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Book SynopsisPeople are unwittingly taking risks with their investments by entrusting them to advisers who are biased but don't know it.Does your financial adviser tell you to hold on and never sell? That markets recover in the long run? Does your adviser seem to always have an optimistic disposition? Do they tell you not to worry, no matter what is going on in the outside world?In Bullshift, John J. De Goey explores the hidden relationship between bias and financial markets. He makes clear that investors and financial advisers are not the rational decision makers that economic theory assumes them to be, and that tried and true investment advice is not always sound. De Goey shows that advisers are immersed in a culture of Bullshift they simply don't realize how their positive outlook on markets is based on industry-wide groupthink.Unfortunately, this problem affects much more than just your own investment portfolio. After three years of an international Trade ReviewBullshift is a kick-in-the-head reality check for advisers and their clients about blindly following investing clichés. Read it and learn to question your basic understanding of investing. * Rob Carrick, Personal Finance Columnist, The Globe and Mail *Excessive optimism is the metabias that enables all others, as it tells us that ‘all is well’ and blinds us to our own fallibility. Bullshift recognizes the damaging potential of overconfidence for our financial lives and gives practical tips on how to overcome it. * Daniel Crosby, New York Times bestselling author of The Laws of Wealth *If you want to be money smart, read Bullshift. John's decades of experience, wisdom, and guidance will leave you richer. * Kelley Keehn, bestselling author of Talk Money to Me *There’s a large body of evidence that behavioural biases are a significant reason why so many investors fail to achieve their investment goals. Overconfidence is particularly deeply ingrained. We think — and are encouraged by the media and financial commentators to think — that we can do things that are beyond our sphere of competence. We’re all prone to overconfidence and optimism and we need to help each other in guarding against it. * Robin Powell, editor of The Evidence-Based Investor *Long a maverick in the Canadian financial advisor community, John J. De Goey's third book is an erudite exposition of how unwarranted optimism can be detrimental to the financial health of portfolios. * Jonathan Chevreau, founder of FindependenceHub.com *From broad behavioural errors to the specifics of Canadian markets, Bullshift offers new ways for financial advisors to evaluate their thinking and achieve better outcomes. It’s packed with useful insight on how to make more informed, rational decisions. * Dr. Cheryl Hurst, founder of PeopleGaps.com *De Goey provides investors with an entertaining overview of how our brains get in the way of maximizing our financial potential. Perhaps more importantly, he links these biases to what is happening in the world today around us and provides prescriptions on how to optimize our behaviour. * Preet Banerjee, founder of YourMoneyDegree.com *There’s a new kind of advisor coming to the forefront of wealth management. These days, advisers who are more focused on behaviour and decisions are winning business. Understanding what drives client attitudes is a winning proposition for keeping them focused on what’s important to their clients. * Charlie Spiring, ICD.D, Founder & Chairman, Wellington-Altus Financial Inc. *A truly wonderful read and an important book that will help so many people solve the puzzle that is understanding themselves, their money, and their behaviours. * Dennis Moseley-Williams, Founder of DMW strategic consulting *Table of Contents Introduction Part I: The Interplay Between Behavioural Economics, Financial Advisers, and Retail Investors 1 Understanding Advisers and the Industry 2 Behavioural Economics and Human Biases 3 The Role of Advisers 4 What Needs to Change? 5 Groupthink Among Advisers Part II: Applying What We Know to How the World Operates … and How It Ought To 6 Misguided and Human 7 Case Study on the Coronavirus 8 Case Studies in Financial Planning 9 How the Government Entrenches Bullshift 10 Guarding Against Bullshift Afterword: What Can Be Done About Bullshift? Acknowledgements Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisYour brand is the most important part of your business it's a living thing. Learn to find, shape, and share your brand story with the world.Consider this: every individual and business tells a story to the world, and that story is their brand. It's a saga, constantly unfolding, experienced in real-time by everyone around it. Now ask yourself, are you consciously shaping and broadcasting that brand story? Is it under your diligent care and control, or is it running amok, causing chaos everywhere it goes? Or, perhaps even more tragic, is it sitting in a corner sulking, wondering why no one notices it?BrandJitsu is a practical and effective way to get that pesky brand under control so that it tells the story you want it to tell a meaningful and memorable tale that will not just attract the attention of your ideal customers but also the best employees, partners, and suppliers.Mastering BrandJitsu won't take years. It's a skill that can be quickly lear

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Book SynopsisEliminate your money anxiety and create lasting happiness with your financial situation not by creating a blistering budget but by living the life you love!Ashley Feinstein Gerstley was working in financial services when she came to the shocking realization that even she was stressed about her personal finances. Ashley quickly realized that her stress didn''t only arise from a lack of knowledge but from the way that we as a society treat and talk (or rather don''t talk) about money, so she created a system to turn the entire practice on its head! The 30-Day Money Cleanse, named an Amazon Best Book of 2019 So Far, is a groundbreaking money management book that will set you on the path to financial peace with interactive journaling prompts to hold you accountable and keep you on track.Through Ashley''s system, in just 30 days you will create a healthier, happier relationship with your money by: Eliminating all money stressors<

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Book SynopsisA Quick, Compact, and Easy-to-Understand Workbook Resource for Non-Accountants! The perfect financial accounting guide for beginners!The Study Guide and Workbook Accounting for Non-Accountants is the must-have companion to the original for all of us who have never taken an accounting class, are mystified by accounting jargon, and have no clue about balance sheets, income statements, payroll management, corporate taxes, or statements of cash flows. This simple workbook makes accounting simple. Whether you own a business, plan on starting one, or just want to control your own assets, you'll find everything you need to know:How to prepare and use financial statementsHow to control cash flowsHow to manage budgetsHow to use accounting ratiosHow to deal with audits and auditors interpret financial statementsThis guide clarifies and simplifies many of the sometimes difficult to understand accounting concepts through:100+ Real World ProblemsInternet Resources for Each ChapterMultiple Choice,

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Book SynopsisUn rapport de la Banque mondiale recommande aux gouvernements des pays d' Afrique subsaharienne d'investir dans des plans d'etectrification coordonnes a long terme pour atteindre plus rapidement leurs objectifs de developpernent.

