Results for: books tagged ‘Consumerism’
dear annie: Annalisa Barbieri
Where can you buy the clothes you really want, and exactly how should you wear and look after them? Victorians had it easy: hundreds of books on shopping, cleaning and ... More
Where Are We Going?: Eric Roll
Where Are We Going? is a brave, wise and provocative look into the future. It was written as a sequel to the author's acclaimed Where Did We Go Wrong? (1995), ... More
Carried Away: Rachel Bowlby
Is shopping an exercise in consumer freedom - or in corporate manipulation? It takes up a good deal of our time and a great deal of our imagination, but as ... More
The History of Economic Thought: Eric Roll
The Greatest Gift: Danny Leigh
A dazzling tale, told with mordant wit, of the last seconds of a man's life as he leaps from a nine-storey building.Matthew Viss just wants to help. That's all he ... More
Out of Fashion: Carol Ann Duffy
In Out of Fashion Carol Ann Duffy selects the best and freshest contemporary poets and asks them in turn to select their favourite poem, from another time or culture, which ... More
Why Most Things Fail: Paul Ormerod
From the best-selling author of The Death of Economics and Butterfly Economics, a ground-breaking look at a truth all too seldom acknowledged: most commercial and public policy ventures will not ... More
Manual: Daren King
Patsy and Michael - along with their vole-obsessed friend Owl - are workers in the fetish industry, employed by clients to enact their most bizarre and buried desires. One day ... More