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Wedding Dress

₦2,500.00 ₦2,500.00

ByConfetti.co.uk

Breaking down every detail of wedding dresses and suggesting which styles suit different body shapes, this title covers all components of the dress in addition to offering advice for essential accessories such as veils, shoes and bags. Advice for the larger bride, pregnant brides, bridesmaids and attendants is also included. Additional sections offer advice on what to consider when buying your dress. There are tips for wearing and looking after your dress on the big day as well as a comprehensive glossary.

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Nollywood

₦8,000.00 ₦8,000.00

ByJonathan Haynes

The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres

Nigeria’s Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the World’s largest film Industries, rapidly altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora. It has also become one of Afican culture’s most consequential expressions, powerfully shaping how Africans see themselves and are seen by others.

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Sorrow’s Joy

₦4,500.00 ₦4,500.00

ByOgochukwu Promise

This is a compelling narrative, not only about the onslaughts of cancer but of the courage required to face it. Promise’s relentless quest for life and meaning, her penetrating gaze, deep understanding of human emotions, fears and strengths and her consistent reaching for the power of the mind to transcend life’s vicissitudes resonate in this brilliant work.

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Hope’s Wristwatch

₦3,500.00 ₦3,500.00

whether in poetry or prose, the primary preoccupation of Tony Marinho’s art has always been to highlight, and to comment on the numerous ills that plague our contemporary world. Not for him, it seems, the luxury or indulgence, of ‘art for art’s sake, when everywhere you look, we are assailed by a multitude of problems-HIV/AIDS, war, poverty, corruption, prostitution, child slavery, etc….

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Salutations To The Gut

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“…the Yoruba…is the true hedonist who has felt in every morsel the soul of the open kitchen.”

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African Proverbs III

₦2,000.00 ₦2,000.00

A child who Is not taught well at home by his mother will be taught badly outside.

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Ibadan Mesiogo

₦4,500.00 ₦4,500.00

At last, a book, which edifies the effortless grace of the Harlem of Africa!. Ibadan mesiogo…is a major collection of some of the most significant creative writers who have lived in and drawn their imaginative energies from the largest ancient city south of the Sahara within the past five decades of Nigeria’s history.

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The Seven Signposts

₦3,000.00 ₦3,000.00

“…STUDY THE SPIRITUALITY OF THIS CONTINENT…

SELECTIVENESS is the key. The religion of the ORISA does not permit in tenet, liturgy, catechism or practice, that pernicious dictum: “I believe, therefore I am…it is not weakness in the character of this religion; it is simply UNDERSTANDING.

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Granny’s Special Cookery Book

₦2,000.00 ₦2,000.00

ByVirginia Akerele

Granny’s cookery book with its combination of Nigerian and Brazilian recipes is the realization of the ninety year old author’s dream of hoping to share and pass on her culinary experiences to “young modern-day homemakers and wives who may not have been privileged to grow up around the cooking pot.” This handy book, creatively wand attractively designed will help popularize African cuisine.

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Things Fall Apart

₦3,000.00 ₦3,000.00

ByBiodun Jeyifo

“…In the writing of the two essays in this book, I went to great lengths to press my readings of Achebe’s first novel, things Fall Apart, into service in an effort to see hopeful signs in otherwise quite bleak circumstances in Nigeria and Africa…in each of the respective readings of Achebe’s novel in these two essays, I was writing under very great pressure of one and of discursive context….I was also constrained by the pressure of etiquette, the celebration of the anniversary of Achebe’s novel being a festive occasion in which one could not afford to be seen as being too sanguine in expressing one’s bitterness about the state of things in Nigeria, Africa and the world.”

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Ake

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Itan iriri olokiki onkewe nni, Wole Soyinka Nigba ti o want omode ni Agbi ile iwe ati ni igboro Abeokuta ni o wa Bubu iwe yii. Eko pataki ni a ri ko nipa ooo omode lawujo yoruba ati nipa itan Abeokuta nigba ogun agbaya Keji ati nipa Ajah ara awon obinrin Egbo lo so iwe yii di koseemaka fun gbogbo omo Yoruba.

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NIGERIA – A New History Of A Turbulent Century

₦5,000.00 ₦5,000.00

ByRichard Bowne

A new history of a turbulent century

Known as the African giant, Nigeria’s story is complex and often contradictory. How, despite the ravages o colonialism, civil war, ongoing economic disappointment and most recently the Biko haram insurgency, has the country managed to stay together for a hundred years? Why, despite an abundance of oil, mineral and agricultural wealth, have so many of its people remained in poverty? These are the key questions explored by Richard Bourne in this remarkable and wide-ranging account of Nigeria’s history, from its creation in 1914 to the historic 2015 elections and beyond.