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Book SynopsisThis guide is designed to assist all those who are responsible for providing or overseeing the development of professional accountants. It is particularly relevant to professional accountancy organizations, as well as policy makers and regulators who have a role in overseeing the training and certification of accountants and auditors.

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Book SynopsisProvides an overview of health public-private partnerships (PPPs) worldwide and examines in greater detail the health PPP program in Vietnam, including important issues in the design, preparation, and implementation of PPP project in the health sector.

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Book SynopsisRisk Analysis in Engineering and Economics is required reading for decision making under conditions of uncertainty. The author describes the fundamental concepts, techniques, and applications of the subject in a style tailored to meet the needs of students and practitioners of engineering, science, economics, and finance. Drawing on his extensive experience in uncertainty and risk modeling and analysis, the author covers everything from basic theory and key computational algorithms to data needs, sources, and collection. He emphasizes practical use of the methods presented and carefully examines the limitations, advantages, and disadvantages of each to help readers translate the discussed techniques into real-world solutions.This Second Edition: Introduces the topic of risk finance Incorporates homeland security applications throughout Offers additional material on predictive risk management Includes a wealth of neTrade ReviewPraise for the First Edition "This book ambitiously tackles risk analysis from the ground up. … an excellent reference for individuals studying in a variety of risk-related disciplines. … enlightening [examples]…attractive to students approaching risk studies from a variety of substantive backgrounds. … Advanced students are likely to find Ayyub's treatments…exceedingly valuable."—Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2004, Vol. 99, No. 466 "… a good textbook and reference. The mix of engineering and economics is well balanced. … Valuable for students after college and useful for professional engineers."—Technometrics, August 2004, Vol. 46, No. 3 Praise for the Second Edition "… one of a kind in the market. … I am not aware of books that cover the subject in as comprehensive a manner."—Professor Nii O. Attoh-Okine, University of Delaware, Newark, USA Table of ContentsIntroduction. Risk Analysis Methods. System Definition and Structure. Reliability Assessment. Failure Consequences and Severity. Engineering Economics and Finance. Risk Control Methods. Data for Risk Studies. Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics. Failure Data. References and Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisTens of thousands of patients die unnecessarily every year as a result of errors and defects in our healthcare processes. Those that survive often pay too much for the privilege. The value stream mapping methods described in Mapping Clinical Value Streams will help you achieve more efficient health care processes and will pave the way to an improved medical system with significantly reduced medical errors and other costly waste.Part of the Lean Tools in Healthcare series, this user-friendly book will help you understand how to use value stream mapping to provide quality, patient-centered care. Value stream mapping is a powerful tool for observing and depicting processes as they truly areand for envisioning and reconfiguring the same processes to eliminate errors and other waste. With this book, you'll learn how to: Map current-state processes Create a future-state map with processes streamlined through flow and pull Manage the rolloutTable of ContentsPreface, Acknowledgments, Chapter 1 - Getting Started, Chapter 2 - The Production Processes, Chapter 3 - Value Streams and the Mapping Process, Chapter 4 - Map the Current State, Chapter 5 - Map the Future State: Phase I – Flow, Chapter 6 - Map the Future State: Phase II – Pull, Chapter 7 - Implement the Future State, Chapter 8 - Reflections and Conclusions, Appendix - Further Reading

