WHAT INVESTORS WANT Praise for What Investors Really Want "We all share behavioral traits that are major roadblocks to intelligent financial decisions. Bottom line: if you really want to achieve investment success, understand yourself and eliminate or minimize these traits. This book will help you do exactly that." -- John C. Bogle, Founder, Vanguard Funds "What Investors Really Want enables us to "post mortem" the financial decisions of ourselves and others. The book is extremely valuable for theory, as a survey of how the human animal makes financial decisions, and for the practice of making smarter financial decisions." --Harry M. Markowitz, Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego; winner, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "In investing, we are often our own worst enemies. Meir Statman, an expert in behavioral finance, explains the common errors to which we are prone and helps us make smarter decisions about our investments." --Burton Malkiel, bestelling author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street "A masterly review of the many pitfalls and challenges facing market participants today, written by one of the founders of the field of behavioral finance. This volume should be required reading for all investors and their financial advisors!" --Andrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management "What a gem! Meir Statman is a wise and engaging teacher, and after reading his book, I will be a wiser, better, less anxious investor." --Don Ezra, co-chair, global consulting, Russell Investments, and co-author of Pension Fund Excellence and The Retirement Plan Solution "The first step to good investing is always the same, 'know thyself'. If you read this book and don't recognize a lot of yourself in it, you're just not paying attention!" --Cliff Asness, founding and managing principal, AQR Capital Management LLC "Meir Statman, a leading light of behavioral finance, shines the bright light of modern neuropsychology on all the mental demons that conspire to make you poor. He'll make you laugh, he'll make you cry and, best of all, he'll improve your bottom line." --William Bernstein, bestselling author of The Intelligent Asset Allocator Combining the new field of behavioral finance with the real world of investing, this engaging new book explores the mind-sets and motivations behind the major money decisions--and most common mistakes-that investors make every day. With insider's insight, and a storyteller's voice, behavioral finance expert Meir Statman reveals What Investors Really Want . . . Investors want bigger profits with lower risks. How our desire for free investment lunches can leave us with nolunches Investors want to play and win. How our desire to win the investment game can turn us into losers Investors want to save money for tomorrow and spend it today. How we struggle between spending too much andspending too little Investors want status, respect, and social responsibility. How to know what's really important in life Investors do not want to face financial losses. How to recognize and confront the regret that accompanies losses You'll also learn how age, gender, genetics, and personality affect your investment decisions and how people of different countries and cultures think about risks and returns, poverty, and wealth. You'll discoverhow behavioral finance provides key insights into the behavior that has rocked investment markets in recent years. And, most important, you'll learn to recognize the desires, thoughts, and emotions that drive your own investment decisions--so you can drive better on your road to investment success.

WHAT INVESTORS WANT Praise for What Investors Really Want "We all share behavioral traits that are major roadblocks to intelligent financial decisions. Bottom line: if you really want to achieve investment success, understand yourself and eliminate or minimize these traits. This book will help you do exactly that." -- John C. Bogle, Founder, Vanguard Funds "What Investors Really Want enables us to "post mortem" the financial decisions of ourselves and others. The book is extremely valuable for theory, as a survey of how the human animal makes financial decisions, and for the practice of making smarter financial decisions." --Harry M. Markowitz, Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego; winner, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "In investing, we are often our own worst enemies. Meir Statman, an expert in behavioral finance, explains the common errors to which we are prone and helps us make smarter decisions about our investments." --Burton Malkiel, bestelling author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street "A masterly review of the many pitfalls and challenges facing market participants today, written by one of the founders of the field of behavioral finance. This volume should be required reading for all investors and their financial advisors!" --Andrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management "What a gem! Meir Statman is a wise and engaging teacher, and after reading his book, I will be a wiser, better, less anxious investor." --Don Ezra, co-chair, global consulting, Russell Investments, and co-author of Pension Fund Excellence and The Retirement Plan Solution "The first step to good investing is always the same, 'know thyself'. If you read this book and don't recognize a lot of yourself in it, you're just not paying attention!" --Cliff Asness, founding and managing principal, AQR Capital Management LLC "Meir Statman, a leading light of behavioral finance, shines the bright light of modern neuropsychology on all the mental demons that conspire to make you poor. He'll make you laugh, he'll make you cry and, best of all, he'll improve your bottom line." --William Bernstein, bestselling author of The Intelligent Asset Allocator Combining the new field of behavioral finance with the real world of investing, this engaging new book explores the mind-sets and motivations behind the major money decisions--and most common mistakes-that investors make every day. With insider's insight, and a storyteller's voice, behavioral finance expert Meir Statman reveals What Investors Really Want . . . Investors want bigger profits with lower risks. How our desire for free investment lunches can leave us with nolunches Investors want to play and win. How our desire to win the investment game can turn us into losers Investors want to save money for tomorrow and spend it today. How we struggle between spending too much andspending too little Investors want status, respect, and social responsibility. How to know what's really important in life Investors do not want to face financial losses. How to recognize and confront the regret that accompanies losses You'll also learn how age, gender, genetics, and personality affect your investment decisions and how people of different countries and cultures think about risks and returns, poverty, and wealth. You'll discoverhow behavioral finance provides key insights into the behavior that has rocked investment markets in recent years. And, most important, you'll learn to recognize the desires, thoughts, and emotions that drive your own investment decisions--so you can drive better on your road to investment success.

