I’ve now published the annotated version of my film-script ‘Wombat & Cockie‘ in book-form – see the Tetradian Books website here for the book-info, and here for the free-download PDF e-book.
Set in the drug-gangs culture of present-day Melbourne, it’s an odd mixture of a cops-and-criminals black-comedy, merged with a Dreamtime motif in which all of the players enact the characteristics and character of the respective bird or animal Dreaming.
Of all my scripts, this is the one most likely to reach production: a colleague spent some time a couple of years ago developing it further, but I haven’t heard from her since. Not that it matters: it’s just a bit of fun, really, though there are some serious themes behind it, using fiction to explore the complexities of interlinked transactions of violence and abuse at a societal level.
My regular outing to make use of Lightning Source’s annual ‘free setup’ promotion, it’s technically vanity-publishing – but I spent at least six months writing the script, so it seems worthwhile to get something tangible out of all that work! It won’t be available in printed form, other than direct from me, but anyone is welcome to download the e-book for free.
Hope it helps, anyway: “Share and Enjoy”? 
Yup, I’ve been at it again – getting more of my previous material from the past few years out into printed-book form.
This one’s Power and Response-ability: the human side of systems – click the link or the graphic for more details on the Tetradian Books website.
As usual, there’s a free download of the e-book available from the Tetradian Books site; printed copies should become available in a couple of weeks’ time from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com and other retailers.
Basic idea is a really simple dichotomy: the physics definition of ‘power’ is the ability to do work, whilst most social definitions are more like the ability to avoid it. As I put it in the book, “many of the common concepts of power in business are so close to perfectly wrong that it’s amazing any work happens at all…” The resultant mess is a key concern for enterprise architecture, particularly as we start to integrate the human side of systems into the architecture at the whole of enterprise level.
This isn’t as much of a workbook as the others in my Tetradian Enterprise Architecture series: the only diagnostic checklist is right at the end, in the appendix. It’s more of a text-based exploration of the issues around personal power, shared power and ‘ability to do work’ (hence ‘response-ability’), both in the workplace and in the wider business / economic milieu (themes I’ve been researching for the past couple of decades and more, really). In that sense, it also gives the business background to SEMPER and all the other tools and techniques that I’ve packaged under the Tetradian banner.
Share and enjoy, perhaps? Comments much appreciated, anyway.
Yup, they’re back already from the printers (thank you Lightning Source for a service much quicker than your listed ‘10 business days’!) – Elements of Pendulum Dowsing and The Dowser’s Workbook are now officially back in print.
Links on the Tetradian Books website also point to the (free) e-book versions:
Will probably take me another week at least to get the e-commerce section of the site up and working. But judging by the speed with which Real Enterprise Architecture turned up on Amazon, they should also be orderable direct from Amazon, Borders, Barnes&Noble and the others with the next few days, too.
Please pass around to your various acquaintances, if you would? – many thanks!