Books with author Robert,Browning

“How that man was able to go out to that storage shed, time after time, and bury one more dead boy is something I'll never understand. You get close to evil like that, no matter how long ago it was, and it never leaves you.” Detective David Mullican, recollecting the Houston Mass Murders, April 2011During the early 1970s, more than three dozen teenage boys went missing from the working-class neighborhood of Houston Heights, in the south of Texas. The parents of a number of these boys received strange postcards from their sons, telling them that they were fine and that they had found jobs somewhere else in the state, anywhere from Dallas to Austin.Then, in August 1973, the Houston Police Department made a shocking discovery; something that would later become known as the Houston Mass Murders.After further spine chilling investigations, the police found that prior to the murders, in the late 1960s, a young man by the name of Dean Corll had been handing out free candy to teenagers in Houston Heights. This man – who was vice-president of his mother’s candy company – was described by fellow residents as gentle, friendly and well-mannered.They couldn’t have been more wrong…The Candy Cards is the shocking true story of Dean Corll, a.k.a. The Candy Man, one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. Robert Browns thrilling account of this chilling story will have readers draw into to this story as much as any page turning crime thriller.Disclaimer: The material in this publication has a strong adult theme and is intended for an adult audience. Reader discretion is advised.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Complete Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the subject of a legend concerning the disappearance or death of a great number of kids from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing, leading the kids away from the town never to return. In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service, he retaliates by turning his power that he put in his instrument on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version of the story spread as folklore and has also appeared in the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm and Robert Browning, among others. Using the Verstegan/Wanley version of the tale and adopting the 1376 date, Browning's verse retelling is notable for its humor, wordplay, and jingling rhymes. Robert Browning (1812–1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. The speakers in his poems are often musicians or painters whose work functions as a metaphor for poetry. This carefully crafted ebook: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Complete Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the subject of a legend concerning the disappearance or death of a great number of kids from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Middle Ages.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Illustrated Edition)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the subject of a legend concerning the disappearance or death of a great number of kids from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing, leading the kids away from the town never to return. In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service, he retaliates by turning his power that he put in his instrument on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version of the story spread as folklore and has also appeared in the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm and Robert Browning, among others. Using the Verstegan/Wanley version of the tale and adopting the 1376 date, Browning's verse retelling is notable for its humor, wordplay, and jingling rhymes.Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. The speakers in his poems are often musicians or painters whose work functions as a metaphor for poetry.

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library.

At the top of a dusty cellar stairs, two little girls sit listening at a crack in the ceiling. Chloe and Isabella live here beneath the floor, in a cramped and dreadful basement apartment, where they have cared for their sick mother for as long as they can remember - never told what they are hiding from and never allowed to leave. They sit day after day listening to the sound of happy children above them, wishing for a different life than the life of fear and hiding they were born into. One day, the food stops coming. Desperate, they crack open the hatch door. They creep out to find themselves in Herr Drosselmeyer's Toys, the most fantastical toy shop in the world, and the final project of the great Doctor Calvin Calgori. Calgori - the very man who had invented time travel and thinking automatons! Each night the girls sneak out to play with, and befriend, the marvelous toys - until they learn why they’ve been forced to spend their lives in hiding.

Most change efforts fail. Learn how you can succeed when others will not. Change management fails 70% of the time. Employee buy-in is anemic. Emotions are stronger than facts. Resistance to change is a given. Cost overruns are more common than not. Yet, the modern business rule is change, quick, effective and substantial. How about a simple, results oriented model to guide you through the thinking and feeling world of change? The HST Model for Change provides a template that can be used everywhere and with other models such as Kotter and ADKAR. It adapts insights from organizational development and Lean Thinking, neuroscience, sports psychology, coaching, employee engagement, and team building. “HST” stands for “Harnessing the Speed of Thought.” Based on current ideas in the neuroscience of thinking, HST slows the human thought process so that people can more effectively work together. Normally, a group of people rush to promote a personal point of view and debate the merits of each to make a decision. HST enables individuals to assemble the best solution. The critical difference is by using HST, individuals are working together toward the same emotionally compelling goal, including organizational change goals. No matter who you are or what you do, you will not learn a more valuable skill than HST. The model has only two parts: 1. The change must make emotional and logical sense from start to finish to all participants2. The change must be made by teams, and their leaders must know how to form and lead teams By defining what must happen and by identifying each step, the HST Model provides leaders and managers a practical way to ensure change initiatives work. Leaders will learn how to set up the change process even before change is contemplated and ensure buy-in by all strata of the organization. All activities are transparent, and each step is agreed to before the next is taken. By beginning with the basics, how the human brain works, this new model creates a direct path from idea to implementing and sustaining. It works by supporting people needs first, which then support business needs. You will be able to design, promote and conduct any size change in all parts and levels of every organization. After reading The HST Model for Change, you will be inspired, and well-prepared. Author Robert Brown enables readers to reach that most elusive of management goals, getting everyone on the same page.