Perhaps no Indian leader of the mid-nineteenth century was as well known in his time as the great Lakota Sioux Red Cloud. Although his fame later was eclipsed by that of the legendary heroes who crushed Custer's Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn-Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse-Red Cloud's active leadership of his people, and his representation of the Sioux in vital negotiations with the U.S. government, survived the demise of the other leaders by many years. Red Cloud was not born to leadership. He earned it. In his early years he gained a reputation for fierceness as a warrior and as a tactician against both whites and other Indian tribes. And in his middle years, his leadership against the U.S. Army in the Powder River country, his forcing the closure of the Bozeman Trail, and his strong pressure to negotiate the favorable outcome of the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 made him the preeminent chief among the Sioux. In his later years, Red Cloud was an intermediary for his people in their dealings with the U.S. government. Although his motives at times were questioned, he steadfastly resisted encroachments on Sioux land during the reservation period, and he consistently protested the pressure by market oriented whites to impose an agrarian economy on a people who had never farmed. Red Cloud's passionate belief in the values of his culture prevented him from acting as a culture broker; nevertheless, he remained an important figure of the Gilded Age. Imbued with the new social and environmental historiography, this modern biography by Robert W. Larson is a valuable contribution to Sioux history and to our understanding of Indian-white relationships in the nineteenth century as well as political aspects of the Indian-white dialogue. Robert W. Larson is retired as Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux. The Denver Posse of Westerners honored him in 2006 with its Fred A. Rosenstock Award for Lifetime Achievement in Western History. "This book is distinctive among Red Cloud books in that the author has been able to bring into play the long-neglected unpublished autobiography of the Oglala leader, which was not validated until 1994."-Journal of American History "Larson is clearly sympathetic to his subject on most counts, but he dispassionately discusses Red Cloud's shortcomings and cogently explains why the respected chief never garnered the admiration of all Sioux in his lifetime or of today's generations."-Journal of Military History "Robert Larson's highly readable biography captures the reader's attention on the first page and holds it to the end. It is without question the best chronicle of Red Cloud's life ever written." -John Monnett, Metropolitan State College, Denver. "This well-written biography of Red Cloud captures his personality and life within the larger context of the white westward movement and the U.S. military and Indian policy it shaped." -Robert M. Utley, author of Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier. "Robert Larson's Red Cloud is the most complete and compelling biography of the Lakota who was probably the most important tribal leader of the late nineteenth century. Sympathetic without being uncritical, Larson uses important new sources to illuminate both Red Cloud and the tangled world of Indians and whites on the nineteenth-century Great Plains." -Richard White, author of It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West.

