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Accelerated Learning
by Colin Penfield Rose

ISBN 0905553128 (0-905553-12-8)
Softcover, Accelerated Learning Systems

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A revolutionary new time-saving method to learn practically everything--from a new language to creativity--by using relaxation, visualization, the right and left sides of the brain, and the conscious and unconscious mind. [via]
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Accelerated Learning
by Colin Rose

ISBN 0440500443 (0-440-50044-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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A revolutionary new time-saving method to learn practically everything--from a new language to creativity--by using relaxation, visualization, the right and left sides of the brain, and the conscious and unconscious mind. [via]
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Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century: The Six-Step Plan to Unlock Your Master-Mind
by Malcolm J. Nicholl, Colin Penfield Rose

ISBN 0440507790 (0-440-50779-0)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co

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From the authors of the now-classic Accelerated Learning comes a brilliant culmination of their groundbreaking ideas. Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century unveils a revolutionary new six-step program that shows you how to develop the core success skills of the twenty-first century--learning faster, remembering more, thinking creatively--skills that can be put to immediate use by individuals as diverse as school children and corporate executives.

Because of today's unprecedented speed of change, it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict what skills will be useful in ten years--in most professions, knowledge is doubling every few years--and no job is forever. As a result, being employable means being flexible and retraining regularly. Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century offers a simple, proven-effective plan that delivers the one key skill every working person, parent, and student must master and every teacher must teach: Learning how to learn and how to think creatively. This extraordinary work shows us how we can learn better--by using the revolutionary MASTER-Mind system.

Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century incorporates a decade of remarkable research findings by eminent neuroscientists and educational psychologists--such as the theory of eight multiple intelligences and the value of emotion for memory--as well as examples from the successful experiences worldwide of accelerated learners of all ages. And it puts forth a clear vision of how the United States can dramatically improve the educational system to remain competitive in the next century. [via]
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- Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century: The Six-Step Plan to Unlock Your Master-Mind: ISBN 0385317034 (0-385-31703-4)
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- Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century: The Six-Step Plan to Unlock Your Master-Mind: ISBN 0440507790 (0-440-50779-0)
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The Case of the Disappearing Elephant: A 3G Mystery
by Edward De Bono

ISBN 0460067974 (0-460-06797-4)
Hardcover, Dent

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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
by Etienne Wenger

ISBN 0521663636 (0-521-66363-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their workers, schools about the learning of their students. But it is not always easy to think about how to foster learning in innovative ways. This book presents a framework for doing that, with a social theory of learning that is ground-breaking yet accessible, with profound implications not only for research, but also for all those who have to foster learning as part of their responsibilites at work, at home, at school. [via]
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
by Parker J. Palmer

ISBN 0787910589 (0-7879-1058-9)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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As a spiritually inspirational book for teachers, The Courage to Teach is one of the best. The premise is concise and unarguable: good teaching comes from the identity and the integrity of the teacher. Teachers are encouraged to turn their inquiring minds inward--developing a deeper understanding of what it means to fulfill the spiritual calling of teaching. Good teachers share one trait, says author Parker Palmer, they are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students, so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves. The connections made by good teachers are held not in their methods but in their hearts--the place where intellect and emotion and spirit and will converge in the human self. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge
by Etienne Wenger, William Snyder, Richard A. McDermott

ISBN 1578513308 (1-57851-330-8)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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From the time our ancestors lived in caves to that day in the late '80s when Chrysler sanctioned unofficial "tech clubs" to promote the flow of information between teams working on different vehicle platforms, bands of like-minded individuals had been gathering in a wide variety of settings to recount their experiences and share their expertise. Few paid much attention until a number of possible benefits to business were identified, but many are watching more closely now that definitive links have been established. In Cultivating Communities of Practice, consultants Etienne C. Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William Snyder take the concept to another level by describing how these groups might be purposely developed as a key driver of organizational performance in the knowledge age. Building on a 1998 book by Wenger that framed the theory for an academic audience, Cultivating Communities of Practice targets practitioners with pragmatic advice based on the accumulating track records of firms such as the World Bank, Shell Oil, and McKinsey & Company. Starting with a detailed explanation of what these groups really are and why they can prove so useful in managing knowledge within an organization, the authors discuss development from initial design through subsequent evolution. They also address the potential "dark side"--arrogance, cliquishness, rigidity, and fragmentation among participants, for example--as well as measurement issues and the challenges inherent in initiating these groups company-wide. --Howard Rothman [via]
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Deschooling Our Lives
by Matt Hern

