Hayes Books

The story of wealth and poverty, and how a little ingenuity will cause fate to turn on all. There is a rich, prideful man- who finally gets what he deserves when his less fortunate neighbors teach him what becomes of a man who is never content, yet always wanting more. The rich man tries to prove that no one is as wealthy as he, because he can use a different spoon for every bite he eats! This is a classic book on being content with what you have, and seeking for beauty in what surrounds you.

A Spoon For Every Bite is a completely bilingual gem of a book. You do not have to be bilingual to enjoy it though because on one page it is in Spanish, on the next English, so if you speak just one, you would have no problem with this book at all...but if you are bilingual this is an added bonus!! The story line would be captivating on its own, but the artwork is so incredible, that you will want to read it again and again. The faces shine with life, the gestures are so real and beautiful. The wink at eachother, or smile with pride and the whole while you can tell exactly what the illustrator has intended. It is astonishing to little and big readers alike! Beautiful, this book is too stunning to pass up!

Illustrate the powerful interaction of air, water, and the sun's energy to create weather systems. Convey the destructive power of thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes with dramatic images.

In this book, Michael Hayes has collected 52 poems that he describes in the Introduction as "a few examples which demonstrate the extent and diversity of the poetic imagination at work in some of the greatest poets, as well as the almost-forgotten", and includes a very brief biography of each author.

The contents and authors:

- Night and the Witch Duessa (Spenser)
- Knight in Armour (Drayton)
- Fairy Song (Shakespeare)
- The Witches Song (Jonson)
- The Hag (Herrick)
- Satan Arises (Milton)
- The Guardians of the Gates of Hell (Milton)
- Lo, a Shadow of Horror is Risen (Blake)
- The Vast World of Urizen Appears (Blake)
- Tam o'Shanter (Burns)
- Kilmeny (Hogg)
- The Wizard Appears (Scott)
- Christabel (Coleridge)
- Kubla Khan (Coleridge)
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge)
- The Old Woman of Berkeley (Southey)
- Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogene (Lewis)
- The Dance of the Consumptives (White)
- The Incantation (Byron)
- Arethusa (Shelley)
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Keats)
- The Haunted House (Hood)
- The Doomed Giants (Horne)
- The Slaying of the Monsters (Horne)
- The Phantom-Wooer (Beddoes)
- The Old Ghost (Beddoes)
- The Ghosts of the Departed (Longfellow)
- The City in the Sea (Poe)
- The Haunted Palace (Poe)
- The Kraken (Tennyson)
- The Lady of Shalott (Tennyson)
- The Fairy Thorn (Ferguson)
- The Fairies (Allingham)
- The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston (Dobell)
- Mammon Marriage (MacDonald)
- Will o' the Wisp (Meredith)
- Sister Helen (Rossetti)
- The Hour and the Ghost (Rossetti)
- Saturnalia (Lytton)
- The Writing on the Image (Morris)
- After Death (Swinburne)
- Ghost Glen (Kendall)
- The Bridge of Death (Lang)
- The Rising of the Dead (Lee-Hamilton)
- The Binding of the Lost (Lee-Hamilton)
- The Willis-Dancers (Sharp)
- The Washer of the Ford (Macleod)
- The Stolen Child (Yeats)
- The Sack of the Gods (Kipling)
- The Listeners (de la Mare)
- The Ballad of Zacho (Flecker)
- The Shadow People (Ledwidge)

This beautifully produced coffee-table book arose from a fashion exhibit held by the Victoria & Albert Museum in the early 1990s. I can't say enough about the layout, photography, and amazing color throughout the book. While the exhibit curators obviously labored mightily to put the exhibit together, the book manages to catalog it all in an enthralling way. A bit expensive for people like me, but you should definitely find a copy to browse through if nothing else.

I found this book to provide an awesome amount of background as well as an uplifting source of strategies for addressing the massive changes going on in our world today. We are so dependent on oil! While many people fear change Michael tells a story that offers plenty of reason and inspiration and practical ideas for how to start rebuilding the systems that are not working all around us. The wonderful emerging hopeful message in this book is that there is a better way to live than the way we are living today!

