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  • Untold Stories: Hong Kong Architecture by Fung, Raymond
    Raymond Fung

    Untold Stories: Hong Kong Architecture

    Although Hong Kong has produced many internationally renowned architects and designers who have contributed signifi cantly to its cityscape, there are many talented local architects who have played the role of an unsung hero in shaping this beautiful city. This book aims to capture...
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  • Buildings of Maryland by Davidson, Lisa P.
    Lisa P. Davidson

    Buildings of Maryland

    Maryland is known as "Little America" and "America in Miniature" for its geographical range, from the vast estuary of the Chesapeake Bay to its Atlantic beaches, farm-rich Piedmont Plateau, and rugged Allegheny Mountains. As one of the thirteen original colonies, it is renowned for...
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  • Models and World Making: Bodies, Buildings, Black Boxes by Wharton, Annabel Jane
    Annabel Jane Wharton

    Models and World Making: Bodies, Buildings, Black Boxes

    From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our world and our lives. In her thought-provoking new book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that...
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  • Models and World Making: Bodies, Buildings, Black Boxes by Wharton, Annabel Jane
    Annabel Jane Wharton

    Models and World Making: Bodies, Buildings, Black Boxes

    From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our world and our lives. In her thought-provoking new book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that...
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  • The Architecture of Influence: The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century by Lawrence, Amanda Reeser
    Amanda Reeser Lawrence

    The Architecture of Influence: The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century

    How do we create the new from the old? The Architecture of Influence explores this fundamental question by analyzing a broad swath of twentieth-century architectural works--including some of the best-known examples of the architectural canon, modern and postmodern--through the lens of influence. The book...
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  • Sir John Soane: The Royal Academy Lectures by Watkin, David
    David Watkin

    Sir John Soane: The Royal Academy Lectures

    Sir John Soane: The Royal Academy Lectures contains the full text of Soane's letters, carefully edited by David Watkin. It is a revised and abridged edition of his award-winning book Sir John Soane: Enlightenment Thought and the Royal Academy Lectures. In his introduction to...
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  • Circulation Studies; 1945 by San Francisco (Calif ) City Planning
    San Francisco (Calif ) City Planning

    Circulation Studies; 1945

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Aladdin Homes built in a Day: Catalog No. 29, 1917 by Aladdin Company
    Aladdin Company

    Aladdin Homes "built in a Day": Catalog No. 29, 1917

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Aladdin Homes built in a Day: Catalog No. 29, 1917 by Aladdin Company
    Aladdin Company

    Aladdin Homes "built in a Day": Catalog No. 29, 1917

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Aladdin Homes: "built in a Day" Catalog No. 32 by Aladdin Company
    Aladdin Company

    Aladdin Homes: "built in a Day" Catalog No. 32

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Modern Buildings by Pierce & Dockstader
    Pierce & Dockstader

    Modern Buildings

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Colorkeed Home Fireside and Garden by Wm a Radford
    Wm a Radford

    Colorkeed Home Fireside and Garden

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Radford's Practical Barn Plans: Being a Complete Collection of Practical, Economical and Common-sense Plans of Barns, out Buildings and Stock Sheds: : by Radford, William a. 1865- Ed
    William a. 1865- Ed Radford

    Radford's Practical Barn Plans: Being a Complete Collection of Practical, Economical and Common-sense Plans of Barns, out Buildings and Stock Sheds: :

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • City Without Fear of Heights: The Development of a European High-Rise Typology by Arends, Emiel
    Emiel Arends

    City Without Fear of Heights: The Development of a European High-Rise Typology

    A complete overview of the rich history of high-rise construction in RotterdamRotterdam is a city known for its high-rises, dating back as far as 1898 with Het Witte Huis, which, at 43m, was considered Europe's tallest office building at the time. This volume reviews...
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  • The House of the Future: Walt Disney, Mit, and Monsanto's Vision of Tomorrow by Bossert, David A.
    David A. Bossert

    The House of the Future: Walt Disney, Mit, and Monsanto's Vision of Tomorrow

    Step inside The House of the Future, the iconic Disneyland attraction that captured the imagination of countless visitors during its ten-year run from 1957 to 1967. In this meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated book, readers will take a journey through the conception, construction, and...
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  • Panopticon [fragments] by Bentham, Jeremy
    Jeremy Bentham

    Panopticon [fragments]

    For almost a quarter of a century, utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham attempted to acquire funding and goverment assistance in building an unorthodox prison of ambiguous surveillance and guard. This new text captures fragments of his original proposal and the various correspondence he wrote throughout...
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  • Spectacular Mexico: Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics by Castañeda, Luis M.
    Luis M. Castada

    Spectacular Mexico: Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics

    In the wake of its early twentieth-century civil wars, Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous. The preparation in Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics was arguably the most ambitious of a sequence of design projects that aimed...
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  • Equilibrium: The Work of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners by Pearman, Hugh
    Hugh Pearman

    Equilibrium: The Work of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners

