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After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropologyby Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Andrew Dawson, Allison James, Jennifer Lorna HockeyISBN 041515006X (0-415-15006-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology'Book summary:This collection addresses the theme of representation in anthropology. Its fourteen articles explore some of the directions in which contemporary anthropology is moving, following the questions raised by the "writing culture" debates of the 1980s.
It includes discussion of issues such as:
* the concept of caste in Indian society
* scottish ethnography
* how dreams are culturally conceptualised
* representations of the family
* culture as conservation
* gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan
* representation in rural Japan
* people's place in the landscape of Northern Australia
* representing identity of the New Zealand Maori. [via]More editions of After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology:
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American Roulette: How I Turned The Odds Upside Down, My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off The World's Casinosby Richard MarcusISBN 0312336012 (0-312-33601-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Roulette: How I Turned The Odds Upside Down, My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off The World's Casinos'Book summary:In American Roulette, Richard Marcus tells his never-before-heard story, of ripping off casinos. The book follows Marcus, along with several of the world's great professional casino cheaters, as he travels from Las Vegas to London and Monte Carlo, pilfering large sums of money from casinos by performing sleight of hand magic tricks with gaming chips. As skilled cheaters, they back up their moves with psychological setups to convince pit bosses that they're watching legitimate high rollers getting lucky, while in fact they're being ripped off blind.[via]
With the exploding growth of casino gambling, heightened by Indian reservation and riverboat expansion, more and more elaborate casino cheaters are illegally assaulting the green-felt, getting rich off of novice casino personnel. Richard Marcus's insider story is a window into the hidden world of intriguing personalities and tense situations he encounters as a member of expert casino-cheating teams who use their wits to turn the odds upside down and "earn" millions. American Roulette is a fascinating story not only for those who occasionally casino-gamble, but for everyone with a little larceny in their heart.More editions of American Roulette: How I Turned The Odds Upside Down, My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off The World's Casinos:
Bad Idea: A Novel With Coyotesby Jedd Hafer, Todd HeferISBN 1576839699 (1-57683-969-9)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0316769177 (0-316-76917-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. [via]
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- The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0316769487 (0-316-76948-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0316769533 (0-316-76953-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0808514032 (0-8085-1403-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0553149660 (0-553-14966-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0553250256 (0-553-25025-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715160 (0-7927-1516-0)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer - Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0606048871 (0-606-04887-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715179 (0-7927-1517-9)
Hardcover, Curley Large Print - Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0822070383 (0-8220-7038-3)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0316769177 (0-316-76917-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
- The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0316769487 (0-316-76948-7)
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The Catcher in the Rye: New Essaysby J. P. SteedISBN 0820457299 (0-8204-5729-9)
Softcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays'Book summary:J. D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye celebrated its fiftieth anniversary of publication in 2001. The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays presents a variety of new approaches to this extremely popular and intensely influential novel, ranging [via]
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The Catcher in the Ryeby Not AvailableISBN 055311722X (0-553-11722-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
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El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 8420666858 (84-206-6685-8)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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The Glass Castle: A Memoirby Jeannette WallsISBN 074324754X (0-7432-4754-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Glass Castle: A Memoir'Book summary:Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever.
Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home.
What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor. [via]
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Glory Goes and Gets Someby Emily CarterISBN 1566891019 (1-56689-101-9)
Hardcover, Coffee House Pr
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Go Ask Aliceby AnonymousISBN 1416914633 (1-4169-1463-3)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go Ask Alice'Book summary:The torture and hell of adolescence has rarely been captured as clearly as it is in this classic diary by an anonymous, addicted teen. Lonely, awkward, and under extreme pressure from her "perfect" parents, "Anonymous" swings madly between optimism and despair. When one of her new friends spikes her drink with LSD, this diarist begins a frightening journey into darkness. The drugs take the edge off her loneliness and self-hate, but they also turn her life into a nightmare of exalting highs and excruciating lows. Although there is still some question as to whether this diary is real or fictional, there is no question that it has made a profound impact on millions of readers during the more than 25 years it has been in print. Despite a few dated references to hippies and some expired slang, Go Ask Alice still offers a jolting chronicle of a teenager's life spinning out of control. [via]
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- Go Ask Alice: ISBN 0671664581 (0-671-66458-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Go Ask Alice: ISBN 0380005239 (0-380-00523-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Go Ask Alice: ISBN 0689817851 (0-689-81785-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Go Ask Alice: ISBN 0133571114 (0-13-357111-4)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall - Go Ask Alice: ISBN 1416914633 (1-4169-1463-3)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
- Go Ask Alice: ISBN 0671664581 (0-671-66458-1)
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Here Kitty Kitty: A Novelby Jardine LibaireISBN 0316010758 (0-316-01075-8)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Here Kitty Kitty: A Novel'Book summary:New York at night is an urban playground where glamour and danger are just flip sides of the same thrilling coin. The tough, beautiful player at the heart of Jardine Libaire's acclaimed first novel is Lee, the consummate party girl. Lee has the right designer clothes, the right job managing a stylish restaurant, and the right lover, who finances all her bad habits. As the lights go down at closing time, the energy of the city is a call Lee cannot resist, even when her Cinderella-like existence begins to unravel. [via]
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How the Light Gets inby M. J. HylandISBN 1841955485 (1-84195-548-5)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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J.D. Salingerby Harold BloomISBN 0877547165 (0-87754-716-5)
Hardcover, Chelsea House Pub
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J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Ryeby Harold BloomISBN 0791056643 (0-7910-5664-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J. D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas. [via]
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J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0671006916 (0-671-00691-6)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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A Million Little Piecesby James FreyISBN 1400031087 (1-4000-3108-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Million Little Pieces'Book summary:News from Doubleday & Anchor Books
The controversy over James Frey's A Million Little Pieces has caused serious concern at Doubleday and Anchor Books. Recent interpretations of our previous statement notwithstanding, it is not the policy or stance of this company that it doesnt matter whether a book sold as nonfiction is true. A nonfiction book should adhere to the facts as the author knows them.It is, however, Doubleday and Anchor's policy to stand with our authors when accusations are initially leveled against their work, and we continue to believe this is right and proper. A publisher's relationship with an author is based to an extent on trust. Mr. Frey's repeated representations of the book's accuracy, throughout publication and promotion, assured us that everything in it was true to his recollections. When the Smoking Gun report appeared, our first response, given that we were still learning the facts of the matter, was to support our author. Since then, we have questioned him about the allegations and have sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished.
We bear a responsibility for what we publish, and apologize to the reading public for any unintentional confusion surrounding the publication of A Million Little Pieces.
Note: The following editorial reviews were written before the recent revelations by James Frey and the publisher.
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The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting "The Fury" head on:I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.
One of the more harrowing sections is when Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (he fights the mind-blowing waves of "bayonet" pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls until his nails crack). His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into an ill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a former championship boxer, and a mobster (who, upon his release, throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing). In the book's epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the Jim Carroll Band's brutal survivor's lament "People Who Died" kicking in on the soundtrack of the inevitable film adaptation.
