Download or read book The Asshole Survival Guide written by Robert I. Sutton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is a contemporary classic—a shrewd and spirited guide to protecting ourselves from the jerks, bullies, tyrants, and trolls who seek to demean. We desperately need this antidote to the a-holes in our midst.”—Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of To Sell Is Human and Drive How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic The No Asshole Rule As entertaining as it is useful, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan for anybody who feels plagued by assholes. Sutton starts with diagnosis—what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field-tested, evidence-based, and often surprising strategies for dealing with assholes—avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, sending them packing, and developing protective psychological armor. Sutton even teaches readers how to look inward to stifle their own inner jackass. Ultimately, this survival guide is about developing an outlook and personal plan that will help you preserve the sanity in your work life, and rescue all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk. “Thought-provoking and often hilarious . . . An indispensable resource.”—Gretchen Rubin, best-selling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before “At last . . . clear steps for rejecting, deflecting, and deflating the jerks who blight our lives . . . Useful, evidence-based, and fun to read.”—Robert Cialdini, best-selling author of Influence and Pre-Suasion

Download or read book You May Be an Asshole But You re My Kinda Asshole written by Dee Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking for the perfect gift for your boyfriend or husband for Father's Day, Birthday, Anniversary or Christmas? Want something truly original? A Journal for him with a hilarious saying is a fantastic little notebook that he is sure to appreciate. It's great for writing notes, thoughts, phone number or shopping lists, creating poems, keeping as a diary or planner, getting co-ordinated or a hundred other uses. It has a glossy cover and is just the right size (6" x 9") for throwing into a briefcase, bag or backpack to take with him anywhere. It has blank lined pages with a fun pen header on the top of each writing page. Any guy would love this funny little book!

Download or read book The No Asshole Rule written by Robert I. Sutton and published by Business Plus. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work. "What an asshole!" How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to deal with assholes...and why they can be so destructive to your company. Practical, compassionate, and in places downright funny, this guide offers: Strategies on how to pinpoint and eliminate negative influences for good Illuminating case histories from major organizations A self-diagnostic test and a program to identify and keep your own "inner jerk" from coming out The No Asshole Rule is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week bestseller.

Download or read book Assholes written by Aaron James and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existentially necessary. What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people for whom there is no better name. Try as we might to avoid them, assholes are found everywhere—at work, at home, on the road, and in the public sphere. Encountering one causes great difficulty and personal strain, especially because we often cannot understand why exactly someone should be acting like that. Asshole management begins with asshole understanding. Much as Machiavelli illuminated political strategy for princes, this book finally gives us the concepts to think or say why assholes disturb us so, and explains why such people seem part of the human social condition, especially in an age of raging narcissism and unbridled capitalism. These concepts are also practically useful, as understanding the asshole we are stuck with helps us think constructively about how to handle problems he (and they are mostly all men) presents. We get a better sense of when the asshole is best resisted, and when he is best ignored—a better sense of what is, and what is not, worth fighting for.

Download or read book My Kid Is an Asshole and So Is My Dog written by Diana Stefano and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Kid Is an Asshole, and So Is My Dog-- a comedic look at the drama of raising a teenage girl I just returned from the mall after school shopping with my soon-to-be sophomore and her friend. I now understand why fathers opt to go camping, roll around in elk urine, and shit in a hole rather than go to the mall three days before school starts. As if the crowds weren't bad enough, my girl decided to wear a flannel that hung lower than her shorts, making it appear that she was walking around naked from the waist down. She was flocked by sales people, who, I am sure, were calculating their commissions in their heads. I mean, why not? Everybody wants to help the girl who arrives pant-less. Obviously, she needs clothes.We're not home half an hour and the vodka I poured for myself is only half gone when she yells down from her room, "Mom, have you seen my push up bra? Maybe we need to go back to the mall."It's the moments like these where I'm convinced raising a teen is bullshit, and I wonder if we'll ever come out on the other side even speaking to one another. Pass the vodka.There aren't enough warnings in the world for raising teenage girls. Although my mom swears my daughter takes after me, so it's karma.Is it karma that I've got two barking dogs? It must be. Have you ever heard a shiu-tzu bark? I have. Over and over. They think they're coyotes. I swear. And right now, they're wrestling over some stuffed animal, which is surely about to fling open, so I can pick up little beads all over the carpet while drinking my vodka. No wait. They stopped. One of them had to drag its ass across the floor. Epic.It's in the little moments where I earn my parenting badges-the faded stretch marks.Ruff, ruff!If this is my karma for being such an asshole to my mom, maybe we can get through this too. And if she pays attention in English, instead of scouting for a prom date, she can learn to write her own book-the sequel to this: My Mom Is an Asshole, but Not My Dog.

