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Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Lustre
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Dana Thomas
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
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Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
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Elizabeth L. Cline
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 973 ratings
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Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World's Most Coveted Handbag
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Michael Tonello (Goodreads Author)
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 1,528 ratings
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All the Money in the World: What the Happiest People Know About Getting and Spending
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Laura Vanderkam (Goodreads Author)
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
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Ellen Ruppel Shell
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
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Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class
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Jan Whitaker (Goodreads Author)
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Unfair Trade: How Big Business Exploits The World's Poor And Why It Doesn't Have To
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Conor Woodman
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
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Judith Levine
2.94 of 5 stars 2.94 avg rating — 1,799 ratings
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Treasures In Time... "How to Profit Collecting Vintage Watches"
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E.J. Kelly
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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David Graeber
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940
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Roland Marchand
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Checkout: A Life On The Tills
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Anna Sam
2.84 of 5 stars 2.84 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Populuxe: The Look and Life of America in the '50s and '60s, from Tailfins and TV Dinners to Barbie Dolls and Fallout Shelters
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Thomas Hine
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Saving Savvy: Smart and Easly Ways to Cut Your Spending in Half and Raise Your Standard of Living
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Kelly Hancock
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Consumer.ology: The Market Research Myth, the Truth about Consumers and the Psychology of Shopping
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Philip Graves
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail
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Caitlin Kelly (Goodreads Author)
2.58 of 5 stars 2.58 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What
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Lee Eisenberg
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Frugalista Files
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Natalie McNeal
2.97 of 5 stars 2.97 avg rating — 186 ratings
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In CHEAP We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue
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Lauren Weber
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Retail Hell
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Freeman Hall (Goodreads Author)
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 672 ratings
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Save Karyn
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Karyn Bosnak (Goodreads Author)
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 1,121 ratings
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Trading Up: Why Consumers Want New Luxury Goods--and How Companies Create Them
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Michael J. Silverstein
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 183 ratings
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The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles
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Jeff Martin (Editor)
2.98 of 5 stars 2.98 avg rating — 162 ratings
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