Culture, Communication, and Dependency: The Tradition of H.A. Innis
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    Culture, Communication, and Dependency: The Tradition of H.A. Innis
    William H. Melody
    Manufacturer: Ablex Pub
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    ASIN: 0893910791

    Women Seafarers: Global Employment Policies and Practices
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      Women Seafarers: Global Employment Policies and Practices
      P. Belcher , H. Sampson , M. Thomas , J. Veiga , and M. Zhao
      Manufacturer: International Labor Office
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      Binding: Paperback

      GeneralGeneral | Women & Business | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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      GeneralGeneral | Ships | Transportation | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
      ASIN: 9221134911

      Book Description

      This landmark book is the first to focus on contemporary women seafarers at a global level. It addresses a host of issues surrounding the working conditions and welfare of women, from both developed and developing countries, employed aboard the world's merchant and passenger ships. Drawing on extensive research commissioned by the ILO, the book considers women's participation levels in the industry, and examines policies concerning their recruitment, training, maternity and employment rights, and other aspects of work and life at sea. It also offers first-hand accounts from women seafarers describing how they have dealt with discrimination, sexual harassment, and an array of other difficulties.

      Women's employment in the industry has multiple dimensions, and this book provides the historical background and presents recent findings on female participation rates. The study examines the practices and policies of national and international regulatory agencies, employers, trade unions, and maritime education institutions. A series of recommendations that may further help the integration of women into shipboard communities is included.

      Exito y Fracaso En La Nueva Economia
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        Exito y Fracaso En La Nueva Economia
        Guido Stein
        Manufacturer: Gestion 2000
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        Binding: Paperback

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        ASIN: 8480884770

        Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care (Self-Counsel Business Series)
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        • What a great book to get started with
        • Making a Profit?
        • Extremely helpful!
        • waste of money
        • Enormously helpful guide in getting me started in day care!
        Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care (Self-Counsel Business Series)
        Catherine M. Pruissen
        Manufacturer: Self-Counsel Press
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        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars What a great book to get started with.......2003-01-24

        I knew I wanted to start a home daycare when I got pregnant with my first child so I could stay home and enjoy her rather than going out to work. I came across Start and Run a Home Daycare on another Web site and knew I had to order it. Am I glad I did. This book took me through the process in a way that made a lot of sense. What I liked the most were the forms I could use to operate my daycare and the information on child development and child safety. Being a new parent I found this information most helpful. The book's inside design is also charming and the recipies and activities with each chapter are a nice touch. I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to start a daycare. It's my business bible.

        4 out of 5 stars Making a Profit?.......2002-03-05

        When it comes to making a profit.. the bottom line is budget.
        Can you honesty say that children are not worth every penny?
        NO.
        This book has a reality to the cost effectiveness of running a
        seldom lucrative business. Ideally this woud be the case if you
        planned a business to take advantage of the core market. In this book the author is trying to guide would-be daycare providers in a more acceptable way to manage a daycare. It definitely takes time and money to nuture a child... but it also takes love, patience, understanding, determination, committment to guide children in everyday development. It is true that one should not take on the responsiblity of handling several children at one time unless their capable and willing to make everyday sacrifices.

        5 out of 5 stars Extremely helpful!.......2002-03-05

        I have referred so often to this book the edges are tattered and worn. Besides being a great reference tool for working out my policy statement and my rates, the book took me through every step I needed to get my daycare home organized. Even helped me list all the supplies and furniture I'd need, not to mention all the safety issues and recipies it has. I simply won't part with my copy.

        1 out of 5 stars waste of money.......2001-12-25

        This book is a waste of time and money I think the other review must had been written by the author because it had you thinking it woould be reliable but it is just not realistic

        5 out of 5 stars Enormously helpful guide in getting me started in day care!.......1999-10-01

        I owe the library a fortune because I can't let go of this book! My day care is only a few weeks old and I'm still referring to C. Pruissen's book. I found the policies section got me writing my own Policies and Procedures Statement with confidence. She is detailed in her samples and advice so that every area of need is addressed thoroughly. Best book on the subject-and I've read many. Hope it's reprinted soon!

