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The soft budget constraint - today a popular metaphor - is a paradox. In socialist economies, it implies that the state tends to bail out state-owned firms in financial trouble, in spite of the tremendous performance problems of the entire system that result. When the socialist system broke down, the soft budget constraint was expected to disappear. However, it seems to persist, and its persistence appears to hamper the transition process itself.
The Soft Budget Constraint The Emergence, Persistence and Logic of an Institution seeks an answer to this paradox. It aims at increasing our understanding of why the soft budget constraint exists. By investigating state-owned enterprises in Tanzania before, during and after socialism, the prevalence of the soft budget constraint is examined and an explanation of its existence is suggested. The approach is institutional. The soft budget constraint is defined as an informal institution and an invisible-hand explanation of its emergence, persistence and logic is applied.
The book shows that the soft budget constraint emerged as an unintended consequence of the establishment of the Tanzania socialist system in the 1970s. A behavioral solution to recurrent systemic problems was offered, and thus the soft budget constraint performed several functions. Once established, its very existence set off a cumulative process of self-generation. Four reinforcement mechanisms that accounted for its maintenance during Tanzanian socialism are identified. Its character as an informal rule helps to explain why it persisted during market-oriented reform, initiated in the mid-1980s. The soft budget constraint was part of the socialist heritage, was adapted to systemic change, and influenced the direction and character of this change.

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In the fall of 1938, Alfred Winslow Jones, a Columbia University graduate student, interviewed 1,705 Akron, Ohio, residents in order to gauge attitudes toward large corporations. Jones selected Akron because it was "crucial," a hotbed of labor unrest and conflict between large manufacturing firms and their employees, where the sit-down strike in particular had polarized the community. If rigid class lines existed anywhere, they ought to be evident in Akron. Jones discovered, however, that the polarization so evident in the workplace and in local politics had had only a minimal effect on underlying attitudes and values, even on controversial subjects such as the rights of corporations. One reviewer described his findings as "a most heartening testimonial to the vitality of our democracy."

Life, Liberty, and Property reports the actual comments of a broad range of Akron interviewees. Their statements provide a compelling and often colorful commentary on life in a divided and anxious mid-western city. By 1938, the worst of the Depression was over, but jobs remained uncertain. The international turmoil that would lead to World War II was beginning to be a source of concern. Most of all, the appropriate roles for government and big business in a democratic society troubled Akron residents. Jones' interviews illuminate the whole range of public issues at a critical juncture in American history. Life, Liberty, and Property is an invaluable source on Akron, on Ohio, and on American society.

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It's that time of year again -- the holiday season. Between checkout lines a mile long, the office party hangover, battles with traffic, and delayed flights, what's better to do than to listen to The Worst Noel and laugh your holiday aggravation away?

The collection features an eclectic mix of writers with playful, often dark humor as the common thread.

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Mel Bay's Master Anthology of Fiddle Solos, Vol. 1

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New Millennial Sexstyles looks at the increasing gap between end-of-the-millennium sex radicalism and the mid-twentieth-century feminist theories institutionalized both as part of the academy and with American therapy culture. Through a consideration of books, films, music, and sexual practices, Carol Siegel attempts to explain why feminist theory must be revised to address the sexual realities for a new generation.

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Every day millions of Americans tune in to their local public radio station, and of what they hear-news and public affairs programs, music and other cultural offerings-- comes from the National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. This visually stunning and engagingly written book traces the history of NPR from its tentative beginnings in 1971, through its financial crisis and growth in the 1980's, to its current status as a preeminent source of news and entertainment.