ISBN 0865713421 (0-86571-342-1)
Softcover, New Society Pub

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A provocative, practical response to the crisis in our schools, this book argues boldly for replacing compulsory schooling with a wide variety of home, neighborhood, and community-based educational efforts. Hern examines how the day-to-day experience of school teaches subservience, deadens children's natural love of learning, undercuts their self-esteem, and limits independent thought. [via]
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
by Betty Edwards

ISBN 0874770874 (0-87477-087-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group

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Revised edition of Betty Edwards' drawing instruction book, in large format with colour illustrations. [via]
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence
by Betty Edwards

ISBN 0874770882 (0-87477-088-2)
Softcover, J P Tarcher

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Edwards uses the latest in brain research to explain how anyone can learn to draw more accurately and creatively. This edition contains a new illustrated section in color, several fully revised chapters, new sample drawings, and a new section on handwriting. [via]
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto

ISBN 0865714487 (0-86571-448-7)
Softcover, New Society Pub

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Strong words from the New York State Teacher of the Year! Twenty-six years of award-winning teaching have led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental school does little but teach young people to follow orders. Dumbing Us Down offers a radical critique of public schooling, and suggests a guerilla curriculum of daily involvement in our communities. [via]
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Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Pop Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson

ISBN 1594481946 (1-59448-194-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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In his fourth book, Everything Bad Is Good for You, iconoclastic science writer Steven Johnson (who used himself as a test subject for the latest neurological technology in his last book, Mind Wide Open) takes on one of the most widely held preconceptions of the postmodern world--the belief that video games, television shows, and other forms of popular entertainment are detrimental to Americans' cognitive and moral development. Everything Good builds a case to the contrary that is engaging, thorough, and ultimately convincing.
The heart of Johnson's argument is something called the Sleeper Curve--a universe of popular entertainment that trends, intellectually speaking, ever upward, so that today's pop-culture consumer has to do more "cognitive work"--making snap decisions and coming up with long-term strategies in role-playing video games, for example, or mastering new virtual environments on the Internet-- than ever before. Johnson makes a compelling case that even today's least nutritional TV junk foodthe Joe Millionaires and Survivors so commonly derided as evidence of America's cultural decline--is more complex and stimulating, in terms of plot complexity and the amount of external information viewers need to understand them, than the Love Boats and I Love Lucys that preceded it. When it comes to television, even (perhaps especially) crappy television, Johnson argues, "the content is less interesting than the cognitive work the show elicits from your mind."
Johnson's work has been controversial, as befits a writer willing to challenge wisdom so conventional it has ossified into accepted truth. But even the most skeptical readers should be captivated by the intriguing questions Johnson raises, whether or not they choose to accept his answers. --Erica C. Barnett [via]
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Experience and Education
by John Dewey

ISBN 0684838281 (0-684-83828-1)
Softcover, Free Pr

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Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received.

Analyzing both "traditional" and "progressive" education, Dr. Dewey here insists that neither the old nor the new education is adequate and that each is miseducative because neither of them applies the principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience. Many pages of this volume illustrate Dr. Dewey's ideas for a philosophy of experience and its relation to education. He particularly urges that all teachers and educators looking for a new movement in education should think in terms of the deeped and larger issues of education rather than in terms of some divisive "ism" about education, even such an "ism" as "progressivism." His philosophy, here expressed in its most essential, most readable form, predicates an American educational system that respects all sources of experience, on that offers a true learning situation that is both historical and social, both orderly and dynamic.
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The Fifth Discipline : The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
by Peter Senge

ISBN 0385517254 (0-385-51725-4)
Softcover, Currency

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Peter Senge, founder of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management, experienced an epiphany while meditating one morning back in the fall of 1987. That was the day he first saw the possibilities of a "learning organization" that used "systems thinking" as the primary tenet of a revolutionary management philosophy. He advanced the concept into this primer, originally released in 1990, written for those interested in integrating his philosophy into their corporate culture.
The Fifth Discipline has turned many readers into true believers; it remains the ideal introduction to Senge's carefully integrated corporate framework, which is structured around "personal mastery," "mental models," "shared vision," and "team learning." Using ideas that originate in fields from science to spirituality, Senge explains why the learning organization matters, provides an unvarnished summary of his management principals, offers some basic tools for practicing it, and shows what it's like to operate under this system. The book's concepts remain stimulating and relevant as ever. --Howard Rothman [via]
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How Children Fail
by John Caldwell Holt

