Vault Career Guide to Media and Entertainment
Author: Sucharita Mulpuru
From the Vault Career Library from background on the industry and an insider look at jobs and the career path in media and entertainment.
Library Journal
For college graduates and MBAs, searching for a job and charting a career path can be daunting. The "Vault" series will alleviate some of their concerns by providing them with much-needed information. These four sample guides from the series, written by industry experts and the Vault editorial staff, contain an overview of each field, key definitions, a history of the profession, case studies, and discussion of the types of careers available, the hiring process, typical career paths, and the qualifications needed by applicants. For example, the accounting guide discusses the "Big Four" of accounting firms, offers descriptions of key agencies, including the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, cites trends and outlooks for the profession, and gives advice on how to prepare for the CPA Examination. Firsthand accounts by successful professionals in the field are an important part of the guides; those contemplating careers as independent film producers or literary agents, for instance, can read first-person accounts in the media and entertainment volume. These guides make for excellent starting points for job hunters and should be purchased by academic libraries for their career sections. University career centers should have them on their shelves as well. [Forthcoming titles in the series will cover fashion, real estate, corporate law, litigation law, Capitol Hill careers, and more.-Ed.]-Lucy Heckman, St. John's Univ. Lib., Jamaica, NY Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Confronting Consumption
Author: Thomas Princen
2003 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award presented by the International Studies Association (ISA).
Comforting terms such as "sustainable development" and "green production" frame environmental debate by stressing technology (not green enough), economic growth (not enough in the right places), and population (too large). Concern about consumption emerges, if at all, in benign ways--as calls for green purchasing or more recycling, or for small changes in production processes. Many academics, policymakers, and journalists, in fact, accept the economists' view of consumption as nothing less than the purpose of the economy. Yet many people have a troubled, intuitive understanding that tinkering at the margins of production and purchasing will not put society on an ecologically and socially sustainable path.
Confronting Consumption places consumption at the center of debate by conceptualizing "the consumption problem" and documenting diverse efforts to confront it. In Part 1, the book frames consumption as a problem of political and ecological economy, emphasizing core concepts of individualization and commoditization. Part 2 develops the idea of distancing and examines transnational chains of consumption in the context of economic globalization. Part 3 describes citizen action through local currencies, home power, voluntary simplicity, "ad-busting," and product certification. Together, the chapters propose "cautious consuming" and "better producing" as an activist and policy response to environmental problems. The book concludes that confronting consumption must become a driving focus of contemporaryenvironmental scholarship and activism.
What People Are Saying
David W. Orr
The issue of excessive, careless, and ignorant consumption has been conspicuously absent in all the talk about sustainability. No longer! These essays break new conceptual ground and clarify the dynamics of consumption with intellectual honesty and political boldness. The authors aim to transform consumption from mindless and destructive to mindful and regenerative. This is a vitally important book!
— author of Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
Lamont C. Hempel
This book is important not just for its brilliance but for its rarity: few environmental scholars have dared to take on this issue in a manner that goes beyond rhetorical posturing and 'limits to growth' type arguments.
— Hedco Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of Environmental Programs, University of Redlands, and author of Environmental Governance: The Global Challenge
Richard B. Norgaard
Consumption deserves serious attention. This volume moves the literature beyond the work of a few isolated scholars and consumption activists to a collective enterprise of solid researchers critiquing and building on each other's contributions. Long overdue, but worth waiting for.
— Professor, Energy and Resources Group, University of California at Berkeley; Former President, International Society for Ecological Economics; and author of Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Coevolutionary Revisioning of the Future
Carolyn Merchant
Confronting Consumption provides a fresh new look at the systemic problems of consumption in the global economy. It offers a highly readable account of the impacts of consumerism on our vulnerable planetary resources and asks whether a sustainable consumption movement may be emerging. Scholars, teachers, and activists alike will be enriched by the book's analysis and inspired by new possibilities for confronting the complexities of consumption.
— Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics , University of California, Berkeley, and author of Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World and Earthcare: Women and the Environment
Ramachandra Guha
John Kenneth Galbraith once complained of the 'near total silence' with regard to the 'gargantuan and growing appetite' for resources in contemporary North America. It is that silence that has now been addressed, to spectacular effect, by the contributors to *Confronting Consumption.* These wide-ranging analyses of consumerism successfully bring together the cultural and the ecological, the structural and the symbolic, the local and the global. They join rights to responsibilities and ethics to public policy. In terms of both vision and execution, this is a landmark volume.
— author of Environmentalism: A Global History and The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himilaya
Cecile Andrews
A dynamic, vital book that takes your breath away! Confronting Consumption shows why consumption is the blockbuster problem that our society can no longer ignore. Readers will feel real excitement as they explore this stimulating book and will begin to understand why thousands of people in the Simplicity movement are turning their backs on 'getting and spending' and reclaiming 'the good life'-- building lives of high satisfaction and low environmental impact in a caring and just community.
— author of The Circle of Simplicity
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