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Book SynopsisThe Product Wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence, minimizing changeover costs, and freeing up useful capacity. So much so, that the DuPont Company and Exxon Mobil are just a few companies that have used the product wheel concept to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage.Breaking down a fairly complex design process into manageable steps, The Product Wheel Handbook: Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations walks readers through the process for designing and implementing the PW technique. It includes a case study taken from actual practice that illustrates the design process and its benefits. Describing how to apply the product wheel technique to any manufacturing operation, the book: Details the steps required to implement product wheels Explains why certain traditional manufacturing metrics should be reevaluated so they don't inhibit product wheel performance Defines the culturTrade ReviewPeter L. and Jennifer S. King, authors of The Product Wheel Handbook, have provided excellent strategies for implementing product wheels and improving an existing product wheel process. ... Written in a clear, concise manner, this book is a how-to manual for product wheel design, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement. The authors integrate principles with concepts in a way that is practical and easy to understand. ... If you are tasked to implement product wheels or want to learn more about how they can lead to improvements, you will find The Product Wheel Handbook a valuable reference.—Book review by Alan R. Leigh CSCP, CPIM, and Randy Woehl appearing in APICS, January 2014 Peter King continues to be a thought leader in the spread of advanced manufacturing practices throughout the process industries. His product wheel concepts and practices are an excellent resource for plants with multiple products sharing the operating assets.—Ray Floyd, Shingo Prize-winning author of Liquid Lean and member of IndustryWeek's Manufacturing Hall of Fame The authors have a gift for writing well, in a way that will keep the reader connected throughout this excellent work. It flows through the methodology in a well structured and logical way and could only be written by someone who has lived through product wheel implementation many times ... definitely a must-read for any Lean practitioner. —Henrique Fagundes, Senior Project Manager, DuPont The product wheel is a true landmark in the management and organization of the workplace. All manufacturing operations searching for a way to organize and level the factory should have this book. —Cash Powell, Jr., Editorial Board, Target Magazine; Association for Manufacturing Excellence; Lead Consultant, Center for Competitive Change, University of Dayton A clearly written guide to designing and improving product wheels ... . Pete and Jennifer King take you through a logical step-by-step process without ever resorting to simplistic recipes. This book will be valuable to businesses where both pull and push systems apply. Highly recommended! —Peter C. Compo, Director of Integrated Business Management, DuPontThe Dow Chemical Company has usedThe Product Wheel Handbook for good communication and collaboration between functions. We highly recommend this book as it is a logical layout with step by step implementation instructions. ... Not only did our processes become more efficient but our teams were able to understand a new process that they can apply in different applications in the work process. We recommend this book to any company looking to apply lean concepts specifically in the process industry and also for leaders who are looking for applications to help explain such processes to their employees.—Martin Fernandes, Supply Chain Innovation Director, Dow Chemical—Shannon Hemmelgarn, Supply Chain Business Planner, Dow ChemicalThe views expressed in this review are of the authors alone and do not represent the views of The Dow Chemical CompanyPeter L. and Jennifer S. King, authors of The Product Wheel Handbook, have provided excellent strategies for implementing product wheels and improving an existing product wheel process. ... Written in a clear, concise manner, this book is a how-to manual for product wheel design, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement. The authors integrate principles with concepts in a way that is practical and easy to understand. ... If you are tasked to implement product wheels or want to learn more about how they can lead to improvements, you will find The Product Wheel Handbook a valuable reference.—Book review by Alan R. Leigh CSCP, CPIM, and Randy Woehl appearing in APICS, January 2014 Peter King continues to be a thought leader in the spread of advanced manufacturing practices throughout the process industries. His product wheel concepts and practices are an excellent resource for plants with multiple products sharing the operating assets.—Ray Floyd, Shingo Prize-winning author of Liquid Lean and member of IndustryWeek's Manufacturing Hall of Fame The authors have a gift for writing well, in a way that will keep the reader connected throughout this excellent work. It flows through the methodology in a well structured and logical way and could only be written by someone who has lived through product wheel implementation many times ... definitely a must-read for any Lean practitioner. —Henrique Fagundes, Senior Project Manager, DuPont The product wheel is a true landmark in the management and organization of the workplace. All manufacturing operations searching for a way to organize and level the factory should have this book. —Cash Powell, Jr., Editorial Board, Target Magazine; Association for Manufacturing Excellence; Lead Consultant, Center for Competitive Change, University of Dayton A clearly written guide to designing and improving