Greed Is Good And Other Fables

Author : Tony Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313385766

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This book spans three centuries of popular entertainment and everyday culture, showcasing both mainstream and submerged channels and voices to examine how once reviled business values gained supremacy and poisoned the American spirit. The office in popular culture is often depicted as a topsy-turvy parallel universe where psychological disorders are legitimized as "managerial styles" and comically depraved bosses torment those who do the actual work. During the 1950s, the Beats chose denim and the open road over gray flannel suits and office jobs, but today their grandchildren—Generation Y—aggressively covet desk jobs. "Greed Is Good" and Other Fables: Office Life in Popular Culture examines how office life is both extolled and lampooned in popular culture. The book tracks how business values ascended to cultural dominance in the United States today, revealing our incessant struggle between financial and spiritual goals in the pursuit of "freedom" and the fulfillment of the American dream. By drawing upon sources as varied as books, newspapers, magazines, television shows, movies, blogs, message boards, documentaries, public speeches, corporate training films, and employee newsletters, the author provides compelling insights into the range of competing values and ideals interwoven throughout office life.

Author : Tony Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216040385

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"Greed Is Good" and Other Fables by Tony Osborne Pdf

This book spans three centuries of popular entertainment and everyday culture, showcasing both mainstream and submerged channels and voices to examine how once reviled business values gained supremacy and poisoned the American spirit. The office in popular culture is often depicted as a topsy-turvy parallel universe where psychological disorders are legitimized as "managerial styles" and comically depraved bosses torment those who do the actual work. During the 1950s, the Beats chose denim and the open road over gray flannel suits and office jobs, but today their grandchildren—Generation Y—aggressively covet desk jobs. "Greed Is Good" and Other Fables: Office Life in Popular Culture examines how office life is both extolled and lampooned in popular culture. The book tracks how business values ascended to cultural dominance in the United States today, revealing our incessant struggle between financial and spiritual goals in the pursuit of "freedom" and the fulfillment of the American dream. By drawing upon sources as varied as books, newspapers, magazines, television shows, movies, blogs, message boards, documentaries, public speeches, corporate training films, and employee newsletters, the author provides compelling insights into the range of competing values and ideals interwoven throughout office life.

Author : Aesop
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698135819

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Aesop's Fables by Aesop Pdf

This exclusive Signet Classic edition contains 203 of Aesop’s most enduring and popular fables, translated into readable, modern American English and beautifully illustrated with classic woodcuts by the great French artist J. J. Grandville. It is both amazing and wonderful that so much of the richness of our language and our moral education still owes a huge debt to a Greek slave who was executed more than two thousand years ago. Yet “sour grapes,” “crying ‘wolf,’” “actions speak louder than words,” “honesty is the best policy,” and literally hundreds of other metaphors, axioms, and ideas that are now woven into the very fabric of Western culture all came from Aesop’s Fables. An extraordinary storyteller who used cunning foxes, surly dogs, clever mice, fearsome lions, and foolish humans to describe the reality of a harsh world, Aesop created narratives that are appealing, funny, politically astute, and profoundly true. And Aesop’s truth—often summed up in the pithy “moral of the story”—retains an awesome power to affect us, reaching us through both our intellects and our hearts. Including: “The Fox and the Grapes” “The Ants and the Grasshopper” “The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse” …and 200 Other Famous Fables Edited and with an Afterword by Jack Zipes With an Introduction by Sam Pickering

Author : Imelda Rose Kaufman
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644582848

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The Secret of the Old Warehouse, And Other Stories by Imelda Rose Kaufman Pdf

Jacob Malloy was a strong, energetic lad of thirteen who lived with his family in the small suburb of Baytown. His life was far from boring because school and church always provided plenty of activities. However, being of an inquisitive nature, Jake was ever ready for something new and different. He was intrigued by an old, abandoned warehouse near the railroad tracks. What it had been used for originally, he had no idea, but he was itching to get inside and look around. Surely, there must be something of interest in that old building! Any chance of his being able to satisfy his curiosity, however, seemed nonexistent because the windows were boarded up. Imagine his surprise when one Saturday on his way to his friend's house, he noticed that one of the boards had come loose and was hanging by a nail! This was an opportunity not to be missed! He convinced his friend, a rather reluctant Joe Reilly, to accompany him on this adventure. Together, they managed to open the window and squeeze through it. The boys found that though seemingly abandoned, the building was not vacant! Their adventure turned deadly when they were discovered and imprisoned! The story shifts back and forth from them to their frantic parents and friends and the efforts made to find them. There is a story within the story as friends, Robert and Jonathan, and their parents have an adventure of their own and make a life-changing discovery.

