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|  | Bombast Transcripts
IN more ways than one, Chris Locke has raised a godawful racket on the Net. Under his alter-egotistical nom de plume, RageBoy, and through his webzine, Entropy Gradient Reversals, he has entertained and enlightened thousands of readers from some of the world's largest companies, governments, and institutions-including those from which he's managed to escape.Now for the first time in browser-free format, THE BOMBAST TRANSCRIPTS brings together the best of his worst. And his worst is very good indeed. Marvel as one of America's foremost social critics interviews pop-media superstars such as IBM's Lou Gerstner, Sayanarology's Moe Ron Hubbard, Godzilla, Mr. Ed, and, in a twisted hall-of-mirrors tour de force, RageBoy himself. Tremble in awe as mysteries of the universe unfold, from thermodynamics and cutting-edge neurophysiology to sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll. Thrill to obfuscation so arcane you'll need to be sedated. Laugh so hard you'll think you have been. While Locke's semantic antics will have you in stitches, his real aim is for the jugular-via a triple bypass transplanting business, media, and social mores into a carnivalesque landscape of the imagination where conventional logic bellies up and flatlines. Part scathing send-up of commercial techno-fetishism, part hysterical stand-up on the theme of spiritual bankruptcy, part intimate memoir of a vibrant and uncompromising life, THE BOMBAST TRANSCRIPTS will rock you, shock you, and leave you pondering what The Economist once called the wisdom of RageBoy. From the Bombast Transcripts: Wandering barefoot on the Lower East Side of New York, over a thousand dollars cash in my pocket, looking to score, bring back for the holy freaks the one good thing. Odysseus adrift. Also in my pocket, the Tarot, the Waite deck I'd just bought that day. I went into The Eatery on Second Avenue and my waitress saw the cards. 'I was raised by Gypsies,' she said. 'I will tell you about the trumps if you like.' I had just dropped an
CATEGORY: Business 
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 | The Birthday Present by Donald Gillies, Kevin Murawski, Valerie Garfield
Harold wants to give his mother the nicest birthday present ever. But what would she like? Harold uses his purple crayon to help him find a present, and the search takes him far away from home. On his trip, Harold creates a forest of trees so large that he has to fly over it with the help of a friendly bird. He looks for the perfect birthday present in some very surprising places. AUTHOR: Donald Gillies, Kevin Murawski, Valerie Garfield
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Other
CATEGORY: Children's
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 | Virtual HR by John W. Jones
There is a shift throughout organizations and this book shows the driving forces of information technology, globalization, high speed management, process reengineering, networked organizations, and the knowledge workers of today's workforce. AUTHOR: John W. Jones
PUBLISHER: Crisp Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Competitor Targeting by Ian Gordon
Powerful weapons for waging and winning the business war
Most books on competitive intelligence are full of vague theoretical constructs regarding information gathering and storage. This book, on the other hand, gets right down to the nitty-gritty, with proven techniques for identifying and laying waste to a company's most serious competitors. Readers learn why going on the offensive rather than just gathering information on competitors helps increase market share and shareholder value. And they get loads of practical advice and guidance on identifying the most serious competitors, flushing out competitors' secrets, using technology to advance a competitive initiative, creating strong allies, harvesting competitors' employees, staging a successful counter offensive when you've been targeted, and much more.
Ian Gordon (Toronto, Canada) is President of Convergence Management Consultants, a leading strategic marketing consulting firm. He is a founding member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, President of the Association for the Advancement of Relationship Marketing, and the former head of Ernst & Young's (Toronto) strategic marketing consulting practice. AUTHOR: Ian Gordon
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Business
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 | The Money Culture by Jonathan Reese, Michael Lewis
An intrepid and mercilessly sharp-sighted safari through the financial jungles of the 1980s--from the author of the New York Times bestseller Liar's Poker. With devastating wit and a flair for unveiling the smoke and mirrors of high finance, Lewis takes a new look at many of the most influential and devastating episodes of the get-rich-quick decade. AUTHOR: Jonathan Reese, Michael Lewis
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Money Smarts by Lucy O'Neill
Description not available.Introduces the concepts of banking, credit, budgeting, and planning for the future, and provides information about the best ways to approach these things. AUTHOR: Lucy O'Neill
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Business
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