ISBN 0201484021 (0-201-48402-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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First published in the mid 1960s, How Children Fail began an education reform movement that continues today. In his 1982 edition, John Holt added new insights into how children investigate the world, into the perennial problems of classroom learning, grading, testing, and into the role of the trust and authority in every learning situation. His understanding of children, the clarity of his thought, and his deep affection for children have made both How Children Fail and its companion volume, How Children Learn, enduring classics.
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How Children Learn
by John Caldwell Holt

ISBN 0201484048 (0-201-48404-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books

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This is a book where John Holt uses anecdotal observations that question assumptions about how children acquire knowledge and learning skills. [via]
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How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
by National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice, Rodney R. Cocking, John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown

ISBN 0309070368 (0-309-07036-8)
Softcover, Natl Academy Pr

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This popular trade book, originally released in hardcover in the Spring of 1999, has been newly expanded to show how the theories and insights from the original book can translate into actions and practice, now making a real connection between classroom activities and learning behavior. This paperback edition includes far-reaching suggestions for research that could increase the impact that classroom teaching has on actual learning. Like the original hardcover edition, this book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions. When do infants begin to learn? How do experts learn and how is this different from non-experts? What can teachers and schools do-with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methods - to help children learn most effectively? New evidence from many branches of science has significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture on what people see and absorb. "How People Learn" examines these findings and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children learn. The book uses exemplary teaching to illustrate how approaches based on what we now know result in in-depth learning. This new knowledge calls into question concepts and practices firmly entrenched in our current education system. The topics include: how learning actually changes the physical structure of the brain; how existing knowledge affects what people notice and how they learn; what the thought processes of experts tell us about how to teach; the amazing learning potential of infants; the relationship of classroom learning and everyday settings of community and workplace; learning needs and opportunities for teachers; and a realistic look at the role of technology in education. [via]
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How to Learn Anything Quickly: An Accelerated Program for Rapid Learning
by Ricki Linksman, Kensington Publishing Corporation Staff

ISBN 0806517921 (0-8065-1792-1)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation

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Now readers can improve skills by finding the learning or memorization method which best suits their personal learning style--visual, auditory, tactile, or kinesthetic--and implement this method (or "superlink") to learn material easily and thoroughly. No matter what their level of education, readers can improve performance, retention, and recall, stydy more effectively, and perform better on tests by using the superlink method.Charts. [via]
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How to Read a Book
by Mortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Lincoln Van Doren

ISBN 1567310109 (1-56731-010-9)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed. [via]
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How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Everyday Genius
by Michael Gelb

ISBN 0385323816 (0-385-32381-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Here's a personal growth guidebook that's won the admiration and recommendation of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England. He calls this "a brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability." Author Michael Gelb, founder of High Performance Learning and consultant for companies including AT&T and National Public Radio, says that we all can unlock the "da Vincian" genius inside us. Gelb says there are seven critical principles that need to be followed for success, whether you're learning a new language, studying to be a gourmet chef, or just hoping to be more effective on the job:
- Curiosita: An insatiably curious approach to life.
- Dimonstratzione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience.
- Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience.
- Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
- Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination ("whole-brain thinking").
- Corporalita: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
- Connessione: A recognition and appreciation for the connectedness of all things and phenomena; "systems thinking."
Gelb discusses each of these principles in relation to what da Vinci accomplished, thereby giving this book a built-in history lesson. The illustrations from the master's work and time add a nice warmth to the work. As the president of NPR said after working with Gelb, this is a program recommended for "anyone who wants to experience a personal and professional Renaissance." [via]
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How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
by Michael Gelb

ISBN 0440508274 (0-440-50827-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Here's a personal growth guidebook that's won the admiration and recommendation of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England. He calls this "a brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability." Author Michael Gelb, founder of High Performance Learning and consultant for companies including AT&T and National Public Radio, says that we all can unlock the "da Vincian" genius inside us. Gelb says there are seven critical principles that need to be followed for success, whether you're learning a new language, studying to be a gourmet chef, or just hoping to be more effective on the job:
- Curiosita: An insatiably curious approach to life.
- Dimonstratzione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience.
- Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience.
- Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
- Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination ("whole-brain thinking").
- Corporalita: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
- Connessione: A recognition and appreciation for the connectedness of all things and phenomena; "systems thinking."
Gelb discusses each of these principles in relation to what da Vinci accomplished, thereby giving this book a built-in history lesson. The illustrations from the master's work and time add a nice warmth to the work. As the president of NPR said after working with Gelb, this is a program recommended for "anyone who wants to experience a personal and professional Renaissance." [via]
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The Independent Scholar's Handbook
by Ronald Gross