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PEOPLE'S CHOICE

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Revolution of Ideas

₦3,500.00 ₦3,500.00

This is my fifth book. It’s a collection of some of my best economic ideas over time. It is focused on Nigeria to a large extent and encompasses my thoughts for our country and people. This book is named REVOLUTION OF IDEAS because the ideas herein are indeed out-of-the-box and revolutionary. I believe that the ideas that will transit Nigeria people of color out of the current state of pity, lie in the mind. I have put my perspective together here. I assure that you’ll find it indeed interesting. Let’s get going

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Consistent Cash Flow

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ByTom Palzewicz

Business is a game and like any game, you’ve got to keep score to know whether you are winning or losing. Unfortunately, all too many people in business lose track of the scoreboard… which leads to big problems in and around the business.

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Burden Of Service

₦5,000.00 ₦5,000.00

ByMohammed Bello Adoke

In recounting my five-year experience in government, I offer the tiniest details of the billion-dollar oil deal and unveil the web of local and international intrigues, deceit, lies and conspiracy around an avoidable scandal

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Money

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In a world which increasingly feels like it revolves around money, it’s easy to feel like the gap between the money you earn and the money you need to live the life you want is just too great.

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Crucible Of The Ages

₦8,500.00 ₦8,500.00

A truly unique compendium, the essayists include three African leaders, three Nobel laureates, distinguished playwrights, novelists, literary critics, historians, academics and public policy practitioners from around the world

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Managing In Turbulent Times

₦5,000.00 ₦5,000.00

ByPeter F. Drucker

This book the author explains is concerned with action rather than understanding, with decisions rather than analysis. It deals with the strategies, needed to transform rapid changes into opportunities to turn the threat of change into productive and profitable action that contributes positively to our society, the economy and the individual.

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Honour For Sale-An Insider Account Of The Murder Of Dele Giwa

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ByMajor Debo Basorun Rt, Wole Soyinka

The murder of Dele Giwa remains on the infamous list of Nigeria’s unsolved murders. More than twenty-five years after Nigeria’s first ever parcel bomb ended the life of one of the country’s most colourful investigative journalists, the case has refused to be laid to rest.

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The Essentials

₦4,500.00 ₦4,500.00

ByHarvard Business Review

Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That’s what makes this book a “must read”

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Outsider Inside

₦5,000.00 ₦5,000.00

ByKeith Richards

Outsider inside offers a unique perspective on our Nigerian society and offers one of the more intelligent analyses of our culture and economy. Keith successfully demonstrates the idiosyncrasies and frustrations of our daily life, the pervasiveness of corruption in our society

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The Millionaire Fastlane

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There is a fast lane to millions, a short cut paved by mathematics, where you can live rich now versus dying rich later. Instead, you have been brainwashed by an army of financial gurus who pitch a dream killing dogma known as get rich slow, their suffocating plan promises elderly riches by recklessly gambling your financial future to the stock market, the job market and the housing market. Reject hope and pray as a financial plan, switch lanes, go fast lane and awaken your dreams to reality

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Change is Going To Come

₦3,500.00 ₦3,500.00

CHANGE IS GOING TO COME is a compendium of engaging essays and ideas for developing countries to rethink their state and get out of economic morass. It is not a political book but a book of interrogation on questions such as: What does change really mean? It contains common-sensical but overlooked solutions to problems such as the proper use of resources, thinking right socially and politically, and being realistic in an unrealistic environment. Put together by one of the Nigeria’s finest rising economic analysts, it is a simple book written in a conversational manner that will help to get people thinking right – if they listen.

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Sex, Relationship And Marriage

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Sex relationship and marriage things your mother did not tell you is a compendium of compelling stories of how illicit sex, disappointing marital sex, unrealistic expectations, infidelity, negative assumption, violence, murder and suicide mis-shape and destroy relationships and marriage

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Entrepreneurship

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Competitive Strategy

₦6,000.00 ₦6,000.00

ByMichael E. Porter

Competitive strategy has transformed the theory practice and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity like all breakthroughs porter’s analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed. His three generic strategies-lowest cost, differentiation and focus which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning.