product wheels ... . Pete and Jennifer King take you through a logical step-by-step process without ever resorting to simplistic recipes. This book will be valuable to businesses where both pull and push systems apply. Highly recommended! —Peter C. Compo, Director of Integrated Business Management, DuPontThe Dow Chemical Company has used The Product Wheel Handbook for good communication and collaboration between functions. We highly recommend this book as it is a logical layout with step by step implementation instructions. ... Not only did our processes become more efficient but our teams were able to understand a new process that they can apply in different applications in the work process. We recommend this book to any company looking to apply lean concepts specifically in the process industry and also for leaders who are looking for applications to help explain such processes to their employees.—Martin Fernandes, Supply Chain Innovation Director, Dow Chemical—Shannon Hemmelgarn, Supply Chain Business Planner, Dow Chemical The views expressed in this review are of the authors alone and do not represent the views of The Dow Chemical Company Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Product Wheels? Process Industry Challenges; Product Wheel Basics; The Problem: Production Sequencing, Campaign Sizing, Production Leveling; The Solution-Product Wheels; The Product Wheel Design and Implementation Process; Step 1: Begin with an Up-to-Date, Reasonably Accurate VSM; Step 2: Decide Where to Use Wheels to Schedule Production; Step 3: Analyze Products for a Make-to-Order Strategy; Step 4: Determine the Optimum Sequence; Step 5: Analyze the Factors Influencing Overall Wheel Time; Step 6: Put It All Together-Determine Overall Wheel Time and Wheel Frequency for Each Product; Step 7: Arranging Products-Balancing the Wheel; Step 8: Plotting the Wheel Cycles; Step 9: Calculate Inventory Requirements; Step 10: Review with Stakeholders; Step 11: Assign Responsibility for Allocating PIT Time; Step 12: Revise the Scheduling Process; Step 13: Develop an Implementation Plan; Step 14: Develop a Contingency Plan; Step 15: Get All Inventories in Balance; Step 16: Confirm Wheel Performance-Put an Auditing Process in Place; Step 17: Put a Plan in Place to Rebalance the Wheel Periodically; Case Studies and Examples

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Book SynopsisAlthough Lean and Six Sigma appear to be quite different, when used together they have shown to deliver unprecedented improvements to quality and profitability. The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook: Tools and Methods for Process Acceleration explains how to integrate these seemingly dissimilar approaches to increase production speed while decreasing variations and costs in your organization.Presenting problem-solving tools you can use to immediately determine the sources of the problems in your organization, the book is based on a recent survey that analyzed Six Sigma tools to determine which are the most beneficial. Although it focuses on the most commonly used tools, it also includes coverage of those used a minimum of two times on every five Six Sigma projects.Filled with diagrams of the tools you'll need, the book supplies a comprehensive framework to help you for organize and process the vast amount of information currently available about LeaTable of ContentsIntroduction to Lean Six Sigma Methodology. Process Improvement and Lean Six Sigma. The Lean Journey into Process Improvement. Waste Identification. Lean Concepts, Tools, and Methods. Three Faces of Change—Kaizen, Kaikaku, and Kakushin. SSBB Overview. On Integrating LSS and DMAIC with DMADV. LSSBB Advanced Nonstatistical Tools. Black Belt Nonstatistical Tools (A through M). Black Belt Nonstatistical Tools (O Through Q). Black Belt Nonstatistical Tools (R through Z). LSSBB Advanced Statistical Tools. Advanced Statistical Tools.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, a world-class editorial advisory board and an independent team of contributors draw on their experience in operations, leadership, and Lean managerial decision making to share helpful insights on the valuation of hospitals in today's changing reimbursement and regulatory environments.Using language that is easy to understand, Financial Management Strategies for Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations: Tools, Techniques, Checklists and Case Studies integrates prose, managerial applications, and regulatory policies with real-world case studies, models, checklists, reports, charts, tables, and diagrams. It has a natural flow, starting with costs and revenues, progressing to clinic and technology, and finishing with institutional and professional benchmarking. The book is organized into three sections: Costs and Revenues: Fundamental Principles Clinic and Technology: Contemporary Issues InstiTrade ReviewNavigating a course where sound organizational management is intertwined with financial acumen requires a strategy designed by subject-matter experts. Fortunately, Financial Management Strategies for Hospital and Healthcare Organizations: Tools, Techniques, Checklists and Case Studies provides that blueprint.—David B. Nash, MD, MBA, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson UniversityIt is fitting that Dr. David Edward Marcinko, MBA, CMP™ and his fellow experts have laid out a plan of action in Financial Management Strategies for Hospital and Healthcare Organizations that physicians, nurse-executives, administrators, institutional CEOs, CFOs, MBAs, lawyers, and healthcare accountants can follow to help move healthcare financial fitness forward in these uncharted waters.—Neil H. Baum, MD, Tulane Medical School Table of ContentsCosts and Revenues: Fundamental Principles. Clinic and Technology: Contemporary Issues. Institutional and Professional Benchmarking: Advanced Applications.

