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The Quarantine Atlas

Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19

by Laura Bliss, A Bloomberg CityLab Project ...

The Quarantine Atlas is a poignant and deeply human collection of more than 65 homemade maps created by people around the globe that reveal how the coronavirus pandemic has transformed our physical and emotional worlds, in ways both universal and unique. Along with eight original essays, it is a vivid celebration of wayfinding through a crisis that irrevocably altered the way we experience our ... Read more

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The Quarantine Atlas is a poignant and deeply human collection of more than 65 homemade maps created by people around the globe that reveal how the coronavirus pandemic has transformed our physical and emotional worlds, in ways both universal and unique. Along with eight original essays, it is a vivid celebration of wayfinding through a crisis that irrevocably altered the way we experience our
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Public Value and Public Administration

by John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Laura Bloomberg, John Alford, Jean Hartley, Owen Hughes, Jodi Sandfort, Kathryn Quick0, George Richardson1, David Andersen2, Luis F. Luna-Reyes3, Clive R. Belfield4, Mark Moore5, Jennie Welch6, Heather Rimes7, Barry Bozeman8, Timo Meynhardt9, John Clayton Thomas0, Theodore Poister1, Min Su2, Donald P. Moynihan3, Alexander Kroll4, Anthony M. Cresswell5, Meghan Cook6, Natalie Helbig7, Enrico Guarini8 ...

Series series Public Management and Change series
Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice?This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the contributors focus on the creation, meaning, measurement, and assessment of public value in a world where government, nonprofit organizations, ... Read more

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Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice?This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the contributors focus on the creation, meaning, measurement, and assessment of public value in a world where government, nonprofit organizations,
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A Catalog of Birds

by Laura Harrington ...

Narrated by Josh Bloomberg ...

Unabridged

8 hours 20 min

Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It’s 1970, and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the only survivor when his helicopter is shot down.A wounded Billy returns home to his family in upstate New York, especially to Nell, his adoring younger sister. In ... Read more

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Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It’s 1970, and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the only survivor when his helicopter is shot down.A wounded Billy returns home to his family in upstate New York, especially to Nell, his adoring younger sister. In
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Creating Public Value in Practice

Advancing the Common Good in a Multi-Sector, Shared-Power, No-One-Wholly-in-Charge World

Edited by John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Laura Bloomberg ...

Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
Creating Public Value in Practice: Advancing the Common Good in a Multi-Sector, Shared-Power, No-One-Wholly-in-Charge World brings together a stellar cast of thinkers to explore issues of public and cross-sector decision-making within a framework of democratic civic engagement. It offers an integrative approach to understanding and applying the con ... Read more

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Creating Public Value in Practice: Advancing the Common Good in a Multi-Sector, Shared-Power, No-One-Wholly-in-Charge World brings together a stellar cast of thinkers to explore issues of public and cross-sector decision-making within a framework of democratic civic engagement. It offers an integrative approach to understanding and applying the con
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When the Tamarind Tree Blooms

by Elaine Russell ...

Narrated by Jill Smith ...

Unabridged

12 hours 7 min

Geneviève (Vivi) Dubois, a métisse, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage in Vientiane where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. With only a distant memory of being torn from her mother’s arms at age four, she is determined to uncover what happened to her parents and locate her missing twin brother. But where to start? Orphanage and government officials ... Read more

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Geneviève (Vivi) Dubois, a métisse, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage in Vientiane where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. With only a distant memory of being torn from her mother’s arms at age four, she is determined to uncover what happened to her parents and locate her missing twin brother. But where to start? Orphanage and government officials
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Hell Put to Shame

The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

by Earl Swift ...

Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

Unabridged

12 hours 22 min

""Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20**th** century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective memory."" —Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the ... Read more

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""Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20**th** century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective memory."" —Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the
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The Painter's Apprentice

by Charlotte Betts ...

Narrated by Anne Dover ...

