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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhoodby Jay MacLeodISBN 0813315158 (0-8133-1515-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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All the Night Wingsby Loren C. EiseleyISBN 0812908384 (0-8129-0838-4)
Hardcover, Times Books
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The Anatomy of Swearingby Ashley MontaguISBN 0812217640 (0-8122-1764-0)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Ancient Earthen Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlandsby Lynne P. Sullivan, Robert C. MainfortISBN 0813015928 (0-8130-1592-8)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Early speculation about the pre-Columbian earthen enclosures of the eastern United States attributed them to ancient races of moundbuilders; 19th-century scholars assumed that prehistoric Amerindians used the sites strictly for ceremonial or defensive purposes. This collection will revolutionize the way archaeologists approach the study of enclosures: it clearly illustrates the difficulties in interpreting these sites, showing that their builders had widely diverse purposes. The authors draw on new data to present the full range of issues involved in enclosure research--from "dirt archaeology" to the theoretical.
ContentsExplaining Earthen Enclosures, by Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., and Lynne P. Sullivan
Broken Circles, Owl Monsters, and Black Earth Midden: Separating Sacred and Secular at Poverty Point, by Jon L. Gibson
Prehistoric Enclosures in Louisiana and the Marksville Site, by Dennis Jones and Carl Kuttruff
Defining Space: An Overview of the Pinson Mounds Enclosure, by Robert L. Thunen
Boundaries, Resistance, and Control: Enclosing the Hilltops in Middle Woodland Ohio, by Robert V. Riordan
Architectural Grammar Rules at the Fort Ancient Hilltop Enclosure, by Robert P. Connolly
The Archaeology of the Newark Earthworks, by Bradley T. Lepper
Is the Newark Circle-Octagon the Ohio Hopewell "Rosetta Stone"? A Question of Archaeological Interpretation, by A. Martin Byers
Defensive or Sacred? An Early Late Woodland Enclosure in Northeast Ohio, by Stephanie J. Belovich
The Socioeconomic Role of Late Woodland Enclosures in Northern Lower Michigan, by Claire McHale Milner and John M. O'Shea
Fortified Village or Mortuary Site? Exploring the Use of the Ripley Site, by Sarah W. Neusius, Lynne P. Sullivan, Phillip D. Neusius, and Claire McHale MilnerRobert C. Mainfort, Jr., is sponsored research administrator of the Arkansas Archeological Survey, and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas. He is the coeditor of Societies in Eclipse and Mounds, Embankments, and Ceremonialism in the Midsouth.
Lynne P. Sullivan is curator of anthropology and associate scientist in archaeology for the New York State Museum in Albany. She is the editor of The Prehistory of the Chickamauga Basin and Reanalyzing the Ripley Site: Earthworks and Late Prehistory on the Lake Erie Plain.More editions of Ancient Earthen Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands:
The Ancient Maya of the Belize Valley: Half a Century of Archaeological Researchby James F. GarberISBN 0813026857 (0-8130-2685-7)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Angelmassby Timothy ZahnISBN 081258418X (0-8125-8418-X)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angelmass'Book summary:How does Hugo-winner Timothy Zahn turn an otherwise straightforward SF page-turner into something truly interesting? With one of the oldest shticks in the book: the good ol' black-hole-that-spits-out-quantum-particles-of-human-goodness trick.
Of course, that's not exactly an old sci-fi shtick, but the essence of it (and its effect) is: the ever-clever Zahn has taken a very cool idea--what if there were quantum particles (or whatever) that compelled people to act ethically--and then explored the impact that might have, in this case on a society and its internal and external interactions. The particles in question are called "angels," and the interstellar alliance known as the Empyrean has been blessed with Angelmass, the eponymous black hole that emits them. The greedy, Earth-based Pax empire sees these angels as a brainwashing alien invasion and threatens to invade the Empyrean itself to set things straight. Thrown into the fray to explicate the implications are a bumbling but earnest Pax scientist-spy, a pretty young grifter, a brother-sister pair of grizzled space vets, and an Empyrean High Senator who fears the complacency that angels have bred into his society.
