One-Dimensional Metals: Conjugated Polymers, Organic Crystals, Carbon Nanotubes

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Low-dimensional solids are of fundamental interest in materials science due to their anisotropic properties. Written not only for experts in the field, this book explains the important concepts behind their physics and surveys the most interesting one-dimensional systems and discusses their present and emerging applications in molecular scale electronics. The second edition of this successful book has been completely revised to include the remarkable achievements of the last ten years of research and applications. Chemists, polymer and materials scientists as well as students will find this book a very readable introduction to the solid-state physics of electronic materials.

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Only Yesterday deals with that delightful decade from the Armistice in November 1918 to the panic and depression of 1929-30. Here is the story of Woodrow Wilson's defeat, the Harding scandals, the Coolidge prosperity, the revolution in manners and morals, the bull market and its smash-up. Allen's lively narrative brings back an endless variety of half-forgotten events, fashions, crazes, and absurdities. Deftly written, with a humorous touch, Only Yesterday traces, beneath the excitements of day-to-day life in the 20s, those currents in national life and thought which are the essence of true history.

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Fantastic Book .......2007-08-27

Its a shame most writers today do not possess such an impeccable vocabulary.

Very well written.

A great reference on the 1920s!.......2007-07-08

This is a great historical book, written shortly after the 1920s was over. It gives a great overall history of the 1920s in America. The author specifically focuses on the great bull market and how that eventually caused the Great Depression to occur. It's a great read, even if it was written shortly after the 1920s was over (sometimes historians have a greater bias the closer they are to an event they are writing about). I really enjoyed this book and if you are interested in this time period, you will enjoy it too.

Forgotten Disasters Again.......2007-06-30

I have been reading a lot about the 20's for some time. Why is it that everybody mentions the Miami hurricane of 1926 but forgets the Tri-State tornado of 1925 and the Mississippi floods of 1927?

Some 625 people were killed in the tornado. It remains the single most destructive tornado in our record books. The flood displaced over 700,000 people and continued for almost six months.

Mr Allen has put together a fine narrative but it has some gaps. See...

The Tri-State Tornado: The Story of America's Greatest Tornado Disaster

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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

Excellent reference.......2007-06-06

I purchased this book mainly as research for a novel I am writing set in the time period. I expected to wade through a lot of tedious history but what I found was a great perspective of the era written just after it occurred. Insightful, packed with useful informatin, I couldn't have asked for a better guide through the roaring 20s.

Be Careful, folks.......2007-05-05

It is mandatory that while you are reading this book you realize the time period that it was written in. I would take everything it says with a grain of salt, especially if it was something about women's history. Here is an actual quotation from the book:

"The revolution [in manners and morals] was accelerated . . . by the growing independence of the American woman. She won the suffrage in 1920. She seemed, it is true, to be very little interested in it once she had it; she voted, but mostly as the unregenerate men about her did . . . Few of the younger women could rouse themselves to even a passing interest in politics: to them it was a sordid and futile business, without flavor and without hope. Nevertheless, the winning of the suffrage had its effect. It consolidated woman's position as man's equal"

Obviously this was not true but the way it speaks of women is a good reflection of what was felt at the time. So do not read this as a reliable history text. Rather, read it as a book of its time so you can understand what was widely believed during that era. I would find a more recent and reliable book about that era to get the real facts.

The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday (Life in The Bronx Series) (Life in the Bronx Series)

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Reminders of home
The Bronx As It Was Back Then

The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday (Life in The Bronx Series) (Life in the Bronx Series)
Lloyd Ultan
Manufacturer: Bronx County Historical Soc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

ASIN: 0941980332

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Life In The Bronx Series

For the past 20 years, The Bronx County Historical Society has been at work on a history of life in the borough series. In 1979, the first book, The Beautiful Bronx: 1920-1950 was published, and this was followed in 1985 by The Bronx In The Innocent Years: 1890-1925, and then in 1992 by The Bronx It Was Only Yesterday: 1935 - 1965. In 2000, The Birth of The Bronx 1609-1900 becomes the fourth in the series. Splendid works of social history, "The Life in The Bronx" series provides an engaging portrait of the mainland section of New York City at various turning points in the development of America's growing urban society.

