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Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose
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The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work, which is revealed as a series of interventions in the troubled history of early twentieth-century Europe. Christopher Green shows how these interventions are remarkable for the force with which they confront issues that remain vital and important for us today: race, cultural difference, modernity, sexuality and the discontents of civilization. The framework for Green’s exploration is simple, yet enormously rich in its implications: the compulsion found in Picasso’s work simultaneously to build architectures and to release himself from them. Architecture is used by Green to refer not merely to pictorial or sculptural structure, but to the architecture of knowledge and society: the structures of tradition, of racial, social and cultural distinction, of logic and of technology. He not only develops new ways of seeing the oscillation between order and disorder in Picasso’s work, but moves outwards from it to reveal how it confronted and challenged the architectures of orthodoxy.
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With two popular mediums and a favorite topic, Dramatic Light is sure to become a staple on every artist's bookshelf. This guide shows painters how to capture the elusive quality of light and make their work glow from within. Highlights include:
-Instruction in both watercolor and oils
-23 step-by-step demonstrations on seeing and painting light
-An in-depth look at basic light principles: transparency, translucency, luminosity and reflections
-Gorgeous transparent and translucent subjects such as glass jars, sheer curtains, stained-glass windows and water
Artists at every level will come away with a better understanding of light--and more dramatic paintings!
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Drool over the paintings, select your medium (oil or watercolor).......2007-07-04
The example paintings in this book (such as on the cover) are the drool-over sort that you want to paint but can't--or can but don't.
The author lets you in on secrets; how to paint translucence, using a banana and a fictious cellophane screen. Then you move on to copy an exercise of those translucent shopping bags from trendy little boutiques. After that, you will have little problem rendering translucent windows, bags and even diaphanous material over skin.
There are bags of sweets in cellophane, glass jars, sheer curtains, stained-glass windows and water. A lot of material on differently-lit surfaces and scenes. And the book is not just for watercolorists--oils are also included (by figuring out how oil works, you could probably extrapolate these studies to acrylics.)
A very nice book just to peruse, helpful for the actual examples and 23 different studies-in-progress. Big Thumbs Up.
City Artist.......2007-04-13
I purchased this book based on the available descriptions. It is well laid out and a really good book for a beginner. It includes demonstrations and description of needed materials to achieve the various desired light effects. It has lots of organized color photos and would be a good first painting book for special effects. I gave it 4 stars only because I am well beyond the beginner stage and was looking for more advanced information. If you are serious about starting out, this could be good for you.
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Twelve stories of conflicted teens grappling with love, loss, and the joy of finding your own way in life. The Eisner-nominated and critically-acclaimed series of self-contained short stories by writer Brian Wood and artist Becky Cloonan is finally collected together into this complete, bookshelf format volume.
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Wish I could give this one SIX stars . . ........2007-07-17
I read a lot of graphic novels -- actual stories, not just compiled superhero comics -- and I rarely come across anything this literary. Most of these twelve stories could easily have been published, without pictures, in a "little" magazine somewhere. The intriguing thing is how they evolve, first to last, from "NYC" and "Bad Blood," which actually are about not-necessarily-super powers with a Rod Serling twist, to "One Shot, Don't Miss" and "Breaking Up" and "Damaged," which will stay with you a long, long time. And the last panel of the last story will truly grab you by the throat. Amazing writing.
Short stories for rebels on the move.......2006-09-14
I read these stories when they were coming out as single issues a few years back. Picking up the collection, I forgot how compelling and different each story is. The major theme linking all of the stories is people with a dilema and some "power" that pushes the story to explore themselves. Each chapter is a stand alone story, yet a common idea runs through the whole book-that no matter what gifts we have about us it's how we use them. Some stories are happy, others depressing, but all have an air of truth that most of us can relate to.
I enjoy the rough, punkesque feel that some of the tales have. It's an atmosphere of being an outsider regardless of the situation and how the individual deals with it. Becky Cloonan's art is wonderful and changes in regards as to what the situations is. It can feel like manga, independent, or stylized but never repeats any of the other chapters. She amazed me by doing so much with so few pages. Wood's writing is quick, to the point and doesn't weigh down the flow. He reminds me of what it's like to be younger, struggling with growing up, fighting the world and ourselves to become something more. Each story plays up emotions ranging from love to hate to empathy to pride and more. Imagine a story where superpowers take a backseat to the heart and that is Demo.
