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"Saw" is a milestone novel of the seventies. It is the first work of fiction ever to hide a hippopotamus. For the first time what has come to be recognized as a common modern neurosis, astronaut angst, gets full play in the fictional universe. For the first time anywhere in the history of fiction, in one of the most passionate encounters ever written, Eileen mates with a Sphere. Solid geometry finally has a face. The Cylinder is a nemesis, and its terrifying accomplishments roll on like a nightmare for this astronaut. This is a work of science fiction, geometric fiction, irrefutable fact and gourmand fantasies. ... Read more

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Accompanied with several artworks by the great painter, Antonello, this novel is Steve Katz's first since his acclaimed Swanny's Way. This magical fiction takes us from Rome and Venice to the heel of Italy, as two generations, father and son, engage in personal searches for meaning in their lives. Solomon, on a search for the paintings of the great Antonello and his son, Nathan, who follows in his father's footsteps to discover more about the man. Will he choose love and life or the sterility of the past?

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This original, innovative and memorable book that will give you insights on how to work with leaders and executives. --John Glenn, United States Senator and former astronaut

Do you feel that you need a whip and a chair to work effectively with your boss, client, customers, or others? You know the dangers-a growl if you throw them a compliment and a roar if you ever look for thanks!

Lions are the people in all organizations who wield power and influence. They act differently because they think differently. But that doesnt mean that they have to be difficulty to work with! Lion Taming will help you get inside their minds, so you can communicate and work more effectively together.

Based on in-depth interviews and research into real lion tamers as well as the experiences of numerous people at all levels of the workplace, Steven L Katz shows how the secrets of the center ring can lead to a great performance in the office.

Prey, the Enemy or Ignored: Lions make an instinctive calculation the minute any living thing comes into view: You are either prey, the enemy, or ignored. Lion Taming shows you how to avoid all three of these and earn a place in the pride.

The Lions Four Senses: Every lion in the workplace views things through four senses: Dominance, Territory, Social Standing, and Survival. Understanding these senses, and how to make use of them, will give you a leg up in working with your lion.

Sticking Your Head in the Lions Mouth: Lion Taming shows you how people stick their heads into the lions mouth in the office, why it shouldnt be done, and how to avoid it yourself.

Lion Taming Is Really Lion Teaming!: Ultimately, the purpose of lion taming is not just to survive. Lion tamers and lions work together to achieve something that neither could achieve alone. Together, you can leap through the hoop of fire!

Lion Taming also contains more than 75 secrets of the lions tamers and numerous strategies for working with the lions in your workplace, such as:

o Approaching the lions so the lions will approach you
o Closing the gap between attention getting and attention using
o Establishing trust and rapport
o Building the Lion Team in your office!

Lion Taming is the ultimate guide to everyones "real" job: working successfully and achieving results with leaders, bosses, and other tough customers!

LION TAMING HAS THE STRATEGIES AND SECRETS YOU NEED TO:
o Establish your presence, authenticity and credibility in the eyes of leaders, bosses, and other tough customers
o Identify the lions around you, and separate the good ones from the bad ones
o Get inside the lion's skull by learning about The Lion's Four Senses and The Lion's Instinctive Identity
o Decode the lions social worlds: the hierarchy and the pride
o Avoid being the prey, enemy or ignored, and become a very influential member of the pride or organization!
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Boring - don't waste your time
I can not understand the good reviews or the appraisal on the book cover. The book is very boring, repetitive, and too metaphoric, in the sense that it writes about actual lions and actual lion tamers. I can not say that I learned anything new, and the book could be easily compressed into 50 pages. Don't waste your time!

Artfully done!
It's not difficult to imagine yourself as a lion tamer, equipped with the traditional whip and chair, matching wits with lions like leaders, bosses, and customers. You have to keep your wits about you in your relationships with these cats. It's a lot like real-life lion taming. And yes, the consequences of angering a lion in business can be comparatively just as devastating as angering a lion in the circus cage.

OK, cute analogy. It shouldn't be that difficult to draw a few analogies and crank out a clever book. Perhaps, but Steven Katz went further...much further. It's obvious as you turn page after tempting page that this author did his homework. The lion tamers he consulted and learned from are named in the acknowledgements, and their influence is felt throughout the book. Whether the topic is the big cats with four feet or two, the lessons are plentiful, clear, and appropriate. The transition back and forth between lions and humans is smooth and natural. Learning Katz's lessons is comfortable, not forced.

