Nobody Fixes Real Carrot Sticks Anymore [Mass Market Paperback]

Marianne M. Jennings (Author)

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Publication Date: October 10, 1994

From the Arizona columnist who generates more reader mail than any other, a collection of her essays on motherhood, children, country music, the Clintons, granola women and everything else from airplanes to country music to why Victoria's Secret doesn't make a plaid flannel thong for the married-with-children set. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be forced to see things and issues in a new way and you will probably want to write a letter to her editor. To save you the trouble, she's even included some of the letter responses to her columns. WARNING: Not for the politically correct, the humorless or social reformists who are, by definition, humorless.

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MARIANNE MOODY JENNINGS

Professor Marianne Jennings is a member of the legal studies in business area of the Department of Supply Chain Management in the College of Business at Arizona State University and a professor of legal and ethical studies in business. She served as director of the Joan and David Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics from 1995-1999. Professor Jennings earned her undergraduate degree in finance and her J. D. from Brigham Young University. She has worked with the Federal Public Defender and U.S. Attorney in Nevada and has done consulting work for law firms, businesses and professional groups including Dial Corporation, Motorola, the National Association of Credit Managers, Mesa Community College, Southern California Edison, the Arizona Auditor General, the Cities of Phoenix, Mesa, and Tucson, Midwest Energy Supply, Hy-Vee Foods, IBM, Bell Helicopter, Amgen, and VIAD.

She joined the faculty at ASU in 1977 as an assistant professor. She was promoted to associate professor in 1980 and to full professor in 1983. At ASU she teaches graduate courses in the MBA program in business ethics and the legal environment of business. She has authored more than 130 articles in academic, professional and trade journals. Currently she has six textbooks and monographs in circulation. The sixth editions of her textbooks, Real Estate Law and Business: lts Legal, Ethical and Global Environment were published in August 2000 and March 2002, respectively. Her book, Case Studies in Business Ethics, will appear in its fourth edition in spring 2002. She was added as a co-author to Anderson's Business Law in 1997 for the 17th edition and completed the 18th edition in 2001. The fifteenth edition of Anderson's Business and the Regulatory Environment is now in production. Her book, Business Strategy for the Political Arena, was selected in 1985 by Library Journal as one of its recommended books in business/government relations. In 2000 her book on corporate governance was published by the New York Times MBA Pocket Series. A new book, Building and Growing a Business: The Remarkable Stories of 15 Companies with 100 Years Each of Consistent Dividends, will be published in October 2002.

Her weekly columns are syndicated around the country, and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and the Reader's Digest. A collection of her essays, Nobody Fixes Real Carrot Sticks Anymore, was published in 1994. She was given an Arizona Press Club award in 1994 for her work as a feature columnist. She has been a commentator on business issues on All Things Considered for National Public Radio.

She has conducted more than 200 workshops and seminars in the areas of business, personal, and government, legal, academic and professional ethics. She has been named professor of the year in the College of Business in 1981, 1987 and 2000 and was the recipient of a Burlington Northern teaching excellence award. In 1999, she was given best article awards by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and the Association for Government Accountants. She was named a Wakonse Fellow in 1994 and was named Distinguished Faculty Researcher for the College of Business that same year. She has been a Dean's Council of 1 00 Distinguished Scholar since 1995. In 2000, the Association of Government Accountants inducted her into its Speakers Hall of Fame.

She is a contributing editor for the Real Estate Law Journal and the Corporate Finance Review. She is the senior articles editor for the Journal of Legal Studies Education. She has received nine research grants. In 1984, she served as then-Governor Bruce Babbitt's appointee to

the Arizona Corporation Commission. In 1999 she was appointed by Governor Jane Dee Hull to the Arizona Commission on Character. During 1986-1988, she served as Associate Dean in the College of Business. From 1986-87, she served as ASU's faculty athletic representative

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I haven't been alone in the bathroom since August 12, 1983. August 13, 1983 was the day my first child began crawling. Children feel compelled to be in the bathroom with their mothers. In fact, this is how I call my children for dinner. I go and sit in the bathroom. It's like a high-pitched dog whistle. From freeway off-ramps to canal banks, they come running. Soon, they're all in there with me. And, here's the best part. Not a one of them seems to think there is anything odd about four people being in a powder room together.

How come children do not join their fathers in the bathroom? It is a complete breakdown in our nation of equality. If one of my children should happen to say, "Where's Dad?", I explain that, "He's in the bathroom." In return there is a moment of reverence, some celestial-sounding music and that look that says Dad is involved in a ritual that deserves the respect royalty who are not having marital difficulty get.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 131 pages
• Publisher: Woodchip Publishing; 1st edition (October 10, 1994)
• ISBN-10: 0964317400
• ISBN-13: 978-0964317406
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,273,048 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb!, August 16, 2001

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This review is from: Nobody Fixes Real Carrot Sticks Anymore (Mass Market Paperback)

For anyone who values logic, satire, and straight-forwardness, this book is must-have. Ms. Jennings, in her typical witty and eloquent style, comments on everything from bimbos in boots to global warming. Love her or hate her, you will laugh until your sides hurt and think until your brain just can't take anymore.