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Public Diplomacy in Vietnam

National Interests and Identities in the Public Sphere

By: Vu Lam

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Public Diplomacy in Vietnam

National Interests and Identities in the Public Sphere

By: Vu Lam

This book explores how Vietnam's leadership conceptualises and conducts public diplomacy (PD) and offers a comparative analysis with regional powers. Drawing on social constructivism as its theoretical framework it investigates the rationale behind an authoritarian regime's implementation of public diplomacy to contribute to a better understanding of the broader framework of foreign-domestic policy. This theoretical and practical exploration of Vietnam's PD in cases of cultural diplomacy, South China Sea diplomacy and online activism situates it in the general academic and theoretical discussion on soft power. Key variables to the conceptualisation and conduct of Vietnam's PD, namely national interest, national identity and changing information technologies, especially the Internet and social media, are also thoroughly investigated. With crosscutting themes ranging from politics and international relations to communication studies, it will appeal to students and scholars of identity politics, populism and nationalism.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000631605

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9781000631609

Vietnam's Communist Revolution

The Power and Limits of Ideology

By: Tuong Vu

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Vietnam's Communist Revolution

The Power and Limits of Ideology

By: Tuong Vu

By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over 80 years as they led Vietnam through wars, social revolution, and peaceful development, this book shows the depth and resilience of their commitment to the communist utopia in their foreign policy. Unearthing new material from Vietnamese archives and publications, this book challenges the conventional scholarship and the popular image of the Vietnamese revolution and the Vietnam War as being driven solely by patriotic inspirations. The revolution not only saw successes in defeating foreign intervention, but also failures in bringing peace and development to Vietnam. This was, and is, the real tragedy of Vietnam. Spanning the entire history of the Vietnamese revolution and its aftermath, this book examines its leaders' early rise to power, the tumult of three decades of war with France, the US, and China, and the stubborn legacies left behind which remain in Vietnam today.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316875954

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9781316875957

Higher Education in Vietnam

Flexibility, Mobility and Practicality in the Global Knowledge Economy

By: L. Tran,S. Marginson,H. Do,T. Le,Nhai Nguyen,T. Vu,Thach Pham

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Higher Education in Vietnam

Flexibility, Mobility and Practicality in the Global Knowledge Economy

By: L. Tran,S. Marginson,H. Do,T. Le,Nhai Nguyen,T. Vu,Thach Pham

Higher and tertiary education are crucial to modern nations. Vietnam has great potential, but its universities and colleges are poor-performing, under-funded and slow to change compared to those in neighbouring East Asian nations. This book analyses the problem and provides constructive solutions for the reform of higher education.

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Springer

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1137436484

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9781137436481

Lục Xì

Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi

By: Vu Trong Phung

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Lục Xì

Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi

By: Vu Trong Phung

What does it mean when a city of 180,000 people has more than 5,000 women working as prostitutes? This question frames Vu Trong Phung’s 1937 classic reportage Luc Xi. In the late 1930s, Hanoi had a burgeoning commercial sex industry that involved thousands of people and hundreds of businesses. It was the center of the city’s nightlife and the source of suffering, violence, exploitation, and a venereal disease epidemic. For Phung, a popular writer and intellectual, it also raised disturbing questions about the state of Vietnamese society and culture and whether his country really was "progressing" under French colonial rule. Translator Shaun Kingsley Malarney’s thoughtful and multifaceted introduction provides historical background on colonialism, prostitution, and venereal disease in Vietnam and discusses reportage as a literary genre, political tool, and historical source. A fully annotated translation of Luc Xi follows, in which Phung takes readers into the heart of colonial Hanoi’s sex industry, portraying its female workers, the officials who attempted to regulate it, the doctors who treated its victims, and the secretive medical facility known as the Nha Luc Xi ("The Dispensary"), which examined prostitutes for venereal diseases and held them for treatment. Drawing from his interviews with doctors, officials, and prostitutes and the writings of French doctors on prostitution and venereal disease, Phung provides a rare, firsthand look at the damage caused by the commercial sex industry. His sympathetic portrayal of the Vietnamese underclass is considered one of the most accurate, but he also provides one of the most acerbic, humorous, and critical views of the changes wrought by colonialism in Southeast Asia.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824860616