This volume takes a close look at a period of great technological change that brought the outside world closer to The Bronx. These were the decades when entertainment shifted from enjoying movies and radio, to spending hours watching newly purchased black and white television sets; when the preferred mode of transportation changed from trolleys, buses, and subways to automobiles; when popular taste in music shifted from big bands to rock 'n' roll; when heretofore tranquil neighborhoods were disturbed by the clatter of construction of new highways and high-rise housing complexes. These absorbing narratives of the colorful activities of these times is complemented with rare photographs from the research archives of The Bronx County Historical Society. They offer a vivid glimpse into the wide range of changes that occurred in these years and of the elements of continuity that preserved The Bronx as a desirable residence for the countless numbers of people that chose to make it their home.

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Reminders of home.......2006-03-11

As a septuagenarian I remembered many things about the neighborhoods depicted in the book. I sent the book to a old friend from Kindergarten in the Bronx. She too enjoyed reading and viewing the book

The Bronx As It Was Back Then.......2000-11-25

Compiled by the Bronx Historical Society, "The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday 1935-1965" chronicles the development of the northernmost borough of New York City before it became the area that many know it as today. From Wakefield to Mott Haven, from Riverdale to Co-op City, most of the borough's major neighborhoods are captured here in photographs and words, allowing past and present Bronxites to see the changes that have occurred in the thirty-year span that the book covers.

It was nostalgic to see photographs of the Alexander's department store on Fordham Road, seeing that it shut it doors in the late 1980's. Other interesting facts I didn't know before was that the largest amusement park in the eastern United States, "Freedomland" was located on the land where present-day Co-op City stands. It was closed in the late 1960's when word of a major theme park that was to arise out of the marshes of Orlando, Florida was being planned (yep, DisneyWorld brought an end to the Bronx's only amusement park).

Truly this is a must have if you are a past or present Bronxite who is very interested in learning about the borough's past. This book might also appeal to urban planning students who are interested in the development of one of New York City's last frontiers. Overall, "The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday 1935-1965" is a well-organized book that takes full advantage of the borough's historical archives. Once I opened its' pages I was taken on a journey to memory row, where memories of life back then only reside.

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authentic realism

Can't say anything bad about this one

Excellent book

Nice depicted pictoral of basic BUD/S training

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The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday: Making Navy SEALs
Richard D. Schoenberg
Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1591148200

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This is the second edition of the "The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday". The book has been revised and contains a new dedication page. Now published by the Naval Institute Press.

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authentic realism.......2007-07-09

Bravo to Richard for his hard work and dedication to the SEAL/SOF community. I was an instructor in BUDS during the making of Richards book and couldnt have asked for a more genuinely interested person to be around us. Richard has the unique ability of photographing his subjects in the most intimate situations, all while maintaining unshakeable rapport with instructors and students alike. Richard has given a much needed inside look (without going too far) at what these men go through during training. Hats off to Richard for a first class photo journal. BH

Can't say anything bad about this one.......2007-01-10

This book is absolutely great for anyone aspiring to be a Navy SEAL, or if you're just interested in the SEAL community in general. There are over 100 pages of pictures with captions that will immerse you in this mentally and physically demanding course. You'll not only see, but learn the effort, heart, self-motivation, mental/physical strength, and sacrifice men of this caliber will go through to stand among the best. HOOYAH!!!

Excellent book.......2005-09-30

I must admit I am a bit biased. My son was in Buds class 246 which is the subject of the book. It gave me a real life insight into what BUDs is really all about. I had a difficult time finding the book a local books stores and really appreciated the fact that Amazon carried it. Some hard to find dealers wanted as much as $120.00 for a used copy of it.

Nice depicted pictoral of basic BUD/S training.......2005-02-25

This oversized pictorial book describes the training conducted at BUD/S in pretty good detail. In my opinion the photographer, did a fairly decent job with the capture methods used to entail the rigorous training involved in the six month training program.

AWESOME.......2005-01-03

First of all, it's HUGE and BOLD! ... not wimpy on presentation. Very interesting narrative you don't normally see in photographer's projects; you can really follow these soldiers through their intriguing training process and their "becoming".

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Pure Poetry
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Finally in English -- one of the great novels of the century

Only Yesterday
S. Y. Agnon
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ASIN: 0691009724

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Israeli Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon's famous masterpiece, his novel Only Yesterday, here appears in English translation for the first time. Published in 1945, the book tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya--the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. Only Yesterday quickly became recognized as a monumental work of world literature, but not only for its vivid historical reconstruction of Israel's founding society. This epic novel also engages the reader in a fascinating network of meanings, contradictions, and paradoxes all leading to the question, what, if anything, controls human existence?

