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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Customer Is Always Wrong The Retail Chronicles The Customer Is Always Wrong The Retail Chronicles Jeff Martin A tragicomic and all-too-revealing collection of essays by writers who have done their time behind the counter and lived to tell their tales. OL17477013W
Superpiss Meltykiss Spankers and Muff Superpiss Meltykiss Spankers and Muff Gordon Thorburn 1 online resource (192 pages) OL17558857W
Eat the rich Eat the rich P. J. O'Rourke To discover why some parts of the earth prosper and others suck, the bestselling satirist spent two years travelling the world, from Wall Street to Albania, in search of the bottom line. His travels … OL17736784W
Option$ Option$ Daniel Lyons A parody of Silicon Valley culture chronicles the struggles, triumphs, celebrity encounters, political hobnobbing, and counterintuitive management philosophy of Fake Steve Jobs, in a fictional memoir. OL1843357W
Eat the Rich Eat the Rich P. J. O'Rourke In P. J. O’Rourke’s classic best-seller Eat The Rich, he takes on an elusive subject, but one that is dear to us all—wealth. What is it? How do you get it? Or, as P.J. says, “Why do some places prosp… OL1914792W
When to Rob a Bank When to Rob a Bank Steven D. Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics FreakonomicsOver the past decade, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have published more than 8,000 blog posts on Freakono… OL19349859W
Sterling's gold Sterling's gold Matthew Weiner A collection of memorable lines spoken by the fictional character Roger Sterling on the TV series Mad men. OL19943566W
Sun Tzu Was a Sissy Sun Tzu Was a Sissy Stanley Bing We live in a vicious, highly competitive workplace environment, and things aren't getting any better. Jobs are few and far between, and people aren't any nicer now than they were when Ghengis Khan ra… OL2717395W
The mad scientist hall of fame The mad scientist hall of fame Daniel H. Wilson Profiles both real and fictitious scientists and their experiments. OL5823315W
The dictionary of corporate bullshit The dictionary of corporate bullshit Lois Beckwith This caustically funny Webster's of the workplace cuts to the true meaning of the inane argot spouted in cubicles and conference rooms across the land. At a price even an intern can afford and in a h… OL5848957W
The dead guy interviews The dead guy interviews Michael A. Stusser The interviewees in this irreverent book may not have a pulse, but, boy, can they talk! Ever wanted to ask Nostradamus for the winning lotto numbers or van Gogh about the whole ear episode? How about… OL9324600W
Confessions of an IT Guy Confessions of an IT Guy Richard Thrust In “Confessions of an IT Guy” Big Dick, exposes the darkest and most hilarious anecdotes from his career as a computer contractor in London, England. This book is simply bigger than big, ruder than r… OL9794671W