Fast, fun, and thought-provoking, Angelmass combines Star Wars-style action (which Zahn knows well) with enough substance to satisfy a more serious reading. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United Statesby Jane M. Eastman, Christopher Bernard RodningISBN 0813018757 (0-8130-1875-7)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Archaeology of Aboriginal Culture Change in the Interior Southeast: Depopulation During the Early Historic Periodby Marvin T. SmithISBN 0813008468 (0-8130-0846-8)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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The Archaeology Of Traditionsby Timothy R. PauketatISBN 0813027454 (0-8130-2745-4)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Behind the Crystal Ball : Magic, Science and the Occult from Antiquity Through the New Ageby Anthony AveniISBN 0812924150 (0-8129-2415-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Between Theater and Anthropologyby Richard SchechnerISBN 0812212258 (0-8122-1225-8)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Betwixt and Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiationby Louise C. Mahdi, Steven Foster, Meredith LittleISBN 0812690478 (0-8126-9047-8)
Hardcover, Open Court Publishing Company
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Betwixt and Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiationby Louise Carus MahdiISBN 0812690486 (0-8126-9048-6)
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Bioarchaeology of Native American Adaptation in the Spanish Borderlandsby Brenda J. Baker, Lisa KealhoferISBN 0813014646 (0-8130-1464-6)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Blood Read: The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Cultureby Joan Gordon, Veronica HollingerISBN 0812216288 (0-8122-1628-8)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Blood Read explores these transformations and shows how they reflect and illuminate ongoing changes in postmodern culture. It focuses on the metaphorical roles played by vampires in contemporary fiction and film, revealing what they can tell us about sexuality and power, power and alienation, attitudes toward illness, and the definition of evil in a secular age.
Scholars and writers from the United States, Canada, England, and Japan examine how today's vampire has evolved from that of the last century, consider the vampire as a metaphor for consumption within the context of social concerns, and discuss the vampire figure in terms of contemporary literary theory. In addition, three writers of vampire fictionSuzy McKee Charnas (author of the now-classic Vampire Tapestry), Brian Stableford (writer of the lively and erudite novels Empire of Fear and Young Blood), and Jewelle Gomez (creator of the dazzling Gilda stories)discuss their own uses of the vampire, focusing on race and gender politics, eroticism, and the nature of evil.
The first book to examine a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars, Blood Read offers a variety of styles that will keep readers thoroughly engaged, inviting them to participate in a dialogue between fiction and analysis that shows the vampire to be a cultural necessity of our age. For, contrary to legends in which Dracula has no reflection, we can see reflections of ourselves in the vampire as it stands before us cloaked not in black but in metaphor.More editions of Blood Read: The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture:
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Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayasby Robert R. DesjarlaisISBN 081221434X (0-8122-1434-X)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fijiby Anne E. BeckerISBN 0812213971 (0-8122-1397-1)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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A Borneo Journey into Deathby Peter MetcalfISBN 0812278496 (0-8122-7849-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Braindance: New Discoveries About Human Origins and Brain Evolutionby Dean FalkISBN 0813027381 (0-8130-2738-1)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Brotherhood: The Secret World of the Freemasonsby Stephen KnightISBN 0812829948 (0-8128-2994-8)
Hardcover, Stein & Day Pub
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The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclassby Robert J. GordonISBN 0813313813 (0-8133-1381-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Cemochechobee: Archaeology of a Mississippian Ceremonial Center on the Chattahoochee Riverby Frank T. Schnell, Vernon J. Knight, Gail Schroeder SchnellISBN 0813007100 (0-8130-0710-0)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Chiefdoms and Chieftaincy in the Americasby International Congress of Americanists, Elsa M. RedmondISBN 0813016207 (0-8130-1620-7)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdomby Marvin T. Smith, Jerald T. MilanichISBN 0813018110 (0-8130-1811-0)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Course in General Linguisticsby Ferdinand De SaussureISBN 0812690230 (0-8126-9023-0)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Course in General Linguistics'Book summary:The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy.[via]More editions of Course in General Linguistics:
A Different Kind of War Storyby Carolyn NordstromISBN 0812216210 (0-8122-1621-0)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Domainby Steve AltenISBN 0812579569 (0-8125-7956-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Domain'Book summary:For those who never leave home without a copy of the prophecies of Nostradamus tucked in their hip pocket, Steve Alten's new thriller is just the ticket. Domain focuses its doomsday scenario on an ancient Mayan myth and sets up an intriguing pair of saviors in Dominique Vasquez, a psych grad student who's an intern at a Florida psychiatric facility, and Mick Gabriel, her first patient. Mick, the son of two famous archaeologists, has languished in the Miami asylum for over a decade after attacking the man who publicly humiliated his father and who now happens to be the American secretary of state. The elder Gabriel believed he had unearthed the riddle surrounding the origins of Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the desert glyphs of the Nazca desert, the temples of Angkor Wat, and the Mayan ruins of the Yucatan peninsula--and that the answer pointed inexorably to the doom of humanity.
As the winter solstice of 2012 approaches (the day of reckoning prophesied by the myths of the Kukulcan Pyramid at Chichen Itza), Mick enlists Dominique in his effort to save mankind from the apocalypse. Engineering his escape from the hospital, she accompanies him on a desperate search to find his way into the pyramid before the radio message from space, which has already activated a deadly alien weapon buried deep in the Gulf of Mexico, can open a galactic gateway to a world where evil will reign for all eternity. Alten's talent for pacing far outstrips his other writerly gifts. The political subplot is ludicrous, the special effects way over the top, and the villain-in-chief, who happens to be named Borgia, is merely a cartoon. But the story is original enough to pass muster and the past success of similar apocalyptic thrillers bodes well for this one. --Jane Adams [via]
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Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuriesby Margaret T. Hodgen, Mararet T. HodgenISBN 081221014X (0-8122-1014-X)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries examines the history of some of the ideas adopted to help understand the origin of culture, the diversity of traits, the significance of similarities, the sequence of high civilizations, the course of cultural change, and the theory of social evolution. It is a book that not only illuminates the thinking of a bygone age but also sheds light on the sources of attitudes still prevalent today.More editions of Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries:
The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epicby Jeffrey H. TigayISBN 0812278054 (0-8122-7805-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Classby Bonnie UrciuoliISBN 0813318300 (0-8133-1830-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistoryby Stephen WilliamsISBN 0812213122 (0-8122-1312-2)
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Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospelby Glenn HinsonISBN 0812217179 (0-8122-1717-9)
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A key feature of African American performance is the layering of performative voices and the constant shifting of performative focus. To capture this layering, Hinson demonstrates how all the parts of the gospel program work together to shape a single whole, joining speech and song, performer and audience, testimony, prayer, preaching, and singing into a seamless and multifaceted service of worship. Personal stories ground the discussion at every turn, while experiential testimony fuels the unfolding arguments. Fire in My Bones is an original exploration of experience and belief in a community of African American Christians, but it is also an exploration of African American aesthetics, the study of belief, and the ethnographic enterprise.More editions of Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel:
Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Presentby Jerald T. MilanichISBN 0813015995 (0-8130-1599-5)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Food in Historyby Reay TannahillISBN 0812814371 (0-8128-1437-1)
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Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlandsby C. Margaret ScarryISBN 081301235X (0-8130-1235-X)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in Americaby Firoozeh DumasISBN 0812968379 (0-8129-6837-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America'Book summary:This new Readers Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her fathers glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since.
Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumass wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas, and later lost his job during the Iranian revolution; her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English (nor cared to); her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an army of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets; and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and who encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman, becoming part of a one-couple melting pot.
