Bodacious Books
Want to be the kind of person who buys books? Yes! Want to further clutter up your home? Yes.
Want to be the kind of person who buys books? Yes! Want to further clutter up your home? Yes.
$11.99
Message from the distinguished authors: Are things like ‘Hawaiian Shirt Day’ and ‘team building’ events the cause of a crisis in corporate management, or the result? How important is ‘role modeling’ in creating the behaviors we want to see in others? Does the use of the latest buzzwords make us sound smarter or dumber? Will artificial intelligence and automation finally provide us with the robotic workforce we’ve always deserved? Is the future ‘real’ or just a simulated exercise in a giant cosmic video game?
In this book, we answer exactly none of these questions. Truth be told, we don’t even think that deeply about them. However, we do go inside the head of a middle manager in search of some kind of truth about the state of today’s workplace. And what we find should horrify everyone.
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Ever wanted to make others cry? Ever harbored a secret desire to see your colleagues, team and organization fail? Do you purposely use buzzwords like "synergy”, "pain point”, and "dumpster fire" to synergize the endless pain points in your dumpster fire of a job? Or perhaps you’re just looking for a funnier but less abrasive version of ‘Dilbert’? Well, then this book might just be for you!
The ‘Peter Principle’ is a concept we all know too well: A person is promoted until they are no longer competent at their job, or even able to understand the level of their own incompetence. This principle is likely the reason 83% of us believe we are smarter than our bosses.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. This is Peter’s story. Not really a hero or anti-hero, Peter’s just a newbie manager trying to make sense of a workplace that values money over people (while completely mismanaging both of these resources). Of course, it doesn’t help that Peter’s own boss describes him as “The goofiest looking, the worst dressed, fake-watch wearing, used Toyota Corolla driving, share-house living, Frontier Air economy-class flying and the newest most nooby manager son-of-a-gun, who has a hard time holding his Steve Madden shoes down and is really looking for two claps and a big Ric Flair WOOOO!” Whatever that means.
In short, these comics are meant to be a fun poke at the corporate system that both drives us crazy and provides us with the disposable income to buy these weirdly ironic books. And yes, for those of us living inside this godforsaken world, ‘The Peter Principle’ is also a practical way for us and our teams to contemplate and address a range of common workplace issues around culture, communication and performance. Read it at your own risk.
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$27.59
Move over, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory—here comes Cindy with her very own golden ticket. This is a fun, high-octane tale about an unsuspecting hero named Cindy. Cindy is just an ordinary girl, but after bumping into John Law she’s given an ultimatum—go to jail or get a golden ticket into a special competition. The challenge is being run by the richest man alive to determine who will inherit his empire, Candy Corporation, known for creating the most delicious treats known to mankind—from bubblicious bubblegum you won’t want to take out of your mouth to ice cream in sweet and savory flavors you’ve always dreamed of. Cindy will have to survive challenges on all ten floors of the Candy Corp. tower.
Chock full of wisdom from ancient sources like Aesop and modern ones like Warren Buffett, not to mention countless thrills, chills and spills, you won’t be disappointed. Ready to start your engine?
Oubliez Charlie et la chocolaterie, voilà Cindy avec son propre ticket d’or. Il s’agit d’une histoire amusante et pleine d’entrain sur une héroïne nommée Cindy. Cindy est une fille ordinaire, qui après avoir croisé John Law, se voit imposer un ultimatum : aller en prison ou obtenir un ticket d’or pour une compétition spéciale. Le défi est organisé par l’homme le plus riche du monde afin de déterminer qui héritera de son empire, Candy Corporation, connu pour créer les plus délicieuses friandises de l’humanité, du bubblegum bubblicious que vous ne voudrez plus retirer de votre bouche, à la crème glacée aux parfums sucrés et salés dont vous avez toujours rêvé. Pour gagner le défi, Cindy devra survivre à des épreuves à chacun des dix étages de la tour Candy Corp.
Vous ne serez pas déçu par ce récit plein de sagesse provenant de sources anciennes comme Aesop et modernes comme Warren Buffett, sans parler des innombrables frissons, frissons et dérapages,. Prêt à démarrer votre moteur ?
