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Guinness World Records 2013
Edited by Craig Glenday
Format: Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $7.99
From the highest jump on a pogo stick to the fastest dash in clogs, from the longest dog tail to the largest fuzzy dice—the most astonishing records from around the world can be found here!
Guinness World Records™ 2013 presents the most amazing, inspiring, and wild record-breakers ever. Filled with... Read more >
Edited by Craig Glenday
Format: Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $7.99
From the highest jump on a pogo stick to the fastest dash in clogs, from the longest dog tail to the largest fuzzy dice—the most astonishing records from around the world can be found here!
Guinness World Records™ 2013 presents the most amazing, inspiring, and wild record-breakers ever. Filled with... Read more >
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Ever Wonder Why?
Written by Douglas B. Smith
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $6.99
Everyone knows that...donuts have holes...we clink glasses before saying a toast...golfers yell "fore!" before teeing off...we nod our heads yes and shake our heads no...But how many of us know why? You'll learn the answers and a whole lot more in this fun and fact-filled almanac. And all you have to... Read more >
Written by Douglas B. Smith
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $6.99
Everyone knows that...donuts have holes...we clink glasses before saying a toast...golfers yell "fore!" before teeing off...we nod our heads yes and shake our heads no...But how many of us know why? You'll learn the answers and a whole lot more in this fun and fact-filled almanac. And all you have to... Read more >
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Daily Rituals
How Artists Work
Edited by Mason Currey
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $24.95
How Artists Work
Edited by Mason Currey
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $24.95
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through...
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Daily Rituals
How Artists Work
Edited by Mason Currey
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
How Artists Work
Edited by Mason Currey
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through...
Read more >
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Intoxerated
Written by Paul Dickson
Illustrated by Brian Rea
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $14.95
A smart, hilarious, and lavishly illustrated guide to the most euphemised word in the English language: Drunk
A record-breaking assemblage of 2,964 different ways to say "drunk." Tipsy, roasted, three sheets, whazooed and Boris Yeltsinned are just the beginning...With an introduction by the wise-guy lexicographer himself, Paul Dickson, and illustrations by renowned... Read more >
Written by Paul Dickson
Illustrated by Brian Rea
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $14.95
A smart, hilarious, and lavishly illustrated guide to the most euphemised word in the English language: Drunk
A record-breaking assemblage of 2,964 different ways to say "drunk." Tipsy, roasted, three sheets, whazooed and Boris Yeltsinned are just the beginning...With an introduction by the wise-guy lexicographer himself, Paul Dickson, and illustrations by renowned... Read more >
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Intoxerated
Written by Paul Dickson
Illustrated by Brian Rea
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $14.95
A smart, hilarious, and lavishly illustrated guide to the most euphemised word in the English language: Drunk
A record-breaking assemblage of 2,964 different ways to say "drunk." Tipsy, roasted, three sheets, whazooed and Boris Yeltsinned are just the beginning...With an introduction by the wise-guy lexicographer himself, Paul Dickson, and illustrations by renowned... Read more >
Written by Paul Dickson
Illustrated by Brian Rea
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $14.95
A smart, hilarious, and lavishly illustrated guide to the most euphemised word in the English language: Drunk
A record-breaking assemblage of 2,964 different ways to say "drunk." Tipsy, roasted, three sheets, whazooed and Boris Yeltsinned are just the beginning...With an introduction by the wise-guy lexicographer himself, Paul Dickson, and illustrations by renowned... Read more >
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The Right Way to Do Wrong
A Unique Selection of Writings by History's Greatest Escape Artist
Written by Harry Houdini
Introduction by Teller
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $15.00
One of the most intriguing and recognized figures of the twentieth century conducts a masterclass in subversion
Originally published in 1906, The Right Way to Do Wrong was a masterclass in subversion conducted by the world’s greatest illusionist. It collected Houdini’s findings, from interviews with criminals and police officers, on the most surefire... Read more >
A Unique Selection of Writings by History's Greatest Escape Artist
Written by Harry Houdini
Introduction by Teller
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $15.00
One of the most intriguing and recognized figures of the twentieth century conducts a masterclass in subversion
Originally published in 1906, The Right Way to Do Wrong was a masterclass in subversion conducted by the world’s greatest illusionist. It collected Houdini’s findings, from interviews with criminals and police officers, on the most surefire... Read more >
