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  • Collaborative Governance

    Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times

    How government can forge dynamic public-private partnershipsAll too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and bridges fall into disrepair. Health care costs too much and delivers too little. Budgets bleed red ink as the cost of services citizens want outstrips the taxes they are willing to pay. Collaborative ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Gospels, The: Catholic Audio Course & Free Study Guides

    Unabridged

    19 hours 21 min

    Join three of Catholicism’s leading biblical scholars in exploring the Gospels of Matthew, John, Luke, and Mark.Learn25 listeners have long gained knowledge and spiritual fulfillment from our biblical studies offerings. Now, featuring four illuminating courses from beloved scripture experts, this bundle offers close readings of the four gospels and places the texts in meaningful conversation with ... Read more

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  • The Roman Community at Table during the Principate, New and Expanded Edition

    by John Donahue ...
    On its initial publication, The Roman Community at Table during the Principate broke new ground with its approach to the integral place of feasting in ancient Roman culture and the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class lines throughout the Empire. John F. Donahue’s comprehensive examination of areas such as festal terminology, the social roles of benefactors and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Mark

    Series Book 2 - Sacra Pagina
    In The Gospel of Mark Fathers Donahue and Harrington use an approach that can be expressed by two terms currently used in literary criticism: intratextuality and intertextuality. This intratextual and intertextual reading of Mark's Gospel helps us to appreciate the literary character, its setting in life, and its distinctive approaches to the Old Testament, Jesus, and early Christian theology. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    Gospel of Mark 101, The

    Narrated by John R. Donahue ...
    Series series Learn25: Religion

    Unabridged

    4 hours 49 min

    Join Fr. John R. Donahue, S.J., one of Catholicism’s leading Mark experts, in exploring the Gospel of Action.Christianity was at a crossroads. The great apostles Peter and Paul had died. Members of the original Christian communities had passed. Jesus’ word might also soon be buried and forgotten. But it was Mark’s good news—not Matthew’s—that saved the faith.Did you know that Matthew’s Gospel ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private Sector

    Public-Private Collaboration in China and the United States

    The governments of China and the United States - despite profound differences in history, culture, economic structure, and political ideology - both engage the private sector in the pursuit of public value. This book employs the term collaborative governance to describe relationships where neither the public nor private party is fully in control, arguing that such shared discretion is needed to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Water, Culture, and Power

    Local Struggles In A Global Context

    According to some estimates, at least 1.7 billion people do not have an adequate supply of drinking water and as many as 40% of the world's population face chronic shortages. Yet water scarcity is more than a matter of terrain, increased population, and climate. It can also be a byproduct or end result of water management, where the building of dams, canals, and complicated delivery systems ... Read more

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  • Reading Portland

    The City in Prose

    Edited by John Trombold, Peter Donahue ...
    Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. This single volume gives voice to women and men; the colonizers and the colonized; white, Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Indian storytellers; and lower, middle, and upper ... Read more

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  • Ports in a Storm

    Public Management in a Turbulent World

    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    In Ports in a Storm a team of Harvard Kennedy School scholars focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. Their aims are two: to understand how a public manager might confront that complex undertaking, and to explore the similarities, differences, and complementarities of their alternative approaches to public management ... Read more

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  • Probus Enigma

    The Abused

    A hyperactive but bright child is neglected by his parents. He is sexually abused first by a professional nanny, then a schoolmaster turns him into a seething serial bisexual abuser himself, determined to get revenge.As an adult, he reaches great heights in his City career, but his anger at his parents and the world turns him into a psychopath prepared to stop at nothing for the one person in the ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Food and Drink in Antiquity: A Sourcebook

    Readings from the Graeco-Roman World

    Series series Bloomsbury Sources in Ancient History
    Amid growing interest in food and drink as an academic discipline in recent years, this volume is the first to provide insight into eating and drinking by focusing on what the ancients themselves actually had to say about this important topic.A thorough and varied sourcebook, it is structured thematically and is a unique asset to any course on food and foodways. The chronological scope of the ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Reading Seattle

    The City in Prose

    Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting, imparting the flavor of the city through a literary prism.Reading Seattle features classics by Horace R. Cayton, Richard Hugo, Betty MacDonald, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD