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Long Life Now: Strategies for Staying Alive
Lee Hitchcox
Celestial Arts
PO Box 7123, Berkeley, CA 94707
0-89087-763-7 $15.95 1-800-841-2665

There are places on the planet where people live beyond age 100 free of
disease. America is not one of them. Cancer will soon become America's
leading cause of death while nursing homes and cardiac surgeons thrive.
Long Life Now shows how to slow the biological aging process, apply the
principles of extreme longevity to anyone's personal lifestyle, achieve
immunity form nursing home institutionalization, cut the risk of
degenerative disease, purge pesticides from our personal food supply and
environment, convert our economy from petrochemical-based to plant-based,
and transform government from lobby-centered to people-centered. Long Life
Now also surveys medical junk science, government corruption, industry
coverups, and informs us what we can do about them. Long Life Now stands
as the most ambitious book to date on life extension through personal
action and social reform. Long Life Now is inspiring, practical,
easy-to-read, and a valuable addition to any personal, school, or
community library collection.

A New Covenant With Nature
Richard Heinberg
Quest Books/Theosophical Publishing House
PO Box 270, Wheaton, IL 60189
0-8356-0746-1 $20.00 1-800-462-6420

A New Covenant With Nature addresses such vital questions as "Has modern
civilization really improved human life?"; "Is money evil?"; "Is
government necessary?"; and "What can we each do to renew our connection
with all that is wild, generative, and free?". Ecophilosopher Richard
Heinberg"s A New Covenant With Nature is a radical and thought-provoking
book providing perception and refreshing insight with wit, insight, and
well articulated observations. Each culture, Heinberg shows, makes a
covenant or agreement with nature. Our culture's agreement is obviously
crumbling. If we are to create a new covenant, we must begin by rethinking
the gives of society from the ground up, or even, quietly, desert the
existing social system and help birth a better. one. A New Covenant With
Nature is fascinating, thoughtful, and thought-provoking reading. A "must"
for anyone concerned with the problems of the impact on ecology by 20th
century industrial, cultural, and political values.

Tailwater Trout in the South: An Angler's Guide
Jimmy Jacobs
Backcountry Publications
PO Box 748, Woodstock, VT 05091-0748
0-88150-335-5 $18.00 1-800-233-4830 http://web.wwnorton.com

Tailwater Trout In The South speaks to all styles of anglers:
bait-fishers, spin-fishers, and especially fly-fishers. Introductory
comments explain the differences anglers should expect when venturing into
and onto these open and often deep waters. Fly-casters who are used to
tickling a cast through streamside brush with a short rod in the mountains
may find it liberating to cast in these wide open spaces, but they will
need heavier equipment for the windier conditions and deeper water -- and
for the bigger fish. Many tailwater fish have an abundant food supply, and
so are relatively picky eaters; Jimmy Jacobs provides hints on how to tune
one's lure to the conditions. Clear maps and instructions direct readers
to public access points. What to expect of each site is outlined:
variation in water flows, quantities of stocked and holdover fish,
suggestions for successful lures and techniques, pressure of fishing
population on the resource. An appendix lists map sources for more
detailed information about specific waters. Tailwater Trout In The South
is a well crafted fisherman's guidebook and a perfect addition to any
angler's reference shelf.

A Rebel's Recollections
George Cary Eggleston
Louisiana State University Press
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
0-8071-2125-8 $10.95 1-800-861-3477

Originally published in 1875, George Cary Eggleston's memoir (which proved
immensely popular among readers throughout the country) is a nostalgic,
often amusing collection of essays based on the author's Civil War
experiences. Eggleston describes life in Virginia before the war, offers
glowing assessments of the men who filled the Rebel ranks and the women
who stood behind them, satirizes the Confederacy's finances and its army's
red tape, and recollects the war's end. He also provide compelling
portraits of his heroes, lavishing praise on Robert E. Lee, Stonewall
Jackson, and especially, Jeb Stuart. By 1905, A Rebel's Recollections had
run through four editions, suggesting how well it reflected the mood of
the nation, which by then wanted to forget angry sectionalism and glorify
the soldiers of both sides in an idealized view of the war. Having been
long out of print, Gaines M. Foster now provides a new introduction,
deftly placing Eggleston's memoir in the context of recent historiography.
A Rebel's Recollections is an engaging, informative and entertaining book
that all students of the Civil War will want to read.

