Shepherd Mead has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
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From this classic tome, learn everything you need to know to land the corner office: How to make money How to make more money How to choose the right company (one big enough so that nobody knows exactly what anyone else is doing) How to cultivate the appearance of extreme busy-ness through strategic desk management How to delegate responsibility (have plenty of assistants!) First published in 1952, this guide inspired the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, which returned to Broadway in 2011 in a production that starred Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is essential reading for the ambitious and the lazy alike.
©1980 Edward Shepherd Mead Estate (P)2012 Edward Shepherd Mead Estate
The Four-Window Girl or, How to Make More Money Than Men
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There are two kinds of women who work, says Shepherd Mead, author of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying and How to Get Rich in TV without Really Trying. One is the Working Girl, the handmaiden of business: She does what men tell her to do - she types, totes coffee, gripes in her cubicle. The other kind is the Career Girl: She thinks like a man, acts like a woman, and can soon end up in a four-window office making more money than anybody. Marie Frale, new employee at American Household Products, hadn't put many carbons in backward before she got the point. No drone, she. It wasn't long before Marie was conniving and psychologizing her way up, up, up. This book tells the story of her dazzling rise from cubbyhole to conference room. Reading it may make you laugh, but some men will find it a sobering if not actually unnerving experience. Here is a new type of femme fatale. It isn't just her figure that gets her to the top, but the way she figures - and her way makes Machiavelli look like Whistler's mother. Though Shepherd Mead's new novel may seem at first glance to be all for fun, women will at once perceive its down-to-earth usefulness. To the more innocent male executive we say: Read it instantly and be warned. This book is the definitive work on the Four-Window Girl. It also has some definitive things to say about love. Marie is not above losing her heart to a three-window man.
©2012 Edward Shepherd Mead Estate (P)2012 Edward Shepherd Mead Estate
Free the Male Man!
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Hear ye, hear ye! Dawn-to-dark commuters, test pilots, high window cleaners, Grand Prix racers, lion tamers, ditch diggers, knuckle ball pitchers, vice presidents, night watchmen - in fact, all members of the world's largest persecuted minority (almost 50 percent of the human race are males) - are hereby urged to break the bondage of purse strings and enforce the following non-negotiable demands: Equal Work (same hours as women) Equal Leisure (same hours as women) A Fair Share of the Wealth (decreased stress = greater longevity) Equal Alimony (just think of that!) Desegregation of Women's Locker Rooms and Beauty Salons (millions of men now need hair sets) Ban Topless Swim Trunks (male torso is not a sex object) Police Protection from Female Karate Experts. Shepherd Mead's hilarious and timely Male Manifesto takes a fresh look at the issues and perils of the coming sexual war and exhorts his comrades-in-arms to rally 'round this book, boys, in one of the most delightfully chauvinistic satires to come along in years.
©1972 Edward Shepherd Mead Estate (P)2013 Edward Shepherd Mead Estate
'ER, or, The Brassbound Beauty, The Bearded Bicyclist, and the Gold-Colored Teenage Grandfather
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Who is 'ER? What is she? A medieval beauty whose likeness was carved on a brass burial plate back in the 14th century.... Switch to the 1960s. The lady is still snugly interred at the bottom of what is now an English garden attached to a rented house in the sleepy town of Poke-on-Thames. Along comes a schoolteacher/archaeology buff fresh out of St. Louis, Missouri, who exhumes her from a bed of dahlia corms. The discovery - a rare and valuable find - sets off a chain of events that shatters the town's perennial tranquility to its staid foundations. Others are also caught up in this zany caper: a hustling American businessman; a slum-born pop singer on the wane; the rich, amorous queen of Poke-on-Thames' American colony; and a motley parade of juicy English locals. Everything explodes in a farcical, slapstick climax that leaves Poke-on-Thames reeling. With funny-man Shepherd Mead calling the turns, it adds up to a hilariously good-natured spoof of all the English classes, including government bureaucrats, archaeology aficionados, expatriated Americans, and anything else in the line of fire. 'ER crackles with the same sense of free-wheeling fun that made Mead's earlier book, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying a comic classic.
©1969 Edward Shepherd Mead Estate (P)2012 Edward Shepherd Mead Estate
How to Succeed with Women Without Really Trying
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From this classic audiobook, learn everything you need to know to succeed with women without really trying: How to be irresistible in short pants How to break up How to avoid marriage until marriage can help you How to select the first wife How to keep your wife in love with you How to handle money in marriage How to select the second wife First published in 1957, this guide is a timeless and humorous manual for men of all ages who seek to become irresistible to women.
©2012 Edward Shepherd Mead Estate (P)2012 Edward Shepherd Mead Estate