Game As Old As Empire

The Secret Word of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption

By: Steven Hiatt

John Perkins’ controversial and bestselling exposé, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, revealed for the first time the secret world of economic hit men (EHMs). But Perkins’ Confessions contained only a small piece of this sinister puzzle. The full story is far bigger, deeper, and darker than Perkins’ personal account revealed. Here other EHMs, journalists, and investigators join Perkins to tell their own stories, providing the first probing and expansive look into this pervasive web of systematic corruption. With chapters spotlighting how specific countries around the globe have been subverted, A Game As Old As Empire uncovers the inner workings of the institutions behind these economic manipulations. The contributors detail concrete examples of how the “economic hit man game” is still being played: an officer of an offshore bank hiding hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen money, IMF advisers slashing Ghana’s education and health programs, a mercenary defending a European oil company in Nigeria, a consultant rewriting Iraqi oil law, and executives financing warlords to secure supplies of coltan ore in Congo. Together they show how this system of corruption and plunder operates in real life, and reveal the price that the rest of the world must pay as a result. Most important, A Game As Old As Empire connects the dots, showing how the various pieces of this system come together to create the world’s first truly global empire.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1605096911

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9781605096919

The Self-evolving Cosmos

A Phenomenological Approach to Nature's Unity-in-diversity

By: Steven M. Rosen

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The Self-evolving Cosmos

A Phenomenological Approach to Nature's Unity-in-diversity

By: Steven M. Rosen

This unique book offers an original way of thinking about two of the most significant problems confronting modern theoretical physics: the unification of the forces of nature and the evolution of the universe. In bringing out the inadequacies of the prevailing approach to these questions, the author demonstrates the need for more than just a new theory. The meanings of space and time themselves must be radically rethought, which requires a whole new philosophical foundation. To this end, the book turns to the phenomenological writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger. Their insights into space and time bring the natural world to life in a manner well-suited to the dynamic phenomena of contemporary physics. In aligning continental thought with problems in physics and cosmology, the book makes use of topology . Phenomenological intuitions about space and time are systematically fleshed out via an unconventional and innovative approach to this qualitative branch of mathematics. The author''s pioneering work in topological phenomenology is applied to such topics as quantum gravity, cosmogony, symmetry, spin, vorticity, dimension theory, Kaluza-Klein and string theories, fermion-boson interrelatedness, hypernumbers, and the mind-matter interface. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Introduction Individuation and the Quest for Unity (77 KB). Contents: Introduction: Individuation and the Quest for Unity; The Obstacle to Unification in Modern Physics; The Phenomenological Challenge to the Classical Formula; Topological Phenomenology; The Dimensional Family of Topological Spinors; Basic Principles of Dimensional Transformation; Waves Carrying Waves: The Co-Evolution of Lifeworlds; The Forces of Nature; Cosmogony, Symmetry, and Phenomenological Intuition; The Self-Evolving Cosmos; The Psychophysics of Cosmogony. Readership: Philosophically-oriented readers drawn to current developments in physics and cosmology. For academics and scientists dealing with the foundations of physics, the philosophy of science in general, and or contemporary phenomenological thought.

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World Scientific

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9812771743

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Mistaken Identification

The Eyewitness, Psychology and the Law

By: Brian L. Cutler,Steven D. Penrod

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Mistaken Identification

The Eyewitness, Psychology and the Law

By: Brian L. Cutler,Steven D. Penrod

Examines traditional safeguards against mistaken eyewitness identification.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521445728

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9780521445726

This Is Philosophy

An Introduction

By: Steven D. Hales

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This Is Philosophy

An Introduction

By: Steven D. Hales

The new edition of the clearest and most readable introduction to the questions, problems, and great thinkers of Western analytic philosophy Philosophy invented systematic ethics, formal logic, and the scientific method. It created the Enlightenment and laid the foundations for constitutional governments. Philosophy has given birth to economics, psychology, and cognitive science. We are the oldest, most central discipline in the academy, and we are responsible for modernity. This is Philosophy: An Introduction expertly guides the student into this powerhouse of thought, giving them a solid grounding across a wide variety of key topics in philosophy. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this volume brings philosophical concepts to life with clear, informal language, relatable examples, and easy-to-understand explanations of classic themes and arguments. The second edition of this popular textbook features updated examples, improved narrative, new hyperlinks and references, enhanced bibliographies, and more. A brand-new chapter on political philosophy explores the state of nature, anarchy, contractarianism, libertarianism, and the liberal state. With a topical structure allowing each self-contained chapter to be tackled independently, the book gives students both the tools of an analytic philosopher, and a sense of which fields of philosophy they could pursue further, aided by detailed bibliographies and further reading. Each chapter is complemented by a wealth of online resources for instructors on the This is Philosophy series site that encourage further reading and strengthen student comprehension of key concepts. Building on the popular first edition, and part of an innovative and acclaimed series, This is Philosophy: An Introduction, Second Edition is the perfect primary textbook for beginning philosophy students as well as general readers with interest in learning the fundamentals of the subject.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119635543