German-Jewish Identity in the Orientalist Literature of Else
Lasker-Schuler, Friedrich Wolf & Franz Werfel
Donna K. Heizer
Camden House, Inc.
Drawer 2025, Columbia, SC 29202
1-57113-025-X $54.95 1-800-723-9455

One of only a handful of studies on German literary Orientalism, Professor
Heizer's pioneering book is the first to examine the phenomenon of
Jewish-German Orientalist literature. For many Jewish-German authors of
the beginning of the 20th century, the Orient represented an imaginative
space where they could describe and analyze their position as Jews in
German society. Professor Heizer explores representations of Muslims and
Islamicate cultures in the works of Lasker-Schuler, Wolf, and Werfel, and
reveals how these popular and respected authors (who were nevertheless
often seen as Jewish, Oriental "others" by the German-speaking societies
in which they lived) came to terms with their multiple identities as
Germans and Jews by writing Orientalist literature. Despite their
similarities as German-Jewish authors rooted in Expressionism,
Lasker-Schuler, Wolf, and Werfel constructed quite different images of the
Orient in their works. Lasker-Schuler's Die Nachte Tino von Bagdads
(1097) and Der Prinz von Theben (1912) creates a timeless, amorphous
Orient, filled with visionary artists like herself; it serves as the
vehicle with which she explores her role as a Jewish artists in a German
Society. Wolf's Mohammed: Ein Oratorium (1922 depicts the Orient as the
birthplace of the great message of social justice espoused by Islam; here
Wolf reaches a new understanding of his position as a politically
progressive Jew in a war-torn German society. And in Werfel's Die vierzig
Tage des Musa Dagh (1933) the author uses the modern conflict between
Turks and Armenians to present an Orient where he can explore his own
religiosity. German-Jewish Identity In The Orientalist Literature Of Else
Lasker-schuler, Friedrich Wolf & Franz Werfel is a seminal contribution to
our understanding of an important facet of 20th century German literature.

The Islamic Middle East: An Historical Anthropology
Charles Lindholm
Blackwell Publishers
PO Box 30, Williston, VT 05495-0030
1-55786-421-7 $24.95 1-800-216-2522

The Islamic Middle East: An Historical Anthropology is an account of the
origins, nature, and evolution of Islam. It is also an exploration of the
cultures of the middle East where Islam originated fourteen centuries ago,
and of the Arab, Persian and Turkish societies where it remains a powerful
force. Islam and the cultures in which it arose are inseparably linked,
and, as author Charles Lindholm shows, need to be understood in the
context of each other. This outstanding synthesis of historical and
anthropological perspectives provides a fresh understanding of the nature
of Islam and of the Middle East in the past and in the present. It is
written with verve and wit, and illustrated with maps,figures and 18th and
19th century lithographs. The Islamic Middle East is fully referenced,
indexed, and includes a glossary and comparative time line. The Islamic
Middle East is an invaluable and highly recommended introduction for
anyone seeking to understand the impact of Islam on the political, social,
economic, and cultural issues of the mideast today.

Scams, Scandals, and Skulduggery
Andreas Schroeder
McClelland & Stewart
481 University Avenue, Suite 900, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 2E9
0-7710-7952-4 $19.99 1-416-598-1114

Scams, Scandals, And Skulduggery presents seventeen tales of the world's
most outrageous frauds. These stories range from the past (such as the
master forger and the Brazilian aristocrat who sold six copies of the Mona
Lisa to wealthy and dishonest collectors -- and then had to steal the
original painting to maintain the fiction) to the present, such as the
famous case of the forged Hitler diaries. Many of the "heroes" break the
law, such as Albert Spaggieri, who, in 1976, stole a fortune from a bank
in Nice,feeding his gang with take-out pastries from one of the city's
finest restaurants, and then escaping through the sewers, and some don't
break the law, such as the Irish Lawyer who, in the 1930s patented
trademark names like Kellogg's, General Electric, Goodyear, and Dupont in
his own name, and then raked in millions when the companies had to rent
back their own names from him to do business in Ireland. These tales of
outrageous chicanery command a kind of admiration for their sheer
ingenuity and daring, and Schroeder's wicked, deadpan style of narrative
makes Scams, Scandals, And Skulduggery fascinating, funny reading. Scams,
Scandals, And Skulduggery is the stuff of which urban legends are made!