        Crisp: Graphics for Presenters: Getting Your Ideas Across (Crisp Fifty-Minute Series)
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          Crisp: Graphics for Presenters: Getting Your Ideas Across (Crisp Fifty-Minute Series)
          Lynn kearny
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          The Crisp Training Essentials Learning Track includes the best self-directed study books at a significant cost savings. To help you learn the essentials of training, this bundle combines the best Fifty-Minute Series books and additional Crisp publications to provide in-depth knowledge of the subject matter. Relevant case studies, self-evaluations, and practical examples help to reinforce key concepts. Instead of ordering one book at a time, simply order the bundle and start your library today.
          Crisp: Writing Persuasively: Getting Your Ideas Across in Business
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            Crisp: Writing Persuasively: Getting Your Ideas Across in Business
            Kathleen A. Begley
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            ASIN: 1418864811

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            When you adapt basic sales techniques in your everyday business writing, you can get your readers to do what you want. This book takes a fresh look at the purpose of most business writing, which is to sell ideas. A five-step model shows you how to grab your readers' attention and motivate them into action. Use the tips in this book not only to improve your writing, but to build strong relationships with your readers.
            Getting Your Ideas Across : Making Effective Presentations
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              Getting Your Ideas Across : Making Effective Presentations
              Barry McLoughlin
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              ASIN: 1886712085

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              Getting Your Ideas Across - Making Effective Presentations is an ideal tool for preparing and delivering powerful presentations, speeches and committee testimony.

              You will learn techniques for preparing including organizing your material, utilizing audio visuals, crafting persuasive messages and connecting with your audiences.

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              Getting Across...Your Message, Your Ideas, Your Meaning: 15 Ways Professionals Can Communicate With Hispanic Customers and Co-workers
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                Getting Across...Your Message, Your Ideas, Your Meaning: 15 Ways Professionals Can Communicate With Hispanic Customers and Co-workers
                Dr. Jo Ann Piña
                Manufacturer: CrossTalk Press
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                ASIN: 0975974602
                Release Date: 2005-05-02

                Product Description

                Getting Across is the only book that shows you how to connect with America's growing multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and immigrant populations. Getting Along is written to give you powerful and effective case studies illustrating Hispanic values. It demonstrates how values drive behavior and communication styles and even gives you tips on how to get your message across and reach your Latino customers and co-workers. It is a must for anyone wishing to penetrate the 2 trillion dollar multicultural market especially those wanting to increase their influence and power with their Latino customers and co-workers.
                Getting Your Ideas Across
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                  Geoffrey Moss
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                  Getting Your Ideas Across Through Writing (training manual no. 7)
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                    How to Make Winning Presentations: 30 Action Tips for Getting Your Ideas Across With Clarity and Impact (30-Minute Solutions Series)
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                      Paul R. Timm
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                      Training manual / Federal Security Agency
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                        Milton Hall
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                        Kickstart Your Career: The Complete Insider's Guide to Landing Your Ideal Job (The Kickstart Series)
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                          Jeff Grout , and Sarah Perrin
                          Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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                          This practical and inspiring book will give you all the tools you will ever need in the search for your ideal job. It takes you from first principles of job-hunting through to the moment you step into the interview room, and beyond. If you have ever dreamed about landing your ideal job, and want to start doing something about achieving that goal, this is the book for you.

