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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I’ve been actively seeking out non-binary authors and trying to read print a little more. average read per month: 9.5 average read per week: 2.2 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.

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2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here are stats for the books that I finished. average read per month: 9.6. average read per week: 2.2. number read in worst month: 6 (February). number unfinished: 0.

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Highlands Conservation Act Grant Program ? Competitive Funding

iGrantWriters

1964, 2004; 16 U.S.C. Highlands Regional Study: Connecticut and Pennsylvania 2010 Update.รข?? Each Agency may submit multiple applications to this Competitive grant round. A State Conservation Agency may sub-award a grant to another State Conservation Agency. Description The Highlands Conservation Act (H.R. and the รข??Highlands

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

After all, Iโ€™ve co-authored books about the strategic uses of causal mapping with titles like Visual Strategy (Wiley, 2014) and Visible Thinking (Wiley, 2004). Drawing on Michael Barzelay and Fred Thompson (2010), we can say that deliberative argumentation consists of engaging with others in: Careful observation, analysis, and synthesis.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time Itโ€™s the Federal Home Loan Bank Systemย (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 billion of losses by just four of the FHLBs in 2009 and 2010. 19] See CBO letter to Senator Richard Shelby dated April 8, 2004. 19 That was a very significant amount 20 years ago. billion for fiscal 2024.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time Itโ€™s the Federal Home Loan Bank Systemย (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. 19] It peaked in 2004 at just over $1.6 House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, “The Role of Government Affordable Housing Policy in Creating the Global Financial Crisis of 2008,” May 12, 2010, starting on page 20.

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