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Freedom
'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to read this.' - Jon Snow
'In Freedom, Nathan Law paints a deeply personal portrait of sheer courage... An essential and timely read.' - Speaker Nancy Pelosi
What does it mean to be truly free? And can any of us be free until all of us are?
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nathan Law has experienced first-hand the shocking speed with which our freedom can be taken away from us, as an elected politician arrested simply for speaking his mind.
He remembers what it is like to lack freedom - and his father's precarious three-day escape from China in a small rowing boat.
When authoritarianism makes gains around the world, demanding our silence as the price of doing business, it poses a challenge to democracy everywhere.
In this passionate rallying cry, Law argues that we must defend our freedom now or face losing it for ever.
'Now we all need to stand firm to defend our freedoms, to ensure truth is not determined by dictators. We are born free and as equals. As long as we believe in that, no one can take it away from us.'
Vogue Paris: 100 Years
Vogue Paris has always been so much more than a fashion magazine. It has assumed a central and vital role on the international cultural stage, with a history that spans the most inventive decades in fashion and taste, and in the arts and society. It has acted as a cultural bellwether, putting fashion in the context of the larger world in which we live and mirroring its times - the postwar renaissance of Paris and haute couture, the New Wave, the radical seventies, the glamorous eighties. As it enters its second century, it remains at the cutting edge of photography and design.
Published to mark the magazine's centenary, this book celebrates Vogue Paris's history from its first issue in 1920 to its current incarnation with Emmanuelle Alt at the helm. On its pages are creations by some of the greatest artists of their era, whether distinguished illustrators such as Lepape, Gruau and Benito, or photographers such as Man Ray, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin and Mario Testino. Here, too, are iconic faces: Catherine Deneuve, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Kate Moss and more. And of course, it showcases the fashion designers who defined the century - Chanel, Dior, Balenciaga, Saint Laurent, McQueen - and explores more broadly the changing mores of the past hundred years.
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Rural Studio
For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent MacArthur Grant recipient, and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County. Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, and old license plates, they create inexpensive buildings that bear the trademark of Mockbee's work, which he describes as "contemporary modernism grounded in Southern culture."In a time of unexampled prosperity, when architectural attention focuses on big, glossy urban projects, the Rural Studio provides an alternative of substance. In addition to being a social welfare venture, the Rural Studio--"Taliesin South" as Mockbee calls it--is also an educational experiment and a prod to the architectural profession to act on its best instincts. In giving students hands-on experience in designing and building something real, it extends their education beyond paper architecture. And in scavenging and reusing a variety of unusual materials, it is a model of sustainable architecture. The work of Rural Studio has struck such a chord-both architecturally and socially--that it has been featured on Oprah, Nightline, and CBS News, as well as in Time and People magazines.The Studio has completed more than a dozen projects, including the Bryant "Hay Bale" House, Harris "Butterfly" House, Yancey Chapel, Akron Chapel, Children's Center, H.E.R.O. Playground, Lewis House, Super Sheds and Pods, Spencer House addition, Farmer's Market, Mason's Bend Community Center, Goat House, and Shannon-Dutley House. These buildings, along with the incredible story of the Rural Studio, the people who live there, and Mockbee and his student architects, are detailed in this colorful book, the first on the subject."I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble"--Samuel Mockbee
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Hope to Die
It looks like a burglary gone wrong, but DI Adam Fawley suspects there's something more to it.
When the police discover a connection to a high-profile case from years ago, involving a child's murder and an alleged miscarriage of justice, the press go wild.
Suddenly Fawley's team are under more scrutiny than ever before. And when you dig up the past, you're sure to find a few skeletons...
The sixth twisty, up-all-night thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling Cara Hunter. For fans of Shari Lapena, Claire Douglas and Lisa Jewell.
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Godkiller
You are not welcome here, godkiller
Kissen's family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enjoys it. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, has somehow bound himself to a young noble, and they are both on the run from unknown assassins.
Joined by a disillusioned knight on a secret quest, they must travel to the ruined city of Blenraden, where the last of the wild gods reside, to each beg a favour.
Pursued by demons, and in the midst of burgeoning civil war, they will all face a reckoning - something is rotting at the heart of their world, and only they can be the ones to stop it.
Rule of Laws
'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters ... For those who want to understand why human society has emerged as it has, this is essential reading' Rana Mitter, author of China's Good War
The laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During two hundred years of colonial rule, Europeans exported their laws everywhere they could. But they weren't filling a void: in many places, they displaced traditions that were already ancient when Vasco Da Gama first arrived in India.