Wow! When I sat down to read "Talbott Street" I was more than a bit concerned that the novel would be too dark for my typical summer reading. After all, it is a story told at the bedside of a banker-turned-poet dying of AIDS. And yet, it captured me, and my wife, immediately. The novel unfolds through a series of flashbacks alternating with chapters at the dying man's bedside. As he sleeps, his longtime friends tells us how they both came to this point. By using the dying man's journal entries, ditties and poems, and with some astounding dialogue, we slowly come to understand the twenty-year friendship. But it's a friendship with a twist since the narrator telling the story is straight and the dying man is gay - or bisexual. They meet in college, separate, are reunited five years later, remain together for a year in Indianapolis and then part under brutally difficult circumstances for eight years until the dying man asks his friend to return to help him die. I can't say too much more without giving the surprise away, but there is a love triangle (straight), a murder, and in the end, hope for redemption. But it's the language that makes the novel. Hayes has a knack for the poetical rendering and phrase, and in fact an appendix to the novel contains poems (I'm assuming written by Hayes himself)which are attributed to the dying man. Talbott Street is a bar, the place of a murder, a painting, a London address - and well, a symbol for change. A must read. A lyrical tour de force!!!

Much as the nature of subject defies it, RedBooks has done it again, the book is a no BS Guide to TCP/IP and related protocols. Very Readable with just enough stress on the history and such. Nice overview of Security (IPSec, VPNs and such) though some more examples would have been helpful. Figures, though well presented, could use to be more than they are. Compares very favorably to Comer's First Volume, surpasses it by preoviding an overview more specific to SysAdmin audience to whom code is not of that much importance. Buy it, highly recommended.

A wonderfully user friendly book. I finally understood curriculum models. This book is very useful for both the Cert. ED. and the B.A.in Professional Studies. The latter being the degree I am currently studying for, with non other than Andy Armitage himself as one of the tutors. My only regret with this book was that it wasn't available when i took my Cert. Ed.

This is a grounded and accessible text that includes relevant and interesting pieces of what it means to teach city kids. The chapters are well organized and put together to form a book that is comprehensive and interesting. I recommend the book to anyone interested in urban education.

From the back...
Laura Sandoval loved young, orphaned Rico as if he were her own son. But she knew the boy needed much more than a mother's loving arms. For the once cheerful child was now refusing to speak, afraid of something-someone-that Laura could not discover.
She knew of only one man to turn to: Nick Garrett. But even as the self-exiled doctor attempted to unlock Rico's hidden fears, danger came calling. And suddenly this makeshift family of three was on the run.
Their only clue existed in the mind of a silent child. Their only chance meant staying together. Their only recourse was to fall in love.

In my Opinion...
Nick who played an important role as Annie's therapist in 'Our Child?' and 'Homecoming' is back in this book. Nick is on an emotional edge in this book. He feels guilty for the death of a teenage boy and has distanced himself from everyone and everything. Nick lives this way for almost a year before he gives in to A.J., an old friend, and agrees to talk to a young boy that is staying at Hope House. Unfortunately, the child is traumatized and refuses to speak. His teacher, Laura, shows up and is determined to take Rico home with her. Laura knows that she needs help if she is going to figure out what Rico is so afraid of. Laura knows of only one person to turn to, Nick. Nick is reluctant to get involved because he has doubts about his own abilities as a psychiatrist. He eventually gives in and agrees to help Rico, which in turn, helps Nick regain his confidence. When the very thing that Rico fears comes after him and puts all three of them in danger, they take off. Along the way the three become a family, but will it last after the danger is gone? This is a story of guilt, friendhip, family, and love. It also has a good dose of danger and mystery, which sets us up for the next book, 'Second Father'. In 'Second Father' we learn more about the 'dirty cops' behind Rico's mothers death.