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As a professional Flash developer, nobody knows more about Flash MX 2004 than you or at least they better not! To make sure they don't, you need this task-based guide. By applying the popular Visual QuickStart format--easy, step-by-step instructions and loads of visual aids--to more complex topics, this guide offers the quickest, easiest way to get up to speed on the advanced Flash features that can make or break a project. You'll find straight-ahead, concise explanations of all the animation, navigation, and interactivity techniques you'll need to master to create dynamic Web sites with Flash. You'll also find complete coverage of all that's new in Flash MX 2004: essential ActionScript 2.0 commands and standards, expanded support for rich media, a streamlined user interface, and more. By emphasizing methodology and problem solving over features inventories and long, techie discussions, this guide teaches Flash the way you use it--dynamically, interactively, and to get a job done!

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Unbelievable.......2006-08-01

I bought this book along with the basics version because I am new to using Flash and web design in general. I know when first learned programs with the help of books like this it sometimes feels as though they are talking about a completely different program because you can get so confused, however, with this book I am pretty sure they actually have written about a different version of the program. I definately have version MX 2004, which is definately what it says on the cover of this book, yet even when I copy their code exactly letter for letter, space for space, it will not produce the outcome they describe. For example the book repeatedly states to, "select the first frame of the root timeline, and open the actions panel," and from there it will instruct you to apply actions to a frame. Unfortunately in MX 2004 in no situation are you ever able to apply any action to a frame, actions are only usable for movie and button instances.

When the code in this book isn't completely not working, it kind of works if you trial and error long enough to figure out how it is really suppose to be entered, for example:

I am quoting this code directly from the book, on how to create a movable movie clip

instancename.onPress = function(){
this.startDrag();
}

MX 2004 will always let you know, however, that this is or contains a syntax error. After spending many hours playing the trail and error game, trying to figure out something that should be very simple with the help of an instruction book, I found the correct code was very similar to this

on (press) {
this.startDrag();
}

So more less I am saying this book is worthless unless you have an absorbant amount of time to waste trying to figure out why what they say in this book isnt working.

Indispensable.......2006-04-14

If you have some programming knowledge already, this book is a good way to learn how to apply your knowledge in the Flash environment. It has a good index and hundreds of pages of useful features explained so you may get on with whatever you are trying to create. I have found it so useful for user interface prototyping that I take it back and forth to/from the office whenever I am building prototypes.

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh .......2005-09-07

I found this Visual QuickPro Guide very informative, extremely helpful and an excellent learning tool. If you want to learn ANYTHING, these Visual QuickPro Guides are the way to go!

A Good Starting Point For The Already Seasoned.......2005-06-11

This book has helped tremendously. Before I looked into this book, I was afraid of true actionscripting. This book has helped me to understand what others made confusing and hard. I don't think it is the final say so... as Flash is truly a vast application with many capabilities, but it's a terrific start for those who are familiar to designing in flash, but not superb at scripting. It will "Demistify" the actionscripting fear for sure. Now I can open other more in-depth programming books and actually make sense of code. I recommend this for any web professional that has actually worked with, not just dabbled in Flash.

Convoluted confusion.......2005-06-09

I'm very disappointed in this book. It gives several ways to do one thing and they don't work. It leaves out information and is unclear. I knew Flash 4 before I started, but was unable to follow this. I would not recommend this book.

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National Bestseller

New York Times Editors’ Choice

Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize

Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award
of the Council on Foreign Relations

Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

For six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end all wars,” the Big Three—President Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceau—met in Paris to shape a lasting peace. In this landmark work of narrative history, Margaret MacMillan gives a dramatic and intimate view of those fateful days, which saw new political entities—Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among them—born out of the ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern world redrawn.

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How we ended up where we are today!.......2007-10-13

Paris 1919 is a good book that looks at the "peace" effort that was forced on the World by the victors of the Great War. It is a good overall look at the competing interest and political difficulties that left the world divided and led to the almost endless struggles in Europe, the Middle East, and in other far off regions.

Paris 1919.......2007-08-23

Margaret Macmillan's Paris 1919 is a masterful work that shows the complexity of the negotiations after World War One and just how enormous the task at hand truly was. There is no blame for what happened, or what didn't happen. She does not blame the future on this treaty. her approach is fresh and inspiring. Her writing style is fast-paced yet she clearly understands her subject.