In a series of deftly drawn scenes, we watch the family grapple with American English (hot dogs and hush puppies?a complete mystery), American traditions (Thanksgiving turkey?an even greater mystery, since it tastes like nothing), and American culture (Firoozehs parents laugh uproariously at Bob Hope on television, although they dont get the jokes even when she translates them into Farsi).
Above all, this is an unforgettable story of identity, discovery, and the power of family love. It is a book that will leave us all laughingwithout an accent. [via]More editions of Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America:
Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalismby Joseph S. AlterISBN 0812235568 (0-8122-3556-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Gorky Park: A Novelby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0812977246 (0-8129-7724-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gorky Park: A Novel'Book summary:Brilliant . . . enough enigmas within enigmas within enigmas to reel the mind.
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A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and the New York City police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Renko is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything.
Once one gets going, one doesnt want to stop. . . . The action is gritty, the plot complicated, [and] the overriding quality is intelligence.
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Reminds you just how satisfying a smoothly turned thriller can be. The New York Times Book Review
An unbelievable achievement . . . vivid, witty . . . completely fascinating.
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Gripping, romantic, and dazzlingly original.
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The Health of Women: A Global Perspectiveby Marge Koblinsky, Judith Timyan, Jill GayISBN 0813316081 (0-8133-1608-1)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine "Firsts" in Recorded Historyby Samuel N. KramerISBN 0812212762 (0-8122-1276-2)
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History Begins at Sumer is the classic account of the achievements of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq during the third millennium B.C. They were the developers of the cuneiform system of writing, perhaps their greatest contribution to civilization, which allowed laws and literature to be recorded for the first time.More editions of History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine "Firsts" in Recorded History:
History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Man's Recorded Historyby Samuel Noah KramerISBN 0812278127 (0-8122-7812-7)
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Hollywood As Historian: American Film in a Cultural Contextby Peter C. RollinsISBN 0813101549 (0-8131-0154-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Hope of Earthby Piers AnthonyISBN 0812571118 (0-8125-7111-8)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Indians of the Greater Southeast: Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistoryby Bonnie G. McEwanISBN 0813020867 (0-8130-2086-7)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Industrial Democracy in America: Ideological Origins of National Labor Relations Policyby Howard DickmanISBN 0812690087 (0-8126-9008-7)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co
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Interpretations of Native North American Life: Material Contributions to Ethnohistoryby Michael S. Nassaney, Eric S. JohnsonISBN 0813026504 (0-8130-2650-4)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Isle of Womanby Piers AnthonyISBN 0812533666 (0-8125-3366-6)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0812523377 (0-8125-2337-7)
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This edition of Jane Eyre includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Madeleine Robins.
Penniless, orphaned, locked away in a prison-like boarding school, Jane Eyre has one chance for happiness: in the great mansion of Thornfield, as governess to a little French girl, the adopted ward of an eccentric millionaire...
Edward Rochester is troubled, cynical, moody--but funny, brilliant, giving, and sensitive; little Adele is a delight; Thornfield has all the beauty Jane could ever want. Life should be perfect...
But Jane Eyre and her decades-older employer are falling desperately in love--
And Thornfield holds a living horror that can, with no warning, destroy Edward, Jane, Adele..A murderous secret ready to devour Jane Eyre's dreams, hopes--even her life.More editions of Jane Eyre:
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King Solomon's Minesby Henry Rider Haggard, James DanlyISBN 0812966295 (0-8129-6629-5)
Softcover, Modern Library
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This edition of King Solomon's Mines includes a Foreword and Biographical Note from the Publisher.
Allan Quatermain is a hunter. Lions, elephants, antelope. Fearless, he is the best big-game hunter in South Africa. And he is about to embark on the most dangerous hunt of his career.
His new employers, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain john Good, have a map--drawn by a dying Portuguese prospector. It reveals a route across the great desert, past a fearsome range of mountain, to the greatest treasure in all Africa--the lost diamond mines of King Solomon himself!