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The Right Way to Do Wrong
A Unique Selection of Writings by History's Greatest Escape Artist
Written by Harry Houdini
Introduction by Teller
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $15.00
One of the most intriguing and recognized figures of the twentieth century conducts a masterclass in subversion
Originally published in 1906, The Right Way to Do Wrong was a masterclass in subversion conducted by the world’s greatest illusionist. It collected Houdini’s findings, from interviews with criminals and police officers, on the most surefire... Read more >
A Unique Selection of Writings by History's Greatest Escape Artist
Written by Harry Houdini
Introduction by Teller
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $15.00
One of the most intriguing and recognized figures of the twentieth century conducts a masterclass in subversion
Originally published in 1906, The Right Way to Do Wrong was a masterclass in subversion conducted by the world’s greatest illusionist. It collected Houdini’s findings, from interviews with criminals and police officers, on the most surefire... Read more >
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National Geographic Tales of the Weird
Unbelievable True Stories
Edited by David Braun
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $18.95
When a farmer in Spain captured a two-headed snake in 2002, scientists wanted to study it. When National Geographic Daily News published a story about the discovery, people wanted to read all about it. More than a million people clicked on the site and kept coming back for more unbelievably true... Read more >
Unbelievable True Stories
Edited by David Braun
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $18.95
When a farmer in Spain captured a two-headed snake in 2002, scientists wanted to study it. When National Geographic Daily News published a story about the discovery, people wanted to read all about it. More than a million people clicked on the site and kept coming back for more unbelievably true... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
National Geographic Tales of the Weird
Unbelievable True Stories
Written by David Braun
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $18.95
When a farmer in Spain captured a two-headed snake in 2002, scientists wanted to study it. When National Geographic Daily News published a story about the discovery, people wanted to read all about it. More than a million people clicked on the site and kept coming back for more unbelievably true... Read more >
Unbelievable True Stories
Written by David Braun
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $18.95
When a farmer in Spain captured a two-headed snake in 2002, scientists wanted to study it. When National Geographic Daily News published a story about the discovery, people wanted to read all about it. More than a million people clicked on the site and kept coming back for more unbelievably true... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Brain Trust
93 Top Scientists Reveal Lab-Tested Secrets to Surfing, Dating, Dieting, Gambling, Growing Man-Eating Plants, and More!
Written by Garth Sundem
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $14.00
Blind Them…with SCIENCE!
How much better would your life be if you had an army of Nobel Laureates, MacArthur ‘geniuses’ and National Medal of Science winners whispering tips in your ear about your body language, or how to resist that impulse purchase you’ll regret tomorrow, or when to sell your car—or... Read more >
93 Top Scientists Reveal Lab-Tested Secrets to Surfing, Dating, Dieting, Gambling, Growing Man-Eating Plants, and More!
Written by Garth Sundem
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $14.00
Blind Them…with SCIENCE!
How much better would your life be if you had an army of Nobel Laureates, MacArthur ‘geniuses’ and National Medal of Science winners whispering tips in your ear about your body language, or how to resist that impulse purchase you’ll regret tomorrow, or when to sell your car—or... Read more >
Also available as an
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eBook.
Brain Trust
93 Top Scientists Reveal Lab-Tested Secrets to Surfing, Dating, Dieting, Gambling, Growing Man-Eating Plants, and More!
Written by Garth Sundem
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $9.99
Blind Them…with SCIENCE!
How much better would your life be if you had an army of Nobel Laureates, MacArthur ‘geniuses’ and National Medal of Science winners whispering tips in your ear about your body language, or how to resist that impulse purchase you’ll regret tomorrow, or when to sell your car—or... Read more >
93 Top Scientists Reveal Lab-Tested Secrets to Surfing, Dating, Dieting, Gambling, Growing Man-Eating Plants, and More!
Written by Garth Sundem
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $9.99
Blind Them…with SCIENCE!
How much better would your life be if you had an army of Nobel Laureates, MacArthur ‘geniuses’ and National Medal of Science winners whispering tips in your ear about your body language, or how to resist that impulse purchase you’ll regret tomorrow, or when to sell your car—or... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Brain Trust
93 Top Scientists Reveal Lab-Tested Secrets to Surfing, Dating, Dieting, Gambling, Growing Man-Eating Plants, and More!
Written by Garth Sundem
Read by Garth Sundem
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $17.50
Blind Them…with SCIENCE!
