title: Working Wounded: Advice That Adds Insight to Injury
author:  Bob Rosner 
description: Confronted consistently by malicious managers, contemptuous coworkers, inept underlings and stressful situations, today's working stiff often feels pummeled from all sides. <i>Working Wounded: Advice That Adds Insight to Injury</i>, by journalist and consultant Bob Rosner, is a lighthearted but deadly serious map through the minefields of the corporate world that offers recommendations on an abundance of tools and techniques that can be used to make it safely from nine to five. A series of insightful illustrations throughout by <i>New Yorker</i> cartoonist Robert Mankoff pokes perceptive fun at the whole business scene. <i>--Howard Rothman</i>
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  # Sinew and Steel and What They Told
  
  
  
  
  
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  Graff has been keeping a big secret from his closest friends, the captain and
  crew of a pirate-hunting starship. He expected to die before they ever
  discovered what he really is. But he’s not dead, and now he has to explain.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I am cut nearly in half by the accident. The surviving fibers of my suit hold
  me together. I am not dead.
  
  
  And this is a problem. I expected to die in this job, in my little scout
  runner, blasted apart, incinerated, torn to pieces with nothing to recover.
  All that would follow would be a sad memorial service with a picture and an
  old set of boots on a table. That is how scout pilots usually die. But I am
  just cut almost in half. And the doctor on my ship, _Visigoth,_ is very good.
  
  
  My biologics are mostly shut down with shock, though I’m dutifully trying to
  monitor the pain. It’s all-enveloping, a fist squeezing my