84,49 zł

BORIS JOHNSON TOM BOWER NOWA WYDAWCA

Książki > Literatura piękna, popularna i faktu > Książki biograficzne

BORIS JOHNSON TOM BOWER NOWA Many of us think we know his story well. His ruthless ambition was evident from his insistence, as a three-year-old, that he would one day be 'world king'. Eton and Oxford prepared him well for a frantic career straddling the dog-eat-dog worlds of journalism and politics. His transformation from bumbling stooge on Have I Got New for You to a triumphant Mayor of London was overshadowed only by his colourful personal life, brimming with affairs, scandals and transgressions. His ascent to Number 10 in the wake of the acrimonious, era-defining Brexit referendum would prove to be only the first act in an epic drama that saw him play both hero and villain - from proroguing parliament to his controversial leadership of the Covid-19 Crisis, all against the backdrop of divorce, marriage, the birth of his sixth child, revolts among Tory MPs and the countdown to Brexit. Yet despite his celebrity, decades of media scrutiny, the endless vitriol of his critics and the enduring adoration of his supporters, there is so much we've never understood about Boris - until now. Previous biographies have either dismissed him as a lazy, deceitful opportunist or been transfixed by his charm, wit and drive. Both approaches fall short, and so many questions about Boris remain unanswered. What seismic events of his childhood have evaded scrutiny? How has he so consistently defied the odds, proved his critics wrong, and got away with increasingly reckless gambles? What were his real achievements and failures as Mayor of London, what was really going on during his time as Foreign Secretary, and why did he write two articles for the Telegraph, one in favour of Leave and the other for Remain? How have the women in his life exerted more influence than any of us realise, and why is his story ultimately one overshadowed by family secrets? Based on a wealth of new interviews and research, this is the deepest, most rounded and most comprehensive portrait to date of the man, the mind, the politics, the affairs, the family - of a loner, a lover, a leader. Revelatory, unsettling and compulsively readable, it is the most timely and indispensable book yet from Britain's leading investigative biographer.

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184,34 zł

Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality University of Texas Press

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Once again I repeat that I am not an impartial; objective critic. My judgments are nourished by my ideals, my sentiments, my passions. I have an avowed and resolute ambition: to assist in the creation of Peruvian socialism. I am far removed from the academic techniques of the university. -From the Author's Note Jose Carlos Mariategui was one of the leading South American social philosophers of the early twentieth century. He identified the future of Peru with the welfare of the Indian at a time when similar ideas were beginning to develop in Middle America and the Andean region. Generations of Peruvian and other Latin American social thinkers have been profoundly influenced by his writings. Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (Siete ensayos de interpretacion de la realidad peruana), first published in 1928, is Mariategui's major statement of his position and has gone into many editions, not only in Peru but also in other Latin American countries.The topics discussed in the essays-economic evolution, the problem of the Indian, the land problem, public education, the religious factor, regionalism and centralism, and the literary process-are in many respects as relevant today as when the book was written. Mariategui's thinking was strongly tinged with Marxism. Because contemporary sociology, anthropology, and economics have been influenced by Marxism much more in Latin America than in North America, it is important that North Americans become more aware of Mariategui's position and accord it its proper historical significance. Jorge Basadre, the distinguished Peruvian historian, in an introduction written especially for this translation, provides an account of Mariategui's life and describes the political and intellectual climate in which these essays were written.

