Consumerism

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.

Scholars in diverse fields now agree on the importance of investigating the impact of consumption practices on the global environment, quality of life, and international justice.

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

Whole Grains and Health presents a science-based discussion of whole grains and their expanding role in health and disease.

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.

The Reading Augustine series presents short, engaging books offering personal readings of St.

The Reading Augustine series presents short, engaging books offering personal readings of St.

"e;Amidst a thousand tirades against the excesses and waste of consumer society, [this book] offers us something genuinely new and invigorating: a way out.

Toys - from teddy bears to Barbie dolls to train sets - define our image of childhood innocence.

How America's post-WWII affluence led to today's divide between red states and blue states: "e;[Lindsey's] insights are frequently dazzling.

'An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind.

Nominated for the Business Book Awards 'Embracing Change' category-----If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?

Most people can't get through the day without a hit of caffeine.

A gripping and hilarious satire of hipsters, consumerism, contemporary art, for fans of Bret Easton Ellis and Don Delillo.

It's time to radically alter the way we perceive the world.

'Harry Wallop is one of the sharpest and funniest journalists writing in Britain today.

Scaldingly honest, impeccably researched and movingly written, 'MAXED OUT' is, as 'FAST FOOD NATION' was to the food industry, the book the captains of the debt industry wish you would never read.

Addictions to iphones, painkillers, cupcakes, alcohol and sex are taking over our lives.

A hard-hitting expose of the overwork culture and modern management techniques that seduce millions of people to hand over the best part of their lives to their employer.

A majority of British children mainly eat processed and junk food.

A manifesto for a new world order.

With a sharp eye for the magnificently absurd, Rod Liddle sets light to modern-day Britain.

In the 20th century humanity consumed products faster than ever, but this way of living is no longer sustainable.

An elegant demolition of the supermarket miracle, this book charts the impact that supermarkets have had on every aspect of our lives and culture.

Award-winning investigative food journalist, Joanne Blythman turns her attention to the current hot topic - the state of British food.

When artists and artisans can’t make a living, the health of America’s culture is at risk Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century.

In this impressively researched, alarming book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates the world of nature conservation, arguing that the West’s attitude to endangered wildlife is shallow, self-contradictory, and ultimately very damaging.

Seventy-six million Baby Boomers are careening toward retirement in the United States.

An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.

En la 'Historia del consumo en la España contemporánea (1973-2020)', Fernando Conde Gutiérrez del Álamo aborda la historia de la sociedad de consumo en España dividida en cuatro grandes etapas: la del consumo de masas entre 1973 y 1985, la de consumos segmentados entre 1985 y la crisis del 1993-1994, la de los consumos glocales financiarizados entre esta crisis y la de las 'subprime' de 2008, y la de los consumos glocales digitalizados entre esta crisis y la emergencia de la pandemia.