Shaw Books

Awesome resource for my grad. work - transaction was rapid and the book arrived in good shape

The book is a great book to have while doing you Pediatric clinicals. And I was very impressed with the short time it took me to recieve the book.

A great companion to reading the works of George Bernard Shaw. It helps to understand the literary techniques singular to the author, the socio-political background of his writings and the themetic structure prevalent throughout all his works. This is truly a necessary companion to reading his work.

A great companion to reading the works of George Bernarnd Shaw. It helps to understand the literary techniques singular to the author, the socio-political background of his writings and the themetic structure prevalent throughout all his works. This is truly a necessary companion to reading his work.

Patricia Shaw wrote a great book because it gives a completely different view on the contribution of the "change" consultant to organizational change. Don't introduce models and schemas but initiate and fuel conversations in the organization not as a planned event but as a way of working. The strong point of this book is that Shaw lets the reader look into her consultant kitchen and takes you along with her "discoveries". It is a must read for every consultant with an urge to initiate all kind of change initiatives in organizations. And it is the most concrete example of the where the complexity 'school' from Ralph Stacey stands for I could find.
I have only one objection to this otherwise fantastic book. Shaw finds it necessary to set herself aside from all the other alternative change approaches in her last chapter. I would have liked this book even more if she just had skipped that chapter.

I really enjoyed this book. It is very readable and very practical. I have a Masters Degree in Complexity Theory and this book beautifully complimented my understanding of the power of conversations to get to the deeper complexity of issues and the limitations of our traditional workplace meetings. I have been pushing for a conversational structure to my meetings at work (I work in organisational development), discussion and development groups that I run outside work and in my interpersonal relationships.

This book talks about children coping with daily life, coping with major trauma, and they talked about the gender as in social relationship based on differences between the sexes. I have learned that children live in a unique culture, that children if given a chance, they can already articulate the joys as in playing of their daily life. The stress measurement in children is that they rank according to the development of the taxonomies of stressors derived from children's interviews, school class discussion, or sentence completion. With the children's coping with stress, behavior problems, and coping with daily life as the child begins to grow up, families are going to have to deal with all of these problems.

"Children's Stress and Coping" is a masterfully instructive tool to increase parents' awareness of common childhood stressors as well as provide essential coping patterns which may be applied for daily, successful parenting.

This Subject is rarelyseen and, unfortunately , too rarely understood

This Subject is rarelyseen and, unfortunately , too rarely understood

Philip Fletcher is in serious trouble. His friend and fellow actor, Seymour Loseby, died suddenly, and a volume of his diaries is missing. Seymour's son, a government minister and rising star in the political establishment, has received a threat to publish its contents unless paid a hundred thousand pounds. He turns to Fletcher to act as go-between.

But the black-hearted actor has powerful reasons of his own to recover the missing volume. Now nearing the end of his career, he hopes not only to get a knighthood out of it from the grateful minister, but to suppress the contents of the missing book, which contained details of Philip's unsavory involvement in a couple of murders.

Philip's knightly quest draws him into a world of transvestite nightclubs and gangsters, and the aging actor has to draw on all his thespian skills, with an assist from blackmail and the occasional murder, to survive.

"The Company of Knaves" contains more than a whiff of the theater's greasepaint, and author Simon Shaw, flings acid-tinged darts thrown with great glee at actors and actresses, entertainers, and just about everything British. Amid this filthy world of cynicism and violence, Fletcher is still a trouper at heart, and the show must go on no matter what.

London actor Philip Fletcher is irate when he learns that his worst nightmare is about to come true. His most despised theatrical rival, Richard Jones, is to be knighted. Philip knows that he does not deserve such an award because he (Phillip) has not received his own knighthood. Surely the crown knows that Philip is superior to Dick and the amoral actor will do anything to insure he gets knighted.

