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Eating the Dinosaur (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 16,246 ratings — published 2009
The Theory of the Leisure Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 3,972 ratings — published 1899
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 944 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 — 6,867 ratings — published 2006
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.93 — 2,652 ratings — published 2006
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 80,397 ratings — published 2009
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 209,529 ratings — published 2006
The Consumer Society Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 97 ratings — published 2000
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,535 ratings — published 1979
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,773 ratings — published 2013
Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,565 ratings — published 2019
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 4,813 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 — 1,344 ratings — published 2009
Consumption and the World of Goods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 20 ratings — published 1993
Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities (MIDLAND BOOK)
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avg rating 3.92 — 65 ratings — published 1988
Consuming Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,338 ratings — published 2001
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 356 ratings — published 1986
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 130,185 ratings — published 2008
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 120 ratings — published 2008
Point of Purchase (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 59 ratings — published 2003
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 36,593 ratings — published 2004
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 3,969 ratings — published 2007
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 41,339 ratings — published 2024
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,529 ratings — published 2019
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 Consumption (Social Archaeology)
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avg rating 3.90 — 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 — 708 ratings — published 2016
The Waste Makers (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.03 — 226 ratings — published 1960
Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 43,498 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 3.46 — 67,044 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 — 13,454 ratings — published 1999
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,105 ratings — published 1970
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2012
A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600–1800 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.58 — 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
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 388,922 ratings — published 2010
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 3.73 — 103 ratings — published 1979
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 2,615 ratings — published 2008
The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,151 ratings — published 1997
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 49,381 ratings — published 2013
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 131,854 ratings — published 1995
Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 24 ratings — published 2002
More (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,612 ratings — published 2012
Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 379 ratings — published 2009
The New Industrial Revolution: Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 88 ratings — published 2012
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 6,960 ratings — published 1973
No Logo (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 32,578 ratings — published 2000
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 4,378 ratings — published 2010
“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now. Maybe it's just because I'm with an older gang now.[...]I mean nobody even has hobbies these days. Not that I can see. Husbands and wives both work. Kids are farmed out to schools and video games. Nobody seems able to endure simply being themselves, either - but at the same time they're isolated. People work much more, only go home and surf the Internet and send e-mail rather than calling or writing a note or visiting each other. They work, watch TV, and sleep. I see these things. The world is only about work: work work work get get get...racing ahead...getting sacked from work...going online...knowing computer languages...winning contracts. I mean, it's just not what I would have imagined the world might be if you'd asked me seventeen years ago. People are frazzled and angry, desperate about money, and, at best, indifferent to the future.”
― Girlfriend in a Coma
― Girlfriend in a Coma
“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys its capacity for abundance to bring the petty bourgeois into complicity with his own oppression—first by turning him into a commodity, into an object for sale in the marketplace; next by assimilating his very wants to the commodity nexus. Tyrannized as he is by every vicissitude of bourgeois society, the whole personality of the petty bourgeois vibrates with insecurity. His soporifics—commodities and more commodities—are his very poison. In this sense there is nothing more oppressive than "privilege" today, for the deepest recesses of the "privileged" man's psyche are fair game for exploitation and domination.”
― Post-Scarcity Anarchism
― Post-Scarcity Anarchism
