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Max Weber A Biography

Max Weber A Biography

A founder of contemporary social science Max Weber was born in Germany in 1864. At his death 56 years later he was nationally known for his scholarly and political writings but it was the international reception of his oeuvre over the last forty years that has made him world-famous. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism The Economic Ethics of the World Religions and his magnum opus Economy and Society with its treatment of the relations of economics politics law and religion belong to the great achievements of 20th-century social science. The groundwork for the posthumous Weber reception was laid by Weber's widow Marianne a well-known feminist writer who followed up her edition of his collected works with one of the greatest biographies in a generation that produced many important accounts of itself. Although unavailable in English until a decade ago the importance of Marianne Weber's 1926 work had been widely understood. Sociologist Robert A. Nisbet called it a moving and deeply felt biographical memoir. Historian Gerhard Masur cited the book as the foundation of all further inquiries into Max Weber's life and influence. Beginning with Max's ancestry and early years Marianne Weber guides us through his life as student young lawyer scholar and political writer quoting liberally from his voluminous correspondence. Her account of his nervous breakdown after 1897 which curtailed his academic career but ultimately strengthened his creative energies provides deep insight into some of the personal tensions that troubled him to the end. In addition to her perceptive personal and intellectual life before the First World War describing many scholars social reformers politicians and literary figures within and beyond the famous Heidelberg circle of the Webers. The new introduction by Guenther Roth situates Marianne Weber's own role in the contemporary setting and discusses the current state of Weber research and of the international Weber reception. | Max Weber A Biography

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Max Weber and Islam

Max Weber and Islam

Max Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic-studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two sociologists explore many dimensions of Weber's comments on Islam along with Weber's conceptual framework. The volume's introduction links the discussions to contemporary issues and debates. Wolfgang Schluchter reconstructs Weber's conceptual apparatus as it applies to Islam and its historical development. In subsequent chapters Islamic specialists consider such major topics as the developmental history of Islam Islamic fundamentalism Islamic reform Islamic law and capitalism secularization in Islam as well as the value of attempting to apply Weber's concept of sects to Islam. While some authors find flaws in Weber's factual knowledge of Islam they also find considerable merit in the kinds of questions Weber raised. Contributors to the volume include highly respected contemporary international scholars of Islam: Ira Lapidus Nehemia Levtzion Richard M. Eaton Peter Hardy Rudolph Peters Barbara Metcalf Francis Robinson Patricia Crone Michael Cook and S. N. Eisenstadt. Toby Huff's introduction not only knits the thematics of the separate essays together but adds its own stresses while engaging the contributors in dialogue and debate about fundamental issues. This acute collective analysis establishes a new benchmark for understanding Weber and Islam. This book also provides an up-to-date overview of the developmental history of many aspects of Islam. A major reappraisal of the entire span of Max Weber's sociological thought on Islam this book will appeal to a wide range of scholars and laymen interested in the Islamic world. It will be of particular interest to sociologists specializing in religion and Middle East area specialists.

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Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume 2 Durkheim Pareto Weber

Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume 2 Durkheim Pareto Weber

This is the second of Raymond Aron's classic two-volume survey of the sociological tradition – arguably the definitive work of its kind. Aron explores the work of three figures who profoundly shaped sociology as it entered the twentieth century: Émile Durkheim who continued Auguste Comte's quest for a science of society and a scientific validation of morality; Vilfredo Pareto the Italian neo-Machiavellian who emphasized the oligarchic or elitist character of all societies; and the German sociologist Max Weber who reflected critically on the prospects for human freedom in an age marked by bureaucratization and rationalization. Aron presents rich portraits of these three thinkers drawing out the enduring insights that remain in their work. At the same time he reflects critically on Durkheim's project for a science of society Pareto's critique of humanitarianism and Weber's tragic pessimism. Above all the book is remarkable for demonstrating Aron’s lifelong indebtedness to and divergence from the thought of Max Weber the sociologist par excellence in Aron's view. This Routledge Classics edition includes an introduction by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson. | Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume 2 Durkheim Pareto Weber

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Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