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Book SynopsisNew Tools to Solve Your Option Pricing ProblemsFor nonlinear PDEs encountered in quantitative finance, advanced probabilistic methods are needed to address dimensionality issues. Written by two leaders in quantitative researchincluding Risk magazine's 2013 Quant of the YearNonlinear Option Pricing compares various numerical methods for solving high-dimensional nonlinear problems arising in option pricing. Designed for practitioners, it is the first authored book to discuss nonlinear Black-Scholes PDEs and compare the efficiency of many different methods. Real-World Solutions for Quantitative Analysts The book helps quants develop both their analytical and numerical expertise. It focuses on general mathematical tools rather than specific financial questions so that readers can easily use the tools to solve their own nonlinear problems. The authors build intuition through numerous real-world examples of numTrade Review"... provides a wide overview of the advanced modern techniques applied in financial modeling. It gives an optimal combination of analytical and numerical tools in quantitative finance. It could provide guidance on the development of nonlinear methods of option pricing for practitioners as well as for analysts."—Nikita Y. Ratanov, from Mathematical Reviews Clippings, January 2015"… anyone with interest in quantitative finance and partial differential equations/continuous time stochastic analysis will not only greatly enjoy this book, but he or she will find both many numerical ideas of real practical interest as well as material for academic research, perhaps for years to come."—Peter Friz, The Bachelier Finance Society"This textbook provides a comprehensive treatment of numerical methods for nonlinear option pricing problems."—Zentralblatt MATH 1285"It is the only book of its kind. … The contribution of this book is threefold: (a) a practical, intuitive, and self-contained derivation of various of the latest derivative pricing models driven by diffusion processes; (b) an exposition of various advanced Monte Carlo simulation schemes for solving challenging nonlinear problems arising in financial engineering; (c) a clear and accessible survey of the theory of nonlinear PDEs. The authors have done a brilliant job providing just the right amount of rigorous theory required to understand the advanced methodologies they present. … Julien Guyon and Pierre Henry-Labordère, as befitting their reputations as star quants, have done an excellent job presenting the latest theory of nonlinear PDEs and their applications to finance. Much of the material in the book consists of the authors’ own original results. I highly recommend this book to seasoned mathematicians and experienced quants in the industry … Mathematicians will be able to see how practitioners argue heuristically to arrive at solutions of the toughest problems in financial engineering; practitioners of quantitative finance will find the book perfectly balanced between mathematical theory, financial modelling, and schemes for numerical implementation."—Quantitative Finance, 2014"Ever since Black and Scholes solved their eponymous linear PDE in 1969, the complexity of problems plaguing financial practitioners has exploded (non-linearly!). How fitting it is that nonlinear PDEs are now routinely used to extend the original framework. Written by two leading quants at two leading financial houses, this book is a tour de force on the use of nonlinear PDEs in financial valuation."—Peter Carr, PhD, Global Head of Market Modeling, Morgan Stanley, New York, and Executive Director of Masters in Mathematical Finance, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University "Finance used to be simple; you could go a long way with just linearity and positivity but this is not the case anymore. This superb book gives a wide array of modern methods for modern problems."—Bruno Dupire, Head of Quantitative Research, Bloomberg L.P."In this unique and impressive book, the authors apply sophisticated modern tools of pure and applied mathematics, such as BSDEs and particle methods, to solve challenging nonlinear problems of real practical interest, such as the valuation of guaranteed equity-linked annuity contracts and the calibration of local stochastic volatility models. Not only that, but sketches of proofs and implementation details are included. No serious student of mathematical finance, whether practitioner or academic, can afford to be without it."—Jim Gatheral, Presidential Professor, Baruch College, CUNY, and author of The Volatility Surface"Guyon and Henry-Labordère have produced an impressive textbook, which covers options and derivatives pricing from the point of view of nonlinear PDEs. This book is a comprehensive survey of nonlinear techniques, ranging from American options, uncertain volatility, and uncertain correlation models. It is aimed at graduate students or quantitative analysts with a strong mathematical background. They will find the book reasonably self-contained, i.e., discussing both the mathematical theory and the applications, in a very balanced approach. A must-read for the serious quantitative analyst."—Marco Avellaneda, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York UniversityTable of ContentsSome Excursions in Option Pricing. Nonlinear PDEs: A Bit of Theory. Examples of Nonlinear Problems in Finance. Early Exercise Problems. Backward Stochastic Differential Equations. The Uncertain Lapse and Mortality Model. The Uncertain Volatility Model. McKean Nonlinear Stochastic Differential Equations. Calibration of Local Stochastic Volatility Models to Market Smiles. Calibration of Local Correlation Models to Market Smiles. Marked Branching Diffusions. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisWith over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centuries in traditional African medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases, Africa remains a minor player in the global natural products market largely due to lack of practical information. This updated and expanded second edition of the Handbook of African Medicinal Plants provides a comprehensive review of more than 2,000 species of plants employed in indigenous African medicine, with full-color photographs and references from over 1,100 publications.The first part of the book contains a catalog of the plants used as ingredients for the preparation of traditional remedies, including their medicinal uses and the parts of the plant used. This is followed by a pharmacognostical profile of 170 of the major herbs, with a brief description of the diagnoTrade Review"This second edition is not a mere reprint of an older classic; it has been thoroughly updated and expanded. …this volume presents a valuable cross-section of the African medicinal flora and useful summaries of largely up-to-date knowledge. All in all, this second edition is a worthy successor to the 1993 edition."—Thomas Brendler, Founder and CEO, Plantaphile; Co-editor, African Herbal Pharmacopoeia, Collingswood, New Jersey, in HerbalGram"Since the first edition was published, much has changed in the fields of ethnobotany and ethnomedicine. In the preface to the second edition of his book, Dr. Iwu acknowledges the enormous body of knowledge that has become available over the last twenty years. He felt that it was critical to add new, relevant information … to review the medicinal plants currently used as phytomedicines that were, for the most part, unknown in 1993.I found Dr. Iwu's Handbook of Major African Medicinal Plants impressively detailed and well presented … . While Dr. Iwu indicates that this is a book for scientists developing new medicines and practitioners of herbal medicine, I suggest that this is a book that should also be read by Western medical doctors who either work or volunteer their services in rural African clinics and hospitals.I commend the time, energy, and knowledge that Dr. Iwu has invested in both editions of his book. This is a truly valuable resource that I hope will be used prolifically and expanded upon."—Patricia Rain, The Vanilla Company"Iwu continues to write elegantly and persuasively about the cultural issues surrounding the integration of Western and traditional African medicine…. Above all, there is a new emphasis on the potential economic impact that the plants of Africa could bring to the continent. Iwu devotes more space to keenly detailing the commercial utilization of native agricultural products. Updated sections on commerce and the creation of value-added products feature prominently in the descriptions of many species. It is undeniably an exceptional and absorbing collection of botanical, ethnomedical, and pharmacological information. It is an efficient collection of botanical information about a diverse and large portion of the earth. Certainly this updated edition would make a rich and interesting manual for a class on African medicinal plants."—John de la Parra, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, Economic BotanyPraise for the First Edition:"The book gives a good description of African medicinal plants and their use within the general African culture …. This is an interesting handbook for phytochemists, pharmacologists, anthropologists, or anyone who is interested in African medicinal plants…. A pioneer work on African medicinal plants…. Our congratulations go to the author and publishers for producing such an interesting book."—Nigist Asfaw and Sebsebe Demissew, The National Herbarium Science Faculty, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Economic Botany, Vol. 48, No. 1, 1994"A vast topic, medicinal plants in the wide expanse of Africa, is well covered in this work. Primarily for medical library collections, but will interest anyone concerned with ethnobotany and African culture."—C.T. Mason, Jr., University of Arizona, as quoted in CHOICE, June 1994Table of ContentsIntroduction. Catalog of Major African Medicinal Plants. Pharmacognostical Profile of Selected Medicinal Plants. Healing and the African Culture. The African Medicine Man. Medicinal Plants and Traditional Healing Methods. Bibliography. Index of Species, Genera, and Families. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is not another how-to guide for program managers or another reiteration of the Project Management Institute's standards for program management. Instead, Program Management Leadership: Creating Successful Team Dynamics examines various leadership approaches and illustrates the value of effective leadership styles in Program Management for achieving program and project success.Identifying critical success factors specific to program management, the book focuses on effective leadership styles and the power of teamwork in exceeding expectations. It starts by examining various leadership styles and traitsproviding helpful insights on the tough choices leaders are often forced to make. It describes effective methods to help leaders work with stakeholders and team members to set visions and objectives so that program goals are achieved with greater frequency.Next, the book further examines teams and explains how to bring people from various experiTable of ContentsIntroduction. Leadership and Program Management. Leadership Study. Developing and Achieving a Common Vision. The History of Project and Program Management. Distinction between Portfolio, Program, and Project Management. Leadership. Introduction to Leadership. External Factors Affecting Leadership. Individual Motivation. Leadership Theories. Leadership in Program Management. Leadership and Teams. Building Teams. Team Dynamics. High-Performing Teams (HPTs). Conflict Resolution. Case Study in Leading Teams. Formal Leadership Processes. Formal Processes.

