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Sensation

author: Nick Mamatasshelved under: Fiction
date: 2011publisher: PM Press
content type: book
description: Love. Politics. Parasitic manipulation. Julia Hernandez list her husband, shot a real-estate developer out to gentrify Brooklyn, and then vanished without a trace. Well, perhaps one or two traces were left... With different personal consumption habits, Julia has slipped out of the world she new into the Simulacrum - a place between the cracks of our existence, from which human history is both guided and thwarted by conflict between a species of anarchist wasp and a collective of hyperintelligent spiders.

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Radical Consumption

author: Jo Littlershelved under: Social Change/Activism
date: 2009publisher: Maidenhead
content type: book
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Ethical consumption, fair trade, consumer protests, brand backlashes, green goods, boycotts and down-shifting: these are all now familiar consumer activities - and in some cases, are almost mainstream. They are a part of the expanding field of 'radical consumption' in a world where we are encouraged to shop for change.

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The Waste Makers

author: Vance Packardshelved under: Why the US is bad
date: 1960publisher: Peguin Books
content type: book
description: A look behind advertisements for cheaper consumer goods and newer and better models - "The Waste Makers" exposes "planned obsolescence" as philosophy used by corporations to get more money from consumers while fuelling waste.

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