Excellent Independent Collections of Dark Teen Stories.......2006-06-30
With DEMO Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan present an amazing set of dark stories with brilliant black/white art. Each story is short but telling, as we see several teens coping with the rougher side of having superpowers. This is much better reading and art than can be found in the similar Marvel comic NYX. I highly recommend this collection over the mainstream's version as it has more grit and more heart.
Like a great alt rock album.......2006-04-27
Demo, a collection of twelve short stories in comics form by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan, reminds me of a great album by some popular alt-rock band. Like the best alt-rockers, Wood and Cloonan twist the devices of mainstream pop to unusually thoughtful ends. In the case of a rock band, those pop devices might be catchy hooks, or crunchy guitars. Think of the way that REM used schmaltzy sentimentality to hateful and ironic effect in their first top 40 hit ("This one goes out to the one I love ..."). It's pop, but it isn't - but, yes, really, it is - but, no, it really isn't. And so on. That's how it's done in music. In the case of a comic book, "pop" means superheroes. Even allegedly non-superheroic pop comics, like Sin City or Planetary, present the reader with superheroes (or supervillains) to root for and/or despise, albeit tights-less, cowl-less, capeless ones. That Yellow Bastard, for example, would be right at home in any Batman story. Demo, on the other hand, remains comparatively non-action-oriented: it revolves around characters with super powers, but in a very different way than your typical Marvel or DC comic does. Well. Okay. That's a bit of an overstatement. Some of the stories, like the first one, "NYC," read like subplots in a 1970's X-Men comic (I totally imagine that the next panel - the one after the ending of this story - involves Professor X's disembodied head, come to save the day; it has to). That is not to say that they're not good stories. They are better stories than most stories you read in comics these days. The best stories in the book, though, the ones that actually make it worth reading, are the ones that push all the way through the pop trappings, and past them, into real and realistic moments that you'd never find in a mainstream comic book, or even in any superhero movie - moments that are dangerous precisely because they are so ambiguous, and so startlingly drab.
(the above is excerpted from my longer review at [...])
It could've been better, but not much!.......2006-03-31
This book is a solid book which highly entertained me through about half of the stories. Half of the book was GREAT, and the other half was good. Mr. Wood is apparently a great storyteller, and he has quite a bit of an artistic flair to his writing. I appreciate the "Indie" feel that this collection has, even if the art is oftentimes sub-par. The art is not bad, and in some cases it is great. The consistency of the art, however, wavers throughout the book. This may be an attempt to vary the art styles, but to me it comes off as ill contrived. That said, art in a sequential art book should be 50% of the score, but if the art lacks but the writing is phenomenal (i.e. in DC/Vertigo's Sandman), I tend to over look the art a bit. BUT, in this case the writing also wavers a little bit as well.
ART
This seemed to be the first thing that I noticed to be distracting in the book. It starts out being heavily Manga influenced with a few hyper detailed scenes that suggested, to me a little immaturity in the art. After the first few issues, the art changes a bit to a more thick inked Indie style for one issue, then its back to Manga stuff. Then the art'll go towards Frank Miller for one issue, then back to Manga. Photostat Hyper Manga - back to Manga. Sometimes it even mixes the art a little. I understand changing the art to coincide with the story, but just doing it for three issues out of twelve seemed disjointed. All in all, the art amplified the story more than it reduced its quality, so I would have to say it was acceptable.
WRITING
This is really where the book takes the biggest hit in my opinion. Don't get me wrong - none of the book is bad by any means, its just that about half the stories are incredible, while the other half are good. The writing seemed to stray from the concept on a few stories, which was extremely distracting. The beginning guise is that these are everyday people with interesting abilities, which works extremely well when Brian Wood sticks to the concept. As a result from his straying, the book doesn't feel cohesive as a whole, and that is the biggest drawback to Demo.
THE FINAL SAY
This book is great. It realistically registers with your emotions most of the time, and even when it doesn't, its still good. It registers a healthy 8/10 on the Richard White SCALES OF JUDGEMENT! This book is a good Indie staple, but there are better Indie books out there, but when Mr. Wood gets a little more experience under his belt... Watch out!