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                          What We Earn, What We Owe
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                            What We Earn, What We Owe
                            Samuel Crowther
                            Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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                            ASIN: 0766160246

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                            This work is a report by Samuel Crowther to the Commission for the Promotion of the Wealth and Income of the People of New Hampshire, which discusses the financial status of New Hampshire. It is an effort to provide the people with a working knowledge of how they collectively earn their living, so that, armed with this knowledge, they may have the greater capacity to distinguish between what will forward their welfare and what will retard it.
                            What we earn, what we owe: A report by Samuel Crowther to the Commission for the Promotion of the Wealth and Income of the People of New Hampshire
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                              What we earn, what we owe: A report by Samuel Crowther to the Commission for the Promotion of the Wealth and Income of the People of New Hampshire
                              Samuel Crowther
                              Manufacturer: [The Commission?
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                              Applying Corporate Management Strategies (New Directions for Higher Education, No 50)
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                                Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
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                                ManagementManagement | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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                                Hands-On Strategy: The Guide to Crafting Your Company's Future (New Directions in Business Series)
                                Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                                • Strategy from Start to Finish
                                Hands-On Strategy: The Guide to Crafting Your Company's Future (New Directions in Business Series)
                                William C. Finnie
                                Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
                                ProductGroup: Book
                                Binding: Hardcover

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                                ASIN: 0471045861

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                                Hands-On Strategy: The Guide to Crafting Your Company's Future shows you how to combine the brilliant strategy concepts of the 1980s ( from Michael Porter and Russell Ackoff) and the 1990s (from Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad and many others) so your company can grow its value rapidly. The great contribution of the 1994 edition was to present a proven framework for strategy development. The completely rewritten 2nd edition presents a new, breakthrough approach to stategy implemenation plus new chapters on people driven strategy and leading change/result-based leadership.

                                Customer Reviews:

                                5 out of 5 stars Strategy from Start to Finish.......2000-09-25

                                Trying to keep up with the latest business strategy concepts can be challenging. Newspapers, periodicals, the internet, and email compete to push the latest research and twist on strategic models. "Hands-On Strategy" highlights the critical ideas of leading authors, combined with practical "real life" examples, to create the "Reader's Digest of Business Strategy". Dr. Finnie has combined his marketing and strategy experience at Anheuser-Busch, his years of mid-market consulting experience, with condensed versions of the latest strategy concepts into a practical "Hands-On" approach to strategy. The three cycle process that is proposed addresses the needs of effected stakeholders while providing a platform for functional implementation and performance measurement. While other business books gather dust at home, "Hands-On Strategy is used at work regularly.
                                New Directions in Corporate Strategy
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                                  Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited (Australia)
                                  ProductGroup: Book
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                                  Touchstones: Ten New Ideas Revolutionizing Business (New Directions in Business Series)
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                                    William A. Band
                                    Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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                                    New directions in corporate security: Realigning traditional roles and market strategies to meet changing needs (Report)
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                                      New directions in corporate security: Realigning traditional roles and market strategies to meet changing needs (Report)
                                      W. Don Brockett
                                      Manufacturer: SRI International, Business Intelligence Program
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                                      Binding: Unknown Binding

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                                      Interpretive Consumer Research: Paradigms, Methodologies and Applications
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                                        Interpretive Consumer Research: Paradigms, Methodologies and Applications

                                        Manufacturer: Copenhagen Business School Press
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                                        Researching the consumer has progressed far beyond the research for managerial implications and has become a major focus for the social sciences. In the field of marketing research, interpretive approaches to studying consumer behavior are playing an increasing role.

                                        This book presents the wide range of conceptual and empirical approaches that are required in studies of the consumer and consumption. The model of the consumer as an individual decision-maker is being replaced with a richer perspective that situates him/her in a social and cultural location where the collective influences are balanced against the subjectivity of the consumption act.

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                                        Global Showdown: How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule
                                        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                                        • A Commentary by David Orton
                                        Global Showdown: How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule
                                        Maude Barlow , and Tony Clarke
                                        Manufacturer: Stoddart
                                        ProductGroup: Book
                                        Binding: Paperback

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                                        ASIN: 0773762833

                                        Customer Reviews:

                                        5 out of 5 stars A Commentary by David Orton.......2005-02-21

                                        By David Orton, July 15, 2001,
                                        Published in the September 2001 edition of the online magazine of the New Brunswick Environmental Network, "Elements"

                                        This commentary will outline why I think this book is important, explain the critique in
                                        Global Showdown,and bring out what seems to me to be some of the important questions,
                                        which reading this book raises for the radical, deep ecology-influenced environmental
                                        movement.