Inspired by true adventures, King Solomon's Mines is the unsurpassed classic of a journey into the unknown heart of the Dark Continent.More editions of King Solomon's Mines:
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Language & Communicative Practicesby William F. HanksISBN 0813312175 (0-8133-1217-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language & Communicative Practices'Book summary:Written in an informal style with engaging examples, this introduction to the study of language in context presents a provocative new approach to communicative practice. Emphasizing the dual status of language as linguistic system and as social fact, William Hanks offers fresh insights into the dynamics of context, the indeterminacy of cultural forms, and the relation between human experience and the making of meaning.Drawing on a broad range of theory and empirical research, Hanks explores the varieties of reflexivity in language, relating them to linguistic structure, textuality, and genres of practice. He shows how the human body both anchors the communicative process and provides a reference point for displaced and mediated speech. Tracing the movement of meaning through social fields and communities, Hanks casts new light on the ways that utterances are fragmented and objectified in social life. Speech emerges as a contingent process in which the production and reception of meaning are tied into multiple dimensions of time and context and history rests on the objectification of practice.Hankss penetrating readings of classic works in linguistics, philosophy, and social theory are complemented by suggestions for further reading. Within the framework of communicative practice, he integrates elements of formal grammar and semiotics, phenomenology, cultural anthropology, and contemporary sociology. Neither a history nor a summary of the field, Language and Communicative Practices is a critical synthesis of the dialectics of meaning that inform all language and speech.[via]More editions of Language & Communicative Practices:
Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Agesby Paul Freedman, Caroline Walker BynumISBN 0812217020 (0-8122-1702-0)
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Mountain, Field, and Family: The Economy and Human Ecology of an Andean Valleyby Stephen B. BrushISBN 0812277287 (0-8122-7728-7)
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No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, And Future of Islamby REZA ASLANISBN 0812971892 (0-8129-7189-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, And Future of Islam'Book summary:Though it is the fastest-growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded in ignorance and fear for much of the West. In No god but God, Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed scholar of religions, explains this faith in all its beauty and complexity. Beginning with a vivid account of the social and religious milieu in which the Prophet Muhammad forged his message, Aslan paints a portrait of the first Muslim community as a radical experiment in religious pluralism and social egalitarianism. He demonstrates how, after the Prophets death, his successors attempted to interpret his message for future generationsan overwhelming task that fractured the Muslim community into competing sects. Finally, Aslan examines how, in the shadow of European colonialism, Muslims developed conflicting strategies to reconcile traditional Islamic values with the realities of the modern world, thus launching what Aslan terms the Islamic Reformation. Timely and persuasive, No god but God is an elegantly written account of a magnificent yet misunderstood faith. [via]
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Nordic Religions in the Viking Ageby Thomas A. DuboisISBN 0812217144 (0-8122-1714-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nordic Religions in the Viking Age'Book summary:The popular image of the Viking as a horn-helmeted berserker plying the ocean in a dragon-headed long boat is firmly fixed in history. Imagining Viking "conquerors" as much more numerous, technologically superior, and somehow inherently more warlike than their neighbors has overshadowed the cooperation and cultural exchange which characterized much of the Viking Age. In actuality, the Norse explorers and traders were players in a complex exchange of technology, customs, and religious beliefs between the ancient pre-Christian societies of northern Europe and the Christian-dominated nations surrounding the Mediterranean.
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DuBois examines Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Mediterranean traditions to locate significant Nordic parallels in conceptions of supernatural beings, cults of the dead, beliefs in ghosts, and magical practices. These beliefs were actively held alongside Christianity for many years, and were finally incorporated into the vernacular religious practice. The Icelandic sagas reflect this complex process in their inclusion of both Christian and pagan details.
This work differs from previous examinations in its inclusion of the Christian thirteenth century as part of the evolution of Nordic religions from localized pagan cults to adherents of a larger Roman faith.