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Since the birth of the profession in the late 1800s, management consultants have been given a (arguably deserved) tough time—from the House of Lies type who swoon in to steal your watch and tell you the time (and charge you a handsome fee for the service) to the Up In The Air Clooney type who fly in, wreak a bit of havoc and disappear. Great thinker Nassim Taleb summed it up well when he said, “A mathematician starts with a problem and creates a solution; a consultant starts by offering a ‘solution,’ and creates a problem.”
Good Slave, Bad Master provides a behind-the-curtain look at the turbulent life of a consultant in the cauldron of capitalism. Perfect for lovers of Michael Lewis’s Liars Poker or Jordan Belfort’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Good Slave, Bad Master compels its readers to care immensely about everything that happens to Patrick on his dark adventure at a leading consulting firm.
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You just know a book is going to be funny and provocative with a title like Please Don’t Tell Mum That I Have Become a Government School Teacher — She Thinks I’m Still at Law School. But it’s more than that: it’s poignant and heart-breaking, too. Following the first two years of law student-turned-teacher Harry Mann’s new career, this novel has its roots in a raw kind of reality that exists all too often in the government school systems everywhere. Think of this book as Up the Down Staircase meets Blackboard Jungle meets To Sir with Love, all with an Australian twist. You’ll laugh, cry, and care deeply about everything that happens to Harry, his students, and his fellow teachers at Culter High.
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Cote d’Ivoire’s written version of blockbuster Raid Redemption; this electrifying and explosive novel moves at the lightning speed of a methodically planned heist. The trilling yarn is sharp and enthralling as we follow a not-altogether-blameless Cote d’Ivoire Police Officer Koffi Dosso (code name Chaos) a detective come traffic cop, on her adventure in the heart of downtown Abidjan as she is caught up in an effort to take down a notorious gangland leader, Trippe D – a ruthless underworld kingpin (similar to Jamaica’s Christopher Coke or Colombia’s Pablo Escobar) who has acted as a law to himself and remains a thorn in the throat of the government.
While a very different voice to Cote d’Ivoire’s great novelists (say Ahmadou Kourouma or Bernard Dadie), it deserves of a read. So if you are ready to spend a bit of time facing-off against hundreds of armed and dangerous inside one of West Africa’s most iconic buildings, let’s tear into this tightly-package-thriller. A powerful story of courage, tenacity and honor against the odds
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$40.00
Three quotes set the stage well for this action packed novel:
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour”. – Sir Winston Churchill
“From time to time, God causes men to be born – and thou art one of them – who have a lust to go abroad at the risk of their lives and discover news – today it may be of far-off things, tomorrow of some hidden mountain, and the next day of some near-by men who have done a foolishness against the State. These souls are very few; and of these few, not more than ten are of the best.” - Rudyard Kipling, Kim
“By indirections find directions out” – Hamlet, William Shakespeare
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$40.00
There is an urban legend that if you are still single by age 40 you are more likely to die from a terrorist attack than to get married. This legend acts as the catalyst for a bet that sets the lost & listless 39-year-old wannabe writer, Truman Boatwright on a laugh-out-load adventure to find Mrs. Right in Manhattan. After years of looking for love in the debauch & transient city, Truman has virtually given up hope in lasting romance.
However, tenacity & a fierce competitive zeal to come out on top encourages Truman to take all the help he can get – from self-help books to matchmakers to even trying his luck on gameshows that match eligible singles. Truman will learn that it is one thing to fall in love but a completely different thing to stay in love. He will learn that love is not just a noun, but also an adjective & a verb. Being vulnerable & putting his heart on the chopping block will be a requirement if he is to truly connect & open up to others. Most importantly he will learn that it not New York City, with its developing world potholes, strewn street garbage or nightmarish traffic, or even others that need to change but ultimately that change begins within.
The playfulness of Brigit Jones’s Diary meets the intensity of Neil Straus’s The Game and the narrative strength of Alain de Botton’s On Love. This heart-breaking, heart-wrenching novel will provide comedic relief while also shining a spotlight on the absurdities, perils & pitfalls of finding your lottery ticket – that is, your other half in our complex, murky modern world. While not your conventional happily ever after love story it will paint an unforgettable & captivating portrait that will keep you on the edge of your seat to the very end.
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Not interested in another personality test? Don’t have time for some rando survey? Thought so, but like those annoying twenty-somethings who stop you in the street, no won’t be taken for an answer. So give me two claps and a Ric Flair WOOOO!