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From the ribald tall tales of "The Signifying Monkey" and Moms Mabley's grandmotherly earthiness to Richard Pryor's blues-based character Mudbone, author Mel Watkins takes us beyond the seemingly harmless face of the black comedian and shows the complex, multifaceted, and historical use of humor by African Americans to articulate, combat, and overcome the effects of racism. Watkins begins with the coded, behind-master's-back mockery of slave humor and its outgrowth, the minstrels, where whites such as Al Jolson as well as blacks wore horrible blackface makeup. Watkins also chronicles the ascendancy of performers such as Bert Williams, Stepin Fechit, Redd Foxx, and Bill Cosby from the '30s to the '60s, when vaudeville, radio, motion pictures, and recordings catapulted black comedy around the world. For Watkins, the emergence of several socially aware comedians--for example, Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor--marked an important break with the tradition of concealed references. "Pryor and a few of his predecessors," Watkins writes, "began unveiling the satirical barbs concealed beneath the black jester's clownish attire." After Pryor's career was slowed down by health complications, he was followed by what Watkins views as a less political and more materialistic hip-hop generation, led by Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Chris Rock, and the Wayans brothers. With shows such as Def Comedy Jam and In Living Color Watkins feels, "some of the subtlety, misdirection, and magic that have previously characterized black American humor have been lost, the most outrageous and impious elements of African American humor are now being emphasized." --Eugene Holley Jr.
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This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit and the Amos'n'Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans found in folktales, race records, and all-black shows and films. Watkins offers suprising reassessment of such seminal figures as Fetchit, Bert Williams, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx, looking at how they paved the way for contemporary comics such as Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, Eddie Murphy and Bill Cosby.
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Seen 'em all? Read this book. Otherwise..........2005-10-15
I enjoy reading about film, and had previously read (and enjoyed) "Shooting to Kill" by Christine Vachon and David Edelstein and "Down and Dirty Pictures" by Peter Biskind, so I thought I this would be a great book for me.
I haven't seen many of the "classic" indies detailed in the book (i.e. Slacker, She's Gotta Have It, Go Fish, etc.), so I had trouble understanding (and sometimes paying attention to) parts of Pierson's book. I did learn a lot (and I'm happy about that), but I was also confused much of the time. It would have certainly helped if I would have seen the movies he was detailing. He didn't write the book for people like me. He probably wrote it for people with already strong backgrounds in independent film.
I predict it's a really good read if . . . you have seen loads (i mean loads!) of indie films since the "Stranger Than Paradise" (1984) and you already know about the directors and distributors of the post-1984 indie scene.
If you don't feel like your an industry expert just yet, trying reading "Shooting to Kill" or "Down and Dirty Pictures." They assume much less about the reader. Then watch the "classics" mentioned in these books. Then read this book. You'll appreciate it much more.
Revised version published as Spike Mike Reloaded.......2005-04-22
Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes was revised and published in January 2004 under the title: Spike Mike Reloaded. It contains a new foreward by Kevin Smith, new chapter by John Pierson, and a new dialogue between the two of them.
If You're Going to Sundance ..........2004-04-17
The "A Guided Tour Across a Decade ..." portion of the title is a little misleading to some.
While he talks to and about Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Moore, Jim Jaramusch, Spike Lee and others, and while it's a first account of the American independent film movement circa 1990s - this is NOT a book about their films (either as analysis or critique) or them (as directors and their techniques or merely celeb gossip).
This is a book about the trials and tribulations of being a producer's rep.
There are two types of people who should read this book and would find it useful.
If you plan on directing or producing a movie - consider this book a MUST READ - film distribution 101 reading.
He talks in relevant detail about representing some of the most important American independent films of the 1990s including SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT, CLERKS, ROGER & ME and others. While he gives an almost day-by-day blow of some of these films as they travel from film festival circuit to deal making to publicity tours - the real value is are the details about the process that one can expect as an independent film maker.
Now, a decade later, many things have changed (especially the financing numbers and studio/distribution situation today versus the 1990s) - what hasn't changed is the overall process of what you might encounter and expect. Here's a great opportunity to read what they encountered and what lessons you might learn from them.