    The practice of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners has come to international prominence and renown, having built upon its reputation for structural, industrial and technical experimentation and finesse in the 1980s and 90s. This book examines the fascinating phase of their recent work from the...
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  • The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 by Thompson, Emily
    Emily Thompson

    The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933

    A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America.In this history of aural culture in early-twentieth-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they heard was a new kind of sound that was...
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  • Architecture in Digital Culture: Machines, Networks and Computation by Yiannoudes, Socrates
    Socrates Yiannoudes

    Architecture in Digital Culture: Machines, Networks and Computation

    This book examines the manifestations of architecture, cities, and design processes within digital culture. Adopting a comparative and critical method, the author looks at past and present encounters of the digital with architectural discourse and practice. Along three central themes - machines, networks, and...
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  • Diagrams of Power in Benjamin and Foucault: The Recluse of Architecture by Jackson, Mark Laurence
    Mark Laurence Jackson

    Diagrams of Power in Benjamin and Foucault: The Recluse of Architecture

    This book's overarching premise is that discussion and critique in the discourses of architecture and urbanism have their primary focus on engagements with form, particularly in the sense of the question as to what planning and architecture signify with respect to the forms they...
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  • Modernising Post-War France: Architecture and Urbanism During Les Trente Glorieuses by Bullock, Nicholas
    Nicholas Bullock

    Modernising Post-War France: Architecture and Urbanism During Les Trente Glorieuses

    This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prosperity, a period when modernisation was a central priority of the state, promising a way forward from the shame of defeat in...
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  • Petra: The History of Jordan's Rose City by Titans, History
    History Titans

    Petra: The History of Jordan's Rose City

    While Petra's fame might often come second to things like the Egyptian pyramids at Giza, ancient Greece, or the Great Wall of China, you can now see that the Rose City certainly deserves its place under the Sun as one of the most precious...
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  • Take Me Home to Woodstock by Cissna, Sally
    Sally Cissna

    Take Me Home to Woodstock

    1900, Woodstock, Illinois: John Wienke has made a name for himself in his small town as a trusted and steady son and brother, a hard worker, and a would-be politician. His parents and three of his seven brothers immigrated from Prussia before John was...
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  • A Collection of Sketches; 8 by Schorre, Charles
    Charles Schorre

    A Collection of Sketches; 8

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Report on Municipal Survey of Newport News, Virginia, 1919 by Calhoun, D. a.
    D. a. Calhoun

    Report on Municipal Survey of Newport News, Virginia, 1919

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction by Shah, Pino
    Pino Shah

    Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction

    Through photographs, 'Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction, ' celebrates the architecture of the Texas-Mexico border region, its craftsmen, its cultures and its climate. The architectural images by Pino Shah provide a journey through 160 years of history and heritage, revealing...
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  • The 49% Architect, 51% Entrepreneur: A Blueprint for Entrepreneurship in Architecture by Rios, Edgard
    Edgard Rios

    The 49% Architect, 51% Entrepreneur: A Blueprint for Entrepreneurship in Architecture

    The 49% Architect, 51% Entrepreneur: A Blueprint for Entrepreneurship in Architecture will inspire architects and aspiring architects with its insights into the visionaries of the past and a look to the future of architecture-and sustainability, the planet, and an urgent call to global stewardship...
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  • Lost in Wonderland by Mayhew, Augustus
    Augustus Mayhew

    Lost in Wonderland

    Lost in Wonderland's collection of essays explores the myths, social climate and architectural tableaux that make Palm Beach like no other place in the world. The island's uncommon m lange of English gardens, Tuscan loggias, Venetian staircases, Spanish patios, Bermuda roofs, and Georgian doorways,...
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  • City and Sanctuary: Religion and Architecture in the Roman Near East by Richardson, Peter
    Peter Richardson

    City and Sanctuary: Religion and Architecture in the Roman Near East

    This volume challenges some common assumptions about the culture of the early Byzantine Near East by examining the architecture and urban design of five cities in that period. The author assesses the various kinds of religious structure found in each city, including cult centres,...
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  • New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age by Stern, Robert A. M.
    Robert A. M. Stern

    New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age

    This is the fourth volume in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumental series of documentary studies of New York City architecture and urbanism. The three previous books in the series, New York 1900, New York 1930, and New York 1960, have comprehensively...
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  • The Lustron Home: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment by Fetters, Thomas T.
    Thomas T. Fetters

    The Lustron Home: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment

    Advertised as "a new standard for living," the Lustron Home was introduced in 1948 in response to the urgent need for housing for veterans returning from World War II and their rapidly growing families. These enameled steel, prefabricated houses became very popular, and were...
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  • Measured Drawings of Georgian Architecture in the District of Columbia, 1750-1820 by Cunningham, Harry Francis 1885-
    Harry Francis 1885- Cunningham

    Measured Drawings of Georgian Architecture in the District of Columbia, 1750-1820

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Roman Architecture by Sear, Frank
    Frank Sear

    Roman Architecture

    In this fully updated new edition, Frank Sear offers a thorough overview of the history of architecture in the Roman Empire.Arranged logically in six historical sections interspersed with material on Roman architects and their techniques, the building types found in Roman cities and the...
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  • Lombardic Architecture: Its Origin, Development and Derivatives (Volume I) by Rivoira, G. T.
    G. T. Rivoira