Seduced by Zionist slogans, young Isaac Kumer imagines the Land of Israel filled with the financial, social, and erotic opportunities that were denied him, the son of an impoverished shopkeeper, in Poland. Once there, he cannot find the agricultural work he anticipated. Instead Isaac happens upon house-painting jobs as he moves from secular, Zionist Jaffa, where the ideological fervor and sexual freedom are alien to him, to ultra-orthodox, anti-Zionist Jerusalem. While some of his Zionist friends turn capitalist, becoming successful merchants, his own life remains adrift and impoverished in a land torn between idealism and practicality, a place that is at once homeland and diaspora. Eventually he marries a religious woman in Jerusalem, after his worldly girlfriend in Jaffa rejects him.

Led astray by circumstances, Isaac always ends up in the place opposite of where he wants to be, but why? The text soars to Surrealist-Kafkaesque dimensions when, in a playful mode, Isaac drips paint on a stray dog, writing "Crazy Dog" on his back. Causing panic wherever he roams, the dog takes over the story, until, after enduring persecution for so long without "understanding" why, he really does go mad and bites Isaac. The dog has been interpreted as everything from the embodiment of Exile to a daemonic force, and becomes an unforgettable character in a book about the death of God, the deception of discourse, the power of suppressed eroticism, and the destiny of a people depicted in all its darkness and promise.

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Israeli Nobel Prize-winner Agnon (1887-1970) is a founding father, like Theodor Herzl. While Herzl founded Zionism, Agnon (A Simple Story; Shira) forged the language of modern Hebrew literature. In this immense novel, first published in 1945 and now translated into English for the first time, Agnon paints the panorama of the second Aliya, or immigration, of Jews to Palestine, which occurred between the turn of the century and WWI. Isaac Kumer is a young, fervent but feckless young Zionist in the Austrian province of Galicia, whose disappointed father gives him the money to emigrate to Israel. Once Isaac reaches the Land, he becomes a housepainter. As Agnon explains, at first "his brush leads him and he doesn't lead his brush" -- and the same can be said of this book's plot, which goes off on various whimsical tangents. In Jaffa, Isaac tastes his first experience of love with Sonya, a modern woman, but in Jerusalem he meets Shifra, the daughter of a strict religionist, and he is torn between the two. Sonya is an especially fascinating figure; she resembles the "modern" women in Dostoyevski's novels, whose liberation is bound up with an existential hypersensitivity that impedes any clear course of action. Impulsively, Isaac one day paints "Crazy Dog" on the back of a friendly stray. The scruffy canine then wanders around Jerusalem, causing the population to panic. This fantastical subplot "dogs" Isaac's stay in Jerusalem and is interwoven with his fate and that of Shifra's father. Agnon's novel has a folkloric quality analogous to the bold simplifications of Chagall, locating the archaic residue lurking just below the surface disenchantment of modernity. A useful introduction by Harshavinforms readers about the historical background to the story and Agnon's place in 20th-century literature.

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Inside the irony is another midrash .......2005-03-28

Agnon is one of those writers who to be truly read needs to be read in the language he writes. The Hebrew of Agnon is a multi-layered language in which he employs many different kinds of traditional language and text. Part of his great ironic power is playing his own texts off against the tradition he is continually evoking and moving in out and away from. In this work he tells the story of a Second Aliyah pioneer to the Yishuv and in doing so makes a rich and complex commentary not only on the Zionist enterprise but on the role and place of the Jew in the modern world. This is work also fits the well- known theme of ' The Dreamer and his disappointments in meeting reality'. But Agnon is a writer who often tries to appear more simple than he is, and often the disappointments too give a kind of insight and meaning which makes having them valuable. The wanderings of Kumer, his search for dignity in building the land, his search for love, his wandering between the new world and the traditional world, between Tel Aviv of the secular pioneers and the Jerusalem of the Old Yishuv are all parts of the richness of this work.
It is however precisely Agnon's intellectual playfulness and irony which would seem to stand as barriers before the reader's direct identification and sympathy with the characters.
I in any case prefer some of Agnon's stories to this larger and more ambitious work.

