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Revival: Between the Wars (1948)

Revival: Between the Wars (1948)

In Between The Wars Mr Somervell examines those twenty-one years of uneasy peace which elapsed between the First and Second World Wars and analyses the gradual deterioration in international relations which marked the period. The victorious all-powerful Allies of 1919 by founding the League of Nations with its prospects of open diplomacy and its machinery for negotiation hoped to set up new standards of behaviour between sovereign states and eliminated war as a method of settling disputes. How were these good intentions thwarted? Why did a second catastrophe engulf Europe in 1939? Mr Somervell ranges widely over world events of the inter-war years in his search for answers to these questions. He shows how in most countries democracy that form of Government which the creators of the Versailles Treaty fervently hoped to secure in the world seldom imposed a rational will on its statesmen; on the contrary public opinion inclined to the extremes of apathy and hysteria. He also demonstrates how the discoverers of misapplied science offered tempting new weapons to fanatical dictators avid for world power. We have just lived through the war that resulted from that epoch of muddle and drift; now is the moment for us to examine it critically as a chapter of history. Mr Somervill offers us valuable help in his detached and lucid survey. | Revival: Between the Wars (1948)

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The Atlantic World

The Atlantic World

As the meeting point between Europe colonial America and Africa the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over thirty chapters all written by experts in the field The Atlantic World takes up these debates and gathers together key original scholarship to provide an authoritative survey of this increasingly popular area of world history. The book takes a thematic approach to topics including exploration migration and cultural encounters. In the first chapters scholars examine the interactions between groups which converged in the Atlantic world such as slaves European migrants and Native Americans. The volume then considers questions such as finance money and commerce in the Atlantic world as well as warfare government and religion. The collection closes with chapters examining how ideas circulated across and around the Atlantic and beyond. It presents the Atlantic as a shared space in which commodities and ideas were exchanged and traded and examines the impact that these exchanges had on both people and places. Including an introductory essay from the editors which defines the field and lavishly illustrated with paintings drawings and maps this accessible volume is invaluable reading for all students and scholars of this broad sweep of world history.

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The World That Trade Created Society Culture and the World Economy 1400 to the Present

The World That Trade Created Society Culture and the World Economy 1400 to the Present

The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief highly readable vignettes filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted the authors uncover the deep historical roots of economic globalization. Covering over seven hundred years of history this book now in its fourth edition takes the reader around the world from the history of the opium trade to pirates to the building of corporations and migration to the New World. The chapters are grouped thematically each featuring an introductory essay designed to synthesize and elaborate on key themes both familiar and unfamiliar. It includes ten new essays on topics ranging from the early modern ivory and slave trades across the Indian Ocean to the ways in which the availability of new consumer goods helped change work habits in both Europe and East Asia and from the history of chewing gum to that of rare earth metals. The introductory essays for each chapter the overall introduction and epilogue and several of the essays have also been revised and updated. The World That Trade Created continues to be a key resource for anyone teaching world history world civilization and the history of international trade. | The World That Trade Created Society Culture and the World Economy 1400 to the Present

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The British World and the Five Rings Essays in British Imperialism and the Modern Olympic Movement

The British World and the Five Rings Essays in British Imperialism and the Modern Olympic Movement

Prior to the outbreak of World War II the British presided over the largest Empire in world history a vast transoceanic and transcontinental realm of dominions colonies protectorates and mandates that covered over one-quarter of the world’s land mass and comprised a population of over 450-million subjects. Spanning Europe the Americas Africa Asia and Oceania over fifty modern nations—currently recognized by the International Olympic Committee—were governed and controlled by the British crown at some stage prior to the gradual dissolution of the Empire. The British World and the Five Rings seeks to explore the relationship between the former British Empire and the Olympic Movement. It pays due regard to the settler dominions but it also addresses those territories who were less willing partners in the British imperial project. In doing so the tendency of so-called ‘British World’ histories to promote an apologia for Empire is rejected in favour of a critical approach to imperialism. Combining thorough research with engaging and accessible writing The British World and the Five Rings is applicable to many fields of Olympic scholarship making it a central work in the growing field of sports studies. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society. | The British World and the Five Rings Essays in British Imperialism and the Modern Olympic Movement

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The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence The State and the City Between Us

The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence The State and the City Between Us

