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Price: $4.99
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Sale: $1.82
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Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mary Pope Osborne::Natalie Pope Boyce
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Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598.47
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Publication Date: 2008-09-23
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Reading Level: 128
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: HOW DO PENGUINS survive in frigid conditions? What happens at a research station in Antarctica? How long can an emperor penguin go without food? What other creatures live in the Antarctic? Find out the answers to these questions and more in the Magic Tree House Research Guide: Penguins and Antarctica.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.46
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lester R. Brown
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7
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Publication Date: 2008-01-16
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: "How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice."—Bill Clinton
In this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and decline, including rising temperatures and spreading water shortage. In addition to these looming threats, we face the peaking of oil, annual population growth of 70 million, a widening global economic divide, and a growing list of failing states. The scale and complexity of issues facing our fast-forward world have no precedent
With Plan A, business as usual, we have neglected these issues overly long. In Plan B 3.0, Lester R. Brown warns that the only effective response now is a World War II-type mobilization like that in the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $6.49
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Elizabeth Rogers::Thomas M. Kostigen
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Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.72
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Publication Date: 2007-06-19
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment.
Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:
- Don’t ask for ATM receipts. If everyone in the United States refused their receipts, it would save a roll of paper more than two billion feet long, or enough to circle the equator fifteen times!
- Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth. You’ll conserve up to five gallons of water per day. Throughout the entire United States, the daily savings could add up to more water than is consumed every day in all of New York City.
- Get a voice-mail service for your home phone. If all answering machines in U.S. homes were replaced by voice-mail services, the annual energy savings would total nearly two billion kilowatt hours. The resulting reduction in air pollution would be equivalent to removing 250,000 cars from the road for a year!
With wit and authority, authors Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen provide hundreds of solutions for all areas of your life, pinpointing the smallest changes that have the biggest impact on the health of our precious planet.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $14.39
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Johan Bruyneel::Bill Strickland
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.620944
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Publication Date: 2008-06-04
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: On the tour and inside the mind of Johan Bruyneel, the winningest team leader in cycling history and the mastermind behind the success of the world's most celebrated champion, Lance Armstrong
Johan Bruyneel knows what it takes to win. In 1998, this calculating Belgian and former professional cyclist looked a struggling rider and cancer survivor in the eye and said, "Look, if we're going to ride the Tour, we might as well win." In that powerful phrase a dynasty was born. With Bruyneel as his team director, Lance Armstrong seized a record seven straight Tour de France victories. In the meantime, Bruyneel innovated the sport of cycling and went on to prove he could win without his superstar -- in 2007 he took the Tour de France title with a young new team and a lot of nerve, sealing his place in sports history forever.
We Might as Well Win takes readers behind the scenes of this amazing nine-year journey through the Alps and the Pyrenees, revealing a radical recipe for winning that readers can adapt from the bike to the boardroom to life. We witness Bruyneel's near-death crash and comeback as a rider. We are privy to the many ways he and Armstrong outsmarted their opponents. We listen in on the team's race radios to hear the secret strategies that inspire greatness from a disparate team. We learn how to make sure "not winning" isn't the same as "losing" as Bruyneel struggles to prove himself -- post-Armstrong -- with new riders, new strategies, and skeptics around every corner.
Whether mounting a difficult climb, or managing a team of thirty riders and forty support staff from a miniature car hurtling along narrow European roads, or looking a future legend in the eye and willing him to believe, Bruyneel is, and has always been, the consummate winner. Readers will relish this inside tour.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $24.75
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Maurice Isserman::Stewart Weaver
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522095496
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Publication Date: 2008-07-11
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Reading Level: 592
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Description: The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills and courage against the world’s highest and most dangerous mountains. In this lively and generously illustrated book, historians Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver present the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in fifty years. They offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions. The book recounts the adventures of such figures as Martin Conway, who led the first authentic Himalayan climbing expedition in 1892; Fanny Bullock Workman, the pioneer explorer of the Karakoram range; George Mallory, the romantic martyr of Mount Everest fame; Charlie Houston, who led American expeditions to K2 in the 1930s and 1950s; Ang Tharkay, the legendary Sherpa, and many others. Throughout, the authors discuss the effects of political and social change on the world of mountaineering, and they offer a penetrating analysis of a culture that once emphasized teamwork and fellowship among climbers, but now has been eclipsed by a scramble for individual fame and glory. |
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.95
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Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Cody Lundin
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Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
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Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
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Publication Date: 2003-06-23
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: "If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book." -Cody Lundin
Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body's core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks, and without water for about three days or so. But if the body's core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don't take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty of backcountry expertise.
Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona.
