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The PerformanceStat Potential

A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results

by Robert D. Behn ...

Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
It started two decades ago with CompStat in the New York City Police Department, and quickly jumped to police agencies across the U.S. and other nations. It was adapted by Baltimore, which created CitiStat-the first application of this leadership strategy to an entire jurisdiction. Today, governments at all levels employ PerformanceStat: a focused effort by public executives to exploit the power ... Read more

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It started two decades ago with CompStat in the New York City Police Department, and quickly jumped to police agencies across the U.S. and other nations. It was adapted by Baltimore, which created CitiStat-the first application of this leadership strategy to an entire jurisdiction. Today, governments at all levels employ PerformanceStat: a focused effort by public executives to exploit the power
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Born in England - Exploring English Poetry - Kent

by Christopher Marlowe, Aphra Behn, Robert Seymour Bridges ...

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to ... Read more

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Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to
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Top 10 Poets, The - The 17th Century

Five poems each from best poets born in the 17th century

by John Dryden, John Milton, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Anne Bradstreet, Abraham Cowley, Henry Vaughan, Robert Herrick, Aphra Behn, Thomas Carew ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Robert Maskell, Ghizela Wagner ...

Unabridged

2 hours 5 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Neglected Authors, The - Volume 1

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Grant Allen, Leonid Andreyev, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Gertrude Atherton, Lady Augusta Gregory, Stacy Aumonier, William Austin, William Austin, Richard Harris Barham, Robert Barr0, Charles Baudelaire1, Aphra Behn2, John Davys Beresford3, Helena Blavatsky4, Marjorie Bowen5, Mary Elizabeth Braddon6, Ernest Bramah7, D K Broster8, Rhoda Broughton9, Valery Bryusov0, Thomas Burke1 ...

Narrated by Eve Karpf2, Mark Rice-Oxley3, David Shaw-Parker4 ...

Unabridged

12 hours 31 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - The South-East

A celebration of English poems

by Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Phillip Sidney, Richard Lovelace, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Robert Seymour Bridges, Aphra Behn, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Ford Maddox Ford, George Meredith, Edmund Waller, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

4 hours 18 min

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to ... Read more

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Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to
... Read more

Wales, A Nation In Verse

by Dylan Thomas, George Herbert, Ann Griffiths, Wilfred Owen ...

Series Book 5 - A Nation In Verse
Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at a particular nation through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a unique poetic guide. Wales, this proud nation with its long history; ... Read more

$2.99 CAD

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at a particular nation through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a unique poetic guide. Wales, this proud nation with its long history;
... Read more
Shakespeare's Love Sonnets

by William Shakespeare ...

The perfect gift for someone you love, an illustrated collection of love poems from the poet considered to be the greatest writer in the English language.Shakespeare's sonnets are revered the world over for perfectly capturing the torments and joys of love requited or otherwise in just fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. This treasure of a book collects twenty-nine of the bard's most romantic ... Read more

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The perfect gift for someone you love, an illustrated collection of love poems from the poet considered to be the greatest writer in the English language.Shakespeare's sonnets are revered the world over for perfectly capturing the torments and joys of love requited or otherwise in just fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. This treasure of a book collects twenty-nine of the bard's most romantic
... Read more
Sonnets From The Portuguese (Mobi Classics)

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ...

Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845-1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular even in the poet's lifetime and it remains so today. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845-1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular even in the poet's lifetime and it remains so today. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
... Read more
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)

by William Blake ...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Songs of Innocence was the first of Blake's illuminated books published in 1789.It is a cheerful and optimistic volume which ... Read more

$1.99 CAD

This carefully crafted ebook: "Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Songs of Innocence was the first of Blake's illuminated books published in 1789.It is a cheerful and optimistic volume which
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Shakespeare's Dark Lady

The Lost Story of Aemilia Bassano Lanyer

by Sally O'Reilly ...

MEET THE REAL AEMILIA BASSANO LANYER: ENGLAND'S FIRST FEMALE POET…AND THE WOMAN WHO IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN THE DARK LADY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS.The real Aemilia Basano Lanyer was Renaissance woman, centuries ahead of her time. England's first professionally-published female poet, she is also suspected to have inspired the poetry of one our greatest and most beloved writers, William Shakespeare ... Read more

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MEET THE REAL AEMILIA BASSANO LANYER: ENGLAND'S FIRST FEMALE POET…AND THE WOMAN WHO IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN THE DARK LADY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS.The real Aemilia Basano Lanyer was Renaissance woman, centuries ahead of her time. England's first professionally-published female poet, she is also suspected to have inspired the poetry of one our greatest and most beloved writers, William Shakespeare
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Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare ...

Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV (two plays), and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildonagainst the Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the ... Read more

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Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV (two plays), and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildonagainst the Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the
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The Discovery of Witches

The Witchfinder General

by Mathew Hopkins ...

Series Book 3 - Non Fiction Collection
There was much superstition and ignorance in 17th century England. Witchcraft had been illegal since 1563 and hundreds of women were wrongly accused and punished. 'Proof' of being a witch could be a third nipple, an unusual scar or birthmark, a boil, a growth, or even owning a cat or other pet (a 'witch's familiar', or evil spirit). Confessions were often made under torture, and suspects were tied ... Read more

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There was much superstition and ignorance in 17th century England. Witchcraft had been illegal since 1563 and hundreds of women were wrongly accused and punished. 'Proof' of being a witch could be a third nipple, an unusual scar or birthmark, a boil, a growth, or even owning a cat or other pet (a 'witch's familiar', or evil spirit). Confessions were often made under torture, and suspects were tied
... Read more

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