How do writers marginalized by the authoritarian state in which they live intervene in the political process? They cannot do so directly because they are not politicians. Other modes of engagement are possible however. A writer may take up arms and become a revolutionary. Or as Max Weber did he may try to influence politics by playing the role of constitutional advisor or by seeking to shape the dominant language in which his contemporaries think. Weber sought to reconstitute the political and social vocabulary of his day. Part I of Caesarism Charisma and Fate examines a great writer's political passions and the linguistic creativity they generated. Specially it is an analysis of the manner in which Weber reshaped the nineteenth century idea of Caesarism a term traditionally associated with the authoritarian populism of Napoleon III and Bismarck and transmuted it into a concept that was either neutral or positive. The coup de grace of this alchemy was to make Caesarism reappear as charisma. In that transformation a highly contentious political concept suffused with disapproval and anxiety was naturalized into an ideal type of universal value-free sociology. Part II augments Weber's ideas for the modem age. A recurrent preoccupation of Weber's writings was human fate a condition that evokes the pathos of choice the political meaning of death and the formation of national solidarity. Peter Baehr marrying Weber and Durkheim fashions a new concept community of fate for sociological theory. Communities of fate-such as the Warsaw Ghetto or Hong Kong dealing with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis-are embattled social sites in which people face the prospect of collective death. They cohere because of an intense and broadly shared focus of attention on a common plight. Weber's work helps us grasp the nature of such communities the mechanisms that produce them and not least their dramatic consequences. | Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

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A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and some Major Stock Exchanges

A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and some Major Stock Exchanges

Moral economy as a set of rules which regulate market transactions has been the object of much research and debate since the 1980s; it has also been the focus of classical sociological authors such as Weber Simmel and Toennies. Weber in particular examined the rules of the moral economy in the financial markets and this volume sheds light on his contribution to the subject. The book formulates two models of business relations - one oligopolistic model the other based on free competition - which are derived from Weber and Simmel's writings and which represent alternative instances of the moral economy. Empirical case studies in the form of South Korea and Taiwan are included to exemplify the two models and to highlight the consequences of adopting one model over the other. The volume also examines the conduct of actors in some of the leading financial markets with reference to Weber's writings on the 19th century London and Berlin Stock Exchanges. | A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and some Major Stock Exchanges

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In Defense of Schreber Soul Murder and Psychiatry

In Defense of Schreber Soul Murder and Psychiatry

In this stunning reappraisal of the celebrated case of Daniel Paul Schreber Lothane takes the reader on a richly documented tour of all the ingredients that made Schreber's illness a unique psychiatric event. Building outward from a close examination of Schreber's troubled relationship to his two psychiatrists Flechsig and Weber Lothane elaborates the personal familial and cultural contexts of Schreber's illness. Incorporating extensive new archival and bibliographic research and providing extensive accounts of the personalities and theories of Schreber's two psychiatrists Paul Flechsig and Guido Weber Zvi Lothane offers a stunning reappraisal of the Schreber case that overturns virtually all previous opinion. Lothane examines both the man and his milieu in a way that allows the reader fresh access not only to the tragedy of Schreber's illness but also to his heroic if doomed attempts to come to terms with his condition through writing. In the process he persuasively demonstrates that important issues of both psychiatric diagnosis and psychoanalytic interpretation have heretofore been compromised by a failure to pay sufficient attention to Schreber's interpersonal cultural and historical contexts. | In Defense of Schreber Soul Murder and Psychiatry

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The Jews and Modern Capitalism

The Jews and Modern Capitalism

Since its first appearance in Germany in 1911 Jews and Modern Capitalism has provoked vehement criticism. As Samuel Z. Klausner emphasizes the lasting value of Sombart's work rests not in his results-most of which have long since been disproved-but in his point of departure. Openly acknowledging his debt to Max Weber Sombart set out to prove the double thesis of the Jewish foundation of capitalism and the capitalist foundation of Judaism. Klausner placing Sombart's work in its historical and societal context examines the weaknesses and strengths of Jews and Modern Capitalism. | The Jews and Modern Capitalism

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Monasticism in Modern Times

Monasticism in Modern Times

This book presents a broad sociological perspective on the contemporary issues facing Christian monasticism. Since the founding work of Max Weber the sociology of monasticism has received little attention. However the field is now being revitalized by some new research. Focusing on Christian monks and nuns the contributors explore continuity and discontinuity with the past in what superficially might appear a monolithic tradition. Contributors speak not only about monasticism in Europe and the United States but also in Africa and Latin America a different landscape where the question of recruitment does not figure among issues considered as problematic. | Monasticism in Modern Times

