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Book Synopsis The Dictionary of Bullshit by : Nick Webb
Download or read book The Dictionary of Bullshit written by Nick Webb and published by Robson. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without language, we cannot think. Most of us wouldn't have a problem with that because these days nobody has a problem. We have issues. Possibly opportunities. If we are unlucky, we may face challenges. Business, politics, self-help, marketing, the media, statistics, science and local government are all rich sources of bullshit that author Nick Webb has scrupulously mined for this indispensable guide to navigating this all pervasive and tricksy linguistic phenomenon. Much bullshit is merely absurd or fun. An apartment advertised as a studio flat is so cramped that nobody has sex in it without putting a limb out of the window. But there is also capital 'B', weapons-grade Bullshit that sneaks into our minds like heavy metal pollution. Moral content and personal responsibility have drained out of such Bullshit - just one of the reasons why it is so appealing to shifty politicians and senior executives in expensive suits. Serious and funny, angry and shamelessly opinionated, 'The Dictionary of Bullshit' cuts to the chase of corporate speak.
Book Synopsis The Business Bullshit Book by : Kevin Duncan
Download or read book The Business Bullshit Book written by Kevin Duncan and published by Lid Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Best-selling author Kevin Duncan presents the world's most comprehensive collection of total bullshit, diligently collected over 35 years. His incisive take on all this boardroom nonsense lifts the lid on the truth behind business vocabulary, and tells us what people are really trying to say."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit by : Lois Beckwith
Download or read book The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit written by Lois Beckwith and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. It’s time to face the facts: We live in the Golden Age of Bullshit. And as anyone who has ever worked in an office knows, the corporate world is a veritable sea of B.S.—and we are all drowning in it. Thank God for Lois Beckwith, an actual human being with the courage and moral fiber to cut through the crap (so to speak) and give us citizens of the working world the lowdown on what all this corporate lingua franca actually means. Breathe easy. The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit will make your job a whole lot easier, telling you how to get ahead (kissing ass, playing golf), avoid annoying colleagues (use caller ID), and ride the elevator without ruining your career (if you gossip, use pronouns, and never talk to the CEO). If you have ever wondered what a mindshare is (some kind of drug?), puzzled over the meaning of words like impactful or incentivize (here’s a clue: those are not actual words), or been faced with a glassy-eyed zombie of a coworker singing the praises of synergy, then The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit is for you! Forget what you learned in Bschool—this handy reference guide will teach you everything you need to know about the empty, enraging, and just plain stupid gobbledygook that masquerades as “communication” in the working world.
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of Legal Bullshit by : Randall C. Young
Download or read book The Dictionary of Legal Bullshit written by Randall C. Young and published by Sphinx Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary of legal terms looks to the plain-English meaning of all the words lawyers, judges and anyone else involved in our legal system feel compelled to use. It provides a humorous resource into this archaic and convoluted language and is sure to make anyone you know in the legal profession laugh out loud at its accurate absurdity. In The Dictionary of Legal Bullshit, you will find the definition of such words as: Bankrupt. The state of being that one attains when the government sticks your creditors with the bill for your extravagant expenditures. Jail. Exclusive public housing with lousy neighbors, no view, poor facilities and one of the highest cost per square foot of any living space ever built; but with slightly less violence and fewer drug dealers than the public housing that is available to the populous at large. Plus, find key Latin translations, like: Res ipsa loquitor. Duh. Resjudicata. You lost, get over it. Respondeat superior. Sue the one with the most money.
Download or read book On Bullshit written by Harry G. Frankfurt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller Featured on The Daily Show and 60 Minutes The acclaimed book that illuminates our world and its politics by revealing why bullshit is more dangerous than lying One of the most prominent features of our world is that there is so much bullshit. Yet we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, how it’s distinct from lying, what functions it serves, and what it means. In his acclaimed bestseller On Bullshit, Harry Frankfurt, who was one of the world’s most influential moral philosophers, explores this important subject, which has become a central problem of politics and our world. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the bullshitter’s capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that the truth matters. Because of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. Remarkably prescient and insightful, On Bullshit is a small book that explains a great deal about our time.
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of Bull**** by : Catriona Greenwood
Download or read book The Dictionary of Bull**** written by Catriona Greenwood and published by Castle Books. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are not alone. Nearly 80% of office workers have admitted that they often simply don’t know what their colleagues are talking about. If you are one of them, help is at hand!
