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  • Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital by Stavros, Matthew
    Matthew Stavros

    Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital

    Kyoto was Japan's political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it was also among the world's largest cities and, as the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, it was a...
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  • Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent Through History by Rujivacharakul, Vimalin
    Vimalin Rujivacharakul

    Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent Through History

    This collection explores built environments and visual narratives in Asia via cartography, icons and symbols in different historical settings. It grows out of a three-year project focusing on cultural exchange in the making of Asia's boundaries as well as its architectural styles and achievements....
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  • Frank Lloyd Wrights House on Kentuck Knob by Hoffmann, Donald
    Donald Hoffmann

    Frank Lloyd Wrights House on Kentuck Knob

    This is the first thorough guide to the design and history of "Kentuck," a splendid mountain house in southwestern Pennsylvania designed in 1953-1954 by Frank Lloyd Wright. Inspired by Fallingwater, the famous house only seven miles away that Wright designed above the waterfalls of...
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  • The Andrew Low House by Sammons, Tania June
    Tania June Sammons

    The Andrew Low House

    The Andrew Low House was the Savannah, Georgia, marriage home of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, and was visited by the likes of William Makepeace Thackeray and Robert Lee. Built on a trust lot facing Lafayette Square, the house is now...
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  • An Ornament to the City: Old Mobile Ironwork by Sledge, John S.
    John S. Sledge

    An Ornament to the City: Old Mobile Ironwork

    The "iron lace" that graces the businesses, homes, squares, and cemeteries of Mobile, Alabama, is as vital a part of that southern port city as it is of New Orleans, Charleston, and Savannah. Until now, its story has never been fully told. In this...
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  • Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture by Upton, Dell
    Dell Upton

    Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture

    Exploring America's material culture, Common Places reveals the history, culture, and social and class relationships that are the backdrop of the everyday structures and environments of ordinary people. Examining America's houses and cityscapes, its rural outbuildings and landscapes from perspectives including cultural geography, decorative...
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  • Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again by Martin, Reinhold
    Reinhold Martin

    Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again

    Architectural postmodernism had a significant impact on the broader development of postmodern thought: Utopia's Ghost is a critical reconsideration of their relationship. Combining discourse analysis, historical reconstruction, and close readings of buildings, projects, and texts from the 1970s and 1980s, Reinhold Martin argues that...
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  • The New World Dutch Barn: The Evolution, Forms, and Structure of a Disappearing Icon by Fitchen, John
    John Fitchen

    The New World Dutch Barn: The Evolution, Forms, and Structure of a Disappearing Icon

    Gregory D. Huber updates John Fitchen's The New World Dutch Barn with extensive new material. Added to Fitchen's descriptions of barn types, framing style, and exterior appearance is research information that relates to the form, fabric, and essence of each Dutch barn. Huber notes...
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  • Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator by Bernard, Andreas
    Andreas Bernard

    Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator

    Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the early...
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  • Slavery in the City: Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America by Ellis, Clifton
    Clifton Ellis

    Slavery in the City: Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America

    Countering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and that urban areas were immune from its impacts, Slavery in the City is the first volume to deal exclusively with the impact of North American slavery on urban design and city life during...
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  • The Law School at the University of Virginia: Architectural Expansion in the Realm of Thomas Jefferson by Herrington, Philip Mills
    Philip Mills Herrington

    The Law School at the University of Virginia: Architectural Expansion in the Realm of Thomas Jefferson

    As a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a masterwork of Thomas Jefferson, the "Academical Village" at the heart of the University of Virginia has long attracted the attention of visitors and scholars alike. Yet today Jefferson's original structures make up only a small fraction...
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  • Buildings of Vermont by Andres, Glenn M.
    Glenn M. Andres

    Buildings of Vermont

    Most picture Vermont with handsome barns overlooking rolling pastures, white country churches punctuating hillsides of blazing maples, and small villages clustered around gracious greens. While not inaccurate, this image does little justice to the architectural richness of a state that retains so significant a...
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  • Essays in Early American Architectural History: A View from the Chesapeake by Lounsbury, Carl R.
    Carl R. Lounsbury

    Essays in Early American Architectural History: A View from the Chesapeake

    The essays in this collection represent the type of research that has reshaped our understanding of early American architecture over the past thirty years. Carl R. Lounsbury, three-time winner of the prestigious Abbott Lowell Cummings Award offered by the Vernacular Architecture Forum, traces the...
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  • Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston by Morgan, Keith N.
    Keith N. Morgan

    Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston

    This latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' Buildings of the United States series analyzes the architecture, landscape, and planning patterns of the capital of Massachusetts and forty surrounding cities and towns that fan out from Boston Harbor. The term "metropolitan" here emphasizes...
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  • Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite by Mooney, Barbara Burlison
    Barbara Burlison Mooney

    Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite

    In a list of objectives and inquiries meant to guide and make profitable the European travel of two young Americans in 1788, Thomas Jefferson noted, "Architecture is] worth great attention. As we double our numbers ever 20 years we must double our houses.... It...
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  • Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia by Giberti, Bruno
    Bruno Giberti

    Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia

    The 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was not only the United States' first important world's fair, it signaled significant changes in the very shape of knowledge. Quarrels between participants in the exhibition represented a greater conflict as the world transitioned between two...
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  • Ancient Greek Houses and Households: Chronological, Regional, and Social Diversity by Ault, Bradley A.
    Bradley A. Ault

    Ancient Greek Houses and Households: Chronological, Regional, and Social Diversity

    Seeking to expand both the geographical range and the diversity of sites considered in the study of ancient Greek housing, Ancient Greek Houses and Households takes readers beyond well-established studies of the ideal classical house and now-famous structures of Athens and Olynthos. Bradley A....
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  • The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1795-1975 by Little, M. Ruth
    M. Ruth Little

    The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1795-1975

    This lavishly illustrated volume provides a comprehensive view of a unique community that is called by some the "southern part of heaven." Ruth Little tells the story of Chapel Hill's "town" and "gown" from the earliest architecture of the town and campus to the...
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  • From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design by Anker, Peder
    Peder Anker

    From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design

    Global warming and concerns about sustainability recently have pushed ecological design to the forefront of architectural study and debate. As Peder Anker explains in From Bauhaus to Ecohouse, despite claims of novelty, debates about environmentally sensitive architecture have been ongoing for nearly a century....
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  • Burmese Design & Architecture by Falconer, John
    John Falconer

    Burmese Design & Architecture

    With over 500 full-color photographs and expert insights provided by leading archaeological authorities, Burmese Design & Architecture is a must-have for serious connoisseurs of architecture, design or Burma itself. It is the first book to showcase the amazing diversity of architecture, design and art...
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  • Seeking Chicago: The Stories Behind the Architecture of the Windy City-One Building at a Time by Miller, Tom
    Tom Miller

    Seeking Chicago: The Stories Behind the Architecture of the Windy City-One Building at a Time

    Richly detailed and full of engaging stories, this charming guide traces the history of Chicago's unparalleled architecture. Meticulously researched, engagingly presented, and richly detailed, Seeking Chicago is truly a must-read for anyone interested in the story of the Windy City and how it got...
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  • A Portuguese Decorative Tiles: Archaeopteryx by Sabo, Rioletta
    Rioletta Sabo

    A Portuguese Decorative Tiles: Archaeopteryx

    One of the world's great decorative art traditions still in vogue today, brilliantly colored hand-painted tiles have decorated Portuguese buildings for centuries, from the humblest homes to the most lavish palaces, villas, churches, and monasteries. More than 200 full-color illustrations, specially commissioned for this...
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  • Chicago Skyscrapers in Vintage Postcards by Hudson, Leslie
    Leslie Hudson

    Chicago Skyscrapers in Vintage Postcards

    The skyscraper has changed the face of urban architecture--and it all started in Chicago. Born out of the ashes of Chicago's Great Fire of 1871, the first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building located at the northeast corner of LaSalle and Adams Streets, was completed...
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  • Philadelphia's City Hall by Hornblum, Allen M.
    Allen M. Hornblum

    Philadelphia's City Hall

    Stunning photographs highlight a marvel of masonry and community vision created by a city hungry to prove its worth on the world stage.At the crossroads of Center City, Philadelphia, stands city hall, an architectural and sculptural masterpiece whose size and beauty rival the grand...
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  • This Brutal World by Chadwick, Peter
    Peter Chadwick

