Download or read book The Devil s Dictionary of Business Jargon written by David Olive and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Devil's Dictionary of Business Jargon is an insider's guide to the new Corpspeak, with irreverent definitions of the words used in business to disguise the real intrigue, treachery and incompetence taking place behind the scenes. More than 500 cynical definitions in a dictionary format enhanced by over 100 quotations from sources as varied as John D. Rockefeller, Heather Reisman, Robin Williams and Jack Welch.
Download or read book The Devil s Dictionary of Corporate Lingo written by Jerry Bains and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil's Dictionary of Corporate Lingo: From Corporate Angel to Corporate Zombie is a satire and humorous social commentary on the contemporary corporation presented through the conceit of a dictionary of "corporate-speak." It also introduces stereotypical corporate characters with all their peculiar characteristics and behaviours in situations commonly encountered at work, in a satirical and witty and humorous way. As indicated in the introduction, "corporation" chiefly means the large multi-national, as only this type of corporation contains the entire human zoo and all its keepers. Around one third of the definitions have been illustrated by a celebrated professional cartoonist who has published more than 30 other books so far. The cartoons are some of the highest quality business cartoons yet drawn; they may be expected to garner plenty of attention in their own right. Few if any other publications can boast of so many cartoons on the subject of business gathered together under one cover. The objective is to make readers think as well as laugh.
Download or read book The Devil s Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-03-16T22:46:04Z with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in this work, did not appear until an 1881 column published in the periodical The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp. There were no publications of the complete glossary in the 1800s. Not until 1906 did a portion of Bierce’s collection get published by Doubleday, under the name The Cynic’s Word Book—the publisher not wanting to use the word “Devil” in the title, to the great disappointment of the author. The 1906 word book only went from A to L, however, and the remainder was never released under the compromised title. In 1911 the Devil’s Dictionary as we know it was published in complete form as part of Bierce’s collected works (volume 7 of 12), including the remainder of the definitions from M to Z. It has been republished a number of times, including more recent efforts where older definitions from his columns that never made it into the original book were included. Due to the complex nature of copyright, some of those found definitions have unclear public domain status and were not included. This edition of the book includes, however, a set of definitions attributed to his one-and-only “Demon’s Dictionary” column, including Bierce’s classic definition of A: “the first letter in every properly constructed alphabet.” Bierce enjoyed “quoting” his pseudonyms in his work. Most of the poetry, dramatic scenes and stories in this book attributed to others were self-authored and do not exist outside of this work. This includes the prolific Father Gassalasca Jape, whom he thanks in the preface—“jape” of course having the definition: “a practical joke.” This book is a product of its time and must be approached as such. Many of the definitions hold up well today, but some might be considered less palatable by modern readers. Regardless, the book’s humorous style is a valuable snapshot of American culture from past centuries. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book A Devil s Dictionary of Business written by Nicholas Von Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wicked and witty guide to all things "business" covers everything from Globalism to Globalony, and from Abacus to Zukor, and everything in between.
Download or read book The Devil s Financial Dictionary written by Jason Zweig and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Survival Guide to the Hades of Wall Street The Devil's Financial Dictionary skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain truths and aphorisms anyone can understand. An indispensable survival guide to the hostile wilderness of today's financial markets, The Devil's Financial Dictionary delivers practical insights with a scorpion's sting. It cuts through the fads and fakery of Wall Street and clears a safe path for investors between euphoria and despair. Staying out of financial purgatory has never been this fun.
Download or read book The Business Devil s Dictionary written by David James and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering everything from accountability ?defined 'in politics as the ability to count the numbers to see what you can get away with. In business, somebody else? problem' ?to Zzzzzzzzz ?defined as 'quality time' ?The Business Devil? Dictionary is a wicked list of business and finance terminology every person needs to know if they want to get ahead!Based on the popular Slithershanks column published in BRW magazine each week for the last five years, this book is a bitingly funny and cunningly cynical A to Z business lingo.
Download or read book The Unabridged Devil s Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce’s satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book’s ninety-year history. A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary offers some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth. This new edition is based on David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi’s exhaustive investigation into the book’s writing and publishing history. All of Bierce’s known satiric definitions are here, including previously uncollected, unpublished, and alternative entries. Definitions dropped from previous editions have been restored while nearly two hundred wrongly attributed to Bierce have been excised. For dedicated Bierce readers, an introduction and notes are also included. Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary is a classic that stands alongside the best work of satirists such as Twain, Mencken, and Thurber. This unabridged edition will be celebrated by humor fans and word lovers everywhere.