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Book SynopsisIs it possible to be repetitive and flexibleat the same time? Using proven examples and quantifiable evidence, Lean RFS (Repetitive Flexible Supply): Putting the Pieces Together demonstrates that repetitive flexible supply (RfS) is not only possible, but that its implementation can help you reach a new level of improved performance in manufacturing and across your entire supply chain.Winner of a 2013 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award, this book is unique in that it clearly spells out the theory and practice originally published in the Shingo Prize winner, Breaking Through to Flow, with actual stories of Kimberly-Clark's experience in using them over the years with great success. These stories provide a real feel of how this learning-by-doing journey led to aha! moments for those involved. The book also explains why most planning systems in use today will result in a different plan every time, and Trade ReviewI saw the positive impact that RFS has on people and performance at two previous companies – Wrigley and Bacardi. I have high expectations that we’ll see huge improvements through RFS here, once again. —John Broadbridge, VP of Production, The Carlsberg GroupRFS brought smaller production runs, increased performance, lower stocks and stability that is so important for building a continuous improvement culture. It is being adopted by many affiliates across Philip Morris International with great success.—Krzysztof Stolarek, Manager Production, Philip Morris, Polska S.A.This book is the missing link in many Lean journeys.—Daniel T. Jones, Chairman, Lean Enterprise Academy UKRFS is an important part of a Lean Six Sigma journey and has brought stability for sustainable continuous improvement. RfS and its principles are being used in multiple parts of the supply chain to improve flow and business results.—Kevin Smith, Director, Business Process Transformation, Kraft Foods GroupWhat is remarkable is that so few companies or people have arrived at this understanding of heijunka. I have stumbled across no-one, until you, who has discovered this on their own. I think, as you suggest, more people should be able to understand these concepts.—John Shook CEO, Lean Enterprise Institute USAThe importance of creating schedule stability through green stream RfS logic cannot be overstated – it drives customer service and Supply Chain inventory and cost improvements all at the same time.—Steve Ackroyd, Lean Manager & Six Sigma Coach, 3MTable of ContentsForeword, Introduction: Lean Repetitive flexible Supply—Putting the Pieces Together, About the Authors, 1. Twenty-Five Years at Kimberly-Clark, 2. The Fundamentals of Lean/RfS, 3. How It Can Be, 4. The Lean/RfS Corner Pieces, 5. The Lean/RfS Straight Edges, 6. The Lean/RfS Center Pieces, 7. Putting the Pieces Together, Glossary, Recommended Reading, Appendix A.

