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Product Description: In this optimistic and inspiring book, Peter Whybrow, the prize-winning author of American Mania, returns to offer a prescription for genuine human progress.The Well-Tuned Brain is a call to action. Swept along by the cascading advances of today’s technology, most of us take for granted that progress brings improvement...read more

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9780393072921 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 18, 2015, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In this optimistic and inspiring book, Peter Whybrow, the prize-winning author of American Mania, returns to offer a prescription for genuine human progress.

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Product Description: This book investigates various forms of political and ethical consumerism in the United States and delivers a comprehensive conceptualization of the consumer’s role in the marketplace. Both aspects, the potential impact of market-based activism on corporations in America and the socio-structural dynamics that may prevent the possibility of far-reaching social change through forms of alternative consumerism, are equally important in this regard...read more

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9783631654750 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 26, 2014, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: This book investigates various forms of political and ethical consumerism in the United States and delivers a comprehensive conceptualization of the consumer’s role in the marketplace.

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Product Description: Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System is a comprehensive analysis of the barriers and opportunities confronting minority communities’ ability to access healthy, fresh foods. It exposits the meaning of marginalization through several measurement indicators examined from the cross sections of history, space, and participation...read more

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9780761860532 | Univ Pr of Amer, September 12, 2013, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System is a comprehensive analysis of the barriers and opportunities confronting minority communities’ ability to access healthy, fresh foods.

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Product Description: Readers gain an accessible, yet informed, look into how the individual is affected by financial behaviors of themselves and others. Starting from a broad look at how governments approach spending and savings and then working down to the level of the individual, this book shows readers how were all economically connected and how the financial decisions of one can affect many...read more

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9781448883448 | 1 edition (Rosen Pub Group, December 15, 2012), cover price $34.25 | About this edition: Readers gain an accessible, yet informed, look into how the individual is affected by financial behaviors of themselves and others.

In Shiny Objects, a cross between In Praise of Slowness and The Tipping Point, consumer behavior expert Professor James A. Roberts takes us on a tour of America's obsession with consumerism—pointing out its symptoms, diagnosing specific problems, and offering a series of groundbreaking solutions.Roberts gives practical advice for how to correct the materialistic trends in our lives which lock us into a cycle of financial hardship and stress. Shiny Objects, a new The Paradox of Choice for the modern reader, is more than a critique of capitalism—it's also an exploration into how we can live happier, fuller, more productive lives today.

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9780062093608 | Harpercollins, November 8, 2011, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In Shiny Objects, a cross between In Praise of Slowness and The Tipping Point, consumer behavior expert Professor James A.

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9780062093615 | Harpercollins, October 30, 2012, cover price $15.99

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Product Description: In the hands of the corporate sector, marketing has turned us into spoilt, consumption-obsessed children who are simultaneously wrecking our bodies, psyches and planet. Given the fiduciary duties of the corporation, notions like consumer sovereignty, customer service and relationship building are just corrosive myths that seduce us into quiescence, whilst furnishing big business with unprecedented power...read more

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9780415678612 | Routledge, November 12, 2012, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: In the hands of the corporate sector, marketing has turned us into spoilt, consumption-obsessed children who are simultaneously wrecking our bodies, psyches and planet.

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9780415678629 | Routledge, November 9, 2012, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: In the hands of the corporate sector, marketing has turned us into spoilt, consumption-obsessed children who are simultaneously wrecking our bodies, psyches and planet.

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9780465021864 | Basic Books, November 22, 2011, cover price $27.50

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9780465028092 | Basic Books, November 22, 2011, cover price $27.50

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Product Description: The financial crisis that struck across the globe in 2008 forced many Americans to reconsider their spending habits. Read about the debate over spending patterns during the recession. A variety of perspectives, governmental views, scientific analysis, and many more will open opinions that will illuminate this issue...read more
By David Haugen (editor) and Susan Musser (editor)

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9780737748949 | Greenhaven Pr, November 26, 2010, cover price $39.40 | About this edition: The financial crisis that struck across the globe in 2008 forced many Americans to reconsider their spending habits.

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Product Description: Greenhaven Press's At Issue series provides a wide range of opinions on individual social issues. Each volume focuses on a specific issue and offers a variety of perspectives-eyewitnes accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine account, and many more-to illuminate the issue...read more
By David M. Haugen (editor) and Susan Musser (editor)

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9780737748956 | Greenhaven Pr, November 26, 2010, cover price $27.80 | About this edition: Greenhaven Press's At Issue series provides a wide range of opinions on individual social issues.

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Product Description: Studies of wage and income inequality among U.S. citizens over the past thirty years have engendered the common wisdom that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. But is it really that simple? In this meticulous economic study, Orazio P...read more

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9780844743660 | Aei Pr, October 1, 2010, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Studies of wage and income inequality among U.

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Product Description: No one in America has done more observing of more people than Dr. Frank I. Luntz. From Bill O'Reilly to Bill Maher, America's leading pundits, prognosticators, and CEOs turn to Luntz to explain the present and to predict the future...read more
By L. J. Ganser (narrator) and Frank I. Luntz

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9781401396336 | Unabridged edition (Hachette Audio, September 14, 2010), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: No one in America has done more observing of more people than Dr.

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Product Description: No one in America has done more observing of more people than Dr. Frank I. Luntz. From Bill O'Reilly to Bill Maher, America's leading pundits, prognosticators, and CEOs turn to Luntz to explain the present and to predict the future...read more

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9781401322816 | Hachette Books, September 15, 2009, cover price $24.99

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9781401310417 | Reprint edition (Hachette Books, September 14, 2010), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: No one in America has done more observing of more people than Dr.

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