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Speed & Scale - John Doerr - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Speed & Scale - John Doerr - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

#1 bestselling author and acclaimed venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping action plan to conquer humanity''s greatest challenge: climate change. In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore''s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: "Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it." Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem-as an investor, an advocate and a philanthropist. Fifteen years later, despite breakthroughs in batteries, electric vehicles, plant-based proteins and solar and wind power, global warming continues to get worse. Its impact is all around us: droughts, floods, wildfires, the melting of the polar ice caps. Our world is squarely in a climate crisis and on the brink of a climate disaster. Yet despite our state of emergency, climate change has yet to be tackled with the urgency and ambition it demands. More than ever, we need a clear course of action. Fueled by a powerful tool called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), SPEED & SCALE offers an unprecedented global plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions before it''s too late. Used by Google, Bono''s ONE foundation and thousands of startups the world over, OKRs have scaled ideas into achievements that changed the world. With clear-eyed realism and an engineer''s precision, Doerr identifies the measurable OKRs we need to reduce emissions across the board and to arrive by 2050 at net zero-the point where we are no longer adding to the heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere.By turns pragmatic and inspiring, SPEED & SCALE intersperses Doerr''s wide-ranging analysis with firsthand accounts from Jeff Bezos, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, Mary Barra, Bill Gates, and other intrepid policy leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists and activists. This book is a launchpad for leaders of all kind, for anyone anywhere who can move others to act with them. With a definitive action plan, the latest science and a rising climate movement on our side, we can still reach net zero before it is too late. But as Doerr reminds us, there is no more time to waste. ________________­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ ''A critical blueprint for anyone looking to take concrete steps to reach net-zero emissions. '' Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President ''A practical guide for both public and private sector participation in decarbonizing the global economy, a task as challenging as it is urgent. '' Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the UN Climate Change Convention ''A comprehensive plan to tackle one of the most vexing challenges in human history. '' Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last

DKK 168.00
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Design to Grow - Linda Tischler - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Design to Grow - Linda Tischler - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Tomorrow''s business winners need two things: scale and agility. The answer to both is design. For over a century, The Coca-Cola Company has used design to scale its flagship brand to over 200 countries. And in recent years it has sustained that growth while becoming even more agile - something most established businesses struggle with. In Design to Grow , Coca-Cola''s vice president of Innovation and Entrepreneurship David Butler gives an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at Coca-Cola''s design-led strategy for growth. He shows how any business can use the same approach to get to the next level.Clear and actionable, this book is a must-read for leaders, creatives and entrepreneurs.''A handy blueprint for how any company can use design to stay ahead of the competition'' The Times ''Reading Design to Grow has caused me to think differently about my company. I am confident it will do the same for how you think about yours'' Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO

DKK 161.00
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A New View of Society and Other Writings - Gregory Claeys - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A New View of Society and Other Writings - Gregory Claeys - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than ''the emancipation ofmankind'' and the creation of a ''new moral world'', a full-scale reorganization of British society, major reforms of working practices and the Poor Laws and the establishment of co-operative model.

DKK 141.00
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Vargic’s Curious Cosmic Compendium - Martin Vargic - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Vargic’s Curious Cosmic Compendium - Martin Vargic - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Take a trip to outer space with this weird and wonderful guide to our universe, the perfect gift for both young and old Vargic''s beautifully innovative designs will help to explain all of the bizarre and fascinating aspects of the cosmos; from the history of the universe to what makes up our solar system and even how human life fits into the wider picture. Be taken on an unforgettable journey through space with chapters on . . . · Exploring the Cosmos· The Night Sky· Maps of the Inner Solar System· Timeline of the Universe· Cosmologies throughout History· Journey Into Outer Space· Scale of the UniverseThis is a book that celebrates the scale and spectacle of the universe on every page, and one which you''ll treasure forever. _______ ''5***** In more than one hundred pages filled with facts and illustrations he takes the reader on a journey through the history of the cosmos'' BBC Sky at Night ''Packs in so much of our astronomical knowledge, so many tidbits about the history of astronomy and space exploration that I felt wonderfully enriched by it all. It is visually striking and beautifully illustrated'' Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

DKK 241.00
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World War One - Norman Stone - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

World War One - Norman Stone - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone''s short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel'' Literary Review In 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors'' empires were fatally damaged. The First World War marked a revolution in the technology of slaughter as trench warfare, artillery barrages, tanks and chemical warfare made their mark on the battlefield for the first time. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But in only 140 pages, Norman Stone distils a lifetime of teaching, arguing and thinking to reframe the overwhelming disaster whose aftershocks shaped the rest of the twentieth century. ''Bold, provocative and witty ... one of the outstanding historians of our age'' Spectator ''Entertaining and insightful ... one of the handful of living historians who can write with style and wit'' Tibor Fischer, Sunday Telegraph , Books of the Year

DKK 127.00
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Consciousness - Giulio Tononi - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Consciousness - Giulio Tononi - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

What goes on in our heads when we have a thought? With this book, Edelman and Tononi present an empirically-supported full-scale theory of consciousness. They apply all of the resources and insights of modern neuroscience, from the largest computermodels ever constructed to new experiments that detect the changes in brain activity. This pioneering work represents a landmark in our growing understanding of consciousness. Praise for Gerald Edelman: "The new Darwin...His theory is an enrichment of life itself" - Oliver Sacks, The Times

DKK 148.00
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The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''I''ve done my damndest to rip a reader''s nerves to rags, I don''t want him satisfied.'' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck''s Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision.