    Lombardic Architecture: Its Origin, Development and Derivatives (Volume I)

    Volume I studies the origins of the Lombardic vaulted basilica. Volume II reconstructs the history of the Lombardic basilica north of the Alps. This reprint of the 1910 edition includes eight hundred fine illustrations, most of which were omitted from later editions. In addition...
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  • The Third Rome, 1922-1943: The Making of the Fascist Capital by Kallis, Aristotle
    Aristotle Kallis

    The Third Rome, 1922-1943: The Making of the Fascist Capital

    What kind of city was the Fascist 'third Rome'? Imagined and real, rooted in the past and announcing a new, 'revolutionary' future, Fascist Rome was imagined both as the ideal city and as the sacred centre of a universal political religion. Kallis explores this...
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  • Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston: Report On Plans Presented To The Building Committee by Sturgis, Richard Clipston
    Richard Clipston Sturgis

    Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston: Report On Plans Presented To The Building Committee

    Published in 1909, this report details the plans presented to the Building Committee of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Richard Clipston Sturgis was the architect responsible for the project, and his report includes detailed plans for the new building, as well as...
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  • Western Architecture: A Survey from Ancient Greece to the Present by Sutton, Ian
    Ian Sutton

    Western Architecture: A Survey from Ancient Greece to the Present

    From the earliest classical temples to today's achievements, over two thousand years of Western architectural history are summarized. Every architectural style is the product of an ideology, and the author shows how the buildings of Greece and Rome, of the Early Christian and Byzantine...
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  • The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity by Tanzer, Kim
    Kim Tanzer

    The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity

    This volume presents the discipline's best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers...
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building: Myth and Fact by Quinan, Jack
    Jack Quinan

    Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building: Myth and Fact

    Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building has become an icon of modern architecture. And the fact that it was demolished only forty-six years after its 1904 completion makes Jack Quinan's study of the building--which housed a Buffalo, New York, soap company--all the more valuable. Quinan's...
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  • Fort Worth's Legendary Landmarks by Roark, Carol
    Carol Roark

    Fort Worth's Legendary Landmarks

    Working with a large-format view camera, Williams has photographed Fort Worth, Texas over a 30-year period. His b&w images of some 80 structures are accompanied by Roark's text describing the history and significance of the pictured buildings. 11.25x9 Annotation c. by Book News, Inc.,...
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  • St. John's Church, Lafayette Square: The History and Heritage of the Church of the Presidents, Washington, DC by Grimmett, Richard F.
    Richard F. Grimmett

    St. John's Church, Lafayette Square: The History and Heritage of the Church of the Presidents, Washington, DC

    St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, in Washington, DC is one of the most unique churches in the United States. A National Historic Landmark, located just north of Lafayette Square, and in clear view of the White House, it has witnessed the presence within...
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  • The World Trade Center Remembered: 30 Postcards by Bullaty, Sonja
    Sonja Bullaty

    The World Trade Center Remembered: 30 Postcards

    For New Yorkers and visitors alike, the Trade Center was a compass point rising dramatically above other skyscrapers at the tip of Manhattan. For more than two decades, practically since the Twin Towers were erected, Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo photographed these awesome buildings....
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  • Examples of Gothic Architecture: Selected From Various Ancient Edifices in England: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Parts at Large: Acc by Pugin, Augustus 1762-1832
    Augustus 1762-1832 Pugin

    Examples of Gothic Architecture: Selected From Various Ancient Edifices in England: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Parts at Large: Acc

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Examples of Gothic Architecture: Selected From Various Ancient Edifices in England: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Parts at Large: Acc by Pugin, Augustus 1762-1832
    Augustus 1762-1832 Pugin

    Examples of Gothic Architecture: Selected From Various Ancient Edifices in England: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Parts at Large: Acc

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Designs in Architecture: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, for Temples, Baths, Cassines, Pavilions, Garden-seats, Obelisks, and Ot by Soane, John 1753-1837
    John 1753-1837 Soane

    Designs in Architecture: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, for Temples, Baths, Cassines, Pavilions, Garden-seats, Obelisks, and Ot

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • The American House Today; by Ford, Katherine Morrow 1905-
    Katherine Morrow 1905- Ford

    The American House Today;

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Examples of Gothic Architecture: Selected From Various Ancient Edifices in England: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Parts at Large: Acc by Pugin, Augustus 1762-1832
    Augustus 1762-1832 Pugin

    Examples of Gothic Architecture: Selected From Various Ancient Edifices in England: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Parts at Large: Acc

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • An Introduction to French Church Architecture by Gardner, Arthur 1878-1972
    Arthur 1878-1972 Gardner

    An Introduction to French Church Architecture

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture by Cline, Ann
    Ann Cline

    A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture

    Author: Ann ClineISBN-10: 026253150XISBN-13: 9780262531504Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/1998Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 05/11/1998 pg. 61New York Times 08/02/1998 pg. 17
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