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		<title>Catlopaedia &#8211; A Complete Guide to Cat Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>frangliz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[J.M. Evans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kay White]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cats can be such independent pets, yet they are bound to need proper care just like any other living creature, especially now that they seem to be living longer lives. Nearly ten years ago I adopted a sixteen-year-old cat when I moved into her house, and she lived for another four years. When I eventually had to have her put to sleep, I was horrified to be told by the vet that one of her kidneys was only the size of a baked bean. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Ingenius</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/health-mind-and-body/8591/ingenius</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian parent spends more and more time racking his or her brain as to how the child’s grades can be improved.Unleashing Genius A Book on Learning Miracles for Children of all Ages Dilip Mukerjea With marks getting impossibly high in the school system and so much riding on them, it is of course imperative that children be given some sort of brain headstart in the exams race. Aside from brain enhancers like almonds, there are always exercises that help enhance the mind and the memory through various time tested tricks. That’s where Dilip Mukerjea’s set of books come in, published at an invaluable time as far as the Indian school system is concerned. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Paranormality</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/science-and-nature/8556/paranormality-professor-richard-wiseman</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Professor Richard Wiseman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The paranormal is a subject with seemingly limitless fascination for us, and in which people continue to hold as part of their belief systems. A Gallup poll taken in 2005 indicated that 30% of people believed in ghosts and 15% claimed to have seen one. Another survey taken in 2008 had 58% of respondents stating they believed in the supernatural – more than believed in God (54%). Professor Richard Wiseman states in his latest book that between 40% and 50% of people in the UK (and between 80% and 90% in the US) claim to have had some sort of paranormal experience. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Saving The World’s Wildlife</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/science-and-nature/7064/saving-the-world%e2%80%99s-wildlife-wwf-%e2%80%93-the-first-50-years-alexis-schwarzenbach</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 13:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saving The World’s Wildlife: WWF – The First 50 Years by Alexis Schwarzenbach is, rather unsurprisingly, the story of the formation and first five decades of one of the worlds foremost conservation organisations, the World Wide Fund for Nature (or World Wildlife Fund as it started out in the 1960s). The WWF is one of those organisations which is recognised globally by millions, thanks to its iconic panda logo. It is something I have been aware for as long as I can remember – when I was a child, maybe around 5 years old, I collected all the stickers in a WWF sticker album which taught me about the animals of the world and the dangers they face. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Vet: My Wild and Wonderful Friends</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/science-and-nature/6986/the-vet-my-wild-and-wonderful-friends-luke-gamble</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 11:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autobiography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Luke Gamble]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was offered the chance to read and review The Vet: My Wild and Wonderful Friends by Luke Gamble, billed as a 21st century James Herriot, I thought it was my lucky day. Treatment and technology may have advanced, but animals haven’t changed so surely there would be more hilarity to be had from this new book.

Gamble, I should point out, may be a familiar face to you – he has fronted some TV series about his work and his charity, Worldwide Veterinary Services (WVS). I hadn’t seen any of his shows, but I was vaguely aware of him. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Complete Thyroid Book</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/health-mind-and-body/6935/the-complete-thyroid-book-kenneth-ain-m-sara-rosenthal</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 09:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health, mind and body]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Ain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M. Sara Rosenthal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Complete Thyroid Book has some drawbacks, the most significant of which is that it's American and much of the information on treatment doesn't cross the Atlantic without problems. Treatment regimes differ but the authors try to address differences that they are aware of where possible. By being so broad in it's coverage it inevitably contains a lot of info and not all of it will be relevant to any reader, regardless of their condition but I think that's entirely forgiveable and understandable. I believe that the benefits of the book outweigh any geographic limitations many times over. It's clear, non-patronising, informative and the authors are not afraid to stand up for what they believe and to knock down what they consider to be dangerous falsehoods. After a couple of evenings reading this I didn't come across a lot that I didn't already know about but I did have many things straightened out for me and I was happy to see medical professionals confirming what I'd read elsewhere and debunking some of the loony-tunes ideas I'd seen online. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Decision Book</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/health-mind-and-body/6855/the-decision-book-fifty-models-for-strategic-thinking-mikael-krogerus-roman-tschappeler</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health, mind and body]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mikael Krogerus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Tschappeler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We will be publishing series of decision making thought processes our koshkha was going through with the help of The Decision Book.

