Book interviews tagged Consumption
The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
- ISBN: 978 0 8090 9506 3
- featured in: Living with scarcity does not mean living in poverty; it means changing how we will liveDecember 30, 2008
Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming our Consumer Culture
- ISBN: 978 0 300 13749 1
- featured in: Creating sustainability is categorically different from reducing unsustainabilityFebruary 3, 2009
Fresh: A Perishable History
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03291 0
- featured in: The farther we get from our food, the more we want to know that it’s really freshApril 17, 2009
Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship
- ISBN: 978 0 231 14234 2
- featured in: Animals merit moral status comparable to that of human beingsMay 20, 2009
Famine: A Short History
- ISBN: 978 0 691 12237 3
- featured in: All bets about making famine history are offMay 25, 2009
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
- ISBN: 978 0 19 534205 5
- featured in: Appreciating what we might call the feminist mainstreamMay 29, 2009
Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug
- ISBN: 978 0807859056 pb
- featured in: Cocaine’s first full-length biography
June 26, 2009
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
- ISBN: 978 0521727327
- featured in: Climate change in a more creative and less pejorative discourseOctober 9, 2009
Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization
- ISBN: 978 0801475078 pb
- featured in: Who should get to participate in consumer societyOctober 19, 2009
Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America
- ISBN: 978 0 226 29865 8
- featured in: On the history, logic, and morality of consumer activismOctober 26, 2009
Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age
- ISBN: 978 0226081175
- featured in: Pioneering the field of the history of accidentsNovember 18, 2009
Theology of Money
- ISBN: 978-0822344506 pb
- featured in: Economic life is constrained by the perpetual need for acquiring moneyNovember 30, 2009
Household Gods: The British and their Possessions
- ISBN: 978 0300112139
- featured in: Modern consumer society has its roots in early nineteenth-century religious fervorDecember 9, 2009
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
- ISBN: 978 0195382853
- featured in: Can we consume the city without destroying it?December 16, 2009
Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks
- ISBN: 978 0 520 26106 8
- featured in: Corporate powers, posing as public service providers, have taken advantage of the privatization of lifeJanuary 18, 2010
Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation
- ISBN: 978 0231139519 pb
- featured in: Is the ability to do calculus morally better than the ability to fly with your wings?February 1, 2010
