Reason in an uncertain world

Reason in an Uncertain World

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Fostering Scientific Citizenship in an Uncertain World

Being of great relevance in contemporary science education, this book stimulates reflection on different approaches to enhance a deeper understanding

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Inequality and Governance in an Uncertain World

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The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel - Haruki Murakami

<p>When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own. When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library...

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The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami

<p>The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84. A novel about the porous boundary between the real and shadow worlds. After losing his beloved as a teenager, the narrator finds his way to the Town, a mysterious place where he finds work as a Dream Reader in the library. Back in ...

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Pia's World

An illustrated story of Lockdown in the UK for a mother and her young child. Balancing work and play in an uncertain world.

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Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century

The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as 'The Age of Reason': an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocr

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Enlightenment Now : The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, 1. vydání - Steven Pinker

<p>'My new favourite book of all time' Bill GatesTOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIs modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?</p> <p>If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an i...

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Jurassic World Evolution (PC) DIGITAL

Take charge of operations on the legendary islands of the Muertes archipelago and bring the wonder, majesty and danger of dinosaurs to life. Build for Science, Entertainment or Security interests in an uncertain world where life always finds a way. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them. Play with life itself to give your d...

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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World

An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen’s Sunday Times bes

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Don´t Burn This Book : Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason - Rubin Dave

Anotace: `Topical, engaging, personable, and above all, reassuring` Dr. Jordan B. PetersonFrom host of The Rubin Report, the most-watched talk show about free speech and big ideas on YouTube right now, a roadmap for free thinking in an increasingly censored world.The left is no longer liberal.Once on the side of free speech and tolerance, progressives now ban speakers fr...

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Don´t Burn This Book : Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason - Dave Rubin

<p>'Topical, engaging, personable, and above all, reassuring' Dr. Jordan B. Peterson From host of The Rubin Report, the most-watched talk show about free speech and big ideas on YouTube right now, a roadmap for free thinking in an increasingly censored world. The left is no longer liberal. Once on the side of free speech and tolerance, progressives now ban speake...

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My Fault: Now an Amazon Prime Original Movie - Mercedes Ron

<p>*Now an original movie from Amazon Prime**A BookTok and Wattpad Viral Sensation*Fast-paced and sizzling with a forbidden enemies-to-lovers romance, My Fault is the first book in Mercedes Ron's Culpable trilogy. This suspenseful YA series untangles the threads of love, trauma, and secrets, perfect for fans of Ugly Love and After.Seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan love...

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Jurassic World Evolution (PC) DIGITAL (PC)

Take charge of operations on the legendary islands of the Muertes archipelago and bring the wonder, majesty and danger of dinosaurs to life. Build for Science, Entertainment or Security interests in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them. Play with life itself to give your di...

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Endzone - A World Apart Complete Edition

Endzone - A World Apart Complete Edition includes: Endzone - A World Apart In 2021, a global ecological disaster plunged the world into chaos and brought humanity to the verge of extinction. Only few were able to escape into underground facilities called "Endzones". 150 years later, mankind returns to the surface - under your command! In an extremely hostile env...

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Endzone - A World Apart Complete Edition (PC)

Endzone - A World Apart&nbsp;Complete&nbsp;Edition includes:Endzone - A World ApartIn 2021, a global ecological disaster plunged the world into chaos and brought humanity to the verge of extinction. Only few were able to escape into underground facilities called "Endzones". 150 years later, mankind returns to the surface - under your command! In an extre...

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How the World Really Works : A Scientist´s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future - Smil Václav

Anotace: We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don`t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works ...

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How the World Really Works : A Scientist´s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future - Václav Smil

<p>We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works o...

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The One-in-a-Million Boy - Monica Wood

<p>From WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT to ELIZABETH IS MISSING, from THE SNOW CHILD to THE SHOCK OF THE FALL - a handful of exceptional novels touch almost every reader's heart. This is one of those books. A one-in-a-million story for anyone who loves to laugh, cry, and think about how extraordinary ordinary life can be. Not to be missed by readers who loved THE UNLIKELY PIL...

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The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason - Douglas Murray

<p>SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers 'The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we re...

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A Shot in the Dark: A deeply romantic love story you will never forget - Lee Victoria

Anotace: An emotionally powerful romance novel about two people finding love after struggling with addiction - ultimately discovering what it means to be completely and unapologetically themselves.Doesn`t love mean being truly yourself? Elisheva Cohen has returned to Brooklyn after almost a decade. The wounds of abandoning the Orthodox community that raised and then shun...