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Swords Into Dow Shares Governing The Decline Of The Military- Industrial Complex

Swords Into Dow Shares Governing The Decline Of The Military- Industrial Complex

Contemporary legal doctrine holds that corporate managers have obligations first and foremost to maximize profits for their shareholders. This doctrine is based on the assumption that shareholders alone bear the financial risks and contribute the equity necessary for production. But what if other groups contribute assets and also risk losing their investments? What if other groups actually shelter shareholders from financial risks? Such is the case with the nation's prime defense contractors. By examining the case of defense contracting where the federal government and indirectly the taxpayers assume most of the risks and costs of producing weaponry Rachel Weber critiques the assumptions underlying our system of corporate governance. The Department of Defense provides contracts for billions of dollars specialized components and facilities interest subsidies tax breaks and regulatory relief. These public contributions make the record shareholder returns and executive compensation packages of the early 1990s all the more problematic. This book follows the case of General Dynamics the nation's largest military shipbuilder and considered a trendsetter in the industry for its explicit shareholder orientation. The behavior of contractors like General Dynamics in the post-Cold War period raises serious concerns about the private stewardship of public funds. How can the government make contractors accountable to other public interests? In Swords into Dow Shares Rachel Weber offers some original suggestions for redirecting defense resources to foster innovation decrease the tax burden of military spending and help to retain and create high-wage jobs in a civilian-industrial economy. | Swords Into Dow Shares Governing The Decline Of The Military- Industrial Complex

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Sociological Analysis

Sociological Analysis

Originally published in 1972 this book is an important introduction to the analytical aspects of sociology. It analyses the various strands in 20th Century sociological thought illustrating the richness as much as the poverty of any particular approach. It explores and compares the work of Weber and Pareto on sociological analysis stressing the vital significance of their contributions to sociological knowledge. It looks at the stimulating implications of Karl Mannheim’s thought on the sociology of knowledge and finds in Mannheim the beginnings of most of the contemporary trends in sociology. It covers the fundamental assumptions of Parsonian thought and analyses the derivative character of the ideas of Robert Merton and Reinhard Bendix along with Dahrendorf’s notions on a re-orientation of sociology.

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Political Legitimacy Realism in Political Theory and Sociology

Political Legitimacy Realism in Political Theory and Sociology

Political Legitimacy: Realism in Political Theory and Sociology explores the concept of political legitimacy the nature of the normative foundation of politics and the state. With particular attention to the broad theoretical approach of political realism within political theory and political sociology it examines the work of figures including Bernard Williams Raymond Geuss John Grey Max Weber and Niklas Luhmann among others. Contending that in the face of the waning influence of political idealism the insights of political realism constitute a promising way forward the author also advances the view that realist political theory would benefit from sociological insights particularly on the nature of the state. As such Political Legitimacy will appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory political sociology and political philosophy. | Political Legitimacy Realism in Political Theory and Sociology

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The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions A Collective Strategy

The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions A Collective Strategy

Written for a broad audience of medical and behavioral healthcare professionals The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions: A Collective Strategy introduces clinicians to best practices in addiction interventions and bridges the gap between the theory and practice of successful intervention. Synthesizing decades of fieldwork Louise Stanger explores the framework for successful invitations to change what they look like in action and how to adjust approach by population and Lee Weber serves as editor. The authors summarize and compare intervention models in use today and explain the use of family mapping and individual portraiture as clinical tools. The text also teaches clinicians to troubleshoot common situations as they help move clients toward positive life decisions. Practical ready-to-use clinical tools follow the text in downloadable worksheet form. | The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions A Collective Strategy

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Social Theory The Multicultural Global and Classic Readings

Social Theory The Multicultural Global and Classic Readings

Social Theory is more than a reader. Feminists race theorists decolonizing leaders and others are thoughtfully introduced by Charles Lemert’s substantial commentaries. Social Theory has always sought to keep up with the new while respecting the old—from Durkheim and Weber to Latinx and LGBTQ pioneers. When the book first appeared it was as it remains a collection of selections from those who have changed how we think about social things. Today as the world is threatened by a global wave of anti-democratic movements Social Theory adds a new early section to remind us of the origins of democratic values in the 1700s. A new concluding section focuses the theoretical mind on how in the 2020s social theorists are rethinking the world in order to better understand and resist the menace of anti-democratic movements. | Social Theory The Multicultural Global and Classic Readings

