Konsumism

This practical and easy to understand book is about eating well. The authors include chapters on: nutrition basics and a balanced diet; how to evaluate nutrition information; …

Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Ils haircut. But non-freedom these days is also …

Through the growing penetration of new technologies, online consumers can now share and collaborate amongst themselves while shopping online. As they receive information about …

Digital Food Activism is a new edited volume that investigates how digital media technologies are transforming food activism and consumers' engagements with food, eating, and food …

Sitting in the ruins of the Third Reich, most Germans wanted to know which of the two post-war German states would erase the material traces of their wartime suffering most quickly …

The dreams of abundance, choice, and novelty that have fueled the growth of consumer culture in the United States would seem to have little place in the history of Mississippi--a …

Consumers in eighteenth-century England were firmly embedded in an expanding world of goods, one that incorporated a range of novel foods (tobacco, chocolate, coffee, and tea) and …

An examination of the relationship between space, place and consumption offers important insights into some of the most powerful forces constructing contemporary societies. Space …

In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented …

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now …