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The Pragmatic Superpower: Winning the Cold War in the Middle East

By: Ray Takeyh,Steven Simon

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The Pragmatic Superpower: Winning the Cold War in the Middle East

By: Ray Takeyh,Steven Simon

A bold reexamination of U.S. influence in the Middle East during the Cold War. The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war, and the Syrian civil war—these contemporary conflicts have deep roots in the Middle East’s postwar emergence from colonialism. In The Pragmatic Superpower, foreign policy experts Ray Takeyh and Steven Simon reframe the legacy of U.S. involvement in the Arab world from 1945 to 1991 and shed new light on the makings of the contemporary Middle East. Cutting against conventional wisdom, the authors argue that, when an inexperienced Washington entered the turbulent world of Middle Eastern politics, it succeeded through hardheaded pragmatism—and secured its place as a global superpower. Eyes ever on its global conflict with the Soviet Union, America shrewdly navigated the rise of Arab nationalism, the founding of Israel, and seminal conflicts including the Suez War and the Iranian revolution. Takeyh and Simon reveal that America’s objectives in the region were often uncomplicated but hardly modest. Washington deployed adroit diplomacy to prevent Soviet infiltration of the region, preserve access to its considerable petroleum resources, and resolve the conflict between a Jewish homeland and the Arab states that opposed it. The Pragmatic Superpower provides fascinating insight into Washington’s maneuvers in a contest for global power and offers a unique reassessment of America’s cold war policies in a critical region of the world. Amid the chaotic conditions of the twenty-first century, Takeyh and Simon argue that there is an urgent need to look back to a period when the United States got it right. Only then will we better understand the challenges we face today.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393285561

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9780393285567

Pragmatism with Purpose

Selected Writings

By: Peter Hare,Douglas R. Anderson,Steven A. Miller

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Pragmatism with Purpose

Selected Writings

By: Peter Hare,Douglas R. Anderson,Steven A. Miller

Pragmatism with Purpose collects essays by the late Peter Hare, a leading proponent of the American philosophical tradition. The volume includes essays on “holistic pragmatism” that Hare developed in conversation with Morton White, as well as historical articles on William James and C. S. Peirce and commentaries on the profession.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823264335

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Boom and Bust in the Alaska Goldfields

A Multicultural Adventure

By: Steven C. Levi

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Boom and Bust in the Alaska Goldfields