Today we start with very general thoughts on everyday decisions but be ready fro more specific ones in the coming days...
Friday, April 29th
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

The best decisions make themselves. When faced with an array of options sometimes your heart steps in and tells you to just get on with it. Such was the situation when I met my husband. I’ve always been a pretty impulsive sort of person; I chose the first house I bought on nothing more than gut instinct, shared my life for 17 years with two rescue cats who sold themselves to me without the need to consider the dozens of others in the rescue centre, and my husband and I didn’t really need to make a decision about getting married. We met on a Monday and by Thursday it was just assumed that we’d be together forever. No decision making models needed, no matrices of 4 or 9 boxes, just a simple case of absolutely obvious that it was the right thing to do. And so just five months and one day after we met we got married. People ask how it was so simple and straightforward and it was because neither of us interfered with the decisions of the others. If I wanted sunflowers for a March wedding, he went to get them. If he wanted his friend’s wife to make the cake, I was fine with that. The secret to getting along is knowing what matters and more importantly what isn’t worth worrying or arguing about.
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		<title>The New North: The World in 2050</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/science-and-nature/6108/the-new-north-laurence-smith</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>collingwood21</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laurence Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“The New North: The World in 2050” by Laurence Smith is a good bet to turn out to be the best geography book of the year. If you feel underwhelmed by that statement, then you are probably not alone. Geography is a subject that has suffered greatly over recent years with an image problem; it is often seen as a fuddy-duddy subject taught by dull old men in tweed jackets and really of no great consequence. If you Google “geography popularity” you will see scores of press articles lamenting the decline of this subject in schools and universities across the Western world, and there was apparently even a government task force assigned to this very issue back in 2006. 
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		<title>Sleights of Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/science-and-nature/5923/sleights-of-mind-stephen-macknik-susana-martinez-conde</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>collingwood21</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Macknik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susana Martinez-Conde]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, the BBC screened an episode of Horizon called “Is Seeing Believing?”, which explored optical illusions and how they work in our minds (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vhw1d). These illusions revealed many loopholes, short-cuts and inconsistencies in the way we perceive the world, which the designers of the tricks had mercilessly exploited in order to create something that simply shouldn’t be possible. This not only showed that these tricks could be interesting way to explore our psychology, but also that the people who designed the tricks seemed to know more about the way our minds worked than the psychologists who studied them. The programme fascinated me, and so I couldn’t wait to get stuck into Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde’s new book “Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about our Brains”, which is built around a similar principle.
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		<title>Mapping Malignancy</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/health-mind-and-body/5871/the-emperor-of-all-maladies-siddhartha-mukherjee</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health, mind and body]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Siddhartha Mukherjee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a haematologist’s daughter, the terms ‘leukemia’ and ‘remission’ floated fairly frequently through the house. I didn’t quite understand them to begin with except that there were frequent phone calls, stories of children who had come to be examined at the Institute and the haunting tale of a patient who had been told by a  psychic that everything would be all right who stopped all treatment despite protests from my father and who finally died, so presumably he was ‘all right’ in the sense that he was free from all physical ills. Later, without being asked, I heard stories about bone marrow transplants and spine taps and how painful it was for children. Leukemia, I gathered was an incurable ill that could only be fought with whatever tools there were at hand while researchers frantically sought to evolve a cure.
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		<title>Obliquity</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/essays/5682/obliquity-john-kay</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>collingwood21</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Kay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was presented with a copy of John Kay’s book Obliquity, my heart sank just a little at seeing the words “goals” and “achieved” used in the same sentence on the front cover. Books that use these sorts of words are usually dull, prescriptive and....well, the sort of books that Kay goes to considerable length to tell you are not in slightest bit helpful. Why? Because they are too direct to work in an uncertain world such as ours.
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		<title>Irrational Logistics</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/health-mind-and-body/5244/the-upside-of-irrationality-dan-ariely</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/health-mind-and-body/5244/the-upside-of-irrationality-dan-ariely#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health, mind and body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Ariely]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Ariely's The Upside of Irrationality is a summary of the behavioural patterns that he has been studying over the years. The book is a follow up to his Predictably Irrational, which was a runaway success when it came out, and  The Upside of Irrationality shows every sign of following in its footsteps. What it is is a study of the irrational way in which people behave in a manner that goes against their best interests. The book tries to change the "rational consumer" principal into advice on how to lead a better life and it is fairly successful in this endeavour. However, some of what Ariely points out as habitually irrational behavior cannot be changed despite out best efforts to do so, which is why ‘fairly successful;’ best describes Ariely’s work.
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		<title>The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/politics/5062/the-squeeze-oil-money-and-greed-in-the-21st-century-tom-bower</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Bower]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century by Tom Bower is detailed account of the activities of the oil industry, with particular focus on the oil majors, during the later part of the 20th century, and into the 21st century. With unprecedented access to sources within Big Oil and around the industry, Bower has constructed a detailed and action packed account of a necessary but disliked industry.

