This collaborative book between Hughes and De Carava is small and wonderful. The story by Hughes is a gentle tale of one woman's life in Harlem in 1955. It is richly illustrated with the beautiful photographs of Harlem family life by De Carava.

Ted Hughes has written ten wonderful short stories about the early world, when God meticulously (or not so meticulously) fashioned all the animals out of clay. Each tale is a richly worded adventure, as God, his mother, Man, Woman, and their children live in the early days. Learn how the birds were created, how the Peacock got is wonderful plumage, and what sometimes happens to the leftovers from God's workshop when a tiny bit of thundercloud gets mixed in. The book has great illustrations by A. Davidson, but make no mistake, this is a book to be read to someone, one story at a time. Hughes' language takes listeners on a verbal safari with great nonesense words and sounds. Its a book for all ages, even adults, but I would think that children between 4-6 would love the whimsical logic behind the creation of each animal the most

Erotic, comical, dramatic, shocking, and mystical, this is a fascinating collection of some of Ovid's greatest stories. Adapted for the stage, these ancient stories embody some of the most pressing issues in modern society, while paying homage to their deep roots in classical antiquity. A must-read for the student of classical studies and mythology, and anyone with an imagination or a yen for the fanciful. The characters of Juno, Jupiter, Bacchus and others are brought to life and highlighed with amazing color and depth. This is your chance to acquaint - or refamiliarize yourself - with the ancient world. You will not be disappointed!

Explain every aspect of cables design, mechanical properties of materials and finished cables, electrical characteristics of different constructions, manufacturing techniques and machineries, testing methods and installation. Furnished with well explained and practical formulas of twisted pairs and co-axial metallic cables. Every telecom cable's designer must-read book !

Wow,this book is 100 times better than the already amazing movie. If 6 stars was a choice I would have chosen it in a heart beat I loved the thrilling adventure, the compellind drama, and even the most wonderful story of true love conquring ofer impossible odds. If you purchase this book you will not be sorry, Belive meit is a sure hit

When I first saw the book cover/title, Thoughtware, on the Amazon.com website, I was very fascinated. It brought back sweet memories of a part of my corporate life.

It was back in the late 80's that I had the privilege to be associated professionally with two very innovative Swedish consultants: Jan-Erik Lundstrom and Leif Edvinsson. I was then working under them in the development of software for real-time man-machine communications, known as EYESCREAM, created by Jan-Erik. It was then that I believed Leif actuallly coined the term "Thoughtware" for the first time, as he had already delivered papers on it in international conferences. (Leif subsequently went on to co-author two excellent books, Intellectual Capital: Realising Your Company's True Value by Finding its Hidden Brainpower in March 1997, and Intellectual Capital: Navigating the New Business Landscape in June 1998. I would recommend readers to explore these two books, as they documented the pioneering knowledge management work at Scandia, the largest financial services group in Sweden.)

It was my initial experimentation work with EYESCREAM in the late 80's that I began my life-long journey in understanding the intricacies - and the idiosyncracies - of the human mind, in the context of strategy formulation and development. I started gathering all kinds of books, magazine articles, newsletters and research papers on the subject, to help in enhancing my life-long learning and real-world understanding.

In the mid-90s, came Amazon.com website, which actually helped me in sourcing the main bulk of the best books and other hard-to-get stuff on the brain/mind, learning, creativity, innovation, peak performance, change management, intellectual capital, strategic exploration, opportunity discovery, etc.

Now, back to the Thoughtware book, I must say this has become one of my favourite books. (Readers are welcome to explore some of my favourites in 'Strategic Thinking Bookshelf,' 'Opportunity Pathfinding Bookshelf,' 'Visual Thinking Toolkits for Business,' and 'Business Blindspots, Illusions Mind-sets & Paradigms' on the Amazom.com website).

Using the analogy of computer software, the authors of Thoughtware had very masterfully crafted a book in a creative and engaging style, with 3 major parts, against a smorgasbord of real-world business cases.:

Part 1: Context, introducing the performance drivers; Part 2: New Thoughtware, introducing the dynamics of intellectual capital; Part 3: Installation, introducing the installation framework for new thoughtware, involving 8 modules;

This is one good book which you just can't just read it in one go and put it on your shelf. You have to read it, think about it, reflect on it, synthesise it with your other reading stuffs, research your own experience, add what is specifically your own, come back to it and then plot out your next steps.

