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Century The Original Wavemaster Training Bag (Black)
$149.99
Bag arrived quickly and in good condition. The cardboard packaging was mangled by UPS but the product survived intact.

Schylling Punching Bag & Glove Set
$19.99
This item was purchased for our grandson, who is four years old. He loves to box and has enjoyed this set very much. The only suggestion I have is that a stand for the punching bag would be good. As it is, his father must stand and hold the bag for the child to "punch" it. Our options are to construct a stand or to purchase one from another company. All in all, however, for an active boy who likes to move around, this set is great.

Ringside Heavy Bag Stand
$99.99
Our area to keep the stand (already had the bag from previous Christmas), was limited. This is the smallest workable stand. It is just what I was looking for and arrived timely, as promised.

Punching In: One Man's Undercover Adventures on the Front Lines of America's Best-Known Companies
$15.95
Alex Frankel states very early in Punching In that his purpose for writing the book was to explore companies with strong corporate cultures, and the effect those corporate cultures had on front-line employees. True to his word, Frankel does look at the culture of several companies, like UPS, Starbucks, The Gap, and Enterprise-Rent-A-Car. He also touches on that culture's impact on both management and employees within those companies. But, the lasting image that the reader takes away from the book is the effect that these companies and their cultures had on Alex Frankel. Frankel isn't shy about describing his feelings while working at these companies, and the eventual insights he made about his personality. As a result, the reader ends up finding out more about Frankel than they do about corporate culture.

The reader is left with the impression that Frankel worked for four to six weeks at each job. If that's true, then perhaps that wasn't enough time for him to really evaluate what impact a particular company's corporate culture had on its employees. Thus, while the book is concisely written and contains some interesting anecdotes, it doesn't deliver what it sets out to deliver. Given that flaw, I'm not sure too many readers will want to shell out money for a lightly concealed psychological profile of Alex Frankel.