The Squeeze has a heavy focus on the oil majors, such as BP, Exxon, Shell, Chevron and Mobil, but also looks at the smaller companies, service companies trader which surround the oil majors, generally known as Big Oil.
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		<title>Nikon D40/D40x Digital Field Guide</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/science-and-nature/4925/nikon-d40d40x-digital-field-guide-david-d-busch</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>frangliz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science and nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport and leisure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David D. Busch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The instruction manuals that are provided with cameras do not usually go into a great deal of detail. Spending a few extra pounds on a comprehensive guide book for a particular model of camera seems like a good investment. For the owner of a Nikon D40 or D40X digital single-lens reflex camera, David Busch's Digital Field Guide is an excellent choice.

After a 'Quick Tour' explaining how to shoot your first picture, review your pictures, correct the exposure and transfer images to a computer, the guide is split into two main sections. Part I is entitled 'Using the Nikon D40/D40X' and covers three chapters: Exploring the Nikon D40/D40X, Nikon D40/D40X Essentials, and Setting Up Nikon D40/D40X.
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		<title>Banking on the Move</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/science-and-nature/4792/the-march-of-mobile-money-sam-pitroda-and-mehul-desai</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting at his table in Chicago one day, Sam Pitroda watched his wife Anu go through her diary looking for vital credit card details. That was when it occurred to him that a digital form of the diary might be easier to deal with and he began to create one. But then the thought extended to how life would be if one could travel with an empty digital wallet to which banks could beam images of credit cards and these could then be flashed to retailers’ computer screens during transactions.
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		<title>A Field Guide to Demons, Vampires, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/science-and-nature/4661/a-field-guide-to-demons-vampires-fallen-angels-and-other-subversive-spirits-by-carol-k-mack-and-dinah-mack</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine, if you will, that one day you are out walking in the Highlands of Scotland, generally minding your own business and bothering no one. As you stroll along a river bank, you suddenly find yourself approached by a handsome black horse, who tries to persuade you to climb on its back and go for ride. The thought of riding such a magnificent beast is tempting, but you think that a horse that can construct a persuasive argument is a suspicious thing, and you decline. The horse, however, is not one to take no for an answer and you start to get worried. What do you do?
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		<title>Cheap at the Price</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/science-and-nature/4616/small-wonder-the-making-of-the-nano</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philip Chacko]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bengal’s relationship with the Nano has been an uneasy one ever since the days of the Singur agitation. The State’s sudden game of political dominoes forced Ratan Tata to order a plant that was almost set up to be removed piece by piece to Gujarat and set back production of the world’s first people’s car by several months. The Nano inspired hate mail, adulation and disbelief and it was obvious from the first that its case history deserved a book. Philip Chacko, Christabelle Noronha and Sujata Agrawal’s account is the Tata authorized version, a neat page turner that presents the facts and provides snippets of interesting trivia.]]></description>
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		<title>Life, The Universe and Everything</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/science-and-nature/2512/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-bill-bryson</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted you could make it. Getting here wasn’t easy, I know&#8230;.Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favoured evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely – make that miraculously – fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider that for 3.8 billion years&#8230;every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Snow Tourist</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/history/1228/the-snow-tourist</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book “The Snow Tourist”, journalist Charlie English presents a series of separate but related travelogues looking at snow from a number of interesting perspectives. Subtitled “A Search for the World’s Purest, Deepest Snowfall” the book covers a variety of aspects such as how an American enthusiast discovered that no two snowflakes are alike, [...]]]></description>
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