The Complete Tales & Novels of Edgar Allan Poe includes the 66 tales and 2 full-length novels of Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Included in this collection: 1. Metzengerstein (1832) 2. The Duc de L'Omelette (1832) 3. A Tale of Jerusalem (1832) 4. Loss of Breath (1832) 5. Bon-Bon (1832) 6. MS. Found in a Bottle (1833) 7. The Assignation (1834) 8. Berenice (1835) 9. Morella (1835) 10. Lionizing (1835) 11. The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835) 12. King Pest (1835) 13. Shadow (1835) 14. Four Beasts in One (1836) 15. Mystification (1837) 16. Silence (1838) 17. Ligeia (1838) 18. How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838) 19. A Predicament (1838) 20. The Devil in the Belfry (1839) 21. The Man That Was Used Up (1839) 22. The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) 23. William Wilson (1839) 24. The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839) 25. Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1840) 26. The Business Man (1840) 27. The Man of the Crowd (1840) 28. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) 29. A Descent into the Maelström (1841) 30. The Island of the Fay (1841) 31. The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841) 32. Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841) 33. Eleonora (1841) 34. Three Sundays in a Week (1841) 35. The Oval Portrait (1842) 36. The Masque of the Red Death (1842) 37. The Landscape Garden (1842) 38. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842/43) 39. The Pit and the Pendulum (1842/43) 40. The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) 41. The Gold-Bug (1843) 42. The Black Cat (1843) 43. Diddling (1843) 44. The Spectacles (1844) 45. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844) 46. The Premature Burial (1844) 47. Mesmeric Revelation (1844) 48. The Oblong Box (1844) 49. The Angel of the Odd (1844) 50. Thou Art the Man (1844) 51. The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844) 52. The Purloined Letter (1844/45) 53. The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845) 54. Some Words with a Mummy (1845) 55. The Power of Words (1845) 56. The Imp of the Perverse (1845) 57. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845) 58. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) 59. The Sphinx (1846) 60. The Cask of Amontillado (1846) 61. The Domain of Arnheim (1847) 62. Mellonta Tauta (1849) 63. Hop-Frog (1849) 64. Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849) 65. X-ing a Paragrab (1849) 66. Landor's Cottage (1849) 67. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837) 68. The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)

Language is Music focuses on making learning foreign languages fun, easy and affordable for anyone with a desire to communicate effectively with people around the world. By applying over 100 simple tips to things you already do, such as listening to music or surfing the Web, you can experience the joy of "fluency" in any language without having to study abroad or spend money on private tutors. In Language is Music, Susanna Zaraysky masterfully shares her listening methods so that anyone can have fun learning any language. With over 100 tips and 100 free or low-cost Internet resources, you will learn how to use daily activities, such as watching T.V. or listening to music; conversation partners; and attendance at cultural events to become a masterful speaker of any tongue. "Learning foreign languages is like learning to sing a song or play music," says self-made linguist Susanna Zaraysky and author of Language is Music. Zaraysky has what you might call "an ear" for languages, having used music to successfully learn English, Russian, French, Spanish, Ladino, Italian, Portuguese, and Serbo-Croatian-all with excellent accents. (Third Edition published in January 2014.) Advance Praise for Language is Music Language is Music is music for the mind! Susanna Zaraysky has crammed this little book with big ideas about how to learn a language, including a multitude of extremely practical tips and applications. As one who has dabbled in many languages and speaks a couple fluently, I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to speak another language. -John Perkins, New York Times Bestselling Author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man "I love it! I think it will help people who want to learn, and those who are curious about additional language learning. Many people want to learn a language but are frightened, or disappointed by the courses they have taken. Reading Language is Music will encourage them to try again, on their own and with friendly supporters." -Dr. Elba Maldonado-Colon, Professor Department of Elementary Education Bilingual Program, San Jose State University "LET IT JUST ROLL OFF YOUR TONGUE. With lyrical insight and solid experience, Susanna Zaraysky, author of Language is Music, provides easy steps for learning a language. Gone are the boring, disconnected strategies that most of us remember from school. You've never learned a language this quickly and easily. Zaraysky's methods embody fun, connection, rhythm, and above all...music." -Suzanne Lettrick, M.Ed Educator and Founder of The Global Education and Action Network "Forget dictionaries and phrase books . . . Susanna Zaraysky's easy-to-use guide to language learning is indispensable for any serious language learner wanting to become fluent--not just conversationally proficient--in another language. Language is Music will teach you how to make language acquisition a part of your daily life, and to recreate the kind of total-immersion environment necessary for fluency. Highly recommended reading for aspiring polyglots. Pick up this book and you too will be all ears!" -Justin Liang, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Marshallese, intermediate Spanish "Back in France, I spent many years learning "academic" English in school. But I progressed much faster when I forced myself to listen to the BBC or not look at the subtitles when watching an American movie. I wish I had Susanna's book with me then. It's full of creative ideas and practical tips that are indispensable complements to the traditional methods of learning foreign languages -- and it's coming from someone you can trust, she speaks so many of them!" -Philippe Levy, French native speaker