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How They Started Global Brands

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Lots of us have ideas we think would make great businesses, yet most of us never do anything about these ideas. Probably because we just wouldn’t know where to start. But what if you took the first step? Where could it lead?

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Influence

₦4,500.00 ₦4,500.00

ByRobert .B. Cialdini

Influence the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these understandings. Dr Robert B Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion.

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The Energy Plan

₦4,000.00 ₦4,000.00

ByJames Collins

Following The Energy Plan, you will learn how to use food as a fuel to meet the demands of your life, chasing meals and snacks that leave you bursting with energy for work and play.

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Politics

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Party Coalitions In Nigeria

₦4,000.00 ₦4,000.00

ByAnthony Akinola

This book is a comprehensive appraisal of the political history of Nigeria since colonization, with emphasis on political parties. The author argues that party coalitions in Nigeria can be explained by the factors of heterogeneity as well as political systems the country has experimented with. He asserts the influence of the institution of the presidency in the current trend towards a two-party system.

“A panaromic nugget book for students in Political Science and History—it will serve well the public interest who are trying to find answers to the maze I the political landscape

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Taliban

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Virtually the only informed work on the men who, since 1994, have ruled almost all Afghanistan.

This book is an excellent political and historical account of the movement’s rise to power. It is a fabulous piece of journalism.

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Luther’s World Of Thought

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ByHeinrich Bornkamm

This provocative analysis of Martin Luther’s thought and work encourages readers to delve into the social, political, and religious climate of the sixteenth century. How sis the patterns of thought Luther inherited from his mentors and teachers influence him? How did the evolving European class system and political climate support and hinder his reforming efforts? This classic text establishes the significance of Luther’s ninety-five these, then explores the great reformer’s ideas on topics as varied as faith, life and death, nature, the state, and the practice of translation.

Heinrich Bornkamm was a professor at Heidelberg University in Germany.

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How To Win Elections

₦5,000.00 ₦5,000.00

ByAdebola Williams, Chude Jideonwo

The book draws from the decades of experience of its authors working with and understanding electorates across African countries, as well as from global trends and attitudes the world over, to highlight the roles that factors such as legacy, political parties and other establishments play in determining the outcomes of elections.

It represents a comprehensive guide that will help aspirants, political actors, civil societies, donors, social activists and most importantly, citizens understand the tectonic shifts taking place in the electoral ecosystem across the world. – Brand Crunch

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Biography

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Going Gently

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Kate Copson, born in 1899, is the oldest patient on Ward 3C, Whetstone General Hospital. With her hundredth birthday approaching at the speed of an express train, Kate is engaged in a race against time with a difference: she wants her life to crash into the buffers before she has to listen to the Queen’s telemessage and a rousing chorus of “For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow”, but not before she’s worked out which of her three sons is responsible for the murder of her fourth – or is it fifth? – husband, Graham Eldridge. Confined to bed after suffering a massive stroke, Kate is alert and rational. Although she retains limited power of movement, she feigns paralysis in order that she may, free of distractions, replay the mental video of her life and, she hopes, eliminate two of her sons from suspicion of murder.

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Living With The Laird

₦2,500.00 ₦2,500.00

ByBelinda Rathbone

When Belinda Rathbone, a New York art historian, met eccentric Anglo-Scots bachelor John Ouchterlony it was the start of a story of clashing cultures and crumbling houses. After a whirlwind romance she married the man-and his 400acre estate decrepit mansion in Scotland. In her charming and moving account of their time together she reveals her many discoveries about his strange world- not just the persistence of lino, and family historian ancient and recent, but the value of dead elms, the art of Aga, yoga with the aristocracy and the vitally important business of producing an heir…..

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The Fountain

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Northfolk, 1920. Barbara Bosgrove has lived in the market town of Melsham all her life, and is looking forward to the annual Harvest Supper dinner ball- the first since the dark days of the First World War.

George Kenneth, a fiercely ambitious man, had his eye on Barbara since spotting her with her great friend Penny, and Penny’s brother Simon. He begins a slow and steady courtship and Barbara is eventually won over, agreeing to marry a man she believes can rely on.

Little does she realise how wrong she can be. Worn down by George’s unfaithfulness during their marriage, Barbara feels she has lost all the vitality of her youth.

But Simon is not prepared to let Barbara lose sight of the woman she really is-the woman he has always loved. Her reawakens Barbara’s passion and fighting spirit, but at what cost?

