The study of consumption and its relationship to cultural and social values has become a vibrant and important field in recent years. Hitherto however, relatively few detailed and full length works on this topic have been published. In what will become a seminal volume, this boo…
The study of consumption and its relationship to cultural and social values has become a vibrant and important field in recent years. Hitherto however, relatively few detailed and full length works on this topic have been published. In what will become a seminal volume, this boo…
Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of the perfect body, desirable consumer goods, and affluent lifestyles, yet psychology is only just beginning to take account of the profound inf…
Comedian Wigald Boning muses on the lives of strangers whose discarded shopping lists he has collected and reproduced in this book.
"Becky è una giornalista carina e determinata, con una irrefrenabile passione: lo shopping. Irrefrenabile al punto da diventare una mania, che la spinge a comprare tutto: abiti, casalinghi, dolciumi, un paio di scarpe al posto di un litro di latte. In un susseguirsi di situazion…
A Shoppers' Paradise examines the incorporation of women consumers into public space and public culture. The site is Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century--when the city, rising like a phoenix after the Great Fire, became a center of debate over capitalist urbanism. The b…
A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are coming to a retail store near you By one expert{u2019}s prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how …
The future of the city worldwide.
""Alan Flusser, one of America's foremost menswear designers, knows fine clothes and where to buy them. He shares all this in his insightful and elegantly written treatise for the man interested in savvy attire. Tuck this volume into a corner of your suitcase and you'll be armed…