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A Shot in the Dark: A deeply romantic love story you will never forget - Victoria Lee

<p>An emotionally powerful romance novel about two people finding love after struggling with addiction - ultimately discovering what it means to be completely and unapologetically themselves.Doesn't love mean being truly yourself? Elisheva Cohen has returned to Brooklyn after almost a decade. The wounds of abandoning the Orthodox community that raised and then shunn...

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She Believes... Journal

A paperback journal to encourage women of all ages to be confident and brave in an uncertain world.

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The Bell in the Lake (The Sister Bells Trilogy 1) - Lars Mytting

<p>"Love, suspense, nature and superstition are woven together in this powerful novel" MAJA LUNDE, author of The History of Bees"An exquisitely atmospheric novel . . . The Bell in the Lake does what fiction promises: to steal you away to another world and ask you, if unfairly, to leave a little of your heart behind" DEREK B. MILLER, author of Nor...

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One Day at a Time

In her struggle to cope with an uncertain world - a world where nothing seemed to make sense any more - she pushed away the one person she loved best,

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Kokoro

Kokoro is an invitation to cultivate stillness and contentment in an ever-changing, uncertain world - the perfect complement to Beth Kempton's bestsel

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Reckoning with Risk

However much we want certainty in our lives, it feels as if we live in an uncertain and dangerous world. But are we guilty of exaggerating the chances

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Signal and the Noise

Reveals how we can all develop better foresight in an uncertain world. From the stock market to the poker table, from earthquakes to the economy, the

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Enterprise Level Security 2

Enterprise Level Security 2: Advanced Topics in an Uncertain World follows on from the authors’ first book on Enterprise Level Security (ELS), whic

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End of Faith

Beautifully written, accessible and provocative, THE END OF FAITH is an impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith.

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Great Philosophers:Kant

'Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.' In today's increasingly fractured world, Kant's moral philosophy is more important today th

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (0141038225)

Kniha - autor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and tur...

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The Castle, 1. vydání - Franz Kafka

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of e...

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Tajemne žyttja rozumu. Jak my myslymo, vidčuvajemo j vyrišujemo - Sigman Mariano

Anotace: In this mind-bending international bestseller by Mariano Sigman, one of the world`s leading neuroscientists reveals his life`s work exploring the intricacies of the human brain. Building on his awe-inspiring TED talk and drawing on examples in science and the arts, The Secret Life of the Mind offers an accessible guide to how the human brain works and its impact...

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Arts Leadership : Creating Sustainable Arts Organizations - Foster Kenneth

Anotace: The contemporary world faces unprecedented upheaval and change forcing institutions of all types to rethink how they are designed and how they must now function if they are to survive into an uncertain future. The performing arts are no exception; in an era of constant change and technological transformation, arts organizations and their leaders face significant...

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Leaving - Václav Havel

<p>Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. But does leaving office necessarily mean that he, his mistress and his extended family have to leave the state villa, which has been their home for years? While his former secretary, and the former secretary to his former secretary, grapple with the mechanics of change and his family prepare to vace an uncertain future, the ch...

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The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found - Lees Jordan

Anotace: The spell-binding world-building of Philip Pullman with the page-turning kid appeal of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. Discover a world of magic and secrets, friendship and unimaginable quests in this spectacular new fantasy series from the most exciting new voice in children`s books.A boy who doesn`t believe in magic. An impossible world that will change his min...

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Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - The Collection (PC)

Includes 3 items:&nbsp;Sid Meier's Civilization&reg;: Beyond Earth&trade;, Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide, Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth Exoplanets Map PackSid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth&nbsp;is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award-winning Civilization series. Set in the future, global...

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Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - The Collection

Includes 3 items:  Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™, Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide, Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth Exoplanets Map Pack Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award-winning Civilization series. Set in the future, global events have destabilized the wo...

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Enlightment Now - neuveden

Anotace: If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the thi...

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Vivienne Westwood Catwalk : The Complete Collections - Alexander Fury

The first comprehensive overview of Vivienne Westwood’s womenswear collections, from her 1981 debut to today, presented through original catwalk photography One of the most thought-provoking and influential designers in the world – she once declared 'the only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word "conformity"' – Vivienne Westwood has been reinventing,...

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Lost city - Stratené Mesto - Verlorene Stadt - Elveszett város - Zuzana Ševčíková

<p>Bratislava Pozsony Pressburg was a multi-ethnic, multicultural, multilingual and multi-religious city. Hungarian, German, Yiddish, Slovak and Czech cultural communities lived here side by side at times, and so did the Christian religion and Judaism.The 20th century was marked by an expulsion of various groups of the city's inhabitants, but also by an erasure of t...