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Alex Higgins – My Story

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Two world snooker championships, alcohol, violence, affairs, threats to shoot a team mate, assaults on officials, gambling, lost days with Oliver Reed, illness and bankruptcy.

The man who became revolutionized snooker became one of the biggest names in the country tells all.

The Hurricane is back. Prepare to be caught up in the carnage.

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Management

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Framework For Credit Risk Management

₦3,500.00 ₦3,500.00

ByCib Publishing

This manual serves as an excellent introduction to the variety of business context in which credit risk can occur. It explains the different types of credit risk and proceeds to examine how such risk can be anticipate and managed. All methods by which credit risk can be controlled are examined in turn; starting with a description of he principles of credit management and proceeding to explain the principles of good lending, credit venting, security, insurance and the overall management of the credit cycle.

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The Handbook Of Fixed Income Securities

₦4,500.00 ₦4,500.00

ByFrank J. Fabozzi

The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities is the investing industry’s most authoritative, widely followed fixed income reference. Institutional and individual investors rely on the handbook for its scope and detail, along with the unquestioned global authority and expertise of its contributors.

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The Paradox Of Asset Pricing

₦5,000.00 ₦5,000.00

ByPeter Bossaerts

Asset pricing theory abounds with elegant mathematical models. The logic is so compelling that the models are widely used in policy, from banking, investments and corporate finance to government. To what extent, however, can these models predict what actually happens in financial markets? In the Paradox of Asset Pricing, a leading financial researcher argues forcefully that the empirical record is weak at best. Peter Bossaerts undertakes the most thorough, technically sound investigation in many years into scientific character of the pricing of financial assets.

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The Practice Of Management

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ByPeter F. Drucker

A classic since its publication in 1954, THE PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT was the first book to look at management as a whole and being a manager as a separate responsibility. THE PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT created the discipline of modern management practices. Readable, fundamental, and basic, it remains an essential book for students, aspiring managers, and seasoned professionals.

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Children

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There is an elephant in my wardrobe

₦2,000.00 ₦2,000.00

ByYejide Kilanko

Have you ever wished for someone who will listen to your worries? Adun does. When an elephant arrives at her home, adun is happy to have a new friend with big ears. Adun’s happy feelings goes away when eru the elephant begins to eat her clothes. Friends should be kind to one another. How will adun make the elephant leave her wardrobe when I Is stronger than her?

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The Man In The Lion Mask

₦2,500.00 ₦2,500.00

ByAlexandre Dumas

The famous musketeers – Athos, Aramis, porthos and D’Artagnan – are not as young as they were, but they are still ready for adventure. They become involved in a dangerous, top-secret plot- and find themselves fighting for their lives against impossible odds.

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Dork Diaries – Holiday Heartbreak

₦3,000.00 ₦3,000.00

ByRachel Renee Russell

Squeee! Brandon, who Nikki has been crushing on FOREVER, has finally asked her on an almost-date! But when he starts acting weirdly and Nikki’s worried that Brandon doesn’t like her after all….

With a special dance coming up where girls ask boys, Nikki wants to ask Brandon, but what if she be brave enough to invite him, or will she be left at home like a true Dork-arella?

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Wireless Technology

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ByMary Firestone

A child downloads a song to her mobile phone, then forwards it to her stereo system – al without plugging in a single cable or wire. The eyepiece o a soldier’s helmet has a GPS map of the battlefield, showing the positions of his squad members. An artificial heart can be recharged wirelessly- right through the patient’s ribcage

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Fiction

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England Calling

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‘England Calling draws an utterly convincing literary map of this restless nation as it winggles in the throes of a profound identity crisis. It works as a social document but also, much more importantly, as a simply terrific story collection- full of humour, tragedy, hope, despair, struggle and triumph- just like the country whose ever-changing moods it sets out to record’Romance, adventure, murder and intrigue in the latest Chevalier Galeran medieval mystery. France 1145, and Normandy coast is bracing itself against the impending gales of the autumn equinox.

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Redeeming Love

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ByFrancine Rivers

Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside.

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Son Of Encouragement

₦2,500.00 ₦2,500.00

ByFrancine Rivers

Behind the men who shaped history are the heroes who changed it forever.

Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, Silas, each story includes a six-part Bible study, perfect for individual use or group discussion.

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The Indispensable

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ByJulian Rathbone

The Indispensable Julian Rathbone offers up a wide selection of his work- crime, science, erotic and historical fiction, short stories, extracts from his novels, autobiography, poetry, critical essays and screenplays.

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