Download or read book Greed Is Good and Other Fables written by Tony Osborne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Golden Axe and Other Folk Tales of Compassion and Greed written by Ruth Stotter and published by Speaking Out Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Star Wars Myths Fables written by Lucasfilm Press and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Wars: Batu In-World Fairytales Book
Download or read book The Fate of Fausto written by Oliver Jeffers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TIME Best Children's Book of 2019! A Chicago Public Library 2019 Best of the Best Book! *"This minimalistic masterpiece is a must-read for all ages." --School Library Journal (starred review!) A quirky, cautionary tale from beloved New York Times bestselling picture book creator Oliver Jeffers! There was once a man who believed he owned everything and set out to survey what was his. "You are mine," Fausto said to the flower, the sheep, and the mountain, and they all bowed before him. But they were not enough for Fausto, so he conquered a boat and set out to sea . . . Combining bold art and powerful prose, and working in traditional lithographic printmaking techniques for the first time, world-renowned talent Oliver Jeffers has created a poignant modern-day fable to touch the hearts of adults and children alike. Praise for The Fate of Fausto: "Jeffers paints Fausto and the objects of his desire with the nonchalant finesse he is known for and in the richly saturated colors he generally favors... Jeffers delivers swift justice in a few concluding words that make for an ending that satisfies for being both fair-minded and irrevocable."--New York Times Book Review "Boldly conceived and gracefully executed."--Publishers Weekly "A parable sure to spark lively discussions." --Booklist "A cautionary fable on the banality of belligerence." --Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book All In The Same Boat written by Wilkie J Martin and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Chinese Folktales written by Shiho S. Nunes and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, Chinese storytellers have delighted listeners with stories about the value of virtues like honesty, respect, courage and self-reliance. Chinese Folktales collects nineteen of these fantastic tales, some of them dating back to the third century BCE, and retells them in contemporary English for a modern audience. This updated edition--previously titled Chinese Fables--offers the same great stories in a smaller, easier to handle format at a lower price. Each of these stories offers a nugget of ancient folk wisdom and glimpses of traditional Chinese culture and lore. All of the tales express the foibles and wisdom of human experience with great humor and affection. Although the lessons are universal, the wit and flavor are uniquely Chinese. Beautifully illustrated by a master Chinese artist using a patchwork of ancient tones and textures, with a deft touch of humor, this book will give great joy to children and adults alike. Chinese children's stories include: The Practical Bride Stealing the Bell Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy Cooking the Duck Scaring the Tigers The Dragon Slayer The previously published edition, Chinese Fables, won: *The Aesop Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature* *The Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award for Fables, Folklore & Fairytales* *The Creative Child Magazine Book of the Year Award*
Download or read book All In The Same Boat written by Wilkie J Martin and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's fable with a rat, mouse and gerbil giving a cautionary tale on greed.
Download or read book written by Moshe Wallich and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduced pages of the original 17th-century Yiddish, including the woodcuts, face the first English translation of the 34 fables that comprise Wallich's Sefer Mesholim. A valuable resource for students of the Yiddish language and of European Jewish culture of the early modern period. The fables come mostly from Aesop and medieval Hebrew and German sources. Well annotated. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Little Guys written by Vera Brosgol and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adorable cautionary tale from Caldecott Honoree Vera Brosgol We are the Little Guys. Yes, we are small. But there are a lot of us. Together we are strong, and we can get all we need. The Little Guys might be small, but they aim to be mighty. As they head off to find breakfast, they can conquer anything through teamwork—cross deep waters, dig through obstacles, and climb the tallest trees. Nothing can stop them! But as they begin to amass more than they need, the creatures in the forest ponder—what happens when no one can stop the Little Guys? This slyly funny and rambunctious read-aloud explores how strength in numbers only works when the whole community unites together. A School Library Journal Best Book of 2019 A 2019 Horn Book Fanfare Best of 2019 Book
Download or read book Cruelty written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PERFECT for fans of Roald Dahl. Think you know Dahl? Think again. There's still a whole world of Dahl to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . . 'Cruelty has a human heart . . .' Even when we mean to be kind we can sometimes be cruel. We each have a streak of nastiness inside us. In these ten tales of cruelty master storyteller Roald Dahl explores how and why it is we make others suffer. Among others, you'll read the story of two young bullies and the boy they torment, the adulterous wife who uncovers her husband's secret, the man with a painting tattooed on his back whose value he doesn't appreciate and the butler and chef who run rings around their obnoxious employer. Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions: Lust, Madness, Deception, Innocence, Trickery, War and Fear.
