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Jacob's Room is Full of Books - Susan Hill - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Jacob's Room is Full of Books - Susan Hill - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who''s to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob''s Room Is Full of Books. Considering everything from Edith Wharton''s novels through to Alan Bennett''s diaries, Virginia Woolf and the writings of twelfth century monk Aelred of Rievaulx, Susan Hill charts a year of her life through the books she has read, reread or returned to the shelf. From beneath a shady tree in a hot French summer, or the warmth of a kitchen during an English winter, Hill reflects on what her reading throws up, from writing and writers to politics and religion, as well as the joy of dandies or the pleasure of watching a line of geese cross a meadow. Full of wry observations and warm humour, as well as strong opinions freely aired, this is a rare and wonderful insight into the rich world of reading from one of the nation''s most accomplished authors.

DKK 126.00
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A Bookshop in Algiers - Kaouther Adimi - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Bookshop in Algiers - Kaouther Adimi - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A beautiful little novel about books, history, ambition and the importance of literature.'' Nick Hornby''Truly potent ... Adimi confronts us with episodes that are simply never spoken of in France'' The New York Times Book ReviewIn 1936, a young dreamer named Edmond Charlot opened a modest bookshop in Algiers. Once the heart of Algerian cultural life, where Camus launched his first book and the Free French printed propaganda during the war, Charlot''s beloved bookshop has been closed for decades, living on as a government lending library. Now it is to be shuttered forever. But as a young man named Ryad empties it of its books, he begins to understand that a bookshop can be much more than just a shop that sells books. A Bookshop in Algiers charts the changing fortunes of Charlot''s bookshop through the political drama of Algeria''s turbulent twentieth century of war, revolution and independence. It is a moving celebration of books, bookshops and of those who dare to dream.

DKK 113.00
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The Book at War - Andrew Pettegree - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Book at War - Andrew Pettegree - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Sunday Times Best Book of 2023''Magisterial'' Kathryn Hughes, The Sunday Times (A Sunday Times Book of the Week)''Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree''s tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.'' David KynastonChairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited. Since the advent of modern warfare, books have all too often found themselves on the frontline. In The Book at War, acclaimed historian Andrew Pettegree traces the surprising ways in which written culture - from travel guides and scientific papers to Biggles and Anne Frank - has shaped, and been shaped, by the conflicts of the modern age. From the American Civil War to the invasion of Ukraine, books, authors and readers have gone to war - and in the process become both deadly weapons and our most persuasive arguments for peace.

DKK 291.00
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How Words Get Good - Rebecca Lee - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How Words Get Good - Rebecca Lee - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Any bibliophile will find many enjoyable nuggets in this compendium of book chat'' Stephen Poole, Guardian''An engaging little eye-opener about the publishing business, full of tasty nuggets about books, writers and their editors'' Sunday Times''Enjoyable ... engaging ... insightful'' IndependentOnce upon a time, a writer had an idea. They wrote it down. But what happened next?Join Rebecca Lee, professional text-improver, as she embarks on a fascinating journey to find out how words get from an author''s brain to finished, printed books. She''ll reveal the dark arts of ghostwriters, explore the secret world of literary agents and uncover the hidden beauty of typesetting. Along the way, her quest will be punctuated by a litany of little-known (but often controversial) considerations that make a big impact: ellipses, indexes, hyphens, esoteric points of grammar and juicy post-publication corrections. After all, the best stories happen when it all goes wrong.From foot-and-note disease to the town of Index, Missouri - turn the page to discover how books get made and words get good.** Or, at least, better

DKK 127.00
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Minor Feelings - Cathy Park Hong - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Minor Feelings - Cathy Park Hong - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2021FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION 2021A New York Times Top Book of 2020 Chosen as a Guardian Book of 2020 A BBC Culture Best Books of 2020 Nominated for Good Reads Books of 2020 One of Time''s Must-Read Books of 2020 ''Unputdownable ... Hong''s razor-sharp, provocative prose will linger long after you put Minor Feelings down'' - AnOther, Books You Should Read This Year ''A fearless work of creative non-fiction about racism in cultural pursuits by an award-winning poet and essayist'' - Asia House''Brilliant, penetrating and unforgettable, Minor Feelings is what was missing on our shelf of classics ... To read this book is to become more human'' - Claudia Rankine author of Citizen ''Hong says the book was ''a dare to herself'', and she makes good on it: by writing into the heart of her own discomfort, she emerges with a reckoning destined to be a classic'' - Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts What happens when an immigrant believes the lies they''re told about their own racial identity? For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of "minor feelings". The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality. With sly humour and a poet''s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche - and of a writer''s search to both uncover and speak the truth.