The detailed summary on a deal-memo and points that they negotiated regarding the distribution contract and revenues from distribution and home video - are worth the price of a USC Film School class (not the whole education - the books not that great - just a excellent class :-)
If you are a film fanatic and want to learn a portion of the nuts and bolts of the process of film festivals and independent distribution - you should find this book of interest.
Why only three stars? Deduct one star for ... this book would've been more interesting if we got more of a first hand account from the directors and their feelings during the process along with John Pierson's.
Deduct another star because the industry and the financial numbers and the players have changed so the details of the situations are not very useful.
But the foundation of Sundance and other buzz-worthy festivals reached the public eye during this period so if you're going (or thinking of going) to Sundance, Toronto, et al - get up to speed on all that's transpired so far.
Again, this is a MUST READ for aspiring directors and producers. For others, it all depends on how interested you are in the history of the business process of indepedent film-making ...
too much horn-tooting.......2001-07-24
What could've been a good guide to modern indie film is bogged down by Pierson's relentless and self-serving tooting of his own horn. Who cares?!? What we really want is the inside story of all these independent films and filmmakers. Pierson seemed to lose track of who the stars of his book should be. I also found the author's writing and his overall knowledge of movies to be lacking. A much better book on the same broad topic is "Celluloid Mavericks" by Greg Merritt, which covers the entire history of American independent film from a much more literate and balanced perspective.
Definitely for Kevin Smith fans.......2000-07-17
Although I'm a big fan of indie films, I found this book a bit dull. Not that I'm looking for a typical Hollywood put on the glitz and glamour type of book, but the book basically deals with how the author put together financing and got distribution for some indie films. It definitely could have been told in a more exciting way. The best thing about it is the interviews with Kevin Smith that are interspersed through the first half or so of the book. Then, they drop off, and I did as well. The author is definitely a huge fan of Kevin Smith, which is great, as there are a lot of Kevin's journal entries included about when Clerks was at Sundance. If you like Kevin Smith, this is a good read, if only for the interviews and the chapter about Clerks. If not, then well...you might like it, but it's a little dull. If you haven't seen Slacker, Go Fish, Roger and Me, Clerks, She's Gotta Have It, Amongst Friends, Reservoir Dogs, etc., then you might have a hard time as well.
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A background book on the skaven telling their secret history as well as how to spot and destroy them. For roleplayers you can learn how to create your own skaven clan, descriptions of the skaven fom, society and mentality. There is a short skaven adventure at the end
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A Fantastic Addition.......2007-05-28
Children of the Horned Rat is the first book to truly expand the WFRP lineup beyond the confines of the Empire. The book explores the Skaven, mutated rat-creatures whose numbers are uncountable, who subsist beneath every city and settlement in the Empire and who seek to enslave all non-skaven. Dwellers in the shadows and sewers their existence is only rumored, the ravings of madmen and children's stories.
Approximately two thirds of the book is setting material - who the Skaven are, how they live, how they fight and about their dealings with others in the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay world. A good dash of original art is thrown in with some re-used pieces from other Warhammer books. Skaven government and society, psychology and technology are all explored in depth.
The remaining third of the book is dedicated to roleplaying the Skaven. Skaven careers, rules for being enslaved by Skaven and the mannerisms of Skaven are all covered in addition to how a group of Skaven PCs might come about.
Overall this is a fine addition to the WFRP line. Being mostly source material it is an excellent read even if you aren't interested in playing the game or using the rules.
Magnificent! Better than I expected.......2007-05-22
This was a very impressive book. I really like books which can flesh out a fantasy world by making it realistic. This can be done with essays about culture, philosophy, demographics, populations, beliefs, etc. I am not a fan of vague fantasy settings which leave alot of gaps in the setting, I want something which I can sink my teeth into and say "yea, I could see that happening in another world, it sounds plausable".
This book manages to do that for the skaven. You get an idea of the very vastness of the Skaven empire with details on their population centers, their various clans (greater and lesser), and their general grip on the Old world. The only thing holding them back is the fact that they fight with each other all the time. I was very impressed and I got a very good sense of perspective of skaven society which was quite nice. Do you want to be a slave or a clan leader, is your clan a mere 100 rats or over a million? Are you despised in the greater Skaven society or revered? All things are possible in the Under-Empire.
