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Eating the Dinosaur (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 16,356 ratings — published 2009
The Theory of the Leisure Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 4,092 ratings — published 1899
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 967 ratings — published 2003
It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 6,907 ratings — published 2006
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.93 — 2,659 ratings — published 2006
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 81,139 ratings — published 2009
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 211,433 ratings — published 2006
The Consumer Society Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 98 ratings — published 2000
Distinction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,701 ratings — published 1979
The Lamb (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 43,800 ratings — published 2025
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,794 ratings — published 2013
Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,635 ratings — published 2019
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 5,265 ratings — published 2021
Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 1,353 ratings — published 2009
Consumption and the World of Goods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21 ratings — published 1993
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 396,680 ratings — published 2010
Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities (MIDLAND BOOK)
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avg rating 3.96 — 67 ratings — published 1988
Consuming Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,407 ratings — published 2001
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 364 ratings — published 1986
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 132,240 ratings — published 2008
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 131 ratings — published 2008
Point of Purchase (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 61 ratings — published 2003
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 37,241 ratings — published 2004
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 4,116 ratings — published 2007
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 436,063 ratings — published 2017
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 67,609 ratings — published 2024
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,607 ratings — published 2019
Carmilla (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 213,714 ratings — published 1872
Woman, Eating (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.43 — 22,367 ratings — published 2022
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 70,499 ratings — published 2019
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 42,245 ratings — published 2009
The Birth of a Consumer Society: Commercialization of Eighteenth Century England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 14 ratings — published 1982
Material Culture and Mass Consumerism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 52 ratings — published 1987
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 723 ratings — published 2016
The Waste Makers (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.03 — 235 ratings — published 1960
Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan: A Transdisciplinary Perspective (Consumption and Sustainability in Asia)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 27,963 ratings — published 2014
Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 45,133 ratings — published 2015
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.45 — 72,311 ratings — published 2018
Culture and Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, and Brand Management (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 27 ratings — published 2005
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 13,529 ratings — published 1999
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,232 ratings — published 1970
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2012
A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600–1800 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 36 ratings — published 1997
Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published 2002
Food Consumption in Global Perspective: Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody (Consumption and Public Life)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2014
The World of Goods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 104 ratings — published 1979
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,640 ratings — published 2008
The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,149 ratings — published 1997
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 50,932 ratings — published 2013
“Since consumption attracts spending and production attracts earning, becoming a net producer may help you better fulfill your holistic needs. It may also endow you with abilities to become more useful to others, and you may even increase your sense of accomplishment and self-esteem.”
― The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
― The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'.”
― From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
― From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