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Embattled Reason Volume 2 Essays on Social Knowledge

Embattled Reason Volume 2 Essays on Social Knowledge

Embattled Reason constitutes an intellectual profile of one of America's preeminent sociologists. This collection of essays published over the course of thirty years embodies a series of intellectual choices in response to current concerns and to debates of the past affording a coherent and unified view of Bendix's work as a whole. The articles are grouped under three headings. In Conditions of Knowledge the author is concerned with the value assumptions basic to the social sciences. Under Theoretical Perspectives the author presents the guiding considerations of his own work in a continuing dialogue with such thinkers as Tocqueville Marx Durkheim and Weber. In the last section Studies of Modernization Bendix takes up problems involved in an analysis of social change though a reexamination of evolutionist assumptions. Reinhard Bendix is professor of sociology and political science at the University of California Berkeley. | Embattled Reason Volume 2 Essays on Social Knowledge

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The Gift Economy

The Gift Economy

Until recently we have known more about gift giving practices in pre-industrial societies than about those of industrial western society. In this book first published in 1988 David Cheal shows that the process of present giving and receiving is a vital element in contemporary social life relevant to some of the most important theoretical traditions in sociology particularly those of Durkheim and Weber and to the social constructionism of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. This volume is the result of a major study of gift rituals carried out by David Cheal and his associates in which general themes are richly illustrated with details from individual case histories gathered during the research. It is highly significant that in western society women are more active gift givers than men and while their voices explain how emotions and interests are interrelated within the gift economy the author shows how that in turn is related to current theories about family gender and religion.

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Routledge International Handbook of Charisma

Routledge International Handbook of Charisma

The Routledge International Handbook of Charisma provides an unprecedented multidimensional and multidisciplinary comparative analysis of the phenomenon of charisma – first defined by Max Weber as the irrational bond between deified leader and submissive follower. It includes broad overviews of foundational theories and experiences of charisma and of associated key issues and themes. Contributors include 45 influential international scholars who approach the topic from different disciplinary perspectives and utilize examples from an array of historical and cultural settings. The Handbook presents up-to-date concise thought-provoking innovative and informative perspectives on charisma as it has been expressed in the past and as it continues to be manifested in the contemporary world by leaders ranging from shamans to presidents. It is designed to be essential reading for all students researchers and general readers interested in achieving a comprehensive understanding of the power and potential of charismatic authority in all its varieties subtleties dynamics and current and potential directions.

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Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments

Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments

Public Relations and Social Theory: Key Figures Concepts and Developments broadens the theoretical scope of public relations studies by applying the work of a group of prominent social theorists to make sense of the practice. The volume focuses on the work of key social theorists including Max Weber Karl Marx John Dewey Jürgen Habermas Niklas Luhmann Michel Foucault Ulrich Beck Pierre Bourdieu Anthony Giddens Robert Putnam Erving Goffman Peter L. Berger Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Bruno Latour Dorothy Smith Zygmunt Bauman Harrison White John W. Meyer Luc Boltanski and Chantal Mouffe. Each chapter is devoted to an individual theorist providing an overview of that theorist’s key concepts and contributions and exploring how these can be applied to public relations as a practice. Each chapter also includes a box giving a short and concise presentation of the theorist along with recommendation of key works and secondary literature. | Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments

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The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory

The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory

The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory explores the role that understandings of mind and brain played in the development of sociological theory. It isolates five key authors in the classical tradition and comprehensively explores their oeuvres for moments where they reflect on engage with and build from topics related to cognition placing their work in contact with research today to critically determine areas of relevance refutation or revision. Showing how understandings of mind brain and body grounded the production of early sociological thought the book draws attention to the foundational role theories of cognition played in the emergence of sociology as a distinct field of study. With chapters on Comte Marx Weber Durkheim and Mead The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory constitutes a novel and timely engagement with canonical social theory extending its application to contemporary social life. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology and psychology with interests in classical social theory cognition embodiment and sociality.

