Now in an extensively revised eleventh edition, Introducing Public Administration provides students with the conceptual foundation they need while introducing them to important trends in the discipline. This timeless textbook—blending historical accounts with contemporary events—examines the most important issues in the field of public administration through political, economic, social, and managerial perspectives. Its approach of using wide-ranging case discussion studies at the ...

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People say Danny's voice is heaven on Earth. But now he's in Falenda, and his voice will have to save a world.Danny thinks he has it hard enough on Earth: his mother disappeared when he was six, a gang of bullies torments him, and his alcoholic father is threatening to take him out of his beloved choir school. Then he finds himself in Falenda, where the people communicate telepathically and life is one continual, glorious song. But the harmonious life of the Falend...

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LIFE CAN CHANGE IN AN INSTANT. FOR KEVIN HYDE, IT DID WHEN A SERIES OF CATASTROPHIC STROKES SHATTERED EVERYTHING HE ONCE KNEW, HIS INDEPENDENCE, HIS HEALTH, AND THE FUTURE HE THOUGHT HE HAD. BUT RECLAIMING DESTINY: A FATHER'S TRUTH IS NOT A STORY ABOUT SURRENDER. IT IS A RAW AND DEEPLY PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF FIGHTING BACK AGAINST IMPOSSIBLE ODDS: SURVIVING PARALYSIS, DEFYING MEDICAL EXPECTATIONS, REBUILDING LIFE ONE PAINFUL STEP AT A TIME, AND REFUSING TO LET DISABILITY DEFINE HIM. YET KEVIN'...

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If you got away with murder, would you spend your final moments confessing your sins or let the truth die with you?At just forty-one years old, Rachel Marless is given months to live. After accepting the devastating news, she makes a decision: She will spend her final days imparting wisdom, advice, and confessing a long list of misdeeds to her only niece, Linnea.Linnea is a freshman in college and can't believe she's losing her favorite aunt before they've had time...

Amid the heady rebellion of London's Young British Artists, Rabble Stone, a photographer, meets the artist, a painter, after renting a room in her Brixton home. Soon Rabble is in thrall to this new world: to the run-down glamour of the Victorian house; to the exhilarating and debauched gallery openings, and to those in the artist's orbit, beautiful and lost. Above all, she is drawn to her new friend's work; raw, unfiltered self-portraits of startling intimacy, which Rabble captures in her ...

'Our funniest, sharpest writer on the great British unraveling' Jon RonsonA wildly funny collection from Britain's favourite columnist.Welcome to the dystopian soap opera of modern times. Travel to space with Lauren Sanchez and Katy Perry, let the waters close over you as Bear Grylls baptises Russell Brand in the Thames, and experience the full body impact of the Gwyneth Paltrow ski massacre trial. Lettuce also remember Liz Truss, meet - an...

**“If you want to write, paint, sing, compose, act, or make films, read The Gift.” —from the Introduction by Margaret AtwoodA modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time and a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor.**Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society—governed by the marketplace—is poorly equipped t...