Thomas DuBois unravels for the first time the history of the Nordic religions in the Viking Age and shows how these ancient beliefs and their oral traditions incorporated both a myriad of local beliefs and aspects of foreign religions, most notably Christianity.More editions of Nordic Religions in the Viking Age:
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Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholicsby Lawrence J. TaylorISBN 0812215206 (0-8122-1520-6)
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Rich in ethnographical material, wide-ranging archival sources, insightful cultural observations, vivid accounts of individual experiences, and thoughtful scrutiny of religious questions and theories illuminate twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork. From these varied resources Lawrence Taylor creates a memorable account of the forces that shape local forms of Catholicism in southwest Donegal.More editions of Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics:
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Ordered Universes: Approaches to the Anthropology of Religionby Morton KlassISBN 0813312140 (0-8133-1214-0)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ordered Universes: Approaches to the Anthropology of Religion'Book summary:This innovative introduction to the anthropological study of religion challenges traditional categories and assumptions, arguing that too many of them reflect ethnocentric perspectives long discarded by contemporary anthropologists. The continued use of such terms as supernatural and cult inescapably communicates that what is under study is not as real or true as the beliefs of the observer. This conflict between the axioms of science and Western scholarship and those of the belief systems under study can be avoided with careful attention to terminology and underlying assumptions.Ordered Universes introduces and explores important anthropological issues, concerns, and findings about the institution of religion approached as a human cultural universal. Klass applies a non-ethnocentric perspective to each topic, relying on contemporary anthropological theories and using approaches deriving from other subdivisions of the discipline. Offering operational, non-judgmental definitions that avoid taking a position on whether the belief under study is true and providing examples from ethnographic (and other) literature on religion, Klass explores values, beliefs, witchcraft, shamans, sacrifice, ghosts, revitalization, and many other concepts. In the final chapters, he considers the emergence of new religious movements and leaders and evaluates the continuing ideological conflict between proponents of scientistic, fundamentalist, and post-rationalist systems of thought.[via]More editions of Ordered Universes: Approaches to the Anthropology of Religion:
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Pastwatchby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812508645 (0-8125-0864-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pastwatch'Book summary:Anyone who's read Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong knows about the devastating consequences that Columbus's voyage and ensuing colonization had on the native people of the Americas and Africa. In a thought-provoking work that is part science fiction, part historical drama, Orson Scott Card writes about scientists in a fearful future who study that tragic past, then attempt to actually intervene and change it into something better.
Tagiri and Hassan are members of Pastwatch, an academic organization that uses machines to see into the past and record it. Their project focuses on slavery and its dreadful effects, and gradually evolves into a study of Christopher Columbus. They eventually marry and their daughter Diko joins them in their quest to discover what drove Columbus west.
