Picasso's One-Liners

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Picasso's "one-liners" constitute a small but delightful contribution to the artist's great body of drawings. His preeminence as a draughtsman has long been recognized, but the unique nature of his one-liners has never been fully examined, or collected together in a single volume. Picasso's One-Liners, featuring fifty drawings, offers a fascinating look at this whimsical side of Picasso's work.

Defined simply, one-liners are drawings in which the artist's drawing implement touches the paper and is not lifted until the drawing is finished. Picasso worked this way in a variety of media, including pencil, pen and ink, brush, and crayon and his subjects included harlequins, musicians, circus scenes, and animals. Each drawing is worth careful study, for by following the vibrant line closely, one's eyes take a wonderful rollercoaster ride.

Along with the "one-liner" art are quotes taken from Picasso's writing, giving full flavor to the influence of the art and the man.

Customer Reviews:

Amazon's False Advertising.......2006-02-28

I ordered this from Amazon two months before Christmas as a gift, and was told that it would arrive on time. Amazon later informed me that the book would not arrive until February. When February finally came, they sent an email to say that I would not be receiving the book at all because they could not find a copy of it anywhere.

Amazon is showing this item for sale but does NOT have it available -- don't waste your time ordering from here!

(By the way, the book is absolutely wonderful, as I have been fortunate enough to read through it before; I would give the book itself 5 stars but Amazon 1 star for false advertising. Hence, 4 stars.)

Picasso's lesser known drawings.......2005-06-14

This little book consists of Picasso's pen and ink drawings that he completed with one line (never picking the pen up off of the paper. Matadors, bulls and harlequins are among the subject matter of the drawings. There are occaional quotes interspersed throughout the book. This a cute little book that would make a fun gift for a Picasso fan.

Delightful!.......2001-04-12

This little book is a real joy, and it should have a wide appeal. Seeing what vital fun Picasso can have by putting his pen down on the paper for just one long line is a great way to enter into what drawing and art are all about. In my opinion, this book makes a great gift--though small, it is unlike many "coffee table books" people are always giving, in that the quantity of sheer fun on every page (also through Picasso's verbal one-liners) keeps beckoning you to open it up, the way you might put a favorite CD on the stereo. A great little book full of artistic delight!

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Picasso's One-Liners -
Susan Grace Galassi -
Manufacturer: Artisan Publishing -
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UMX6D6

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From the catwalk to the high-style boutique, the common perception of the fashion industry is glamour and indulgence. Yet there is more than meets the eye in the industry known as the rag trade.

In British Fashion Design, renowned cultural critic Anglea McRobbie explores the tensions between fashion as art form and the demand of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Using interviews and research conducted over numerous years, McRobbie follows the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry and details their attempts to reconcile training with the practical demands of business. Examining the careers of British fashion designers, notably John Galliano and Alexander McQueen, McRobbie analyzes the impact of fashion media in promoting new talent and its potential for job creation.

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Hard Working.......2000-04-14

I never realised that entering fashion industry takes so much hard working, it's not as romantic as I imagined. Excellent book because author interviewed many young designers who works in this field, I enjoy it very much.

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Iron Man faces his most untouchable foe in criminal industrialist Justin Hammer and his literal army of super-villains! But can the Armored Avenger overcome an even more implacable personal demon, invulnerable to technology or wealth? Guest-starring Ant-Man and the Sub-Mariner! Collects Iron Man #120-128.

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Worth it for nostalgia's sake.......2007-09-03

One of the most important moments in Iron Man's history occurs in Demon in a Bottle, which makes it worth picking up for nostalgia's sake if nothing else. While villain Justin Hammer rears his ugly head, Tony "Iron Man" Stark takes on his toughest opponent: alcoholism. While David Michelinie (who's run on the title is the closest thing Iron Man ever had to a definitive writer) attempts to give a powerful/human story here, the issue gets resolved way too quickly for anyone to consider it believable. Not to mention that the book comes off as quite dated thanks to the atrocious dialogue and overall lame conflict and storyline. Despite that though, Demon in a Bottle marks a historic moment in the Iron Man mythos, and the artwork from Bob Layton and John Romita Jr. isn't bad either. All in all, Demon in a Bottle is worth picking up for nostalgia's sake alone for Iron Man fans, but all others should proceed with caution.

