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The Little Guide to Writing for Impact

How to Communicate Research in a Way that People Will Read

by Katherine Barrett, Richard Greene, Donald F. Kettl ...

Everyone who writes in the world of public affairs wants to make arguments that will move readers and shape policy. That world, however, is busy and noisy, and even the best ideas often get squeezed out in the frenetic pace of policy debates. No author wants that to happen to their hard work.In this fresh and lively book, Barrett, Greene, and Kettl combine more than a century of experience in ... Read more

$18.79 USD

Everyone who writes in the world of public affairs wants to make arguments that will move readers and shape policy. That world, however, is busy and noisy, and even the best ideas often get squeezed out in the frenetic pace of policy debates. No author wants that to happen to their hard work.In this fresh and lively book, Barrett, Greene, and Kettl combine more than a century of experience in
... Read more
Making Government Work

The Promises and Pitfalls of Performance-Informed Management, Volume 1

by Katherine Barrett, Richard Greene ...

Series series Making Government Work
In this book, Barrett and Greene present evolving theories of performance management, the practices necessary for a good performance-based government, and the pitfalls that can easily be encountered along the way—andhow to avoid them.As performance management has evolved, it has encompassed many different tools and approaches including measurement, data analysis, evidence-based management, process ... Read more

$28.19 USD

In this book, Barrett and Greene present evolving theories of performance management, the practices necessary for a good performance-based government, and the pitfalls that can easily be encountered along the way—andhow to avoid them.As performance management has evolved, it has encompassed many different tools and approaches including measurement, data analysis, evidence-based management, process
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The Collected Works of Romain Rolland. Illustrated

Jean-Christophe, Colas Breugnon, Pierre and Luce and others

by Romain Rolland ...

Translated by Gilbert Cannan, Ben Ray Redman, Eleanor Stimson, Wyck Brooks, Katherine Miller, Charles de Kay, Barrett H. Clark, Clementina Black ...

Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".He was a leading supporter of Josef Stalin in France and is also noted for his correspondence with ... Read more

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Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".He was a leading supporter of Josef Stalin in France and is also noted for his correspondence with
... Read more
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Voice Message

by Katherine Barrett Swett ...

Narrated by Katherine Barrett Swett ...

Series series Donald Justice Poetry Prize
Unabridged

42 min

Voice Message explores through villanelles, sonnets, quatrains, and even free verse the consolation and devastation that art and poetry offer.In her debut collection, Swett engages the art of Vermeer to guide and contextualize the pain of losing a child, exploring how can art offer motivation, comfort, and release. In these poems, there is tenderness for our vulnerable earth as well as for our ... Read more

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Voice Message explores through villanelles, sonnets, quatrains, and even free verse the consolation and devastation that art and poetry offer.In her debut collection, Swett engages the art of Vermeer to guide and contextualize the pain of losing a child, exploring how can art offer motivation, comfort, and release. In these poems, there is tenderness for our vulnerable earth as well as for our
... Read more

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Secret Histories

A New Era in Constance Fenimore Woolson Scholarship

by Lisa West, Etta Madden, Kristin M. Comment, Susan L. Roberson, Sidonia Serafini, Aaron J. Rovan, Kathryn McKee, Karen Tracey, John Lowe, Lisa Nais, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Katherine Barrett Swett, Heather Hartley, Edoarda Grego ...

The eighteen essays in this volume explore Constance Fenimore Woolson’s prodigious range in period and genre as well as place, from the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean. The whole of her professional life comes alive in this enlightening collection’s triptych.The first section, “A Writer’s Experiments,” reveals that Woolson’s play with familiar ... Read more

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The eighteen essays in this volume explore Constance Fenimore Woolson’s prodigious range in period and genre as well as place, from the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean. The whole of her professional life comes alive in this enlightening collection’s triptych.The first section, “A Writer’s Experiments,” reveals that Woolson’s play with familiar
... Read more
Voice Message

by Katherine Barrett Swett ...

Series series Donald Justice Poetry Prize
Voice Message explores through villanelles, sonnets, quatrains, and even free verse the consolation and devastation that art and poetry offer.In her debut collection, Swett engages the art of Vermeer to guide and contextualize the pain of losing a child, exploring how can art offer motivation, comfort, and release. In these poems, there is tenderness for our vulnerable earth as well as for our ... Read more

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Voice Message explores through villanelles, sonnets, quatrains, and even free verse the consolation and devastation that art and poetry offer.In her debut collection, Swett engages the art of Vermeer to guide and contextualize the pain of losing a child, exploring how can art offer motivation, comfort, and release. In these poems, there is tenderness for our vulnerable earth as well as for our
... Read more

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Top 10 Poets, The - Oxford University

Five poems each from the best poets to attend Oxford university

by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Matthew Arnold, A E Housman, Michael Drayton, Robert Southey, Robert Seymour Bridges, Lewis Carroll, Katherine Lee Bates ...