A Multicultural Adventure

By: Steven C. Levi

In this lively narrative with its numerous illustrations and photographs, Steven C. Levi captures the color and the riches of the Alaska Gold Rush and tells the stories of the larger-than-life characters who lived the adventure. The Alaska Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century was the last great fit of gold fever in North America. Men and women—including African Americans, Portuguese, Japanese, Italians, and Chinese—all rushed north. Many of these adventurers died in the harsh Arctic winters or drowned in the leaky, rotting ships that ferried them to the gold fields. The Gold Rush created the geography of modern Alaska and brought its rich natural resources and large Native population under the eye of the American government. This book, says Levi, is not intended to be an overview of the Alaska Gold Rush. Rather, it is meant to provide a myriad of glimpses into the lives of people and events of the age. This is a book of popular history. If you find it interesting, don't thank the writer; credit the 100,000 men and women who rushed north in search of the precious yellow metal a century ago. Far to the north of the 48 contiguous states, writes Steven C. Levi, is a land shrouded with the miasma of adventure. It is a land of glaciers the size of some states and fish the size of some cities. Its history is steeped in intrigue, scoundrels abound, and things that could never occur anywhere else on earth happened here. It has everything one has come to expect of an exotic port-and more. This land is Alaska. The Alaska Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century was the last great fit of gold fever in North America. It promised untold riches to anyone who could get there, and created a last-ditch, wild-west culture of greed and sin—a perfect haven for dreamers and scoundrels alike. Men and women—including African Americans, Portuguese, Japanese, Italians, and Chinese—all rushed north. Many of these adventurers died in the harsh Arctic winters or drowned in the leaky, rotting ships that ferried the dreamers to the gold fields. The Gold Rush created the geography of modern Alaska. Strikes in Nome (where the gold lay on the beach and anyone could reach down and pick it up), Juneau, Fairbanks, Valdez, and Kotzebue helped put Alaska on the map and brought its rich natural resources and large Native population under the eye of the American government. In this lively narrative with its numerous illustrations and photographs, Steven C. Levi captures the color and the riches of the Alaska Gold Rush and tells the stories of the larger-than-life characters who lived the adventure. E. T. Barnette, for example, founded his own city (Fairbanks), established his own bank (Washington Alaska), and then absconded with every dime in the vault. George Hinton Henry, the father of Alaska journalism, was run out of every town where he tried to establish a newspaper. This book, says Levi, is not intended to be an overview of the Alaska Gold Rush. Rather, it is meant to provide a myriad of glimpses into the lives of people and events of the age. This is a book of popular history. If you find it interesting, don't thank the writer; credit the 100,000 men and women who rushed north in search of the precious yellow metal a century ago.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313345457

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Against the Rising Sun

By: Steven Sharman

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Against the Rising Sun

By: Steven Sharman

In the 1962 edition of Australia in the War of 1939-45, Dudley McCarthy describes his account as “the story of small groups of men, infinitesimally small against the mountains in which they fought, who killed one another in stealthy and isolated encounters beside the tracks which were life to all of them; of warfare in which men first conquered the country and then allied themselves with it and then killed or died in the midst of a great loneliness.” The jungle warfare in New Guinea and throughout the Pacific tested troops and their support apparatus to the very limits of endurance. Often the test proved too difficult. Once hardened by experience, those fighting men who lived and died in the jungle, eventually became masters of their surroundings, with the strength and skill required to dominate and defeat their opponents. The jungle changed those who fought within its depths fundamentally. Survival in the jungle requires stamina, prudence, and imagination to compensate for the discomfort, disorientation, and isolation the jungle imposes on all who venture within. The jungle is a primaeval world in which sound and light, heat and damp collide, corrode and corrupt, until all that is left is sensation, fear, uncertainty, and McCarthy’s ‘great loneliness’. Against the Rising Sun is the first novel by Steven Sharman, born of a twin passion for history and fiction, dedicated to courage under fire.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398416614

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Bonhoeffer's Christocentric Theology and Fundamental Debates in Environmental Ethics

By: Steven C. van den Heuvel

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Bonhoeffer's Christocentric Theology and Fundamental Debates in Environmental Ethics

By: Steven C. van den Heuvel

There is widespread understanding of the close connection between religion and the ecological crisis, and that in order to amend this crisis, theological resources are needed. This monograph seeks to contribute to this endeavor by engaging the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His theology is particularly suitable in this context, due to its open-ended nature, and to the prophetic and radical nature of the questions he was prepared to ask--that is why there are many other attempts to contextualize Bonhoeffer's theology in areas that he himself has not directly written about. In this monograph, Steven van den Heuvel first of all addresses the question of how to translate Bonhoeffer's theology in a methodologically sound way. He settles on a modified form of the general method of correlation. Then, secondly, van den Heuvel sets out to describe five major concepts in Bonhoeffer's work, bringing these into critical interplay with discussions in environmental ethics and eco-theology. In making the correlations he thoroughly describes each concept, situating it in the historic and intellectual background of Bonhoeffer's time. He then transposes these concepts to contemporary environmental ethics, describing what contribution Bonhoeffer's theology can make.

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149829619X

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America's Reluctant Prince

The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.

By: Steven M. Gillon

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America's Reluctant Prince

The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.

By: Steven M. Gillon

*A New York Times Bestseller* A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America’s Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon. Through the lens of their decades-long friendship and including exclusive interviews and details from previously classified documents, noted historian and New York Times bestselling author Steven M. Gillon examines John F. Kennedy Jr.’s life and legacy from before his birth to the day he died. Gillon covers the highs, the lows, and the surprising incidents, viewpoints, and relationships that John never discussed publicly, revealing the full story behind JFK Jr.’s complicated and rich life. In the end, Gillon proves that John’s life was far more than another tragedy—rather, it’s the true key to understanding both the Kennedy legacy and how America’s first family continues to shape the world we live in today.