Download or read book The Devil s Dictionary written by Steven Kotler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler's follow up to Last Tango in Cyberspace, a near-future thriller about the evolution of empathy in the tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. Hard to say exactly when the human species fractured. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn, protagonist of Last Tango in Cyberspace, is the first of his kind—an empathy tracker, an emotional forecaster, with a felt sense for how culture evolves and the future arrives. It’s also a useful skill in today’s competitive business market. In The Devil’s Dictionary, when a routine em-tracking job goes sideways and em-trackers themselves start disappearing, Lion finds himself not knowing who to trust in a life and death race to uncover the truth. And when the trail leads to the world’s first mega-linkage, a continent-wide national park advertised as the best way to stave off environmental collapse, and exotic animals unlike any on Earth start showing up—Lion’s quest for truth becomes a fight for the survival of the species. Packed with intrigue and heart-pounding action, marked by unforgettable characters and vivid storytelling, filled with science-based brilliance and cult comic touches, The Devil’s Dictionary is Steven Kotler at his thrilling science fiction best.
Download or read book New Devil s Dictionary written by Rhoda Koenig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and beautifully illustrated collection of bitter, biting definitions to celebrate the centenary of The Devil’s Dictionary Ambrose Bierce’s classic The Devil’s Dictionary first appeared in its entirety in 1911. Its caustic wit and arch tone have ensured steady popularity and sales to this day. To mark its centennial, Rhoda Koenig gives us a new version of Bierce’s mordant vision. Its myriad definitions, like the original’s, individually expose hypocrisy, pretension, and vanity and collectively paint a mocking portrait of society at its worst. More than just a denunciation of jargon or political correctness, it lambasts old and young, rich and poor, male and female, left and right, and takes them all down a peg—or three. It deals with classic subjects but also defines new ideas and explicates new usages from “academia” to “teamwork” to “women’s magazine.” Among the many definitions inside: accessible, adj. (1) Of a subject, one that can be approached by the most intellectually handicapped, aided by the ramp of banality and the guardrail of diminished vocabulary. (2) Of a woman, a nice way of putting it. collectible, n. Object which many are eager to possess, though it may not be attractive, entertaining, or useful. Not to be confused with “spouse.” If you relish moral criticism of immoral behavior, The New Devil’s Dictionary will leave you howling for more.
Download or read book The Enlarged Devil s Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Penguin Modern Classics. This book was released on 2001 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil's Dictionary, begun as a weekly column when Bierce was a journalist, and developed into a full-scale satire, is, as he says, a punishment for rascals. Bierce became known as the 'laughing devil' of the San Francisco news media and his lampoons on religion, marriage, politics and society made him both the literary delight and the dreaded scourge of the whole Pacific coast. Written with wit, rather than humour, to be savoured by those 'enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment', The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary demonstrates that if Mark Twain was the great satirist of Southern life, Ambrose Bierce was his equal in the West.
Download or read book Business Babble written by David Olive and published by New York ;$aToronto : John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1991-09-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deliciously irreverent devil's dictionary of the latest business jargon. Word buffs, curmudgeons, and anybody who's ever wondered what business people are trying to say will love this insider's guide to the new Corpspeak. Includes 500 cynical definitions in a dictionary format, more than 200 quotations, and features humorous illustrations by award-winning cartoonist Barry Bitt.