I could cry : (.......2006-08-31
I was let down with this book. I was hoping that it would give more. The book is about 126 pages for thirty dollars. That's about 23 cents a page. I really don't think it will help me out as much as I first thought it would. If I run an all Skaven game it might help. But as a source book for a role playing game it missed a few elements. I would have liked hard facts about female skaven, and more detail about some of the clans. The 4 major clans this book did a great job on detailing. But one of the clans, Clan Skab had 77 words to describe the whole clan. 77 words are more than what Clan Verms got. Now it just might be me, but more detail could mean more pages and a better book. WFRP might be new, but Warhammer is not. The Skaven have been around for years now. The Warhammer Armies book for Skaven is now in the 7th print, plus novels, and the years of experience of some of the writers and you can't convince me that they only had enough sources to make a 126 page book.
Good but not great........2006-08-30
Maybe Games workshop has just spoiled me, but I expected a little more from this book. I truly am a fan of the game and this book definitely gives you the feel of the Warhammer World. The artwork is as good as always, the skaven careers are especially fun and the adventure at the end (although not as good as most), along with all of the adventure seeds, is adaptable for normal or skaven characters. That said - I was still somewhat disappointed with the book. There seems to be a lot of repetition, and the book isn't that long. Neither was there a whole lot of new information or depth to the history/culture of the ratmen. I think that the 5th and 6th edition army books for Warhammer Fantasy Battle have just as much, if not more. Basically, I was disappointed because I was expecting so much more. Skaven are a favorite in my campaigns and I saw a lot of potential for development that went unrealized. If you want a better feel for what I am talking about, check out the Brettonia book; it has so much more packed in that after reading it, this skaven book just doesn't live up to the tradition.
Ingredients and casting time for new spells pair accompany new characters and roleplaying overviews.......2006-08-19
Gamers familiar with Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay will appreciate a companion volume with a narrowed focus on the ratmen race, the skaven. Enlarging upon themes are new details on the secretive rat race which gamers can use in their games, paired with new adventures and descriptions. Ingredients and casting time for new spells pair accompany new characters and roleplaying overviews.
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In this third installment in the popular Fish! series, the authors examine change as a necessary, ongoing process that should never stop--at least not if one wants to keep the workplace vital and fully alive. Using a fictitious sushi restaurant as an example, this fable examines the three principles that Lundin, Christensen, and Paul believe are necessary for continuing success: Find It ("it" being each employee's personal vision of the business), Live It, and Coach It. Readers of the authors' previous books--Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results and Fish! Tales--should find its familiarity comforting. For those new to the series, this standalone volume is easy to read and highly valuable. --David Bombeck
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he 'o-FISH!-al' follow-up to the phenomenal bestselling Fish! and Fish! Tales, Fish! Sticks is a stand alone business parable that shows you how to come up with a vision for your business and how to keep it alive, vital, and renewed through tough times, such as turnover in management and staff or a troubled economy. Using the example of a hugely successful, fictional sushi restaurant as a model for a vision of continual renewal, Fish! Sticks employs the same kind of easy-to-read story that was used in Fish! to illustrate its three major principals of continued success: Commit, Be it, and Coach it. When Stephanie, a new manager, takes over from a wildly popular and now promoted boss, she is faced with the problem of how to keep spirits up in a corporate unit that has, frankly, started to get bored and cranky and revert to its old ways. But then she visits the amazing Taka Sushi (formerly Taka Teriyaki), with its lines of customers cheerfully waiting for hours to get in. Soon, she realizes that the way to keep her employees motivated and her customers delighted can be learned from a bunch of waiters who teach one another everything they need to know. And when she finds out just how the owner of Taka knew to switch her main bill of fare from teriyaki to sushi long before anyone else, what she really discovers is the secret of keeping your work fresh.
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The "o-FISH!-al" follow-up to the phenomenal bestselling Fish! and Fish! Tales, Fish! Sticks is a stand alone business parable that shows you how to come up with a vision for your business and how to keep it alive, vital, and renewed through tough times, such as turnover in management and staff or a troubled economy.