Pure Poetry.......2003-02-25

"Only Yesterday" is, perhaps, Agnon's greatest work. In it, he displays the skill of a consummate novelist with the sensibilities of a poet. For those who are familiar with Hebrew poetry, particularly Biblical poetry, "Only Yesterday" conveys in English the rhythms and structure of classic Hebrew poetry while transmitting a sensual and, ultimately, tragic story. It is really not comparable to Singer; it is something far above and beyond Singer's work.

Agree and Disagree.......2001-04-06

As a lover of Yiddish writers I disagree with the reviewer who compared S.Y. Agnon to Isaac Bashevis Singer. I enjoyed Only Yesterday but don't think it compares at all to anything written by Singer. I found many passages in this book seemingly pointless and rambling, the grammar, in parts, was simplistic as was the style. This could have been the "fault" of the translators. I did enjoy parts of the books and wanted the whole book to be as good as the best parts but it wasn't the case. If you love books written by Yiddish authors I wholeheartedly recommend reading Only Yesterday by S.Y. Agnon but I urge you to read everything by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Finally in English -- one of the great novels of the century.......2000-07-10

Agnon deserved his Nobel Prize. His most important work, Only Yesterday, casts an array of lights into the inner world of Judaism. Anyone who enjoys Bashevis Singer or Sholom Aleichem will kick themselves for the years they wasted without Agnon, who surpasses them. The translation itself is a wonder. It reproduces the Biblical style of narrative which Agnon brought to modern Hebrew literature. Agnon melds the traditional elements of Rabbinic parable and folkloric animal stories into the modern narrative of the turn-the-century Jewish settlers of Palestine. All in all, the appearance of the English translation is a great event, a must read for lovers of Jewish literature.

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Crucial guide of the 1920s...the story starts with Allen!
excellent
A charming, delightful book - this book sparkles!
Interesting beyond scholarly purposes
Captivating coverage of the "Roaring Twenties"

Only Yesterday
Frederick Lewis Allen
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Book Description

This book is the story of a distinct era in American history--the 11 years between the end of the war with Germany in 1918 and the stock market panic of 1929. Originally published in 1931, it remains popular today.

"Marvelously absorbing...ONLY YESTERDAY sketches the '20s from the collapse of Wilson and the New Freedom to the collapse of Wall Street and the New Era." (Chicago Daily Tribune)

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Crucial guide of the 1920s...the story starts with Allen!.......2001-11-12

Only Yesterday offers a glimpse into the nineteen twenties from someone who actually lived it. First published in 1931, Frederick Lewis Allen writes of a decade that had just past. Most historians will tell you that it takes about twenty years after a decade before you can truly come to terms with what the decade was all about. However, this was not the case with Frederick Lewis Allen's work. He was able to show the decade for what it was, a truly amazing accomplishment in 1931!

His purpose was to show future generations, what his generation considered important in defining their times. In doing so he helped create a bridge between his generation and future generations who would later conduct research on the 1920s. In fact, while studying this period one soon find out, most historical works on the 1920s site Only Yesterday in their bibliographies. In fact, a through and comprehensive study of this period is not possible unless it includes Frederick Lewis Allen's works.

Furthermore, Fredrick Lewis Allen attempted to record the social and cultural history of the times. In 1931 this was a new and different form of history. (Just about as radical as the 1920s.) Frederick Lewis Allen can be regarded as a pioneer social historian. Prior to his work most mainstream histories were based solely on politics and international affairs.

More than half of Only Yesterday is on social and cultural events, which is one of the strongest points in his book. With the exceptions of chapters two and six, "Back To Normalcy" and "Harding And The Scandals", Allen's writings are geared towards the common people and how events of the day and the cultural changes affected them. These events and cultural changes are clearly illustrated in chapters five, "The Revolution In Manners And Morals" and chapters eight, "The Ballyhoo Years". Allen was able to show his readers the major social/cultural events of the 1920s. An example is his coverage of the automobile and the "Red Scare" in the early years of the decade. Clearly his coverage of these two events are his strongest points.

His writing style deserves some mentioning. He writes in a style that allows for a multitude of readership interest areas: politics, social, cultural, industrial, religion and even sports. This is especially seen in his sometimes-humorous approach in covering certain topics. Another, great example of his writing abilities is his narrowing of a central point at the conclusion of his paragraph.