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130,90 zł

Genius in the Background - by Tibor Karolyi Nick Aplin (miękka okładka)

Szachy > Postęp szachowy

Wersja językowa książki - angielska.   Genius in the Background  introduces brilliant chess that will be unfamiliar to even well-read chessplayers. Twelve chess stars are profiled with examples of their greatest achievements, but these stars are not famous

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58,49 zł

PATSY CLINE THREE CLASSIC ALBUMS 4 CD NOWA WYDAWCA

Muzyka

PATSY CLINE THREE CLASSIC ALBUMS 4 CD NOWA Czteropłytowe nowe wydawnictwo Reel To Reel przedstawia aż 3 oryginalne klasyczne zremasterowane albumy słynnej amerykańskiej piosenkarki pop i country Patsy Cline. Są to albumy : "Patsy Cline", "Patsy Cline Showcase", "Sentimentally Yours". Dodano także mnóstwo bonusowych nagrań singlowych. Cały materiał zawiera aż 47 utwory i został zremasterowany (Digitally Remastered). Opakowano w gustowny, elegancki, rozkładany digipack. Tracklista:   CD 1 1. Cline, Patsy That Wonderful Someone 2. Cline, Patsy (Write me) In care of the blues 3. Cline, Patsy Hungry for love 4. Cline, Patsy Too many secrets 5. Cline, Patsy Don't ever leave me again 6. Cline, Patsy Ain't No Wheels On This Ship 7. Cline, Patsy I Can't Forget (You) 8. Cline, Patsy I Don't Wanta 9. Cline, Patsy Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray 10. Cline, Patsy Walkin' after midnight 11. Cline, Patsy Fingerprints 12. Cline, Patsy Then you'll know 13. Cline, Patsy I Fall To Pieces 14. Cline, Patsy Foolin' around 15. Cline, Patsy The wayward wind 16. Cline, Patsy South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way) 17. Cline, Patsy I love you so much it hurts 18. Cline, Patsy Seven Lonely Days 19. Cline, Patsy Crazy 20. Cline, Patsy San Antonio Rose 21. Cline, Patsy True love 22. Cline, Patsy Walkin' after midnight 23. Cline, Patsy A poor man's roses (or a rich man's gold) 24. Cline, Patsy Have you ever been lonely (have you ever been blue) CD 2 1. Cline, Patsy She's got you 2. Cline, Patsy Heartaches 3. Cline, Patsy That's my desire 4. Cline, Patsy Your Cheatin' Heart 5. Cline, Patsy Anytime 6. Cline, Patsy You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It) 7. Cline, Patsy Strange 8. Cline, Patsy You belong to me 9. Cline, Patsy You were only fooling (While I was falling in love) 10. Cline, Patsy Half as much 11. Cline, Patsy I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) 12. Cline, Patsy Lonely street 13. Cline, Patsy Shoes CD 3 1. Cline, Patsy Honky Tonk Merry Go-Round 2. Cline, Patsy Turn The Cards Slowly 3. Cline, Patsy A Church, A Courtroom And Then Goodbye 4. Cline, Patsy Hidin' Out 5. Cline, Patsy Stop, Look And Listen 6. Cline, Patsy Try Again 7. Cline, Patsy I Love You Honey 8. Cline, Patsy I've Loved And Lost Again 9. Cline, Patsy Today, Tomorrow And Forever 10. Cline, Patsy A poor man's roses (or a rich man's gold) 11. Cline, Patsy A Stranger In My Arms 12. Cline, Patsy Stop The World (And Let Me Off) 13.  Cline, Patsy Come On In (And Make Yourself At Home) 14. Cline, Patsy I Can See An Angel 15. Cline, Patsy If I Could See The World (Through The Eyes Of A Child) 16. Cline, Patsy Dear God (I Go To Church On A Sunday) 17. Cline, Patsy Walkin' Dream 18.  Cline, Patsy Let the teardrops fall CD 4 1. Cline, Patsy Just Out Of Reach 2. Cline, Patsy Never No More 3. Cline, Patsy He Will Do For You 4. Cline, Patsy I'm Blue Again 5. Cline, Patsy Yes, I Understand 6. Cline, Patsy Gotta Lot Of Rhythm In My Soul 7. Cline, Patsy Cry Not For Me 8. Cline, Patsy Lovesick blues 9. Cline, Patsy Crazy Dreams 10. Cline, Patsy How can I face tomorrow 11. Cline, Patsy There He Goes 12. Cline, Patsy Lovin' in vain 13. Cline, Patsy Who can I count on 14. Cline, Patsy When I get thru with you (you'll love me too) 15. Cline, Patsy So wrong 16. Cline, Patsy Imagine that 17. Cline, Patsy You're stronger than me 18. Cline, Patsy Why can't he be you