    This Brutal World

    A curated collection of some of the most powerful and awe-inspiring Brutalist architecture ever builtAuthor: Peter ChadwickISBN-10: 0714871087ISBN-13: 9780714871080Publisher: Phaidon PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/2016Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.70lbsSize: 11.30h x 10.00w x 1.00d
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  • Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Complete Works Volume 3 by Buchanan, Peter
    Peter Buchanan

    Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Complete Works Volume 3

    The publication of the third volume in this series of monographs has marked a watershed in Renzo Piano's (b.1937) career. This celebrates poignantly the completion of Piano's most monumental and extraordinary work, Kansai Airport in Japan, in a dynamic retrospective of his oeuvre to...
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  • The Gothic Revival by Baines, Phil
    Phil Baines

    The Gothic Revival

    At the height of the Victorian period, a passion for the Gothic style swept England and spread far beyond. Gothic architecture, associated with the social and cultural ideals of the Middle Ages, was seen as a means of remaking the modern world. In this...
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  • The History of the Kurdish People: The Survival of the Caucasian (Kew Gazî) Kurds by Mirwaisi, Hamma
    Hamma Mirwaisi

    The History of the Kurdish People: The Survival of the Caucasian (Kew Gazî) Kurds

    Who Are the Kurds? The logical answer to this question from the Aryan language is the word 'Huart, ' which evolved through the Greek's 'Kurt' to 'Kurd.' General Baryaxes of the Medes or ancient Kurds was the first leader of the Kurdish peoples' defense...
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  • Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays by Fu, Xinian
    Xinian Fu

    Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays

    A groundbreaking book by one of the world's leading historians of Chinese architecture Translated by Alexandra Harrer. Fu Xinian is considered by many to be the world's leading historian of Chinese architecture. He is an expert on every type of Chinese architecture from every...
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  • The Aesthetics of Architecture by Scruton, Roger
    Roger Scruton

    The Aesthetics of Architecture

    A landmark account of architectural theory and practice from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton Architecture is distinguished from other art forms by its sense of function, its localized quality, its technique, its public and nonpersonal character, and its continuity with the decorative arts. In this...
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  • Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 by Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh
    Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

    Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946

    In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The "frontier fictions," or the ways...
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  • The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture by Arnold, Dieter
    Dieter Arnold

    The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture

    The definitive reference on the diverse monuments built by the ancient Egyptians across three millennia, this generously illustrated volume surveys the ancient world's most remarkable architecture. Dieter Arnold--a leading expert on Egyptian building and design--includes more than 300 illustrations and 600 alphabetically arranged entries...
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  • Piazza San Marco by Fenlon, Iain
    Iain Fenlon

    Piazza San Marco

    The Piazza San Marco, one of the most famous and instantly recognizable townscapes in the West, if not the world, has been described as a stage set, as Europe's drawing room, as a painter's canvas. This book traces the changing shape and function of...
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  • Architecture of Mughal India by Asher, Catherine B.
    Catherine B. Asher

    Architecture of Mughal India

    This book traces the development and spread of architecture under the Mughal emperors. Professor Asher considers the entire scope of architecture built under the auspices of the imperial Mughals and their subjects. She looks in particular at the role of political and cultural ideology,...
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  • Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World by Pedley, John
    John Pedley

    Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World

    This book explores the variety of ancient Greek sanctuaries--their settings, spaces, shapes, and structures--and the rituals associated with them, such as festivals and processions, sacrifice and libation, dining and drinking, prayer and offering, dance, initiation, consultation, and purification. Subsequent chapters trace the consequences of...
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  • 500 Capp Street: David Ireland's House by Lewallen, Constance M.
    Constance M. Lewallen

    500 Capp Street: David Ireland's House

    500 Capp Street tells the story of David Ireland's house, a rundown Victorian in the Mission District of San Francisco that the artist transformed into an environmental artwork, taking the detritus of his restoration labors as well as objects left behind by previous owners...
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  • Architecture Matters by Betsky, Aaron
    Aaron Betsky

    Architecture Matters

    Architecture matters. It matters to cities, the planet, and human lives. How architects design and what they build has an impact that usually lasts for generations. The more we understand architecture--the deeper we probe the decisions and designs that go into making a building--the...
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  • Vitruvius Scoticus: Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Public Buildings, Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Houses in Scotland by Adam, William
    William Adam

    Vitruvius Scoticus: Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Public Buildings, Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Houses in Scotland