“A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life…I’m amazed a novel this good escaped general attention for so long.” —Ian McEwan “One of the great unheralded 20th-century American novels …Almost perfect.” —Bret Easton Ellis “ Stoner is a novel of an ordinary life, an examination of a quiet tragedy, the work of a great but little-known writer.” —Ruth Rendell “A beautiful and moving novel, as sweeping, intimate, and mysterious as life itself.” —Geoff Dyer “I have read few novels as deep and as clear as Stoner. It deserves to be called a quiet classic of American literature.” —Chad Harbach “The most beautiful book in the world.” —Emma Straub "A poignant campus novel from the mid-'60s—an unjustly neglected gem." —Nick Hornby, People “The book begins boldly with a mention of Stoner’s death, and a nod to his profound averageness: ‘Few students remembered him with any sharpness after they had taken his courses.’ By the end, though, Williams has made Stoner’s disappointing life into such a deep and honest portrait, so unsoftened and unromanticized, that it’s quietly breathtaking.”— The Boston Globe “Williams’ descriptions of the experience of reading both elucidate and evince the pleasures of literary language; the ‘minute; strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words’ in which Stoner finds joy are re-enacted in Williams’ own perfect fusion of words.”— n+1 “ Stoner, by John Williams, is a slim novel, and not a particularly joyous one. But it is so quietly beautiful and moving, so precisely constructed, that you want to read it in one sitting and enjoy being in it, altered somehow, as if you have been allowed to wear an exquisitely tailored garment that you don’t want to take off.”— The Globe and Mail “One of the great forgotten novels of the past century. I have bought at least 50 copies of it in the past few years, using it as a gift for friends...The book is so beautifully paced and cadenced that it deserves the status of classic.”—Colum McCann, Top 10 Novels, The Guardian “ Stoner is undeniably a great book, but I can also understand why it isn’t a sentimental favorite in its native land. You could almost describe it as an anti-Gatsby...Part of Stoner’s greatness is that it sees life whole and as it is, without delusion yet without despair...The novel embodies the very virtues it exalts, the same virtues that probably relegate it, like its titular hero, to its perpetual place in the shade. But the book, like professor William Stoner, isn’t out to win popularity contests. It endures, illumined from within.”—Tim Kreider, The New Yorker “It’s simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But it’s one of the most fascinating things that you’ve ever come across.”—Tom Hanks, Time “ Stoner is written in the most plainspoken of styles...Its hero is an obscure academic who endures a series of personal and professional agonies. Yet the novel is utterly riveting, and for one simple reason: because the author, John Williams, treats his characters with such tender and ruthless honesty that we cannot help but love them.”—Steve Almond, Tin House “The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years.”—Stephen Elliott, The Believer “John Williams’s Stoner is something rarer than a great novel—it is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, that it takes your breath away.”— The New York Times Book Review “Williams didn’t write much compared with some novelists, but everything he did was exceedingly fine...it’s a shame that he’s not more often read today...But it’s great that at least two of his novels [ Stoner, Butcher’s Crossing] have found their way back into print.”— The Denver Post “A masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and dedicated man.”— The New Yorker “Why isn’t this book famous...Very few novels in English, or literary productions of any kind, have come anywhere near its level for human wisdom or as a work

The highlights of Pavel's HardStyle Abs program: Why high reps have failed you - and the secret sauce that will have your abs tuned for heavy action all day long and at a moment's notice. Hardstyle breathing- for explosive power and a bullet-proof waist. The Hardstyle Sit-up- to generate an unbelievable contraction for superior results. Internal Isometrics- the lost secret behind the old-time physical culturalists' exceptional abdominal strength and development. The Hardstyle Hanging Leg Raise- the final weapon you must master to channel the power of your every muscle into one devastating surge. My good friend Pavel is the functionally strongest pound for pound man I have ever measured and studied. This validates his approaches-they are not polluted by current trend, political correctness, financial gain or ego. Listen to his wisdom and you will be stronger and wiser. I did, and I am. -Professor Stuart McGill, author of Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance Hardstyle Abs is a terrific resource for making your abdominals harder and stronger than they've ever been. Forget about the high-rep burn, Pavel's techniques will unleash explosive power from your midsection when he uncovers his breathing, sit-up, and internal isometrics secrets. And his Hardstyle hanging leg raise is one of the most challenging and effective strength exercises I've ever used. -Chad Waterbury M.S., author Huge in a Hurry And here's the fuller menu of what you'll get with HardStyle Abs : The 3 best types of ammo to put an end to zombie muscle-and for developing the explosive tone of an elite athletePage 4 Want watery, bloated muscle OR cobra-like, fist-of-fury muscle? Know the difference and make the right choicePage 5 Is THIS popular belief a muscle building-myth that will hinder you in your quest for ripped abs?...Page 6 Discover Eugene Sandow's 3-Rep Recipe for a killer