Download or read book The Devil s Dictionary Classic Reprint written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Devil's Dictionary Meantime, too, some of the enterprising humorists of the country had helped them selves to such parts of the work as served their needs, and many of its definitions, anecdotes, phrases and so forth, had become more or less current in popular speech. This explanation is made, not with any pride of priority in trifles, but in simple denial of possible charges of plagiarism, which is no trifle. In merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed - enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean English to slang. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Devil s Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in this work, did not appear until an 1881 column published in the periodical The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp. There were no publications of the complete glossary in the 1800s. Not until 1906 did a portion of Bierce’s collection get published by Doubleday, under the name The Cynic’s Word Book—the publisher not wanting to use the word “Devil” in the title, to the great disappointment of the author. The 1906 word book only went from A to L, however, and the remainder was never released under the compromised title. In 1911 the Devil’s Dictionary as we know it was published in complete form as part of Bierce’s collected works (volume 7 of 12), including the remainder of the definitions from M to Z. It has been republished a number of times, including more recent efforts where older definitions from his columns that never made it into the original book were included. Due to the complex nature of copyright, some of those found definitions have unclear public domain status and were not included. This edition of the book includes, however, a set of definitions attributed to his one-and-only “Demon’s Dictionary” column, including Bierce’s classic definition of A: “the first letter in every properly constructed alphabet.” Bierce enjoyed “quoting” his pseudonyms in his work. Most of the poetry, dramatic scenes and stories in this book attributed to others were self-authored and do not exist outside of this work. This includes the prolific Father Gassalasca Jape, whom he thanks in the preface—“jape” of course having the definition: “a practical joke.” This book is a product of its time and must be approached as such. Many of the definitions hold up well today, but some might be considered less palatable by modern readers. Regardless, the book’s humorous style is a valuable snapshot of American culture from past centuries.
Download or read book The Devil s Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is a satirical dictionary that offers an ironic and cynical interpretation of English words and phrases. Bierce, with his characteristic wit and sarcasm, provides readers with a unique, humorous perspective on language. The Devil’s Dictionary is not just a book—it's an experience. The witty definitions, sharp social commentary, and incisive humor make it a fascinating read. It offers a satirical lens through which to view language and society. If you appreciate satire and wordplay, or if you're looking for a unique perspective on language, The Devil’s Dictionary is a must-read. Experience the humor and wit of Ambrose Bierce. Get your copy today!
Download or read book The Devil s Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Barclays Public Books. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to read The Devils Dictionary? If so then keep reading... The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881 and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. The author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed: enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor, and clean English to slang. A conspicuous and, it is hoped, not unpleasant feature of the book is its abundant illustrative quotations from eminent poets, chief of whom is that learned and ingenius cleric Father Gassalasca Jape, SJ, whose lines bear his initials. Ambrose Bierce disappeared in Mexico in 1913. What are you waiting for The Devils Dictionary is one click away, select the "Buy Now" button in the top right corner NOW!
Download or read book The Devil s Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power.Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbishinside.ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of thethrone.Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdicationSet all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation.For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her: She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her.To History she'll be no royal riddle-Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle.G.J.ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all truemen engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimesminister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity thatmen really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race wouldbecome graminivorous.ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitionsdistinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consistmainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; itis no easy task to be solemn.ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to beindependent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographeradviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself.Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.ABORIGINIES, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discoveredcountry. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.ABRACADABRA.By Abracadabra we signifyAn infinite number of things.'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why?And Whence? and Whither?-a word wherebyThe Truth (with the comfort it brings)Is open to all who grope in night, Crying for Wisdom's holy light.Whether the word is a verb or a nounIs knowledge beyond my reach.I only know that 'tis handed down.From sage to sage, From age to age-An immortal part of speech!Of an ancient man the tale is toldThat he lived to be ten centuries old, In a cave on a mountain side.(True, he finally died.)The fame of his wisdom filled the land, For his head was bald, and you'll understandHis beard was long and whiteAnd his eyes uncommonly bright.Philosophers gathered from far and nearTo sit at his feet and hear and hear, Though he never was heardTo utter a wordBut "Abracadabra, abracadab, Abracada, abracad, Abraca, abrac, abra, ab!"'Twas all he had, 'Twas all they wanted to hear, and eachMade copious notes of the mystical speech, Which they published next-A trickle of textIn a meadow of commentary.Mighty big books were these, In number, as leaves of trees;In learning, remarkable-very!He's dead, As I said, And the books of the sages have perished, But his wisdom is sacredly cherished.In Abracadabra it solemnly rings, Like an ancient bell that forever swings.O, I love to hearThat word make clearHumanity's General Sense of Things.Jamrach HolobomABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten.When in the course of human events it becomes necessary forpeople to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions ofmankind requires that they should declare the causes which impelthem to
Download or read book The Devil s Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical "reference" book written by Ambrose Bierce. The book offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language, lampooning cant and political doublespeak, as well as other aspects of human foolishness and frailty. It was originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book before being retitled in 1911. Modern "unabridged" versions that include Bierce "definitions" that were for various reasons missed by earlier editions continue to be popular a century later.
