Bøker av Peter Hughes

Wheels within Wheels is not about the wheels which drive your local bus, but the hidden wheels which have run Sydney's buses for many years:The wheels of politics - because transport has always been influenced by politicians, and not always for the right reasons.The wheels of money - because too often public funds have been spent on unworthy causes.But not all politicians made wrong decisions, and not all money invested in Sydney's buses was wasted.Wheels within Wheels is the history of how Sydney's bus services developed and changed over six decades, including the story of how one bus owner stood up to the government, won five court cases in a row and got the law changed.

Comments on previous work by Peter Hughes:'a poet who stands at the very forefront of twenty-first-century lyricism' -Ian Brinton, P.N. Review 'Peter Hughes personalises and modernises the Romantic lyric mode of address, blending it into the stratum of practical everyday living with its hassles and clutter, and the conversational speaking voice. He plays with the inheritance of the European love poem as a renewal of it, sometimes seeming to undermine it and then folding it back into his purpose. This is a poet working very much in his own way, and breaking the rules of just about all current schools.' -Peter Riley'Peter Hughes has persevered in the face of everything that conspires to stop you doing it. This is now a measured poetry of the everyday, an intense clarity produced from a steady gaze and replete with respect for the otherness of people, place and things. It is immanent with the numinous which moves towards the surface and sometimes manifests itself in a startling cognition.' -John James'I turn the new page and am in bliss with the pertinence and grace of the living language.' -Kelvin Corcoran'Read it, in the expectation of any number of lyrical pleasures, for the ear, for the play of line against continuous movement, for its celebration of remembered pleasures, for its good will and for its wit. By this last, I mean a mind in evidence in the poems that can constantly surprise itself in the turns of speech, that can dance in the syllables and still have world and experience in its sights.' -John Hall

Travelling through time from Ancient Egypt to today, A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues unpicks the past, illuminates the present and offers a new perspective on the future through these controversial symbols of our identity.

After a decade concentrating on his distinctive versions of Italian classics, Peter Hughes moves on to this collection of poetry crystallising out of extended stays in Cambridge and Berlin.

If you're stuck in an old leadership paradigm, get ready for marginal performance and disappointing results. With change quickening every day, it's more important than ever to create a positive and enabling culture to thrive. In this business guidebook to leadership excellence, Peter Hughes explores how to: · motivate and engage employees; · fix problems that will have an immediate impact on your bottom line; · discern the differences between management and leadership; and · help employees overcome their greatest challenges. The author also examines whether leaders are born or whether anyone can become a successful leader, ways lean concepts are being applied differently in organizational settings, and why smart people so often fail after being promoted to the managerial ranks. Take a journey that leads to substantial improvements in performance and create a positive culture where everyone is poised to succeed with this leadership guidebook.

"As good as the movies." - John Hall

Peter Hughes, born in 1956, has been writing for 30 years, and this volume sums up his career to date. Already the author of two-and-a-half Shearsman collections, and editor of a Shearsman anthology devoted to poets from his own chapbook press, Oystercatcher, this volume will cement his reputation as one of the UK's most interesting, and unclassifi

The issue of 'sustainability' in the developed world is nowhere more critical than in the field of personal travel, which in many countries has become the fastest-growing contributor to global warming. This book sets out the steps that could be taken to lessen the conflict between personal mobility and long-term environmental security.