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1) The boys
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English
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"When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries Barb, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. She fills his world with a sense of adventure, expanding his horizons beyond his comfortable routine. Because Ethan fears becoming a father, one day Barb brings home two young brothers, Tommy and Sam, for them to foster, and Ethan immediately falls in love with the two boys. When the pandemic hits, he becomes obsessed with...
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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FRONTLINE examines living through the year of the pandemic, filmed around the world, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Using extensive personal video and local footage, see how people and countries responded to the virus, with the differing struggles, beliefs and responses, across cultures, race, faith and privilege.
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Princess Diaries (Adult) volume 2
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English
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In this diary written during the COVID-19 pandemic, Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia records her most heartfelt emotions while dealing with personal and political battles, such as imposing health restrictions on her small European nation; living in lockdown; and dealing with her demanding grandmother.
4) Save every life you can: a reflection on leadership and saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Mill City Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A reflection on leadership and saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Richard A. Stone MD is the former Deputy Surgeon General of the United States Army. He returned to government service to lead the Veterans Health Administration at the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2018 - brought on as a proven changemaker and experienced leader in an inflection point for the agency. He had no idea his tenure would be defined by the public health challenge...
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"Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others,...
6) Day: a novel
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English
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"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house--and whose departure...
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The coronavirus pandemic forced work back into the home on a massive scale. The long-held belief that work and home are separate spheres of economic life was turned on its head overnight. Many employees were new to this way of working and many employers had to manage a disparate workforce for the first time. This book reviews what impact this shift had on the lives of millions of employees, the organisations which employ them and the societies in...
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"Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous - and most revered - doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly through Covid (and through the torrents of Trump) earned him the trust of millions during one of the most terrifying periods in modern American history, but this was only the most recent of the global epidemics in which Dr. Fauci played a major role. His crucial role in researching HIV and bringing AIDS into sympathetic...
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English
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"Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the Covid pandemic takes hold in New York City, Alice packs up her family and flees to their vacation home in Maine. She hopes to find sanctuary-from the uncertainties of the exploding pandemic and her faltering marriage. Putting distance between herself and the stresses and troubles of the city, Alice begins to feel safe and relieved. But the locals are far from friendly. Trapped and forced into...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Leading futurist Bob Johansen and workplace architect Joseph Press guide organizations and individuals on how to weather the inevitable future of "office shocks." Most people have experienced "office shock" during the past two years, with the pandemic disrupting where and how they work. It's clear that we can't go back to the office the way it was. This book reimagines the office and shows how we can plan for more sustainable ways of working. Instead...
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"This book is a collection of oral histories, along with many photos, from the author's travels from the Deep South to the West Coast, and it shows what people across America lost and found because of COVID. Some have lost family, friends, jobs, even physical mobility. Others have found purpose that eluded them before the pandemic"--
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Libros de Cabecera
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
Description
El l�ider en un mundo nuevo intenta sacar una fotograf�ia del mundo al que nos enfrentamos despu�es de la pandemia de la covid-19 y la vuelta de la guerra en Europa. El mundo cambia definitivamente de siglo y de fase a trav�es de la aceleraci�on impuesta por estas disrupciones. Los procesos de desarrollo, producci�on y aprendizaje deber�an convertirse en ciclos �agiles y continuos, transformando lo incierto en una certeza y un recurso....
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ISTE, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had an undeniable impact on cybercrime. The initial crisis quickly became a global catastrophe with multiple consequences in economics, health, and political and social fields. This book explores how this global emergency has influenced cybercrime. Indeed, since feeding off new vulnerabilities, thanks to the effects of the pandemic crisis in various states around the world, cybercrime has increased and evolved.
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"When the pandemic first hits, thirty-one-year-old Kelly tries to make the best of quarantine but it soon becomes clear there are some lemons you just can't make into lemonade. She loses her job and her boyfriend in one fell swoop, and she finds herself looking for any way to get out of the apartment she's still sharing with her now-ex. So when she rekindles a friendship with a bestselling author she knows from childhood, who invites Kelly to stay...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Fake Money, Real Danger picks up where the Aftershock series left off. With the coronavirus bear market and a huge increase in money printing since even before the coronavirus market panic (starting September 2019), we are getting much closer to the Aftershock. In fact, close enough to see very clearly just how fake our mirage of prosperity has been, based on fake money stimulus and fake asset bubbles that have no chance of surviving. While our prosperity...
16) Violeta: a novel
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"This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century"--
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores...
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"In 2020, the novel coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that the U.S. could not adequately protect its citizens. Millions of Americans suffered-and over a million died-in less than two years, while government officials blundered; prize-winning economists overlooked devastating trade-offs; and elites escaped to isolated retreats, unaffected by and even profiting from the pandemic. Why and how did America, in a catastrophically enormous failure,...
18) Companion piece
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted-author of the brilliant Seasonal Quartet series-a major new novel that promises to capture the present moment with Ali Smith's genius and bold spirit. "A story is never an answer. A story is always a question." Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future?...
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MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The ongoing global supply chain crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic shows no sign of abating. And although many media outlets have blamed pandemic shortages on companies' practice of just-in-time inventory management, abandoning it would do little to help current supply chain problems. The author points to two other overarching causes of product and parts shortages: suppliers' inability to adjust to soaring demand, and government interventions....
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2024
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English
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Venice, 2020. As a pandemic rages across the globe, Zito Madu finds himself in a nearly deserted city, its walls and basilicas humming with strange magic. As he wanders a haunted landscape, we see him twist further into his own past: his family's difficult immigration from Nigeria to Detroit, his troubled relationship with his father, the sporadic joys of daily life and solitude, his experiences with migration, poverty, foreignness, racism, and his...
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