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Administration Ethics and Democracy

Administration Ethics and Democracy

This title was first published in 2000: Administration Ethics and Democracy is concerned with the disciplines of philosophy political science and sociology. ˜jvind Larsen's book provides a deeper analysis of the relations between administration ethics and democracy. In modern society it is no longer sufficient to be the obedient administrator Max Weber speaks about. The time is ripe to re-evaluate the overriding responsibilities of the administration. Today responsible administration demands an independent position to be taken. ˜jvind Larsen views the administration from the continuous complex demands it is required to meet and proposes that the professional role is not exempt from personal responsibility or position. Therefore it is crucial that the administrator has freedom of expression and the opportunity to discuss his problems with others. Ethics are a common concern and also a political problem in democratic society. This is why there is a close connection between administration ethics and democracy.

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Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology of Law

Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology of Law

This book presents a clear and precise account of the structure and content of Max Weber's sociology of law: situating its methodological and epistemological specificity in relation to other approaches to the sociology of law; as well as offering a critical evaluation of Weber's usefulness for contemporary socio-legal research. The book is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the methodological foundations of Weber's sociology of law. The second analyses the central theme of this sociology the rationalisation of law from the perspective of its internal logical coherence its empirical validity and finally its legitimacy. The third part questions the present-day relevance of the Weberian sociology of law for socio-legal research notably with regard to legal pluralism. Max Weber it is demonstrated is not merely a 'founding father' of the sociology of law; rather his methodology concepts and empirical analyses remain highly useful to the further development of work in this area. | Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology of Law

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Cultural Capital and Creative Communication (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives

Cultural Capital and Creative Communication (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives

Inspired by Bourdieu’s thought this book explores the notion of cultural capital offering insights into its various definitions its evolution and the critical theories that engage with it. Designed for use by students and teachers it addresses the limitations and expansion of Bourdieu's theory of capital and power considering the relationship between cultural social and human capital the distinctions between capital and capitalism and the conflicts that exist among theories that have emerged in response to – or can be brought to bear on – Bourdieu’s work. Engaging with the thought of Max Weber Fernand Braudel Daniel Bell Herbert Marcuse Jean Baudrillard Theodore Adorno Max Horkheimer and Gilles Lipovetsky Cultural Capital and Creative Communication represents the first book to develop a field of research and study that is devoted to cultural capital. Richly illustrated with empirical examples and offering assessment exercises it will appeal not only to scholars and students of sociology philosophy and social theory but also to corporate communities who seek to develop training modules on the increase of their cultural capital. | Cultural Capital and Creative Communication (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives

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Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary

Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary

This book substantiates two claims. First the modern world was not simply produced by objective factors rooted in geographical discoveries and scientific inventions to be traced to economic technological or political factors but is the outcome of social cultural and spiritual processes. Among such factors beyond the Protestant ethic (Max Weber) the rise of the absolutist state and its disciplinary network (Michel Foucault) or court society (Norbert Elias) a prime role is played by theatre. The modern reality is deeply theatricalized. Second a special access for studying this theatricalized world is offered by novels. The best classical novels not simply can be interpreted as describing a world like the theatre but they capture and present a world that has become thoroughly transformed into a global theatre. The theatre effectively transformed the world and classical novels effectively analyze this theatricalized reality – much better than the main instruments supposedly destined to study reality philosophy and sociology. Thus instead of using the technique of sociology to analyze novels the book will treat novels as a royal road to analyze a theatricalized reality in order to find our way back to a genuine and meaningful life. | Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary

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David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

David Martin is a pioneer of a political sociology of religion that integrates a combined analysis of nationalism and political religions with the history of religion. He was one of the first critics of the so-called secularization thesis and his historical orientation makes him one of the few outstanding scholars who have continued the work begun by Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. This collection provides the first scholarly overview of his hugely influential work and includes a chapter written by David Martin himself. Starting with an introduction that contextualises David Martin’s theories on the sociology of religion both currently and historically this volume aims to cover David Martin’s lifework in its entirety. An international panel of contributors sheds new light on his studies of particular geographical areas (Britain Latin America Scandinavia) and on certain systematic fields (secularization violence music Pentecostalism the relation between sociology and theology). David Martin’s concluding chapter addresses the critical points raised in response to his theories. This book addresses one of the key figures in the development of the sociology of religion and as such it will be of great interest to all scholars of the sociology of religion. | David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

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