The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence exposes the spatial processes of racialising gendering and classifying populations through the encoded urban infrastructure – from highways cleaving neighbourhoods to laws and policies fortifying even more unbreachable boundaries. This synthesis of narrative and theory resurrects neglected episodes of state violence and reveals how the built environment continues to enable it today within a range of cities throughout the world. Examples and discussions pull from colonial pasts and presents of old strategic settlements turned major modern cities in the United States and elsewhere that link to the physical and legal structures concentrating a populace into neighbourhoods that prep them for a lifetime of conscripted and carceral service to the State. | The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence The State and the City Between Us

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The British Empire and the First World War

The British Empire and the First World War

The British Empire played a crucial part in the First World War supplying hundreds of thousands of soldiers and labourers as well as a range of essential resources from foodstuffs to minerals mules and munitions. In turn many imperial territories were deeply affected by wartime phenomena such as inflation food shortages combat and the presence of large numbers of foreign troops. This collection offers a comprehensive selection of essays illuminating the extent of the Empire’s war contribution and experience and the richness of scholarly research on the subject. Whether supporting British military operations aiding the British imperial economy or experiencing significant wartime effects on the home fronts of the Empire the war had a profound impact on the colonies and their people. The chapters in this volume were originally published in Australian Historical Studies The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History First World War Studies or The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. | The British Empire and the First World War

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Psychoanalysis Society and the Inner World Embedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict

Psychoanalysis Society and the Inner World Embedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict

Psychoanalysis Society and the Inner World explores ideas from psychoanalysis that can be valuable in understanding social processes and institutions and in particular how psychoanalytic ideas and methods can help us understand the nature and roots of social and political conflict in the contemporary world. Among the ideas explored in this book of special importance are the ideas of a core self (Heinz Kohut and Donald Winnicott) and of an internal object world (Melanie Klein Ronald Fairbairn). David Levine shows how these ideas and others related to them offer a framework for understanding how social processes and institutions establish themselves as part of the individual’s inner world and how imperatives of the inner world influence the shape of those processes and institutions. In exploring the contribution psychoanalytic ideas can make to the study of society emphasis is placed on post-Freudian trends that emphasize the role of the internalization of relationships as an essential part of the process of shaping the inner world. The book’s main theme is that the roots of social conflict will be found in ambivalence about the value of the self. The individual is driven to ambivalence by factors that exist simultaneously as part of the inner world and the world outside. Social institutions may foster ambivalence about the self or they may not. Importantly this book distinguishes between institutions on the basis of whether they do or do not foster ambivalence about the self shedding light on the nature and sources of social conflict. Institutions that foster ambivalence also foster conflict at a societal level that mirrors and is mirrored by conflict over the standing of the self in the inner world. Levine makes extensive use of case material to illuminate and develop his core ideas. Psychoanalysis Society and the Inner World will appeal to psychoanalysts and to social scientists interested in psychoanalytic ideas and methods as well as students studying across these fields who are keen to explore social and political issues. | Psychoanalysis Society and the Inner World Embedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict

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The Unconscious A bridge between psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience

The Unconscious A bridge between psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience

The Unconscious explores the critical interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and contemporary cognitive neuroscience. Characterised by Freud as ‘the science of the unconscious mind’ psychoanalysis has traditionally been viewed as a solely psychological discipline. However recent developments in neuroscience such as the use of neuroimaging techniques to investigate the working brain have stimulated and intensified the dialogue between psychoanalysis and these related mental sciences. This book explores the relevance of these discussions for our understanding of unconscious mental processes. Chapters present clinical case studies of unconscious dynamics alongside theoretical and scientific papers in key areas of current debate and development. These include discussions of the differences between conceptualisations of ‘the unconscious’ in psychoanalysis and cognitive science whether the core concepts of psychoanalysis are still plausible in light of recent findings and how such understandings of the unconscious are still relevant to treating patients in psychotherapy today. These questions are explored by leading interdisciplinary researchers as well as practising psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. This book aims to bridge the gap between psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience to enable a better understanding of researchers’ and clinicians’ engagements with the key topic of the unconscious. It will be of key interest to researchers academics and postgraduate students in the fields of psychoanalysis cognitive science neuroscience and traumatology. It will also appeal to practising psychoanalysts psychotherapists and clinicians. | The Unconscious A bridge between psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience

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Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War Between or Within the Blocs?

Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War Between or Within the Blocs?

