Author: Guillermo Saccomanno
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948830256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Love, sex, and corporate slavery in a futuristic world from the two-time winner of the Dashiell Hammett Prize
Clerk
Author: Guillermo Saccomanno
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948830256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Love, sex, and corporate slavery in a futuristic world from the two-time winner of the Dashiell Hammett Prize
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948830256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Love, sex, and corporate slavery in a futuristic world from the two-time winner of the Dashiell Hammett Prize
Accounting for Capitalism
Author: Michael Zakim
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022654589X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In Accounting for Capitalism, Michael Zakim has written their story, a social history of capital that seeks to explain how the “bottom line” became a synonym for truth in an age shorn of absolutes, grafted onto our very sense of reason and trust. This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. The personal trajectory of these young men from farm to metropolis, homestead to boarding house, and, most significantly, from growing things to selling them exemplified the enormous social effort required to domesticate the profit motive and turn it into the practical foundation of civic life. As Zakim reveals in his highly original study, there was nothing natural or preordained about the stunning ascendance of this capitalism and its radical transformation of the relationship between “Man and Mammon.”
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022654589X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In Accounting for Capitalism, Michael Zakim has written their story, a social history of capital that seeks to explain how the “bottom line” became a synonym for truth in an age shorn of absolutes, grafted onto our very sense of reason and trust. This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. The personal trajectory of these young men from farm to metropolis, homestead to boarding house, and, most significantly, from growing things to selling them exemplified the enormous social effort required to domesticate the profit motive and turn it into the practical foundation of civic life. As Zakim reveals in his highly original study, there was nothing natural or preordained about the stunning ascendance of this capitalism and its radical transformation of the relationship between “Man and Mammon.”
The Clerk's Tale
Author: Spencer Reece
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547346638
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
In a recent double fiction issue, The New Yorker devoted the entire back page to a single poem, "The Clerk's Tale," by Spencer Reece. The poet who drew such unusual attention has a surprising background: for many years he has worked for Brooks Brothers, a fact that lends particular nuance to the title of his collection. The Clerk's Tale pays homage not only to Chaucer but to the clerks' brotherhood of service in the mall, where "the light is bright and artificial, / yet not dissimilar to that found in a Gothic cathedral." The fifty poems in The Clerk's Tale are exquisitely restrained, shot through with a longing for permanence, from the quasi-monastic life of two salesmen at Brooks Brothers to the poignant lingering light of a Miami dusk to the weight of geography on an empty Minnesota farm. Gluck describes them as having "an effect I have never quite seen before, half cocktail party, half passion play . . . We do not expect virtuosity as the outward form of soul-making, nor do we associate generosity and humanity with such sophistication of means, such polished intelligence . . . Much life has gone into the making of this art, much patient craft."
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547346638
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
In a recent double fiction issue, The New Yorker devoted the entire back page to a single poem, "The Clerk's Tale," by Spencer Reece. The poet who drew such unusual attention has a surprising background: for many years he has worked for Brooks Brothers, a fact that lends particular nuance to the title of his collection. The Clerk's Tale pays homage not only to Chaucer but to the clerks' brotherhood of service in the mall, where "the light is bright and artificial, / yet not dissimilar to that found in a Gothic cathedral." The fifty poems in The Clerk's Tale are exquisitely restrained, shot through with a longing for permanence, from the quasi-monastic life of two salesmen at Brooks Brothers to the poignant lingering light of a Miami dusk to the weight of geography on an empty Minnesota farm. Gluck describes them as having "an effect I have never quite seen before, half cocktail party, half passion play . . . We do not expect virtuosity as the outward form of soul-making, nor do we associate generosity and humanity with such sophistication of means, such polished intelligence . . . Much life has gone into the making of this art, much patient craft."
The Death of a Civil Servant
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Alma Classics
ISBN: 1847496865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 'The Death of a Civil Servant', an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embarrassment and hilarious and futile attempts at atonement. The other short stories included in this volume, 'A Calculated Marriage', 'The Culprit', 'The Exclamation Mark', 'The Speech-Maker', 'Who Is to Blame?' and 'A Defenceless Creature' are in the same absurdly comical vein. This short collection shows Chekhov in an amusing, playful light, poking fun at the greed, sycophancy and ignorance of his characters, with the moral detachment that also characterizes his major, serious works.
Publisher: Alma Classics
ISBN: 1847496865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 'The Death of a Civil Servant', an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embarrassment and hilarious and futile attempts at atonement. The other short stories included in this volume, 'A Calculated Marriage', 'The Culprit', 'The Exclamation Mark', 'The Speech-Maker', 'Who Is to Blame?' and 'A Defenceless Creature' are in the same absurdly comical vein. This short collection shows Chekhov in an amusing, playful light, poking fun at the greed, sycophancy and ignorance of his characters, with the moral detachment that also characterizes his major, serious works.
The Clerk's Assistant
Author: Henry S. McCall
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375101333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375101333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
The Clerk's English Tutor
Author: Attorney at law
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Clerk's Manual of Rules, Statutes, Procedures and Precedents Applicable to the Ordinary Business of the Legislature of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Church Clerk
Author: Zelotes Grenell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church officers
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church officers
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Clerk's Manual of Rules, Forms and Laws for the Regulations and Business in the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York ...
Author: New York (State). Legislature
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
1857, 1861 are the rules of the Assembly only/
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
1857, 1861 are the rules of the Assembly only/
The Clerk's Associate: Containing an Account of the High Court of Chancery, of the Officers, Clerks, and Their Business. Also ... the Method of Practice, and of Proceedings ... By a Gentleman of Lincoln's Inn
Author: England. Court of Chancery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description