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Penguin

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1524742406

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9781524742409

1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die

By: Matthew Rye,Steven Isserlis

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1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die

By: Matthew Rye,Steven Isserlis

A thick and informative guide to the world of classical music and its stunning recordings, complete with images from CD cases, concert halls, and of the musicians themselves.

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Chartwell Books

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0785835822

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Barley

Production, Improvement, and Uses

By: Steven E. Ullrich

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Barley

Production, Improvement, and Uses

By: Steven E. Ullrich

Barley is one of the world's most important crops with uses ranging from food and feed production, malting and brewing to its use as a model organism in molecular research. The demand and uses of barley continue to grow and there is a need for an up-to-date comprehensive reference that looks at all aspects of the barley crop from taxonomy and morphology through to end use. Barley will fill this increasing void. Barley will stand as a must have reference for anyone researching, growing, or utilizing this important crop.

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0813801230

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Charles Brandon

Henry VIII's Closest Friend

By: Steven Gunn

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Charles Brandon

Henry VIII's Closest Friend

By: Steven Gunn

The first biography of the lifelong companion and trusted confidante of Henry VIII

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1445641941

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Carmarthen Pals

A History of the 15th (Service) Battalion, the Welsh Regiment, 1914-1919

By: Steven John

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Carmarthen Pals

A History of the 15th (Service) Battalion, the Welsh Regiment, 1914-1919

By: Steven John

The Carmarthenshire Battalion was one of the early units raised in 1914 as a result of Lord Kitchener's expansion of the regular army for the duration of the Great War. This book profiles the 'Carmarthen Pals', a battalion which fought with great distinction during many of World War One's most significant campaigns.

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1848840772

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War, State, and Society in England and the Netherlands 1477-1559

By: Steven Gunn,David Grummitt,Hans Cools

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War, State, and Society in England and the Netherlands 1477-1559

By: Steven Gunn,David Grummitt,Hans Cools

Comparing England and the Netherlands in the age of warrior princes such as Henry VIII and Charles V, the book examines the development of new military and fiscal institutions, and asks how mobilzation for war changed political relationships throughout society." --Résumé de l'éditeur.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019920750X

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The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915

By: Will Rogers,Steven K. Gragert,M. Jane Johansson

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The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915

By: Will Rogers,Steven K. Gragert,M. Jane Johansson

This third volume of The Papers of Will Rogers documents the evolution of Rogers's vaudeville career as well as the newlywed life of Will and Betty Blake Rogers and the birth of their children. During these years, the Rogerses moved to New York City, and after many years of performing with Buck McKee and horse Teddy, Rogers began a solo act in vaudeville as a talking, roping cowboy. He appeared on the same playbill with such performers as Fred Stone, Eddie Cantor, and Houdini, and his stage career expanded to include an appearance in the Broadway musical comedy "The Wall Street Girl." Volume Three ends with Rogers's successful transition from vaudeville to Broadway, on the brink of his breakthrough as a star of the Ziegfeld Follies.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806133155

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British Satire, 1785-1840

By: John Strachan

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British Satire, 1785-1840

By: John Strachan

This set offers a representitive collection of the verse satire of the Romantic period, published between the mid-1780s and the mid-1830s. As well as two single-author volumes, from William Gifford and Thomas Moore, there is also a wealth of rare, unedited material.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000743918

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Reporting from the Wars 1850 – 2015

The origins and evolution of the war correspondent

By: Barry Turner,Daniel Barredo Ibáñez,Steven James Grattan

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Reporting from the Wars 1850 – 2015