This book sheds new light on the foreign policies roles and positions of neutral states and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the global Cold War. The volume places the neutral states and the NAM in the context of the Cold War and demonstrates the links between the East the West and the so-called Third World. In doing so this collection provides readers an alternative way of exploring the evolution and impact of the Cold War on North-South connections that challenges traditional notions of the post-1945 history of international relations. The various contributions are framed against the backdrop of the evolution of the Cold War international system and the decolonization process in the Southern hemisphere. By juxtaposing the policies of European neutrals and countries of the NAM this book offers new perspectives on the evolution of the Cold War. With the links between these two groups of countries receiving very little attention in Cold War scholarship the volume thus offers a window into a hitherto neglected perspective on the Cold War. Via a series of case studies the chapters here present new viewpoints on the evolution of the global Cold War through the exploration of the ensuing internal and (mainly) external policy choices of these nations. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War Studies international history foreign policy security studies and IR in general. | Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War Between or Within the Blocs?

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War Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World

War Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World

War: Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World presents a broad variety of interdisciplinary and social scientific perspectives on the causes processes cultural representations and social consequences of the armed conflicts between and within nations and other politically organized communities. This book provides theoretical views of armed conflict and its impact on people and institutions around the world. | War Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World

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Snakes of the World A Supplement

Snakes of the World A Supplement

Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species published in 2014 was the first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 and 2012. This new volume will be a supplement to this important herpetological reference and will include new published data on snakes named and recognized since 2012. Key Features Supplements and updates Wallach et al. – Snakes of the World – the only work to cover all living snakes in the world. Includes updates for fossil snakes named since the publication of Wallach et al. Summarizes the systematic snake literature published since the appearance of Wallach et al. Genera and species are listed alphabetically for ease of reference. Related Titles Wallach V. K. L. Williams and J. Boundy. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species (ISBN 978-1-138-03400-6) Aldridge R. D. and D. M. Sever eds. Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Snakes (ISBN 978-1-57808-701-3) Caldwell M. W. The Origin of Snakes: Morphology and the Fossil Record (ISBN 978-1-4822-5134-0) | Snakes of the World A Supplement

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Mathematicians of the World Unite The International Congress of Mathematicians-A Human Endeavor

Mathematicians of the World Unite The International Congress of Mathematicians-A Human Endeavor

This vividly illustrated history of the International Congress of Mathematicians — a meeting of mathematicians from around the world held roughly every four years — acts as a visual history of the 25 congresses held between 1897 and 2006 as well as a story of changes in the culture of mathematics over the past century. Because the congress is an international meeting looking at its history allows us a glimpse into the effect of wars and strained relations between nations on the scientific community. | Mathematicians of the World Unite The International Congress of Mathematicians-A Human Endeavor

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The World of Fallout

The World of Fallout

Examining the four main single player games in the franchise and its related spinoff games this book explores the world of the popular role-playing video game Fallout. Kenton Taylor Howard examines the maps of the games the design of their worlds and how the franchise has been expanded through fan-created video game modifications and tabletop games. This book highlights the importance of worldbuilding in the Fallout franchise examining the extensive alternate history the game creates – diverging from real-world history in the early 1900s and resulting in a world that is destroyed by nuclear apocalypse in 2077 – and exploring how the series builds this detailed world over the course of many games. The book also examines how the franchise has served as an extended commentary on American militarism and expansionism. The series is closely examined through the lens of critical media studies as well as relying on theoretical frameworks relating to video game design and world design. This book will be of interest to students scholars and enthusiasts of video game studies video game design media fandom and fan studies transmedia studies and imaginary worlds. | The World of Fallout

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Functional Foods The Connection Between Nutrition Health and Food Science

Functional Foods The Connection Between Nutrition Health and Food Science

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This new book presents a variety of important research on functional foods—foods that have another role related to disease prevention or health. The first section of the book includes chapters on the complicated relationships between nutrition physical and mental health and disease. Section two focuses on the connection between health science and food and presents a number of case studies on the possible uses of functional foods. The book discusses important methods for nutritional interventions in relation to diseases such as obesity and other prominent health concerns in modern society. Topics include: Nutrigenetics and metabolic diseases Nutrition intervention strategies to improve health Nutrition consumption timing around exercise sessions Nutritional therapies for mental disorders Health benefits of particular foods such as eggs milk cereal garlic cinnamon nuts blueberries etc. Mineral- and protein-enriched foods | Functional Foods The Connection Between Nutrition Health and Food Science