Unabridged

12 hours 28 min

Beth Ambrose has led a sheltered life within Merryfields, her family home on the outskirts of London; a place where her parents provide a sanctuary for melancholic souls. A passionate and gifted artist, Beth shares a close bond with Johannes the painter, who nurtures her talents and takes her on as his apprentice.But as political tensions begin to rise in the capital, Noah Leyton arrives at her ... Read more

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Beth Ambrose has led a sheltered life within Merryfields, her family home on the outskirts of London; a place where her parents provide a sanctuary for melancholic souls. A passionate and gifted artist, Beth shares a close bond with Johannes the painter, who nurtures her talents and takes her on as his apprentice.But as political tensions begin to rise in the capital, Noah Leyton arrives at her
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Lockdown

by Sara Driscoll ...

Narrated by Meghan Kelly ...

Series Audiobook 3 - NYPD Negotiators
Unabridged

9 hours 15 min

It’s every parent’s nightmare—getting a call during the school day from their teenager, huddled in a classroom as the sound of bullets echo in the background. When gunmen invade a Brooklyn school, that nightmare becomes a horrific reality. Talking a suspect into sending his hostages out alive is NYPD Detective Gemma Capello’s specialty. Alerted to a school shooting at her nephew’s high school, she ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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It’s every parent’s nightmare—getting a call during the school day from their teenager, huddled in a classroom as the sound of bullets echo in the background. When gunmen invade a Brooklyn school, that nightmare becomes a horrific reality. Talking a suspect into sending his hostages out alive is NYPD Detective Gemma Capello’s specialty. Alerted to a school shooting at her nephew’s high school, she
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A Novel Disguise

by Samantha Larsen ...

Narrated by Marni Penning ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Lady Librarian Mysteries
Unabridged

9 hours 20 min

1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn’t murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort’s librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah’s missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is discovered ... Read more

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1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn’t murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort’s librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah’s missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is discovered
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The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird

by Louisa Morgan ...

Narrated by Lily Emil Lammers ...

Unabridged

10 hours 39 min

The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird is an unforgettable story of obsession, redemption, and the magic of unexpected friendship, from the acclaimed author of A Secret History of Witches.Beatrice Bird is haunted by ghosts—a gift she's had since she was a small child. Unfortunately, it's an ability that has now grown more intense, shifting from flashes and feelings to physical manifestations she can't escape ... Read more

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The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird is an unforgettable story of obsession, redemption, and the magic of unexpected friendship, from the acclaimed author of A Secret History of Witches.Beatrice Bird is haunted by ghosts—a gift she's had since she was a small child. Unfortunately, it's an ability that has now grown more intense, shifting from flashes and feelings to physical manifestations she can't escape
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Born to Walk

The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act

by Dan Rubinstein ...

The case for getting back on our feetThe humble act of putting one foot in front of the other transcends age, geography, culture, and class, and is one of the most economical and environmentally responsible modes of transit. Yet with our modern fixation on speed, this healthy pedestrian activity has been largely left behind.At a personal and professional crossroads, writer, editor, and obsessive ... Read more

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The case for getting back on our feetThe humble act of putting one foot in front of the other transcends age, geography, culture, and class, and is one of the most economical and environmentally responsible modes of transit. Yet with our modern fixation on speed, this healthy pedestrian activity has been largely left behind.At a personal and professional crossroads, writer, editor, and obsessive
... Read more
Understanding and Managing Public Organizations

by Hal G. Rainey, Sergio Fernandez, Deanna Malatesta ...

Series series Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management
Discover the latest insights in organization theory from a comprehensive and masterful volumeUnderstanding and Managing Public Organizations, 6th Edition provides readers with an authoritative reference for scholars, masters, and doctoral students in public management and public affairs programs in the United States and other nations.The 6th Edition of Understanding and Managing Public ... Read more

$56.00 USD

Discover the latest insights in organization theory from a comprehensive and masterful volumeUnderstanding and Managing Public Organizations, 6th Edition provides readers with an authoritative reference for scholars, masters, and doctoral students in public management and public affairs programs in the United States and other nations.The 6th Edition of Understanding and Managing Public
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