DKK 120.00
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Remainders of the Day - Shaun Bythell - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Remainders of the Day - Shaun Bythell - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Waterstones ''Best Books of 2022: Biography'' The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm''s idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You''d think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don''t get him wrong - there are some good ones among the antiquarian erotica-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He''s sure there are. There must be some good ones, right?Filled with the pernickety warmth and humour that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is Shaun Bythell''s latest entry in his bestselling diary series.

DKK 160.00
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On Learning Golf - Percy Boomer - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

On Learning Golf - Percy Boomer - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Among the best books ever written on playing the game'' Golf.comWith a foreword by Edward, the late Duke of Windsor.Once named the most influential golf instructor of all time by Golf Illustrated, Percy Boomer delivers the foundations of modern golf instruction in his classic 1946 book On Learning Golf. With this new edition, the modern golfer can go back to the source and learn directly from the master.Percy Boomer''s methods have been adopted by generations of golfers, instructors and writers, delivering the basics of golf practice as well as golf psychology with a unique blend of humour and anecdote. Famed for his teachings on learning to control the swing of the club by feel rather than thought, Percy Boomer urged his students to learn a proper swing through intuition rather than by trying to understand the mechanics of a shot. Regarded as one of the best books ever written on playing the game, On Learning Golf is a classic guide by a legendary instructor.

DKK 120.00
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The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland''s biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there ''The Diary Of A Bookseller is warm (unlike Bythell''s freezing-cold shop) and funny, and deserves to become one of those bestsellers that irritate him so much.'' (Mail on Sunday) ''Utterly compelling and Bythell has a Bennett-like eye for the amusing eccentricities of ordinary people ... I urge you to buy this book and please, even at the risk of being insulted or moaned at, buy it from a real live bookseller.'' (Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express)Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland''s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover''s paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.

DKK 126.00
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Art & Fear - David Bayles - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Art & Fear - David Bayles - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''An essential text for anyone who wants to start making art and not stop. One of those rare books - like The Artist''s Way and Writing Down the Bones - to keep close by for courage and company.'' - Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for Sleep and creator of The Wild Patience Scrolls: A Mile of WritingArt & Fear is about the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn''t get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. Drawing on the authors'' own experiences as two working artists, the book delves into the internal and external challenges to making art in the real world, and shows how they can be overcome every day.First published in 1994, Art & Fear quickly became an underground classic, and word-of-mouth has placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking and creativity. Written by artists for artists, it offers generous and wise insight into what it feels like to sit down at your easel or keyboard, in your studio or performance space, trying to do the work you need to do. Every artist, whether a beginner or a prizewinner, a student or a teacher, faces the same fears - and this book illuminates the way through them.

DKK 120.00
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How Words Get Good - Rebecca Lee - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How Words Get Good - Rebecca Lee - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A masterpiece'' - Daily Mail''A fascinating and funny look at what really goes into the making of a book'' Sunday Times''Inject this straight into my veins!'' Lucy Mangan''Engaging, informative, and fascinating!'' David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Once upon a time, a writer had an idea. They wrote it down. But what happened next?Join Rebecca Lee, professional word-improver, as she embarks on the fascinating journey to find out how a book gets from author''s brain to finished copy. She''ll learn the dark arts of ghostwriters, uncover the hidden beauty of typesetting and find out which words end up in books (and why). And along the way, her quest will be punctuated by a litany of little-known considerations that make a big impact: ellipses, indexes, hyphens, esoteric grammar and juicy errata slips. Whoops. From foot-and-note disease to the town of Index, Missouri - turn the page to discover how books get made and words get good. Or, at least, better.

DKK 155.00
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To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life - Herve Guibert - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life - Herve Guibert - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Frieze editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White''Unforgettable, heartbreaking'' New York Times''Brilliant'' - Dazed''As brutal as it is elegant'' - Neil Bartlett''Electrifying'' - Colm Tóibín''Dazzling'' - Katherine AngelAfter being diagnosed with AIDS, Hervé Guibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the narrator''s life. In the wake of his friend Muzil''s death, he goes from one quack doctor to another, from holidays to test centres, and charts the highs and lows of trying to cheat death. On publication in 1990, the novel scandalized French media, which quickly identified Muzil as Guibert''s close friend Michel Foucault. The book became a bestseller, and Guibert a celebrity. The book has since attained a cult following for its tender, fragmented and beautifully written accounts of illness, friendship, sex, art and everyday life. It catapulted Guibert into notoriety and sealed his reputation as a writer of shocking precision and power.

