24 Best nonfiction books like Turn Your Life Into Art: Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground by Caveat Magister

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Turn Your Life Into Art: Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground

By: Caveat Magister

4.43

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

Over 30 years, San Francisco's underground art scene developed techniques to create magical, imposs…

"If you don't think the tech and marketing worlds have less than six degrees of separation from the San Francisco art underground, then you've never seen them camp together at Burning Man. Sometimes they resent and loathe each other, but they still go to some of the same sex parties."

-Caveat Magister, Turn Your Life Into Art: Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground

"If you don't think the tech and marketing worlds have less than six degrees of separation from the San Francisco art underground, then you've never seen them camp together at Burning Man. Sometimes they resent and loathe each other, but they still go to some of the same sex parties."

-Caveat Magister, Turn Your Life Into Art: Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground

"If you don't think the tech and marketing worlds have less than six degrees of separation from the San Francisco art underground, then you've never seen them camp together at Burning Man. Sometimes they resent and loathe each other, but they still go to some of the same sex parties."

-Caveat Magister, Turn Your Life Into Art: Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground

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1. More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

By: Tatiana Gill , Franklin Veaux , Eve Rickert , None

4.22

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Can you love more than one person? Have multiple romantic partners, without jealousy or cheating? A… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Practicing security means continually turning towards the best version of yourself."

-Tatiana Gill, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

"An omission is a lie when it is calculated to conceal information that, where it known to the other party, would be materially relevant to her."

-Tatiana Gill, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

"All of us have done some very bad things. We've all hurt other people when we thought we were doing the right thing, or at least not a bad thing. We were probably trying to get our own needs met-blin…"

-Tatiana Gill, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

"In truth, she was lying: she was concealing information that, if he know about it, would have changed his assessment of their relationship. When we talk about honesty, we will do so from the position…"

-Tatiana Gill, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

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2. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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3. The Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society by Carrie Galbraith, Kevin Evans, John Law

4. Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society

By: Carrie Galbraith , Kevin Evans , John Law

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

This book will prove to be a template for pranksters, artists, adventurers and anyone interested in… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Arun Gandhi

5. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

By: Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi

4.34

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

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6. The Power of Myth

By: Joseph Campbell , Bill Moyers

4.26

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

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7. The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn , Judson Brewer

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of mindfulness explains why addictions are so ten… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"How we relate to our thoughts and feelings makes all the difference."

-Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

"Until we define happiness for ourselves, clearly seeing the difference between excitement and joy, for example, our habits will likely not change. We will keep returning to the fruits of our desires."

-Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

"The self itself isn't a problem, since remembering who we are when we wake up each morning is very helpful. Instead, the problem is the extent to which we get caught up in the drama of our lives and …"

-Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

"We read stories and see YouTube videos about people who, distracted by their smartphones, walk into traffic and off piers into the ocean. Perhaps not surprisingly, a report in 2013 found that pedest…"

-Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

8. The Course of Love

By: Alain de Botton

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"An engrossing tale that provides plenty of food for thought" (People, Best New Books pick), this p… read more

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9. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.31

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

10. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

By: David Grann

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed New Yorkerwriter and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Gr… read more

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11. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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12. The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

By: Susan Orlean

4.22

Format: 160 pages,

The Orchid Thiefis Susan Orlean's tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered f… read more

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13. True Hallucinations

By: Terence McKenna

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

Like a lovely psychedelic sophist, McKenna recounts his adventures with psychoactive plants in the … read more

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14. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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15. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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16. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

By: Peter Attia

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challeng… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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17. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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18. Four Thousand Weeks

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.22

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

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19. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

By: Johann Hari

4.24

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

Cover of No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz

20. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Cover of Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

21. Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

By: Jessica Fern

4.40

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate se… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

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22. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

Cover of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar

23. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Cover of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

25. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell

3.68

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

26. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

By: Mehrsa Baradaran

4.47

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” ―Ta-Nehisi Co… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Perhaps because the bank was identified with the endeavors of the newly freed negro, wrote historians Kindsor and Sagarin, anyone who dared to raise a cry against the mismanagement was charged with b…"

-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

"The scheme began to unravel following the Panic of 1873 when railroad investments failed. The bank experienced several runs at the height of the panic. The panic would not have affected the bank if i…"

-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Cover of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis

27. Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

By: Luke Burgis

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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28. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

By: David Treuer

4.23

Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A sweeping history—and counter-narr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 by Peter Schjeldahl

29. Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018

By: Peter Schjeldahl

4.41

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings—some long, some short—that taken together forma group po… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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30. Turn Your Life Into Art: Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground

By: Caveat Magister

4.43

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

Over 30 years, San Francisco's underground art scene developed techniques to create magical, imposs… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"If you don't think the tech and marketing worlds have less than six degrees of separation from the San Francisco art underground, then you've never seen them camp together at Burning Man. Sometimes t…"

-Caveat Magister, Turn Your Life Into Art: Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground

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31. The Scene That Became Cities: What Burning Man Philosophy Can Teach Us about Building Better Communities

By: Caveat Magister (Benjamin Wachs)

4.55

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

A practical and irreverent guide to Burning Man, its philosophy, why people do this to themselves, … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction

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