For many it is easy to follow earlier accounts and say that World War Two had its origin in Paris in 1919. Contemporaries of Wilson, Clemanceau, and Lloyd George used such predictions to drive home their point. When the Second World War erupted, many looked to these critics of Versailles and agreed. For some, these critics appear as prophets.

Not so, says Macmillan. It is an easy cop out to avoid responsibility to place blame, throw up one's hands and say there is nothing they can do, then brood. True, if the Council of Four (Three) had had a better grasp of their world they might not have made the decisions they did, but one cannot blame the past for the future. There were plenty of stubborn decisions at Paris, but the participants had their own hands tied by earlier secret deals and the like. None in Paris blamed the past that led to those secret deals for the quandry they found themselves in, so why should future generations blame the Paris negotiators?

This treaty is so vast, and so complex, it is a wonder Macmillan was able to cover it in just under 500 pages of text. She is a first rate author and a first rate scholar. It will take quite a feat to write a better account of the Versailles Treaty.

A Good Example of How Good Intentions Can Go Wrong.......2007-08-13

This book gives an excellant example of what can happen when people try to make a better world and let too much of the old world invade and frustrate what you are trying accomplish. It shows how when the Allies sat down after the Armistace was signed to create a peace that would last, too many of the promises and treaties signed during the war came back to haunt those same nations that had made them.

The format is interesting in each chapter zeroes in on a specific area of the conference. It is helpful in that all the informaton for say Poland is in one area, but kind of makes you lose the chronological flow of the conference where so many of these things were happening at the same time. It makes for a good reference in that you can look up a certain topic without having to skim through the whole chronological timeline to find it. A chronological scheme of events would have been even harder to accomplish since several topics were handled on the same day at the conference and the reader would have been lost in all the detail.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in WW1 and how the Treaty of Versailles was drawn up. It shows how all of the participants were human with flaws and strengths. It also shows how different nations can view the same idea differently and how you can end up with less than you hoped for when all is said and done.

A tour de force in historical narrative.......2007-07-03

1919 masses a vast amount of information about the critical period of the negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles and tangential treaties that ended the Great War. At its best, 1919 ties it all together to draw relevance to today's world.

Macmillan charges through a dense web of diplomatic doings but livens the mix with vivid personalities and dramatic conversations. TE Lawrence, Kemal Ataturk, Bratianu of Romania, D'Annunzio of Italy. Macmillan strikes a neutral view overall, but one detects a sense of favor to Lloyd George, her great-grandfather. She teases him about his sense of geography, but generally he seems to rise above Wilson and Clemenceau in the telling. Woodrow Wilson is depicted as a sad and frustrated old man.

Each nation altered by the peacemakers is treated in turn. Ironically, Germany gets the least depth of treatment. Macmillan seems to say "you know the rest of that story" but still connects the dots to the next conflict. More focus is on the less told stories of how Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman empires were carved up and new nations formed.

A tour de force in historical narrative. Fascinating.

History woven with personalities and culture.......2007-06-04

What an incredibly powerful point in history. The ending of an era of dynasties lasting centuries and monarchy for several countries along with the evolution of communism. The personalities of the leaders and how they related in the process is fascinating. The process of breaking up the Austrian-Hungary empire as well as the Ottoman empire and the ramifications resulting are worth the read.
I enjoyed the cultural differences outlined between the French, English, American and Italian as well, not to mention the German, Japanese, Chinese, Greek and others. The evolution of America and the American position on foreign affairs is also worthy of note.
There is much complex material and much history of the areas in question but I recommend this book highly.