DKK 127.00
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The Alhambra - Robert Irwin - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Alhambra - Robert Irwin - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Alhambra, the ''red fort'' on its rocky hill above Granada, with its fountained courts and gardens, and intricate decoration, has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In a stimulating new book in the ''Wonders of the World'' series Robert Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its engrossing and often mysterious history. Built by a bloody and threatened dynasty of Muslim Spain, it was preserved as a monument to the triumph of Christianity. Much of what we see is the invention of later generations. Its highly sophisticated decoration is not just random but full of hidden meaning. Even its purpose - palace or theological college - is not always clear. Its influence on art, and on literature, orientalist painting and Granada cinemas, Washington Irving and Borges, has been significant. Robert Irwin enables us to understand that history fully. The Wonders of the World is a series of books that focuses on some of the world''s most famous sites or monuments. Their names will be familiar to almost everyone: they have achieved iconic stature and are loaded with a fair amount of mythological baggage. These monuments have been the subject of many books over the centuries, but our aim, through the skill and stature of the writers, is to get something much more enlightening, stimulating, even controversial, than straightforward histories or guides.

DKK 127.00
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Stag Dance - Torrey Peters - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Stag Dance - Torrey Peters - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

**The irresistible follow-up to the hit debut novel Detransition, Baby**A BOOK TO WATCH IN 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, ROLLING STONES AND THE BBC''As innovative, insightful, funny, and confronting as we''ve come to expect from Peters'' work'' Independent, Best Books to Look Out for in 2025''A shining talent'' Stylist Best Books of 2025''Hot, heartbreaking and thrillingly victorious'' MIRANDA JULY ''Potent and surprising and takes no prisoners'' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO ''Spellbinding. With pathos and wit, Peters explores characters on the brink of self-discovery'' BRIT BENNETTDeep in the forest, a group of restless lumberjacks working an illegal logging outfit plan a winter dance that some will volunteer to attend as women; the broadest, strongest axeman finds himself caught in a rivalry with a pretty, young jack that culminates in jealousy, betrayal and an astonishing spectacle of transition. Meanwhile, in other times and places, the gender apocalypse is brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend; an illicit boarding-school romance surfaces intrigue and cruelty; and a Las Vegas party weekend turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between a thrilling mystery man or a veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.In this quartet of tales, Torrey Peters'' keen eye for the rough edges of desire reveals fresh possibilities. Acidly funny, boldly inventive and breathtaking in scope, Stag Dance provokes and unsettles, inspires and delights.

DKK 166.00
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War - Professor Margaret Macmillan - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

War - Professor Margaret Macmillan - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020Sunday Times best books for Autumn 2020Guardian critics'' pick for Autumn 2020Wall Street Journal notable book of 2020The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the ''long peace'', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a military conflict ongoing every year since 1945. The same can be said for every century of recorded history. Is war, therefore, an essential part of being human? In War, Professor Margaret MacMillan explores the deep links between society and war and the questions they raise. We learn when war began - whether among early homo sapiens or later, as we began to organise ourselves into tribes and settle in communities. We see the ways in which war reflects changing societies and how war has brought change - for better and worse.Economies, science, technology, medicine, culture: all are instrumental in war and have been shaped by it - without conflict it we might not have had penicillin, female emancipation, radar or rockets. Throughout history, writers, artists, film-makers, playwrights, and composers have been inspired by war - whether to condemn, exalt or simply puzzle about it. If we are never to be rid of war, how should we think about it and what does that mean for peace?

DKK 120.00
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Medici Money - Tim Parks - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Medici Money - Tim Parks - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who took it over in 1419 to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent who presided over its precipitous decline). The Medici faced two apparently insuperable problems: how did a banker deal with the fact that the Church regarded interest as a sin and had made it illegal? How in a small republic like Florence could he avoid having his wealth taken away by taxation? But the bank became indispensable to the Church. And the family completely subverted Florence''s claims to being democratic. They ran the city. Medici Money explores a crucial moment in the passage from the Middle Ages to the Modern world, a moment when our own attitudes to money and morals were being formed.To read this book is to understand how much the Renaissance has to tell us about our own world. Medici Money is one of the launch titles in a new series, Atlas Books, edited by James Atlas. Atlas Books pairs fine writers with stories of the economic forces that have shaped the world, in a new genre - the business book as literature.