Nigel Loseby, an MP, turns to Philip for help. Apparently, his deceased father's journal, filled with scandalous entries that would make President Clinton blush, is about to be published. Nigel wants the journal back. Philip agrees to obtain the journal, but Nigel must help get him get knighted. Posing as a singing transvestite, Philip begins his journey into the world of S&M, drag queens and transvestites to recover the missing journal.

Like the previous novels in this collection, THE COMPANY OF KNAVES is a very humorous satire that rips asuner the English theatre and award shows, especially the use of knighthoods granted to frivolous individuals. Readers will either love Philip's lack of decency or absolutely loathe the actor. The trek into the seedier side of town will also be dually received by readers depending on their sense of morality. No matter how one might feel about Philip's antics, Simon Shaw has written a clever dark comedy with his latest entry in the Fletcher theatrical crime series.

Harriet Klausner

I am not sure what it is exactly about this book, but all three of our kids have loved it! We started reading it to each of them when they were around 6 months old up to about 2 and half years old. Then they started reading it to us.

My 9 month old baby loves this book. Don't buy it unless you're willing to read it 4 or more times in a row, but you won't mind much because it's such a pleasant book. Great illustrations, and a nice rhyme. I bought it because a friend told me her kids loved it, and sure enough, mine does too. Very sweet, and a good sturdy board book besides.

Shaw is a pioneer blazing trails for earth scientists into real applications of the popular but rarely applied theories of dynamical system behavior. This text is a landmark in science that opens doors to new ways of thinking, challenges many scared cows of the science, and points to better paths. Anyone interested in Choas, fractals, system dynamics or earth processes in general will find this book a deep intellectual keystone to scienctific thoughts.

Shaw sets a new standard for synthesis in the sciences, not just the earth and planetary sciences.His profound and compelling theory provides a wholly new view of earth history and dynamics through the medium of nonlinear dynamics. This is a tremendously exciting, landmark work around which seminars in several different disciplines should be organized.

This is a great book. Just what I needed....came when I was really calling out to God about needing His comfort and assurance. He's an awesome God! This book really strengthens my spirit.

The devotions in this book are truly inspired by the Holy Spirit. I have been touched and changed due to the inspired writings of the author. The devotions are written as spoken to her from the Holy Spirit, the love and tender heartedness from the Holy Spirit pierces even the harden of hearts. Great Gift for family and friends who seek a closer walk with the Lord.

This is a fabulous book. It is part of the larger "Man & Superman" by Shaw, and I must admit that I am very glad it has been published as a separate work, because it is a discrete entity in itself. It lays open the whole panorama of Social Darwinism: Why are we here, where is humanity going eventually, what is our purpose, and what is the ethos of evolution. Like the previous reviewer, I saw it first in a dramatic presentation. Actually nothing HAPPENS in this play... It is a discussion between four characters about the purpose of existence. But what a discussion! It debunks religion, patriotism, war, love, marriage, morals, responsibility, and "progress." It is surprisingly universal, and while it does poke fun at Victorian rigidity, its contents are relevant today. The divergent points of view map out psychology, sociology, ethics, and politics for the ensuing century. It is wonderful that an inexpensive book can be this rich!

I dimly remember from the early to mid Sixties this episode from near the end of the THIRD Act of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman, broadcast on Public Television with a younger George C. Scott deliciously, wisely, wearily, darkly, grippingly playing Don Juan, subtly, powerfully filling the profound and philosophical dialogue with urgent life.

I would give anything to see it again. Never was Mr. Scott so good; never theatre so well written than by this sardonic Irishman. This fine reprinting by the Dover Thrift Editions (to which this review is directed) begins not only with an excellent introduction as published a half century ago by John Mason Brown, but also a moving forward by the great actor Charles Laughton who bears a lament similar to mine own. Where now lies theatre worthy of presentation such as this? What has our great culture and civilization and technology brought us which can ever surpass this segment of a larger work from one hundred years ago?

This Dover Thrift Edition generously bears full implicit theatrical presentation rights with no need for permissions nor licensing. Anyone who possesses this book may present it upon the stage. When you do, please let me know! Or let us read and discuss it together, now, on earth.