Consumerism

This book investigates the intersection between consumption, identity and Jewish history in Europe.

This book investigates the intersection between consumption, identity and Jewish history in Europe.

Political Consumerism captures the creative ways in which consumers and citizens turn to the market as their arena for politics.

Political Consumerism captures the creative ways in which consumers and citizens turn to the market as their arena for politics.

A bold new interpretation of ''consumer revolution'' in 18th-century Europe, examining globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of Revolution.

A bold new interpretation of ''consumer revolution'' in 18th-century Europe, examining globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of Revolution.

A fascinating exploration of how algorithms penetrate the most intimate aspects of our psychologyfrom the pioneering expert on psychological targeting.

The massive outpouring of consumer products available today might alone lead one to ask "e;How much is enough?

Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed.

What does it mean to be young and Muslim today?

What does it mean to be young and Muslim today?

In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that ';incredible things are happening in this world.

Liberalization's Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India.

Published in cooperation with the William P.

Consumption Intensified examines how self-identified middle class Brazilians in Sao Paulo redefined their class during Brazil's economic crisis of 1981-1994.

Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology.

The overall experience of the buying process ultimately determines whether consumers will pay money for a product or service: they weigh what they are purchasing with their responses to the marketing message, the advertising, the sales approach, the website, the interaction with company personnel, and more.

Credit and debt appear to be natural, permanent facets of Americans' lives, but a debt-based economy and debt-financed lifestyles are actually recent inventions.

In the age of Ikea Hackers and salvagepunks, this book charts the emergence of "e;rugged consumers"e; who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires.

An original and cutting commentary on the bad side of the good life.

A critique of the lifestyles of today's ultra rich bolstered by old-fashioned muckraking, Crass Struggle provides a sharp, original, and often humorous commentary on "e;the bad side of the good life, the underbelly of the potbelly.

We now call it The Great Realisationand, yes, since then there have been many.

For mums and dads in a rush, buying convenience foods is a reality but ingredient labels often read like a complicated science experiment.

Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace.

Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics and our culture.

Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world.

We spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work.

With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers.

Children today are growing up in an increasingly commercialised world.

*Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*Fashion is political.

*Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*Fashion is political.

It's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies.

It's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies.

This is the first comprehensive history of consumer movements, ideologies and organisations in twentieth-century Britain.

A Year Without "e;Made in China"e; provides you with a thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining account of how the most populous nation on Earth influences almost every aspect of our daily lives.

Buying For Business provides a simple but comprehensive guide to purchasing and supply.

Over last thirty years, new technology, fashion, and social set-ups have spawned new cliches galore.

Why do people behave and think the way they do?

How do consumers process information?

a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarly writing a comprehensive critical survey of the literature on cultural heritage and tourism and associated issues in the fields of cultural and media studies over the previous decade.

Reviewers comments on the first editionZygmunt Bauman presents a cogently argued and compelling thesis.

Uniting theoretical work on theology, capitalism and consumerism with a scheme of detailed practical action, 'Buying God' explores how we can wean ourselves off the material and on to the eternal, through prayer, example, and vibrant social action.

This text provides an overview of concepts, theories, and methods related to the study of household consumption.

'Moving and hopeful .

The $22 trillion opportunity that can be unlocked only if you rethink everything you think you know about people over sixty.

Longtime leader in the luxury goods sector and former Chairman of LVMH Mot Hennessy Louis Vuitton North America reinvents the artand science of brand-building under the rubric of Aesthetic Intelligence.