    This classic portfolio uses elevations, floor plans, and other line drawings by Scotland's first great classical architect to document the high Scottish style of the eighteenth century. It was assembled by William Adam (1689-1748), whose sons were the developers of the "Adam style," and...
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  • Victorian City and Country Houses: Plans and Details by Woodward, Geo E.
    Geo E. Woodward

    Victorian City and Country Houses: Plans and Details

    The widespread interest in constructing and restoring Victorian homes makes this a must-have volume for today's builders, homeowners, architects, and preservationists. It offers an abundance of authentic, finely detailed plans and designs for a variety of Victorian residences.Included are 100 front and side elevations,...
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  • A Victorian Housebuilder's Guide: Woodward's National Architect of 1869 by Woodward, George E.
    George E. Woodward

    A Victorian Housebuilder's Guide: Woodward's National Architect of 1869

    Here are detailed drawings, floor plans, elevations, specifications, and vintage cost estimates for twenty distinctive Victorian structures, ranging from a humble cottage to an ornate brick villa. They have been reproduced from a rare 1869 publication of Woodward's National Architect, a publication directed to...
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  • Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company by Stevenson, Katherine Cole
    Katherine Cole Stevenson

    Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company

    It was the American Dream by Mail Order --Smithsonian Americans have ordered from Sears, Roebuck just about everything they have needed for their homes for 100 years--but from 1908 to 1940, some 100,000 people also purchased their houses from this mail-order wizard. Sears ready-to-assemble...
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  • Place, Race, and Story: Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation by Kaufman, Ned
    Ned Kaufman

    Place, Race, and Story: Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation

    In Place, Race, and Story, author Ned Kaufman has collected his own essays dedicated to the proposition of giving the next generation of preservationists not only a foundational knowledge of the field of study, but more ideas on where they can take it. Through...
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  • Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles by Leadon, Fran
    Fran Leadon

    Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles

    In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside it. What was once New Amsterdam became...
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  • Architecture and the Text: The (S)Crypts of Joyce and Piranesi by Bollmer, Jennifer
    Jennifer Bollmer

    Architecture and the Text: The (S)Crypts of Joyce and Piranesi

    In this profoundly original book, Jennifer Bloomer addresses important philosophical questions concerning the relation between writing and architecture. Drawing together two cultural fantasies from different periods-one literary and one architectural-Bloomer uses the allegorical strategies she finds in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to analyze three...
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  • The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions by Quirarte, Jacinto
    Jacinto Quirarte

    The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions

    Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of TexasBuilt to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century...and restored in the twentieth century, the...
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  • Architecture in Texas: 1895-1945 by Henry, Jay C.
    Jay C. Henry

    Architecture in Texas: 1895-1945

    Texas architecture of the twentieth century encompasses a wide range of building styles, from an internationally inspired modernism to the Spanish Colonial Revival that recalls Texas' earliest European heritage. This book is the first comprehensive survey of Texas architecture of the first half of...
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  • Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics by Kahera, Akel Ismail
    Akel Ismail Kahera

    Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics

    From the avant-garde design of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City to the simplicity of the Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the American mosque takes many forms of visual and architectural expression. The absence of a single, authoritative model and...
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  • On Adam's House in Paradise, second edition: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History by Rykwert, Joseph
    Joseph Rykwert

    On Adam's House in Paradise, second edition: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History

    On Adam's House in Paradise "takes off backward through history hunting for Adam's house, the original image. En route, with wry wit and charm, Rykwert singes every generation of architectural theoreticians back to Vitruvius, but he manages to illuminate their efforts and their immolations."--Charles...
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  • The Details of Modern Architecture: Volume 1 by Ford, Edward R.
    Edward R. Ford

    The Details of Modern Architecture: Volume 1

    How did the great architects of this century reconcile their vision of architecture with the realities of building? This is a crucial question that every student of architecture must confront. The Details of Modern Architecture, the first comprehensive analysis of both the technical and...
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  • Perspecta 52: Ensemble by Algie, Charlotte
    Charlotte Algie

    Perspecta 52: Ensemble

    Considering a redefinition of global space.As much as it is a neoclassical compositional principle, the ensemble today is shifting into a new critical focus: it is a central figure in nascent developments in probabilistic mathematics and a critical logic in the development of artificial...
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