ISBN 0201105152 (0-201-10515-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Pub

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This book is, without question, the most valuable work around for those who pursue an interest in a serious, systematic way. Completely revised and updated by the author, the handbook points to resources, organizations, and people, and helps the reader to understand the development and use of such expertise. [via]
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The Know-it-all: One Man's Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The World
by A. J. Jacobs

ISBN 0743250621 (0-7432-5062-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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33,000 pages
44 million words
10 billion years of history
1 obsessed man
Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.
To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His wife, Julie, tells him it's a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his father, a brilliant attorney who had once attempted the same feat and quit somewhere around Borneo, is encouraging but, shall we say, unconvinced.
With self-deprecating wit and a disarming frankness, The Know-It-All recounts the unexpected and comically disruptive effects Operation Encyclopedia has on every part of Jacobs's life -- from his newly minted marriage to his complicated relationship with his father and the rest of his charmingly eccentric New York family to his day job as an editor at Esquire. Jacobs's project tests the outer limits of his stamina and forces him to explore the real meaning of intelligence as he endeavors to join Mensa, win a spot on Jeopardy!, and absorb 33,000 pages of learning. On his journey he stumbles upon some of the strangest, funniest, and most profound facts about every topic under the sun, all while battling fatigue, ridicule, and the paralyzing fear that attends his first real-life responsibility -- the impending birth of his first child.
The Know-It-All is an ingenious, mightily entertaining memoir of one man's intellect, neuroses, and obsessions and a soul-searching, ultimately touching struggle between the all-consuming quest for factual knowledge and the undeniable gift of hard-won wisdom. [via]
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Learning As a Way of Being: Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water
by Peter B. Vaill

ISBN 0787902462 (0-7879-0246-2)
Hardcover, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

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Offers a thoughtful critique of the roots of management education and argues that institutions of higher learning must teach managers how to integrate the discipline of learning into their very being. Such learning must be marked by strong self-direction, willingness to take risks, and integration of the learning that life teaches outside the classroom. [via]
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Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge: Concept Maps As Facilitative Tools in Schools and Corporations
by Joseph D. Novak

ISBN 0805826262 (0-8058-2626-2)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc

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This fully revised and updated edition of Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge recognizes that the future of economic well being in today's knowledge and information society rests upon the effectiveness of schools and corporations to empower their people to be more effective learners and knowledge creators. Novaks pioneering theory of education presented in the first edition remains viable and useful. This new edition updates his theory for meaningful learning and autonomous knowledge building along with tools to make it operational - that is, concept maps, created with the use of CMapTools and the V diagram.

The theory is easy to put into practice, since it includes resources to facilitate the process, especially concept maps, now optimised by CMapTools software. CMapTools software is highly intuitive and easy to use. People who have until now been reluctant to use the new technologies in their professional lives are will find this book particularly helpful. Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge is essential reading for educators at all levels and corporate managers who seek to enhance worker productivity.
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A Mind at a Time
by Melvin D. Levine

ISBN 0743202228 (0-7432-0222-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Recognizing each child's intellectual, emotional, and physical strengths--and teaching directly to these strengths--is key to sculpting "a mind at a time," according to Dr. Mel Levine. While this flashing yellow light will not surprise many skilled educators, limited resources often prevent them from shifting their instructional gears. But to teachers and parents whose children face daily humiliation at school, the author bellows, "Try harder!" A professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School, Levine eloquently substantiates his claim that developmental growth deserves the same monitoring as a child's physical growth.
Tales of creative, clumsy, impulsive, nerdy, intuitive, loud-mouthed, and painfully shy kids help Levine define eight specific mind systems (attention, memory, language, spatial ordering, sequential ordering, motor, higher thinking, and social thinking). Levine also incorporates scientific research to show readers how the eight neurodevelopmental systems evolve, interact, and contribute to a child's success in school. Detailed steps describe how mental processes (like problem solving) work for capable kids, and how they can be finessed to serve those who struggle. Clear, practical suggestions for fostering self-monitoring skills and building self-esteem add the most important elements to this essential--yet challenging--program for "raisin' brain." --Liane Thomas [via]
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A Mind at a Time: America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed
by Melvin D. Levine