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18,70 zł

Spatial development of Polish and Ukrainian Big Cities at the Beginning of the 21st Century Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Wydawnictwa naukowe i popularno-naukoweHistoria Polski 1990Geografia gospodarcza, polityczna, osadnictwa, ludnościHistoria UkrainyGospodarkaSocjologia...

Poland and Ukraine have a centuries-long history of neighbourly relations. There have been various periods in the long coexistence of the two nations, sometimes good and sometimes painful - besides conflicts that are difficult to forget there are many examples of creative cooperation and joint Polish-Ukrainian achievements. The collapse of the communist system and changes on the political map of this part of the world have created new conditions and new opportunities for the development of relations between Poland and Ukraine. Apart from intensifying economic cooperation, commercial exchange and movement of population (not only in the border region), there is a growing scientific and cultural cooperation. Poland's membership in the European Union and NATO on the one hand, and Ukraine's striving for strengthening the ties with the Western world on the other hand make fostering the partnership relations even more important for achievement of convergent strategic political goals serving the best interests of both nations.During the past two decades, starting from the political breakthrough in the early 1990s, both countries have gone a long way towards reinstatement of democracy, self-government and market mechanisms, and recreation of contacts with the world. Today, Poland anci Ukraine arc dtffeTent countries than twenty years ago. Still, much effort is needed from both nations to completely eliminate the economic and social backwardness caused by five decades of 'real socialism', 'socialist democracy' and 'centrally planned economy'.Among major issues that need to be addressed are those relating to spatial development and sustainable socio-economic relations. Large cities are places where concentration of social and economic problems is greatest; at the same time big cities are natural 'growth poles'. The development of large urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas will determine the competitiveness of countries and regions.

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15,10 zł

Mystery of the Yellow Room Wordsworth

Kryminał. Literatura detektywistycznaPowieść zagraniczna

The greatest French detective in his most fiendish case. Even if Hercule Poirot had been born a Frenchman, not a Belgian, he would have to take second place in detection to Joseph Rouletabille, the brilliant young sleuth created by Gaston Leroux.Here, in his first and most baffling case, the eighteen year old reporter astounds readers with his audacity and ingenuity. Who could have tried to murder Mademoiselle Stangerson, beautiful daughter of a famous radium scientist ? And how could they have entered and escaped from a completely locked and watched room ? With the Surete's top sleuth vying against him, Rouletabille is determined to prove only he can solve the case. This classic work of French detective fiction was much admired by Agatha Christie. As a connoisseur of the detective story she said this was 'one of the best'. Others would praise it even more highly than that.The best detective story ever writtenJOHN DICKSON CARRThe most dazzlingly brilliant detective story I have ever readARNOLD BENNETT

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16,80 zł

Mystery of the Yellow Room wordsworth

Kryminał, sensacja, thriller

The greatest French detective in his most fiendish case. Even if Hercule Poirot had been born a Frenchman, not a Belgian, he would have to take second place in detection to Joseph Rouletabille, the brilliant young sleuth created by Gaston Leroux.Here, in his first and most baffling case, the eighteen year old reporter astounds readers with his audacity and ingenuity. Who could have tried to murder Mademoiselle Stangerson, beautiful daughter of a famous radium scientist ? And how could they have entered and escaped from a completely locked and watched room ? With the Surete's top sleuth vying against him, Rouletabille is determined to prove only he can solve the case. This classic work of French detective fiction was much admired by Agatha Christie. As a connoisseur of the detective story she said this was 'one of the best'. Others would praise it even more highly than that.The best detective story ever writtenJOHN DICKSON CARRThe most dazzlingly brilliant detective story I have ever readARNOLD BENNETT...