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The Castle - Franz Kafka

<p>Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. With a new introduction and notes by John ZilcoskyThe Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and...

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The Chase - Kennedy Elle

Anotace: A sexy standalone novel from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle KennedyShe`s the one girl he shouldn`t want . . . Everyone says opposites attract. And they must be right, because there`s no logical reason why I`m so drawn to Colin Fitzgerald. I don`t usually go for tattoo-covered, video-gaming, hockey-playing nerd-jocks who think I`m flight...

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Necroking

Troubles and decay struck the cities, the villages were mired in the vices of madness, and people began to look for a reason for battle in order to throw out their aggression. You are the Necroking. Put on the crown of a powerful necromancy magic and embark on a dark and twisted journey to bring chaos and destruction to settlements desecrated by life itself. Raise an arm...

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Necroking (PC)

Troubles and decay struck the cities, the villages were mired in the vices of madness, and people began to look for a reason for battle in order to throw out their aggression.You are the Necroking. Put on the crown of a powerful necromancy magic and embark on a dark and twisted journey to bring chaos and destruction to settlements desecrated by life itself. Raise an army ...

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Ice Planet Barbarians - Dixon Ruby

Anotace: The international publishing phenomenon Ice Planet Barbarians, now in a special print edition!Fall in love with the out-of-this-world romance between Georgie Carruthers, a human woman, and Vektal, an alien from another planet, in this expanded edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue--in print only!You`d think being abducted by aliens would be the ...

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Downward: Enhanced Edition

THE LAST JOURNEY BEGINS… Downward will let you set off on humanity’s final adventure, to seek out an explanation for the apocalypse that changed the Earth as we know it. Taking advantage of parkour techniques and of the mysterious power you are given, you will traverse astonishing and dangerous ruins of past civilizations, all to find the legendary artif...

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Downward: Enhanced Edition (PC)

THE LAST JOURNEY BEGINS&hellip;Downward&nbsp;will let you set off on humanity&rsquo;s final adventure, to seek out an explanation for the apocalypse that changed the Earth as we know it.Taking advantage of parkour techniques and of the mysterious power you are given, you will traverse astonishing and dangerous ruins of past civilizations, all to find the legen...

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Good Morning, Midnight - Brooks-Dalton Lily

Anotace: "A remarkable and gifted debut novel" (Colson Whitehead) about two outsiders--a lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Earth--as they grapple with love, regret, and survival in a world transformed. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM THE MIDNIGHT SKY, DIRECTED BY AND STARRING GEORGE CLOONEY Augustine, a brilliant, aging ast...

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Good Morning, Midnight - Lily Brooks-Dalton

<p>"A remarkable and gifted debut novel" (Colson Whitehead) about two outsiders--a lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Earth--as they grapple with love, regret, and survival in a world transformed. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM THE MIDNIGHT SKY, DIRECTED BY AND STARRING GEORGE CLOONEY Augustine, a brilliant, ...

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A Book of Days - Smith Patti

Anotace: A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith`s singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular InstagramIn 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple...

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A Book of Days, 1. vydání - Patti Smith

<p>A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular InstagramIn 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple ...

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Agatha Christie: Radio 4 Book of the Week - Worsleyová Lucy

Anotace: ** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **`A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse`- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR`A riveting portrait` - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***`Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.` - The Times`A model of how to combine biographical information, analy...

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Agatha Christie: Radio 4 Book of the Week - Lucy Worsleyová

<p>** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times'A model of how to combine biographical information, analys...

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The Stars are Fire - Anita Shreve

<p>Hot breath on Grace's face. Claire is screaming, and Grace is on her feet. As she lifts her daughter, a wall of fire fills the window. Perhaps a quarter of a mile back, if even that. Where's Gene? Didn't he come home? 1947. Fires are racing along the coast of Maine after a summer-long drought, ravaging thousands of acres, causing unprecedented confusion and fear....

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Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England - Coe Jonathan

Anotace: `A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become` RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it`s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of t...

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Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England - Jonathan Coe

<p>'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become' RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of th...

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The Utopia - Thomas More

Anotace: In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the tradition-bound superstitions of Europe, which were, i...

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Utopia, 1. vydání - Thomas More

<p>In Thomas More’s hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the tradition-bound superstitions of Europe, which were, in More...

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