In a nut shell, let me recapitulate the essence of the book: What we do is rooted in our thoughtware. This is the ancestor of all our thinking and actions. The sum of the people's thinking in an organisation and their collective interaction is the mastermind of the organization's performance. It is the underlying platform on which every organization operates. First, change the thoughtware in our heads, and we will automatically change our behaviour. We can then move on to create capability to manage the future. We must constantly invest in new thoughtware, new operating platforms that become the foundation from which we generate learning, knowledge, innovation, change and growth.

The authors' contention in Thoughtware is exactly in line with the pioneering work of Edward de Bono, who wrote about the urgent need for FIRST ORDER THINKING in whatever we do, and who also coined the term 'LATERAL THINKING,' in the 70's. For more information about FIRST ORDER THINKING, read his books.

I enjoy reading and working with this Thoughtware book very much, and appreciate also the authors in affirming their book at the onset as "a work in progress." The human mind is too vast and too complex to be explored and understood completely, and then captured in a 200-page book. I expect the authors to come out with their new work soon.

Tiger Woods first came to fame in 1997 when he won a spectacular victory at the Master Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. He went on to be one of the most successful professional golfers the game has ever known and won the admiration of a whole new generation of young men and women for the game. Indeed, because of Tiger Woods, the game of golf has a degree of popularity within minority communities that it has never before held in its entire history. Libby Hughes' Tiger Woods is a splendidly written biography of their remarkable young man's career from when he hit his first golf ball at the age of 9 months, through his days as a junior champion in grad school and high school, on to his years at Stanford University (when Tiger turned pro in his second year of college) and down to the present with a representative sampling drawn from his spectacular pro tournament victories. Tiger Woods is a great biography for young readers and will serve to inspire children with one of the most genuinely praiseworthy young men in professional sports today!

This charming book offers a lovely, gentle tale of simpler times. It is beautifully illustrated and designed. Reading "To Live a Truer Life" is like paging through a lovely quilt.

"Tom Brown's School Days"?, That's junenile fiction. That's a kid running down a merry lane in England with a satchel on his back, right? So wrong. How could this classic piece of little literature have escaped my attention? A stunning book about a boy's life in boarding school in mid 19th Century England, it tells it's adolescence tale with all the discipline of a Cub Scout Manual and whimsy of a comic book. Author Hughes frequently stops the action and intercedes on behalf of himself, commenting on the progress of the story as a teacher might. His defense of boys boxing with hard fists and fractured skulls is so socially incorrect it becomes amusing in it's conviction. Maybe skulls were harder then. A good knock-a-round is good for a boy. But school-yard fights aside, this is an adult piece of classic literature with a deeply moral narrative and a devoted sense of well-being. In it's second century of publication, it is a breath of fresh air.

Tommy Taylor is rated one of the greatest British centre-forwards of all time. Even stars such as Jimmy Greaves, Nat Lofthouse, Denis Law and Alfredo di Stefano testify to his uncanny ability to beat defenders in the air and his strength and skill with the ball at his feet, yet when lists of 'Best ever British strikers' are produced his name rarely gets a mention.

Born in Barnsley, Tommy began his career at his local club. Concurrently Matt Busby, realising his 1952 Champions were past their best, was building his Busby Babes. When speculation mounted that Tommy was being allowed to leave Oakwell as many as 17 clubs were rumoured to have bid. In the end Busby paid the unprecedented amount of £29,999 for Tommy (he didn't want the lad to feel the pressure of a £30,000 price tag) and the Yorkshireman made his debut for United against Tom Finney's Preston at Old Trafford. He went onto a remarkable and all too brief career with Manchester United and England before the tragedy of Munich struck. The author clearly has a passion for both the player he saw as a yougster and the club he supported as a boy. What comes across is the innocence of the times and the pure enjoyment and love of the game by players and spectators. The author also interviews the greatest surviving players of the era: Finney, Lawton, Lofthouse, Charlton... the list seemingly endless. In the words of Alfredo di Stefano - this story, while obviously tragic, is nonetheless 'magnifico'