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    <body><![CDATA[After the disappointing experience with Counterknowledge, I was a little skeptical. Sherry Seethaler, though, does an excellent job writing the book that Counterknowledge could have been. Rather than burning through chapters picking on easy targets, she does the hard work of explaining how the pract...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47815992">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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