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Book SynopsisWhether you are a CEO, CFO, board member, or an IT executive, From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap: A Practical Guide for Executives and Board Members lays out a practical, how-to approach to identifying business strategies and creating value-driven technology roadmaps in your organization. Unlike many other books on the subject, you will not find theories or grandiose ideas here. This book uses numerous examples, illustrations, and case studies to show you how to solve the real-world problems that business executives and technology leaders face on a day-to-day basis.Filled with actionable advice you can use immediately, the authors introduce Agile and the Lean mindset in a manner that the people in your business and technology departments can easily understand. Ideal for executives in both the commercial and nonprofit sectors, it includes two case studies: one about a commercial family business that thrived to become a multi-miTrade ReviewFrom all that I have observed throughout the years, whether as President and CEO of companies or as an industry observer, I know you can only ignore the suggestions of Pham’s book … at your own peril. And it’s a heck of a lot less money than getting this same advice from an expensive team of traditional consultants; it’s faster and easy to implement the ideas in this book; and it will help your company to work more collaboratively and become more innovative.—Mitchell Fox, CEO, WGA Global Marketing, Former Group President, Condé Nast PublicationsAs Co-Chairman of the Board of No Limits Media … and as a former Editor of the Harvard Business Review, I had the great pleasure of reading Tiffany Pham’s book From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap. The book makes a powerful case for the importance of any organization, profit-driven or nonprofit, to deeply connect its strategic thinking with its IT architecture and structure. Pham and her co-authors eloquently lay out their argument in a clear, step-by- step approach that guides the reader through the basics.—Larry Rothstein, PhD, Co-Chairman of the Board, No Limits Media, Former Editor, Harvard Business ReviewI have very much enjoyed reading this new book and found it very realistic with a very logical and practical approach for how to create the necessary alignment between the business and IT organization. In our competitive world where IT can either be a strategic business enabler for competitive agility and advantage or a hindrance to the same, this book provides an easy to understand, yet profound, approach senior management can readily use. I recommend it to all senior management staff, both business and IT, and believe it should be considered as required reading in MBA programs. —Michael Weiner, Strategy Consultant, Revenue Storm; Former Vice President, EDSWhat’s remarkable about Pham’s book is that it offers a detailed and systematic approach that feels completely intuitive. As such, one can learn from the very practical advice here, while preserving those all-important, if nebulous, instincts. From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap feels especially useful because it understands deeply something paramount to artistry: collaboration. … In this book, Pham gets to the heart of both business strategy and IT, such that those with a strategy background can better understand the IT perspective and vice versa. She also provides an efficient, yet comprehensive, primer for the young entrepreneur trying to get a handle on what strategy looks like and how it interfaces with every part of the business. Reading this book at the genesis of my organization would have saved me a lot of time and headaches.—Emily Simoness, Founder and Executive Director, SPACE on Ryder FarmMy volunteer work, coupled with my full-time job on Wall Street, has shown me how organizational goals are helped or hindered by the quality of IT. With From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap, I learned that Pham demonstrates the same interest in these two perspectives—from inside both the commercial enterprise and the nonprofit organization. In this very timely book, Pham and her co-authors lay out a concise, logical, and clear pathway that both business executives and IT leaders can use to intelligently derive an IT roadmap from the organization’s business strategy as well as integrate IT into the fabric of the organization, providing innovative, creative solutions to enhance business operations.—Kiran Rijhsinghani, Chairwoman, New York City Ballet Business & Professional Committee; Vice President, Weiss Multi Strategy AdvisersFaced with much uncertainty and economic challenges, businesses today need to be flexible and able to adapt to changing strategies and federal regulations. IT system design is a reason I hear all too often regarding why we can’t implement a new creative idea, whether it’s due to cost or archaic systems. Looking into the future, this cannot be the excuse anymore; companies need to consider IT design as a top priority and interlace it with their business strategy. This book gives a simple, systematic approach to technology design and business strategy—a must read to understand how to compete in the ever-changing global landscape. It emphasizes the need for business and tech minds to come together to develop optimal solutions, challenging the historic IT stereotype of acting like a silo and resisting large change. From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap presents a simplified approach to moving your enterprise toward success and developing a long-term sustainable strategy and IT foundation.—Stephanie Bartz, Director of Strategic Planning, United HealthcareWhat I like about Pham’s book is that it is easy to read with real examples of business case and business strategy. Likewise, I also like the overall organization of the book, which is very logical and easy to follow. I personally recommend this book to any IT executives who would like—or need—to build an IT or technology roadmap that can more clearly support his or her company’s or nonprofit association’s business strategy.—Adam Warner, IT Management, Education Service Center, Region 10From all that I have observed throughout the years, whether as President and CEO of companies or as an industry observer, I know you can only ignore the suggestions of Pham’s book … at your own peril. And it’s a heck of a lot less money than getting this same advice from an expensive team of traditional consultants; it’s faster and easy to implement the ideas in this book; and it will help your company to work more collaboratively and become more innovative.—Mitchell Fox, CEO, WGA Global Marketing, Former Group President, Condé Nast PublicationsAs Co-Chairman of the Board of No Limits Media … and as a former Editor of the Harvard Business Review, I had the great pleasure of reading Tiffany Pham’s book From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap. The book makes a powerful case for the importance of any organization, profit-driven or nonprofit, to deeply connect its strategic thinking with its IT architecture and structure. Pham and her co-authors eloquently lay out their argument in a clear, step-by- step approach that guides the reader through the basics.—Larry Rothstein, PhD, Co-Chairman of the Board, No Limits Media, Former Editor, Harvard Business ReviewI have very much enjoyed reading this new book and found it very realistic with a very logical and practical approach for how to create the necessary alignment between the business and IT organization. In our competitive world where IT can either be a strategic business enabler for competitive agility and advantage or a hindrance to the same, this book provides an easy to understand, yet profound, approach senior management can readily use. I recommend it to all senior management staff, both business and IT, and believe it should be considered as required reading in MBA programs. —Michael Weiner, Strategy Consultant, Revenue Storm; Former Vice President, EDSWhat’s remarkable about Pham’s book is that it offers a detailed and systematic approach that feels completely intuitive. As such, one can learn from the very practical advice here, while preserving those all-important, if nebulous, instincts. From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap feels especially useful because it understands deeply something paramount to artistry: collaboration. … In this book, Pham gets to the heart of both business strategy and IT, such that those with a strategy background can better understand the IT perspective and vice versa. She also provides an efficient, yet comprehensive, primer for the young entrepreneur trying to get a handle on what strategy looks like and how it interfaces with every part of the business. Reading this book at the genesis of my organization would have saved me a lot of time and headaches.—Emily Simoness, Founder and Executive Director, SPACE on Ryder FarmMy volunteer work, coupled with my full-time job on Wall Street, has shown me how organizational goals are helped or hindered by the quality of IT. With From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap, I learned that Pham demonstrates the same interest in these two perspectives—from inside both the commercial enterprise and the nonprofit organization. In this very timely book, Pham and her co-authors lay out a concise, logical, and clear pathway that both business executives and IT leaders can use to intelligently derive an IT roadmap from the organization’s business strategy as well as integrate IT into the fabric of the organization, providing innovative, creative solutions to enhance business operations.—Kiran Rijhsinghani, Chairwoman, New York City Ballet Business & Professional Committee; Vice President, Weiss Multi Strategy AdvisersFaced with much uncertainty and economic challenges, businesses today need to be flexible and able to adapt to changing strategies and federal regulations. IT system design is a reason I hear all too often regarding why we can’t implement a new creative idea, whether it’s due to cost or archaic systems. Looking into the future, this cannot be the excuse anymore; companies need to consider IT design as a top priority and interlace it with their business strategy. This book gives a simple, systematic approach to technology design and business strategy—a must read to understand how to compete in the ever-changing global landscape. It emphasizes the need for business and tech minds to come together to develop optimal solutions, challenging the historic IT stereotype of acting like a silo and resisting large change. From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap presents a simplified approach to moving your enterprise toward success and developing a long-term sustainable strategy and IT foundation.—Stephanie Bartz, Director of Strategic Planning, United HealthcareWhat I like about Pham’s book is that it is easy to read with real examples of business case and business strategy. Likewise, I also like the overall organization of the book, which is very logical and easy to follow. I personally recommend this book to any IT executives who would like—or need—to build an IT or technology roadmap that can more clearly support his or her company’s or nonprofit association’s business strategy.—Adam Warner, IT Management, Education Service Center, Region 10Table of ContentsA Concise Introduction to Business Strategy: Concepts and Formulation. An Introduction to Lean, Lean and Agile Organization, and Lean and Agile IT. From Business Strategy to IT Roadmap: An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture (EA). From Business Strategy to an Agile and Lean IT Roadmap: the Formulation Process. From IT Roadmap Formulation to Execution. Case Studies.