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9780824860615

Fleisher & Ludwig's 5-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult

By: Robert J. Hoffman,Vincent J. Wang,Tien Vu,Pamela J. Okada,Richard J. Scarfone,Sandip A. Godambe,Joshua Nagler,Jin Y. Kim,Delia L. Gold,Barbara G.M. Pena

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Fleisher & Ludwig's 5-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult

By: Robert J. Hoffman,Vincent J. Wang,Tien Vu,Pamela J. Okada,Richard J. Scarfone,Sandip A. Godambe,Joshua Nagler,Jin Y. Kim,Delia L. Gold,Barbara G.M. Pena

A must-have resource for any emergency or urgent care setting, Fleisher & Ludwig’s 5-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult, 3rd Edition, provides clear, succinct guidance on hundreds of diseases and common pediatric conditions. Editors-in-Chief Drs. Robert J. Hoffman and Vincent J. Wang lead an editorial and author team who put evidence-based answers at your fingertips—essential information on clinical orientation, differential diagnosis, medications, management, discharge criteria, and more.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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ISBN 10

1975212959

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9781975212957

Truyen ngan - Thuong nho muoi hai

By: Bang Vu

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Truyen ngan - Thuong nho muoi hai

By: Bang Vu

Muoi hai" in this book title means twelve months in a year which according to the author, "each month has its own plaintive beauty, personal nostalgia ...". Vu Bang conveys his sweet memory about Hanoi by the beauty of culture, lifestyle, food art etc. and especially the deep love of his wife apart.

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MintRight Inc

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6042028146

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9786042028141

The context of REDD+ in Vietnam: Drivers, agents and institutions

By: Pham Thu Thuy,Moira Moeliono,Nguyen Thi Hien,Nguyen Huu Tho,Vu Thi Hien

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The context of REDD+ in Vietnam: Drivers, agents and institutions

By: Pham Thu Thuy,Moira Moeliono,Nguyen Thi Hien,Nguyen Huu Tho,Vu Thi Hien

This report discusses the political, economic and social opportunities and constraints that will influence the design and implementation of REDD+ in Vietnam. In particular, four major direct drivers (land conversion for agriculture; infrastructure development; logging (illegal and legal); forest fire) and three indirect drivers (pressure of population growth and migration; the states weak forest management capacity; the limited funding available for forest protection) of deforestation and degradation in Vietnam are discussed, along with their implications for REDD+. These drivers and their impacts vary from region to region, and change over time no one-size-fitsall formula will function across the whole of Vietnam. The report also examines the lessons learnt from various forestry and economic development policies and programmes and suggests how a future REDD+ mechanism can overcome the major challenges, which include limited funding for forest protection, weak local governance capacity, poor vertical and horizontal coordination, low involvement of the poor, women and indigenous groups, low economic returns, elite capture of land and benefits, and corruption. The report suggests that if REDD+ is to succeed, it must be participatory, that is, all players are given fair and ample opportunity to be part of the programme (particularly those with the least resources or the greatest economic disenfranchisement); transparent, that is, all players can trace how the programme is administered, including the distribution of benefits; and well-monitored, to ensure that the programme is conducted such that it meets its overarching objectives and guidelines. The success of REDD+ will also require that it take a pro-poor and pro-gender equity approach.