A bit dated, but still worth a read.......2007-05-13

I picked this up thinking that it would be all about Tony and his drinking problem. imagine my surpize to find it only happened in the last issue in this collection. Now, I can surmize the point of the issue, but its a real letdown than one would expect.

it gets three stars because even though it was a good read, the real questions that the book clames to tackle ultimately get resolved too quickly to prove lasting.

man v. machine.......2007-04-22

By the time these issues were originally published, Iron Man had been around for nearly 15 years, but for all his popularity-- sharing a book with Captain America in the 1960s, moving to his own title, and playing a major role in the Marvel title The Avengers-- he'd never quite made a mark as a character the way other heroes of the Marvel-verse had. Simply put, he felt more like a concept-- take a James Bond-like playboy named Tony Stark and merge him with the idea of the Knight in Shining Armor-- than a fully-fleshed out idea. It's a neat concept, but one that a long string of very talented writers and artists failed to develop. Even literally giving Iron Man a new heart-- to replace the shrapnel-damaged ticker that had spurred the invention of his life-giving armor in the first place-- failed to pump new blood into the character. He seemed destined to remain a second-tier figure, fun and visually striking, but lacking the pathos of such landmark heroes as Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four.

In 1978, that all changed. Writer/co-plotter David Michelinie and Artist/co-plotter Bob Layton have stated in numerous interviews that they see themselves as craftsmen at the service of the characters, and that they want readers to become absorbed in the storylines, rather than thinking about the creators behind the scenes. Fine, but their own landmark work on this title belies that modesty. Simply put, what was needed was not a new heart, or new armor, or a big-time supervillain, but two artists alert to the possibilities buried within the title, and especially the title character. For all intents and purposes, they re-invented Tony Stark/Iron Man, and gave Marvel a whole new hero to play with.

M&L's solution to the riddle that had bedeviled even Stan Lee was remarkably simple: what if we really took this guy seriously, and tried to tell some realistic stories about him? What if we made him a real character-- funny, fleshed-out, full of strengths and ego and very deep flaws-- and tested his grace under pressure? What if we surrounded him with a top-notch supporting cast? What if we gave him a real girlfriend, instead of the Harlequin robots that had populated the book in the past? What if we really explored what it meant to be a Cold Warrior, to think about the ethics and unforseen consequences of your actions and inventions? In other words, what if we emphasized the "man" in the title, rather than the "iron"?

What resulted was a run of 40 issues (#116-156, although Layton left after #153) that offered a gripping and very human arc, respecting the genre conventions of the superhero tale (the costumes, the action sequences, the patented marvel hero crossovers) while also asking them to grow up. This wasn't new to Marvel, but it was new to Iron Man, and M&L's run on the title heralded a renaissance at a company that had been in a downward creative spiral for the previous half-decade: in the wake of M&L would come Frank Miller's Daredevil, John Byrne and Chris Claremont's X-Men (and Byrne's even-better five-year run on the Fantastic Four), Walt Simonson's mythic look at Thor, and the classic Hobgoblin arc in Spider-Man (it's not a coincidence that these books followed editorial and business-side shake-ups that would lead to better conditions for writers and artists, and draw some of the best talent to the company. After all, treating people like human beings shouldn't only apply to fictional characters).

I emphasize that whole 40-issue arc because some people have complained that the storylines here are wrapped up too quickly and neatly. That's a fair complaint, but I think it's more an effect of the TPB form (which has to end *somewhere*, and gives a sometime-false impression of closure) than the stories themselves-- the issues and ideas raised here continue to be developed after the stories collected in the book. In fact, M&L do such a good job re-inventing the character that they haunt every creative team that followed them on the book, as new writers and artists either choose to emphasize the extremes of Stark's flaws (Denny O'Neill's often fascinating but misguided restaging of Stark's alcoholism in the early 80s is but one example, althoug it's so grippingly done that, for all its problems, it probably deserves its own TPB, too) or ignore M&L's innovations altogether choosing to revert Stark to his crass playboy persona of the 60s (the recent Civil War series is at least an attempt to do something unique with what M&L wrought). In the end, not even M&L could live up to their own legacy-- their much-anticipated return to the title in the mid-80s (partially collected as an "armor wars" TPB) started strong, but was eventually overwhelmed by its action sequences, which didn't flow in and out of their characters as gracefully as their first run had.

Which is why it's great this first run is now collected and back in print. Is it perfect? No. Is it occasionally nostalgic? Sure (check out those disco-era fashions). But none of that eradicates M&L's achievement-- in a genre that sometimes emphasizes mindless mechanical action and macho cliche, they managed to create a brief, shining moment of humanism. And that, in the end, is what superheroes are all about.