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Price: $11.99
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Sale: $7.36
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Manufacturer: Artisan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Calendar
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Author: National Audubon Society
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Publisher: Artisan
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Edition: Wal
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Publication Date: 2008-06-01
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Reading Level: 28
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Description: A mountain meadow splashed scarlet with Indian Paintbrush. A trio of Pasqueflowers. Bright Parralena bursting from a crack in parched mud, Brittlebrush blanketing a lush palm grove. Intrepid and hardy, beautiful yet fleeting, wildflowers illuminate America's landscape, from forest to field to desert to coastline. Featuring twelve species in their native habitats, Audubon Wildflowers is a showcase for nature's most extraordinary blooms.
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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $35.57
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Manufacturer: New Society Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Solar Energy International
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Publisher: New Society Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 621.31244
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Publication Date: 2004-09-01
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Producing electricity from the sun using photovoltaic (PV) systems has become a major industry worldwide. But designing, installing and maintaining such systems requires knowledge and training, and there have been few easily accessible, comprehensive guides to the subject. Now, with Photovoltaics: Design and Installation Manual, a world-class solar energy training and education provider-Solar Energy International (SEI)-has made available the critical information to successfully design, install and maintain PV systems. The book contains an overview of photovoltaic electricity and a detailed description of PV system components, including PV modules, batteries, controllers and inverters. It also includes chapters on sizing photovoltaic systems, analyzing sites and installing PV systems, as well as detailed appendices on PV system maintenance, troubleshooting and solar insolation data for over 300 sites around the world. Used worldwide as the textbook in SEI's PV Design & Installation workshops, topics covered include: The basics of solar electricity
PV applications and system components
Solar site analysis and mounting
Stand-alone and PV/generator hybrid system sizing
Utility-interactive PV systems
Component specification, system costs and economics
Case studies and safety issues Photovoltaics guarantees that those wanting to learn the skills of tapping the sun's energy can do so with confidence. Solar Energy International (SEI) has the nonprofit mission to respond to the need for renewable energy education. Based in Carbondale, Colorado, and active around the world, SEI is a link between people and renewable energy resources, providing information, education and training to people who want to shape a sustainable future. SEI is recognized by the National Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) as dedicated independent provider of PV training programs that may be used toward attaining PV certification. Also, SEI is recognized as an Accredited Institution to offer PV training by the Institute for Sustainable Power (ISP).
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $15.83
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Manufacturer: Hyperion
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Bear Grylls
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Publisher: Hyperion
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Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
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Publication Date: 2008-04-29
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Reading Level: 256
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Description: In Man vs. Wild, Bear Grylls demonstrates all manner of survival techniques when faced with nature's extremes--from crossing piranha-infested rivers to fighting off grizzly bears. He shows us how, armed with the correct know-how and a determination to stay alive, all of us have the potential to beat the elements in even the bleakest of situations. Bear Grylls is the ultimate modern-day adventurer. He spent three years with the British Special Forces (21 SAS), only leaving when a near-fatal parachuting accident broke his back in three places. Just two years later, Grylls followed his childhood dream and became one of the youngest climbers ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He is the host of the Discovery Channel series Man vs. Wild, where viewers tune in to watch Grylls show what it takes to find your way out of the most inhospitable places on earth with little more than the clothes on your back. Now, in his book, he shows his millions of fans worldwide how to do what he does in an utterly entertaining crash course in surviving every kind of hard ecosystem--mountain, sub-zero terrain, jungle, desert, and the sea. Grylls takes readers on a journey to the corners of the earth and recreates disaster scenarios such as being stranded on a desert island or lost in the snowy Arctic. Perfect for armchair adventurers and extreme sports buffs alike, Man vs. Wild is destined to become a classic in adventure literature. Prepare to learn how to ... - Snack on maggots
- Dig yourself a shelter from the snow
- Suck the fluid from fish eyeballs
- Skin a snake and eat it
- Use your own urine to cool yourself down
- Live without your cell phone
"When disaster strikes and we find ourselves alone in an unknown and hostile environment, why do some people survive and others perish? Almost all of the most extraordinary tales of survival seem to involve an indefinable Ingredient X, which can only be understood as having its source in that mysterious entity, the `human spirit.'"
--Bear Grylls, Man vs. Wild
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.35
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Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Paul Barrett
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Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 567.9
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Publication Date: 2001-10-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: Here is everything young readers want to know about dinosaurs and their world—in one magnificently illustrated, up-to-date family reference. Through dramatic graphics and age-appropriate text, this authoritative volume charts the discovery of all the main types of dinosaurs and reveals the latest details on how these creatures most likely looked, behaved, defended themselves, found food, cared for their young, and interacted. Stunning murals, based on scientific evidence, depict various dinosaurs in their habitats—beautifully complementing the color photographs, paintings, charts, and maps. Some 53 major types of dinosaurs are described, representing a wide range of physical structures, sizes, and lifestyles. The book presents recent discoveries and current scientific thought—including the dinosaur-bird connection, profiles of feathered dinosaurs, and theories on dinosaur extinction. Readers also see how today’s paleontologists obtain evidence, piece together clues, and continue to reconstruct life in prehistoric times.
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