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51,31 zł

Utterly Impartial History of Britain Transworld Publ. Ltd UK

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at school. Back then 'The Origins of the Industrial Revolution' somehow seemed less compelling than the chance to test the bold claim on Timothy Johnson's 'Shatterproof' ruler. But here at last is a chance to have a good laugh and learn all that stuff you feel you really ought to know by now...In this "Horrible History for Grown Ups" you can read how Anglo-Saxon liberals struggled to be positive about immigration; 'Look I think we have to try and respect the religious customs of our new Viking friends - oi, he's nicked my bloody ox!' Discover how England's peculiar class system was established by some snobby French nobles whose posh descendents still have wine cellars and second homes in the Dordogne today.And explore the complex socio-economic reasons why Britain's kings were the first in Europe to be brought to heel; (because the Stuarts were such a useless bunch of untalented, incompetent, arrogant, upper-class thickoes that Parliament didn't have much choice.)A book about then that is also incisive and illuminating about now, "2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge", is a hilarious, informative and cantankerous journey through Britain' fascinating and bizarre history. As entertaining as a witch burning, and a lot more laughs.

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368,29 zł

Visual Anthropology OmniScriptum

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

This book is an anthology of texts written over a period of more than 10 years as a result of my MA studies in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London between 2003 and 2004. They deal with this young discipline and its multiple interpretations, as well as, in particular, with the relationship between ethnographic film and performance within the audiovisual representation of cultures. They were published, for the most part, previously, in various print and electronic media individually and now I gather them here, because they have received very good reviews and have been widely consulted according to the Academia.edu page; so it seemed a good idea to gather them and give them a chronological continuity.

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104,50 zł

Is Your Move Safe?: Initial and Final Candidate Moves

Szachy > Książki New In Chess

Safety first! Success in chess begins with asking yourself the basic question, #8220;Is the move that I#8217;m considering a safe one?#8221;  The question may sound simple, but answering it is not so simple. National Master and award-winning chess instructor Dan Heisman has carefully selected more than 150 theoretical and tournament positions to show how a move may look safe but isn#8217;t, or how it can appear risky and still be the safest option on the board. Traditional tactics books tell you that your opponent's position is not safe, suggesting that as the player to move in the puzzle you can win material or deliver checkmate.  Is Your Move Safe?  concentrates instead on helping you to make sure that your opponent won#8217;t have any such tactics to find!  Ranging from fairly easy to very difficult, the multiple-choice puzzles in this book will challenge most players from low intermediate to strong master. The answers are not all clear-cut

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201,31 zł

Real Book Hal Leonard Corporation

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed, without any regard to copyright law, or royalties paid to the composers who created these musical masterpieces. Hal Leonard is very proud to present the first legitimate and legal editions of these books ever produced.You won't even notice the difference, other than that all of the notorious errors have been fixed: the covers and typeface look the same, the song list is nearly identical, and the price for our edition is even cheaper than the original! Every conscientious musician will appreciate that these books are now produced accurately and ethically, benefitting the songwriters that we owe for some of the greatest tunes of all time! Includes 400 songs: All Blues * Au Privave * Autumn Leaves * Black Orpheus * Bluesette * Body and Soul * Bright Size Life * Con Alma * Dolphin Dance * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Easy Living * Epistrophy * Falling in Love with Love * Footprints * Four on Six * Giant Steps * Have You Met Miss Jones? * How High the Moon * I'll Remember April * Impressions * Lullaby of Birdland * Misty * My Funny Valentine * Oleo * Red Clay * Satin Doll * Sidewinder * Stella by Starlight * Take Five * There Is No Greater Love * Wave * and hundreds more!