Paris 1919 Six Months That Changed the World

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Paris 1919 Six Months That Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan
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The long shadow of versailles.(Book Review) : An article from: Joint Force Quarterly

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The long shadow of versailles.(Book Review) : An article from: Joint Force Quarterly
Janeen M. Klinger
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This digital document is an article from Joint Force Quarterly, published by National Defense University on December 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1071 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The long shadow of versailles.(Book Review)
Author: Janeen M. Klinger
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Date: December 1, 2004
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World Law with a human face.(Books)(Book Review): An article from: World Policy Journal

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Karl E. Meyer
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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from World Policy Journal, published by World Policy Institute on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 3800 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: World Law with a human face.(Books)(Book Review)
Author: Karl E. Meyer
Publication: World Policy Journal (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: World Policy Institute
Volume: 20 Issue: 3 Page: 82(7)

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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Margaret Olwen Macmillan
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Margaret Olwen Macmillan
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Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (Modern Scholar)

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Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (Modern Scholar)

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Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (Modern Scholar)

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In this engaging book, David Brion Davis offers an illuminating perspective on American slavery. Starting with a long view across the temporal and spatial boundaries of world slavery, he traces continuities from the ancient world to the era of exploration, with its expanding markets and rise in consumption of such products as sugar, tobacco, spices, and chocolate, to the conditions of the New World settlement that gave rise to a dependence on the forced labor of millions of African slaves. With the American Revolution, slavery crossed another kind of boundary, in a psychological inversion that placed black slaves outside the dream of liberty and equality--and turned them into the Great American Problem.

Davis then delves into a single year, 1819, to explain how an explosive conflict over the expansion and legitimacy of slavery, together with reinterpretations of the Bible and the Constitution, pointed toward revolutionary changes in American culture. Finally, he widens the angle again, in a regional perspective, to discuss the movement to colonize blacks outside the United States, the African-American impact on abolitionism, and the South's response to slave emancipation in the British Caribbean, which led to attempts to morally vindicate slavery and export it into future American states. Challenging the boundaries of slavery ultimately brought on the Civil War and the unexpected, immediate emancipation of slaves long before it could have been achieved in any other way.

This imaginative and fascinating book puts slavery into a brilliant new light and underscores anew the desperate human tragedy lying at the very heart of the American story.

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Short but Illuminating.......2007-08-30

Written by a scholar considered by many as the foremost expert on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. If your time is short, but you want a well-written, insightful history of world and American slavery this is the book for you. If you are deeply interested in the subject, then I suggest "Inhuman Bondage," "The Problem of Slavery in Werstern Culture" or any of the other books by the same author. Prof. Davis is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and the Bancroft Prize for his written scholarship on slavery and the abolitionist movement. I teach a course on "Contemporary Slavery & Human Rights (Human Trafficking)" and Chair the University of Denver Task Force on Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking. Prof. Davis' book, "Challenging the Boundries of Slavery" is required reading in my course

Weak thesis and no editor.......2005-02-24

The author is supposed to be a leading historian and expert on slavery. And the big, deep insight that he works to develop in this text? That things got worse because the South and North distrusted each other. Oh !

Aren't authors supposed to collaborate with an editor to improve their books before publication? It looks like this essential step was forgotten. The prose is profusely polluted with run-on sentences, excess words, and meandering constructs that never quite finish making their point. I was amused to see that the author is a Yale professor. He could have gone to the English department at his own school for assistance. Their freshman course is very good. He could improve his writing in just a few months of hard work.

Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Michael J. Guasco
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Release Date: 2006-07-14

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 796 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery.(Book Review)
Author: Michael J. Guasco
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 71 Issue: 2 Page: 425(2)

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David Brion Davis. Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery.(Book Review): An article from: African American Review

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David Brion Davis. Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery.(Book Review): An article from: African American Review
Lewis Fried
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This digital document is an article from African American Review, published by African American Review on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1240 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: David Brion Davis. Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery.(Book Review)
Author: Lewis Fried
Publication: African American Review (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: African American Review
Volume: 38 Issue: 3 Page: 530(3)

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In 1848 a railway construction worker named Phineas Gage suffered an accident that made him a major curiosity of medicine and a significant figure in psychology and neuroscience: an explosion caused a tamping iron to be blown completely through his head, destroying the left frontal lobe of his brain. Gage survived the accident and remained in reasonable physical health for another eleven years. But his behavior changed markedly after the injury, and his case is considered to be the first to reveal the relation between the brain and complex personality characteristics. Yet almost nothing is known about him, and most of what is written is seriously in error.