Narrated by Sean Barrett, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
... Read more
Gender in a Transitional Era

Changes and Challenges

by Amanda R. Martinez, Lucy J. Miller, Ashley K. Barrett, Ryan Castillo, Katherine J. Denker, Debbie S. Dougherty, Elizabeth Fish Hatfield, Art Herbig, Kendra Knight0, Brittney D. Lee1, Ashley N. Mack2, Krista McQueeney3, David W. Schlueter4, Jillian A. Tullis5, Lynne M. Webb6, Benjamin Wiedmaier7, Margaret M. Quinlan8, Leland G. Spencer9 ...

Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a ways to go toward full gender equality in all spheres of life. This collection positions marginal voices at the center of complex ... Read more

$55.09 USD

Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a ways to go toward full gender equality in all spheres of life. This collection positions marginal voices at the center of complex
... Read more
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The Bus on Thursday

A Novel

by Shirley Barrett ...

Narrated by Katherine Littrell ...

Unabridged

5 hours 41 min

The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett is a darkly humorous audiobook about one woman’s post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her.It wasn’t just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett’s life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that came with it.One day she felt a bit of a bump when she was scratching her armpit at work. The next thing she knew ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett is a darkly humorous audiobook about one woman’s post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her.It wasn’t just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett’s life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that came with it.One day she felt a bit of a bump when she was scratching her armpit at work. The next thing she knew
... Read more

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My Exaggerated Life

Pat Conroy

by Katherine Clark ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett, Wendy Tremont King ...

Unabridged

12 hours 28 min

Pat Conroy's memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn't revealed to readers—until now. My Exaggerated Life is the product of a special collaboration between this great American author and oral biographer Katherine Clark, who recorded two hundred hours of conversations with Conroy before he passed away in 2016. In the spring and summer of ... Read more

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Pat Conroy's memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn't revealed to readers—until now. My Exaggerated Life is the product of a special collaboration between this great American author and oral biographer Katherine Clark, who recorded two hundred hours of conversations with Conroy before he passed away in 2016. In the spring and summer of
... Read more

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COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy, and Practice

Volume 2: Co-production Methods and Working Together at a Distance

by Hana Riazuddin, Charlotte Kühlbrandt, Hannah Cowan, Peter Lewis, Kudzai Kanyere, Sapfo Lignou, Biggy Dziro, Kiran Manku, Vanessa Bennett, Rosemary Musesengwa, Shuranjeet Singh, Catherine Hale, Andy Guise, Lucy Platt, Paniz Hosseini, Sujit D Rathod, Michelle Cornes, Pj Annand, Nguyen Hoang Yen, Ragil Dien, Mary Chambers, Niccola Hutchinson-Pascal, Cristina Serrao, Katherine Barrett, Scott Ballard-Ridley, Alison Allam, Ursula Ankeny, Gemma Wheeler, Ian Gwilt, Aaron Davis, Niki Wallace, Joe Langley, Lucy Potter, Maria Carvalho, Lesley Wye, Becki Meakin, Elke Loeffler, Kerrie Portman, Emily Niner, Dr Lisa Dikomitis, Leny Trad, Anastasia Koch, Samira Ben Omar, Kay Ollivierre, Nafsika Thalassis, Phayza Fudlalla, Bethany Golding, Fatima Elguenuni, Adeola Adeleke, Chakshu Sharma, Sharon Tomlin, Janet Wildman, Sarah Stayt ...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Groups most severely affected by COVID-19 have tended to be those marginalised before the pandemic and are now being largely ignored in developing responses to it.This two-volume set of Rapid Responses explores the urgent need to put co-production and participatory approaches at the heart of responses to the pandemic and demonstrates ... Read more

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Groups most severely affected by COVID-19 have tended to be those marginalised before the pandemic and are now being largely ignored in developing responses to it.This two-volume set of Rapid Responses explores the urgent need to put co-production and participatory approaches at the heart of responses to the pandemic and demonstrates
... Read more

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Elsewhere

A Novel

by Alexis Schaitkin ...

Narrated by Ell Potter ...

Unabridged

7 hours 55 min

"The audiobook narrated by Ell Potter is riveting." -- Buzzfeed on ElsewhereRichly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear.Vera grows up in a small town, removed and ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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"The audiobook narrated by Ell Potter is riveting." -- Buzzfeed on ElsewhereRichly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear.Vera grows up in a small town, removed and
... Read more

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