How to Shoplift Books - 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 to Shoplift Books write by . This book was released on 2013. How to Shoplift Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The artists? book 'How To Shoplift Books' by David Horvitz is a guide on how to steal books. It details 80 ways in which one can steal a book, from the very practical, to the witty, imaginative, and romantic ways. Originally published in 2013, this paperback re-issue is making this sought after title available again and is published in an English, Spanish and French version. 17 more languages will be released successively.
The Steal
The Steal - 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 Steal write by Rachel Shteir. This book was released on 2011-06-30. The Steal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of shoplifting, revealing the roots of our modern dilemma. Rachel Shteir's The Steal is the first serious study of shoplifting, tracking the fascinating history of this ancient crime. Dismissed by academia and the mainstream media and largely misunderstood, shoplifting has become the territory of moralists, mischievous teenagers, tabloid television, and self-help gurus. But shoplifting incurs remarkable real-life costs for retailers and consumers. The "crime tax"-the amount every American family loses to shoplifting-related price inflation-is more than $400 a year. Shoplifting cost American retailers $11.7 billion in 2009. The theft of one $5.00 item from Whole Foods can require sales of hundreds of dollars to break even. The Steal begins when shoplifting entered the modern record as urbanization and consumerism made London into Europe's busiest mercantile capital. Crossing the channel to nineteenth-century Paris, Shteir tracks the rise of the department store and the pathologizing of shoplifting as kleptomania. In 1960s America, shoplifting becomes a symbol of resistance when the publication of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book popularizes shoplifting as an antiestablishment act. Some contemporary analysts see our current epidemic as a response to a culture of hyper-consumerism; others question whether its upticks can be tied to economic downturns at all. Few provide convincing theories about why it goes up or down. Just as experts can't agree on why people shoplift, they can't agree on how to stop it. Shoplifting has been punished by death, discouraged by shame tactics, and protected against by high-tech surveillance. Shoplifters have been treated by psychoanalysis, medicated with pharmaceuticals, and enforced by law to attend rehabilitation groups. While a few individuals have abandoned their sticky-fingered habits, shoplifting shows no signs of slowing. In The Steal, Shteir guides us through a remarkable tour of all things shoplifting-we visit the Woodbury Commons Outlet Mall, where boosters run rampant, watch the surveillance footage from Winona Ryder's famed shopping trip, and learn the history of antitheft technology. A groundbreaking study, The Steal shows us that shoplifting in its many guises-crime, disease, protest-is best understood as a reflection of our society, ourselves.
Shoplifting from American Apparel
Shoplifting from American Apparel - 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 Shoplifting from American Apparel write by Tao Lin. This book was released on 2009-09-15. Shoplifting from American Apparel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A funny autobiographical tale about growing up in the digital age, from a groundbreaking author whose writing is “reminiscent of early Douglas Coupland, or early Bret Easton Ellis” (The Guardian) This autobiographical novella is described by the author as “a shoplifting book about vague relationships,” and “an ultimately life-affirming book about how the unidirectional nature of time renders everything beautiful and sad.” From VIP rooms in hip New York City clubs to central booking in Chinatown, from New York University’s Bobst Library to a bus in someone’s backyard in a Floridian college town, from Bret Easton Ellis to Lorrie Moore, and from Moby to Schumann, Shoplifting from American Apparel explores class, culture, and the arts in all their American forms through the funny, journalistic, and existentially-minded narrative of someone trying to both “not be a bad person” and “find some kind of happiness or something.” “Tao's writing . . . has the force of the real.” —Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School
Frequently Asked Questions About Shoplifting and Theft
Frequently Asked Questions About Shoplifting and Theft - 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 Frequently Asked Questions About Shoplifting and Theft write by Liz Sonneborn. This book was released on 2011-12-15. Frequently Asked Questions About Shoplifting and Theft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. According to the National Crime Prevention Council, nearly 24 percent of shoplifters who have been arrested are teenagers between the ages of thirteen and seventeen. Chances are, a young person you know has shoplifted or is considering it. This book addresses all the issues on the subject in an empathizing, supportive tone, while imparting the message that shoplifting is not the answer. Readers learn the short and long-term impact of getting caught, and how shoplifting plays a role in self-esteem and a larger role in our economy. The book's final chapter describes programs that can help people stop shoplifting.
Something for Nothing
Something for Nothing - 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 Something for Nothing write by Terrence Daryl Shulman. This book was released on 2003. Something for Nothing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mr. Shulman has developed an enhanced understanding of kleptomania, based on an addiction model. It offers the best hope we have today for effective treatment of this baffling disorder.