Reprinting Iron Man.......2007-02-22

In the age when we lose track of older comics, Marvel has reprinted this classic Iron Man collection (issues 120-128)

The collection is called Demon in a Bottle, however it is really devoloped in one full issue in this collection. The situation of being Alcoholic shirted the Comic Code as Spiderman's Drug issues did, but it does seem rush in hinesight.

The reprint is done on a nice stock of paper, not that gloss cxrap that usually reprints use or the news print like paper stock that DC showcase and some Marvel Archieves uses. The color separation are also good. And one issue does recap ole Shell head's origin

I remember buying this years ago in the same format. David Michelnie's work is the reason to get this collection. I just wish DC and Marvel would stop reprinting stories from the 80 and 90'sd and start raiding the archieves and make affordable rare comics

However, buy this now and save the rush for those getting this when the new Iron man Film comes

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

Nostalgia isn't always a good thing.......2007-02-22

While these stories were printed about 8 years before I began my journey into comics, I quickly worked my way back towards this era through frequent trips to the back issue bins. For some reason I never bought any Iron Man comics from this era, which is odd as I remember many of the covers so distinctly. Bob Layton produced some great Iron Man covers during his run, and I always thought I was missing out on some great comics. Unfortunately, reading this collection has disproved that assumption.

Over the years I've read quite a bit of stuff written by David Michelinie. While none of it has been exceptional, I have enjoyed a large number of the comics he has written. Apparently I was fortunate to avoid his Iron Man work (or this run, at least), as it really isn't very good. The plots (which I believe Bob Layton takes partial credit/blame for) are fairly weak, and the dialog is atrocious (even for the era).

The art is decent, though not great. The panel layout in some of the issues leave a bit to be desired. The fact that some panels need to rely on arrows to point the reader to the next panel indicates some issues with the story telling.

One issue in this run retells Iron Man's origin, which I think really suffers as it is tied so tight to technology. Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk have nearly timeless origins. Iron Man's origin, with his transistor powered armor put together to keep his injured heart beating - really doesn't age well.

The remaining issues aren't any better. The main villain through the run is entirely uninteresting, and the lesser villains he employs are equally bland. My main disappointment was the subplot which the trade paperback was named after - Tony's battle with alcoholism. While there are small hints through 6 issues of Tony drinking, the lion's share of the story is covered in single issue. It is resolved so quickly and cleanly that it could have occurred in a half hour sitcom.

Lastly, I don't always care for Marvel's trade paperback policies. This trade in particular is priced rather steeply for what you get. I appreciate the effort to keep older stuff in print - but I am sure they can do it for less than $3 an issue.

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It is against the law in Brooklyn, New York,
for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.
In Idaho you are not allowed to fish
while sitting on a giraffe.
In California you must not keep slugs as pets.

Yes, it's the law—says so right on the state or city books.

Some of the more ludicrous laws in the history of our country come to light in this very funny and fascinating book for young citizens—citizens who have a special appreciation for the tyranny of stupid rules. Illustrated with wit and irony, this collection brings law to life and will have readers not only laughing but also thinking about their world in a new way.

Chickens May Not Cross The Road and Other Crazy (but true) Laws

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Chickens May Not Cross The Road and Other Crazy (but true) Laws
Kathi Linz
Manufacturer: scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MN9JV6

Chickens May Not Cross the Road and Other Crazy (But True) Laws: and Other Crazy But True Laws

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Chickens May Not Cross the Road and Other Crazy (But True) Laws: and Other Crazy But True Laws
Kathi Linz
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0618809058

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It is against the law in Brooklyn, New York, for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs. In Idaho you are not allowed to fish while sitting on a giraffe. In California you must not keep slugs as pets. Yes, it's the law-says so right on the state or city books. Some of the most ludicrous laws in the history of our country come to light in this funny and fascinating book for young citizens...citizens who have a special appreciation for the tyranny of silly rules.

Customer Reviews:

cool book!.......2004-07-17

what a cool book! I have one and I will keep it forever and look at it every so often. It's very nostalgic flipping the pages and pages of the glamour years and how much things have changed. I wonder if those pants-falling off style would make it to the glamour years for the future generation.

A Fashion Treasure Trove.......2002-11-29

This satisfying compendium of the fashion greats during the golden years of the silver screen will be enjoyed by any fashion buff. With plenty of gorgeous black and white photos, designer bios and trivia about the great screen stars, Those Glorious Glamour Years is a must-have. I probably checked out this book a hundred times at the library as a little girl!

Edward Santizo (edcyborg@aol.com), Los Angeles, CA.......1997-12-18

This is a good book for people that are aspiring to be fashion designers, photographers, actors, or anyone who admires and appreciate the women of the silver screen, for example , Greta Garbo, Vivien Leigh, Ginger Rogers, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, and many more.