ISBN 0743202236 (0-7432-0223-6)
Softcover, Touchstone Books

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Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
by L.S. Vygotsky

ISBN 0674576292 (0-674-57629-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But somewhat ironically, his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Mind in Society should correct much of this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky's important essays, most of which have previously been unavailable in English. The Vygotsky who emerges from these pages can no longer be glibly included among the neobehaviorists. In these essays he outlines a dialectical-materialist theory of cognitive development that anticipates much recent work in American social science. The mind, Vygotsky argues, cannot be understood in isolation from the surrounding society. Man is the only animal who uses tools to alter his own inner world as well as the world around him. From the handkerchief knotted as a simple mnemonic device to the complexities of symbolic language, society provides the individual with technology that can be used to shape the private processes of mind. In Mind in Society Vygotsky applies this theoretical framework to the development of perception, attention, memory, language, and play, and he examines its implications for education. The result is a remarkably interesting book that is bound to renew Vygotsky's relevance to modem psychological thought. [via]
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Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
by Michael Cole, L. S. Vygotskii

ISBN 0674576284 (0-674-57628-4)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press

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Mind Performance Hacks
by Ron Hale-Evans

ISBN 0596101538 (0-596-10153-8)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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You're smart. This book can make you smarter.
Mind Performance Hacks provides real-life tips and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. In the increasingly frenetic pace of today's information economy, managing your life requires hacking your brain. With this book, you'll cut through the clutter and tune up your brain intentionally, safely, and productively.
Grounded in current research and theory, but offering practical solutions you can apply immediately, Mind Performance Hacks is filled with life hacks that teach you to:

Use mnemonic tricks to remember numbers, names, dates, and other flotsam you need to recall

Put down your calculator and perform complex math in your head, with your fingers, or on the back of a napkin

Spark your creativity with innovative brainstorming methods

Use effective systems to capture new ideas before they get away

Communicate in creative new ways-even using artificial languages

Make better decisions by foreseeing problems and finding surprising solutions

Improve your mental fitness with cool tricks and games
While the hugely successful Mind Hacks showed you how your brain works, Mind Performance Hacks shows you how to make it work better.
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain And The Neuroscience Of Everyday Life
by Steven Johnson

ISBN 0743241665 (0-7432-4166-5)
Softcover, Scribner

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BRILLIANTLY EXPLORING TODAY'S CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN RESEARCH, "MIND WIDE OPEN" IS AN UNPRECEDENTED JOURNEY INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN PERSONALITY, ALLOWING READERS TO UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES AND THE PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES AS NEVER BEFORE.
Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works -- its chemicals, structures, and subroutines -- and how these systems connect to the day-to-day realities of individual lives. For a hundred years, he says, many of us have assumed that the most powerful route to self-knowledge took the form of lying on a couch, talking about our childhoods. The possibility entertained in this book is that you can follow another path, in which learning about the brain's mechanics can widen one's self-awareness as powerfully as any therapy or meditation or drug.
In "Mind Wide Open, " Johnson embarks on this path as his own test subject, participating in a battery of attention tests, learning to control video games by altering his brain waves, scanning his own brain with a $2 million fMRI machine, all in search of a modern answer to the oldest of questions: who am I?
Along the way, Johnson explores how we "read" other people, how the brain processes frightening events (and how we might rid ourselves of the scars those memories leave), what the neurochemistry is behind love and sex, what it means that our brains are teeming with powerful chemicals closely related to recreational drugs, why music moves us to tears, and where our breakthrough ideas come from.
Johnson's clear, engaging explanation of the physical functions of the brain reveals not only the broad strokes of our aptitudes and fears, our skills and weaknesses and desires, but also the momentary brain phenomena that a whole human life comprises. Why, when hearing a tale of woe, do we sometimes smile inappropriately, even if we don't want to? Why are some of us so bad at remembering phone numbers but brilliant at recognizing faces? Why does depression make us feel stupid?
To read "Mind Wide Open" is to rethink family histories, individual fates, and the very nature of the self, and to see that brain science is now personally transformative -- a valuable tool for better relationships and better living. [via]
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Mindstorms
by Seymour Papert

ISBN 0465046746 (0-465-04674-6)
Softcover, Basic Books

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Mindstorms has two central themes: that children can learn to use computers in a masterful way and that learning to use computers can change the way they learn everything else. Even outside the classroom, Papert had a vision that the computer could be used just as casually and as personally for a diversity of purposes throughout a persons entire life. Seymour Papert makes the point that in classrooms saturated with technology there is actually more socialization and that the technology often contributes to greater interaction among students and among students and instructors.
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
by Betty Edwards, Jeremy P. Tarcher

ISBN 0874774241 (0-87477-424-1)
Softcover, J P Tarcher

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When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition.

Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. Truly The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes:

the very latest developments in brain research

new material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education

instruction on self-expression through drawing

an updated section on using color

detailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving

Translated into thirteen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing-instruction guide. People from just about every walk of lifeartists, students, corporate executives, architects, real estate agents, designers, engineershave applied its revolutionary approach to problem solving. The Los Angeles Times said it best: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is "not only a book about drawing, it is a book about living. This brilliant approach to the teaching of drawing . . . should not be dismissed as a mere text. It emancipates."
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Otter Nonsense
by Norton Juster, Eric Carle

ISBN 039920931X (0-399-20931-X)
Softcover, Horizon Book Promotions

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We've got some great gnus for ewe here--lots of other hilarious animal puns that are sure to shark you. In this brilliantly illustrated book you can see the seal of approval, and meet a moose with a mousetache. The 80 outrageous puns in the collection will make this just the condor book you'll gopher. Full color. [via]
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman Ramos

ISBN 0826412769 (0-8264-1276-9)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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Mild underlining, highlighting, brackets. Minimal shelfwear. [via]
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The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster

ISBN 088103696X (0-88103-696-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored, bored young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.
Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by Maurice Sendak for the 35th anniversary edition, he states, "The Phantom Tollbooth leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.
As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or Alice in Wonderland-style adventure will adore this book for years on end. (Ages 8 and up) [via]
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by Jules Feiffer, Norton Juster

ISBN 0816148015 (0-8161-4801-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored, bored young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.
Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by Maurice Sendak for the 35th anniversary edition, he states, "The Phantom Tollbooth leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.
As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or Alice in Wonderland-style adventure will adore this book for years on end. (Ages 8 and up) [via]
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The Power of Mindful Learning
by Ellen J. Langer

ISBN 0201339919 (0-201-33991-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future
by Peter M. Senge, Society for Organizational Learning

ISBN 0974239011 (0-9742390-1-1)
Hardcover, SOL

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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
by Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger

ISBN 0521423740 (0-521-42374-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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In this important theoretical treatist, the authors push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. [via]
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The Society of Mind
by Marvin Minsky

ISBN 0671657135 (0-671-65713-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books

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For some artificial intelligence researchers, Minsky's book is too far removed from hard science to be useful. For others, the high-level approach of The Society of Mind makes it a gold mine of ideas waiting to be implemented. The author, one of the undisputed fathers of the discipline of AI, sets out to provide an abstract model of how the human mind really works. His thesis is that our minds consist of a huge aggregation of tiny mini-minds or agents that have evolved to perform highly specific tasks. Most of these agents lack the attributes we think of as intelligence and are severely limited in their ability to intercommunicate. Yet rational thought, feeling, and purposeful action result from the interaction of these basic components. Minsky's theory does not suggest a specific implementation for building intelligent machines. Still, this book may prove to be one of the most influential for the future of AI. [via]
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Summerhill
by Alexander Sutherland Neill, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)

ISBN 0140209409 (0-14-020940-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books

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Summerhill is Neill's story of the small experimental school he set up to prove Freedom Works. [via]
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Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearing
by Alexander S. Neill

ISBN 0671790013 (0-671-79001-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood
by A.S. Neill, Albert Lamb

ISBN 0312141378 (0-312-14137-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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Originally published in 1960, Summerhill became an instant bestseller and a classic volume of education for an entire generation. Now, this thoroughly expanded and revised version of the original Summerhill reinstates the revolutionary "free school" traditions begun by Summerhill's founder A.S. Neill.

As American education lags behind the rest of the world, this new edition is more timely than ever. The children of today face struggles far greater than any previous generation and we, as parents and teachers, must teach them now to make choices for themselves and to learn from the outcome of their decisions.

