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The Rut Not Taken

Ennui for Dummies.Title: “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge”

Author: Project Management Institute

Rank: 88

Review: “As a project management instructor and course developer at a state university, a project management keynote speaker, and someone who has been training project managers for nearly two decades, I highly recommend this book.”

Alternate Review: “The text is packed with sections like ‘Project teams may hold planning meetings to develop the cost management plan. Attendees at these meetings may include the project manager, the project sponsor, selected team members, selected stake holders, anyone with responsibility for project costs, and others as needed.'”

Customers Also Bought: “A Project Manager’s Book of Forms”

Footnote: Kill us now.

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge [Amazon]

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7:00 am • Sunday • July 28, 2013
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First, Get a Million Dollars

Sleeping in is the best revenge.Title: “Rich Habits – The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals”

Author: Thomas C. Corley

Rank: 18

Blurb: “The ‘Rich Habits’ are ten principles created through years of researching the daily success habits of his wealthiest clients. These ten simple principles miraculously transform every individual who comes into contact with them. By applying these principles, you are literally walking in the footsteps of the wealthy.”

Review: “He included small things like calling people on their birthdays, even pencils that into his schedule, check out page 41. Maybe it is the small things that help those who seem to have it all.”

Customers Also Bought: “Gillette Fusion Proglide Power Cartridge 6 Count Unit”

Footnote: Or you could save yourself the hassle and just be born into it.

Rich Habits [Amazon]

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7:00 am • Sunday • July 21, 2013
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The North American Fellatio Trade Agreement

I swallow.Title: “Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership”

Author: Conrad Black

Rank: 17

Blurb: “Like an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries. Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, American leaders George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson paved their nation’s way to independence. With the first buds of public relation techniques — of communication, dramatization, and propaganda — America flourished into a vision of freedom, of enterprise, and of unalienable human rights.”

Review: “I checked his biography and was surprised to learn that he is a citizen of Canada.”

Customers Also Bought: “Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline” by Robert Bork

Footnote: Oh… ohhh… ohhhhhh… O, Sweet Mystery of Life, as last I’ve found you…

Flight of the Eagle [Amazon]

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7:00 am • Sunday • July 14, 2013
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The Butter Battle Book

Title: “Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More Than 300 Recipes”

Authors: Paula Deen and Melissa Clark

Rank: 1

Blurb: “Hi, y’all!”

Review: “I don’t normally buy items for a political statement but this time I have. Paula has freedom of speech and I have the power of the buck. Today I bought this book AND a box of cheerios (in support of their ad that contains a mixed race marriage).”

Customers Also Bought: “Paula Deen Signature Pantryware Standing Rooster Paper Towel Holder”

Footnote: We smell a Delicious! tie-in with Chick-fil-A.

Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible [Amazon]

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7:00 am • Sunday • June 30, 2013
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We Are Devo

The Phlogiston Chronicles.Title: “Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design”

Author: Stephen C. Meyer

Rank: 78

Blurb: “Meyer argues that the theory of intelligent design — which holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection — is ultimately the best explanation for the origin of the Cambrian animals.”

Review: “There was no Cambrian explosion, so there’s no Cambrian explosion to explain.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery”

Footnote: Nature doesn’t give a shit what you think.

Darwin’s Doubt [Amazon]

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7:00 am • Sunday • June 23, 2013
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One Treeellion Dollars

Don’t quit your day jo— oh, wait. You did.Title: “The Eye of Moloch”

Author: Glenn Beck

Rank: 13

Blurb: “On one side, an unlikely band of ordinary Americans ready to make their last stand in defense of self-rule, freedom, and liberty — and on the other, an elite cabal of self-styled tyrants who believe that unlimited power should be wielded only by the chosen few. That group, led by an aging, trillionaire puppet-master named Aaron Doyle, will stop at nothing to destroy the myth that man is capable of ruling himself.”

Review: “It’s as if Glenn sat down, wrote this book over the weekend and rushed it to press.”

Customers Also Bought: “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies”

Footnote: Don’t go writing about puppet masters when you pull all your characters with strings.

The Eye of Moloch [Amazon]

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7:00 am • Sunday • June 16, 2013
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Faceblock

Time to lean, time to clean your clock.Title: “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”

“Author”: Sheryl Sandberg

Rank: 12

Blurb: “Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers.”

Review: “The best message to take from this book is to be aware of what is going on in the workplace. Take the opportunity to change the inequality.”

Customers Also Bought: “Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It”

Footnote: Acknowledgements, page 175: “My deepest thanks go to my writing partner Nell Scovell.” As noted by the fucking brilliant Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley, Sandberg’s “writing partner” is nowhere else listed as co-author (or, more likely, ghostwriter). The real message of the book? Hog all the credit to yourself.

Lean In [Amazon]

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7:00 am • Sunday • June 9, 2013
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