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Climate change is here and capitalism is implicated: it's
programmed to privilege profit and growth over human communities
and the living earth. We need to change this system - and we need
to do it now. Six Capitals charts the rise of four movements
designed to overthrow capitalism as we know it: multi-capital
accounting, for society, nature and profit; the push for a new
corporation legally bound to benefit nature and society while
making a profit; ecosystem accounting for nations; and legal rights
for nature, which resonate with indigenous earth-centred laws.These
movements are critical for the future of human life on this planet.
Together they override the profit-driven modern corporation, the
growth-driven nation state and the legal status of the natural
world as lifeless property. Multi-capital and ecosystem accounting,
benefit corporations and the rights of nature movement are here to
stay. Six Capitals tells their story, from their first emergence in
the postwar era to today. This revised, updated edition is for the
new generations of business leaders, entrepreneurs, activists,
accountants, economists, scientists, farmers, food growers and
distributors, teachers, parents, politicians, bureaucrats and
concerned citizens everywhere.
And yet in our uncertain modern times, not only do books that are
considered classics fill the shelves of many bookshops, but these
books still exert a powerful influence on contemporary culture.
Some do so in obvious ways, such as the film and television
adaptations of the works of Homer, Jane Austen, George Eliot,
Charles Dickens and Henry James; others in less obvious ways,
through their enduring impact on fellow writers, artists and
musicians. Until the end of twentieth century, many of these books
were taught in schools and universities as part of a commonly
recognised list of great literature known as 'the canon'. This
canon has quite rightly been challenged by postmodern critics,
essentially because it excluded writers from beyond the prevailing
culture, especially women and non-European writers, and it is no
longer taught. Nonetheless, the books the canon once embraced, and
other books now considered classics, are invaluable for their
insights into the human heart and soul; for their wisdom and
humour; for their worth as records of social, political and
economic life in other terms and places; and for their
extraordinary mastery of language - so extraordinary, in fact, that
each book serves as a storehouse of literary quality, of style,
rhythm, vocabulary, and ingenuity of expression. These books are
important because they are among the best books ever published,
whether in our times or in their own - and it's worth remembering
that many of these novels were bestsellers of their day,
particularly those published before the twentieth century, before
technological advances made it economically feasible to print small
quantities of books for specialised markets. This is a selection of
some of the best books ever written and published. It represents a
small cosmos of 2500 years of our literary heritage. It is your
invitation to those great works you always wanted to read, a
gateway of fulfilling pursuit of understanding of human culture by
exploring some of the most enduring writings of the world:
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Souls for Sale (Paperback)
Rupert Hughes; Introduction by Sarah Gleeson-White
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R362
Discovery Miles 3 620
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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On her wedding night, Remember "Mem" Steddon, daughter of a
small-town conservative preacher, has a sudden change of heart.
Abandoning her groom, she impulsively sneaks off their Los
Angeles-bound honeymooner train in the middle of the desert. When
she recuperates from dehydration, she finds herself on a film set
and is cast as an extra. As Mem's masterful art of deception drives
her to fame, the left-behind husband returns, raging with jealousy
and murderous revenge. First published 1922 and adapted to screen
the following year by Rupert Hughes himself, this "insider" story
of Hollywood filmmaking traces every Hollywood trope from slapstick
comedy to theatrical melodrama with love and deceit at every page
turn. Hazing the lines between truth and fiction, Souls for Sale is
a snapshot of Hollywood's Golden Age, hailed by three-time Pulitzer
Prize winner Carl Sandburg as "the heart of moviedom by anyone who
believes in it."
Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us
from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the
frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is
double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants
to actually measure the worth of their businesses. Luca Pacioli
monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of Leonardo da Vinci
incorporated Arabic mathematics to formulate a system that could
work across all trades and nations. As Jane Gleeson-White reveals,
double-entry accounting was nothing short of revolutionary: it
fueled the Renaissance, enabled capitalism to flourish, and created
the global economy. John Maynard Keynes would use it to calculate
GDP, the measure of a nation s wealth. Yet double-entry accounting
has had its failures. With the costs of sudden corporate collapses
such as Enron and Lehman Brothers, and its disregard of
environmental and human costs, the time may have come to re-create
it for the future."
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