Where, then, did it all begin? And what has law been and done over the course of human history? In The Rule of Laws, pioneering anthropologist Fernanda Pirie traces the development of the world's great legal systems - Chinese, Indian, Roman, and Islamic - and the innumerable smaller traditions they inspired.
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Lacná kniha Sontag: Her Life
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face
Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - and the dangers - of the twentieth-century world.
Her writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, Fascism and Freudianism, Communism and Americanism, reflected the conflicted meanings of a most conflicted word: modernity. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began and the Berlin Wall came down, in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based, exploring the private woman hidden behind the formidable public face.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from Manhattan to Sarajevo - and featuring nearly one hundred images, many never seen before - Sontag is the first book based on the writer's restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about her, including Annie Leibovitz. It is an indelible portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers, who lived one of that century's most romantic - and most anguished - lives.
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Lacná kniha Ocean Creatures (puzzle) (-70%)
Kids love piecing together these five colorful jigsaw puzzles while reading fascinating facts about the creatures of the sea. Lee Krutops stunning images of the sea creatures of the world include the dazzling inhabitants of tropical reefs, the polar
bears of the arctic, and the legendary sharks, squid, and stingrays of the inky-black deep. Each illustration is explained by informative text, making this board book as educational as it is entertaining.
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Orbis sensualium pictus, 2. vydání
Po mnoha letech opět vychází jedinečné dílo Jana Amose Komenského – ORBIS SENSUALIUM PICTUS (Svět v obrazech), které by nemělo chybět v žádné rodinné i školní knihovně. Jedná se o výbor z Komenského jazykové encyklopedie, která v době svého vydání natolik předběhla dobu, že ještě v následujících staletích – u nás až do počátku minulého století – sloužila jako živá učební pomůcka pro výuku jazyků. Aktuální vydání připravil kolektiv odborníků pod vedením doc. PhDr. Naděždy Kvítkové, CSc. a doplnil jej obsáhlým úvodem a komentářem k dílu.
Nové vydání obsahuje původní latinské texty a je doplněno paralelními překlady do současné češtiny, němčiny, angličtiny a ruštiny. Neméně důležitou součástí knihy je i obrazová část, která reprodukuje původní dřevoryty z několika historických vydání a snaží se tak netradičním způsobem srovnat i vývoj obrazové kultury dané doby. ORBIS PICTUS vychází v pevné vazbě opatřené reliéfní ražbou na titulu.
A new edition of selections from Comenius’ encyclopedia for language learning, ORBIS SENSUALIUM PICTUS (The Visible World in Pictures), which was so ahead of its time when first published in 1658 that it continued to be used in later centuries – even to the mid-1900s - as a living language learning aid. The present edition was prepared by a team of experts under the direction of Dr. Naděžda Kvítková, an associate professor in Czech Slavonic Studies at Charles University in Prague, and includes an extensive preface and commentary to this work of Comenius.
The new edition contains the original Latin texts and is supplemented by parallel translations into contemporary English, German, Russian and Czech. An important component of the book are its illustrations, featuring reprints of original woodcuts from several historical editions, the aim being to also compare in a nontraditional way the development of the visual cultures of the respective periods.
Nach mehr als zwanzig Jahren erscheint wieder das einzigartige Werk von Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius) – ORBIS SENSUALIUM PICTUS (Welt in Bildern), das in keiner Familien- oder Schulbibliothek fehlen sollte. Es handelt sich um eine Auswahl aus Comenius´ Sprachenenzyklopädie, die in der Zeit ihrer ersten Ausgabe (1658) so bahnbrechend war, dass sie noch in den nachfolgenden Jahrhunderten – bis zur ersten Hälfte des vergangenen Jahrhunderts - als lebendiges Lehrmittel für den Sprachunterricht diente. Die aktuelle Ausgabe wurde von einem Team von Fachleuten unter der Leitung von PhDr. Naděžda Kvítková, CSc.vorbereitet und durch eine ausführliche Einleitung und Kommentar zum Werk ergänzt.
Die neue Ausgabe enthält die ursprünglichen lateinischen Texte und neu auch die Übersetzungen ins Gegenwartsdeutsch, Tschechisch, Englisch und Russisch. Ein nicht unwesentlicher Bestandteil des Buches sind die Bilder, die die Reproduktionen ursprünglicher Holzschnitte aus einigen historischen Ausgaben beinhalten und auf eine untraditionelle Art versuchen, auch die Entwicklung der Bildkultur der damaligen Zeit näherzubringen.