The Women of Candelaria
Mary Richardson Miller
Pomegranate Publications
Box 6099, Rohnert Park, CA 94927
0-7649-0005-6 $31.95 1-800-227-1428

The Women of Candelaria is a book of pictorial evidence for a strength and
dignity that are a testament to the power of an active faith, vital
community life, and rich traditions as it tells the personal stories of
descendants of the ancient Maya in a Guatemalan village of 65 families set
in a land of wide vistas, rolling hills, steep canyons, oak and pine
forests. There are stories punctuated by the tragedies of war, earthquake,
and privation, but also by the warmth of large, supportive families, by
the generosity of their community and the richness of their religious
celebrations. It pictures them surrounded by the things they hold most
dear: their children, a special flower garden, a prized farm animal. This
is a beautiful addition to any library shelf.

Enrico Donati: Surrealism and Beyond
Theodore F. Wolff
Hudson Hills Press
230 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1308, NY, NY 10001-7704
1-55595-138-4 $50.00 1-212-889-30900

Theodore Wolff's Enrico Donati: Surrealism And Beyond is a retrospective
survey of visually stunning and profoundly moving works of paint and
sculpture by a true master. Enrico Donati: Surrealism And Beyond includes
such icons of Surrealism as his bronze "Fist" with glass eyes that turn a
hand into an eerie face, and the catalogue with a glued-on foam-rubber
breast created in collaboration with Duchamp for the 1947 Exposition
Internationale due Surrealisme they organized at the Galerie Maeght in
Paris, which would prove to the the movement's last big public event.
Donati's Surrealist paintings, filled with biomorphic forms in an
illusionary space, were followed in the late 1940s by paintings filled
with crisp, clear, aggressively geometric forms and planes, a fanciful
mechanical world. These were succeeded in turn by gestural paintings that
utilize a freely invented calligraphic approach. In 1950 Donati began a
series using pigment and glue thickened with vacuum-cleaner lint, their
heavy black, gray and white surfaces suggestive of lunar landscapes. Color
returned to Donati's work in the Sargon series of the mid-fifties, then
came an ancient-looking Fossil series in the early 1960s, and a Coptic
Wall series in the late 1970s. Donati's most recent work has seen a
gradual enlivening and the incorporation of updated images from the
earlier work in often playful geometric structures and ambiguous spaces.
At the age of 87, Donati is still at work with passion and imagination on
paintings that are highly provocative, richly textured, and ravishingly
colorful. Enrico Donati: Surrealism And Beyond is also graced with an
insightful and informative monographic essay by Theodore Wolff, "Enrico
Donatie: The Fossil and the Stone". With its 87 colorplates and 28 black
and white illustrations, Enrico Donati: Surrealism And Beyond is a highly
recommended addition to all library art history collections.

Impressionist Masterpieces in American Museums
Robert Boardingham
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates Inc.
2507 Post Road, Southport, CT 06490
0-88363-156-3 $35.00 1-203-254-7733

In 1874, a group of painters, frustrated by their rejection from the
official Paris Salon exhibitions, banded together to show their works
independently. Drawing upon subjects from modern life, without ennobling
them, and by painting them in a manner that appeared direct and
spontaneous, these innovative artists (including Claude Monet, Eugene
Boudin, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
Camille Pissaro, and Alfred Sisley) pointedly challenged official art and
ultimately changed traditional conventions and standard expectations of
painting itself. The stunning images offered in Impressionist Masterpieces
In American Museums provide visual reinforcement for the continued
popularity of French Impressionist painting. Together they show the
quality, scope, and magnificence of Impressionist Masterpieces In American
Museums including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Metropolitan
Museum in New York, Washington's National Gallery, and the Art Institute
of Chicago, and many others. The 48 full-color illustrations in
Impressionist Masterpieces In American Museums vividly exemplify the
diversity and richness of Impressionist painting from the late 1860s
through the beginning of the twentieth century. An introductory essay and
insightful commentary accompany each of the 48 color plates exploring the
historic and artistic roots of a revolutionary art movement. Impressionist
Masterpieces In American Museums is an astonishing tour-de-force that
would grace any private or public art book library.

