Hughes Books

we bought this book for our daugter, who is now 7, when she was 4, but she never requested it, and we never actually read it until now, with her and our son who is 5.
it is full of short entertaining stories of clever people and animals, and invariably makes us smile. some of the stories are familiar, but most have at least one little twist to keep them interesting. it is thought-provoking and truly well chosen for 5-year-olds.
we just finished it tonight, and i am disappointed to see how difficult it is to acquire more of them--both kids have now requested stories for 6-, 7- and 8-year-olds!

I thought my four year old daughter would be much too advanced for this book, but found it to be very age appropriate, well written, and entertaining for both me and my daughter (even after reading it sixteen times!). Well done. A birthday is coming; I will progress to the next book in the set.

A definite must read book. Shame I couldn't find it in any stores! A wealth of fascinating information laid out in a very addictive narrative style. I couldn't put it down. Much to everyone else's annoyance. I'm sure every ones eyes would be opened to a lot of what's secretely going on by a book such as this, especially as we are getting more focused on global warming, politics and globalisation nowadays. I also checked out Mr. Hughes' facts (as he advises the reader to do), they all check out, even if the path to the truth of some of his claims seems to be for some strange reason, occassionally obscured!How he came by his information is anyones guess and maybe best left alone! This writer definitely has something here!! Can't wait for his next work.

What an awesome book. If I had this book when I first started out as a paralegal I would be much more successful, especially in billing...boy is that an art form. The chapters on goals and goal setting are perfect and the author really takes the time in explaining why this is such an important process as well as providing stories to further illustrate his point. I've been in the profession over 8 years and anything I've learned about how to bill, working in general in a law office, assignments etc. was just through trial and error or being baptized by fire. There is an easier way to learn all of this and it's all in Surviving and Thriving in the Law Office. If you're new to the profession or considering a career in the paralegal profession, read this book. Save yourself some of the agony most of us veterans have had to learn on their own. You won't be disappointed.

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

I must say that this is the second novel of Langston Hughes and it greatly shows how he perfected his craft. Not that the first (Not without Laughter) wasn't good. It was level to this one except that the comedic timing is on par. I read it in 2 days and laughed all the way through. Not a waste of time.

As a devotee of Paul Hughes-Barlow's "Supertarot" website, I was greatly
pleased with my recent purchase of his book Tarot and the Magus". Quite
simply, ALL the material with which I had become familiar (the Elemental
Dignities, Card Pairing and Counting) is present here, but in improved book
format. This, together with significant new material, in a single stylish
volume, attractively illustrated with (monochrome) images of the
Crowley-Thoth deck, makes this book a wonderful addition to any Tarot or
Magickal library.

For those (like me) in the process of honing personal systems of divinatory
"meaning" for the cards, the methods described here allow significant progress
towards producing useful readings in the interim. Separation of the more
"mechanistic" part of reading (forming an underlying Tarot "story") from the
subjective or intuitive process, allows additional meaning to be added as an
thin layer, according to the experience and the progress of the reader. As a
bonus the book could even be used with other popular decks based on the Thoth
structure but e.g. with more pictorial minor arcana scenes.

The book is structured around the traditional Eleven Chapters of Magickal
texts of history. A cursory glance at the text reveals too a significant
departure from the usual format of introduction and end material, surrounding
a lengthy list of card meanings! Each chapter here, begins with illustrated
pairs of Major Arcana cards, but selected according to a new, intriguing take
on an ancient Qabalistic (Atabash) sequence. Lest anyone be put off by the
notion, suffice it to say that this provides an interesting and logical take
on the Major orderings! Aces and the Minor (including Court) cards then take
their place in chapters, according to more familiar "Tree of Life" positions.

Rather than the usual commentaries on card meaning, the text here concentrates
on more useful, personal observations made by the author and includes notable
commentary on Crowley's original texts. In this sense, perhaps the book
becomes more appropriate for someone with some basic notion of Tarot? Despite
that, it remains an eminently approachable text and above all, appropriate to
someone with the serious desire to learn (a whole lot!) more.

The novel card ordering is also used to advantage, using Gematria values of
card combinations to generate new meaning and even suggest hitherto occult
(sic!) significance in the original Tarot card ordering! The specific topics
(cited above) form the remainder of each chapter. This had an effect of
curbing this reader's inate tendancy to "skip about" and miss out on other
important information!

Half way through the book, we are lead, albeit fairly seamlessly, into more
Magickal areas promised by the Title? Again, no very specialist knowledge,
experience or initiatory status is needed, but a basic understanding of some
terminology might be an advantage? This could e.g. already be within the grasp
of the many readers, particularly those familiar with or using the Thoth deck.

Some of them may also be familiar with the attribution of various "spirits" to
the Tarot cards. Previously, decks such as Lon MIlo Duquette's popular "Tarot
of Ceremonial Magic", gave correspondences for Enochian Angels, Goetic
Deamons, Shemhamphorash Angels and the lesser known Spirits of Crowley's
Liber 231! Despite this, the neophyte could perhaps be forgiven for being a
little confused as to exactly HOW these entities could indeed be useful?

Methods for evoking the Goetia are perhaps common enough, even in beginner
texts on High Magick! But these often seem to depend on a process of cajoling
reluctant entities, followed by extreme effort to restrain the powers thereby
released! Not for the fainthearted? But here, it is the authors view (and
indeed experience), that all these (especially Liber 231) spirits appear as a
direct and painless consequence of the presence of certain "unaspected" (qv)
cards revealed during the practice of reading techniques described in earlier
chapters. At very minimum this must represents a significant contribution to
the working and understanding of the relatively unfamiliar Liber 231 spirits.

Despite this reviewer's own Magickal experience being limited to "theory" in
these areas (and a background in professional science, laced with skepticism)
I found the topics discussed in this book to be totally captivating. True
knowledge of this material (and ones own Holy Guardian Angel) is perhaps
indeed something to which one might aspire? Overall Tarot and the Magus
represent a unique insight into the workings of a modern-time and practicing
Magus and Tarot Reader.

The hero has some image issues. He would like to make himself more apealing to the oposite sex. More specifically he would like to make himself more apealing to the heroine who is his secretary. He perhaps unwisely aproaches his secretary to help him in this endeavor. I would think many secretaries would freak out if aproached by their boss about this but fortunately she takes it well. At least they are presented as being on comfortable if not romantic terms. It is so sweat how she "teaches" him and falls in love with him in the process. Things go well for him because he can see that he is making progress. However, things do not go well for her because she thinks he is taking his knowledge elsewhere and wooing someone else. The teaching is clean though and limited more to the chaste activities of romance.

Teaching Self-Determination is an excellent guide for human services professionals. Using the information in this book, I was able to make significant improvements to my program design and individualized service plans. Specifically, it helped me focus my goal writing and intervention planning to assist my developmentally disabled clients to improve their independent living skills. The authors address how to promote autonomous behavior, self-advocacy, and self-realization, all valuable skills in the development of self-regulating behavior. I would further recommend readers of this book also read any thing by Albert Bandura.