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World Population and World Food Supplies

World Population and World Food Supplies

Originally published in 1954. This great work surveys the distribution of the world’s population and the food production of all countries chosen as important by reason of either their demands on the world food market or their contributions to it. The author concludes that the more advanced countries can be reasonably assured of food supplies for an indefinite period. The less advanced countries can no longer rely on self-contained systems: they must seek co-operation with the advanced countries to supply them with the appliances needed for a more highly developed agriculture. This book at the time gave statesmen and their scientific advisers agriculturalists and agricultural economists an invaluable new instrument. | World Population and World Food Supplies

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The Crusader World

The Crusader World

The Crusader World is a multidisciplinary survey of the current state of research in the field of crusader studies an area of study which has become increasingly popular in recent years. In this volume Adrian Boas draws together an impressive range of academics including work from renowned scholars as well as a number of though-provoking pieces from emerging researchers in order to provide broad coverage of the major aspects of the period. This authoritative work will play an important role in the future direction of crusading studies. This volume enriches present knowledge of the crusades addressing such wide-ranging subjects as: intelligence and espionage gender issues religious celebrations in crusader Jerusalem political struggles in crusader Antioch the archaeological study of battle sites and fortifications diseases suffered by the crusaders crusading in northern Europe and Spain and the impact of Crusader art. The relationship between Crusaders and Muslims two distinct and in many way opposing cultures is also examined in depth including a discussion of how the Franks perceived their enemies. Arranged into eight thematic sections The Crusader World considers many central issues as well as a large number of less familiar topics of the crusades crusader society history and culture. With over 100 photographs line drawings and maps this impressive collection of essays is a key resource for students and scholars alike.

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Pandora ME Silver Small Link Chain Bracelet, 15cm

Pandora ME Silver Small Link Chain Bracelet, 15cm

With this 15 cm long Pandora ME Link Chain Bracelet, you can now link what you love like never before. Your style possibilities are endless with this bracelet! A pair of openable connectors - designed with grooved surfaces so they can be differentiated from one another - a group of four links between each styling connector, and a carabiner clasp closure complete this design. The first thing you need to do is to customise your link chain. Four links can be exchanged for either a styling double link or a styling link. You can either keep the original length or change it according to your needs. After you've curated your link chain, you have the option of adding up to one medallion per link, two meaningful medallions, or eight Pandora ME dangles on each connector to express who you are to the world. ME Silver Small Link Chain Bracelet, 15 cm. Only compatible with other Pandora ME items. Genuine Pandora Bracelet. For Pandora ME charms only. Hand-crafted using 925 sterling silver. Bracelet size is 15 cm. Product code: 599662C00-1.

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Pandora ME Silver Small Link Chain Bracelet, 16cm

Pandora ME Silver Small Link Chain Bracelet, 16cm

With this 16 cm long Pandora ME Link Chain Bracelet, you can now link what you love like never before. Your style possibilities are endless with this bracelet! A pair of openable connectors - designed with grooved surfaces so they can be differentiated from one another - a group of four links between each styling connector, and a carabiner clasp closure complete this design. The first thing you need to do is to customise your link chain. Four links can be exchanged for either a styling double link or a styling link. You can either keep the original length or change it according to your needs. After you've curated your link chain, you have the option of adding up to one medallion per link, two meaningful medallions, or eight Pandora ME dangles on each connector to express who you are to the world. ME Silver Small Link Chain Bracelet, 16 cm. Only compatible with other Pandora ME items. Genuine Pandora Bracelets. For Pandora ME charms only. Hand-crafted using 925 sterling silver. Bracelet size is 16 cm. Product code: 599662C00-2.

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Amphibian and Reptile Adaptations to the Environment Interplay Between Physiology and Behavior

Amphibian and Reptile Adaptations to the Environment Interplay Between Physiology and Behavior