DKK 120.00
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The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''I''ve done my damndest to rip a reader''s nerves to rags, I don''t want him satisfied.'' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck''s Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision.

DKK 119.00
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The Voltage Effect - John A List - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Voltage Effect - John A List - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''By far the best book I''ve ever read on the how and why of scaling. If you care about changing the world, or just want to make better decisions in your own life, The Voltage Effect is for you. '' Angela Duckworth, CEO of Character Lab and New York Times bestselling author of Grit ________________­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ Why do some ideas make it big while others fail to take off? According to award-winning behavioural economist John List, the answer comes down to a single question: Can the idea scale? Countless enterprises fall apart the moment they scale; their positive results fizzle, they lose valuable time and money, and the great electric charge of potential that drove them early on disappears. In short, they suffer a voltage drop . Yet success and failure are not about luck - in fact, there is a rhyme and reason as to why some ideas fail and why some make it big. Certain ideas are predictably scalable, while others are predictably destined for disaster. In The Voltage Effect , University of Chicago economist John A. List explains how to identify the ideas that will be successful when scaled, and how to avoid those that won''t. Drawing on his own original research, as well as fascinating examples from the realms of business, government, education, and public health, he details the five signature elements that cause voltage drops, and unpacks the four proven techniques for increasing positive results - or voltage gains - and scaling great ideas to their fullest potential. By understanding the science of scaling, we can drive change in our schools, workplaces, communities, and society at large. Because a better world can only be built at scale. ________________ ''One of the best economics books I have ever read - and an instant classic in behavioral economics.'' Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University, and New York Times bestselling co-author of Nudge ''Thought-provoking and engaging. A must-read.'' Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor at MIT and co-author of Why Nations Fail and The Narrow Corridor .

DKK 179.00
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The Mediterranean in the Ancient World - Fernand Braudel - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Mediterranean in the Ancient World - Fernand Braudel - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This general reader''s history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian''s gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. Extensive notes allow the reader to appreciate thestate of scholarship at the time of writing, the scale and breadth of Braudel''s learning and the points where orthodoxy has changed, sometimes vindicating Braudel, sometimes proving him wrong. Above all the book offers us the chance to situate Braudel''s mediterranean, born of a lifetime''s love and knowledge, more clearly in the climates of the sea''s history.

DKK 166.00
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English Mystery Plays - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

English Mystery Plays - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Humour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusiasm and vitality of their writing is retained to this day. The energies of whole communities, notably at Chester, York and Wakefield, were devoted to their production and they were to influence later dramatists significantly. The grand design of the mystery plays was to celebrate the Christian story from ''The Fall of Lucifer'' to the ''Judgement Day'', and this volume contains thirty-eight plays, forming in itself a composite cycle and including almost all the incidents common to the extant cycles.

DKK 168.00
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Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil - Peter Maass - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil - Peter Maass - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Oil makes the world work, but it destroys many of those who produce it.Crude World offers a passionate look at the countries where oil is extracted, and follows the journey of oil, showing how it poisons the land and rivers, promotes political bloodshed, creates corruption on a staggering scale, and rarely offers the people either wealth or freedom. Instead, oil benefits only the companies and governments that will do anything to sustain the flow of money. From Nigerian fishermen to Moscow oligarchs, from American generals in Iraq to environmentalists in Ecuador, from British executives to Saudi jihadists, Peter Maass illustrates exactly how our passion for oil is so deadly.

DKK 161.00
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The Climate Book - Greta Thunberg - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Climate Book - Greta Thunberg - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year* ‘Spectacular ... this work is planetary in scale’ Independent ‘It offers real, rich hope’ Observer , Books of the Year We still have time to change the world. From the world''s leading climate activist, this is the essential book for making it happen. Created by Greta Thunberg in partnership with over 100 climate experts working around the globe, with her commentaries throughout and updates for this new paperback edition to reflect the latest research, The Climate Book equips us with knowledge, and gives us hope. Together, it shows, we can do the seemingly impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.

DKK 209.00
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The Penguin History of Medieval Europe - Maurice Keen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin History of Medieval Europe - Maurice Keen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This is a fascinating, three-dimensional picture of the politics, society and religion of medieval Europe, the age that had as its great theme the unity of Christendom. Maurice Keen examines tribal wars, the Crusades, the growth of trade and the shifting patterns of community life as villages grew into towns and towns into sizeable cities. He explores how Papal victories, by blurring the distinction between temporal and spiritual matters, eventually undermined the spiritual authority of the Church. And he discusses how the Hundred Years War escalated from a feudal dispute into a full-scale national conflict, until, by the mid-fifteenth century, changing economic and social conditions had transformed the unity of Christendom into merely a pious phrase.