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CIFOR

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6028693774

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Paths to Development in Asia

South Korea, Vietnam, China, and Indonesia

By: Tuong Vu

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Paths to Development in Asia

South Korea, Vietnam, China, and Indonesia

By: Tuong Vu

Why have some states in the developing world been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? Challenging theories that privilege industrial policy and colonial legacies, this book focuses on state structure and the politics of state formation, arguing that a cohesive state structure is as important to developmental success as effective industrial policy. Based on a comparison of six Asian cases, including both capitalist and socialist states with varying structural cohesion, Tuong Vu proves that it is state formation politics rather than colonial legacies that have had decisive and lasting impacts on the structures of emerging states. His cross-national comparison of South Korea, Vietnam, Republican and Maoist China, and Sukarno's and Suharto's Indonesia, which is augmented by in-depth analyses of state formation processes in Vietnam and Indonesia, is an important contribution to understanding the dynamics of state formation and economic development in Asia.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139489011

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9781139489010

Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger

A History of Vietnam

By: Vu Hong Lien,Peter Sharrock

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Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger

A History of Vietnam

By: Vu Hong Lien,Peter Sharrock

Outside of its war with the United States, Vietnam’s past has often been neglected and understudied. Whether as an aspiring subordinate or a rebel province, Vietnam has been viewed by most historians in relation to its larger neighbor to the north, China. Seeking to reshape these accounts, Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger chronicles the vast sweep of Vietnam’s tumultuous history, from the Bronze Age to the present day, in order to lay out the first English-language account of the full story of the Vietnamese people. Drawing on archeological evidence that reveals the emergence of a culturally distinct human occupation of the region up to 10,000 years ago, Vu Hong Lien and Peter D. Sharrock show that these early societies had a sophisticated agricultural and technological culture much earlier than previously imagined. They explore the great variety of cultures that have existed in this territory, unshackling them from the confined histories of outsiders, imperial invaders, and occupiers in order to show that the country has been central to the cultural, political, and ethnic development of Southeast Asia for millennia. Unrivaled in scope, this comprehensive account will be the definitive history of the Vietnamese people, their culture, and their nation.

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Reaktion Books

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1780233884

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9781780233888

Rice and Baguette

A History of Food in Vietnam

By: Vu Hong Lien

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Rice and Baguette

A History of Food in Vietnam

By: Vu Hong Lien

The once-obscure cuisine of Vietnam is, today, a favorite for many people from East to West. Adapted and modified over thousands of years, it is probably best known as a particularly delicious result of combining traditional southeast Asian cookery with visible outside influences—notably, the crunchy baguette—from its French-occupied past. Drawing on archeological evidence, oral and written histories, and wide-ranging research, Vu Hong Lien tells the complex and surprising history of food in Vietnam. Rice and Baguette traces the prehistoric Việt’s progress from hunter-gathers of mollusks and small animals to sophisticated agriculturalists. The book follows them as they developed new tools and practices to perfect the growing of their crops until rice became a crucial commodity,which then irrevocably changed their diet, lifestyle, and social structure. Along the way, the author shows how Việt cuisine was dramatically influenced by French colonial cookery and products, which introduced a whole new set of ingredients and techniques into Vietnam. Beautifully illustrated throughout and peppered with fascinating historical tales, Rice and Baguette reveals the long journey that Vietnamese food has traveled to become the much-loved cuisine that it is today.

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1780237049

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9781780237046

The distribution of powers and responsibilities affecting forests, land use, and REDD+ across levels and sectors in Vietnam: A legal study

By: Le Quang Trung,Vu Tan Phuong,Anastasia Yang,Vo Dai Hai

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The distribution of powers and responsibilities affecting forests, land use, and REDD+ across levels and sectors in Vietnam: A legal study