                                        First, one has to say that this book is an excellent source of information on the various
                                        corporate structures which are trying to make the world safe for international Capital - for
                                        example the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank -
                                        and the ideas of the mainstream groups in opposition to this. I agree with the authors when
                                        they note that "civil society politics are the politics of the twenty first century." (p. 5)
                                        Although most of us reading this commentary share an opposition to the belief that trade is
                                        the supreme good, there is an ongoing discussion on what will be the nature of such politics.
                                        This book advocates a mainstream view of civil society politics that ultimately can be
                                        accommodated within industrial capitalism. (The People's Summit in Quebec City in April
                                        of 2001, was partly financed by the federal and Québec governments.)

                                        Global Showdown shows the historical emergence of global economic institutions and,
                                        following the ending of the Second World War, how United Nations supervision of such
                                        institutions was replaced by US control, with what has come to be called "The Washington
                                        Consensus."
                                        "Led by American business interests, the free-market doctrine would
                                        eventually force most governments in the world to give up controls on
                                        foreign investment, liberalize trade, deregulate their internal economies,
                                        privatize state services, and enter into head-to-head global competition."
                                        (p. 57)
                                        Because of the necessary exposure of the labyrinth corporate and bureaucratic structures
                                        which underpin the ever expanding globalization of Capital, this book is not easy, although
                                        it is essential reading.

                                        Maude Barlow is the chairperson of the Council of Canadians. Barlow has played a major
                                        role in educating and arousing Canadians to fight back against the forces of globalization and
                                        increasing corporate governance. Anyone who has heard her speak, knows she is a very
                                        effective and knowledgeable speaker, who "eats up" the apologists for more unrestricted free
                                        trade. Tony Clarke is the director of the Polaris Institute of Canada. This institute, which
                                        emerged in 1997, describes itself in its mission statement as seeking "to provide a compass
                                        for social movements", in order "to bring about democratic social change" in this era of
                                        corporate driven globalization. Both authors know their stuff, and reading this book brings
                                        about a growing rage at the sell-out, and its extent, of the interests of the Canadian (and the
                                        world's) people to a transnational corporate agenda.

                                        Barlow and Clarke do not basically oppose globalization; they seek "fair" trade, not free
                                        trade. The authors want "Canada to help bring democratic governance to the operation of
                                        the global economy." (p. 176) They want to democratize, not dismantle, the institutions of
                                        global economic governance. Taken for granted is the spread of capitalist industrialism all
                                        over the globe. Barlow and Clarke want to control globalization from below, not the
                                        corporate control from the top. So they do not oppose global trade, foreign investment or
                                        capitalism. They support "compensating" corporations when the state expropriates. (p. 193)
                                        Their book reflects the Declaration of the Second People's Summit of the Americas in
                                        Québec City (April 19, 2001), which said:
                                        "We want socially productive and ecologically responsible investment.
                                        The rules applied across the continent should encourage foreign investors
                                        who will guarantee the creation of quality jobs, sustainable production
                                        and economic stability, while blocking speculative investments."

                                        Barlow and Clarke do not share the anarchist critique of the state, which they essentially
                                        dismiss without discussion. They even give support in the book to arresting anarchists involved
                                        in property damage at the Seattle demonstration in 1999! (p. 13.) (Anarchism advocates
                                        some type of stateless society, that is a society without government, or at least extremely
                                        limited government, and sees attempts to work within existing states as futile activity.)

                                        The authors' view seems to be that we once had "democracy" in Canada and that the state
                                        was in control of the economy. I think this assumption is false. They want the nation state to
                                        become strengthened and "redemocratized".

