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Lifemanship:Some Notes on Lifemanship with a Summary of Recent Research in Gamesmanship | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Potter
Creator: Frank Wilson
Publisher: Moyer Bell
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 109845
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1559212969
Dewey Decimal Number: 828.91202
EAN: 9781559212960
ASIN: 1559212969
Publication Date: May 1, 2002
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Book Description
What does Lifemanship mean? Easy question to pose, difficult to answer in a phrase. A way of life pervading each thought and conditioning our every action? Yes, but something much more, even though it only exists, as pervasive, intermittently. "How to live"--yes, but the phrase is too negative. In one of the unpublished notebooks of Rilke there is a phrase that might be our text, "...if you're not one up (Bitzleisch) you're...one down (Rotzleisch)." How to be one up--how to make the other person feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly. The Lifeman is never caddish, but how simply and certainly often he of she can make the other person feel a cad, and over prolonged periods.
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 Not as witty or comical as you think April 29, 2006
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Yes, you will be confused, unless of course you are older and British. Many of the activities and daily objects described in this book are from a bygone era or foreign (unless you are British!), making the humor in the book difficult to understand unless you are a historian. The language is not smooth, either, rather it is choppy and the content is jumbled.
 A Full Course in Lifemastery September 10, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you have already mastered the ploys and gambits of gamesmanship, then this is the book you need to take your play to the next level. Serious manuevers for negotiating conversations with ease while making the other party feel uncomfotable. A trove of practical advice for all social occasions, really.
Lifemanship June 21, 2005
Anyone who doesn't laugh, chortle, snort and generally enjoy this slim tome is someone who is far too dour to participate fully in a gratifying life of putdowns and being put down. Get it, read it, master it == live it.
My handbook September 14, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of four Potter masterpieces. This dastardly-clever book is my secret weapon in dealing with life and people on a daily basis. Forget "How To Win Friends and Influence People" - this is the real stuff! Hilarious.
A must for those who enjoyed 'School for Scoundrels' April 2, 2001
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
It is undoubted that any serious library of classic English humour will contain this title, for it would show complete lack of literary candour to be without this `bible of the intellect'.
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