Despite their diversity amphibians and reptiles share many physiological traits such as their dependence on external heat sources for body temperature regulation that are of pivotal importance to their ability to cope with the environment. Considerable variation in physiological capabilities exists in these groups and often can be related to seasonal and geographic differences in environmental parameters. This book provides a comprehensive and integrative view of the interplay between physiology and behavior in amphibians and reptiles leading to a better understanding of the subject. The book covers topics that have recently been in the spotlight for scientific research on the physiology behavior and conservation of amphibians and reptiles. It brings together recent information from a range of disciplines that address critical topics for understanding their biology. As these studies are scattered across articles in specialized journals this book provides a single and expanded source summarizing such advancements. Amphibian and Reptile Adaptations to the Environment: Interplay Between Physiology and Behavior maintains a solid scientific basis for the biological topics covered. However it presents the material in a clear and direct manner so that it is accessible even to non-biologists interested in the basic biology behavior and ecology of these animals as well as how these elements are connected to their conservation. | Amphibian and Reptile Adaptations to the Environment Interplay Between Physiology and Behavior

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Archives of the Black Atlantic Reading Between Literature and History

Archives of the Black Atlantic Reading Between Literature and History

Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts and revising the material remnants of the archive. This book reads black historical novels and poetry in an interdisciplinary context to examine the multiple archives that have produced our historical consciousness. In the history of African diaspora literature black writers and intellectuals have led the way for an analysis of the archive querying dominant archives and revising the ways black people have been represented in the legal and hegemonic discourses of the west. Their work in genres as diverse as autobiography essay bibliography poetry and the novel attests to the centrality of this critique in black intellectual culture. Through literary engagement with the archives of the slave trader colonizer and courtroom creative writers teach us to read the archives of history anew probing between the documents for stories left untold questions left unanswered and freedoms enacted against all odds. Opening new perspectives on Atlantic history and culture Walters generates a dialogue between what was and what might have been. Ultimately Walters argues that references to archival documents in black historical literature introduce a new methodology for studying both the archive and literature itself engaging in a transnational and interdisciplinary reading that exposes the instability of the archive's truth claim and highlights rebellious possibility. | Archives of the Black Atlantic Reading Between Literature and History

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The Medieval World

The Medieval World

Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life offering definitive appraisals of the distinctive features of the period. This second edition includes six additional chapters covering the Byzantine empire illuminated manuscripts the 'ésprit laïque' of the late middle ages saints and martyrs the papal chancery and scholastic thought. Chapters are arranged thematically within four parts: 1. Identities Selves and Others 2. Beliefs Social Values and Symbolic Order 3. Power and Power Structures 4. Elites Organisations and Groups The Medieval World presents the reader with an authoritative account of original scholarship across the medieval millennium and provides essential reading for all students of the subject.

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Music in the Classical World Genre Culture and History

Music in the Classical World Genre Culture and History

Music in the Classical World: Genre Culture and History provides a broad sociocultural and historical perspective of the music of the Classical Period as it relates to the world in which it was created. It establishes a background on the time span—1725 to 1815—offering a context for the music made during one of the more vibrant periods of achievement in history. Outlining how music interacted with society politics and the arts of that time this kaleidescopic approach presents an overview of how the various genres expanded during the period not just in the major musical centers but around the globe. Contemporaneous treatises and commentary documenting these changes are integrated into the narrative. Features include the following: A complete course with musical scores on the companion website plus links to recordings—and no need to purchase a separate anthology The development of style and genres within a broader historical framework Extensive musical examples from a wide range of composers considered in context of the genre A thorough collection of illustrations iconography and art relevant to the music of the age Source documents translated by the author Valuable student learning aids throughout including a timeline a register of people and dates sidebars of political importance and a selected reading list arranged by chapter and topic A companion website featuring scores of all music discussed in the text recordings of most musical examples and tips for listening Music in the Classical World: Genre Culture and History tells the story of classical music through eighteenth-century eyes exposing readers to the wealth of music and musical styles of the time and providing a glimpse into that vibrant and active world of the Classical Period. | Music in the Classical World Genre Culture and History

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Pandora Sparkling Red Heart Ring, Size 60

Pandora Sparkling Red Heart Ring, Size 60

It's time to light up your heart with this stylish Pandora Red Heart ring that comes in a size 60. With a stunning ruby red zirconia stone set in a heart-shaped setting and two shimmering accent stones flanking it, this stunning solitaire ring is crafted in sterling silver. Gifts like these are very popular for Valentine's Day, birthdays, anniversaries and every other occasion that calls for expressing your love. This ring can be worn by itself or stacked with other stacking rings from Pandora. Sparkling Red Heart Ring, Size 60. From the collection Pandora Moments. Genuine Pandora Rings. This ring is suitable for stacking. Crafted by hand using 925 sterling silver. The ring size is UK: S / EU: 60. Product Code: 196574CZRMX-60.

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