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Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness
TATE BOOK OF THE MONTH 2023 A timely critique of consumer culture which captures this image-obsessed moment in history, perfect for fans of Zadie Smith's Feel Free and Jia Tolentino's...
Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
Lead in lipstick? 1,4 dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful they've kept themselves unregulated for...
Real Toy Story, The Inside the Ruthless Battle for Britains Youn
Toys from teddy bears to Barbie dolls to train sets define our image of childhood innocence. But the truth is that toys represent a $21 billion a year industry, and...
Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945
In order to understand the massive social and cultural changes that took place in Australia since the end of World War II, Michelle Arrow examines popular culture through three main...
Retailisation: The Here, There and Everywhere of Retail
This work investigates the current state of selling, whether groceries, politicians, information or motorcars. Like no other phenomenon, "retailization" reflects the complexity and ubiquity of information flows, processes and convergence...
Must-Have: The Hidden Instincts Behind Everything We Buy
Acclaimed psychologist Geoffrey Miller uses evolutionary psychology to reveal how the dizzying, brand-saturated world of modern consumerism really works. Why do we buy? What is it that governs our choice...
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things
In the first half of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno wrote about the 'culture industry'. For Adorno, culture too along with the products of factory labour was increasingly becoming a...
What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
The recent changes in our economic landscape have notably exposed and intensified a phenomenon: an explosion in sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping. From enormous marketplaces such as...
Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World
From the author of STITCHED UP: 'Makes a strong case for nothing less than a revolution' Emma Watson 'A superb primer on everything that is wrong with our world -...
The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide: A Jargon-Free Guide to the Chemical of Everyday Life
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Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
THE SUNDAY TIME S BESTELLER 'Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book' CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick's book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back...
The Sirens Call: how attention became the world's most endangered
From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has...
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the
The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history...
Consumed: Rethinking Business in the Era of Mindful Spending
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Stuck Monkey: The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love
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Africa First!: Igniting a Growth Revolution
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Foot Work: What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation
Author: Tansy E. Hoskins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Fascinating and eye-opening' OWEN JONES DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR SHOES COME FROM? DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY GO WHEN...
Curing Affluenza: How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World
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