six-packPage 7 Are your snarling abs being smothered by a pillow of fat? THESE 2 strategies will shred the ugly softness to reveal the brutes belowPage 8 How to light up your abs like a Christmas tree-and make a power-packed present to your midsection every day of the yearPage 9 The 4 great benefits of HardStyle breathingPage 12 How to take advantage of the neural connection between HardStyle breathing and dynamic power generationPage 12 How to make your muscles dance like a block party on steroidsPage 13 One method HERE will activate the TVA for solid, protective strength. But THIS other popular method could injure your back big timePage 13 How to safeguard and strengthen THIS vulnerable spot-and see a dramatic increase in training intensityPage 15 THIS is the #1, indispensable breathing method for forging your killer six-packPage 16 Get this wrong and you're wasting effort: discover the exact percent to inhale for maximal muscle tensingPage 19 The 3 keys to perfect resting tension-for more powerful musclePages 19-21 Employ this ancient Karate secret to ramp up your strength not only in the midsection, but in multiple other liftsPage 23 How the patented RKC hip flexor stretch can optimize your ab-power drillsPages 24-27 When and how much to practice your HardStyle breathing to optimize your results in sports or strength trainingPage 28 The HardStyle Sit-up: how to defeat your hip flexors and make your abs rule The traditional sit-up hurts you and gives you pitiful results-find out why they should be fly-over territoryPages 30-31 THIS major improvement to the original Janda Sit-up has been documented to generate significant extra powerPages 32-33 The correct way to protect your back after performing JandasPages 34-35 How to extract maximum muscle tension with the HardStyle Sit-UpPages 36-37 THIS cruel twist will further torture your abs when you have the strength to take it onPage 39 How to add greater elastic springiness to your abs-for a WAY more powerful midsectionPage 40 THIS little-known secret helps elite gymnasts develop their amazing upper body strengthPage 43 How to properly empl

“A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life…I’m amazed a novel this good escaped general attention for so long.” —Ian McEwan “One of the great unheralded 20th-century American novels …Almost perfect.” —Bret Easton Ellis “ Stoner is a novel of an ordinary life, an examination of a quiet tragedy, the work of a great but little-known writer.” —Ruth Rendell “A beautiful and moving novel, as sweeping, intimate, and mysterious as life itself.” —Geoff Dyer “I have read few novels as deep and as clear as Stoner. It deserves to be called a quiet classic of American literature.” —Chad Harbach “The most beautiful book in the world.” —Emma Straub "A poignant campus novel from the mid-'60s—an unjustly neglected gem." —Nick Hornby, People “The book begins boldly with a mention of Stoner’s death, and a nod to his profound averageness: ‘Few students remembered him with any sharpness after they had taken his courses.’ By the end, though, Williams has made Stoner’s disappointing life into such a deep and honest portrait, so unsoftened and unromanticized, that it’s quietly breathtaking.”— The Boston Globe “Williams’ descriptions of the experience of reading both elucidate and evince the pleasures of literary language; the ‘minute; strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words’ in which Stoner finds joy are re-enacted in Williams’ own perfect fusion of words.”— n+1 “ Stoner, by John Williams, is a slim novel, and not a particularly joyous one. But it is so quietly beautiful and moving, so precisely constructed, that you want to read it in one sitting and enjoy being in it, altered somehow, as if you have been allowed to wear an exquisitely tailored garment that you don’t want to take off.”— The Globe and Mail “One of the great forgotten novels of the past century. I have bought at least 50 copies of it in the past few years, using it as a gift for friends...The book is so beautifully paced and cadenced that it deserves the status of classic.”—Colum McCann, Top 10 Novels, The Guardian “ Stoner is undeniably a great book, but I can also understand why it isn’t a sentimental favorite in its native land. You could almost describe it as an anti-Gatsby...Part of Stoner’s greatness is that it sees life whole and as it is, without delusion yet without despair...The novel embodies the very virtues it exalts, the same virtues that probably relegate it, like its titular hero, to its perpetual place in the shade. But the book, like professor William Stoner, isn’t out to win popularity contests. It endures, illumined from within.”—Tim Kreider, The New Yorker “It’s simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But it’s one of the most fascinating things that you’ve ever come across.”—Tom Hanks, Time “ Stoner is written in the most plainspoken of styles...Its hero is an obscure academic who endures a series of personal and professional agonies. Yet the novel is utterly riveting, and for one simple reason: because the author, John Williams, treats his characters with such tender and ruthless honesty that we cannot help but love them.”—Steve Almond, Tin House “The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years.”—Stephen Elliott, The Believer “John Williams’s Stoner is something rarer than a great novel—it is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, that it takes your breath away.”— The New York Times Book Review “Williams didn’t write much compared with some novelists, but everything he did was exceedingly fine...it’s a shame that he’s not more often read today...But it’s great that at least two of his novels [ Stoner, Butcher’s Crossing] have found their way back into print.”— The Denver Post “A masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and dedicated man.”— The New Yorker “Why isn’t this book famous...Very few novels in English, or literary productions of any kind, have come anywhere near its level for human wisdom or as a work

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