London Review of Books
Jane Hindle, editor
Verso
180 Varick Street, NY, NY 10014-4606
1-85984-121-X $18.00 1-212-807-9680

Erudite, witty, and often provocative, the London Review Of Books offers a
fortnightly dose of the best and the liveliest in all things cultural.
This anthology, which brings together some of the most memorable pieces
from recent years, includes Alan Bennett's Diary, Christopher Hitchens on
Bill Clinton's presidency, Terry Castle's hotly-debated reading of Jane
Austen's letters, Jerry Fodor taking issue with Richard Dawkins on
evolution, Victor Kiernan on treason, Jenny Diski musing on death, Stephen
Frears' adventures in Hollywood, Linda Colley on Nancy Reagan, Frank
Kermode on Paul de Man, and much more. The London Review Of Books is a
marvelous introduction to one of the best cultural and literary commentary
periodicals being published today!

The Year Is A Circle
Victor Carl Friesen
Council Oak Books
1350 East 15th Street, Tulsa, OK 74120
1-896219-03-9 $24.95 1-918-587-6454

The Year Is A Circle is an annual celebration calendar of beauty
photography and text celebrating the work and insights of Henry David
Thoreau. The photography of Victor Friesen perfectly showcases the words
of Thoreau. And the that master nature writer and social critic Thoreau is
framed page by page with full-color images that make his words as fresh
and inspiring as they were when originally written down. The Year Is A
Circle is the kind of book that will be returned to for intellectual and
spiritual refreshment by a grateful readership time and time again as the
seasons unfold, and the annual circle of the year turns.

Gambling Theory
Mason Malmuth
Two Plus Two Publishing
226 Garfield Dr., Henderson, NV 89104
1-880685-03-5 $29.95

Gambling Theory And Other Topics introduces the reader to the dynamic
concept of non-self-weighting strategies and shows how these strategies
apply to the gaming tables -- and to real life. In addition, risk and
fluctuations are discussed in terms of the statistical standard deviation,
and how these relate to each other -- as well as to the gambler's
bankroll. Some of the other topics addressed are bankroll requirements,
win-rate accuracy, free bets, which blackjack count is best, lottery
fallacies, dangerous ideas, poker tournament strategies (including when it
is correct to rebuy), settling up tournaments, pai gow poker, super pan
nine, the world's greatest gamblers, building pyramids, and much more.
Gambling Theory is "must" reading for anyone considering the risk of a
wager whether in a "friendly" game at home or the glittering gaming tables
abroad.

Florida Scams
Victor M. Knight
Pelican Publishing Company
PO Box 3110, Gretna, LA 70054
1-56554-190-1 $9.95 1-800-843-1724

In Florida Scams, Victor Knight has compiled a set of his "Granddaddy's
Rules" that can help a person see through the "smooth-talking jaspers" who
over the years have taken advantage of Florida's loophole-laden tax laws
and laissez-faire attitudes and bamboozled victims out of billions of
dollars. Witty, informal, and sprinkled with down-home Florida vernacular,
Knight's tales of the shady characters and scam artists are as informative
as they are entertaining. Knight also explains how Boca Raton is a city
based on the scam (like Treasure Island) whose very name comes from the
confidence game that put it on the map. Highly recommended!

Partnering and Health Development
Melville G. Kerr
University of Calgary Press
2500 University Drive, N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
1-895176-73-5 $27.95 1-403-220-7578

Based on extensive first-hand personal and institutional experience,
Partnering And Health Development: The Kathmandu Connection describes and
analyses the experience gained from partnerships between The University of
Calgary and institutions in Nepal, the Philippines, and other countries in
Asia and Latin America which targeted medical education and participatory
health development. Dr. Melville Kerr explores the ambiguous language in
which discourse on development is conducted, examines the diversity of
forms that institutional cooperation can take, and advocates a practice of
partnering for mutual benefit. Partnering And Health Development is a
benchmark publication whose scholarship is meticulous and whose
recommendations are timely in today's interacting global society.