Those Glorious Glamour Years Classic Hollywood Costume Design of the 1930's

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Those Glorious Glamour Years Classic Hollywood Costume Design of the 1930's
Margaret J. Bailey
Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JJHC5S

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Excellent book for the music researcher!

Research in Music Education: An Introduction to Systematic Inquiry
Edward L. Rainbow , and Hildegard C. Froehlich
Manufacturer: Schirmer Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0028703200

Customer Reviews:

Excellent book for the music researcher!.......2006-07-14

It is a fantastic book because it deals specifically with music educators. It describes exactly what you need before, during, and after your study. It talks about both surveys and interviews. It gets technical in analyzing surveys at the end, but everything else is very useful. It is the type of text I will refer to over and over.

Research in Music Education: An Introduction to Systematic Inquiry

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Research in Music Education: An Introduction to Systematic Inquiry
Edward L. Rainbow and Hildegard C. Froehlich
Manufacturer: Schirmer Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O95LYC

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Babylon 5: The Minbari Federation is the second in a series of sourcebooks for use with the Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game & Fact Book. This sumptuous 200-page, full-color volume massively expands on the Minbari information presented in the main rulebook. The Minbari Federation features a host of background and rules for Minbari players and Games Masters alike. Drawing from the television series, as well as featuring new material this is the definitive guide to the Minbari Federation.

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“We’re now hip-deep, if not drowning, in the ‘experience economy.‘ Here‘s the smartest book I‘ve read so far that can actually help get your brand to higher ground, fast. And it‘s written by people who not only drew the map, but blazed these trails in the first place.”
–Brian Collins, Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Brand Integration Group

In a market economy characterized by commoditized products and global competition, how do companies gain deep and lasting loyalty from their customers? The key, this book argues, is in providing meaningful customer experiences.

Writing in the tradition of Louis Cheskin, one of the founding fathers of market research, the authors of Making Meaning observe, define, and describe the meaningful customer experience. By consciously evoking certain deeply valued meanings through their products, services, and multidimensional customer experiences, they argue, companies can create more value and achieve lasting strategic advantages over their competitors. A few businesses are already discovering this approach, but until now no one has articulated it in such a persuasive and practical way. Making Meaning not only encourages businesses to adopt an innovation process that’s centered on meaning, it also tells you how. The book outlines a plan of action and describes the attributes of a meaning-centric innovation team. With insightful real-world examples drawn from the Cheskin company's experience and from the authors' observations of the contemporary global market, this book outlines a plan of action and describes the attributes of a meaning-centric innovation team.

Meaningful experiences—as distinct from trivial ones—reinforce or transform the customer’s sense of purpose and significance. The authors’ vision of a world of meaningful consumption is idealistic, but don’t be fooled: this is a straightforward business book with an eye on the ROI. It shows how to bring R&D, design, and marketing together to create deeper and richer experiences for your customers. Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences is an engaging and practical book for business leaders, explaining how their companies can create more meaningful products and services to better achieve their goals.

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""We're now hip-deep, if not drowning, in the 'experience economy.' Here's the smartest book I've read so far that can actually help get your brand to higher ground, fast. And it's written by people who not only drew the map, but blazed these trails in the first place." -Brian Collins, Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Brand Integration Group In a market economy characterized by commoditized products and global competition, how do companies gain deep and lasting loyalty from their customers? The key, this book argues, is in providing meaningful customer experiences. Writing in the tradition of Louis Cheskin, one of the founding fathers of market research, the authors of Making Meaning observe, define, and describe the meaningful customer experience. By consciously evoking certain deeply valued meanings through their products, services, and multidimensional customer experiences, they argue, companies can create more value and achieve lasting strategic advantages over their competitors. A few businesses are already discovering this approach, but until now no one has articulated it in such a persuasive and practical way. Making Meaning not only encourages businesses to adopt an innovation process that's centered on meaning, it also tells you how. The book outlines a plan of action and describes the attributes of a meaning-centric innovation team. With insightful real-world examples drawn from the Cheskin company's experience and from the authors' observations of the contemporary global market, this book outlines a plan of action and describes the attributes of a meaning-centric innovation team. Meaningful experiences-as distinct from trivial ones-reinforce or transform the customer's sense of purpose and significance. The authors' vision of a world of meaningful consumption is idealistic, but don't be fooled: this is a straightforward business book with an eye on the ROI. It shows how to bring R&D, design, and marketing together to create deeper and richer experiences for your customers. Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences is an engaging and practical book for business leaders, explaining how their companies can create more meaningful products and services to better achieve their goals."

