How to Walk A Pig: And Other Lessons in Country Living

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Cruel and Bizarre ..........2007-06-26

I had to stop reading after 56 pages. I fail to see the humor in the author's ineptness at trying to run a small farm (?) in New York in the 70s ~ especially since it is the poor animals that have to deal with the poor treatment. The dog has to stay outside because it sheds? Yikes. Also, certainly this couple wasn't going to starve, so the buthering of their pig, a young calf and the deaths of various other animals seemed so cruel and needless. Was I supposed to laugh when the butcher neighbor spouted being born again while the poor pig was disemboweled? Ugh. Not sure what this is supposed to say about kindness to living beings (it's okay to butcher if the pig is given a nice place to live first?) country living or family values as they obviously hid their young son from these realities. This is going in the recycling bin. The thought that this could end up in someone's hands who might find what the author did a good idea will give me nightmares.

A great book, I loved reading it........1998-10-24

This book is a light and lively look into the lives of the authors family as they grow up and experience rural life in upstate New York.

The adventures they encounter with various animals and situations made me laugh and smile. Mr. Coffman paints a wonderful picture of the life he and his family experienced over the last twenty years.

This would be a great book to read to your children, I have with mine and they found it very enjoyable.

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Humorous and refreshing look at the challenges with working in corporate America. This short, easy to read book uses pig farming to explain important lessons for successful change management. Readers at all levels in Corporate America will enjoy learning what to do with the pig snout, why you never trust the boar, how to deal with the angry sows plus much more.

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This is good stuff!.......2003-08-01

I read this book in a few hours. It moves very quickly, and is very entertaining. I can relate to the types of people around the office that this book discusses. And just like "Kate," in the book, I take comfort in knowing those folks are in my present and future, but there are ways to deal with them.

If you work with people, or you are ever going to, then this book is for you.

Surviving Today's Corporate America.......2003-05-31

Lessons in Pig Farming
By Cathy Sumeracki

Whether you are climbing the corporate ladder or raising pigs, this is a must read. I will have to admit that I'm the one in my company who keeps her head in the pig crate. You and your co-workers will be able to identify with these characters and incidents. The pig snout is my favorite.

Cathy Sumeracki has done an excellent job of defining the corporate world and describing the downsizing, restructuring, and changes that relate to so many of today's companies. A real survival guide.

A lesson in how to protect yourself from you........2002-11-21

This book is extremely relevant to all those people out there who keep struggling with who they are and how much more work it causes them. Of particular interest is the chapter "Keep Your Head Out of the Pig Crate". This is so relevant to people that are trying to get started in the job market. You know, the people that will never say no, in hopes of being the spark that makes everything run efficiently. I speak from personal experience. Once when I was incredibly stressed at work, I went to talk it over with my boss. He didn't say much, but just handed me this book and said "read chapter 2." I took the book, and did it that night. The next morning when I came in, I brought the book back to him. All I could say to him in response was "point taken." That was all. What a great way to resolve an issue! I would recommend this book to anyone, in the job market, in college, or any other place where one is forced work by committe or in a team. The points of the stories are easy to glean from the easy to read manner in which they are addressed.

This book hits the nail on the head!.......2002-11-14

This book takes a topic (change management) that can sometimes be too abstract for most people to really understand, and uses humor and common sense to explain it in its simplest terms. The author has a casual and engaging writing style and uses her prior work experience to bring the topic to life. It's a great book, and I'd recommend it as a must read for anyone who either has or is currently going through change in their organization.

Lessons in Pig Farming, A Swine Farmer's Guide For Surviving in Corporate America

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Lessons in Pig Farming, A Swine Farmer's Guide For Surviving in Corporate America
Cathy Sumeracki
Manufacturer: Red Cabin Press
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ASIN: 0971679215

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A fun, easy to read book covering the basics of successful change management. Written in story format, readers follow the stages of a typical project, (riddled with problems) while solutions are revealed through lessons learned from pig farming. Introduces a new set of corporate jargon including the pig snout, the boar, the angry sow plus much more.

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Tries to cover too many bases.

Word of Warning

This book is average at best.

Effective Use of a Financial Calculator
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Manufacturer: Harcourt
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In search of a better guide.......2003-11-24

This book was too basic, and it hopped around too much. I am still looking for a good "how to" book on using these calculators. I guess I would have preferred a workbook of problems. Perhaps a workbook would help me harness the full power of a financial calculator.

Tries to cover too many bases........2001-12-01

Every book is worth something, this one included. However, you need to get specific in a book as to the calculating device covered. In this book the author seems to be trying to expand her market by covering way too many devices, devices that are in conflict with each other as to keystrokes and the like. And, we dont need anyone to tell us how to make "Effective Use of a Financial Calculator": nobody has "the" answers on this point.
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Walter J. Schultz illustrates the deficiencies of theories that purport to show that markets alone can provide the basis for efficiency. He argues that markets are not moral-free zones, and that achieving the economic common good does indeed require morality. He demonstrates that efficient outcomes of market interaction cannot be achieved without moral normative constraints and then goes on to specify a set of normative conditions that make these positive outcomes possible.

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Schultz revises the Fundamental Theorem.......2003-10-17

This is a brilliant demonstration that a free market can be efficient only with effective, internalized constraints on behavior ("moral" conditions); that a free market without such constraints is inefficient.

Read Chapter 6 first; then read the preceding five-chapter proof if you need to understand the theoretical underpinnings.

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This digital document is an article from Theological Studies, published by Theological Studies, Inc. on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 3594 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Moral Conditions of Economic Efficiency.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Andrew Yuengert
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Date: December 1, 2002
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Customer Reviews:

One Up From Technician's Hanbook!.......2000-08-04

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very recommendable book.......2000-04-12

This is a very interesting and readable book not only for westerners or exclusive monotheists but also for us Japanese. Although we know that in pre-modern muslim societies male-boy love was extremely popular as a common knowledge, we could find Arabic same sex relationship only sporadically in famous literal works e.g. Thousand and One Nights, Abu Nuwas' erotic poems, etc. And now we can read the topic as a whole in this book. If I may be allowed to hope more, I wish that the authors have included many historical episodes & anecdotes too. Of course I know no book is perfect. Then I 'd like to read Homoeroticism in classical Persian literature, and in classical Indian(Sanskrit & Prakrit) literature also.Probably Mr. Leonard Zwilling will offer us a good book on the latter.

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