New Releases by Richard Greene

Questions: How can we develop a way to measure the culture of devices, technologies, and products? What modifications of the dimensions of difference between cultures of nations, organizations, and professions would extend them to measurement of the culture of devices? Once device cultures become measurable, would interactions between them and cultures of users help us predict sales, profits, future versions, and competitive outcomes among products competing in markets? Method: A pilot study on a small unrepresentative sample of smartphone users was done. 64 dimensions of difference of cultures of any type, that were developed originally for comparing organization, market, and business practice cultures, were extended to handle measurement of the culture of devices and users, using what kinds of action and reaction features of any device afford and effect. Applied to specify the culture of the iPhone 4S (split into calling functions, data functions, interface functions, cognitive help functions, social index expansion functions) and to specify the culture of iPhone4S and Galaxy III users (split into the same five types of functions) interactions between these thusly specified cultures were obtained. Helps and hindrances in device cultures for user functions were obtained. Most salient misfits were calculated and used to predict new features of the iPhone 5. Results: Sample limitations permitted only qualitative relations -- most numerous and/or extreme misfits noticed did correspond to 2 of 3 next features of smartphones and who (which users) switched vendors. This suggest further research with large more representative samples is warranted.

Yes, you run a successful business but are you building lasting and sustainable value? Do you have a clear idea as to why you are in business? Do you get buried in the challenges of the day, leaving no time to think or create? Are you the lone go-to guy in your company? Building Value takes you through the five keys that you need to execute to ensure that you are building a wealth platform rather than being in the position of just owning your “job.”Building Value is written with small and medium-sized business owners in mind. It takes The Five Keys ...• Know Where You are Going• Be Flexible and Aware• Build Simple and Repeatable Systems• Create Space and Time• It''s About the Business, It''s Not About You... and turns them into an easy-to-understand guide to help you stay focused on your goals while navigating the constant change the defines not only business but everyday life. Filled with stories that describe both successes and failures, Building Value is a quick read that will get you thinking differently about ”Why” you are in business and “How” you are going to build you wealth platform. Whether you are looking to build a family legacy, build the next Fortune 100 Wall Street wonder, sell your business to outside investors, or just improve your paycheck, Building Value gives you The 5 Keys you need to succeed.

For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell''s poetry has been neglected by critics. But born into a family of privileged eccentrics, Edith Sitwell was highly regarded by her contemporaries: the great writers and artists of the day who attended her unlikely London literary salon. Her quips and anecdotes were legendary and her works like English Eccentrics confirmed her comic genius, while later she established herself as the quintessential poet of the Blitz. This masterly biography, meticulously researched and drawing on many previously unseen letters, firmly places Edith Sitwell in the literary tradition to which she belongs.

There have been a number of Graham Greene biographies, but none has captured his voice, his loves, hates, family and friends–intimate and writerly–or his deep understanding of the world, like this astonishing collection of letters. Graham Greene is one of the few modern novelists who can be called great. In the course of his long and eventful life (1904—1991), he wrote tens of thousands of letters to family, friends, writers, publishers and others involved in his various interests and causes. A Life in Letters presents a fresh and engrossing account of his life, career and mind in his own words. Meticulously chosen and engagingly annotated, this selection of letters–many of them seen here for the first time–gives an entirely new perspective on a life that combined literary achievement, political action, espionage, exotic travel and romantic entanglement. In several letters, the individuals, events or places described provide the inspiration for characters, episodes or locations found in his later fiction. The correspondence describes his travels in Mexico, Africa, Malaya, Vietnam, Haiti, Cuba, Sierra Leone, Liberia and other trouble spots, where he observed the struggles of victims and victors with a compassionate and truthful eye. The volume includes a vast number of unpublished letters to authors Evelyn Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Anthony Powell, Edith Sitwell, R.K. Narayan and Muriel Spark, and to other more notorious individuals such as the double-agent Kim Philby. Some of these letters dispute previous assessments of his character, such as his alleged anti-Semitism or obscenity, and he emerges as a man of deep integrity, decency and courage. Others reveal the agonies of his romantic life, especially his relations with his wife, Vivien Greene, and with one of his mistresses, Catherine Walston. The letters can be poignant, despairing, amorous, furious or amusing, but the sheer range of experience contained in them will astound everyone who reads this book.

What explains the huge popular following for Dexter, currently the most-watched show on cable, which sympathetically depicts a serial killer driven by a cruel compulsion to brutally slay one victim after another? Although Dexter Morgan kills only killers, he is not a vigilante animated by a sense of justice but a charming psychopath animated by a lust to kill, ritualistically and bloodily. However his gory appetite is controlled by “Harry’s Code,” which limits his victims to those who have gotten away with murder, and his job as a blood spatter expert for the Miami police department gives him the inside track on just who those legitimate targets may be. In Dexter and Philosophy, an elite team of philosophers don their rubber gloves and put Dexter’s deeds under the microscope. Since Dexter is driven to ritual murder by his “Dark Passenger,” can he be blamed for killing, especially as he only murders other murderers? Does Dexter fit the profile of the familiar fictional type of the superhero? What part does luck play in making Dexter who he is? How and why are horror and disgust turned into aesthetic pleasure for the TV viewer? How essential is Dexter’s emotional coldness to his lust for slicing people up? Are Dexter’s lies and deceptions any worse than the lies and deceptions of the non-criminals around him? Why does Dexter long to be a normal human being and why can’t he accomplish this apparently simple goal?