DKK 127.00
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Church Going - Andrew Ziminski - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Church Going - Andrew Ziminski - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A joyous and illuminating exploration of our glorious heritage of old churches. A must for anyone who''s ever stared at an apse or a misericord with no idea what they''re looking at'' - Sir Tony Robinson''Captivating ... Brims with humour and humanity'' - ''Book of the Week'', The Times''There are few better means of discovering local history than from a parish church: Ziminski gives us apenetrating insight into the craftsmanship of the Middle Ages'' - ''50 Best Books of 2024'', Telegraph''Andrew Ziminski''s books are treasure troves of lived and learned experience. They have changed the way I look at buildings and Britain''- Max Porter, author, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers''From bulletholes in weathervanes to beehives in church walls, Ziminski has an eye for charming details and an ear for a good story'' - Peter Ross, author, Steeple ChasingChurches are many things to us - they are places of worship, vibrant community hubs and oases of calm reflection. To know a church is to hold a key to the past that unlocks an understanding of our shared history.Andrew Ziminski has spent decades as a stonemason and church conservator, acting as an informal guide to curious visitors. Church Going is his handbook to the medieval churches of the British Isles, in which he reveals their fascinating histories, features and furnishings, from flying buttresses to rood screens, lichgates to chancels. Beautifully written and richly illustrated, it is a celebration of British architectural history.

DKK 239.00
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The Unaccountability Machine - Dan Davies - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Unaccountability Machine - Dan Davies - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024''A great book ... a wonderful way of talking about our current world'' Rory Stewart''Mischievous and fiercely intelligent'' Ed Smith, New Statesman''One of the most insightful books I''ve read in a long time'' Sam Freedman''The kind of book from which you look up to find the world suddenly more comprehensible'' Guardian''One of the most useful books of 2024'' EconomistWhen we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.Management cybernetics was Beer''s science of applying self-regulation in organisational settings, but it was largely ignored - with the result being the political and economic crises that that we see today. With his signature blend of cynicism and journalistic rigour, Davies looks at what''s gone wrong, and what might have been, had the world listened to Stafford Beer when it had the chance.

DKK 126.00
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Tenants - Vicky Spratt - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Tenants - Vicky Spratt - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Fascinating ... Tenants should be compulsory reading for every politician'' - PANDORA SYKES''Excellent'' - NOVARA MEDIA''Important heartbreaking and shocking ... this is a vital read.'' THE TIMESONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 THE TIMES, DAZED, FINANCIAL TIMES, METRO, EVENING STANDARD, REFINERY29, COSMOPOLITANIn twenty-first-century Britain, unsafe homes are a matter of life and death.Award-winning journalist Vicky Spratt traces decades of bad decisions to show how the British dream of secure housing for all has withered. This fierce and moving account tells the stories of those on the frontline, illuminating the ways this national emergency cuts across the country, where the safety net of social housing has unravelled in exchange for profit, and communities have been devastated beyond recognition.Everybody deserves the chance of a safe and stable home, and this urgent, ground-breaking book leads the way.

DKK 127.00
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Name - Constance Debre - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Name - Constance Debre - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Brilliantly spiky ... As well as boasting compelling, sharp prose, Name forces readers to question what one''s name means - and to who'' AnOther Magazine, Best Books of 2025''Debré''s voice is Camusian, comic, stark, relentless and totally hypnotic'' Rachel Kushner''Written with edge and urgency in a voice that is both vulnerable and in full command'' Colm Tóibín''Annie Ernaux, just edgier. Her prose is gorgeously spare and practical'' Irish IndependentName is Debré''s most intense novel yet, a fresh feat of sharp, spare, yet explosive prose. Set partly in the narrator''s childhood, it explores ideas about origins and reshapes relationships to our various inheritances: name, family, class, habits. As the novel unravels, freedom is revealed as a redefining of these relationships on one''s own terms. Brilliant and unflinching, Name affirms and extends Debré''s radical project.

DKK 126.00
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