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  Most of all, thank you to my daughter Minna for believing that I could write this book, no matter how despairing I got, and her partner, Kian, for holding my hand through countless late-night computer disasters.

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  ISBN: 978-0-670-08643-6

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  e-ISBN: 978-0-143-43966-0

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