Using the example of a hugely successful, fictional sushi restaurant as a model for a vision of continual renewal, Fish! Sticks employs the same kind of easy-to-read story that was used in Fish! to illustrate its three major principals of continued success: Commit, Be it, and Coach it.
When Stephanie, a new manager, takes over from a wildly popular and now promoted boss, she is faced with the problem of how to keep spirits up in a corporate unit that has, frankly, started to get bored and cranky and revert to its old ways. But then she visits the amazing Taka Sushi (formerly Taka Teriyaki), with its lines of customers cheerfully waiting for hours to get in. Soon, she realizes that the way to keep her employees motivated and her customers delighted can be learned from a bunch of waiters who teach one another everything they need to know. And when she finds out just how the owner of Taka knew to switch her main bill of fare from teriyaki to sushi long before anyone else, what she really discovers is the secret of keeping your work fresh.
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IT means: Find Purpose, Live Identity, Coach Accountability.......2007-08-19
An easy read and good use of the fable to emphasis an often overlooked part of performance management; the importance of each individual finding a piece of their Me Inc. vision within the Business Inc. vision. Although authors Lundin, Christensen, and Paul never use the term Me Inc. in this fable about sustaining a performance transformation within the 6th-floor neurological care ward of Good Samaritan Hospital (Business Inc. in the fable), referring to the connection as IT; they clearly convey the message that sustainable performance is only possible when individuals find their IT within the wards vision of customer care.
Recognizing that sustainable motivation/energy can only be created when individuals connect their purpose, identity, and accountability with their business's performance vision, the authors show how the employee's must Find IT thru individual conversations, Live IT by putting their unique identity into action, and hold each other accountable thru a Coach IT process unencumbered by hierarchy. While fables can only go so far in conveying the complexity of organizational effectiveness, this fable brings a critical piece of the puzzle to the front. It is recommended for use with teams as the next step after the initial visioning and performance goal setting processes of performance management. Dennis DeWilde, author of "The Performance Connection"
Decent but not as good as the original.......2007-08-01
After reading about this book I was excited by the opportunity to get some more insight into the "Fish!" world, and I was especially interested in learning about `how to make change stick'. I liked how the book was another "fable" type story, and thought that this might make another good Book Club selection for our company book club.
Well, I read the book, and although I thought it had some merit, it was not nearly as easily accessible and distillable to the same audiences as the first "Fish!" book was. I was still glad I bought the book, and I did get something out of it, but I had real trouble imagining trying to pass this message on to others in our company.
I will say this, though. One message that came out of this book and that hit me loud and clear was that for "change" to stick, the meaning of the change has to be personalized to each individual, and it has to mean something to them, because once all the bells and whistles of the program are gone, and the initial excitement dies down, it will be impossible to keep a culture change program going unless others can relate to it personally and continue to buy into it on a day to day basis.
So, I thought THAT message was valuable and worth buying the book for, but I don't think I will be passing this out at our next book club. It was just not a book that was otherwise easily understandable to a much wider audience.
However, if you haven't read the original "Fish!" book yet, I HIGHLY recommend it...
Disneylayne.......2007-04-14
YOU MUST READ FISH. F I R S T.
THIS IS FOR ANYONE WHO JUST WANTS TO ENJOY LIFE AND NOT ALLOW THE EVERY DAY FOOLISHNESS AT WORK OR LIFE GET TO YOU....
YOU WILL PROBABLY BUY MORE THAN ONE COPY AND GIVE THE TWO BOOKS AS PRESENTS.
WE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO LIGHTEN OUR HEARTS, ESPECIALLY WITH ALL THE BAD THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE WORLD TODAY. OR JUST IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
Quick read, Back to basics.......2007-01-10
This book is one in the FISH series. It is a quick read. If you like the story telling approach to learning, you will like this book. Not one of my favorites.
A good followup to Fish!.......2006-11-10
This is an excellant, easy to read follow up to Fish! It continues the process, to keep the good things going. I strongly recommend this book.
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- The Musician's Guide to Pro Tools
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Templated Organic Synthesis
- Three Adventure Novels: She, King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain
- The Art of the Market
- The Search for Life in the Universe
- The Fake Rose & Sonny: Rekindled Love
- The Genius of Rome 1592-1623
- The drawings of Morris Graves: With comments
- Thyme of Death