How much better would your life be if you had an army of Nobel Laureates, MacArthur ‘geniuses’ and National Medal of Science winners whispering tips in your ear about your body language, or how to resist that impulse purchase you’ll regret tomorrow, or when to sell your car—or... Read more >
93 Top Scientists Reveal Lab-Tested Secrets to Surfing, Dating, Dieting, Gambling, Growing Man-Eating Plants, and More!
Written by Garth Sundem
Read by Garth Sundem
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $17.50
Blind Them…with SCIENCE!
How much better would your life be if you had an army of Nobel Laureates, MacArthur ‘geniuses’ and National Medal of Science winners whispering tips in your ear about your body language, or how to resist that impulse purchase you’ll regret tomorrow, or when to sell your car—or... Read more >
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This Saint Will Change Your Life
Written by Thomas J. Craughwell
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $19.95
Heaven Help Us!
Your days of worry and frustration are over. Whoever you are, whatever you do, there’s a patron saint who wants to help you—specifically you—with your troubles. This Saint Will Change Your Life features 300 patron saints for every person and situation imaginable.
• There are patron saints for... Read more >
Written by Thomas J. Craughwell
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $19.95
Heaven Help Us!
Your days of worry and frustration are over. Whoever you are, whatever you do, there’s a patron saint who wants to help you—specifically you—with your troubles. This Saint Will Change Your Life features 300 patron saints for every person and situation imaginable.
• There are patron saints for... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
This Saint Will Change Your Life
Written by Thomas J. Craughwell
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $19.95
Heaven Help Us!
Your days of worry and frustration are over. Whoever you are, whatever you do, there’s a patron saint who wants to help you—specifically you—with your troubles. This Saint Will Change Your Life features 300 patron saints for every person and situation imaginable.
• There are patron saints for... Read more >
Written by Thomas J. Craughwell
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $19.95
Heaven Help Us!
Your days of worry and frustration are over. Whoever you are, whatever you do, there’s a patron saint who wants to help you—specifically you—with your troubles. This Saint Will Change Your Life features 300 patron saints for every person and situation imaginable.
• There are patron saints for... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Second Book of General Ignorance
Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong
Written by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $13.99
From the brains behind The Book of General Ignorance comes another wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating, and mind-bending facts, taking on the hugely popular form of the first book in the internationally bestselling series.
The original Book of General Ignorance was published in 2006. It has since been translated into... Read more >
Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong
Written by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $13.99
From the brains behind The Book of General Ignorance comes another wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating, and mind-bending facts, taking on the hugely popular form of the first book in the internationally bestselling series.
The original Book of General Ignorance was published in 2006. It has since been translated into... Read more >
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hardcover.
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The Second Book of General Ignorance
Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong
Written by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $19.95
From the brains behind The Book of General Ignorance comes another wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating, and mind-bending facts, taking on the hugely popular form of the first book in the internationally bestselling series.
The original Book of General Ignorance was published in 2006. It has since been translated into... Read more >
Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong
Written by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $19.95
From the brains behind The Book of General Ignorance comes another wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating, and mind-bending facts, taking on the hugely popular form of the first book in the internationally bestselling series.
The original Book of General Ignorance was published in 2006. It has since been translated into... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Big Idea
How Breakthroughs of the Past Shape the Future
Written by National Geographic
Foreword by Timothy Ferris
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $35.00
From the Pythagorean theorem to DNA's double helix, from the discovery of microscopic life-forms to the theory of relativity—the big ideas of science and technology shape an era's worldview. Open this book, grasp the newest ideas from thought leaders of today, then spring off from them to move back through the... Read more >
How Breakthroughs of the Past Shape the Future
Written by National Geographic
Foreword by Timothy Ferris
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $35.00
From the Pythagorean theorem to DNA's double helix, from the discovery of microscopic life-forms to the theory of relativity—the big ideas of science and technology shape an era's worldview. Open this book, grasp the newest ideas from thought leaders of today, then spring off from them to move back through the... Read more >
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Great Thoughts, Revised and Updated
Written by George Seldes
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $13.99
Upon its publication, George Seldes's The Great Thoughts instantly took its place as a classic--a treasure house of the seminal ideas that have shaped the intellectual history of the world down through the ages. Seldes, a pivotal figure in the history of American journalism and a tireless researcher, spent the better part... Read more >
Written by George Seldes
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $13.99
Upon its publication, George Seldes's The Great Thoughts instantly took its place as a classic--a treasure house of the seminal ideas that have shaped the intellectual history of the world down through the ages. Seldes, a pivotal figure in the history of American journalism and a tireless researcher, spent the better part... Read more >
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The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook
Written by Jason Heller
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $18.95
For every would-be pirate who's wished to cast off the shackles of landlubber society, here is the official guide to taking up seagoing roguishness the right way—er, that is, the right wrong way—well, let’s just say Jack’s way.