The rage-fueled memoir is kept in check by Frey's cool, minimalist style. Like his steady mantra, "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal," Frey's use of repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The book could have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend under Frey's influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, left-aligned text, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond the literary fireworks lurks a fierce debut. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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- A Million Little Pieces: ISBN 0307276902 (0-307-27690-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc - A Million Little Pieces: ISBN 0385507755 (0-385-50775-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - A Million Little Pieces: ISBN 060634604X (0-606-34604-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media - A Million Little Pieces: ISBN 1400031087 (1-4000-3108-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
No One Here Gets Out Aliveby Jerry Hopkins, Danny SugermanISBN 0446602280 (0-446-60228-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No One Here Gets Out Alive'Book summary:A definitive biography of Jim Morrison describes the successful career of the Doors and the life of the group's charismatic lead singer, detailing his rise to success, his turbulent personal life, and his tragic death. Read by Danny Sugerman. Book available. [via]
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Riders on the Storm: My Life With Jim Morrison and the Doorsby John DensmoreISBN 0385304471 (0-385-30447-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhoodby Koren ZailckasISBN 0143036475 (0-14-303647-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood'Book summary:From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual." With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas describes her first sip at fourteen, alcohol poisoning at sixteen, a blacked-out sexual experience at nineteen, total disorientation after waking up in an unfamiliar New York City apartment at twenty-two, when she realized she had to stop, and all the depression, rage, troubled friendships, and sputtering romantic connections in between. Zailckas's unflinching candor and exquisite analytical eye gets to the meaning beneath the seeming banality of girls' getting drunk. She persuades us that her story is the story of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics-yet-but who use booze as a short cut to courage, a stand-in for good judgment, and a bludgeon for shyness, each of them failing to see how their emotional distress, unarticulated hostility, and depression are entangled with their socially condoned binging. Like the contemporary masterpieces The Liars' Club, Autobiography of a Face, and Jarhead, Smashed is destined to become a classic. A crucial book for any woman who has succumbed to oblivion through booze, or for anyone ready to face the more subtle repercussions of their own chronic over-drinking or of someone they love, Smashed is an eye-opening, wise, and utterly gripping achievement. [via]
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Vanishing Actsby Jodi PicoultISBN 1416506705 (1-4165-0670-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanishing Acts'Book summary:How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose? Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall...until a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret about herself that changes the world as she knows it -- and threatens to jeopardize her future. With Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult explores how life -- as we know it -- might not turn out the way we imagined; how the people we've loved and trusted can suddenly change before our very eyes; how the memory we thought had vanished could return as a threat. Once again, Picoult handles an astonishing and timely topic with under-standing, insight, and compassion. [via]
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En Mil Pedazos/a Million Piecesby James FreyISBN 9707704225 (970-770-422-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'En Mil Pedazos/a Million Pieces'Book summary:Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects goodness, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery. A Million Little Pieces is the fight between one young mans will and the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion, the fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart.
Description in Spanish: Imagina que te despiertas en un avión. No tienes ni idea de dónde has estado ni de adónde vas. No recuerdas nada de las dos últimas semanas. Imagina que te faltan cuatro dientes, que tienes la nariz rota y una herida en la mejilla. Imagina que vas sin cartera, sin dinero, y no tienes trabajo. Imagina que te está buscando la policía. Imagina que eres alcohólico desde hace diez años y adicto al crack desde hace tres. ¿Qué harías?
A los veintitrés años, James Frey ingresó en un centro de desintoxicación. Destruido física y mentalmente de forma casi irremediable, debía enfrentarse a una difícil decisión: aceptar que no llegaría a cumplir los veinticuatro, o cambiar drásticamente el curso de su vida. Rodeado de pacientes en la misma situación entre los que había un juez, un pandillero, un boxeador que había sido campeón mundial y una frágil ex prostituta, Frey luchó contra el dogma de «Cómo recuperarse» para conseguir encontrar su propio camino, y decidir qué futuro, si le esperaba alguno, era el que quería alcanzar.
Aclamado por la crítica como todo un fenómeno literario y best seller desde los primeros días de su publicación, En mil pedazos es el testimonio inusualmente sincero de un hombre cuyo furioso impulso de autodestrucción sólo es comparable a su inagotable deseo de sobrevivir. [via]
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El Guardian Entre el Centenoby J. D. SalingerISBN 8420634093 (84-206-3409-3)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial, S. A.
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El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 8420616893 (84-206-1689-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Il Giovane Holdenby J. D. SalingerISBN 8806163698 (88-06-16369-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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