Columbus, with whom readers become acquainted through both images in the Pastwatch machines and personal narrative, is portrayed as a religious man with both strengths and weaknesses, a charismatic leader who sometimes rose above but often fell beneath the mores of his times. As usual, Orson Scott Card uses his formidable writing skills to create likable, complex characters who face gripping problems; he also provides an entertaining and thoughtful history lesson in Pastwatch. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
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Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United Statesby Henry H. GlassieISBN 0812210131 (0-8122-1013-1)
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Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japanby Anne AllisonISBN 0813316987 (0-8133-1698-7)
Hardcover, Perseus Books
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Philosophy of Biologyby Elliott SoberISBN 0813308240 (0-8133-0824-0)
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Puerto Real: The Archaeology of a Sixteenth-Century Spanish Town in Hispaniolaby Kathleen DeaganISBN 0813013348 (0-8130-1334-8)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditionsby Marcia C. InhornISBN 0812215281 (0-8122-1528-1)
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Race in North Americaby Audrey SmedleyISBN 0813306221 (0-8133-0622-1)
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Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Perspectiveby Michael KearneyISBN 0813309883 (0-8133-0988-3)
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Reliquary: Library Editionby Douglas Preston, Lincoln ChildISBN 0812542835 (0-8125-4283-5)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0812504828 (0-8125-0482-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure. And find it he does when on one of his voyages he is shipwrecked on a deserted South American island for thirty-five years. After scavenging his broken ship for useful items, he had only his skills and ingenuity to keep him alive as there was to be no one else on the island for the next twenty-four years. In the middle of that twenty-fourth year he rescued a native about to be eaten by cannibals who were using his island for a place of feasting. Crusoe named this man Friday, after the day of his rescue. Friday became his faithful servant and friend, even returning with him to England after their deliverance by an English ship. Listeners will enjoy Crusoe's determination for survival against all odds and admire the spirituality that gave him the strength to survive. A hero through the ages, he richly deserves the admiration that has endured over three centuries. [via]
The Seminole Indians of Floridaby Clay MaccauleyISBN 0813017920 (0-8130-1792-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0812543122 (0-8125-4312-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
Sensuous Scholarshipby Paul StollerISBN 0812216156 (0-8122-1615-6)
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Shame of Manby Piers AnthonyISBN 0812550919 (0-8125-5091-9)
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Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspectiveby David B. GruskyISBN 0813310652 (0-8133-1065-2)
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Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expressionby Steven FeldISBN 0812212991 (0-8122-1299-1)
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Speaker for the Deadby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812550757 (0-8125-5075-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speaker for the Dead'Book summary:Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts. Like its predecessor, this book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. [via]
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The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretationby Dennis TedlockISBN 081221143X (0-8122-1143-X)
Softcover, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teachingby Kirin NarayanISBN 081221269X (0-8122-1269-X)
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Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europeby Margaret C. JacobISBN 0812239334 (0-8122-3933-4)
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Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.by Samuel Noah KramerISBN 0812210476 (0-8122-1047-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.'Book summary:The Sumerians were a non-Semitic, non-Indo-European people who lived in southern Babylonia from 4000-3000 B.C.E. They invented cunieform writing, and their spiritual beliefs influenced all successive Near Eastern religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They produced an extensive body of literature, among the oldest in the world. Samuel Noah Kramer spent most of his life studying this literature, by piecing together clay tablets in far-flung museums. This work gives translations or summaries of the most important Sumerian myths.
This book is not a cheap scanned version of the original but has been completely digitally revised and optimized for Kindle, including an interactive table-of-contents.
Contents:
PREFACE
NOTE TO THE REVISED EDITION
INTRODUCTION
THE SOURCES: THE SUMERIAN LITERARY TABLETS DATING FROM APPROXIMATELY 2000 B. C.
CHAPTER I THE SCOPE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY
CHAPTER II MYTHS OF ORIGINS 1
THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNIVERSE
ENLIL AND NINLIL: THE BEGETTING OF NANNA
THE JOURNEY OF NANNA TO NIPPUR
EMESH AND ENTEN: ENLIL CHOOSES THE FARMER-GOD
THE CREATION OF THE PICKAX
CATTLE AND GRAIN
ENKI AND NINHURSAG: THE AFFAIRS OF THE WATER-GOD
