How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism write by Andrew Warnes. This book was released on 2019-01-29. How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week’s food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.
The World of Jim Crow America [2 volumes]
The World of Jim Crow America [2 volumes] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World of Jim Crow America [2 volumes] write by Steven A. Reich. This book was released on 2019-06-24. The World of Jim Crow America [2 volumes] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This two-volume set is a thematically-arranged encyclopedia covering the social, political, and material culture of America during the Jim Crow Era. What was daily life really like for ordinary African American people in Jim Crow America, the hundred-year period of enforced legal segregation that began immediately after the Civil War and continued until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965? What did they eat, wear, believe, and think? How did they raise their children? How did they interact with government? What did they value? What did they do for fun? This Daily Life encyclopedia explores the lives of average people through the examination of social, cultural, and material history. Supported by the most current research, the multivolume set examines social history topics—including family, political, religious, and economic life—as it illuminates elements of a society's emotional life, interactions, opinions, views, beliefs, intimate relationships, and connections between individuals and the greater world. It is broken up into topical sections, each dealing with a different aspect of cultural life. Each section opens with an introductory essay, followed by A–Z entries on various aspects of that topic.
A History of the Harlem Renaissance
A History of the Harlem Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Harlem Renaissance write by Rachel Farebrother. This book was released on 2021-02-04. A History of the Harlem Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents original essays that explore the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture.
What's Mine Is Yours
What's Mine Is Yours - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What's Mine Is Yours write by Rachel Botsman. This book was released on 2010-09-14. What's Mine Is Yours available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Amidst a thousand tirades against the excesses and waste of consumer society, What’s Mine Is Yours offers us something genuinely new and invigorating: a way out.” —Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air and The Ghost Map A groundbreaking and original book, What’s Mine is Yours articulates for the first time the roots of "collaborative consumption," Rachel Botsman and Roo Roger's timely new coinage for the technology-based peer communities that are transforming the traditional landscape of business, consumerism, and the way we live. Readers captivated by Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail, Van Jones’ The Green Collar Economy or Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point will be wowed by this landmark contribution to the evolving ecology of commerce and sustainability.
Shopping for Meaningful Lives
Shopping for Meaningful Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shopping for Meaningful Lives write by Bruce P. Rittenhouse. This book was released on 2013-03-27. Shopping for Meaningful Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Consumerism is a problem. It deforms individual character, our sense of obligation to one another, and our concern for future generations and the environment. Even in the aftermath of the worst economic downturn in seventy years, it remains a defining feature of Western cultures. But, beyond this assessment, neither Christian theologians and ethicists nor secular economists and sociologists have understood what drives consumerism or what can be done to counteract it. This is the problem that Bruce P. Rittenhouse solves in Shopping for Meaningful Lives. Dr. Rittenhouse analyzes economic, sociological, and psychological evidence to prove that consumers behave differently than the current theories predict.Dr. Rittenhouse shows that consumerism functions as a religion. It provides a means of assurance that an individual life is meaningful. Because we need this assurance to live out our everyday lives, consumerism takes precedence over whatever other values a person professes--unless a person can adopt a different way to secure the meaning of his or her life. This interpretation explains how consumers actually behave. From the perspective of Christian theology, consumerism is a wrong answer to a problem of human existence that should be answered by faith in Christ.