Free Speech
A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.
Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat.
In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea. Through captivating stories of free speech's many defenders - from the ancient Athenian orator Demosthenes and the ninth-century freethinker al-Razi, to Mary Wollstonecraft, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and modern-day digital activists - Mchangama demonstrates how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Yet the desire to restrict speech is also a constant, and he explores how even its champions can be led down this path when the rise of new and contrarian voices challenge power and privilege of all kinds.
Meticulously researched, deeply humane and provocative, Free Speech challenges us all to recognise how much we have gained from this principle - and how much we stand to lose without it.
Carey Mariah - Music Box: 30th Anniversary (Expanded Edition) 3CD
Mariah Carey (narodená 27. marca 1969) je americká speváčka, skladateľka, producentka a herečka. Mariah sa pripisuje vplyv na vokálne štýly, spojenie hip-hopu s popom prostredníctvom svojich spoluprác a popularizácie remixov. Pre trvalú popularitu jej Vianočnej hudby, najmä piesne „All I Want for Christmas Is You“ z roku 1994, ktorá je najpredávanejšou Vianočnou piesňou jednej umelkyne, bola tiež prezývaná „Kráľovná Vianoc“. Mariah je jednou z najpredávanejších hudobných umelkýň s viac ako 220 miliónmi predaných nahrávok po celom svete a je členom Siene slávy skladateľov, Národného registra nahrávok v Kongresovej knižnici a Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall. slávy. VH1 bola v roku 2012 zaradená ako druhá najväčšia žena v hudbe a ako piata najlepšia speváčka podľa Rolling Stone v roku 2023. Billboard ju označil za najpredávanejšiu ženskú sólovú umelkyňu na základe úspechu albumov aj piesňových hitparád. Je držiteľkou rekordu za najviac singlov Billboard Hot 100 číslo jeden od sólovej umelkyne (19), skladateľky (18) a producentky (15), pričom na vrchole rebríčka strávila rekordných 93 týždňov. Carey je najlepšie certifikovaná umelkyňa v Spojených štátoch a celkovo 10. so 75 miliónmi certifikovaných albumov. Medzi jej ocenenia patrí 5 cien Grammy, 10 American Music Awards, 16 Billboard Music Awards a 12 Guinessových rekordov.
"Music Box" je tretí štúdiový album, ktorý vyšiel na Columbia Records 31. augusta 1993. Album obsahuje balady, ktoré primárne napísali Carey a Walter Afanasieff, s ktorými predtým pracovala na Emotions (1991), a niekoľko skladieb urban dance. Počas vývoja albumu chcela Mariah rozšíriť svoje publikum a vybrala si viac pop/R&B orientovaný zvuk. Počas tohto obdobia experimentovala s rôznymi hudobnými nástrojmi, čím sa zvuk albumu vzdialil od jej modernejších predchádzajúcich dvoch snáh.
Tracklist:
CD1: Music Box (Original)
01. Dreamlover
02. Hero
03. Anytime You Need a Friend
04. Music Box
05. Now That I Know
06. Never Forget You
07. Without You
08. Just To Hold You Once Again
09. I've Been Thinking About You
10. All I've Ever Wanted
11. Everything Fades Away
CD2: Bonus Tracks
01. All I Live For (Extended Version)
02. Endless Love (Duet With Luther Vandross)
03. Do You Think of Me
04. Workin' Hard
05. My Prayer
06. Hero (2009 Version)
07. Anytime You Need a Friend (Extended Mix)
08. Music Box (A Capella)
09. Dreamlover (Live From Top of the Pops)
10. Without You (Live From Top of the Pops)
11. Dreamlover (Def Club Mix)
12. Anytime You Need a Friend (C&C Club Version)
13. Anytime You Need a Friend (Soul Convention Remix)
14. I've Been Thinking About You (Terry Hunter Remix)
15. Workin' Hard (Terry Hunter Remix)
CD3: Mariah Carey Live at Proctor's Theater, NY - 1993
01. Emotions
02. Hero
03. Someday
04. Without You
05. Make It Happen
06. Dreamlover
07. Love Takes Time
08. Anytime You Need a Friend
09. Vision of Love
10. I'll Be There (Featuring Trey Lorenz)
Carey Mariah - Music Box: 30th Anniversary (Expanded Edition) 4LP