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of (bull.shit) by : Nick Webb
Download or read book The Dictionary of (bull.shit) written by Nick Webb and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary pins down the deceptive and meaningless words and phrases that have increasingly saturated our lexicon, defining "bullshit" from the many areas where it flourishes--politics, self-help, business, marketing, the media, statistics, and science.
Download or read book The Man From Zara written by Kevin Duncan and published by Lid Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inditex – the group behind Zara, Massimo Dutti, Oysho and Bershka among others – is today a major force in the world of high-street fashion. It recently outranked Gap as the No.1 clothes retailer in the world. In virtually every city in the world, you will see one or more of Inditex’s shops – Zara being the most conspicuous. Yet little is known about this amazing success. This book o¬ers such an insight by telling the story of the genius behind the Inditex Group – Armancio Ortega. Besides being one of the world’s richest men, Ortega is the brains behind a modern-day revolution in textiles and fashion retail. Who really is Armancio Ortega? Where is he from? Where is he going? What led him to dream up this empire? Through unprecedented access to Ortega and his closest aides, the author provides a compelling and unique biography of the man responsible for one of this century’s most extraordinary business successes. Covadonga O’Shea, who has known Amancio Ortega since 1990, recounts in this rst book to be authorised by the man himself, the contents of long hours of conversation held between them, as well as with business colleagues closest to him.
Download or read book Bullshit written by Mark Peters Phd and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent lexicon of the seemingly infinite ways we call bullshit, written by a McSweeney's columnist and etymologist, illustrated by a New Yorker-contributing cartoonist. What's the difference between "balderdash" and "drivel"? Where did "mumbo-jumbo" come from? How should you use "meadow mayonnaise"? What's "felgercarb" and which popular TV show coined it? There are hundreds of common and rare terms for bullshit in English, including borrowings from German, turn-of-the-century sailors, The Simpsons, and beyond. Bullshit is everywhere, but not all of it is created equal. Mark Peters's Bullshit: A Lexicon is the handy guide to identifying and calling BS in all of its many forms, from "bunk" and "claptrap" to "applesauce" and "gobbledygook." Packed with historical facts, pop culture tidbits, and definitions for each term, Bullshit is perfect for humor readers, language lovers, and anyone looking to describe life's everyday annoyances.
Book Synopsis Bullshit and Philosophy by : Gary L. Hardcastle
Download or read book Bullshit and Philosophy written by Gary L. Hardcastle and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular interest in bullshit — and its near relative, truthiness — is at an all-time high, but the subject has a rich philosophical history, with Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Kant all weighing in on the matter. Here, contemporary philosophers reflect on bullshit from epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, historical, and political points of view. Tackling questions including what is bullshit, what does it do, is it a passing fad, and can it ever be eliminated, the book is a guide and resource for the many who find bullshit worth pondering.
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of Business Bullshit by : Alan Williams
Download or read book The Dictionary of Business Bullshit written by Alan Williams and published by LID Editorial Empresarial, S.L.. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you work in business, the chances are you have fallen under the poisonous spell of business bullshit and jargon. Very few of us seem able to avoid “reaching out”, or “touching base”, or “shifting paradigms”, or “thinking outside the box”. No longer solely the province of management consultants, investors and MBA types, business gobbledygook has mesmerized the rank and file around the globe. Help is at hand with this Dictionary of Business Bullshit, aptly described as “the world’s most comprehensive collection” of the top 2,000 business terms and jargon that have infected us all. Stay sane (and keep your colleagues and customers from suffocating you) from the business bullshit madness by having this dictionary by your side. Based on his wide and extensive experience with business bullshit, Kevin Duncan deciphers the terms and language of modern-day business speak.
Book Synopsis The Bullshit-Free Book by : Kevin Duncan
Download or read book The Bullshit-Free Book written by Kevin Duncan and published by Lid Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bullshit is everywhere. After 40 years of railing against language, best-selling author Kevin Duncan is uniquely qualified to comment on why and where it all happens. Whilst we may never eradicate it. Kevin is on a mission to improve business language and inderstanding. This book weeds out theh worst offenders, defines attempted meanings, looks at their use and abuse and gives intelligent alternatives in plain English. Its companion guide The Business Bullshit Book contains over 2000 examples and definitions to provide a complete body of work"--Back cover.