We're surrounded by lions. "Being a lion is not a specific position, it is a state of being." It's essential to understand that lions have four senses beyond sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell: dominance, territory, survival, and social standing. You'll gain a deep appreciation of these elements in the three sections of this fast-moving paperback: Lions are Never Tame, The Art of Lion Taming, and Lion Taming is Really Lion Teaming. You can see the flow just from those section titles.

The book is filled with lessons that apply the fundamentals of lion taming to leadership, management, and other relationships. Conveniently, the lessons are all listed at the end of the book to pull it all together. Well worth the time to curl up with this book cover-to-cover.

How to Speak Truth to Power
LIONTAMING is an entertaining "users manual" for igniting leadership at all levels of an organization.Through the lens of an analogy as powerful as Aslan in Narnia, author Steve Katz boldly takes you on a journey into the workplace as a lions den.Unlike Dilbert's facetious approach to Catbert, Dogbert and other "manajerks", Steve ratchets the risk up a notch and deals with the ferocious realities of the King of the Jungle himself.Drawing on years of experience with leaders at the highest levels of government, Steve explores the role of office staff way beyond merely managing their managers or following their leaders by bringing fresh insights into workplace survival tactics.After Steve's presentation at American University's Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation, I promptly bought his book and featured him at both an Interagency Regulatory Forum and the US-EPAs Transformational Leadership Conversations series.If you enjoy reading LIONTAMING, you'll be amazed at how it can come alive in a discussion.

"Lion Taming" Delivers Real Value
Steve Katz's "Lion Taming" fills a real void in the literature on management, which focuses primarily on leadership, strategy, and implementation of change.His focus is on the close, personal advisors to powerful decision makers within corporations, government, and nonprofit entities.His purpose is to identify the principles by which such key staffers can increase their effectiveness while retaining their integrity.His analogies to "lion taming" are not a stretch.As I read Steve Katz's book, I relived whole episodes in my own career and suddenly perceived how they fit together into a broad and comprehensive analytical pattern.I am just sorry that this book wasn't available thirty years ago when I was a freshly-minted MBA!

A Good Read!
Imagine these scenarios: Your corporate leaders are always "difficult." You butt heads with your superiors and even your clients. As a middle manager, you have trouble figuring out what the boss wants. You seem to fight too much with your spouse. If any of these examples are familiar, you need to learn how to tame the "lions" in your life. Using analogies from training actual lions in the circus ring, author Steven L. Katz shows you how to work with human lions - people who demand dominance and control - from a bossy supervisor to a stubborn spouse. This is intended to be a textbook for the study of human psychology and interaction. Though you might wish it were a little deeper, the jungle beast analogy keeps it interesting. We recommend it to those who want to learn how to stand their ground in business, politics or modern day culture. ... Read more

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American writer Steve Katz published his first book, The Lestriad, in 1962. Subsequent novels and collections have continue to appear from such imprints as Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Random House; Alfred A. Knopf; Ithaca House; and Sun & Moon. According to critic Jerome Klinkowitz, Katz has "pushed innovation farther than any of his contemporaries." W. C. Bamberger regards him as "the most important living American novelist." This first extended guide to the author’s fiction includes a bibliography, detailed index, notes, and 200 pages of illuminating commentary. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 452 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Steve Katz. Swanny's Ways.(Book Review)
Author: Daniel Barth
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 16Issue: 2Page: 166(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Steve Katz, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2609 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

• Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
• Family members
• Education
• Professional associations and honors
• Employment
• Writings, including books and periodicals
• A description of the author's work
• References to further readings about the author

