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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

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    “Talent Calling” is the indispensable sales book for recruiters. In this book, I discuss the secrets of calling candidates to establish meetings. You will discover ten steps which comprise effective candidate cold-calling. Traditional sales and whole brain thinking techniques are demonstrated in order to easily overcome candidate objections. In “Talent Calling,” you’re empowered with powerful ... Read more

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  • Green Harts Forever

    Enjoy this true-life story of two best friends who met at Sutton High School for Boys, Plymouth, in 1962.Join Paul and Norman on their journeys through life along with their devotion and dedication to Plymouth Argyle Football Club, a passion which remains to this day.'A very good read which brought back happy memories to me and I am sure will do the same for many. A great story of friendship ... Read more

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  • Great Policy Successes

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    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY NC ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. With so much media and political criticism of their shortcomings and failures, it is easy to overlook the fact that many governments work pretty well much of the time. Great Policy ... Read more

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  • Policy Success in Canada

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    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In Canada many public projects, programs, and services perform well, and many are very successful. However, these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied in the ... Read more

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    'The parish needs to come together, Detective Sergeant. To mourn. Everyone is very raw. You know how a violent death affects a community. It brings all sorts of things to the surface, griefs long buried.'It's 1988, and the postcard-perfect village of Champton is a tight-knit parish community full of familiar faces and quietly simmering rivalries. At its heart is St Mary's Church and its rector, ... Read more

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    Strategic issues and crises in foreign policy are usually managed by relatively small groups of elite policymakers and their closest advisors. Since the pioneering work of Irving Janis in the early 1970s, we have known that the interplay between the members of these groups can have a profound and, indeed, at times a pernicious influence on the content and quality of foreign policy decisions. Janis ... Read more

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  • Understanding Policy Fiascoes

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  • Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries

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    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book presents twenty-three in-depth case studies of successful public policies and programs in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Iceland. Each chapter tells the ... Read more

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