Learn to succeed when others will not Change management fails 70% of the time. The HST Model for Change provides a template that can be used everywhere and with other models such as Kotter and ADKAR. It adapts insights from organizational development and Lean Thinking, neuroscience, sports psychology, coaching, employee engagement, and team building. "HST" stands for "Harnessing the Speed of Thought." Based on current ideas in the neuroscience of thinking, HST harnesses the human thought process so that people can more effectively work together. Normally, people rush to promote personal points of view and debate the merits of each to make a decision. HST enables individuals to assemble the best solution. With HST, individuals work together toward the same emotionally compelling goal. No matter who you are or what you do, you will not learn a more valuable people skill than HST. This is how it works:1. The change will make emotional and logical sense from start to finish for all participants2. The change is made by teams led by trained leaders You will learn how to set up the change process even before change is contemplated and ensure buy-in by all strata of the organization. All activities are transparent, and each step is agreed to before the next is taken. This new model creates a direct path from idea to implementing and sustaining. You will be able to design, promote and conduct any size change in all parts and levels of every organization. After reading The HST Model for Change, you will be inspired and well-prepared. Author Robert Brown enables readers to reach that most elusive of management goals, getting everyone on the same page.

"The Pied Piper of Hamelin" is the subject of a legend concerning the disappearance or death of a great number of kids from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing, leading the kids away from the town never to return. In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service, he retaliates by turning his power that he put in his instrument on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version of the story spread as folklore and has also appeared in the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm and Robert Browning, among others. Using the Verstegan/Wanley version of the tale and adopting the 1376 date, Browning's verse retelling is notable for its humor, wordplay, and jingling rhymes.Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. The speakers in his poems are often musicians or painters whose work functions as a metaphor for poetry.

In 1284, while the town of Hamelin was suffering from a rat infestation, a piper dressed in multicolored clothing appeared, claiming to be a rat-catcher. He promised the mayor a solution to their problem with the rats. The mayor in turn promised to pay him for the removal of the rats. (According to some versions of the story, the promised sum was 1000 guilders.) The piper accepted and played his pipe to lure the rats into the Weser River, where all but one drowned.

“How that man was able to go out to that storage shed, time after time, and bury one more dead boy is something I'll never understand. You get close to evil like that, no matter how long ago it was, and it never leaves you.” Detective David Mullican, recollecting the Houston Mass Murders, April 2011During the early 1970s, more than three dozen teenage boys went missing from the working-class neighborhood of Houston Heights, in the south of Texas. The parents of a number of these boys received strange postcards from their sons, telling them that they were fine and that they had found jobs somewhere else in the state, anywhere from Dallas to Austin.Then, in August 1973, the Houston Police Department made a shocking discovery; something that would later become known as the Houston Mass Murders.After further spine-chilling investigations, the police found that prior to the murders, in the late 1960s, a young man by the name of Dean Corll had been handing out free candy to teenagers in Houston Heights. This man – who was vice-president of his mother’s candy company – was described by fellow residents as gentle, friendly and well-mannered.They couldn’t have been more wrong…The Candy Cards is the shocking true story of Dean Corll, a.k.a. The Candy Man, one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. Robert Browns thrilling account of this chilling story will have readers draw into to this story as much as any page turning crime thriller.Disclaimer: The material in this publication has a strong adult theme and is intended for an adult audience. Reader discretion is advised.