Author: Pete Lindsay
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473566010
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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‘This enjoyable book could bring about profound change’ Professor Steve Peters author of The Chimp Paradox ARE YOU WRESTLING WITH A PIG OF A PROBLEM? Pig Wrestling is a simple story with a powerful message. Read it in under an hour, and you’ll be ready to tackle any type of sticky situation in work or life. Meet a stressed Young Manager, whose teams are at each other’s throats. At his local coffee bar he shares his frustrations with his barista – who turns out to be more than he seems. It’s the start of a journey into Pig Wrestling – a process that can be used to resolve any seemingly impossible problem. By reframing the issue we can all create change, whenever and wherever we need it most. Developed out of the authors’ work in elite sports and business – including Manchester City, Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill and the England Cricket team – this instantly memorable story will help you thrive in complex and messy times.
Author: Roy Frusha
Publisher: Loose Cannon
ISBN: 1939812070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
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A Tale of Bayou drug smuggling The mystery begins when a barge and tug appear one morning, seemingly abandoned, at a remote shipyard on a South Louisiana bayou. Oddly, there are three national flags on board, but its owner and crew have vanished. The suspense builds when Louisiana State Police narcotics agents find fifteen tons of oil and water soaked marijuana in the hold. They quickly learn it is just the damaged dregs of the single largest importation of drugs in the history of the United States. Wrestling with Pigs is a novel about smugglers, cops and corruption on the Cajun coast. Based on real events, this authentic story provides humorous, and sometimes graphic insight into police life complete with complex and flawed characters. It gives a gritty, and in-the-trenches look at the lucrative Central American-originating drug smuggling operations of the 80's and how U.S. law enforcement struggled to combat it. Political insights revealed may just change the reader's perception of organizational leadership inside police agencies and their bureaucracies.
Author: Lynne Berry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 148142131X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Two pocket-size pets meet and get into a tussle when Pug insists that Pig is a pudgy pug, and again when Pig calls Pug a muddy pig.
Author: Pete Lindsay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781527207837
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Pig Wrestling is a simple fable about a young manager who is struggling. That is, until he is learns the principles behind 'Problem Cleaning'. Based upon the authors' work with many of the world's best performers, the memorable 'Problem Cleaning' framework holds the tools to create change whenever and wherever we need it most.
Author: Katherine Center
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466847697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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As seen on Netflix - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bodyguard and Hello Stranger Helen Carpenter can’t quite seem to bounce back. Newly divorced at thirty-two, her life has fallen apart beyond her ability to put it together again. So when her annoying younger brother, Duncan, convinces her to sign up for a hardcore wilderness survival course in the backwoods of Wyoming—she hopes it’ll be exactly what she needs. Instead, it’s a disaster. It’s nothing like she wants, or expects, or anticipates. She doesn’t anticipate the surprise summer blizzard, for example—or the blisters, or the rutting elk, or the mean pack of sorority girls. And she especiallydoesn’t anticipate that her annoying brother’s even-more-annoying best friend, Jake, will show up for the exact same course—and distract her, derail her, and . . . kiss her. But it turns out sometimes disaster can teach you exactly the things you need to learn. Like how to keep going, even when you think you can’t. How being scared can make you brave. And how sometimes getting really, really lost is your only hope of getting found. Happiness for Beginners is Katherine Center at her most heart-warming, captivating best—a nourishing, page-turning, up-all-night read about how to get back up. It’s a story that looks at how our struggles lead us to our strengths. How love is always worth it. And how the more good things we look for, the more we find.
Author: Libbie Summers
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0847836827
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Presents photographs and recipes for the major parts of a pig, ranging from popular sections such as the loin and Boston shoulder to the lesser-known parts of the offal.
Author: Julie Willett
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146966108X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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In the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, a series of stock characters emerged to define and bolster white masculinity. Alongside such caricatures as "the Playboy" and "the Redneck" came a new creation: "the Male Chauvinist Pig." Coined by second-wave feminists as an insult, the Male Chauvinist Pig was largely defined by an anti-feminism that manifested in boorish sexist jokes. But the epithet backfired: being a sexist pig quickly transformed into a badge of honor worn proudly by misogynists, and, in time, it would come to define a strain of right-wing politics. Historian Julie Willett tracks the ways in which the sexist pig was sanitized by racism, popularized by consumer culture, weaponized to demean feminists, and politicized to mobilize libertine sexists to adopt reactionary politics. Mapping out a trajectory that links the sexist buffoonery of Bobby Riggs in the 1970s, the popularity of Rush Limbaugh's screeds against "Feminazis" in the 1990s, and the present day misogyny underpinning Trumpism, Willett makes a case for the potency of this seemingly laughable cultural symbol, showing what can happen when we neglect or trivialize the political power of humor.
Author: Paul Shipton
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763634469
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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After saving the Cosmos, Gryllus the Pig is tired of being a hero and longs to return to human form, but the only person who can change him back is the demi-goddess Circe, who, along with all the other Olympians, is nowhere to be found.
Author: David Hyde Costello
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430130245
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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"Lively opening band music adds to the fun of author and illustrator Costello's story about Little Pig, aka Jacob, and his siblings...This delightful production adds to the value of the book by allowing youngsters to enjoy hearing what the music and instruments sound like as they follow along with the story." -Booklist Magazine
Author: Victoria Jamieson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101997796
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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From the New York Times bestselling author of When Stars Are Scattered comes a Olympics-themed picture book that brings home the bacon. This hilarious story makes a great read-aloud for the 2021 Summer Games! Boomer the Pig has been training hard for the Animal Olympics, so when he loses his first race, he shrugs it off and cheerfully moves on. One event after another, Boomer keeps losing, and the frustration begins to get to him. But even after coming in last in every sport, there's no getting this Olympig down. It's just great practice for the Winter Games! This encouraging and funny story is for every kid who's ever been told "you can't win 'em all." "A humorous romp."—Publishers Weekly