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit by : Lois Beckwith
Download or read book The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit written by Lois Beckwith and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. It’s time to face the facts: We live in the Golden Age of Bullshit. And as anyone who has ever worked in an office knows, the corporate world is a veritable sea of B.S.—and we are all drowning in it. Thank God for Lois Beckwith, an actual human being with the courage and moral fiber to cut through the crap (so to speak) and give us citizens of the working world the lowdown on what all this corporate lingua franca actually means. Breathe easy. The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit will make your job a whole lot easier, telling you how to get ahead (kissing ass, playing golf), avoid annoying colleagues (use caller ID), and ride the elevator without ruining your career (if you gossip, use pronouns, and never talk to the CEO). If you have ever wondered what a mindshare is (some kind of drug?), puzzled over the meaning of words like impactful or incentivize (here’s a clue: those are not actual words), or been faced with a glassy-eyed zombie of a coworker singing the praises of synergy, then The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit is for you! Forget what you learned in Bschool—this handy reference guide will teach you everything you need to know about the empty, enraging, and just plain stupid gobbledygook that masquerades as “communication” in the working world.
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of American Political Bullshit by : Stephen L. Goldstein
Download or read book The Dictionary of American Political Bullshit written by Stephen L. Goldstein and published by Hellgate Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dictionary is a milestone in lexicon history: the first comprehensive, unvarnished dictionary of American political bullshit; it is a public service, a Rosetta Stone that arms average Americans against the wiles of those who would beguile them. Empowered by it, everyone will be able to translate a seemingly sincere promise like"Someone from my staff will get back to you" into its real meaning: "Don't hold your breath. You didn't contribute to my campaign so why would you be so dumb as to think I'd ever do anything for you?" The widest purpose of this Dictionary is to shovel the country free of the political equivalent of what makes the grass grow and help average Americans hold those who represent them to their word; the narrowest, to put politicians on guard that we are on to them and that they now dissemble at their peril. Nothing has been held back; nothing has been sugar-coated. You're getting the unvarnished truth. And that's not you-know-what!
Book Synopsis I'll Have What She's Having by : R. Alexander Bentley
Download or read book I'll Have What She's Having written by R. Alexander Bentley and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we learn from those around us: an essential guide to understanding how people behave. Humans are, first and foremost, social creatures. And this, according to the authors of I'll Have What She's Having, shapes—and explains—most of our choices. We're not just blindly driven by hard-wired instincts to hunt or gather or reproduce; our decisions are based on more than “nudges” exploiting individual cognitive quirks. I'll Have What She's Having shows us how we use the brains of others to think for us and as storage space for knowledge about the world. The story zooms out from the individual to small groups to the complexities of populations. It describes, among other things, how buzzwords propagate and how ideas spread; how the swine flu scare became an epidemic; and how focused social learning by a few gets amplified as copying by the masses. It describes how ideas, behavior, and culture spread through the simple means of doing what others do. It is notoriously difficult to change behavior. For every “Yes We Can” political slogan, there are thousands of “Just Say No” buttons. I'll Have What She's Having offers a practical map to help us navigate the complex world of social behavior, an essential guide for anyone who wants to understand how people behave and how to begin to change things.
Book Synopsis Social Media Is Bullshit by : B. J. Mendelson
Download or read book Social Media Is Bullshit written by B. J. Mendelson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative look at social media that dispels the hype and tells you all you need to know about using the Web to expand your business If you listen to the pundits, Internet gurus, marketing consultants, and even the mainstream media, you could think social media was the second coming. When it comes to business, they declare that it's revolutionizing advertising, PR, customer relations—everything. And they all agree: it is here to stay. In this lively, insightful guide, journalist and social critic B.J. Mendelson skillfully debunks the myths of social media. He illustrates how the notion of "social media" first came to prominence, why it has become such a powerful presence in the marketing field, and who stands to benefit each time it's touted in the press. He shows you why all the Facebook friends and Twitter followers in the world mean nothing to you and your business without old-fashioned, real-world connections. He examines popular tales of social media "success," and reveals some unsettling truths behind the surface. And he tells you how to best harness the potential of the Internet—without spending a fortune in the process. Social media is bullshit. This book gives the knowledge and tools you really need to connect with customers and grow your brand.
Book Synopsis Are You Full of S.H.I.T.(Senseless, Harmful, Intrusive Thoughts)? by : Gina E. McGuire
Download or read book Are You Full of S.H.I.T.(Senseless, Harmful, Intrusive Thoughts)? written by Gina E. McGuire and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your brain full of senseless, harmful, intrusive thoughts? Are you wondering how to flush them out once and for all? Going from crappy to happy is really only a thought away. It all starts with the food for thought that you use to fuel your brain. Choose to feed it insightful and inspirational words, and you'll learn to potty-train your brain!
