books about: consumerism     books:     Consumerism      Strategies for the New Health Care Marketplace: Managing the Convergence of Consumerism & Technology Dean C. Coddington, Keith D. Moore, ... Jossey-Bass, 2001 Another excellent book from Coddington, et. al. This book is a must-read for health care managers struggling to understand how consumerism and technology will affect their organizations. The authors take up where they left off in their prophetic "Beyond Managed Care" with a set of practical strategies for the next ...             Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (California World History ... Jeremy Prestholdt University of California Press, 2008 This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon--and one driven solely by Western interests--by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping ...             Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria After the Second ... Reinhold Wagnleitner The University of North Carolina Press, 1994 Great analysis, Interesting writing Wagnleitner does a great job of taking the reader through Western Austria's change from an ex-Nazi state to a miniature US "wannabe." The author also discusses the discrepancy between the percieved American culture and actual American culture. He furthers the ...             Principles of Health Care Management: Compliance Consumerism and Accountability in the 21st Century Seth B. Goldsmith Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2005 Principles of Health Care Management: Compliance, Consumerism, and Accountability in the 21st Century by S. B. Goldsmith Goldsmith draws on his many years of experience as the CEO of a health care company for personal leadership and management examples. His long career in academia and legal background are reflected in the statistical information, heavy footnoting, and extensive use of ...             Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System Raj Patel Melville House, 2008 Sheds light on a difficult subject Daniel B. Schuster says: I was entranced by this book. Mr Patel discusses the micro effects of our agriculture system as well as the macro effects and shows their interaction.. On both farmers and consumers. Every claim or fact in the book is footnoted. And the ...             Material Culture and Mass Consumerism (Social Archaeology) Daniel Miller Wiley-Blackwell, 1997 Objectification Provides a historical overview of "objectification" (from Hegel to Marx to Lukacs to Simmel) or what will be called "alienation" in Marxian terms. The user/ consumer is not fixed in consuming in the mode as intended by production; through an undersatnding of ...             Birder's Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk Jeffrey V. Wells Princeton University Press, 2007 Until now there has been no single, comprehensive resource on the status of North America's most threatened birds and what people can do to help protect them. Birder's Conservation Handbook is the only book of its kind, written specifically to help birders and researchers understand the threats while providing actions to protect birds and their ...             The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism Thomas Frank University Of Chicago Press, 1998 Great Book An excellent examination of consumer culture and the way that corporate America has tried to deal with, understand, and co-opt youth culture (or did youth culture co-opt advertising?) Frank gets to the bottom of it all in an always entertaining look at advertising from ...             Cute, Quaint, Hungry And Romantic: The Aesthetics Of Consumerism Daniel Harris Da Capo Press, 2001 Flawed, but still a great read There's a certain kind of book for which equivalence of opinion matters less than presentation. Daniel Harris's book falls into that category; it throws out a multitude of arguments, some rational, some purely bitter, some laughably overboard, yet it's all still ...             Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero Marita Sturken Duke University Press, 2007 The limits of materialism... Marita Sturken's "Tourists of History" is an enlightening overview about how America dealt with the two most catastrophic events of its recent history - the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 - by wrapping itself in a ...             Strength Through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich Shelley Baranowski Cambridge University Press, 2007 The giant Nazi leisure and tourism agency, Strength through Joy (KdF)'s low cost cultural events, factory beautification programs, organized sports, and, especially, mass tourism mitigated the tension between the Nazi regime's investment in rearmament and German consumers' desire for a higher standard of living. Shelley Baranowski reveals how ...             Shelf Life: Supermarkets and the Changing Cultures of Consumption Kim Humphery Cambridge University Press, 1998 ACCURATE & RELEVANT - RESEARCH BASED This is an extremely valuable book for anyone researching or studying the Australian FMCG / grocery business. It is very accurate and not at all self serving to the industry who are followers not leaders. It contains a wealth of quantitative information in a structured ...             Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age Toby Miller Temple University Press, 2006 What does it mean to be a "citizen" today, in an age of unbridled consumerism, terrorism, militarism, and multinationalism? In this passionate and dazzling book, Toby Miller dares to answer this question with the depth of thought it deserves. Fast-moving and far-ranging, "Cultural Citizenship" blends fact, theory, observation, and speculation in a ...             Living from the Center: Spirituality in an Age of Consumerism Jay B. McDaniel Chalice Press, 2000 Breathtaking! Jay McDaniel does the near impossible with this long awaited book on spirituality: he manages to speak to our minds, our souls, our hearts, and our culture in one integrated, beautiful work. He speaks from the perspective of a Christian process theology which lends ...             Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to Consumerism Parallax Press, 2002 Amazing This book was different than I expected it to be, but definitely better. I thought it was going to be full of tips on how to avoid consumerism and over consumption, but it's more than that. 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