By: Le Quang Trung,Vu Tan Phuong,Anastasia Yang,Vo Dai Hai

What are the roles and responsibilities of different levels of government over forests and land use in Vietnam? Over the last two decades how have government priorities shifted? How has decentralisation been realised through changing land laws and forest protection and development programs? Which powers and responsibilities are centralized, and which are decentralized? What role do local people play? This report reviews the statutory distribution of powers and responsibilities across levels and sectors. It outlines the legal mandates held by national and lower level governments with regard to land and forest allocation, afforestation programs, rubber plantations, Payments for Forest Environmental Services (PFES), land use planning, and more. The review considers legal and policy changes in land use and forestry in Vietnam following the doi moi reform in 1986 up to 2014. After a short introduction, the second section describes the decentralization process, including mechanisms for participation. The third section outlines sources of revenue available to different government levels from forest fees and payments for environmental services. The fourth section details the specific distribution of powers and arenas of responsibility related to multiple land use sectors across and within levels, and the fifth and final section concludes on the policy changes and processes in relation to observed forest cover change. The study was commissioned under CIFORs Global Comparative Study on REDD+, as part of a research project on multilevel governance and carbon management at the landscape scale. It is intended as a reference for researchers and policy makers working on land use issues in Vietnam.

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CIFOR

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6023870120

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9786023870127

Vietnam in a Changing World

By: Carolyn Gates,Irene Noerlund,Vu Cao Dam Vu

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Vietnam in a Changing World

By: Carolyn Gates,Irene Noerlund,Vu Cao Dam Vu

The last two decades saw Vietnam largely isolated in the world, but during this time economic reform and development slowly gathered pace. Recent events have led to Vietnams rapid re-emergence into the world and an escalation of economic changes. A unique insight into these changes.

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Routledge

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1136778047

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9781136778049

Governing the Dead

Martyrs, Memorials, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China

By: Linh D. Vu

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Governing the Dead

Martyrs, Memorials, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China

By: Linh D. Vu

In Governing the Dead, Linh D. Vu explains how the Chinese Nationalist regime consolidated control by honoring its millions of war dead, allowing China to emerge rapidly from the wreckage of the first half of the twentieth century to become a powerful state, supported by strong nationalistic sentiment and institutional infrastructure. The fall of the empire, internecine conflicts, foreign invasion, and war-related disasters claimed twenty to thirty million Chinese lives. Vu draws on government records, newspapers, and petition letters from mourning families to analyze how the Nationalist regime's commemoration of the dead and compensation of the bereaved actually fortified its central authority. By enshrining the victims of violence as national ancestors, the Republic of China connected citizenship to the idea of the nation, promoting loyalty to the "imagined community." The regime constructed China's first public military cemetery and hundreds of martyrs' shrines, collectively mourned millions of fallen soldiers and civilians, and disbursed millions of yuan to tens of thousands of widows and orphans. The regime thus exerted control over the living by creating the state apparatus necessary to manage the dead. Although the Communist forces prevailed in 1949, the Nationalists had already laid the foundation for the modern nation-state through their governance of dead citizens. The Nationalist policies of glorifying and compensating the loyal dead in an age of catastrophic destruction left an important legacy: violence came to be celebrated rather than lamented.

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Cornell University Press

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1501756516

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9781501756511

Additive Combinatorics

By: Terence Tao,Van H. Vu

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Additive Combinatorics

By: Terence Tao,Van H. Vu

Additive combinatorics is the theory of counting additive structures in sets. This theory has seen exciting developments and dramatic changes in direction in recent years thanks to its connections with areas such as number theory, ergodic theory and graph theory. This graduate-level 2006 text will allow students and researchers easy entry into this fascinating field. Here, the authors bring together in a self-contained and systematic manner the many different tools and ideas that are used in the modern theory, presenting them in an accessible, coherent, and intuitively clear manner, and providing immediate applications to problems in additive combinatorics. The power of these tools is well demonstrated in the presentation of recent advances such as Szemerédi's theorem on arithmetic progressions, the Kakeya conjecture and Erdos distance problems, and the developing field of sum-product estimates. The text is supplemented by a large number of exercises and new results.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139458345

