THE BUSINESS OF LIFE

The Business of Life is a
unique collection of exceptionally informative, intellectually challenging, and highly entertaining anecdotes, essays, ideologies and reflections.

Witness Manning’s clarity on the spellbinding complexity of success in life and business, as he takes a wrecking ball to many conventions and norms. Soak in and enjoy his exceptional depth of insight, his remarkable command of the language and expressiveness. His display of genuinely independent thought.

So much about life and business. And selling tens of billions of dollars of products and services: brain food, spy satellites, Toyotas and other brands you know, LG stuff, sacred water from the Holy land, ice to the Eskimo in the winter, tons of horse manure (really)…

This is a book unlike any other you will read! Guaranteed: you will not put this book down once you start reading it! And, best have a sense of humor…

Contents From The Business Of Life

• Kickoff
• Life Is Not A Dress Rehearsal. Philosophies of Life
• How Many Gallons of Paint Does It Take to Become A Leader
• You Can and Should Sell Horse Manure
• Are You Hard-Core Business?
• How an Industry Was Born: The Megaforce Digigraph. Or, Don’t Look A Gift-Horse in The Mouth
• Two Degrees of Separation
• Pink Ladies Trucking
• So there…

PIMPS WHORES AND PATRONS OF VIRTUE

Albeit indispensable, oxygen does not enrich life. Observation does.

All about the human condition and spirit. Original, outrageous, great humor, brutally honest, Kaleidoscopic, urgent, unfiltered, wow depth of thought.

SJ (Steven J.) Manning writes with great passion about people and life, in the first person, speaking directly to the reader. Thirty-two unique pieces that will leave the reader intellectually challenged, entertained, and with lots of hearty laughs. Best have a sense of humor. A must read.

In this highly entertaining, informed, and intellectually challenging collection of satires, anecdotes, essays, ideologies and reflections, Manning delves anecdotally into the wonderful and often incomprehensible world of the human condition and spirit, in all its spellbinding complexity.

PIMPS WHORES AND PATRONS OF VIRTUE invites readers to meander through 35 years of Manning’s intellectual exophthalmia: observations, reflections, projections, correspondence, life experiences, stamp-filled passports, collection of interesting and interestingly boring people, answers to the next question and the next and the next, venting, people and things good, bad, and ugly, and irrelevant facts, factoids, and more.

The author anecdotally paints a kaleidoscope of people, which he categorizes as pimps, whores, and the rarest of the species, patrons of virtue. This book showcases all three categories in their blooming glory and their incomprehensible worst. Thirty-two unique pieces, fueled by humor, inquisition and inspirations, balanced by the reality of life.

And finally, how to get through an ordinary day: love, humor, labor, tolerance, thoughtfulness, and a valiant attempt at balance.

Contents From Pimps Whores And Patrons Of Virtue

• The bidet police
  (Faithful Readers participation)
• P.C. and culture of apology
• Everybody has to have someone to
 dump on
• Oliver Stone and Jerry Seinfeld
• Human intercourse
  (Faithful Readers participation)
• Letter to Dr. Smith: a quintessential journey from ignorance to arrogance, without nary a brush with intelligence.
• Malodorous metaphor
• Hunted in America
• About me and mine
• Finally: quality prostitutes

Next From Steven J. Manning …

COMING SOON

26 Ways to Get Over Yourself and Be Successful in life and business.

Just Manning’s “26” of a couple hundred….