Since 1968''s Night of the Living Dead, zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture. Today, zombies and vampires have taken over TV shows, comic books, cartoons, video games, and movies. Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy drags the theories of famous philosophers like Socrates and Descartes into the territory of the undead, exploring questions like: Why do vampires and vegetarians share a similar worldview? Why is understanding zombies the key to health care reform? And what does "healthy in mind and body" mean for vampires and zombies? Answers to these questions and more await readers brave enough to make this fun, philosophical foray into the undead.

Befriended by a slave and the captain of a riverboat, a young runaway named Joseph Greene found adventure on the river and the love of a your Mary McAlexander. The Civil War would not only test their love for one another but the faith of the McAlexander, Chrisman, and Patterson families as each endured the war''s death and destruction.

Boxing the Compass is a poetry collection of mid-life reassessments that also makes room for the martyrdom of Saint Polycarp, tone-deaf church choirs, the last of the Newfoundland whalers, and vividly remembered Portuguese fishermen. Spiritually searching and intellectually rich, Richard Greene''s third book --which ranges from intimate to ironic to satiric --shuns easy answers in poems of unfashionable eloquence comprised of colloquial textures, clear-eyed narratives, political subtexts, and no-nonsense introspection.

The films of Quentin Tarantino are ripe for philosophical speculation, raising compelling questions about justice and ethics, violence and aggression, the nature of causality, and the flow of time. In this witty collection of articles, no subject is too taboo for the writers to tackle. From an aesthetic meditation on the use of spraying blood in Kill Bill to the conundrum of translation and reference in Vincent and Jules'' discussion about French Big Macs in Pulp Fiction, Tarantino and Philosophy shies away from nothing. Is The Bride a heroic figure, even though she’s motivated solely by revenge? How is Tarantino able to create a coherent story when he jumps between past, future, and present? The philosophers in this book take on those questions and more in essays as provocative as the films themselves.

"''Shroom! " is a nine-foot tall talking mushroom that mysteriously appears to give Arnold Miracle something called Allpowers, but doesn''t tell Arnold what they are or how they work. Soon, Arnold finds himself on a twisted adventure of discovery and nearly ultimate power that transcends time, space and good taste. The story bounces backward and forward in time from Los Angeles to NYC, from 1930s depression-era Hollywood to the depths of Loch Ness, from vintage ''50s Vegas to the Cretaceous Era, from the moon to an infamous Dallas day in November ''63, from the Amazon river to the plains of Iceland to, finally, shocking revelation on the shores of Maui. " ''Shroom! " features an extraordinary supporting cast that includes Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Martin & Lewis, James Bond, Laurel & Hardy, JFK, John Lennon, William Randolph Hearst, Bettie Page, Charlie Chaplin, Lucky Luciano, God and a few surprises. One of them is that Arnold isn''t the only one with Allpowers. A villain named Kling also has them and he wants Arnold Miracle way totally dead. It all ends with an epic Allpowers battle between Good and Evil, a beautiful girl in lingerie, some man-eating fish, Charlton Heston in a loincloth and rum smoothies. It''s a comedy.

Using his personal experiences as a practicing physician in the Berkshires, Dr. Richard Greene has written a fast paced novel of blackmail and romance. As the plot twists and turns, he tackles the dilemma of medical ethics vs. morality.

Lawrence is a high-tech train engine that is intelligent and can communicate with people. He and his engineer, Mike, work together to help bring emergency supplies to Diablo Valley when there are unseasonable snow storms.

A century of great oration is collected in this volume, from the speeches of leaders such as Winston Churchill and Douglas MacArthur to the words of Martin Luter Kings, Jr. and other reformers.

A stunning, elaborately illustrated biography of the man who had an immeasurable impact upon American culture. This timely biography, told through the captivating and vivid words of those who knew, and studied Walt Disney, provides the most revelatory protrait to date of the man who has become an icon of American culture. More than 70 men and women were interviewed, including friends, employees, and historians, adversaries and rivals, and, most especially, family members, who add a special "private" contest to a very public work.

Billions of dollars are spent each year on technology in cities and states, from desktop computers to mainframes. It is impractical for non-specialists to master the complex inner-workings of these new technologies, yet public managers'' reliance on information technology to govern effectively make IT planning and implementation crucial. Two respected journalists from Governing magazine provide a unique, nuts-and-bolts guide to help current practitioners, as well as students who will become tomorrow''s city and state managers, successfully oversee IT specialists and maximize the potential of IT systems. This first book in the Governing Management Series draws on the authors'' involvement in the Government Performance Project (conducted by the Syracuse''s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs). Barrett and Greene, after conducting nearly 100 interviews with practitioners on the front lines, look systematically at the best practices of cities and states that garnered high grades in the study. They offer real-world and up-to-the-minute guidance about procurement, strategic planning, training, out-sourcing, standardization, project management, cost-benefit analysis, and the appropriate use of the Internet in the public sector. Powering Up features summary take-away points and three in-depth case studies, pointing readers to both innovations to emulate and pitfalls to avoid.

Follows the life of Walt Disney from his boyhood on a Missouri farm through his struggles as a young animator to his building of a motion picture and amusement park empire.

The first comprehensive guide to Holst''s orchestral suite considers the music in detail and places the work in its historical context.

Richard Greene''s poetry examines a wide range of sujects: politics, spirituality, marriage, fatherhood, landscapes, the environment, Newfoundland culture, war, mortality, and the afterlife. His poetry has been widely admired for its unusual combination of technical competence and visionary intensity. One of the main conce s of this volume is the political and religious implications of a profound sense of place.

Describes results from 1990, the second year of a continuing study of the effects of noise from oil production activities on bowhead and (secondarily) white whales during their spring migrations around Alaska. Additional data was collected on physical acoustics, whale reactions to helicopters, and reactions of bowheads to the same type of drilling noise used in 1989.