Herding Cats Revisited

This book is a collection of Five short stories with seven illustrations. Sometimes in these stories the cats are anthropomorphic, in others they are…well, just cats. The stories range from about 780 to 1700 words in length.This edition contains one major revision. The fourth story in previous editions was 'Sibling Rivalry'. This has been replaced with a new story 'Bobbin'. The illustrations are the sole work of the author with the exception of the one within the short story 'Herding Cats'. A special friend, Anne Turnbull, has kindly allowed me to use this picture. Any mistakes the reader discovers are, of course, the responsibility of the cats, who helped to edit the manuscript.

If you like Cats and People then you've found the book for you...Five Short stories with eight illustrations. Sometimes in these stories the cats are anthropomorphic, in others they are,...well, just cats. The stories range from about 780 to 1700 words each. The illustrations are the sole work of the author with the exception of the one within the Short story 'Sibling Rivalry.' A special friend, Anne Turnbull, has kindly allowed me to use this picture.Any mistakes the reader discovers, are of course the responsibility of the cats, who helped type and edit the manuscript.These stories make us laugh with our cats...and at ourselves! That, after all is what makes us human...The Five stories areIt's Raining Cats and DogsHerding CatsChicken?..for the SoulSibling RivalryThe Missing Cat

If you love cats and if you enjoy that special relationship between animals and ourselves, then maybe this is a book for you. Five short stories that explore that magical relationship and give some insight into our minds and theirs. At times in these stories the cats are anthropomorphic, in others they are...well, just cats. The stories range from about 780 to 1700 words in length. The illustrations are the sole work of the author with the exception of the one within the story 'Sibling Rivalry.' A special friend, Anne Turnbull, has kindly allowed me to use this picture. Any mistakes the reader discovers are, of course, the responsibility of the cats, who helped to edit the manuscript.

Ten years later, MLB.com writer Ian Browne caught up with many of the men from that never-say-die squad and wove their memories of the season, the playoffs, and their subsequent lives with his own journalism to create a book that is both poignant and hugely entertaining. Woven around the 2004 memories and insights of Derek Lowe, Keith Foulke, Dave Roberts, Gabe Kapler, Pedro Martinez, Johnny Damon, Mark Bellhorn, Tim Wakefield, Terry Francona, Theo Epstein, and others.A marvelous gift and profoundly satisfying read for Red Sox fans.

The past two decades have seen profound changes in the legal profession. Lives of Lawyers Revisited extends Michael Kelly’s work in the original Lives of Lawyers, offering unique insights into the nature of these changes, examined through stories of five extraordinarily varied law practices. By placing the spotlight on organizations as phenomena that generate their own logic and tensions, Lives of Lawyers Revisited speaks to the experience of many lawyers and anticipates important issues on the professional horizon. "Michael Kelly has done it again! His Lives of Lawyers Revisited is a very easy read about some very difficult notions like 'litigation blindness' and law as a business. It presents some fascinating perspectives on our profession." —J. Michael McWilliams, Past President, American Bar Association "The best single book about the American realities and possibilities of the American legal profession, combining an empathic and insightful account of law practice with a penetrating analysis of the wider context of professional work." —Marc Galanter, University of Wisconsin "Michael Kelly believes that professional values and conduct are not realized in codes, but in the experiences of practice, and that practice draws its routines and ideals from organizations. Through his studies of lawyers in various firms, closely observed and sympathetically described, Kelly reveals how differently organizations adapt to the intense pressures of today's practice environment. His method of linking individual life-experiences to organizational strategies and the external constraints of competition and client demands infuses realism and richness into the concept of professionalism and makes this one of the most interesting and original books on professions and professionalism to appear in years." —Robert W. Gordon, Yale Law School "In his two volumes of Lives of Lawyers, Michael Kelly explores legal ethics in an unusual, and unusually rewarding, way. Rather than focusing on rules or arguments, Kelly looks at the kind of lives lawyers lead. Ethics, Socrates thought, is about how to live one's life, and Kelly takes the Socratic question to heart. He explores the institutions lawyers work in and the choices they make. He writes with intelligence, great insight, and above all with heart. This is a superb book." —David Luban, Georgetown University Michael J. Kelly is President and Chairman of the Board of the National Senior Citizens Law Center, an advocacy group for older Americans of limited means.

This book describes the deep contradictions plague market economies. It shows how the influence of these contradictions sometimes subsides, allowing the economy to perform relatively well. But in time, these contradictions accumulate and economy declines as if it suffers from some degenerative disease. The policies designed to rise above these contradictions often spawn even more severe contradictions. This book describes how these contradictions have affected the economy of the United States in the past and the dangers that the future poses. For example, policies to stimulate the economy eventually lead to stagnation. Policies to make hold down wages make business even more uncompetitive. It also analyzes the destructive consequences of the military, finance, and the Federal Reserve. Finally, it debunks the mythological promise of a New Economy.