In this book Malcolm Macmillan, a leading authority on Gage, covers all aspects of this fascinating story. He describes Gage's family and personal background, the context of his work and the accident, and Gage's subsequent history. He analyzes contemporary medical and newspaper reports of the accident and its consequences, and evaluates the treatment Gage received from Dr. John Martyn Harlow. He also looks at Harlow's own life and work. Macmillan examines Gage's place in the history of how functions came to be localized in the brain. He explores the many ways that Gage's tale has been represented and misrepresented through the years in popular, fictional, and scientific works. One of Macmillan's primary aims is to rescue the case from the predominantly fantastic accounts so that its real contribution to modern neuroscience can be understood. Partly for this reason, the appendices include facsimiles of Harlow's 1848 and 1868 reports, the primary sources about Gage, and previously unpublished CT scans of Gage's skull made in 1982.

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A fascinating case and a long, long story about it.......2001-07-04

Central to Malcolm Macmillan's book is the fascinating case of Phineas Gage, a railroad construction worker who, in 1848, was involved in an accident in which an iron bar shot through his head, severely damaging his skull and, supposedly, his brain. To everybody's surprise, Gage survived the accident. After he recovered, it turned out that Gage was not quite the same man anymore. He was unable to return to his job and traveled around quite a bit and held a number of odd jobs before he died twelve years later. His personality had profoundly changed as well: he became irritable, short-tempered, and irresponsible, among other things. In this book, all first-hand accounts of the accident are collected for the first time. MacMillan investigates a number of claims about the Gage case and concludes that very few of them have any evidence in their favor. The polemics of the author with other Gage-experts unfortunately detract from the story as they pertain to irrelevant details. The author attacks relativistic and social constructionist views of history which disregards actual facts (but where can such a historian be found?); these attacks are misplaced and irrelevant. In the end, MacMillan concludes that, historically, the Gage case was of no importance whatsoever. This begs the question as to why he filled over 400 pages with the case in the first place!

A Fascinating Story.......2000-10-02

Malcolm Macmillan has done an excellent job of researching the life and times of Phineas Gage and presenting his story. I am especially grateful for how carefully he distinguishes between fact and conjecture, since much of Gage's life story is unfortunately incomplete and some aspects must be inferred. Within the context of Gage's injuries, Macmillan thoroughly reviews the development of scientific thought on the nature of consciousness. The section on ventricular physiology I found particularly interesting, as a scientist proposing that the basic concept may deserve revisiting. The mystery of consciousness is indeed the greatest mystery of our time, and Macmillan's book is a must-read for every student of the subject.

An Odd Kind of Fameý.......2000-08-18

What a wonderful book this is! Malcolm Macmillan has not only presented a scientific and academic story of this important case, but has truly delved into the microcosm of who "Phineas Gage" was as an 'ordinary man' by carefully intertwining the social and cultural world he lived in with the incident itself, and its aftermath. I enjoyed it very much I know those who will read it from all levels of American life (whether they be physicians, scientists, historians or just plain folk), will enjoy it as well. I want to thank him very much - - not only personally, but on behalf of all the people of Cavendish and members of the Cavendish Historical Society, for all his hard work and the tremendous job he has done.

An Odd Kind of Fame - Stories of Phineas Gage

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An Odd Kind of Fame - Stories of Phineas Gage
M Macmillan
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AN ODD KIND OF FAME: STORIES OF PHINEAS GAGE.
Malcolm. Macmillan
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