Download or read book Just Don t Be an Asshole written by Kara Kinney Cartwright and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the tough love that boys need to hear today: a candid and whipsmart guide to being a good guy in a world full of assh*les. In this frank, funny, and necessary guidebook, Kara Kinney Cartwright, a mom who has raised two teenage boys, compiles all the unwritten rules of being a good guy. As it turns out, everyone needs to learn one major lesson to safely avoid assh*le territory: other people are also humans. (Whoa, right?) Just Don’t Be an Assh*le contains everything young men need to know to have positive interactions, make the best decisions, and recognize when they’re being jerks. Things like, Just don’t be an assh*le: • To your family (parents are not your employees) • To your friends (they’ll laugh at you, not with you) • At work (no one wants to hear your podcast idea) • To women (“Are you up?” doesn’t qualify as romance) • Online (if you wouldn’t do it in real life, don’t do it) • In the world (people unlike you are also people) • To yourself (it’s okay not to have all the answers)

Download or read book The Accidental Billionaires written by Ben Mezrich and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s elite, competitive, and accomplished student body. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computers, crashed the campus network, almost got himself expelled, and was inspired to create Facebook, the social networking site that has since revolutionized communication around the world. With Saverin’s funding their tiny start-up went from dorm room to Silicon Valley. But conflicting ideas about Facebook’s future transformed the friends into enemies. Soon, the undergraduate exuberance that marked their collaboration turned into out-and-out warfare as it fell prey to the adult world of venture capitalists, big money, and lawyers.

Download or read book What Makes an Asshole written by Elijah Rice and published by Elijah Rice. This book was released on 2021-11-06 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many problems we face today. One of which is that the world is full of assholes. There is just no way around it. And sometimes it can be hard to identify what exactly makes someone an asshole. That’s where this book comes in. Think of this as a guide to asshole-ish behavior. Use it to better yourself and those around you.

Download or read book Something About The Hood In Him written by Porschea Jade and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the outside looking in, Isis is your average college student. But like the old saying goes, “there’s more than meets the eye.” While she tries to balance school and the relationship she has with her controlling boyfriend Donnie, she meets a stranger that causes more problems in her life than he knows, and she doesn’t even know his name. Ishmael is an up and coming rapper, with his main focus on his career and raising his daughter. When problems arise within his brother’s camp, he has to decide whether or not to leave the street life to his older brother, or be his brother’s keeper. Aries is learning to adapt to her newly single life after a breakup with her boyfriend of seven years, Darrion. All is well in her life until she meets the arrogant and cocky Jaiyceon, and he shows her that every good girl needs a little hood love. Everything is good with the couple until scorned exes come into play and turn their lives upside down. Battling with lies and deception, they learn that no one is who they seem to be, and everyone is left thinking who can you trust. When emotions are high and tension runs deep, the end result in all of the mayhem can be deadly. Take a ride with the crew as they try to make it through their test of loyalty and the constant battle for their love.

Download or read book No More Assholes written by Chantal Heide and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chantal Heide, the leading voice in Conscious Dating, helps singles hit the refresh button in the dating world with her sound advice and techniques offered up in No More Assholes. Through simple explanations and anecdotal stories, learn the science of attraction and human behaviour, avoid dating pitfalls, and attract the ideal relationship you want faster. Chantal leads ground-breaking seminars designed to teach women how to connect with themselves and others, including the kind of partner who will treat them with the utmost love and respect. Her seven steps are invaluable tools for life, not just dating. You'll gain a greater sense of your own true worth and increased confidence knowing how to communicate what you want in a relationship, without the fear of sounding needy or unrealistic. From getting over an ex to conflict resolution once you meet the right person, Chantal teaches you how to find and keep a loving relationship that will satisfy your soul. She helps you understand human behaviour and recognize our amazing ability to create a fulfilling spiritual connection. Chantal skillfully sets you on a path of intimacy with yourself and teaches you how to engage with others in a way that opens the door to a deeply loving and lasting relationship. If you're looking for a book that will enrich your love life "for life," this is the one! "Very, very effective. Great advice, and concise. What people really need to know to move into a really great love." - Chris Patton, author of Showing Up, Becoming The Me I Want To Be

Download or read book You Are What You written by Mora V. Harris and published by Original Works Publishing. This book was released on with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis: Competitive eater Francie is desperate to find a way to help her younger sister Trisha eat. When celebrity chef Electra Sinclair arrives on their doorstep, she thinks she may have found just the thing to set Trisha on the road to recovery. Yet Trisha's illness worsens as she begins seeing visions of a talking Pot Roast, and Francie becomes distracted by an ex hell-bent on exploiting her in a cogent work of non-fiction. The sisters struggle to take care of each other and nourish themselves in this comedy about learning from the things we crave. Cast Size: 5 Women