This classic work yet again invites a new view of childhood and presents an essential treatise that challenges us to rethink our approach to education.
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Superlearning
by Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder, Nancy Ostrander

ISBN 0440384249 (0-440-38424-9)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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Using innovative, easy-to-follow techniques that have been proven in world-wide studies, this program will help listeners learn anything two to ten times faster and turn potential into high performance. [via]
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Superlearning 2000
by Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder, Nancy Ostrander

ISBN 0440507146 (0-440-50714-6)
Softcover, Dell Books

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Whether you want to learn a foreign language, improve your tennis game, ace a test, or learn anything two-to-five times faster, the fun and innovative method of superlearning is designed to unlock your limitless potential. This revolutionary program reveals how the right kind of music can enhance learning, which "superfood" can make people a startling 25 percent smarter, the subliminal message that increases test scores, and much more.

From the Paperback edition. [via]
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Superlearning 2000
by Lynn Schroeder

ISBN 0440223881 (0-440-22388-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Whether you want to learn a foreign language, improve your tennis game, ace a test, or learn anything two-to-five times faster, the fun and innovative method of superlearning is designed to unlock your limitless potential. This revolutionary program reveals how the right kind of music can enhance learning, which "superfood" can make people a startling 25 percent smarter, the subliminal message that increases test scores, and much more. [via]
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Use Both Sides of Your Brain
by Tony Buzan

ISBN 0452266033 (0-452-26603-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
by Susan Wise Bauer

ISBN 0393050947 (0-393-05094-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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An engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.
Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. In her previous book, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children, and that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In this new book, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading.

The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of five literary genresfiction, autobiography, history, drama, and poetryaccompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapterranging from Cervantes to A. S. Byatt, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrichpreview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing.

The Well-Educated Mind reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. If you can understand a daily newspaper, there's no reason you can't read and enjoy Shakespeare's Sonnets or Jane Eyre. But no one should attempt to read the "Great Books" without a guide and a plan. Susan Wise Bauer will show you how to allocate time to your reading on a regular basis; how to master a difficult argument; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genrewhat does Anna Karenina owe to Madame Bovary?and also between genres. Followed carefully, the advice in The Well-Educated Mind will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word. [via]
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What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grades, Optimum Learning, Minimum Time
by Adam Robinson

ISBN 0517880857 (0-517-88085-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Starting from the premise that successful students are not necessarily any more brilliant than their less successful peers, but have simply mastered the art of efficient learning, Adam Robinson introduces high school and college students to an innovative approach that can help them achieve top grades while discovering the joy of true learning. Line drawings. [via]
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La Caseta Magica
by Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer, Alberto Jiménez Rioja

ISBN 1587171090 (1-58717-109-0)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC

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Norton Juster's timeless, best-selling novel will reach an even wider readership with this outstanding Spanish translation. Milo thinks that just about everything is a big waste of time--when he even bothers to think at all. But he starts to see life in a whole new way after a mysterious gift transports him to the Lands Beyond. Accompanied by the ticking watchdog Tock and the boastful Humbug, Milo embarks on an unforgettable quest to rescue Princesses Rhyme and Reason and restore common sense to the Kingdom of Wisdom. [via]
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La Quinta Disciplina/ The Fith Discipline
by Peter Senge

ISBN 9506414300 (950-641-430-0)
Softcover, Distal S R L

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Seis Sombreros Para Pensar/ Six Hats To think: Una Guia De Pensamiento Para Gente De Accion / a Thinking Guide for People of Action
by Eduard De Bono

ISBN 9506410615 (950-641-061-5)
Softcover, Granica Adelphi

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En Seis sombreros para pensar de Bono alterna párrafos teóricos en los que expone su teoría con ejemplos, cuya intención es demostrar la eficacia del uso de los sombreros para pensar. Al leer el ensayo se tiene la sensación de que bien podría decir lo mismo en una cuarta parte del espacio que utiliza. Es muy frecuente que de Bono utilice expresiones como «deje de pensar con el sombrero negro» o «valore por un momento esta idea desde el sombrero amarillo». Al leer este tipo de ejemplos uno no sabe si de Bono propone utilizar estas fórmulas en serio o si son metáforas que simbolizan los cambios en el modo de pensar. Desde luego, todo parece indicar que lo propone en serio, lo que sin duda resulta entre artificial e infantil. De Bono dice que al principio resultará utilizar este método, pero que una vez se naturalice saldrá de forma espontánea y el pensador se habrá habituado por completo a este proceso. Francamente, desde el sombrero rojo, permítanme que un servidor lo dude. [via]
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