Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture
A Review of Elizabeth Chin's Purchasing Power: When faced with the concept of "Black Kids and American Consumer Culture," I immediately turn my thoughts to the image of African American males killing each other for a specific brand of [... more]
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Shocked, Appalled, and Dismayed!: How to Write Letters ...
From Amazon.com: Rarely does a day go by when most of us do not have to deal with surly salespeople, cheaply made products, or vast and indifferent bureaucracies. Most of us endure this with a stoicism worthy of Seneca himself. After all, what's the use [... more]
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Credit Card Nation
From Amazon.com: No interest for one year! No annual fee! No minimum payments for six months! And, if you want to believe Robert Manning, there's no way out of the debt that we find ourselves in, as individuals and as a country. Credit Card Nation [... more]
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Captains Of Consciousness Advertising And The Social ...
Why are 3rd World nations far less materialistic? Read This.: If you've ever spent a considerable amount of time living in a 3rd World nation like I have, this book can help you understand why the USA has such an intense consumer culture which is almost [... more]
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The Subject Steve: A Novel
From Amazon.com: The Subject Steve, Sam Lipsyte's remarkable debut novel, is an ebullient, bawdy, and idiosyncratic assault on American consumer culture. Like fellow mercurial satirists Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, and David Foster Wallace, Lipsyte is an [... more]
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Grand Theft Auto(TM) Double Pack Official Strategy Guide
No Cheats and Lousy Maps. It's Better than nothing though.: This Strategy Guide lays a basic foundation for a richer gaming experience with GTA III and Vice City. You get a bunch of little sectional views from different areas of, for example, Vice City ( [... more]
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The Myth of the Robber Barons
The Myth of the Robber Barons: Excellent view of the way laissez-faire capitalism should be and why gov't subsidies don't work. It is so good to read the other side of the story! Now we know who the real entrepreneurs were! Thanks for a touch of reality, [... more]
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Commodify Your Dissent
From Amazon.com: In this thought-provoking collection of essays, editor Thomas Frank and other contributors to the contrarian journal the Baffler examine the unprecedented ascendancy of business as the dominating force in American life. If the closest [... more]
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Marketing to the Mindset of Boomers and Their Elders: ...
Reaching out to the 40 and older demographic: Based on twelve years of research involving 20,000 American subjects, Marketing to the Mindset of Boomers and Their Elders by Carol M. Morgan and Doran J. Levy, is an informative and practical guide to [... more]
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Small Congregation, Big Potential: Ministry in the ...
Buy the Book Only If You Buy the Assumption: Small Congregation, Big Potential is Lyle Schaller's latest examination of the world of the small church. His previous works on the subject include The Small Church is Different! (1982) and The Small [... more]
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An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in ...
he is my history prof: dude you should give me an a for buying your book it is great Excellent history of consumerism; some disagreements: It is not easy for me to review this book about consumerism. The subject is far more complex than its critics [... more]
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Rock 'n' Roll
World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band: It defies conventional wisdom that the Mekons are among the sole survivors of the post-punk revolution of the early 1980s. (Well, maybe not... Manchester's New Order is still around) The Mekons' first album in 1979 & [... more]
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