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150,70 zł

Pirc Alert! Revised Updated 2nd Edition: A Complete Defense Against 1.e4

Szachy > Inne wydawnictwa

Every chess player needs a defense he can trust.  Pirc Alert!   gives you a complete repertoire, everything you need to know to defend against White's most popular way of starting the game- 1.e4.  International Grandmasters Alburt and Chernin explain both the winning ideas as well as the theory and movers of the Pirc Defense, a dynamic system used by the world's chess elite.  Additionally, the merits of the Modern Defense, a related opening, are considered in every one of White's variations. Ideal for those who have other demands on their time, the Pirc rewards understanding its ideas over rote memorization.  Pirc Alert! is packed with surprise weapons. It gives you the most thorough explanation of an opening's themes and ideas ever published. Your whole approach to openings will  leap to a new level. You'll win more games and enjoy chess more. Proven educational techniques make it easy for you to read and remember. The most important ideas and positions are set off in color. Lesson previews give you the context, and unique "Memory Markers" lock in what you've learned. And nearly 1000 diagrams often allow you to study without a board. Eight years after the Pirc Alert! was first published, this revised and updated 2nd edition deals with the current theory  and has a no-secret-held-back approach of sharing unplayed theoretical novelties. Grandmaster  Alex Chernin  is a world-championship candidate and the leading theoretician in the Pirc Defense. His ideas have brought the Pirc to the forefront of modern chess theory.Grandmaster  Lev Alburt , three times US Champion, former European Champion, and one of the world's most sought- after chess teachers, draws on his extensive experience to make this book easy to use for all players of all levels. GM Glenn Flear, New In Chess Yearbook: "[A] fun read even if the Pirc isn't your thing (..) For those who seek clarity in their train of thought, as well as thematic ideas and positional themes (rather than confusing labyrinths of variations), this book is for you.  It's a thick book, but not heavy reading at all (..) There is so much packed into the work that it's like two books in one, a 'Pirc Explained' followed by a 'Pirc Repertoire for Black'." John Saunders, British Chess Magazine: "An attractively presented work which includes a lot of ideas and suggestions from the two grandmasters." John Watson, The Week In Chess: "One of the best explanatory books on an opening ever written (..) The superb 'Themes and Ideas' section could be a book in itself; I find it easily the best example I have seen of this idea-based approach." Hans Ree, NRC Handelsblad, January 22, 2010: "Vladimir Kramnik won, against Jan Smeets, his first game [of the Corus 2010 tournament]. The opening book 'Pirc Alert' which he bought at a bookstall the day before the game, put him on the right track."

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142,60 zł

Cameron Hanes,Joe Rogan - Endure St. Martin's Press

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW YORK TIMES AND NATIONAL BESTSELLERPush beyond your physical limits to improve yourself by following bowhunter and ultramarathoner Cameron Hanes's lifelong philosophies and disciplines.