DKK 141.00
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The Big Zero - Kris Timmermans - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Big Zero - Kris Timmermans - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Do you want to achieve startup speed at enterprise scale? Growth. It''s what every company strives for. But it''s become more and more elusive as companies struggle to hit their projected growth rates in an increasingly competitive market.While zero-based budgeting (ZBB) has been wielded for decades to cut costs, it falls short when it comes to spurring growth. But a zero-based mindset (ZBx) does that and more. ZBx facilitates forensic oversight into resource allocation that funnels savings back into growth initiatives and encourages new sources of innovation. The Big Zero shows how a ZBx approach focuses on agility over austerity, visibility over guesswork and the future over the past to fuel growth and competitiveness.

DKK 190.00
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Drawdown - Paul Hawken - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Drawdown - Paul Hawken - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. All of the techniques described here - some well-known, some you may have never heard of - are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are already enacting them. From revolutionizing how we produce and consume food to educating girls in lower-income countries, these are all solutions which, if deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, could not just slow the earth''s warming, but reach drawdown: the point when greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere peak and begin todecline. So what are we waiting for?

DKK 192.00
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Uncanny and Improbable Events - Amitav Ghosh - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Uncanny and Improbable Events - Amitav Ghosh - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of environmental destruction, Amitav Ghosh summons writers and novelists to confront the most urgent story of our times. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

DKK 86.00
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Mutual Aid - Peter Kropotkin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Mutual Aid - Peter Kropotkin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker ''Don''t compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!''In his pioneering 1902 treatise on human cooperation, the anarchist thinker and natural scientist Peter Kropotkin argued that it is our innate instinct for mutual aid - rather than mutual struggle - which enables societies to survive and flourish. From the earliest days of evolution through to medieval guilds, indigenous nomads and modern voluntary organisations, Kropotkin''s vision of small-scale, ecologically sustainable, collective communities challenged the orthodoxies of his age, whether individualism or Marxism. Mutual Aid offers instead a radical, and prescient, rewriting of the whole of human history.With an introduction by David Priestland

DKK 120.00
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The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie? Tragic and moving, The Mill on the Floss is a novel of grand passions and tormented lives. As the rebellious Maggie''s fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her beloved brother Tom, their fates are played out on an epic scale. George Eliot drew on her own frustrated rural upbringing to create one of the great novels of childhood, and one of literature''s most unforgettable heroines.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

DKK 48.00
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The Mitrokhin Archive II - Christopher Andrew - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Mitrokhin Archive II - Christopher Andrew - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The second sensational volume of ''One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years'' ( The Times ) When Vasili Mitrokhin revealed his archive of Russian intelligence material to the world it caused an international sensation. The Mitrokhin Archive II reveals in full the secrets of this remarkable cache, showing for the first time the astonishing extent of the KGB''s global power and influence. ''The long-awaited second tranche from the KGB archive ... co-authored by our leading authority on the secret machinations of the Evil Empire'' Sunday Times ''Stunning ... the stuff of legend ... a unique insight into KGB activities on a global scale'' Spectator ''Headline news ... as great a credit to the scholarship of its author as to the dedication and courage of its originator'' Sunday Telegraph ''There are gems on every page'' Financial Times

DKK 192.00
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Mission Economy - Mariana Mazzucato - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Mission Economy - Mariana Mazzucato - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''One of the most influential economists in the world'' Wired Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Taking her inspiration from the ''moonshot'' programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, Mariana Mazzucato calls for the same level of boldness and experimentation to be applied to the biggest problems of our time. We must, she argues, rethink the capacities and role of government within the economy and society, and above all recover a sense of public purpose. Mission Economy , whose ideas are already being adopted around the world, offers a way out of our impasse to a more optimistic future.

DKK 127.00
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa - Jan Potocki - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa - Jan Potocki - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of hauntings and seductions, leap forth to create a vibrant polyphony of human voices. Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provides entertainment on an epic scale.

DKK 189.00
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Command - Sir Lawrence Freedman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Command - Sir Lawrence Freedman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A timely history of the interplay between politics and military operations, '' Command is the history of our time'' ( Guardian ) Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam''s Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia''s wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare.

DKK 168.00
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Early Christian Writings - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Early Christian Writings - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide a first-hand account of the early Church and outline a form of early Christianity still drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion, Judaism. Included here are the first Epistle of Bishop Clement of Rome, an impassioned plea for harmony; The Epistle of Polycarp; The Epistle of Barnabas; The Didache; and the Seven Epistles written by Ignatius of Antioch - among them his moving appeal to the Romans that they grant him a martyr''s death.

DKK 119.00
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