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If you want to be a successful project manager, you need to become a person of influence. Without influence, there can be no success as a project manager. And, although all key success criteria point to the importance of developing soft skills as a project manager, few books exist about how to develop the power of influence for achieving better project and business results. Filling this need, The Influential Project Manager: Winning Over Team Members and Stakeholders supplies detailed guidance on how to improve your influence skills to achieve better business results. It explains how to set and meet ambitious goals for you, your team, and your stakeholders. The book describes how to listen actively to influence others and details how you can build partnerships that can pay dividends for a lifetime. Each chapter highlights real-world scenarios about a particular subject linked to the influencing skill being covered. Each chapter also includes practica

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Book SynopsisVeteran media executive Penelope Muse Abernathy draws on cutting-edge research and analysis to reveal pathways to transformation and long-term profitability for community newspapers. Offering practical guidance for editors and publishers, Abernathy shows how newspapers can build community online and identify new opportunities to generate revenue.

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Book SynopsisBrazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research as well as textual, visual, and archival sources, Patricia de Santana Pinho investigates African American roots tourism, a complex, poignant kind of travel that provides profound personal and collective meaning for those searching for black identity and heritage. It also provides, as Pinho''s interviews with Brazilian tour guides, state officials, and Afro-Brazilian activists reveal, economic and political rewards that support a structured industry.Pinho traces the origins of roots tourism to the late 1970s, when groups of black intellectuals, artists, and activists found themselves drawn especially to Bahia, the state that in previous centuries had absorbed the largest number of enslaved Africans. African Americans have become frequent travelers across what Pinho calls

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Book SynopsisTracy Mackness has always had a flair for business - if not all of it legal. She started work as a youngster on her dad''s fruit and veg stall in Romford Market in the 1970s, preferring grafting to going to school, but by the time she was a teenager she''d fallen in with a fast crowd and spent much of the next 15 years ducking and diving, and partying. The 1980s was a time of conspicuous excess, and Tracy took bigger and bigger risks - whilst sporting bigger and bigger hair - fraternising with gangsters, gypsies and the Essex criminal underworld. From Essex country clubs to Magaluf, Tracy was there, living it large. It was only when she was sent down for 10 years for conspiracy to supply cannabis, after being caught with ''a lorry load of puff'' at a motorway service station off the M25, that she was able to turn her life around. Despite being banged up with some of the UK''s toughest female prisoners, she proved to be a model inmate, and found her forte working on the prison farm. Nev

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Book SynopsisA poignant and very personal childhood memoir of growing up in Cumbria during the Second World War and into the 1950s, from columnist Hunter Davies Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend, and being captivated by the latest escapade of Dick Barton on the radio. Chocolate might be scarce, and bananas would be a pipe dream, but you could still have fun. In an excellent social memoir from one of the UK's premier columnists over the past five decades, Hunter Davies captures this period beautifully. His memoir of growing up in post-war North of England from 1945 onwards, amid the immense damage wrought by the Second World War, and the drearinessTrade Review‘He recalls his childhood growing up in Scotland and Cumbria in the Forties and Fifties, capturing gritty working-class life with humour and charm and painting a vivid picture of that period of social history’ * Press Association *‘A cheery memoir of the Forties and Fifties… In among the rationing and the bombsites, this is really a love story between Hunter and his wife of 56 years, Margaret Forster, who died earlier this year… What sets this book apart, though, is its avoidance of cliché and its determination to reveal everything that might be revealed’ * Daily Mail *'Ken Loach might have turned all this into a powerful social film, but the avuncular Davies sprinkles in so many cheery anecdotes that the book bounces along enjoyably' * Sunday Times *‘Eighty-year-old Davies takes a delightfully irreverent approach to his account of his youth and his days as a rookie journalist. Food was rationed, clothes were utilitarian and life could be rough, but there was fun to be had from friendships, films, skiffle and girls’ * Sunday Express *‘Davies is a wonderful companion, leading readers down memory lane with great chumminess that will really resonate with those of a certain age. This book deserves a place on the shelf beside Alan Johnson’s This Boy as both are vivid memoirs of post-war Britain and testaments to the strength of women; in Johnson’s case his mother and sister, in Davies’s his mother and wife. Margaret Forster died this year. Her drive and intellect blaze fiercely in this book. A fitting tribute’ * Express *

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Book SynopsisFrom poker to poetry, poisoners to princes, opera to the Oscars, Shakespeare to Olivier, Mozart to Murdoch, Anthony Holden seems to have rolled many writers’ lives into one. Author of 35 books on a ‘crazy’ range of subjects, this cocky Lancashire lad-turned-bohemian citizen of the world has led an apparently charmed life from Merseyside to Buckingham Palace, the White House and beyond. As he turns 70, the award-winning journalist and biographer – grandson of an England footballer, son of a seaside shopkeeper, friend of the famous from Princess Diana to Peter O'Toole, Mick Jagger to Salman Rushdie – spills the beans on showbiz names to literary sophisticates, rock stars to royals as he looks back whimsically and wittily on a richly varied, anecdote- and action-packed career – concluding, in the words of Robert Louis Stevenson, that ‘Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well’.Trade Review'A writer’s life told by a born writer – beautifully observed, brilliantly written, wonderfully evocative. It’s a story of our time – featuring some of the most remarkable characters of our time – funny, moving and telling; a roller-coaster of a good read, at times hilarious, at times heart-breaking. My book of the year.' -- Gyles Brandreth‘Unputdownable … Everything Holden touches, whether Arsenal or Tchaikovsky, he lights up with a fresh eye and zest. I can’t think of a more enjoyable memoir, which is also a portrait of a man of remarkable talents, expressing his own brilliance with politicians in Washington, with the literati in London watering-holes, and pursuing a never-ending affair with Shakespeare.’ -- Melvyn Bragg‘An absolute page turner … A latter-day Laurence Sterne hurtling through a picaresque life of creative adventure. What is truly inspiring is the way Anthony has nourished so many amazing friendships with extraordinary people. This should be read by every young person of ambition to remind them that what lasts is the love of friends and family.’ -- Tina Brown‘What a life! I admired and enjoyed the colossal range of Holden's interests, his energy and delight in the daily business of writing, along with his gift for friendship. And what a rich cast his life embraces, each player so vividly evoked. His prose is deftly turned, with a clear smack of authority, intelligence and wit, of which his very opening sentence is a fine example. His generosity and sweetness of spirit in the face of a sudden, profound affliction touched me deeply. This is a lovely, varied, fizzy life, in which so much was achieved, so much pleasure rendered.’ -- Ian McEwan'I read Holden's book pretty much in one sitting and enjoyed it so much. Those Sunday Times years are still of course the pinnacle of serious journalism, and remain so vivid and amazing in his chapters. But the whole story is so deftly told, and left me marvelling at his energy and multiple talents. The last few years have been tough for him, but even these he writes about with humour and grace.’ -- Alan Rusbridger

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Book Synopsis'An easy and engaging read...Quite often, though, it is eye-opening' Hugo Rifkind, The Times 'Does a valuable job of explaining how Amazon sees itself' Financial TimesAmazon is the business story of the decade. Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines in history. Like a giant squid, Amazon’s tentacles are squeezing industry after industry and, in the process, upsetting the state of technology, the economy, job creation and society at large. So pervasive is Amazon’s impact that business leaders in almost every sector need to understand how this force of nature operates and how they can respond to it. Saying you can ignore Jeff Bezos is equivalent to saying you could ignore Henry Ford or Steve Jobs in the early years of Ford and Apple. Th

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