Consuming desires : consumption, culture, and the pursuit of happiness / edited by Roger Rosenblatt.

Other author Rosenblatt, Roger.
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1999.
Descriptionviii, 230 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction / Roger Rosenblatt -- One world of consumers / William Greider -- What's wrong with consumer society? : competitive spending and the "new consumerism" / Juliet Schor -- Consuming for love / Edward N. Luttwak -- False connections / Alex Kotlowitz -- Oh, Isaac, oh, Bernard, oh, Mohan / Bharati Mukherjee -- Consuming nature / Bill McKibben -- A news consumer's Bill of Rights / Suzanne Braun Levine -- When we devoured books / André Schiffrin -- Movies and the selling of desire / Molly Haskell -- The ecology of giving and consuming / David W. Orr -- It all begins with housework / Jane Smiley -- Equipoise / Martin E. Marty -- Can't get that extinction crisis out of my mind / Stephanie Mills.
General note"A Shearwater book"--Verso t.p.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and index.
LCCN 99021667
ISBN1559635355

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HC110.C6 C586 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold