Sherry Ruth Anderson
Do you dislike all the emphasis in modern culture on success and "making it," on getting and spending, on wealth and luxury goods? Do you care deeply about the destruction of the environment and would pay higher taxes or prices to clean it up [... more]
Random House |
The Inside Advantage
 How to "unlock the hidden growth" in any business: I recently read two books that explain how to achieve and then sustain a decisive competitive advantage: this one written by Robert Bloom with Dave Conti and Steven Feinberg's The Advantage- [... more]
CDN$28.95
Amazon CA |
Britain Ad: A Quest for Arthur, England And the Anglo-saxons
Illuminating the "Dark Ages": You don't want to argue with Francis Pryor. Not because he's likely bigger than you, but because your array of supportive information may not be on the top line. Pryor is a digger, for facts and artefacts, and [... more]
CDN$40.10
Amazon CA |
Worldly Goods: A New History Of The Renaissance
From Amazon.com: Drawing from her earlier and more academic studies, Lisa Jardine approaches the challenge of creating a new history of the Renaissance with remarkable bravura and all the boldness required to deliver a fresh and highly readable story of [... more]
CDN$28.95
Amazon CA |
Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia
Consumers as active participants: The author, an anthropologist, explores the phenomenon of second-hand clothes being exported from the West into Zambia, where they are sold on as "luxury goods". She argues against the idea that this is a North- [... more]
CDN$25.08
Amazon CA |
Trading Up
Outstanding view of the new way people buy: I loved this book for several reasons. 1) The premise made sense from the beginning 2) They backed it up with real data and examples 3) The book was highly readable (not an academic snooze inducer) 4) The [... more]
CDN$39.00
Amazon CA |
Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
Self-inflicted wounds: Michael Klare, I would argue, has a better claim to being able to predict tomorrow's headlines than self-proclaimed "futurists" who absurdly forecast that computers are going to surpass human intelligence and take over [... more]
CDN$18.00
Amazon CA |
New Ideas from Dead Ceos: Lasting Lessons from the ...
Ten "giants" with broad "shoulders": Actually, it was Bernard of Chartres, not Isaac Newton, who should be properly credited with first observing that "we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than [... more]
CDN$33.95
Amazon CA |
Trading Up
Outstanding view of the new way people buy: I loved this book for several reasons. 1) The premise made sense from the beginning 2) They backed it up with real data and examples 3) The book was highly readable (not an academic snooze inducer) 4) The [... more]
CDN$40.00
Amazon CA |
Paul H. Ray, Ph.D.
Do you dislike all the emphasis in modern culture on success and "making it," on getting and spending, on wealth and luxury goods? Do you care deeply about the destruction of the environment and would pay higher taxes or prices to clean it up [... more]
Random House |
Deluxe
Tour Elite Shows, Remarkable Ateliers, Sweat Shops, and Bogus Goods Stores: If you like behind-the-scenes books about privilege, luxury, greed, and lust for status, you've come to the right book. Ms. Thomas has a remarkable knowledge of luxury goods [... more]
CDN$35.00
Amazon CA |
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
Tour Elite Shows, Remarkable Ateliers, Sweat Shops, and Bogus Goods Stores: If you like behind-the-scenes books about privilege, luxury, greed, and lust for status, you've come to the right book. Ms. Thomas has a remarkable knowledge of luxury goods [... more]
CDN$32.06
Amazon CA |