Mariah Carey (narodená 27. marca 1969) je americká speváčka, skladateľka, producentka a herečka. Mariah sa pripisuje vplyv na vokálne štýly, spojenie hip-hopu s popom prostredníctvom svojich spoluprác a popularizácie remixov. Pre trvalú popularitu jej Vianočnej hudby, najmä piesne „All I Want for Christmas Is You“ z roku 1994, ktorá je najpredávanejšou Vianočnou piesňou jednej umelkyne, bola tiež prezývaná „Kráľovná Vianoc“. Mariah je jednou z najpredávanejších hudobných umelkýň s viac ako 220 miliónmi predaných nahrávok po celom svete a je členom Siene slávy skladateľov, Národného registra nahrávok v Kongresovej knižnici a Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall. slávy. VH1 bola v roku 2012 zaradená ako druhá najväčšia žena v hudbe a ako piata najlepšia speváčka podľa Rolling Stone v roku 2023. Billboard ju označil za najpredávanejšiu ženskú sólovú umelkyňu na základe úspechu albumov aj piesňových hitparád. Je držiteľkou rekordu za najviac singlov Billboard Hot 100 číslo jeden od sólovej umelkyne (19), skladateľky (18) a producentky (15), pričom na vrchole rebríčka strávila rekordných 93 týždňov. Carey je najlepšie certifikovaná umelkyňa v Spojených štátoch a celkovo 10. so 75 miliónmi certifikovaných albumov. Medzi jej ocenenia patrí 5 cien Grammy, 10 American Music Awards, 16 Billboard Music Awards a 12 Guinessových rekordov.
"Music Box" je tretí štúdiový album, ktorý vyšiel na Columbia Records 31. augusta 1993. Album obsahuje balady, ktoré primárne napísali Carey a Walter Afanasieff, s ktorými predtým pracovala na Emotions (1991), a niekoľko skladieb urban dance. Počas vývoja albumu chcela Mariah rozšíriť svoje publikum a vybrala si viac pop/R&B orientovaný zvuk. Počas tohto obdobia experimentovala s rôznymi hudobnými nástrojmi, čím sa zvuk albumu vzdialil od jej modernejších predchádzajúcich dvoch snáh.
Tracklist:
LP1:
1. Dreamlover
2. Hero
3. Anytime You Need a Friend
4. Music Box
5. Now That I Know
6. Never Forget You
7. Without You
8. Just To Hold You Once Again
9. I've Been Thinking About You
10. All I've Ever Wanted
11. Everything Fades Away
LP2:
1. All I Live For (Extended Version)
2. Endless Love (Duet With Luther Vandross)
3. Do You Think of Me
4. Workin' Hard
5. My Prayer
6. Hero (2009 Version)
7. Anytime You Need a Friend (Extended Mix)
8. Music Box (A Capella)
LP3:
1. Dreamlover (Live From Top of the Pops)
2. Without You (Live From Top of the Pops)
3. Dreamlover (Def Club Mix)
4. Anytime You Need a Friend (C&C Club Version)
5. Anytime You Need a Friend (Soul Convention Remix)
6. I've Been Thinking About You (Terry Hunter Remix)
7. Workin' Hard (Terry Hunter Remix)
LP4:
1. Emotions
2. Hero
3. Someday
4. Without You
5. Make It Happen
6. Dreamlover
7. Love Takes Time
8. Anytime You Need a Friend
9. Vision of Love
10. I'll Be There (Featuring Trey Lorenz)
The Seven Ages of Death
Dr Richard Shepherd, Britain's top forensic pathologist, has spent a lifetime close to the dead.
As a medical detective, each autopsy he carries out is its own unique investigation, uncovering the secrets not only of how a person died, but also of how, through every stage of life, the risks to each of us ebb and flow.
Through twenty-four of his most intriguing, enlightening and never-before-told cases, Dr Shepherd shares autopsies that span the seven ages of human existence, and have taught him as much about the marvels of life as the inevitability of death. From old to young, from murder to misadventure, and from illness to accidental death, each of these bodies has something to reveal: about human development, about mortality, about its owner's life story, about justice and even about Shepherd himself.
From the bestselling author of Unnatural Causes comes a powerful, moving and above all reassuring book about death as it touches our own lives - how to understand it, how best to postpone it, and, when our time comes (as it must), how to embrace it as the last great adventure.