                                        This is a progressive book, but it stays within a "human" context. The Earth itself and the
                                        millions of nonhuman organisms are largely excluded from the authors' human-centered vision
                                        of democracy. The primacy of the Earth is absent. There is no fundamental ecological critique
                                        in Global Showdown. There is no sense of having exceeded the ecological footprint of
                                        industrial humankind. The "democratic rights" put forward as desirable, presuppose a high
                                        standard of living. There is no understanding that socially worthy measures may be just as
                                        ecologically harmful and unsustainable as socially unworthy ones. There is no understanding
                                        that the ecological question is deeper, and of a different nature, than trying to democratically
                                        control the global economy. Human history shows much waste and ecological destruction, so
                                        a politics of controlling globalization, or for that matter a politics of anti-globalization or
                                        anti-capitalism, while important, is not sufficient. There is no sense that there are too many
                                        people and that the existing lifestyle "role model" in North America or Western Europe is
                                        a recipe for ecological disaster for the rest of the world. There is no sense that economic
                                        growth and consumerism need to be ended, for a sustainable planet to exist for all species,
                                        not just humans. Finally, there is no sense that, even from a social perspective, for us to
                                        achieve global sustainability means focusing on redistributing wealth nationally and
                                        internationally, not promoting more "investment" and economic growth.

                                        The radical ecocentric activist who is also socially aware sees that the forces of
                                        globalization and increasing world trade attack all the social buffers from the marketplace as
                                        "impediments" to trade, but also sees how these forces undermine the ecological integrity of
                                        the planet. In Global Showdown and in the anti-globalization movement in Canada, it is the
                                        first concern which is overwhelmingly dominant.

                                        Final Reflections
                                        I think it important to try and think outside of the existing paradigm and the self-
                                        destructive industrial growth society that seemingly overwhelms us. We do not have to
                                        accept thinking within the framework of the current society. (This is what Arne Naess referred
                                        to as "shallow" ecology.) A major issue is how to deal with "property" - a human- and
                                        class-centered concept. Governments and corporations want to turn everything into private
                                        property, as in the fishery. (Yet even many inshore fishermen, while they oppose ITQs
                                        [Individual Transferable Quotas], see no apparent contradiction in "selling" lobster licenses
                                        for hundreds of thousands of dollars.) To preserve Nature's "Commons" we need to move
                                        to "usufruct rights" and to see the concept of private property as a social fiction used to
                                        justify Earth exploitation. Usufruct rights, in a society that is Earth-centered and socially just,
                                        would be accountable to an all-species community of life forms and not privately transferable.

                                        To corporations and the governments which serve them, anti-globalization activists have
                                        become the new subversives and are being defined as "nonpersons" against whom very
                                        severe measures can be used. "Democracy" can always be withdrawn in the interest of Capital.
                                        If rubber bullets and tear gas do not suffice, then live ammunition will be used, as was the
                                        case recently in Sweden, the home of social democracy. Corporations want consumers not
                                        politically active citizens.

                                        Global Showdown ignores the dilemma that long-time activists face, that as the world
                                        becomes increasingly complex, most citizens do not seem to want to spend the time to
                                        understand and work to change it. Yet democracy requires such an involvement.

                                        In a recent book by Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers And
                                        The Shaping Of The World, he points out that until 12,000 years ago, all of us lived as
                                        hunter-gatherers, and that in such societies the material wellbeing of people depended on
                                        knowing, rather than changing their environment. Such societies were spiritual, with
                                        worldviews of respect for Nature, grounded in animism. Somehow we must reorient to this.
                                        It is quite a task that we face, more encompassing than the theme of this edition of
                                        Elements: "Localization versus Globalization." Rather than trying to tame industrial
                                        globalization, as in Global Showdown, with its underlying destructive belief that all of
                                        Nature is subject to human control and exploitation, we need to mentally revisit and reorient
                                        towards those cultures which for 90 percent of our human history served us well.

                                        Global Showdown presents a social democratic "nonviolent" model for reigning in the
                                        global economy, with a major role for labour unions. The overall thrust of the book is
                                        reformist but with hints of a more radical agenda. The deep green and deep ecology
                                        alternative to this model, urgently awaits conceptualization.


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