A collection of 14 short stories, the events ranging from the extraordinary to the everyday. The author has also written "Snakewrist" and his stories have appeared in the "London Review of Books", "London Magazine", and the "Critical Quarterly". He was also featured in "Best Short Stories 1986".

About the Body

Burns, Christopher

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

William Heinemann, Ltd.

The Condition of Ice

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

"Great poetry is personal" writes Christopher Burns in his introduction to this extraordinary collection. "Like a seashell held to your ear, a poem resonates to the beating of your heart. The poet brings the words, you bring your life, and together you make the song." 
Burns has created an anthology of great English and American poems that emphasizes the personal aspect of poetry. He has gathered poems that are relevant today and organized them by subject in a meaningful and provocative way. Poets as diverse as Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Sara Teasdale, and Gary Snyder, for example, echo the themes and images of "Western Wind" hundreds of years apart. Lucille Clifton, Maya Angelou, and Janet Flanders describe their mothers. Separated by more than a century, Robert Browning and Richard Wilbur talk about the way men look at women. Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg describe the America each has found. 
Included here are fine poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, and William Butler Yeats. There are haunting works by Anne Sexton, Denise Levertov, Langston Hughes, and Robert Lowell. Some of the poems are funny, others are sad. Many are familiar, others, less celebrated, are powerful and will not soon be forgotten. Half the poems were written by Americans and half by English, Welsh and Scottish poets. And this anthology is modern: A third of the poems were written in the last fifty years and a third were written between 1900 and 1945. 
The poems follow the contours of life; the loneliness of the artist, the uses of war, the role of nature, the constancy of love, and the approach of death. Like all great poems they are personal. As you read them be prepared to hear your own heart roaring in your ear.

Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry, The

Poetry

Random House, Inc.

Snakewrist

HarperCollins, Publishers

The New Old Age: Exercise, Fall in Love, and Change the World

Health, Fitness & Dieting

The Seashell Press

Samantha the songbird escapes her cage and discovers a beautiful world where everyone is free, and the activities of each contribute to the good of all. But this world is in danger from those who wish to take what doesn’t belong to them. Samantha talks with a spider, a bear, and others who inspire her to take a stand to protect her new home. The story’s important message is presented in appealing rhyme, accompanied by charming illustrations. “Songbird, Fly!” is a story that both children and adults will love revisiting again and again.

Songbird, Fly!

Children's Books

Animals

Forward Spiral

Lost No More is dedicated to the lost souls who struggle daily to find a way to a life free of drugs and alcohol. It is a story about how a mother's spiritual belief system helped her to survive the untimely death of her son . To embrace the belief that life is full of challenges and things happen for a reason, offers support to the reader whose life has been impacted by addiction. Lost No More will touch your heart and offer strength for those who are trying to find a way to live without someone they love.

Lost No More...A Mother's Spiritual Journey Through Her Son's Addiction

Biographies & Memoirs

Burns, M.S., L.P.C.C., Marilyn

Leaders & Notable People

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

How did we get into today's financial mess that not only threatens America but the entire world? Remember Enron? Why did that debacle happen? How do groups privy to special knowledge and "truths" make decisions that lead to disasters like the Iraq War, the sinking of the Titanic, and the blow up of the Challenger Shuttle? How could such informed experts end up being so wrong? In Deadly Decisions, Christopher Burns―one of the country's leading experts on modern information management―searches the biology of the brain, "group think," and the structure of organizations for practical answers to the problem of virtual truth―internally consistent evidence and assumptions that purport to describe reality, but often are dead wrong!• How can we avoid wishful thinking, information overload, uncertainty absorption, and an unintentional twisting of the facts? • Why are startup groups agile and innovative while large organizations lumber along, bogged down in false knowledge? • How can societies rediscover the power of truthful communication?Burns suggests that, as individuals, we must learn to be skeptical of our own sly and beguiling minds. As members of a group, we need to be more wary of the omissions, inventions, and distortions that come all too naturally to all of us. And as consumers of information we have to hold professionals, politicians, and the media more accountable. As Deadly Decisions makes clear, only through a deeper understanding of how individuals, groups, and society process information can we succeed in those extraordinary endeavors that are the promise of the Information Age.

Deadly Decisions: How False Knowledge Sank the Titanic, Blew Up the Shuttle, and Led America into War

Psychology & Counseling

Prometheus+books

Review\n"A network to a world of connected people? We all need to know how we got there, why it exists, what the implications are for the current state of development, and where we are going. The voice that informs us must be cogent, rational, and deeply knowledgeable. At the end of a lifetime of strategic advisory work, Christopher Burns in Networks Rising fills that need with readable prose that all of us should be profoundly grateful for!" —David Worlock, chief research fellow, Outsell Inc.former chairman, European Information Industry Association+\n"Skip this book, unless you want an absolutely riveting look at the invisible deep networks Chris Burns says will encircle us, nudging us through our lives, beneath our level of awareness, and not entirely under our control." —Leland Schwartz, author and editor\nFor the second time in human history, we are on the verge of broad new breakthroughs in health, productivity, and personal freedom. And many-to-many networks are the reason. In business, government, and war, information is no longer the privilege of a powerful few. Now everyone knows what anyone knows, and we are applying that diversity of experience and perspective to expand the frontiers of our lives. We are starting to think together. The age of hierarchical organizations has ended. Social media networks, online forums, and guerilla broadcasting are connecting us in communities with fewer bureaucratic layers. In swarms, walkouts, strikes, and insurrections, people are sharing experience directly in real time, marching together into the public square, and demanding a greater voice in the new democracy. Networks Rising is the colorful story of unsung technology wizards waving us on, of philosophers struggling to free us from the dictates of church and state, and of sociologists, futurists, and even science fiction writers offering dozens of new schemes for living in a more connected world. At a time when so many of our institutions seem deeply challenged, we are actually poised at the beginning of what might be humanity's greatest leap forward in 25,000 years.

Networks Rising: Thinking Together in a Connected World

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Gaudium Publishing

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Burns, Christopher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Burns, Christopher