[PDF] Balancing The World eBook

Author : Elizabeth Baines
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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These are stories about power: children without it and adults vying to get or keep it. A small boy struggles with his parents' divorce, a doctor fails to understand the limits of his medical power, a wronged wife finds a uniquely powerful way to wreak revenge. Sometimes satirical, sometimes innovative and lyrical, the stories home in on those moments when power can spill into powerlessness: the split-second when a self-satisfied teenager is held at knifepoint by muggers, the trip to the woods with the 'poor kids' which teaches a small girl she's no better than them. They chart the opposite moments when people wrest back power: a daughter rebels against her violent father, a struggling writer decides to expose a con man arts worker, a little girl who wishes her lost father would come back finds she has magic powers.But it's a slippery thing, power, and these vivid, wry stories spring surprises: for nothing, in the end, is ever quite what it seems.

Author : David Arthur Cleveland
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520277422

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Agricultural Revolutions 3.

Author : Jeffrey Severs
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231543115

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What do we value? Why do we value it? And in a neoliberal age, can morality ever displace money as the primary means of defining value? These are the questions that drove David Foster Wallace, a writer widely credited with changing the face of contemporary fiction and moving it beyond an emotionless postmodern irony. Jeffrey Severs argues in David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books that Wallace was also deeply engaged with the social, political, and economic issues of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A rebellious economic thinker, Wallace satirized the deforming effects of money, questioned the logic of the monetary system, and saw the world through the lens of value's many hidden and untapped meanings. In original readings of all of Wallace's fiction, from The Broom of the System and Infinite Jest to his story collections and The Pale King, Severs reveals Wallace to be a thoroughly political writer whose works provide an often surreal history of financial crises and economic policies. As Severs demonstrates, the concept of value occupied the intersection of Wallace's major interests: economics, work, metaphysics, mathematics, and morality. Severs ranges from the Great Depression and the New Deal to the realms of finance, insurance, and taxation to detail Wallace's quest for balance and grace in a world of excess and entropy. Wallace showed characters struggling to place two feet on the ground and restlessly sought to "balance the books" of a chaotic culture. Explaining why Wallace's work has galvanized a new phase in contemporary global literature, Severs draws connections to key Wallace forerunners Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, and William Gaddis, as well as his successors—including Dave Eggers, Teddy Wayne, Jonathan Lethem, and Zadie Smith—interpreting Wallace's legacy in terms of finance, the gift, and office life.

Author : Wu MuDi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1649919182

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Some major powers had made a prophecy, "Demons, descend! Kill all living creatures!" Born without a soul, three years old with a soul in the body. Open your eyes and look at the world. Slaughter is everywhere! They were the focus of the world from the moment they were born, and every force was looking for a way to kill them! As long as he wanted to protect himself and raise his cultivation as fast as possible, then he had to help the Zhuo Family who was in dire straits to escape. Become a monster and drive the enemy out of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain; His soul was ...

Author : Stephen G. Brooks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 2008-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691137841

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Introduction -- Realism, balance-of-power theory, and the counterbalancing constraint -- Realism, balance-of-threat theory, and the "soft balancing" constraint -- Liberalism, globalization, and constraints derived from economic interdependence -- Institutionalism and the constraint of reputation -- Constructivism and the constraint of legitimacy -- A new agenda

Author : Yossi Sheffi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262345765

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An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability. The demands and stresses on companies only grow as executives face a multitude of competing business goals. Their stakeholders are interested in corporate profits, jobs, business growth, and environmental sustainability. In this book, business strategy expert Yossi Sheffi offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes—from Coca Cola and Siemens to Dr. Bronner's Magical Soaps and Patagonia—navigate these competing goals. Drawing on extensive interviews with more than 250 executives, Sheffi examines the challenges, solutions, and implications of balancing traditional business goals with sustainability. Sheffi, author of the widely read The Resilient Enterprise, argues that business executives' personal opinions on environmental sustainability are irrelevant. The business merits of environmental sustainability are based on the fact that even the most ardent climate change skeptics in the C-suite face natural resource costs, public relations problems, regulatory burdens, and a green consumer segment. Sheffi presents three basic business rationales for corporate sustainability efforts: cutting costs, reducing risk, and achieving growth. For companies, sustainability is not a simple case of “profits versus planet” but is instead a more subtle issue of (some) people versus (other) people—those looking for jobs and inexpensive goods versus others who seek a pristine environment. This book aims to help companies satisfy these conflicting motivations for both economic growth and environmental sustainability.

Author : Jacqueline Wallen
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Provides historical and sociological overviews of work and family. Examines the connection between work and family, the demands placed on individuals by their employers and their family lives, and how employers can intervene to help reconcile those demands. For Counselors, Therapists, and Social Workers, as well as Sociologists and those in Human Resource Management.

Author : James G S Clawson
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9814338478

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The balance between work and family life is the single most commonly mentioned issue among senior executives worldwide. This book provides a framework for analyzing immediate and long-term balance. Using case studies of how twelve or more executives in various industries have handled the challenge, readers are invited throughout the volume to compare their current structures with those of the subjects in the cases presented.

Author : Doreen Dodgen-Magee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Technological innovations
ISBN : 9781538115848

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Americans engage with screens for more than ten hours a day, changing our brains, our relationships, and our personal lives. Here, Dodgen-Magee illuminates the effects of device overuse, and offers wisdom gleaned from personal stories, research, and anecdotes from youth, paren...

Author : Daniel Lamarre
Publisher : HarperCollins Leadership
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400223032

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In this leadership memoir, take a step backstage at Cirque du Soleil. Vice Chairman Daniel Lamarre shares his experiences leading the awe-inspiring organization, and teaches readers what it takes for anyone, regardless of position or industry, to embrace the value of creative leadership. Without creativity, there is no business. At the core of Cirque du Soleil’s lavish, multi-million-dollar productions is Vice Chairman Daniel Lamarre, who has mastered the ability to bring business and creativity together across multiple languages and cultures in a way that has never been seen before. The secrets he shares in Balancing Acts are rooted in tremendous faith in your own creative skills, even if you are convinced you have none, and those of the sharpest minds within your organization. In this book, Daniel shares the untold stories behind Cirques biggest shows, including Beatles Love, Michael Jackson One, the aquatic marvel, O, and many more. Through these tales of triumph and trials, he will teach you: How to shatter the perceived limitations standing in the way of your ability to think creatively and innovatively; When to step up and when to step back so that your team can create a masterpiece that doesn’t break the bank; How in using the methods Daniel has uncovered, modern companies with entrenched bureaucracies can bring creativity and business together to foster innovation; and How to use creative thinking to lead your organization to new heights. Whether you work for one of the most creative organizations on the planet like Cirque du Soleil, in a stuffy corporate job, or somewhere in between—Balancing Acts is filled with principles that can strengthen and accelerate any business on the planet.