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9781139458344

Nguoi Coi Dia Dang

By: Theo Thomas Merton,Linhxuan Vu

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Nguoi Coi Dia Dang

By: Theo Thomas Merton,Linhxuan Vu

Từ dạo nguy�n tổ A-dong v� E-v� rời vườn địa đ�ng, nh�n loại trải qua bao ngh�n năm dằng dặc trong lam lũ khổ đau, nhất l� phải chết. Nhưng trong đ�y l�ng c�c con ch�u vẫn hy vọng một ng�y kia họ c� thể trở về chốn hạnh ph�c ấy, nơi một thời đ� l� gia nghiệp. Thật l� một giấc mơ cao q�y v� hợp ph�p. Thực vậy, từ ng�y nguy�n tổ A-dong v� E- v� đ� đi xa, vườn thi�ng xưa vẫn c�n đấy mong chờ từng đứa con nh�n loại quay về. Địa Đ�ng của Merton trong ph�n t�ch cuối c�ng th� ở tr�n mặt đất n�y, v� l� một nơi trong nội t�m con người. N�i đ�ng hơn l� một th�i độ của con tim, một trạng th�i của � thức trong cuộc h�nh tr�nh t�m linh. Sự kh�m ph� ra C�i Địa Đ�ng xẩy ra khi c�i t�i của ch�ng ta trở n�n trống vắng như sa mạc. C�i t�i ồn �o ấy c�ng mờ nhạt đi th� C�i Địa Đ�ng c�ng hiện ra r� r�ng trong tất cả vẻ đẹp của n�. Nhất l�, C�i Địa Đ�ng huyền diệu ấy lộ ra Khu�n Mặt của Thi�n Ch�a, kh�ng phải chỉ l� một bức tranh tưởng tượng, nhưng l� đ�ch thật hiện hữu của Ng�i. Khu�n mặt của c�i t�i c�ng nhạt nho� đi chừng n�o th� T�n Nhan Thi�n Ch�a c�ng hiện ra r� r�ng trong vinh quang, quyền năng v� thiện hảo. Con đường tu h�nh sa mạc thiết yếu l� cuộc h�nh tr�nh trong nội t�m hơn l� ở ngo�i m�i trường địa l� của kh�ng gian v� thời gian. V� thế, địa đ�ng xuất hiện trong t�m hồn của tất cả mọi người chứ kh�ng phải chỉ d�nh ri�ng cho c�c ẩn sĩ sa mạc. Theo Thomas Merton, bạn kh�ng cần phải l� gi�m mục, linh mục, nam nữ đan sĩ, tu sĩ hay ẩn sĩ; bạn c� thể chỉ l� một gi�o d�n b�nh thường, đi lễ, v� rất bận bịu với những bổn phận hằng ng�y, nhưng chắc chắn bạn vẫn c� thể l� Người C�i Địa Đ�ng.

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Book's by Vu Lam

Public Diplomacy in Vietnam

Public Diplomacy in Vietnam

Vietnam's Communist Revolution

Vietnam's Communist Revolution

Higher Education in Vietnam

Higher Education in Vietnam

Lục Xì

Lục Xì

Fleisher & Ludwig's 5-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult

Fleisher & Ludwig's 5-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult

Truyen ngan - Thuong nho muoi hai

Truyen ngan - Thuong nho muoi hai

The context of REDD+ in Vietnam: Drivers, agents and institutions

The context of REDD+ in Vietnam: Drivers, agents and institutions

Paths to Development in Asia

Paths to Development in Asia

Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger

Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger

Rice and Baguette

Rice and Baguette

The distribution of powers and responsibilities affecting forests, land use, and REDD+ across levels and sectors in Vietnam: A legal study

The distribution of powers and responsibilities affecting forests, land use, and REDD+ across levels and sectors in Vietnam: A legal study

Vietnam in a Changing World

Vietnam in a Changing World

Governing the Dead

Governing the Dead

Additive Combinatorics

Additive Combinatorics

Nguoi Coi Dia Dang

Nguoi Coi Dia Dang

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