Despite his strengths in his writing and his coverage, something must be said regarding his lack of a bibliography. Without one, it weakens his work. When you find something interesting, you have no way of looking for sources. Furthermore, he was not able to pick up on the population changes taking place in the 1920s. Rural to urban population changes were not addressed, nor was the "great migration" of African American coming to northern cities addressed either. Today, one just need to be aware of these event in the 1920s, Allen in the 1930s just wasn't able, for whatever reason, to see the importance of these events.

Without any doubt, the strength of his work certainly out number his few weaknesses. I truly enjoy reading Allen's book. In the future I will revisit Allen's work for his superb writing style and his gift of narrowing his main points at the end of his paragraphs. A truly remarkable book!

excellent.......2000-02-25

This history book is written in a pleasant, authoritative but laid-back manner that makes it a particularly enjoyable read. I concur with the reviewer who wrote that it is a great source of background information to the writer. It does have a nice immediacy to it; strange fads that are mentioned in an offhand way, with the assumption that the reader will already be familiar with them, only add to the charm. The last couple of chapters about the stock market are particularly interesting reading, particularly considering the bizarrely similar economic climate we are living in today. They are, thankfully, written in a straightforward and clear manner --- perfectly accessible to those of us who don't have an economics background. One beef with this paperback edition --- where are the lovely illustrations from the original addition?

A charming, delightful book - this book sparkles!.......1999-09-20

Never had I read a "history" book with the charm this book has!

Written in this manner, history does not have to be a dry, dull boring subject. It also succeeds in teaching a valuable lesson - people never really change.

Interesting beyond scholarly purposes.......1999-07-30

I recently finished this work as a prerequisite for Advanced Placement United States History, and although the significantly extensive talk about economics challenged me, it captivated my intellectual curiosity. An excellently written book, it depicts more than oil scandals and an obsession-worthy transatlantic flight, but the psychology of a nation in a period of profound, rapid, and radical change. One finds plenty to laugh about as well, as it is very witty and insightful. The two aspects I found dull or misguiding were the following: 1) The Nicaraguan "situation," as the book calls it, is not well-depicted at all. This is because the book was written barely out of the Twenties; I suppose Allen did not find the subject important enough to discuss in any length above 4 sentences total. Consider Peter Davis's Where is Nicaragua? for a more accurate portrayal of what the U.S. was involved in until 1931 in that country. 2)I am a high school student severely lacking expertise in economics, thus I found the last chapters rather difficult. Other than those two dull areas, this is a great book for those who want to uncover the mindset of the U.S. almost eighty years ago--and have much fun along the way.

Captivating coverage of the "Roaring Twenties".......1998-03-10

The shame is that many modern history textbooks barely cover some material while diving into other periods of history. As an Advanced Placement United States History student during my junior year in high school (last year), I was given the opportunity to read Allen's work on the 1920s. Allen's journalistic style and thorough coverage of the events during the "Roaring Twenties" made this a fascinating read. The book is so well done that I had to occasionally stop and remind myself that this was written right after the decade addressed--it could have been written in the 1990s! The only major difficulty with this book (a minor one it is) is the explanation of how the stock market crashed (there are many numbers and examples cited), but it IS more thorough than most high school textbooks. What's also nice is that it covered the whole spectrum: politics, social atmosphere, the economy, etc. Many books focus only on one or two. This is a great resource for those who wish to understand what may be one of the most interesting decades of the twentieth century. It's a shame that "Still Yesterday" covering the 1930s is out of print-- it'd hate to miss more of Allen's wonderful work.

Only Yesterday and Since Yesterday: A Popular History of the '20s and '30s

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Only Yesterday and Since Yesterday: A Popular History of the '20s and '30s
Frederick Lewis Allen
Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's (Perennial Classics)

ASIN: 0517603551
Release Date: 1986-04-02

Only Yesterday An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties

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Only Yesterday An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties
Fredrick Lewis Allen
Manufacturer: Blue Ribbon books, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H5C9YI

China only yesterday: 1850-1950,: A century of change (Mainstream of the modern world series)

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China only yesterday: 1850-1950,: A century of change (Mainstream of the modern world series)
Emily Hahn
Manufacturer: DoubleDay
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Nantucket only yesterday: An island view of the twentieth century

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Nantucket only yesterday: An island view of the twentieth century
Robert F Mooney
Manufacturer: Wesco Pub
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Binding: Unknown Binding

ONLY YESTERDAY- AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF THE 1920'S

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ONLY YESTERDAY- AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF THE 1920'S

Manufacturer: Harper & Brothers
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H401YY

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