The origins and evolution of the war correspondent

By: Barry Turner,Daniel Barredo Ibáñez,Steven James Grattan

From the foundations of the world’s first great empires to the empires of today, war has preoccupied human civilisation for as many as 4000 years. It has fascinated, horrified, thrilled, confused, inspired and disgusted mankind since records began. Provoking such a huge range of emotions and reactions and fulfilling all the elements of newsworthiness, it is hardly surprising that war makes ‘good’ news. Modern technological advancements, such as the camera and television, brought the brutality of war into the homes and daily lives of the public. No longer a far-away and out-of-sight affair, the public’s ability to ‘see’ what was happening on the frontline changed not only how wars were fought but why they were fought. Even when a war is considered ‘popular,’ the involvement of the press and the weight of public opinion has led to criticisms that have transformed modern warfare almost in equal measure to the changes brought about by weapon technology. War reporting seeks to look beyond the official story, to understand the very nature of conflict whilst acknowledging that it is no longer simply good versus evil. This edited volume presents a unique insight into the work of the war correspondent and battlefield photographer from the earliest days of modern war reporting to the present. It reveals how, influenced by the changing face of modern warfare, the work of the war correspondent has been significantly altered in style, method, and practice. By combining historical analysis with experiences of modern day war reporting, this book provides an important contribution to the understanding of this complicated profession, which will be of interest to journalists, academics, and students, alike.

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Vernon Press

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1622731131

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CRITIQUE OF IMPURE REASON

Horizons of Possibility and Meaning

By: Steven James Bartlett

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CRITIQUE OF IMPURE REASON

Horizons of Possibility and Meaning

By: Steven James Bartlett

The Critique of Impure Reason: Horizons of Possibility and Meaning comprises a major and important contribution to philosophy. It inaugurates a revolutionary paradigm shift in philosophical thought by providing compelling and long-sought-for solutions to a wide range of philosophical problems. In the process, the massive work fundamentally transforms the way in which the concepts of reference, meaning, and possibility are understood. The book includes a Foreword by the celebrated German philosopher and physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. In Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason we find an analysis of the preconditions of experience and of knowledge. In contrast, but yet in parallel, the new Critique focuses upon the ways—unfortunately very widespread and often unselfconsciously habitual—in which many of the concepts that we employ conflict with the very preconditions of meaning and of knowledge. This is a book about the boundaries of frameworks and about the unrecognized conceptual confusions in which we become entangled when we attempt to transgress beyond the limits of the possible and meaningful. We tend either not to recognize or not to accept that we all-too-often attempt to trespass beyond the boundaries of the frameworks that make knowledge possible and the world meaningful. The Critique of Impure Reason proposes a bold, ground-breaking, and startling thesis: that a great many of the major philosophical problems of the past can be solved through the recognition of a viciously deceptive form of thinking to which philosophers as well as non-philosophers commonly fall victim. For the first time, the book advances and justifies the criticism that a substantial number of the questions that have occupied philosophers fall into the category of “impure reason,” violating the very conditions of their possible meaningfulness. The purpose of the study is twofold: first, to enable us to recognize the boundaries of what is referentially forbidden—the limits beyond which reference becomes meaningless—and second, to avoid falling victims to a certain broad class of conceptual confusions that lie at the heart of many major philosophical problems. As a consequence, the boundaries of possible meaning are determined. Bartlett, the author or editor of more than 20 books, is responsible for identifying this widespread and delusion-inducing variety of error, metalogical projection. It is a previously unrecognized and insidious form of erroneous thinking that undermines its own possibility of meaning. It comes about as a result of the pervasive human compulsion to seek to transcend the limits of possible reference and meaning. Based on original research and rigorous analysis combined with extensive scholarship, the Critique of Impure Reason develops a self-validating method that makes it possible to recognize, correct, and eliminate this major and pervasive form of fallacious thinking. In so doing, the book provides at last provable and constructive solutions to a wide range of major philosophical problems. CONTENTS AT A GLANCE Preface Foreword by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Acknowledgments Avant-propos: A philosopher’s rallying call Introduction A note to the reader A note on conventions PART I WHY PHILOSOPHY HAS MADE NO PROGRESS AND HOW IT CAN 1 Philosophical-psychological prelude 2 Putting belief in its place: Its psychology and a needed polemic 3 Turning away from the linguistic turn: From theory of reference to metalogic of reference 4 The stepladder to maximum theoretical generality PART II THE METALOGIC OF REFERENCE A New Approach to Deductive, Transcendental Philosophy 5 Reference, identity, and identification 6 Self-referential argument and the metalogic of reference 7 Possibility theory 8 Presupposition logic, reference, and identification 9 Transcendental argumentation and the metalogic of reference 10 Framework relativity 11 The metalogic of meaning 12 The problem of putative meaning and the logic of meaninglessness 13 Projection 14 Horizons 15 De-projection 16 Self-validation 17 Rationality: Rules of admissibility PART III PHILOSOPHICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE METALOGIC OF REFERENCE Major Problems and Questions of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Science 18 Ontology and the metalogic of reference 19 Discovery or invention in general problem-solving, mathematics, and physics 20 The conceptually unreachable: “The far side” 21 The projections of the external world, things-in-themselves, other minds, realism, and idealism 22 The projections of time, space, and space-time 23 The projections of causality, determinism, and free will 24 Projections of the self and of solipsism 25 Non-relational, agentless reference and referential fields 26 Relativity physics as seen through the lens of the metalogic of reference 27 Quantum theory as seen through the lens of the metalogic of reference 28 Epistemological lessons learned from and applicable to relativity physics and quantum theory PART IV HORIZONS 29 Beyond belief 30 Critique of Impure Reason: Its results in retrospect SUPPLEMENT The Formal Structure of the Metalogic of Reference APPENDIX I: The Concept of Horizon in the Work of Other Philosophers APPENDIX II: Epistemological Intelligence References Index About the author