Mississippi Currents
Andrew Malcolm & Roger Straus
William Morrow
0-688-11940-9 $35.00

The authors' voyage down the Mississippi by ship, barge and foot provides
a panorama of impressions describing the river's usage and influence upon
the people not only along its banks, but within the 34 states. People from
all walks of life are interviewed here and share personal stories of the
river's influence on their lives, while black and white photos provide the
supporting visuals.

Dharma Girl
Chelsea Cain
Seal Press
1-878067-84-2 $12.00

An uncommon road trip undertaken by a daughter and mother is presented in
this blend of autobiography and travelogue. 23-year-old Chelsea's trip
begins when her mother is diagnosed with cancer: they head for an Iowa
hippie commune where they lived 20 years earlier, in the process learning
about the roots of home and their feelings for each other. Hard to
categorize but easy to read.

August House

American and world storytelling experts, August House publishers has
traditionally limited most of their publications to audio books and
folklore: these new collections will reach an even wider audiences with
excellent new purposes. American folklorists will appreciate stories of
the French tradition in North America with Michael Parent and Julien
Olivier's Kings And Fools (0-87483-481-3, $12.95). The authors compile and
present stories they often heard as children, recalling life and culture
in Franco-American families. Bill Mooney and David Holt's Storyteller's
Guide (482-1, $23.95) provides interviews with over fifty storytellers,
from librarians to authors, musicians, actors and full-time pros. These
provide insights on all aspects of the art of storytelling, from shaping
stories to tailoring them for different audiences. Heather Forest's Wisdom
Tales From Around The World (479-1, $17.95) offers fifty folktales and
parables with a global perspective. Storyteller Forest selects ancient
plots which are easily understandable and which hold particular cultural
significance. All are unusual, important literary contributions.

Gringolandia
Jonathan Gallant & Lorenzo Milam
Mho & Mho Works
Box 33135, San Diego, CA 92163
0-917320-05-0 $10.95

Avid humor and cultural insights abound in this comic examination of the
ironies and inconsistencies of American culture. 'Puzzled Mexicans' are
the slated audience for tongue-in-cheek writings commenting on all aspects
of American culture.

Tube
David Fisher & Marshall Jon Fisher
Counterpoint
16271 I Street NW, #850, Washington DC 20006
1-887178-17-1 $30.00

Fifty years after TV's debut, this provides a in-depth history of the
medium and its message. The Fishers reveal the behind-the-scenes
technological changes which have contributed to television's development.
Individual and events are covered in a powerful history which reads like
an adventure story, inviting leisure readers to participate in the
discovery of television's potentials.

A Condor Brings the Sun
Jerry McGahan
Sierra Club Books
0-87156-354-1 $25.00

Pilar is the living archive of her Andean peoples' long history: as she
relates the memorized stories of over twenty of her foremothers, the
American biologist who listens receives something of her peoples' culture
and influences as well as the changed lives of each individual woman.
McGahan creates an involving story which traces the power of women rooted
in their cultural heritage.

Threads of Experience
Sandra Haldeman Martz, Editor
Papier-Mache Press
135 Aviation Way #14, Watsonville, CA 95076
0-918949-92-0 $19.95

Fiber artist Deidre Scherer and Sandra Martz have combined art with poetry
and reflections on aging, creating a fine compliment of visual and written
images which should reach a wide audience. This is recommended for both
art enthusiasts and those following Literary reflections on aging.

The Social and Political Body
Theodore Schatzki and Wolfgang Natter
Guilford Publications
1-57230-140-6 $18.95

This joins others in the college-level 'multidisciplinary studies in
social theory' series, gathering some of today's leading thinkers in a
survey of social order and links between human physiology and
sociopolitical bodies. How politics and economic affect physical bodies
makes for an intriguing, complex discussion.

