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Longing and belonging
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Allison J. Pugh |
"Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's consumer… |
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Konsum, Globalisierung, Umwelt
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Lori Wallach,Martin Khor,Sunita Narain,Manfred A. Max-Neef |
Die Fortsetzung der erfolgreichen Plattform McPlanet.com spannt das Drahtseil zwischen der (Konsum-)Verantwortung der Einzelnen, der Macht der Konzerne und den scheinbaren Grenzen der Politik.
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Complicated Lives
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William Nelson |
Complicated Lives examines the greatest conundrum of the modern world: why, despite being richer, healthier and more empowered than ever before, do we continue to feel threatened, under pressure and … |
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Save, Spend, Share
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Gerry Bailey |
Provides an introduction and overview of commerce and how consumers buy the products and services they want and need. |
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Profit over People
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Jun Yamazaki,Noam Chomsky |
In Profit Over People Noam Chomsky takes on neoliberalism, the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide. By examining the contradictions… |
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Le Isole del lusso. Prodotti esotici, nuovi consumi e cultura economica europea,1650-1800
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Marcello Carmagnani |
The Isles of Luxury.
EXOTIC GOODS, NEW CONSUMPTION, AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CULTURE 1650-1800
This is a history about a cluster of American and Asian goods that enjoyed worldwide adoption and… |
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The sociology of elite distinction
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Jean-Pascal Daloz |
"This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that diff… |
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Falling behind
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Robert H. Frank |
Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry … |
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Against thrift
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James Livingston |
"Since the financial meltdown of 2008, economists, journalists, and politicians have uniformly insisted that to restore the American Dream and renew economic growth, we need to save more and spend le… |
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Thieves in the Temple
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G. Jeffrey MacDonald |
A devastating critique of the cult of consumerism and easy affirmation that has corrupted American Protestantism in recent years. |
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Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz
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Steven B. Bunker |
"This study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Díaz. Through case studies of tobacco marketing, department stores, advertising, shoplifting, and a famous jewel… |
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Household spending
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New Strategist Publications, Inc |
Examines how much American households spend on hundreds of products and services by demographics including age, income, household type, region of residence, race and Hispanic origin, and educational … |
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Get real
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Mara Rockliff |
A consumer guide for tweens provides insight into a range of topics from truth about fast-food nutrition to the environmental costs of cheap products, and shares related counsel on how to make inform… |
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The good life lab
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Wendy Jehanara Tremayne |
This is the inspirational story of how one couple ditched their careers and high-pressure life in New York City to move to rural New Mexico, where they made, built, invented, foraged, and grew all th… |
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Unstuff
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Hayley DiMarco |
"In 'Unstuff', popular authors Hayley and Michael DiMarco take an uncomfortably close look at the cost of their love affair with stuff. Their journey towards 'Unstuffing' starts with getting rid of t… |
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The Ten minute activist
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Lloyd Dangle |
Shows how even the busiest person can make a positive change from buying organic milk and bison to switching from free trade to fair trade, from choosing a Socially Responsible Investing retirement p… |
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Reengineering retail
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Doug Stephens |
Author and internationally renowned consumer futurist, Doug Stephens, paints a bold vision of the future where every aspect of the retail experience as we know it, will be radically transformed. From… |
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A bunch of pretty things I did not buy
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Sarah Lazarovic |
A witty, gracious, and charmingly illustrated anti-consumer manifesto. Like most people, Sarah Lazarovic covets beautiful things. But rather than giving in to her impulse to spend and acquire, Sarah… |
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Golem
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LRNZ |
"Set in a future, post-Eurozone Italy, entrenched in a bizarre form of hyper-capitalism, Golem follows a young boy kidnapped during a political protest gone sour, who learns that he has the power to … |
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The Landscape of Consumption
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Clé Lesger,J. Furneé,Jan Hein Furnée |
"This volume brings together research on retailing and shopping and their embeddedness in urban space, themes that have attracted wide interest in recent decades. Addressing these themes over an era … |
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