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Description: Painter Among Poets: The Collaborative Art of George Schneeman is the first full presentation of the wide range of projects that Schneeman has co-created over the past 35 years. Painter Among Poets not only investigates Schneeman's signature enthusiasm for free-wheeling artistic collaboration, it also considers his work as part of the remarkable tradition of poet/painter collaboration that grew out of 19th- and 20th-century modernism. Always open to spontaneity and engagement, Schneeman encouraged poets to cross over into his dominion and contribute visual elements to the projects in order to create a surprising work of art that neither artist nor poet could have done alone. Painter Among Poets offers the reader a behind-the-scenes look at the high-wire process of collaboration as an outgrowth of Schneeman's friendships with poets Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Michael Brownstein, Tom Clark, Edwin Denby, Larry Fagin, Dick Gallup, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Greenwald, Steve Katz, Lewis MacAdams, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, Harris Schiff, Peter Schjeldahl, Tom Veitch, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, and many others. Twelve of Schneeman's collaborators contribute essays and remembrances to this volume, which also features an essay by Carter Ratcliff, an extensive conversation between Schneeman and Padgett, a detailed checklist of the artist's collaborations, and a bibliography. ... Read more

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Description: Painter Among Poets: The Collaborative Art of George Schneeman is the first full presentation of the wide range of projects that Schneeman has co-created over the past 35 years. Painter Among Poets not only investigates Schneeman's signature enthusiasm for free-wheeling artistic collaboration, it also considers his work as part of the remarkable tradition of poet/painter collaboration that grew out of 19th- and 20th-century modernism. Always open to spontaneity and engagement, Schneeman encouraged poets to cross over into his dominion and contribute visual elements to the projects in order to create a surprising work of art that neither artist nor poet could have done alone. Painter Among Poets offers the reader a behind-the-scenes look at the high-wire process of collaboration as an outgrowth of Schneeman's friendships with poets Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Michael Brownstein, Tom Clark, Edwin Denby, Larry Fagin, Dick Gallup, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Greenwald, Steve Katz, Lewis MacAdams, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, Harris Schiff, Peter Schjeldahl, Tom Veitch, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, and many others. Twelve of Schneeman's collaborators contribute essays and remembrances to this volume, which also features an essay by Carter Ratcliff, an extensive conversation between Schneeman and Padgett, a detailed checklist of the artist's collaborations, and a bibliography. ... Read more

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A must read for anyone from Washington Heights
The story is written well and is captures your attention, expecially so if you were born and raised in the upper Manhattan neighborhood known as Washinton Heights.Unfortunately, the author ran out of steam at the end and the story falls flat on its face with a rather amateurish close.I'd still recommend it for anyone who grew up there between 1950 and 1970 ... Read more

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Stolen Stories is a collection of short stories by Steve Katz on a variety of subjects. The subjects range from fictional to the sensational. Whether it is a cannibal slowly devouring her mate, a talking dog, a man made of wax, or living tiny white elephants carved from ivory discovered by accident on a beach, each is full of dark humor and conviction. ... Read more

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Seasoned cyclist's advice, maps & route information for more than 85 routes throughout Kansas City. Road routes, trails and more. ... Read more

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Guide to Cycling Kansas City
The extensive maps and information in this book are very helpful to a Kansas City cyclist.It is worth every penny! ... Read more

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Katz' "Greatest Hits"
Understanding Steve Katz' particular brand of humor, as well as knowing when he's being totally serious, is not an easy task.But reading avant-garde fiction is never easy, and that's what I love about Katz; he'snot easy to read.His fictions challenge our notions of what fictionshould look, sound, and even act like.

In "Parcel of Wrists" heimagines himself receiving a package containing dozens of human wrists, butthe return address seems to indicate the point of origin as a city thatdoesn't exist.So the author goes on a long quest to find the mysteriouscity while his wrists are at home brewing up a surprise for him when hereturns."Death of the Band" is a sharp satire of postmodernmusic.The protagonist is a detective searching for a famous composer whoends all of his musical compositions by killing the members of hisorchestra.

Katz is a deft wordsmith whose stories have the rhythm of jazzcompositions."43 Fictions," which does not contain 43 fictionsbut instead refers to the author's obsession with the number 43 (it plays aprominent role in many of his books), is not the best Steve Katz book outthere, but it's a good introduction to his virtuoso style and unique wit. Excerpting books like "Moving Parts" and "Exagggerations ofPeter Prince" does not do the original books justice."Saw"in particular does not lend itself to snippets for anthologies.I'drecommend "Stolen Stories" as a better introduction to Katz, but"43 Fictions" does present the breadth of his work in a condensedform, which is both a strength and a glaring weakness. ... Read more