Rizzoli International

Bernadine Morris' Scaasi: A Cut Above (0-8478-1987-6, $55.00) provides a
fine retrospective of both his career and fashion influence and the
changes he saw and influenced in the fashion world. Black and white and
color photos of Scaasi's gowns and creations for the rich accompany a
detailed biographical and historical sketch which should not be missed.
Giuliano Bugialli's Foods Of Sicily And Sardinia And The Smaller Islands
(1924-8, $50.00) is both an artistic volume of beautiful color photos and
a culinary journey which blends recipes with a travelogue of the region.
As such this title is hard to define; but should appeal to a wide range of
readers; from chefs and home cooks to any enthusiast of Italian culture
and travel. Lowery Stokes and Sabine Rewald's Still Life (0-8478-1982-5,
$45.00) traces the evolution of still life painting among American
artists. This is no idle survey of the fruits and flowers which began the
genre; but a probe of 1970s and 80s achievements which presents over sixty
paintings from the Metro Museum of Modern Art along with insights on
current trends in still life art. Essential for a modern understanding of
still life's evolution.

Illustrated Book of Signs & Symbols
Miranda Bruce-Mitford
DK Publishing
0-7894-1000-1 $24.95

From religious symbols to modern and ancient signs alike, this covers
thousands of signs and symbols used in art and communication from around
the world. It's hard to categorize this book: where artists will find it
handy for the initial location and research of symbols, any with a general
interest in symbol origins and meaning will find this packed with
important insights.

Thames & Hudson

Over 1,000 color illustrations represent John Peacock's extensive research
into paintings, photos and men's garments and supplement an excellent
historical text tracing the evolution of men's fashion around the world.
Any involved in art, drama, or any aspect of fashion will find Men's
Fashion (0-500-01725-5, $29.95) a definitive, important sourcebook which
outlines specific styles and influences on their appearance. Scott Minick
and Jiao Ping's Arts & Crafts Of China (27896-2, $19.95) provides vivid
color photos in an affordable paperback structure which examines China's
craft traditions and history. Design historian Minick and his wife Jiao
Ping provide an excellent introduction here.

W.H. Freeman

Roger Gosden's Cheating Time (0-7167-3059-6, $23.95) examines the causes
of the aging process, arguing that aging is not fixed and that social
change contributes as much to gains in human life expectancy as the
introduction of new technologies and treatments. Comparisons between human
aging processes and those of other mammals and plants and discussions of
the many factors involved in aging probe aging's myths, realities, and
changes. Leonard A. Cole's The Eleventh Plague (0-7167-2950-4, $22.95)
examines the politics of biological and chemical warfare, examining the
science behind the weapons, their testing, and their effects. Even more
lethal and long-lasting would be the effects of biological weapons once
established in the environment. This strong survey blends hard science
with military history and facts, creating an eye-opening title.

Bouquets
Brigitte Fux
Barron's
0-8120-6578-6 $19.95

Master flower painters are celebrated in a volume which gathers works from
the earliest flower artists to contemporary creators. These paintings
serve as models to demonstrate various decors inspired by living
arrangements: use this as a practical guide to creating floral displays as
well as an excellent beginner's guide to floral art.

University of Arizona Press

Detailed descriptions accompany over a hundred photos documenting Hopi
life and basket weaving techniques in Hopi Basket Weaving (0-8165-1615-4,
$19.95). Helga Teiwes provides a fine survey of Hopi traditions and
artistic background, creating a study which supplements black and white
and color photos with plenty of historical background and insights on
various Hopi weaving techniques. Joanne Hershfield's Mexican Cinema
Mexican Women (1637-5, $16.95) examines a range of film issues involving
women and Mexican film; from the relation between economics, gender, and
film output to the unique ethnic contents of Mexican film productions.

The State of Humanity
Julian L. Simon
Blackwell Publishers
238 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
1-55786-585-X $22.95 1-800-216-2522

The State Of Humanity provides a comprehensive and balanced assessment of
the state of the Earth and its inhabitants at the close of the twentieth
century. More than fifty scholars from all over the world present new,
concise, and accessible accounts of the present state of humanity and the
prospects for its social and natural environment. The subjects range from
deforestation, water pollution, and ozone layer depletion to poverty,
homelessness, mortality, and murder. Each contributor considers the
present situation, historical trends, likely future prospects, and the
efficiency or otherwise of current activity and policy. The coverage is
worldwide, with a particular emphasis on North America. Fifty-eight
chapters are divided into six parts, concerned with health, standards of
living, natural resources, the production of food, the natural
environment, and a concluding section on the formation, power, and uses of
public opinion and the news media. The State Of Humanity is a magnificent
synthesis of cultural, social, economic, environmental perspectives.

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