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Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who’s sick and tired of the twenty-first century’s tidal wave of bullshit. Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, super-sized, consumerized b.s. Enter to win a copy of

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1. This Program runs from July 18, 2005 to August 1, 2005. To enter, entrants must email us at crownmarketing@randomhouse.com on or before the entry deadline: 11:59 P.M., Pacific Time, on August 1, 2005. The e-mail must include the words "Your call is Important to us " in the subject, and must also include a return e-mail address that Sponsor may use for purposes of prize notification and to request a mailing address to be used for the sole purpose of delivering the prize. Any entries received by us after the deadline will be ineligible to win. LIMIT ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. Multiple entries from the same person are void. Sponsor is not responsible for entries that are late, misdirected, lost, garbled, or unintelligible, including those due to computer or network malfunction or congestion (including at Random House), and any such entries are ineligible.

2. Three (3) Prizes will be awarded: The Prize consists of a hardcover copy of Your Call Is Important to Us. Estimated value of each Prize: Approximately $21.95 No transfer or substitution of the prize will be permitted, except by Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc. ("Sponsor") in its sole discretion, in which case a prize of equal or greater value will be awarded.

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7. Sponsor: Crown, a division of Random House, Inc., 1745 Broadway, New York, New York, 10019. 

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