Download or read book The Fabled Life of Aesop written by Ian Lendler and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated by two-time Caldecott Honor winner Pamela Zagarenski, this is the only picture book not only tells the story of Aesop but includes his most child-friendly fables.
Download or read book Greed Inc written by Wade Rowland and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why do automakers sell us cars they know to be unsafe? Why do multinational drug companies advertise and promote drugs they are aware could harm us? Why is big business allowed to poison our environment - and us? Why is our food so unhealthy and obesity growing at such a disconcerting rate? Why do public companies mislead their employees and stockholders by hiding unfavorable results and, all too often, criminally falsifying figures?" "Greed, Inc. addresses head-on the pressing question of why so many major corporations have lost all sense of ethical direction, focusing totally on the bottom line, and, more egregiously, falsifying that information whenever it suits their needs or demands."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Once Upon A Time there was a Greedy King written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce your little one to fables and fairy tales from around the world with this spellbinding series of ebooks for children. Meet greedy King Midas who foolishly wishes for everything he touches to turn to gold in this charming retelling of the Greek myth. This story is the perfect length for bedtime reading, and Maja Andersen's colorful illustrations bring the magic and wonder of the tale to life. It is sure to be a storybook that little ones will treasure forever.
Download or read book Greed written by Marc Elsberg and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CORRUPT BIG BUSINESS, ECONOMY IN MELTDOWN, THE THRILLER THAT WARNED US ALL 'Marc Elsberg is nothing if not prescient' GUARDIAN It’s the near future: the world economy is in freefall. Mass unemployment and hunger rage as banks, corporations and countries go bankrupt. But one group are doing just fine: the super-rich. Nobel prize-winning economist Herbert Thompson drives to an emergency summit in Berlin, to deliver his ground-breaking solution to the world’s elite: a formula that will reverse the downturn, transform the economy, and give everyone a share of the wealth. Thompson never arrives. He is killed in a car crash on the way. Jan, a keen cyclist out late, sees the incident. Convinced Thompson has been murdered, he vows to find out why. But there are powerful forces at work, who will stop at nothing to keep Jan silent. How far will they go to satisfy their greed? And who can stop them? A spine-chillingly realistic thriller on the horrors of freewheeling capitalism and the threat of human greed. By the global bestselling author of Blackout and Code Zero _____________ PRAISE FOR MARC ELSBERG ‘Fast, tense, thrilling, timely. This will happen one day’ LEE CHILD ‘Dazzling’ Times Book of the Month 'Both gripping and visionary' rbb Kulturradio 'Elsberg succeeds in combining complex storylines into one breathtaking tale of suspense' BILD 'Part Dan Brown-style chase and part eco-thriller, this debut will get people talking' BOOKLIST US
Download or read book Real Life Fiction And Other Stories written by Jon Christopher and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains three short stories of speculative fiction - "Real Life Fiction," "In The Heavens As On Earth" and "Press The Record Button." Each story explores possibilities at the end of our known world. Time travel, manipulation of reality, nuclear war, reincarnation, chance, and a host of other ideas are woven through the various stories.
Download or read book Cousin Betty Cousin Pons and other stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love and Other Stories written by Tibor Déry and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibor Déry (1894-1977), winner of Hungary's highest artistic honor, the Kossuth Prize, in 1948, was first imprisoned in 1934 by the Horthy regime for translating André Gide's diary of his journey to Russia, and again, over twenty years later, for his writings and political activities during the Hungarian Revolt of 1956 against Soviet occupation. Around the world, Tibor Déry Committees formed: Picasso, Camus, Sartre, Bertrand Russel, E.M. Forster, and in the Indian Congress Committee were among the many involved. Today, Tibor Déry is venerated as one of the most important literary figures of Hungary and, like Chekhov, a master of the modern short story. Love and Other Stories presents some of Déry's finest work. In "Games of the Underworld," ordinary people in Budapest try to survive the winter of war in cramped cellars and encounter menacing Arrow-Cross men, a towering giant, a blind horse, a vinegar sponge; in "The Circus," a group of bored children transmogrifies into a grotesque spectacle; in "Love," a political prisoner is released after seven years and returns home to his wife and son. George Szirtes, the award-winning translator from the Hungarian and winner of the 2004 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, gives a brilliant introduction to this visionary collection that deals passionately with questions of responsibility and conscience, of social justice and renewal.