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97,10 zł

Mencken Oxford University Press

Inne 1

People whose opinions I respect have told me, usually with a certain amount of resignation, that culture war is the default state of American politics. The decades of New Deal liberalism, they explain, were not the epochal realignment they appeared to be at the time but merely a temporary armistice in the apparently endless and virtually pointless struggle over manners and morals. What's more, the resumption of cultural hostilities in recent years is just the country's inevitable return to doing what comes naturally. We have simply picked up where we left off in 1929, the theory goes, when other matters distracted us from our habitual preoccupation with the theory of evolution and the scandalous habits of the young. Perhaps this is what explains the publication of the third comprehensive biography of H.L. Mencken in 11 years. If we are truly doomed to fight and refight the culture wars on into the future, then Mencken -- that scoffing, pugnacious enemy of the sacred -- is exactly the critic whose life and views we ought to be remembering. An unbelievably prolific journalist and magazine editor who lived in Baltimore his entire life, Mencken so mocked and punctured the genteel mentality of the Victorians during his heyday (roughly, 1919-30) that it might be said he single-handedly ushered American letters into the 20th century. In the American Mercury, the magazine he co-founded in 1924, Mencken blasted the hyper-patriots, he laughed at the evangelicals, he shamed the racists, he baited the Babbittry, and he did all of it in a swaggering, sarcastic and yet elegant prose style that remains -- or ought to remain, anyway -- the model for every columnist, critic and blog-militant in this famously polarized age. The great man's contemporary relevance, however, is not a point raised by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, the author of this new Mencken biography (she also edited a 1991 collection of his newspaper stories). In fact, the only one of the recent biographers really to press the notion that Mencken is a figure whose time has come (or, more accurately, returned) is Terry Teachout, author of The Skeptic (2002), which asserted that Mencken was politically conservative and that conservatives are in the ascendancy today. The particular species of conservatism that now holds the nation in its grasp, however, owes few debts to Mencken. The man was no fan of what we now call the "red states." On the contrary: He savagely derided the same backwoods civilization that so many conservative writers now embrace in order to establish their regular-guy bona fides. Mencken revered science and lambasted religion; his favorite put-downs, usually applied to the inhabitants of deepest Arkansas or Tennessee, were words like "moron," "idiot" and "yokel." His conservatism was that of Nietzsche, not George Wallace, and one can only speculate wistfully about the kind of destruction he would have visited on such excreta as the Left Behind novels or "The O'Reilly Factor." The immediate problem facing the biographer of Mencken is, ironically, the same quality that makes Mencken such a worthwhile subject: his peerless prose. Any study of the author is bound to disappoint when his own words are cited and the reader suddenly feels the galvanic force of the great man's writing -- and, by comparison, the weakness of the biographer's own abilities. Biographies that focus on the development of Mencken's ideas suffer from this problem even when they are well-written. (They suffer also from the inevitable realization that Mencken's ideas, as opposed to his verbal style, simply do not stand up after 70 years.) Rodgers circumvents this difficulty altogether by giving us Mencken the man, in impressive and often fantastic detail, while keeping the author's writing and ideas largely in the background. Every lead is chased down: The reader learns about what Mencken drank while in Germany during World War I, the testimony he gave in a censorship case in the 1940s, how much affection this person or that felt for him, and, over and over again, the intimate details of his love life. It is a solid and well-researched work, built on dozens of interviews in addition to heroic feats of archival digging. Mencken emerges here as a very different figure from the one we thought we knew from his cranky "Prejudices" books or the sarcastic items he wrote for the American Mercury in its golden age. Rodgers's Mencken is a decent fellow: lovable and almost always in the right. The author's thoroughgoing identification with her subject allows her to create a vivid portrait, but it also makes it difficult for her to show us how shattering Mencken's commentary could be in the early 1920s -- how alien and perverse it seemed to the "100 percent Americans" of those days -- and how monotonous, unfunny and irrelevant it became in the '30s. Any biography of Mencken, though, is ultimately no more than a supplement to the man's own works. Let us hope that this comprehensive study of Mencken's life introduces a new generation of readers to this enemy of falsehood and destroyer of pretense, this man whose response to the absurdity of the culture wars was laughter.

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72,43 zł

Audrey Carlan - Fate WATERHOUSE PR

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Not many can say they were burned by fate. I'm the exception.Scalded figuratively, emotionally, and physically... I have the scars running down my arm, ribs, and side to prove it.The doctors have done what they can to heal me by smoothing the abraded skin using other parts of my body. But they can only do so much. Sometimes, what can't be seen can't be healed.The fire that night took more than a pound of flesh. It obliterated my talent, beauty, and most importantly, seared the connection I had with the man I loved. Sure, it was me who pushed him away, but I had my reasons. I did what any woman would do in my situation. I gave up everything so that one day he'd find happiness and peace.Now I've healed a bit on the outside, and on the inside, but I still crave the one I let go. To this day he looks at me with fire in his eyes, a heat so bright in his being he glows with it. I fear the light, the flames that could consume me whole. The problem now is, he's not mine anymore. I just may have waited too long to fight for him, for us, for a future together.There's only one thing I can do. Let fate decide.

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