The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook gives you an insider’s perspective on all the dirty... Read more >
Written by Jason Heller
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $18.95
For every would-be pirate who's wished to cast off the shackles of landlubber society, here is the official guide to taking up seagoing roguishness the right way—er, that is, the right wrong way—well, let’s just say Jack’s way.
The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook gives you an insider’s perspective on all the dirty... Read more >
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Myth Information
More Than 590 Popular Misconceptions, Fallacies, and Misbeliefs Explained!
Written by J. Allen Varasdi
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2011
Price: $9.99
It's common knowledge that Eve gave Adam an apple. Everyone knows that George Washington was the first president of the United States. And when your mother told you not to go swimming right after you ate, you took it as a matter of life and death. But you've been myth-informed by... Read more >
More Than 590 Popular Misconceptions, Fallacies, and Misbeliefs Explained!
Written by J. Allen Varasdi
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2011
Price: $9.99
It's common knowledge that Eve gave Adam an apple. Everyone knows that George Washington was the first president of the United States. And when your mother told you not to go swimming right after you ate, you took it as a matter of life and death. But you've been myth-informed by... Read more >
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An Underground Education
The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew Ab out Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human
Written by Richard Zacks
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2010
Price: $15.99
The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge.
Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than atoms, that Remembrance of Things Past has something to do with a perfumed cookie, that the Monroe Doctrine means we get to take over small South American... Read more >
The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew Ab out Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human
Written by Richard Zacks
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2010
Price: $15.99
The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge.
Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than atoms, that Remembrance of Things Past has something to do with a perfumed cookie, that the Monroe Doctrine means we get to take over small South American... Read more >
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Lost States
Written by Michael J. Trinklein
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Price: $24.95
Everyone knows the fifty nifty united states—but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never came to pass? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized dreams as West Florida, Texlahoma, Montezuma, Rough and Ready, and Yazoo. Some of these states came remarkably close to joining the Union... Read more >
Written by Michael J. Trinklein
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Price: $24.95
Everyone knows the fifty nifty united states—but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never came to pass? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized dreams as West Florida, Texlahoma, Montezuma, Rough and Ready, and Yazoo. Some of these states came remarkably close to joining the Union... Read more >
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Drunk
The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary
Written by Paul Dickson
Illustrated by Brian Rea
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $19.95
Here it is: from a Guinness World Records holder, the most English synonyms ever recorded for a single word—“drunk.”
Wise-guy lexicographer Paul Dickson, a consulting editor at Merriam-Webster, has long held the record for collecting the "Most Synonyms" for any term in the English language. He made the Guinness Book... Read more >
The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary
Written by Paul Dickson
Illustrated by Brian Rea
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $19.95
Here it is: from a Guinness World Records holder, the most English synonyms ever recorded for a single word—“drunk.”
Wise-guy lexicographer Paul Dickson, a consulting editor at Merriam-Webster, has long held the record for collecting the "Most Synonyms" for any term in the English language. He made the Guinness Book... Read more >
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Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies
The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, the Illmuniati, Skull & Bones, Black Helicopters, teh New World Order, and Many, Many More
Written by Arthur Goldwag
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $13.99
Did you know?
• Freemasonry's first American lodge included a young Benjamin Franklin among its members.
• The Knights Templar began as impoverished warrior monks then evolved into bankers.
• Groom Lake, Dreamland, Homey Airport, Paradise Ranch, The Farm, Watertown Strip, Red Square, “The Box,” are all names for Area 51.
An... Read more >
The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, the Illmuniati, Skull & Bones, Black Helicopters, teh New World Order, and Many, Many More
Written by Arthur Goldwag
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $13.99
Did you know?
• Freemasonry's first American lodge included a young Benjamin Franklin among its members.
• The Knights Templar began as impoverished warrior monks then evolved into bankers.
• Groom Lake, Dreamland, Homey Airport, Paradise Ranch, The Farm, Watertown Strip, Red Square, “The Box,” are all names for Area 51.
An... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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