Customer Reviews:

A business case for meaning in design.......2006-07-11

If you've been following Nathan Shedroff's work to build a conceptual framework for experience design then you will find this book to be his next step, but with an emphasis on meaningful experiences. The book presents the business strategy and design process. It is of little help directly for actually designing anything and that information wouldn't fit into the same book anyway. Such help only exists by studying ethnography, social and environmental psychology, neurology, product design, and so forth.

Books that I would recommend along with this one are "The Meaning of Things" by Csikszentmihalyi, "The Cultural Animal" by Baumeister, "Emotional Design" by Norman, and whatever product design liturature you can find for your field. If you aren't an ethnographer then you should acquire the basics and there are several books on Amazon to help develop your skills.

While "Making Meaning" is a fine business book and lays out a basic conceptual framework for business, the framework for applied meaning design is not yet developed. For now you will have to figure this out on your own. Designers have stumbled into decent meaning designs in products or adopted existing designs that already have meaning, but if you want to design for a new meaning then you are on your own. The 15 meanings included in this book will help get you started. If you want an excellent example of meaning design I suggest you check the dash of the 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. It is thick with meaning; see if you can find it.

- jim

Important idea, unimpressive narrative.......2006-03-22

This book makes a minor contribution to the literature on customer experience management. Its raison d'etre is that there is potential for "meaning" in customer experience that can be used for competitive advantage. The authors could have demonstrated personal commitment to their theory by better managing the experience of reading their book. It has copious typographical errors and several grammatical errors as well. In addition to that, readers like me who appreciate the visual aspects of a book may be put off by the lack of illustrations. The few included here look like they were drawn on a napkin---not by Picasso. These are not serious obstacles to understanding the "meaning" of this book, but they made me wonder why the authors didn't do a better job of walking their talk. The physical book itself could have been an example of their theory. The ideas in the book are attractive, but could have been helped by a more coherent explanation of key words like "meaning" and "experience." The HOW TO content, which consumes the bulk of the narrative, is not very instructive nor inspiring. On the whole, the same theory is presented more effectively in books like Corporate Religion, by Jesper Kunde; and The Hero And The Outlaw, by Mark and Pearson.

heron preston review.......2006-03-02

loved the book. a great, informative read. as a college student currently studying design+management at parsons, this book made me excited about my future. here are some highlights:

1. Footworks:
In the book, the authors develop a ficticious company, Footworks, which they use to build examples from. This is a cool method to teach because you can watch Footworks grow throughout the progression of the book. You can also visualize how their ideas would really be implemented within a company.

2. Defining Innovation Culture:
They build an innovation team, and speak about every person making up that team. They talk about their importance of creating meaningful experiences, their responsibilities within the company and why they should be on the team. These are some of the people:
Brand Management, Sales Management, Information Tech (IT), Human Resources (HR), CEO, Marketing Management and Research, Design and Development.

3. I think the most important of all is how they really deal with defining "meaning" which is something that took me a couple chapters to really grasp. They speak about how important it is for businesses to really figure out which meaningful experiences their customers value. Then it breaks into delivering that experience which really connects on a personal level making them integrate that experience into their lives. A meaningful experience would be how a vegetarian FEELS when he / she practices vegetarianism.

4. There's psychology involved, which goes past working with products and services into for example, deciding whether the new CEO of your company should be male or female and whether or not they're athletic. "Just as tribes, traditions, and objects brought order and `rightness' to people in previous centuries, a company and it's offerings may now play that role as well by solidifying a relationship at the deepest possible point in the human psyhce and personality. It's a potent place for a company to be".

A powerful way of thinking about design........2006-02-27

As a visual communicator, I found the book thought provoking, stimulating and insightful. It is quite simple to negotiate, and absolutely matches my instinctive but unfocussed thoughts on the topic.
It's really a big idea. The thoughts and processes encapsulated here are bound to become the norm in terms of research. It's a natural.

Making Meaning.......2006-02-13

This book is a great resource for anyone working in marketing or research. Learning how to communicate with consumers in a meaningful way is the key to earning both their respect and their business. The authors' years of experience is synthesized into a concise and practical guide to creating meaningful experiences for consumers, including many specific examples of how "making meaning" actually works. Their suggestions will help to elevate brands to new levels in the eyes of customers.

Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences

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Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences
STEVE SHEDROFF, NATHAN RHEA, DARREL DILLER
Manufacturer: New Riders Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUJW3W

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