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Lacná kniha The Seven Ages of Death (-50%)
Dr Richard Shepherd, Britain's top forensic pathologist, has spent a lifetime close to the dead.
As a medical detective, each autopsy he carries out is its own unique investigation, uncovering the secrets not only of how a person died, but also of how, through every stage of life, the risks to each of us ebb and flow.
Through twenty-four of his most intriguing, enlightening and never-before-told cases, Dr Shepherd shares autopsies that span the seven ages of human existence, and have taught him as much about the marvels of life as the inevitability of death. From old to young, from murder to misadventure, and from illness to accidental death, each of these bodies has something to reveal: about human development, about mortality, about its owner's life story, about justice and even about Shepherd himself.
From the bestselling author of Unnatural Causes comes a powerful, moving and above all reassuring book about death as it touches our own lives - how to understand it, how best to postpone it, and, when our time comes (as it must), how to embrace it as the last great adventure.
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9,25 €
18,50 €
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Concorde
What's it like to fly faster than a bullet?
Could you really glimpse the edge of space?
Why will we never see Concorde's like again?
Mike Bannister was British Airways' Chief Concorde Pilot. One of the few in that legendary aircraft's quarter-century of flight to fully understand both the plane's intricate engineering and what it took to fly her at supersonic speeds.
In this definitive account of the rise and fall of the world's greatest aircraft, Bannister explores its origins, development, service, highs, lows and, finally, the terrible crash which ended its flying life.
Part celebration, part history, part detective story and part courtroom drama, it's almost as riveting as flying in Concorde itself - almost . . .
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Calling Bullshit
The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture elevates hype to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act.
Based on a popular course at the University of Washington, Calling Bullshit gives us the tools to see through the obfuscations, deliberate and careless, that dominate every realm of our lives. In this lively guide, biologist Carl Bergstrom and statistician Jevin West show that calling bullshit is crucial to a properly functioning social group, whether it be a circle of friends, a community of researchers, or the citizens of a nation. Through six rules of thumb, they help us recognize bullshit whenever and wherever we encounter it - even within ourselves - and explain it to a crystal-loving aunt or casually racist grandfather.
Learn With The LearnBots in 1 Day - 101 Italian Verbs
The colour coded verb table allows the reader to focus all of their attention on one colour tense at a time enabling them to make immediate connections between the subject and the verb! The Italian LearnBots are a great resource for dyslexic learners, children and adult learners. Children can start to identify what a verb is and the way it changes with the subject of the sentence. Advanced learners can go on to learn the different tenses and improve their accuracy. This book also works along-side its very own kick-starter app on Googles Android and Apples App Store allowing the user the ability to hear some of the conjugations being read out loud by a native speaker. The app also allows the user to test their ability in remembering verbs and conjugations.
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Consider Me
Carter Beckett is the NHL’s resident bad boy, top player both on the ice and in the bedroom, and quite possibly the sexiest man to ever grace my field of vision. But worst of all? He knows it.
He’s arrogant, self-centered, and the man doesn’t seem to know what a filter is, let alone how to use one. He’s had everything served to him on a silver platter, including endless strings of women, and apparently, I’m up next.
His only problem? I have no intention of falling for his shi—um, charm.
I have the solution to all my sexual frustrations in a drawer at home, and it’s far less complicated than Carter Beckett. Sure, he may be pretty, but he’s also a walking, talking reminder for you to wrap it before you tap it.
But then I start letting my guard down, and he starts showing me pieces of himself I had no intention of seeing. The bricks surrounding me may be tumbling down one by one, but I’m not sold yet, which means for the first time in his life, Carter’s the one begging.
For my time, my trust, for a single chance. For me to just…consider him.
The Universe
Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell.
We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now discovered thousands of alien planets, and that's barely a fraction of the worlds that are out there. And there are more stars in the Universe than grains of sand on every planet in the Solar System. But amid all this vastness, the Milky Way Galaxy, our Sun and the Earth are home to the only known life in the Universe - at least for now.
With a foreword from Professor Brian Cox, and access to all the latest stunning NASA photography, Andrew Cohen takes readers on a voyage of discovery, via the probes and telescopes exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy, revealing how it was formed and how it will inevitably be destroyed by the enigmatic black hole at its heart. And beyond our galaxy, the expanding Universe, which holds clues to the biggest mystery of all - how did it all begin? We now know more about those first moments of existence than we ever thought possible, and hidden in this story of how it all began are the clues to the fate of the Universe itself and everything in it.
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