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There is a link on the records main page that leads to another database that has the article, or there is a simple download pdf link right on the records page. Triple crown winner first edition by baerlein, richard isbn. There is definitely a connection between these texts, as the ideas of laozi flow through both the wenzi and the liezi. Subsequent to his defection, he wrote several books dealing with the soviet armed forces and his career as a soviet gru glavnoye razvedyvatilnoye upravleniye or military intelligence officer.
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