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Proofs without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking (Classroom Resource Materials) cover

401. Proofs without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking (Classroom Resource Materials)

by Roger B. Nelsen
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The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth cover

402. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

by Jonathan Rauch
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A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2) cover

403. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2)

by Vernor Vinge
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Principles: Life and Work cover

404. Principles: Life and Work

by Ray Dalio
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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist cover

405. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
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C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software cover

406. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software

by David R. Hanson
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt cover

407. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

by Michael Lewis
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

408. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised cover

409. CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised

by Katie Hafner, John Markoff
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Death March (2nd Edition) cover

410. Death March (2nd Edition)

by Edward Yourdon
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Mathematical Methods for Physicists: A Comprehensive Guide cover

411. Mathematical Methods for Physicists: A Comprehensive Guide

by George Brown Arfken, George B. Arfken, Hans J. Weber, Frank E. Harris
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys cover

412. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

by Michael Collins
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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date cover

413. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date

by Robert X. Cringely
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Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age cover

414. Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

by Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne
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Streaming 101: The world beyond batch cover

415. Streaming 101: The world beyond batch

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Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation cover

416. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation

by John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman
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Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide cover

417. Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide

by Alex Reinhart
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) cover

418. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

419. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Glaeser
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Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing cover

420. Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing

by Jared Bhatti, Heidi Waterhouse
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Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom cover

421. Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom

by Richard A. Burgess
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Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth cover

422. Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

by Andrew Smith
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REST API Design Rulebook cover

423. REST API Design Rulebook

by Mark Massé
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Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science cover

424. Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science

by Harry R. Lewis
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst cover

425. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

by Robert M. Sapolsky
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life cover

426. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

by Erving Goffman
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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living cover

427. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
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Introduction to Graph Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

428. Introduction to Graph Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Richard J. Trudeau
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Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory cover

429. Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory

by George Gamow
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Bag in the Wind cover

430. Bag in the Wind

by Ted Kooser
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PowerShell Cookbook, 4th Edition cover

431. PowerShell Cookbook, 4th Edition

by Lee Holmes
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Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training cover

432. Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training

by Karen Pryor
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IPv6 Address Planning cover

433. IPv6 Address Planning

by Tom Coffeen
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Tribes cover

434. Tribes

by Seth Godin
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Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's

435. Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire"

by William R. Newman
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The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993 cover

436. The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993

by Jordan Mechner
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Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II cover

437. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

by Keith Lowe
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Feedback Control for Computer Systems cover

438. Feedback Control for Computer Systems

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Linux Kernel Development cover

439. Linux Kernel Development

by Robert Love
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley cover

440. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez
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The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast! cover

441. The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!

by Josh Kaufman
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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX cover

442. Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

by Eric Berger
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sendmail, 4th Edition cover

443. sendmail, 4th Edition

by Bryan Costales, Claus Assmann, George Jansen, Gregory Shapiro
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The Wright Brothers cover

444. The Wright Brothers

by David McCullough
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Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know cover

445. Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know

by Jim Camp
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Effective Modern C++ cover

446. Effective Modern C++

by Scott Meyers
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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America cover

447. Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

by Chris Arnade
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Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations cover

448. Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations

by William Ury
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Record of the Listener: Selected Stories from Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi cover

449. Record of the Listener: Selected Stories from Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi

by Mai Hong
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Project Hail Mary: A Novel cover

450. Project Hail Mary: A Novel

by Andy Weir
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Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need cover

451. Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

by Blake Snyder
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It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences cover

452. It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences

by June Casagrande
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Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring (Paperback)) cover

453. Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring (Paperback))

by Christopher Hitchens
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The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression: A Step-by-Step Program cover

454. The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression: A Step-by-Step Program

by William J. Knaus, Albert Ellis
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

455. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
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MAC OS X Internals: A Systems Approach cover

456. MAC OS X Internals: A Systems Approach

by Amit Singh
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Dark Matter: A Novel cover

457. Dark Matter: A Novel

by Blake Crouch
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Chaos: Making a New Science cover

458. Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick
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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition cover

459. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore
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The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America cover

460. The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

by Ernest Freeberg
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Concurrency in Go cover

461. Concurrency in Go

by Katherine Cox-Buday
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice cover

462. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

by Shunryū Suzuki
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The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power cover

463. The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power

by Joseph Turow
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The Man With the President's Mind cover

464. The Man With the President's Mind

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The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet cover

465. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

by Nina Teicholz
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Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1) cover

466. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1)

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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

467. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker
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Building Scalable Web Sites cover

468. Building Scalable Web Sites

by Cal Henderson
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity cover

469. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber, David Wengrow
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World cover

470. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

by Steven Johnson
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Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons (Computational Neuroscience Series) cover

471. Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons (Computational Neuroscience Series)

by Christof Koch
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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 2nd Edition cover

472. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 2nd Edition

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ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History cover

473. ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History

by Jennifer Dasal
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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters cover

474. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

by Frances Stonor Saunders
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A Modern Method for Guitar Complete Edition | Volumes 1 2 and 3 in One Book | William Leavitt Berklee Guitar Course for Beginners and Intermediate Players | Essential Guitar Study Guide cover

475. A Modern Method for Guitar Complete Edition | Volumes 1 2 and 3 in One Book | William Leavitt Berklee Guitar Course for Beginners and Intermediate Players | Essential Guitar Study Guide

by William Leavitt
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic cover

476. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

by Mike Duncan
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Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

477. Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Ian Stewart
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Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology cover

478. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

by Valentino Braitenberg
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Building Tools with GitHub cover

479. Building Tools with GitHub

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Flight: My Life in Mission Control cover

480. Flight: My Life in Mission Control

by Christopher C. Kraft
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man cover

481. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

by John Perkins
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The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems cover

482. The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems

by W. Michael Kelley
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3,000 Solved Problems in Linear Algebra cover

483. 3,000 Solved Problems in Linear Algebra

by Seymour Lipschutz
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Schaum's 3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus (Schaum's Outlines) cover

484. Schaum's 3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus (Schaum's Outlines)

by Elliott Mendelson
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Team Geek cover

485. Team Geek

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The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing cover

486. The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing

by Benjamin Graham
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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work cover

487. It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History cover

488. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne
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How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking cover

489. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking

by Sönke Ahrens
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Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era cover

490. Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

by Tomas De Yriarte, J. B. C. Grainville, Honore F. M. Langle
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Wealth, Poverty and Politics cover

491. Wealth, Poverty and Politics

by Thomas Sowell
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Zoned Out cover

492. Zoned Out

by Jonathan C. Levine
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America cover

493. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

by Colin Woodard
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Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management cover

494. Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management

by Richard Jones, Rafael Lins
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“A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide cover

495. “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide

by Samantha Power
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Most Secret War cover

496. Most Secret War

by R.V. Jones
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Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books) cover

497. Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)

by Edwin Hutchins
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The Google Way cover

498. The Google Way

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The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You cover

499. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

by Julie Zhuo
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Wireless Hacks cover

500. Wireless Hacks

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