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Consuming desires : consumption, culture, and the pursuit of happiness
Title:
Consuming desires : consumption, culture, and the pursuit of happiness
Author:
Rosenblatt, Roger.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1999]

©1999
Physical Description:
viii, 230 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
"A Shearwater book"--Verso t.p.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction / Roger Rosenblatt -- One world of consumers / William Greider -- What's wrong with consumer society? : competitive spending and the "new consumerism" / Juliet Schor -- Consuming for love / Edward N. Luttwak -- False connections / Alex Kotlowitz -- Oh, Isaac, oh, Bernard, oh, Mohan / Bharati Mukherjee -- Consuming nature / Bill McKibben -- A news consumer's Bill of Rights / Suzanne Braun Levine -- When we devoured books / André Schiffrin -- Movies and the selling of desire / Molly Haskell -- The ecology of giving and consuming / David W. Orr -- It all begins with housework / Jane Smiley -- Equipoise / Martin E. Marty -- Can't get that extinction crisis out of my mind / Stephanie Mills.
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ISBN:
9781559635356
Format :
Book