ENKI AND SUMER: THE ORGANIZATION OF THE EARTH AND ITS CULTURAL PROCESSES
ENKI AND ERIDU: THE JOURNEY OF THE WATER--GOD TO NIPPUR
INANNA AND ENKI: THE TRANSFER OF THE ARTS OF CIVILIZATION FROM ERIDU TO ERECH
THE CREATION OF MAN
CHAPTER III MYTHS OF KUR
THE DESTRUCTION OF KUR: THE SLAYING OF THE DRAGON
INANNA'S DESCENT TO THE NETHER WORLD
CHAPTER IV MISCELLANEOUS MYTHS
THE DELUGE
THE MARRIAGE OF MARTU
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Summer of the Dragonby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0812507541 (0-8125-0754-1)
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Tacachale: Essays on the Indians of Florida and Southeastern Georgia During the Historic Periodby R. Milanich, Samuel ProctorISBN 081301297X (0-8130-1297-X)
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"An outstanding book. The reader is brought up to date concerning recent research on such tribes as the Calusas, Tocobagas, Western Timucua, Guales, and early Seminoles."Tampa Bay History
"A scholarly intertwining of history, ethnography, and archaeology."Choice
"A splendid [volume] that reflects both scholarship and good writing."Georgia Librarian
Tacachalea Timucuan word that means "to light a new fire"refers to an Indian ritual that the Timucuans used to minimize impending change and maintain their way of life. In these essays it symbolizes the efforts of the aborigines of Florida and southeastern Georgia to deal with the destruction of their cultures during the period of European colonization.More editions of Tacachale: Essays on the Indians of Florida and Southeastern Georgia During the Historic Period:
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Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropologyby Paul StollerISBN 0812212924 (0-8122-1292-4)
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Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuriesby Daniel Pickering WalkerISBN 081227797X (0-8122-7797-X)
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Unconquered Lacandon Maya: Ethnohistory And Archaeology Of Indigenous Culture Changeby Joel W. PalkaISBN 0813028167 (0-8130-2816-7)
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Waitingby Frank M. RobinsonISBN 0812541642 (0-8125-4164-2)
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Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Mediaby Susan J. DouglasISBN 0812925300 (0-8129-2530-0)
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White Jennaby Jane YolenISBN 0812518403 (0-8125-1840-3)
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The White Men: The First Response of Aboriginal Peoples to the White Manby Julia BlackburnISBN 0812908260 (0-8129-0826-0)
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You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers And Daughters in Conversationby Deborah TannenISBN 081297266X (0-8129-7266-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers And Daughters in Conversation'Book summary:Deborah Tannen's #1 New York Times bestseller You Just Dont Understand revolutionized communication between women and men. Now, in her most provocative and engaging book to date, she takes on what is potentially the most fraught and passionate connection of womens lives: the mother-daughter relationship.
It was Tannen who first showed us that men and women speak different languages. Mothers and daughters speak the same languagebut still often misunderstand each other, as they struggle to find the right balance between closeness and independence. Both mothers and daughters want to be seen for who they are, but tend to see the other as falling short of who she should be. Each overestimates the others power and underestimates her own.
Why do daughters complain that their mothers always criticize, while mothers feel hurt that their daughters shut them out? Why do mothers and daughters critique each other on the Big Threehair, clothes, and weightwhile longing for approval and understanding? And why do they scrutinize each other for reflections of themselves?
Deborah Tannen answers these and many other questions as she explains why a remark that would be harmless coming from anyone else can cause an explosion when it comes from your mother or your daughter. She examines every aspect of this complex dynamic, from the dark side that can shadow a woman throughout her life, to the new technologies like e-mail and instant messaging that are transforming mother-daughter communication. Most important, she helps mothers and daughters understand each other, the key to improving their relationship.
With groundbreaking insights, pitch-perfect dialogues, and deeply moving memories of her own mother, Tannen untangles the knots daughters and mothers can get tied up in. Readers will appreciate Tannens humor as they see themselves on every page and come away with real hope for breaking down barriers and opening new lines of communication. Eye-opening and heartfelt, Youre Wearing That? illuminates and enriches one of the most important relationships in our lives.
Tannen analyzes and decodes scores of conversations between moms and daughters. These exchanges are so real they can make you squirm as you relive the last fraught conversation you had with your own mother or daughter. But Tannen doesn't just point out the pitfalls of the mother-daughter relationship, she also provides guidance for changing the conversations (or the way that we feel about the conversations) before they degenerate into what Tannen calls a mutually aggravating spiral, a "self-perpetuating cycle of escalating responses that become provocations." The San Francisco Chronicle
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