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Studies in Theory and Behavior

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0578886464

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The Pen Commandments

A Guide for the Beginning Writer

By: Steven Frank

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The Pen Commandments

A Guide for the Beginning Writer

By: Steven Frank

Steven Frank has a new approach to writing: fun first, rules to follow, success for all. In The Pen Commandments, his offbeat and entertaining guide, he's given us a book that all writers can turn to for help and a good laugh. With outrageous anecdotes (how a kid's oral surgery led to the ultimate writing assignment) and irreverent advice (Thou Shalt Not Kill Thy Sentences), Frank shows how to conquer writer's block, make friends with punctuation, and live forever in words. If you want to inspire your kids of just want to brush up on your own skills, The Pen Commandments will change—and enliven—the way you write forever.

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Anchor

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1400032296

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Zionism, Palestinian Nationalism and the Law

1939-1948

By: Steven E. Zipperstein

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Zionism, Palestinian Nationalism and the Law

1939-1948

By: Steven E. Zipperstein

During the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine (1939–1948), Arabs and Jews used the law as a resource to gain leverage against each other and to influence international opinion. The parties invoked "transformational legal framing" to portray the essentially political-religious conflict as a legal dispute involving claims of justice, injustice, and victimisation, and giving rise to legal/equitable remedies. Employing this form of narrative and framing in multiple "trials" during the first 15 years of the Mandate, the parties continued the practice during the last and most crucial decade of the Mandate. The term "trial" provides an appropriate typology for understanding the adversarial proceedings during those years in which judges, lawyers, witnesses, cross-examination, and legal argumentation played a key role in the conflict. The four trials between 1939 and 1947 produced three different outcomes: the one-state solution in favour of the Palestinian Arabs, the no-state solution, and the two-state solution embodied in the United Nations November 1947 partition resolution, culminating in Israel's independence in May 1948. This study analyses the role of the law during the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine, making an essential contribution to the literature on lawfare, framing and narrative, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

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Routledge

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1000484386

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Bring a Spring Upon Her Cable

By: Steven J. Corner

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Bring a Spring Upon Her Cable

By: Steven J. Corner

A mysterious double murder in a quiet, affluent North East suburb is the culmination of excessive greed, lust and links to extreme IS and Al Qaeda terrorist organisations. 'Bring a Spring Upon Her Cable' is a gripping psychological thriller that will keep you in suspense with every chapter. "Double-dealing, betrayal, murder and intrigue on the high seas and land: a fast-flowing thriller which never fails to keep the reader on edge. The final chapter is especially good, nicely rounding off the action and suspense. Involving British ex-servicemen on contract, Somali pirates, MI6 and MI5, IS & Al Qaeda gun runners - it's a great plot with believable characters. Definitely recommended...

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Lulu.com

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0244621896

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Information Needs of Communities

The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age

By: Steven Waldman

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Information Needs of Communities

The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age

By: Steven Waldman

In 2009, a bipartisan Knight Commission found that while the broadband age is enabling an info. and commun. renaissance, local communities in particular are being unevenly served with critical info. about local issues. Soon after the Knight Commission delivered its findings, the FCC initiated a working group to identify crosscurrent and trend, and make recommendations on how the info. needs of communities can be met in a broadband world. This report by the FCC Working Group on the Info. Needs of Communities addresses the rapidly changing media landscape in a broadband age. Contents: Media Landscape; The Policy and Regulatory Landscape; Recommendations. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.

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1437987265

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