Download or read book Something About Silver written by Sharon Hamilton and published by Frog Haven Press. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A relentless sniper, a love once lost, and a battle-scarred SEAL at a crossroads Harper Cunningham, a seasoned member of SEAL Team 3, thrives in the brotherhood of the battlefield but shuns the mantle of leadership after clashes with high-ranking officers. His heart, buried under the scars of war, still mourns Lydia, the woman he loved and lost to a sniper's bullet in North Africa—a loss that haunts his every mission. Yet fate has a twist in store. Tasked with leading a special Silver Team, a unit of experienced SEALs, Harper is drawn into a high-stakes mission to preempt emerging terrorist threats. The mission takes an unexpected turn when he uncovers a startling truth: the sniper he killed in retribution was the wrong man. As Harper navigates this dangerous new landscape, a stunning revelation upends his world—Lydia is alive. Torn between the path of revenge and the rekindling of an old flame, Harper stands at a crossroads, where every choice leads to irrevocable consequences. In this high-octane tale of loyalty, betrayal, and undying love, will Harper find his way to redemption, or will the shadows of the past consume his future?

Download or read book Here I Am written by Jonathan Safran Foer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, “Abraham!” before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” Later, when Isaac calls out, “My father!” before asking him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer’s first novel in eleven years—a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy. Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the meaning of home—and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear. Showcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers loved in his earlier work, Here I Am is Foer’s most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer’s stature as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a novelist who has fully come into his own as one of our most important writers. “Dazzling . . . A profound novel about the claims of identity, history, family, and the burdens of a broken world.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s “Fresh Air”

Download or read book Sandcastles written by Hollyann Marie and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandcastles By: Hollyann Marie Helena has dreams. In her senior year of pre-med, she gets good grades and studies hard, on her way to becoming a cardiothoracic surgeon. But her dreams threaten to come screeching to a halt when her father, the owner of one of the largest oil refineries in Texas, gives her an ultimatum: marry the playboy heir to the James Oil Industry, Aiden James, and consolidate the merger between the state’s two largest oil companies, or be disinherited. Aiden, trying to finish his law degree and figure out his life path, faces the same demand from his own father. As he and Helena grapple with their unwanted betrothal, a torrid romance begins to kindle between them—one every bit as complex and fragile as a castle made of sand.

Download or read book Ascent of the A Word written by Geoffrey Nunberg and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attention-grabbing, thought-provoking exploration of the life of the word "asshole," by a renowned linguist and author

Download or read book Assholes Finish First written by Tucker Max and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a new collection of alcohol-induced "fratire" adventures in hedonism that convey the author's experiences of being intoxicated at inappropriate times, seducing a large number of women, and otherwise living in complete disregard of social norms.

Download or read book The Flora Fauna of Transgressive Balls to the Wall Tableaus written by Jeffrey Stoker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FLORA & FAUNA OF TRANSGRESSIVE, BALLS-TO-THE-WALL TABLEAUS is author Jeffrey Stoker’s fourth book. Personal and filled to the brim with pathos, it comprises two novellas, both of them struggling-artist-themed, and both of them wholly unpredictable. The first novella in the rotation, “The Dichotomous Epiphany,” falls squarely under the Psychological Horror subgenre. Set in the early 1990s — Stoker wrote the novella between the years 1995 and 2000; however, due to the S&M overtones inherent in its pages, he sheepishly held off publishing it until 2024 — it centers on Arlene Phillips, an ambitious, unconventional teenager living in a small, hopelessly conventional Utah town. For years, Arlene has dreamed of nothing more than becoming a world-renowned artist. Unfortunately, most of the drawings and paintings she’s produced thus far in her life have failed to meet her expectations. Now, as the sun begins to set on her high school career, the teen, desperate to prepare herself for college, devises a plan to enhance her visual-composition skills. The rub is that carrying out this plan will come at an incredibly high price. Moreover, there’s no guarantee that the plan will even work. The second novella in the book, a comedy-drama titled “Port Wine Stain, Animated,” represents Stoker at his sardonic best. Here we follow the exploits of Thad Wakefield, an aspiring writer who’s on the autism spectrum. Despite the compulsions, tics, and fears that govern Thad’s day-to-day routine, he’s generally a productive, optimistic individual. And why not? He has a beautiful wife who’s supportive to a fault, a pet armadillo that never ceases to amuse him, and a compassionate therapist who’s dedicated to solving as many of his psychological hang-ups as possible. In short, life is good. Until it isn’t. One day, for reasons far too complicated to go into here, Thad hits a stumbling block in the editing phase of his debut novel. How he chooses to meet this challenge, and the emotionally-draining path this choice ultimately leads him down, is something that even the sharpest of readers won’t see coming.