Author : Lucasfilm Press
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368055154

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Star Wars: Myths & Fables by Lucasfilm Press Pdf

Star Wars: Batu In-World Fairytales Book

Author : Helen Mwanzi
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9966469699

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Notes on K.I.E's The Winner and Other Stories by Helen Mwanzi Pdf

Author : Wilkie J Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912348195

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All In The Same Boat by Wilkie J Martin Pdf

It so happened that a big ship went down in a terrible storm. By chance and good fortune, Rat, Mouse and Gerbil scrambled safely into an empty lifeboat. A cautionary fable about greed featuring a rat, a mouse and a gerbil. A tale about overuse of resources by the powerful at the expense of the small and vulnerable.

Author : David Shrayer-Petrov
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815610335

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Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories by David Shrayer-Petrov Pdf

These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the survival of Jewish memory. Both an author and a physician, Shrayer-Petrov examines his subjects through the double lenses of medicine and literature. He writes about Russian Jews who, having suffered in the former Soviet Union, continue to cultivate their sense of cultural Russianness, even as they—and especially their children—assimilate and increasingly resemble American Jews. Shrayer-Petrov’s stories also bear witness to the ways Jewish immigrants from the former USSR interact with Americans of other identities and creeds, notably with Catholics and Moslems. Not only lovers of Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight in Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories.

Author : Declan Moran
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780359886685

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The Crime of the Wandering Dog and Other Stories The Brothers Grim & Grimy by Declan Moran Pdf

The Crime of the Wandering Dog and Other Stories is a collection of illustrated poems by the Brothers Grim and Grimy, the nom the plume of the Irish artist and writer Declan Moran. Tales that stretch from the start to the end of time, and from the top to the very bottom, and from the bottom to the very top again.

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486842509

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Zadig and Other Stories by Voltaire Pdf

In the title tale of this original collection, Voltaire addresses the social and political problems of his own day in an ancient Babylonian setting. "Zadig" challenges 18th-century religious orthodoxy by portraying life's vicissitudes as the product of destiny rather than individual choices. Additional selections of the Enlightenment philosopher's short fiction include "Micromegas," "The World As It Is," "Jeannot and Colin," and other stories.

Author : Hedley Griffin
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781789820850

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NunsDrakka's Child and other Stories by Hedley Griffin Pdf

This selection of short stories is aimed at children and is masterfully written by Hedley Griffin. Each story offers a spiritual and moral meaning.

Author : Norman Williams & Rex Kearns
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468968149

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The Tampines Tiger and Other Stories by Norman Williams & Rex Kearns Pdf

Here lie the memoirs of Ponsenby who has a great propensity for being in the wrong place at the wrong time - thereby seeing, hearing and experiencing so much and all with a difference. He travels through history and time, across vastly differing landscapes and delves into the most mysterious places of all... human endeavour, beliefs, culture and society. Ponsenby is a British-Indian medic – or sawbones as he describes himself – a livelihood that perceives both the serious and sombre perspectives on life, and always with a wry twist of humour. Oh, and another place to go: contemplation and reflection – “And a beautiful sadness filled our hearts. And because we could not leave it, the sadness slowly and inexorably turned into compassion. We felt the sorrow of the whole world, of little frightened children, of the blind, the halt and the lame, and of those separated from their loved ones...”

Author : Julian Ralph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : China
ISBN : PRNC:32101009175322

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Alone in China, and Other Stories by Julian Ralph Pdf

Author : Wan-so Pak,Kyung-Ja Chun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781317464235

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My Very Last Possession and Other Stories by Wan-so Pak,Kyung-Ja Chun Pdf

An anthology of ten short stories by one of Korea's foremost living writers. Pak Wanso is the author of five novels, including The Naked Tree, and of several best-selling volumes of short prose. Her works have sold millions of copies in Korea, where the public and critics alike have applauded Pak as a masterful realist. The literary world of Pak depicts the trials of the Korean War and the subsequent three decades of upheaval during which Korea was transformed from a military dictatorship and an agriculturally based society to an urban industrialized, albeit troubled, democracy. Pak offers a searching woman's perspective on radical changes in Korean family structures and social values, exposing the cruelty and hypocrisy of Korea's Confucian traditions, which have subjugated women for centuries. Her realistic prose also portrays the dehumanizing impacts of the capitalist market order that characterizes Korea today. With rich insight, Pak presents moral ambiguities inherent in Korea's society today and encourages her readers to question the injustices that prevail in the more impersonal and often alienated world emerging in a "globalized" Korea.

Author : Ruth Stotter
Publisher : Speaking Out Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0943565162

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The Golden Axe and Other Folk Tales of Compassion and Greed by Ruth Stotter Pdf

An unusual collection of the same story adapted by thirty-three different cultures with nearly fifty additional story summaries. In addition, The Golden Axe contains scripts for readers theater and/or puppet presentations, a classroom game, interpretive notes, and storytelling tips, charts.